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| SilverStar Sweden. October 20 2012 03:11. Posts 5659 | Profile # |
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After a lot of speculation it is finally official. Perfect World will be responsible for the distribution of Dota 2 in China. Below is the press article. The spoiler-ed text contains legalese.
Beijing China (October 19, 2012) - Perfect World Co., Ltd. (NASDAQ: PWRD) (“Perfect World”), a leading online game developer and operator based in China, and Valve, a leading entertainment software and technology company based in the United States, today announced an agreement granting Perfect World exclusive rights to operate Dota 2 in mainland China. In development at Valve, with design lead “IceFrog,” Dota 2 promises to expand on the unique mix of action, RTS, and RPG gameplay that has made Dota one of the most popular online games in the world and a leading title at professional e-sport competitions. “Valve is one of the best developers of online games in the world. We are very excited to partner with Valve in bringing Dota 2 to Chinese gamers,” commented Mr. Robert Hong Xiao, Co-CEO of Perfect World. “Dota 2, a refined work by the developers at Valve, has received great attention from players worldwide. With our years of expertise in delivering quality games in China, we are confident that adding this action strategy game to our diverse portfolio of games will bring additional world-class entertainment and premier gaming experiences to our players in China.” “We knew when we started building Dota 2 that Dota was already loved by millions of gamers in China. Valve gave very careful consideration to which potential partner, among multiple candidates, would best serve the Chinese Dota community,” said Gabe Newell, President and co-founder of Valve. “In the end, Perfect World was the clear choice to best bring the full Dota 2 experience to customers in China. IceFrog, and the entire team at Valve, are looking forward to moving Dota 2 forward in China with the rest of the world.” + Show Spoiler +About Perfect World Co., Ltd. (http://www.pwrd.com)
Perfect World Co., Ltd. (NASDAQ: PWRD) is a leading online game developer and operator based in China. Perfect World primarily develops online games based on proprietary game engines and game development platforms. Perfect World’s strong technology and creative game design capabilities, combined with extensive knowledge and experiences in the online game market, enable it to frequently and promptly introduce popular games designed to cater changing customer preferences and market trends. Perfect World’s current portfolio of self-developed online games includes massively multiplayer online role playing games (“MMORPGs”): “Perfect World,” “Legend of Martial Arts,” “Perfect World II,” “Zhu Xian,” “Chi Bi,” “Pocketpet Journey West,” “Battle of the Immortals,” “Fantasy Zhu Xian,” “Forsaken World,” “Dragon Excalibur,” “Empire of the Immortals” and “Return of the Condor Heroes;” an online casual game: “Hot Dance Party;” and a number of web games and social networking games. While a substantial portion of the revenues are generated in China, Perfect World operates its games in North America, Europe and Japan through its own subsidiaries. Perfect World’s games have also been licensed to leading game operators in a number of countries and regions in Asia, Latin America, Australia, New Zealand, and the Russian Federation and other Russian speaking territories. Perfect World intends to continue to explore new and innovative business models and is committed to maximizing shareholder value over time.
Perfect World’s Safe Harbor Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements. These statements constitute forward-looking statements under the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements can be identified by terminology such as “will,” “expects,” “anticipates,” “future,” “intends,” “plans,” “believes,” “estimates” and similar statements. Such statements involve certain risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements. Potential risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, Perfect World’s limited operating history, its ability to develop and operate new games that are commercially successful, the growth of the online game market and the continuing market acceptance of its games and in-game items in China and elsewhere, its ability to protect intellectual property rights, its ability to respond to competitive pressure, its ability to maintain an effective system of internal control over financial reporting, changes of the regulatory environment in China, and economic slowdown in China and/or elsewhere. Further information regarding these and other risks is included in Perfect World’s filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, including its annual report on Form 20-F. Perfect World does not undertake any obligation to update any forward-looking statement as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as required under applicable law.
What do you think about this annoucement? Is Perfect World the right partner?
