This comes with no deadlines, milestones, or any pressure around game content whatsoever. We provided our own projected milestones and deadlines for a valuation while being very direct that we intend to remain flexible and things may change if we believe a change is what is best for the game.
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Judd forgot to mention the one single restriction that came with that deal: Get rid of that Llama-Guy
Sorry for you, bro. Was a good time 
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Can we get the story fully voiced now with some cool voice actors? That would be awesome!
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Out of curiosity,
while Tencent does not impose any deadliens etc onto you.
Are you requried to keep them posted about internal updates/roadmaps etc.?
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potentially a great change, people should keep an open mind
very excited for this! GGG had the same thing happen and their League and Expansion quality SKYROCKETED! Much love, hope for the best 
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Of course. I’m always a lurker, i love the game, i played a lot and told several friends which will play with me when multiplayer happens. I love indie games, i love the ambition they have and how the communicate with the players. The community and everything around it was super nice. There is really not much what i didn’t like about the game, but not having a multiplayer.
But this is just shocking. So shocking, that even I came out and had to write something.
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From prior experience (from a listed company, but anyway), quarterly reporting is so much fun!
Wouldn’t this be an obligation?
Just asking for a friend…
I understand that Tencent owns less than 25%, but the question I have is if the agreement gives them access to the source code for your game. If it does, expect them to be implementing some of YOUR work in other games they are developing with other developers.
They did it with several indies already.
They bought up a fighting game another indie was developing and handed it over to Riot, Riot bought up several indies themselves as well as Tencent doing the same thing.
I just worry that all your hard work will go kaput when Tencent decides to just take part of your core source code for your game and makes a reskinned cheaper version of it.
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One of the biggest, if not the biggest company around media entertainment is involved in video games, is it truely that shocking?
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Yea we have to provide them financial reports but we create this type of material anyway, so it’s not a large burden. It’s a very healthy practice for any company.
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You guys have done great so far, I have all the faith in the world that you will continue to do so. Thank you EHG for the time I’ve enjoyed in Eterra
Due to the increase in captial/resources does this mean that a roadmap would be updated and more things added to it that were once considered not possible by 1.0? Such as but not limited to:
- Character choice of Female/Male
- Character creation customization (Not cosmetics)
- Anything previously planned or wanted to be implemented but never shared with the community? (That was intended to be done before 1.0)
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Yes, it really is.
Just because you own part of a company doesn’t mean yo ucan just take their stuff & use it in “elsewhere” (your own company, another subsidiary). If nothing else than for tax reasons. If the “stuff” wasn’t sold at a fair price then the tax authority would, reasonably, assume that the owner was trying to shift profit from a company that pays a higher effective tax rate to a company that pays a lower effective tax rate.
And I’m sure the IRS hates that just as much as HMRC.
You’d have to buy the entirity of a company & probably do a merger so that “their” stuff becomes “yours”.
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bet 
Definitely allows us to “do more” and at a higher quality. This doesn’t directly change our content goals for 1.0, though as we bring in more consultants and expertise we’re already finding some things that may be wins that we decide we should divert some attention to in the near term. In the long term, post 1.0, this is probably more significant in terms of “additional content”.
Boardman, for people like you that have been with us for a long time I think you will quickly notice improvements in quality across the game in the upcoming patches. I’m not going to state anything specific as I would rather under-promise and over-deliver.
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Oh nononono Tencent
This is bad, I hate to see this
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I appreciate the opportunity this partnership affords EHG and the potential good that can come of this for the players. So I guess congratulations are in place!
Having said that, while a lot of concerns in this thread are about monetization and/or control over the roadmap, my personal worries are around censorship. I realize that most players like their games apolitical, and there is nothing inherently policital about Last Epoch. But we live in a world with a lot of political sensitivities and for lots of people outside of the west, oppression is a fact of life.
My fear is, that by partnering with a Chinese company, you’ll have to follow their (Chinese) rules. Which means removing any discussions from the forums, Discord or in-game chat around Taiwan or Tibet, or other things that are not in accordance with the falsehoods the CCP want the their citizens and the rest of the world to believe.
I hope you realize that taking money from a Chinese company, is in effect an indirect endorsement of China’s political stances.
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And buying stuff that’s made in China isn’t?
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