I don't care TOO much about Tencent, I've played some of their games, quite enjoyed Arena of Valor on Switch
But I really don't give a damn about Pokemon Unite honestly. It's just one of those games where it's obvious they just wanted to use the Pokémon franchise, mix it with a subgenre that works on mobile and do something. The idea wasn't to make a good game, it was to make a profit.
Doesn't prevent it to be a good game tho. But Pokémon disappointed me way too much for way too long and it still does. At this point I really do not want to play any game they can produce. Didn't tried Pokémon Snap, nor Mystery Dungeon DX, not going to try this. Maybe I'll try Legends Arceus tho, but not those garbage spin offs. I'll consider that when their mainline games will actually be good.
tencent also made LOL and Valorant, i dont see them as P2W, beside that LOL franchise is also on mobile, u spotted any P2W traces rather than any cosmetics?
Jesus, u guys are so in rush to make judgement even before the game got released. P2W is Ubisoft or EA's speciality, don't mistake it with others.
Riot Games =/= Tencent. Yes, Tencent owns Riot Games but it's not Tencent that has their talent. They still have some independance. It's not Tencent that recruits and manages the teams behind the different projects of Riot. They just want to be sure Riot is profitable.
Tho I suspect they still have some influence because I can't think of Seraphine being released for the western market or just because the developpement team thought she would make sense. She's obviously made to catter to the Asian/Chinese market where this kind of character is very popular, despite her not making any sense in the LoL universe and gameplay wise. But they may be led to do such things, it's still Riot which tries to do these things « as best as they can » (between quotes because I'm not too sure about that tho)
But this is still a bit different, it seems that this is developped by a studio specifically made by Tencent, meaning they really do have absolute full control. Riot knows how to make profit without too much p2w mechanics and try to catter to the whole world. Riot doesn't make games to catter just to the Asian market. Tencent with this game, totally does. And idk about them being used to P2W mechanics but I don't think it's quite fair to compare them to Riot because they own them.
I mean, they own half of Epic too. Do you think it's Tencent behind the strings of this stuff with Apple ? I know people in the west are scared of chinese but I don't think there's a Tencent executive manipulating everything in the shadows when they buy a company, they just want a shit ton of money and become some kind of Evil Corp. just like in Mr.Robot. That's scary enough.