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Trump administration debates allowing Tencent to keep its gaming stakes, FT reports

The White House is debating ‌whether to allow Tencent to keep its stakes in major video game groups as U.S. President Donald Trump prepares to meet Chinese President Xi Jinping in China in ⁠April, the Financial Times reported on Tuesday.
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March 3 (Reuters) - The White House is debating ‌whether to allow Tencent (0700.HK), opens new tab to keep its stakes in major video game groups as U.S. President Donald Trump prepares to meet Chinese President Xi Jinping in China in ⁠April, the Financial Times reported on Tuesday.

Top officials have held internal meetings to assess whether Tencent's investments in U.S. and Finnish gaming firms pose a national security risk, the newspaper said, citing several people familiar with the deliberations.
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Can't wait until the regime forces Epic to divest from Tencent and makes Tim sell the shares to either the Saudis or the Ellisons.
 
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"Hi Elon! Big Mars fan here."
 
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Tim Sweeney signed away his right to criticize Google until 2032

Epic CEO is muzzled.
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On March 3rd, he not only signed away Epic’s rights to sue and disparage the company, he signed away his right to advocate for any further changes to Google’s app store polices. He can’t criticize Google’s app store practices. In fact, he has to praise them.

The contract states that “Epic believes that the Google and Android platform, with the changes in this term sheet, are procompetitive and a model for app store / platform operations, and will make good faith efforts to advocate for the same.”
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That's amazing. I guess he'll just double down on the anti Valve stuff rather than stfu though. But for some stuff you can go "hey Tim Google/Sony do it too, stfu".
 
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If I'm reading this correctly, Google still charges a platform fee for Google Play transactions even if you use an alternate payment processor or link out to a web store. Tim has criticized Apple for charging to use alternate payment processors and implied Valve has a similar program for then handful of games on Steam that link out to other stores. I know he's under court order to be Google's bitch, but this doesn't seem like that big of a change compared to the old terms.
 
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I assume Valve will bring ARM emulation of PC games along with potentially native android apps. The emulation will be a big deal since people can just download their existing Steam games and play on their phone.
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Yep. Steam games are already playable on Android through unofficial apps, it's only a matter of time until Valve launches an official app.
 
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I will be using this on the ayn thor at some point when I can. I'm curious how it works and holds up.
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I’ve been doing a bit of research and the consensus seems to be YMMV.

For 360-era games and earlier, performance is solid and if you can get the game running it’s a good experience.

Later than that, and you’re dealing with custom drivers and such. But they have decided to walk this path with Steam Frame and FEX, and all of that directly benefits Android too, so any Valve solution is going to be good.

The work is mostly done, so this feels like a good opportunity to me.
 
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Gotta admit, I appreciate how they didn't use flowery language like "bringing more value through future updates" but straight up said "yeah this shit's expensive".

Funny thing is I think they wouldn't have to raise prices if they simply cut down on the metaverse payouts. They're giving away nearly as much money as Roblox while having like 10% of Roblox's userbase.
 
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Very interesting watch.
My main takeaway is that I get the impression Epic is really bad at doing business and can only copy, not innovate.
They stumbled into massive success by copying PUBG and were then looking into creating additional revenue streams with that income. Which is a good idea, because you do not want to be reliant on a single game forever. But their only strategy seems to be "let's look at profitable markets and brute-force ourselves into them by spending tons of cash - buying competitors/other studios and offering extremely aggressive deals" and a lot of these haven't really been working/become profitable, right?
And now it looks like it's starting to strain their main money making machine while they still haven't much to show for it?
 
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Very interesting watch.
My main takeaway is that I get the impression Epic is really bad at doing business and can only copy, not innovate.
They stumbled into massive success by copying PUBG and were then looking into creating additional revenue streams with that income. Which is a good idea, because you do not want to be reliant on a single game forever. But their only strategy seems to be "let's look at profitable markets and brute-force ourselves into them by spending tons of cash - buying competitors/other studios and offering extremely aggressive deals" and a lot of these haven't really been working/become profitable, right?
And now it looks like it's starting to strain their main money making machine while they still haven't much to show for it?
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That's a good assessment. I still think Tim Sweeney is a terrible businessman who hit the lottery once and got an inflated ego. He's been throwing shit against the wall for years and nothing else has stuck like Fortnite Battle Royale.
 
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Hence why FN is going to roll out an extraction shooter mode, and try to continue to copy Roblox.

Will they be successful, who knows, but they do not have a first mover advantage here, nor do they have the cheapest to market advantage given the bountiful competition in F2P and B2P. The only real hope is being seen as best in class which is the goal of any game and not something you can force even if you are willing to throw all the money at it.
 
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Their next big mode is supposed to be the Disney mode that launches this fall. There's not much info about it, but the few rumors available makes it sound like a souped up Disney Infinity. I reckon it'll have the same trajectory as Lego Fortnite with a massive launch that has millions of CCU that withers down to barely anything.

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Hence why FN is going to roll out an extraction shooter mode, and try to continue to copy Roblox.

Will they be successful, who knows, but they do not have a first mover advantage here, nor do they have the cheapest to market advantage given the bountiful competition in F2P and B2P. The only real hope is being seen as best in class which is the goal of any game and not something you can force even if you are willing to throw all the money at it.
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I'd point to the failure of their Counter-Strike ripoff as to why the rumored extraction mode probably won't take off. The audience for those games is much more hardcore compared to the average Fortnite player and simply does not care about wearing Goku and Superman skins.

Also Epic wants Fortnite to be the omingame metaverse, but their clones are usually just shittier versions of established games.
 
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Epic is having a tougher time than expected breaking Apple and Google’s store duopoly

But Steve Allison is still up for the fight. The Epic Games Store boss tells us how the Fortnite maker’s mobile store is faring compared to expectations, and what needs to happen next to open…
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EGS Mobile has 30 million installs, but they expect it to pick up thanks to the Google settlement. Remember they wanted 100 million by the end of 2024.

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that'll fix the vbucks price raise
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This isn't even new news. I've been hearing about his forest land for years.
 
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