Quote Originally Posted by Nahaara View Post
https://gematsu.com/2018/08/square-e...tegic-alliance

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



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.
I hope this only means China, because that's basically how everything works with China, you start up a company to enter China, Chinese company steals your IP, they kick you of the country, and continue to operate whatever the partnership built. Tencent probably wants to be able to access Square-Enix's IP for the Chinese market.

That said, I tencent basically is responsible for WeChat, and hence that App that SE decided to build for FFXIV would be a no-go in China, so I would not surprise if this ends up being one of those things.

Also Tencent owns a minority stake in Blizzard and Ubisoft, and well just look how little that changed things.