Grinding Gear Games announced that Chinese mega-publisher Tencent has purchased a majority stake in the studio. While this undoubtedly will raise concerns in Path of Exile’s community about the direction and control of the game, GGG spun the announcement as good news.
“We will remain an independent company and there won’t be any big changes to how we operate,” Grinding Gear said. “We want to reassure the community that this will not affect the development and operations of Path of Exile […]Â Tencent’s agenda is clear: to give us the resources to make Path of Exile as good as it can be.”
The studio reiterated that Tencent isn’t going to try to change the game, force pay-to-win aspects on it, or give the Chinese version priority. It also said that it will continue its rollout of four major releases per year and is developing the next expansions as well as version 4.0, which is coming sometime in 2020.
