Tencent, Sony and Microsoft are the MAJOR video game producers and publishers.
Valve, Ubisoft, etc, are minor players, and people treating them like juggernauts are wrong.
Everything bellow the second row is basically indies.
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>owning ideas
Not today, cyber-jew
>MAJOR video game producers and publishers
Why do you care about them? Dumb cattle.
doesn't Nintendo have a lot of first party teams? Shouldn't that count as separate studios?
Doesn't Bamco own the Dark Souls IP, and Acti own Sekiro?
Publishing is mostly about distribution, actual IP ownership still lies with the developer.
From what I understand, Bandai owns the Dark Souls trademark but From owns the IP
Valve doesn't own Turtle Rock and they definitely do not own Dota, they made Dota 2.
Blizzard isn't owned by Microsoft yet.
THQ isn't even there (i think).
this image makes me so fricking mad.
>this image makes me so fricking mad.
Fix it then, nerd.
here's the fixed version. i didnt know THQ became Embracer Group but i liked the simpler name more so i changed it. also changed the format to jpeg. look how smart i am
You forgot to add your watermark, nerd.
important. added.
Actually good job. You'll get 50 labour vouchers in haven.
>Valve doesn't own Dota
DotA is a Warcraft III gamemode. Valve made Dota 2 because nobody owned the gamemode. Blizzard later pretended to own DotA because they wanted to make their own version and likely name it that (now Heroes of the Storm).
it's all rather confusing and apparently Blizzard "acquired" DotA-Allstars which probably means nothing these days.
custom maps were owned by the creators, that's why individuals like guinsoo or icefrog matter. Beginning with SC2, Blizzard has taken steps to ensure anything created with their toolset is Blizzard owned.
yeah but on the wiki it claims that Blizzard bought DotA-Allstars which would make no sense in this case since IceFrog is on Valve's side and they've been casually making their own game.
And because maps and mods used to be owned by creators, you had a lot of IP infringing content, like Warhammer or Lord of the Rings or whatever.
And now that the developer/publisher owns the rights, they hire moderation to ensure such third party properties and assets can't be used, because they'd be a legal liability. A Witcher map on Starcraft 2, with TW1 assets imported, would get Blizzard sued by CDPR. So the modding scene suffered. And modding tools get restricted, and you can only use some assets, not import anything you want.
Who else is publishing Dota?
That Blizzard Activision aquisition by MS is still not even approved and has had several setbacks. I still think it'll go through because no one gives a shit about monopolies apparently but it just seems premature.
Yeah, this should definitely get tossed, in a world where government officials actually do more than pretend to perform their jobs.
Europe seems to be giving them some trouble over the acquisition plan, at least.
Why would it be prevented? What monopoly would it create?
Microsoft already does all the things Activision-Blizzard does, they aren't adding any new markets, just expanding market share. And nowhere does their market share expand to monopoly levels.
This is a HUGE topic and you'll get lots of answers as to why the purchase is a bad deal for the consumer (presumably what entities like the FTC fight for). I would say the number one thing you need to keep in mind is that nothing happens in a vacuum, the MS acquisition is not the first MS has done and it's certainly not the first industry disruptive purchase (Zenimax) its made. It's clear there is a larger campaign here. Two, I would say that generally speaking - though it's definitely more aggressively postured in the EU - that vertical integrations, like the MS Act/Blizz acquisition, are especially in the spotlight currently.
Beyond that I would say to do your own research into how monopolies are bad because I think your current understanding (well the market percentage blah blah blah I love sucking corporate dick so much Chiquita banana made me a man) is pretty limited and it actually paints you as someone who isn't arguing in good faith. Basically you're a b***h.
Microsoft wouldn't be "vertically integrating" anything, they already have access to all the markets AB has. Not like they are a cruise company buying a port and a shipyard. They are a video game developer and publisher, buying a video game developer and publisher. Nothing that was horizontal is being made vertical.
