Funcom is also working on DUNE on top of Conan Exiles post-launch support
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Tencent bids to acquire 100% of Funcom
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Funcom is also working on DUNE on top of Conan Exiles post-launch support
Funcom has the DUNE license and by chance they have been working with Petroglyph Games (ex-Westwood) whom developed the Conan Unconquered RTS.
Let's hope they are given the task of creating a DUNE 3 RTS (they made DUNE 2 after all before C&C, the template for the modern RTS).
Let's hope they are given the task of creating a DUNE 3 RTS (they made DUNE 2 after all before C&C, the template for the modern RTS).
They've been making the Age of Conan MMO, among other things.
Ok? They've been making games like Conan Exiles and been publishing a bunch recently.
wasn't the age of Conan MMO before TSW? Or you mean supporting the game
People don't care about human rights abuses as long as they get their games.
Damn... Conan Exiles is the most underrated game of the generation IMHO; no microtransactions, gambling mechanics, or other bullshittery, just a great fun co-op campaign (I've never touched the public servers).
I wonder how this will affect the chances of seeing another game like it.
I wonder how this will affect the chances of seeing another game like it.
I cannot imagine the amount of data they're skimming from users and giving to the Chinese government. I understand it's hard to turn down the money but as a developer you're really selling your soul getting purchased by this company.
My very very first entry into the game's industry was in 2001/2002 at Funcom, as a very short time intern. The very first day I arrived at the office, I had to sign what seemed to be 100 NDAs and everyone was drunk because just hours earlier they had signed the Conan license. They got very annoyed because I was more interested in inquiring about how they went about porting SNK games to Sega CD haha!
Age of Conan was before TSW. Conan Exiles is the most recent game (not MMO though, I don't think)
I really wish that The Secret World had more love / budget. The story, setting, art (the animations and UI elements could be better, IMO) are really awesome.
Probably never, Tencent is a smaller company than Sony and Microsoft, and they would basically bankrupt themselves trying to buy Nintendo.
I could see them trying to buy a large enough amount of stock have have a percentage of ownership though.
Wat?
Tencent is far bigger than Nintendo and one of the biggest companies in the world. Their market value is estimated at around 500 Billion US$, while Nintendos market value is estimated at 37 Billion US$.
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Ehm no, Tencent Is way bigger than Sony and Nintendo but smaller than MS.
I always give the side eye to anyone that cheers on Tencent investments.
They just released Remnant from the Ashes, a souls like, pretty good for co-op
tencent is like five times the size of sony and ten times the size of nintendo by market cap.
Blast from the past, totally forgot about that MMO.
I always play healers which by nature are gimped for dealing damage so it was hilarious to discover that the Tempest of Set class was so broken that I could pull every mob near me and kill them while remaining at full health.
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lol..Tencent is almost 6 times bigger than Sony in terms of Market Cap... and 10x bigger than Nintendo..
Market cap may not be the best measure, but Tencent is far bigger than Sony and Nintendo
Tencent has roughly 5x the market cap of Sony and roughly 10x that of Nintendo.
since so many people already corrected you I just want to add:
lol.
Honestly I actually had no idea Tencent was so big, I can't blame them.
To not know is fine, everyone does not know tons of stuff. But people really just love to flaunt their ignorance on the internet.
I have a rule for myself that I think is pretty good. If you have no idea what you're talking about just don't. Easy.
Outside of that at least consider googling stuff or just prefacing assumptions as such. That said this is just me complaining into the void that is the terrible discourse on era that will stay terrible.
There's actually a bit more on the Dune game.
They are actually planning multiple games in the Dune universe very much like Conan. I believe they have the license for six years.
Well this sucks. I hope they'll be willing to sell the Longest Journey license to Red Thread Games before this happens or we'll never see that franchise again.
Whoops, my bad, genuinely had no idea Tencent was so big. My cursory google search was clearly not enough, will be a bit more diligent in the future.