[dimitrios1]

It's a great game, but if you are concerned about Freedom in Hong Kong, Grinding Gear Games is owned by Tencent, so you are still sending money to support an authoritarian regime that is still finishing up their latest installment of ethnic cleansing and re-education camps.

[celdon25]

This is anecdotal but I have memories of people freely bashing the USA in POE chat rooms, while I got a warning for making comments about China.

[pteraspidomorph]

So is Funcom, Riot, Epic, Miniclip... They're harder to avoid than Nestle...

[LegitShady]

No they’re very easy to avoid. Just don’t play games by ten cent owned companies. There are a lot of companies out there and a lot of games - more than you or I could conceivably have time to play.

[sidlls]

And almost none of them is any good. I like story heavy games and can tolerate some pretty bad art and graphics for a good story. Unfortunately most games these days seem to be terrible on both counts.

[res0nat0r]

Tencent has its fingers in lots of companies: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tencent#Foreign_gaming_investm...

[philliphaydon]

I had no idea. Looks like I won’t be playing PoE 2. Thanks.

[aeoleonn]

Good to know, thanks. Definitely do not want to support communism or the CCP.