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  • They invested before it was released, what are you talking about?

    Tencent paid for it to be made

    Edit: upon research you are talking about when Tencent became the owner. Not their investments to have the game made.

    Not mentioned in a Washington Post article but

    “ Over the summer of 2008, Merrill and Beck’s work seeking funds proved fruitful and the two landed $7 million more in funding from Benchmark and FirstMark Capital venture capital firms.”

    /+ 10 mill from Tencent and prior to launch Tencent gave another 10 mill to buy out those investors











  • Why would anyone want that?

    1 they aren’t pedos

    2 they want an app to talk to their friends with

    3 they don’t want to be victims of misinformation campaigns

    And Discord used to have #XXXX at the end of usernames.

    Yeah it was better, it meant if you were being stalked you could just have the numbers changed. Now you need a completely different alias with the only purpose to be discouraging victims from getting help