| EspadaGrim said: Netease are dumb to be acting this way since Tencent are a far larger company and a direct competitor, all this will do will drive more business to Tencent. |
Yeah, safe to say that Netease killed any chance of getting the ABK rights back after they asked for partial IP ownership and essentially threatened ABK to try and get the rights renewed by suggesting they would bad mouth the acquisition to SAMR if ABK didn't renew the publishing deal. Microsoft would be fools to make a new deal with Netease at this point, they will surely go with either Tencent (who hold the Chinese publishing rights to games such as League of Legends, Path of Exile, Fortnite, Rainbow Six Siege, and PUBG) or Perfect World (who holds the Chinese publishing rights to games such as Dota 2 and Counterstrike: GO).
Last edited by shikamaru317 - on 05 April 2023
