Suggesting that a Chinese company is trying to copy the success of a major Western competitor by creating its own version of its product is a timeless statement that doesn’t require any context. It’s not that uncommon in the realm of video games – there was a very high-profile case regarding Overwatch and a Chinese clone, for example, as well as more recent takes on Hearthstone and Palworld and Valorant. Yes, this trend has been getting a little more brazen lately.
Tencent, the Chinese conglomerate whose fingers are already in many Western pies, is generally known as one of the biggest tech companies and game publishers in China and the world. In recent years, the company has been investing more and more of its money into Western teams.
It seems like a sensible strategy, though it clearly hasn’t stopped the Chinese financial giant from nurturing its own teams in China for what now looks like developing legally distinct versions of the most popular games in the West.
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