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[–] TheOneCurly@lemmy.theonecurly.page 11 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Tencent has a minority stake in Larian. That's very different from being wholly owned and managed by them.

[–] Kichae@kbin.social 14 points 9 months ago

And Tencent has a minority stake in, like, every functioning software company that's ever done an investment funding around at this point. They make it a point to diversify their holdings across basically the entire software industry at this point.

They're fairly hands-off in those endeavours, since they're doing it to protect themselves against shifts in the market.

Their in-house made stuff, though, is... Well, let's just say it's efficiently monetized.