The President of the United States, Donald Trump, signed a decree this Thursday to ban all negotiations with ByteDance, owner of TikTok, in 45 days. However, one more company is also being affected by this act: Tencent.
The technology giant that owns Riot Games (League of Legends y Valorant) and shareholder of multiple companies such as Epic Games (Fortnite), Blizzard, Ubisoft, Supercell o Discord, has also entered this blacklist of Chinese companies.
Although the wording specifies transactions “related to WeChat “, This order may affect a number of games and game companies where Tencent owns or has participations, many of them very popular in the United States and throughout the world, losing a large amount of money that comes from microtransacciones of the players..
While it is true that this order would be canceled if a Chinese company wants to buy from the companies in 45 days, Tencent’s inclusion in the list has been surprising, so the trading time is much shorter.
To further complicate matters, Tencent develops games for other publishers, including Call of Duty: Mobile from Activision and the next Pokémon Unite.
Complete list of Tencent’s video game participation:
- Riot Games (100%)
- Epic Games (40%)
- Supercell
- Activision Blizzard
- Bluehole
- Ubisoft
- Discord
- Huya
- Douyu
- Grinding Gear Games
- Frontier Developments
- Paradox Interactive
- Funcom
- Sharkmob
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