New info from the Epic v Google trial shows that in 2018, Google had floated the idea of teaming up with Tencent to buy full 100% ownership of Epic Games.
  • ubermeisters@lemmy.worldEnglish
    17·
    2 年前

    As per The Verge, the court case revealed email testimony between Google executives that laid out preliminary ideas and plans for the gaming platform.

    In July 2018, Phil Harrison [ex-Stadia lead] wrote the following regarding a potential Epic acquisition or stake purchase:

    I’ve taken a stab at a high-level strategic rationale for an investment in Epic.

      Fortnite is (or can be) the leading business driver for Google across:

  YouTube (already 100M+increase in game watch time MAU)
  GCP (to shift 130M+players from AWS and build an anchor tenant in games)

    Dav Sobota, who served as director of corporate development at Google from 2008 - 2018, replied with the following message that discussed potential plans to team up with Tencent in some way:

       As a potential alternative, Phil is proposing we consider approaching Tencent to either

   (a) buy Epic shares form Tencent to get more control over Epic (unclear how that helps us without a majority share) or

   (b) join up with Tencent to buy 100% of Epic (and then of course we do a lot of deep commercial things with Epic).

    got us so worried about the Deep State, we forgot about Deep Commercial

  • QueriesQueried@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    8·
    2 年前

    I know Epic gets a lot of hate, but this is definitely a possible worst case outcome. Hopefully anything but this happens instead.

  • tabular@lemmy.worldEnglish
    41·
    2 年前

    When your game of choice is proprietary it is part of a big, copyright trading card game.