Tencent To Publish Deformers, Paladins, Paragon, And Rocket League In China
Tencent announced yesterday at its Tencent UP press conference that, among others, it will be publishing Rocket League in China. We were unable to attend the conference ourselves, but fortunately, Niko Partners industry analyst Daniel Ahmad has us covered.
Tencent and Ready at Dawn will work to bring 'DEFORMERS' to China. #TencentUP pic.twitter.com/5RAprTXzvg
— Daniel Ahmad (@ZhugeEX) April 20, 2017
Paladins: Champions of the Realm will be published by Tencent in China.#TencentUP pic.twitter.com/pKzJemzYPz
— Daniel Ahmad (@ZhugeEX) April 20, 2017
PARAGON from Epic Games will be published by Tencent in China#TencentUP pic.twitter.com/3kid4v9K0T
— Daniel Ahmad (@ZhugeEX) April 20, 2017
Tencent will bring Rocket League to China. #TencentUP pic.twitter.com/wdTVpHivGo
— Daniel Ahmad (@ZhugeEX) April 20, 2017
Some of these announcements are fairly unsurprising. Tencent already publishes a 40% stake in Epic Games, so we would all expect it to be Paragon's Chinese publisher. Rocket League is an extremely popular competitive sports game that is still regularly in Steam's top 10 games in of concurrent s, so I'm personally not surprised that Tencent sought to obtain the license to publish it in China.
I am, however, surprised that the company obtained the license to the as-yet unproven Deformers. It's a $30 game and the mode that I personally found most fun was the one that largely copied Rocket League's basic format. While there's a chance that it will do well here when it launches in about 12 hours, I'm not entirely sure.
Regardless, these four titles will be published by Tencent. However, as of this writing, only Rocket League has an official Chinese website. Unsurprisingly, it was announced that the Chinese version of Rocket League will be free to play, ed by a cash shop.
No release dates have been specified for the Chinese versions of any of these titles.
