What happened to Chris Wilson?

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Anton__Chigur#9285 wrote:

nobody asked them to shut down POE1 so we can have a sequel with only ritual and breach for an end game and a campaign that takes 10x longer.

Gaming is dead.

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Vendetta#0327 wrote:

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Anton__Chigur#9285 wrote:

nobody asked them to shut down POE1 so we can have a sequel with only ritual and breach for an end game and a campaign that takes 10x longer.

Gaming is dead.

Tell that to all the "POG" , "RUE is cat" comentors on the announcement pages...Seems like it's not dead to them ghouls.

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Vendetta#0327 wrote:

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Anton__Chigur#9285 wrote:

nobody asked them to shut down POE1 so we can have a sequel with only ritual and breach for an end game and a campaign that takes 10x longer.

Gaming is dead.

Tell that to all the "POG" , "RUE is cat" comentors on the announcement pages...Seems like it's not dead to them ghouls.

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tycrus#4406 wrote:

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Vendetta#0327 wrote:

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Anton__Chigur#9285 wrote:

nobody asked them to shut down POE1 so we can have a sequel with only ritual and breach for an end game and a campaign that takes 10x longer.

Gaming is dead.

Tell that to all the "POG" , "RUE is cat" comentors on the announcement pages...Seems like it's not dead to them ghouls.

While its not dead exactly the ggg we learned to love sadly is dead... Chris was the pillar of reason at ggg. The whole deal with ehgs same dead release would ve never happened with chris there or getting rid of poe1. This dev studio is going full blizzard mode now.

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Joschka#7441 wrote:

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Gixxpunk#3348 wrote:

As of March 25, the game and company GGG is 100% owned by SIXJOY HONG KONG LIMITED, a subsidiary of Tencent.

Former owners Christopher W., Jonathan R., and Erik O. have sold all their shares to SIXJOY. They no longer hold any ownership stakes but remain listed as directors—positions that SIXJOY can revoke at any time.

You can verify this information through the official New Zealand Companies Office:
[Official Company Records](https://app.companiesoffice.govt.nz/companies/app/ui/pages/companies/1887410/documents)

Additionally, there are unconfirmed rumors suggesting that Christopher W. hasn’t been present in the office for an extended period.

Make of this what you will.

This is such a sad news to me, but it explains a lot, I guess :(

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cesmode#5569 wrote:

Now, if they've sold their shares, Im very worried that design direction and decisions will be tied more to $$ and not to the health of the game and respecting its players...

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Snorkle_uk#0761 wrote:

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cesmode#5569 wrote:

Now, if they've sold their shares, Im very worried that design direction and decisions will be tied more to $$ and not to the health of the game and respecting its players...

dont worry, they actually sold their shares 7 years ago. tencent bought something like 87% of the shares in 2018, so in effect tencent have had total control of the game if they wanted to for the majority of the games life, there were 5 years where chris and jonathan had the controlling shares and 7 years with tencent having control.


and those 7 years tencent has been in control poe1 was doing fantastic, its never changed the game to be about money.


to put it in perspective GGGs total yearly profits are less than 1% of tencents yearly profits as a company. if they could increase GGGs profits by 50%, which would be huge, it would still be almost invisible on their balance sheets, it would mean absolutely nothing to tencents share holders.

they dont care, they have never cared about ggg changing to make more money. they get to control the chinese version of the game, thats all they seem to care about.



chris sold the last 13% to them this year. it doesnt mean anything, theyve had 100% control since 2018 and the last time chris was in control of the development was about 2015.

thats the thing chris and tencent have in common, neither are the people responsible for the great success of poe1s last 7 years. the people who did all that amazing work are the people still running the game. theyre just in a period of intense development and when theyre done poe1 and poe2 will resume a proper league cadence putting out amazing content and all this nonsense on the forums will be forgotten about.

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Snorkle_uk#0761 wrote:

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cesmode#5569 wrote:

Now, if they've sold their shares, Im very worried that design direction and decisions will be tied more to $$ and not to the health of the game and respecting its players...

dont worry, they actually sold their shares 7 years ago. tencent bought something like 87% of the shares in 2018, so in effect tencent have had total control of the game if they wanted to for the majority of the games life, there were 5 years where chris and jonathan had the controlling shares and 7 years with tencent having control.


and those 7 years tencent has been in control poe1 was doing fantastic, its never changed the game to be about money.


to put it in perspective GGGs total yearly profits are less than 1% of tencents yearly profits as a company. if they could increase GGGs profits by 50%, which would be huge, it would still be almost invisible on their balance sheets, it would mean absolutely nothing to tencents share holders.

they dont care, they have never cared about ggg changing to make more money. they get to control the chinese version of the game, thats all they seem to care about.



chris sold the last 13% to them this year. it doesnt mean anything, theyve had 100% control since 2018 and the last time chris was in control of the development was about 2015.

thats the thing chris and tencent have in common, neither are the people responsible for the great success of poe1s last 7 years. the people who did all that amazing work are the people still running the game. theyre just in a period of intense development and when theyre done poe1 and poe2 will resume a proper league cadence putting out amazing content and all this nonsense on the forums will be forgotten about.