Is Riot Games really Riot Games?
Apparently Riot is now owned by a Chinese company "Tencent" since December? Is this true? And is this the reason there has been so many shitty changes?
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No.
Tencent has had a majority hold of Riot for a long time, but even when they have 100%, Tencent doesn't do a single thing at Riot.
And the quality of the changes is entirely subjective.
You know... 90% of the food market is owned by 10 corporations.
Being owned by another company just changes who you share your profits with. Tencent for example could have pushed the Hextech crafting forward, but yeah...
does it mean that the Tencent CEOs storm an office to say: "I don't like the base damage on Darius Q! Change it to 50!"
No, not really. **The Tencent CEO doesn't care if the game is called League of Legends, if it has a champion called Darius, if he has an ability and if it is or is not triggered by pressing Q. ** And as long as Riot's actual profits are equal to or higher than "Expected profits" in the Excel spreadsheet prepared by his assistant he probably won't ever care.
tldr:
Tencent owns Riot but it's still the same people that are in charge of the game.
I am really sick of this conspiracy talk.
It's the same company that's made plenty of bad mistakes on it's own without the help of anyone else.
We just dont know. It is an internal mater. They can say what ever they want, but they can also run the company how ever they want.
They say that they dont interfere with game decisions, but they dont have to be honest about it.
But keep in mind that this is a Tencent product :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHcTKWiZ8sI
Witch is really scary! No mater if you play league or not.
And Yes. they do own riot 100%.
And they don't have to own it all to do what ever they want to do with it. they just need 51% of the shares.