And they aren't cornering any market, they are going from 15-20% market to 20-25% market or whatever. Its not monopoly and I see no reason why it would be prevented. And I think it won't be prevented.
Also I'm straight, so I exclusively lick corporate pussy, and not wiener. Stop assuming people's sexualities, bigot.
Just say that you're an ancap and that you want to frick children. Let's skip the same old song and dance and get down to it. You just want to diddle kids and setup a legal framework in which to support it. Admit it.
Look, all I am saying is that even young persons have private ownership of their body, and should be able to sell or rent their bodies. Its their God given right! End state tyranny over young persons bodies!
Well maybe I wish I was a little boy again and met a market capitalist like you, to show me the beauty of wealth consolidation, to let me run my fingers through your grey chest hair
I accept your concession
Why are all the companies tencent have are complete shit?
Deus Ex and Tomb Raider are now IPs of Embracer Group.
>digital extremes
>unreal tournament
?????????????????????
Smash isn't actually made by Nintendo, it's developed by Sora and Bandai Namco
Bandai Namco also publishes Dark Souls and Elden Ring
Embracer is way way bigger than this pic makes it seem
DE made the games (except Unreal 2 which was made by Legend), Epic only made the engine
The first Epic made Unreal was Unreal Championship 2
pretty sure bandai namco owns dark souls and elden ring and activision owns sekiro
I don't give a frick
How come none of the games in the top 3 boxes are good?
Valve is a minor player, but a major scammer.
Valve screwed over the Artifact fanbase by cancelling the Artifact 2.0 beta without even allowing users to invite friends like they said they would in January 2021 and does not deserve your financial support for these gross consumer-unfriendly practices.
that is a remarkable collection of awful vidya
tencent only got a 40% stake in epic games, they dont own them.
>Sega
How come a japanese company owns all the good western games.
Now add the Saudi investment funds
Why is Valve on this chart? They don't make games.
Valve is developing Artifact 2.0, and will soon allow users to invite friends like they said they would in January 2021.
>Everything bellow the second row is basically indies.
Holy shit this board
100% incorrect
Tencent for example only holdd 10% or less of those companies while Sony/Microsoft own their some but not all titles outright
OP is a moronic homosexual
This image is so laughably wrong its hilarious. 6/10 bait.
>tencent
>owning epic
>only a 10% shareholder, and 5% in most others
>on the same level as Sony/Microsoft/Nintendo
Imagine spending hours to put together that image then failing to grasp basic concepts like share ownership vs licenses vs outright ownership.
Yeah this shit is legitimately moronic, It conflates being a shareholder to actually buying a studio or IP like Playstation/Naughty Dog or Microsoft/343. Just going off of what you mentioned, the idiot couldn't even keep consistent logic They say that Tencent supposedly owns all of epic despite only owning 40% of the shares in the company (ignoring that Epic had to come out and blatantly state that Tencent doesn't own them, and Riot did the same thing). They list Krafton as partial ownership but what about Epic? they also list platinum despite not buying them or their shares if they have any. Valve doesn't own DoTA and they didn't even spell "Anno" correctly for Ubisoft. Don't even get me satrted on Nintendo, Nintendo doesn't even outright own Pokemon.
>Nintendo doesn't even outright own Pokemon.
Creatures Inc may as well be part of Nintendo.
>failing to grasp basic concepts like share ownership vs licenses vs outright ownership.
A lot of people are very dumb and very lazy, those may as well all be the same thing to most people.
>no king of gacha in sight
hoyobros... what happened?
Whoever made this image is a fricking moron, holy shit.
>Nintendo is a small player
Looking at this makes me realize that I should buy Nintendo stock. Microsoft barely does anything with its studios. Sony's shit doesn't sell as well as Nintendo's shit. Pokemon is the most profitable IP in the world, and Nintendo owns Mario and Animal Crossing on top of that. Super undervalued.
>Naughty Dog.
>No Jak & Daxter