Yesterday it was announced that Tencent had pulled Dungeon & Fighter Mobile, the hotly-anticipated (and highly successful) entry in their DnF series, from certain app stores in China. This is despite the game only launching in May, and while it was blamed on licensing issues the real reason may be a bit more complex.
For Tencent, the grievances, in particular, seemed to be that the cut taken by app stores was too excessive to justify keeping their game on these services. Starting to sound familiar? Yes, it sounds like Tencent is beginning to take a page out of Epic Games, and Tim Sweeney's playbook and is now playing hardball with app stores. ... [MORE]
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