https://gematsu.com/2018/08/square-e...tegic-alliance

http://www.hd.square-enix.com/eng/ne...f9b62f088.html

Square Enix and Tencent have announced the formation of a strategic alliance that will result in the establishment of a joint-venture company, co-development of AAA titles based on new intellectual properties, the licensing of existing intellectual properties, and more.
I don't like this at all, at minimum it means we'd be possibly seeing a lot more microtransactiony stuff in FFXIV, and at maximum it gives the possibility of SE getting bought out by Tencent and ending up getting trashed. All in all this SE-Tencent alliance is not a good thing in my honest opinion.