It's like the clouds have parted and I've seen the sunshine for the first time in forever.
Keep in mind. These Companies/Products aren't owned by Tencent. Tencent has meerely invested in them. All of the ones with an ownership stake of less than 50% will be perfectly fine because the companies still own themselves. It's only an issue for companies with a stake greater than 50% because Tencent would own them at that point.
Right I am confused if the "or respect to any property" is a modifier of the conditions of interaction with just WeChat, or if not and its Tencent than it does seem to apply to all the gaming companies.
Stranger and more illegal things have happened in history, I guess let's wait and see what happens next
I'm not sure the wording on this means it will actually affect Tencent outside of TikTok. Having said that both sides of the aisle support this and not just Trump. So good luck with all of this.
Yo, Barron Trump is our only savior now. Hoping that zoomer plays Fortnite or LoL and can talk some sense to his dad.
...what a time to be alive.
...what a time to be alive.
I mean the action does nothing about that, it's just basically him trying to formally say he can punish companies because they were mean to him while he's the president.
Like this feels like a really shitty trade that you're not getting much out of that would be mocked on twitter as such if it was something the Democrats were considering instead of it being Donald Trump's latest yugest idea to try getting voters again. (Because this is basically just him slamming on the "REMIND PEOPLE CHINA BAD" button again since "maybe actually do something about COVID" is completely unacceptable to him)
Oh, ok. I'm sorry to read that - seriously! Hope you are doing fine with your job!
It's more about putting economic pressure in general, which is what we should be doing in the first place.
I agree that he's doing it due to him being a baby, but whatever hurts the CCP is good.
We'll just have to wait and see what happens, for all we know this won't be enforced and it'll be business as usual. With people dying overseas while we try to not think about it and play our games.
I'm betting nothing comes of this, but even if it does, I'm guessing only companies that are majority owned by Tencent will be effected, and even then maybe not unless they've wholly owned.
WoW shutting down would lead to a lot of people losing their jobs. Why would you love to see that?
I mean that's going require an actual, consistent effort you're going need to get the rest of the world to sign on and it's gonna be really hard to do that when the pretext for it is very obviously trump throwing a tantrum about it.
Again, this just seems like a really shitty trade you're getting barely nothing in exchange for.
UPDATE: Order does not actually do anything
It is something he has tried before, but backfired in the past because it inconveniences people in the US (like the trade war). This executive order being enforced in its most literal reading will very much make a lot of consumers upset, and not at China.
So does China retaliate with reciprocal prohibitions against Microsoft, Apple, or Valve?
Let's face it, if this doesn't slowly fade away in the next few days, lawyers will hold it up in court until after the election to see what really needs to be done (if anything).
Let's face it, if this doesn't slowly fade away in the next few days, lawyers will hold it up in court until after the election to see what really needs to be done (if anything).
No those people would just move on to develop something else
If this move was because of the human rights atrocities then I'd be fully behind it. Pretty sure it will be more to do with his ego.
Tencent really probably has way too much influence in the video game industry right now, but this entire thing seems pretty haphazard and poorly thought through (so run of the mill for this administration).
Hope for that. If Trump is re-elect with that, probably my country will suffer big loses with it.
How? Tencent has a stake in Activision-Blizzard, not WoW. This would affect their entire company. If they have to shut down the golden goose I doubt they are going to keep all of those employees around to wait for Tencent to be allowed again.
