Haha, the same shthead company that is trying to outrun Sesame Credit in doing exactly the same thing. If you don’t know what Sesame Credit is - it’s the most totalitarian thing in the world since Stalin, a truly genius way to opress people, totally disgusting in how subtle it’s influence on human society is - it’s basically credit scoring system with gamification element that works in a way that you get more perks the more “decent citizen” you are and the more “decent citizen” friends you have on social network… so being a friend of someone who is deemed “indecent” (because he said something about communist party or because he is importing manga from Japan, or because he simply didn’t pay his credit)… takes your score down… so people get isolated. No police, no government opression, no riots, ppl do all the dirty work themselves. Can you see how genius, yet horrific and disgusting this is?
The same shthead company that is behind Diablo: Immortal, hated by literally everybody (even tho it’s mostly because Blizz marketing dept failed miserably).
But, here’s the thing. Being top of the corporate chain in this situation means they will probably not care too much about Steam ToS, because, you know, it only has a couple of thousand people at best and even with whales out there that’s just not enough to care when they have a whole chinese market to attend to. They will just not care, we are irrelevant to them.
As for the game as a whole though, there is a big chance we will see more p2w. Which is, of course, a bad thing, but seeing how p2w is a thing already, this was to be expected anyway. So this really changes nothing, in my opinion.
It’s not like ToS is in trouble because Tencent OR Nexon. It’s because IMC can’t do publishing at all, don’t know ■■■■ about monetization, content progression, rewards, community management, worldbuilding and etc. And their technical division is completely useless while QA seems non-existent (probably outsource).
