What happened to Chris Wilson?

"

Snorkle_uk#0761 wrote:

"

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.

"

Snorkle_uk#0761 wrote:

"

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.

"

What happened to Chris Wilson?