The issue here is not that some outside investor owns 30% of Larian. The issue here is that investor is Tencent. It is specifically Tencent with whom I have a grave problem.
Yes, this is the most concerning part of the rumor. It does not matter if law-abiding investors own a minority stake of the studio. But doing business with any communist-controlled company, especially in a regime with aggressive censorship and intellectual property theft policies, is not consistent with the image that Larian has crafted about themselves.