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| Talron Germany. October 20 2012 03:23. Posts 1435 | Profile # |
| The rumor of PW being the partner was around for a long time already. I don't really know what to think of this, as I don't know much about them. What I have read is, that they seem to have a really big number of servers all over the world including China obviously. But I've also read some posts about people saying, that PW are not very good with advertising their games, so the general conclusion was, that Dota2 might have trouble getting big in China due to that. But those were just random posts I read in different forums from some people, who are more familiar with the organization. Just sharing my information here. |
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| Lavit2099 United States. October 20 2012 03:23. Posts 365 | Profile # |
| Rights to operate? What's the difference between that and being the distributors? I have a slight fear that they will take the game and add "tweaks" to it and more or less ruining the idea of true global competition because ChineseDotA is different than everyone else's DotA. |
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 Kipsate Netherlands. October 20 2012 03:25. Posts 18045 | Profile Blog # |
| I think they will try and bypass Steam as I have heard that China does not really like it that much. |
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| SilverStar Sweden. October 20 2012 03:26. Posts 5659 | Profile # |
On October 20 2012 03:23 Lavit2099 wrote:
Rights to operate? What's the difference between that and being the distributors? I have a slight fear that they will take the game and add "tweaks" to it and more or less ruining the idea of true global competition because ChineseDotA is different than everyone else's DotA.
That is an extremely wild speculation. Icefrog would never allow that. |
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| Ettick United States. October 20 2012 03:28. Posts 1560 | Profile Blog # |
| Seems like a good idea to me, Steam doesn't really seem to popular in Asia (to my knowledge at least), so putting this game on a more popular platform in that region seems like a good idea. The more players the better imo. |
| | Do you really think people would do that? Just go on the internet and tell lies? | |
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| Lavit2099 United States. October 20 2012 03:29. Posts 365 | Profile # |
On October 20 2012 03:26 SilverStar wrote:
Show nested quote +On October 20 2012 03:23 Lavit2099 wrote:
Rights to operate? What's the difference between that and being the distributors? I have a slight fear that they will take the game and add "tweaks" to it and more or less ruining the idea of true global competition because ChineseDotA is different than everyone else's DotA.
That is an extremely wild speculation. Icefrog would never allow that.
IceFrog works for Valve. Valve own DotA 2. I don't think IceFrog has to "allow" anything for something like this to happen. But yes, it is wild speculation, but I always look for worse possible outcome in a situation to prepare myself for it. I mean, it'd more or less kill TI3 if this goes pear-shaped. |
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| Vaelone Finland. October 20 2012 03:32. Posts 1842 | Profile # |
I'm a little surprised if Valve gives up easily on having DotA 2 as Steam exclusive. If they somehow managed to make Steam big in China it would be pretty huge, even if chinese people aren't big spenders (yet!), they still have numbers.
In any case this should make DotA 2 more popular in China than it would otherwise become. |
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| SilverStar Sweden. October 20 2012 03:35. Posts 5659 | Profile # |
I would like to hear from people with actual instead of what they believe what might go wrong.
On October 20 2012 03:32 Vaelone wrote:
I'm a little surprised if Valve gives up easily on having DotA 2 as Steam exclusive. If they somehow managed to make Steam big in China it would be pretty huge, even if chinese people aren't big spenders (yet!), they still have numbers.
In any case this should make DotA 2 more popular in China than it would otherwise become.
Software is extremely cheap in China, add piracy to that and I don't think the Chinese market is ready for Steam yet.Last edit: 2012-10-20 03:37:33 |
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| Talron Germany. October 20 2012 03:41. Posts 1435 | Profile # |
| Dota2 is going to be f2p regardless and steamaccounts also are free to get. Steam updates on it's own so there won't be any complicated version switching like they had to with wc3. So I don't see what there's not to like about Dota2 being on steam. Really a mystery to me. Someone can give any insight on why particular it is bad to have Dota2 on steam? |
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 pallad Poland. October 20 2012 03:42. Posts 1713 | Profile # |
On October 20 2012 03:29 Lavit2099 wrote:
Show nested quote +On October 20 2012 03:26 SilverStar wrote:
On October 20 2012 03:23 Lavit2099 wrote:
Rights to operate? What's the difference between that and being the distributors? I have a slight fear that they will take the game and add "tweaks" to it and more or less ruining the idea of true global competition because ChineseDotA is different than everyone else's DotA.
That is an extremely wild speculation. Icefrog would never allow that.
IceFrog works for Valve. Valve own DotA 2. I don't think IceFrog has to "allow" anything for something like this to happen. But yes, it is wild speculation, but I always look for worse possible outcome in a situation to prepare myself for it. I mean, it'd more or less kill TI3 if this goes pear-shaped.
In the beginning of this story , there was information that Valve buy "dota" , but Icefrog got last word in everything , so basicly Valve just pay to make it happedn and will get profits from this project |
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| SilverStar Sweden. October 20 2012 03:43. Posts 5659 | Profile # |
On October 20 2012 03:41 Talron wrote:
Dota2 is going to be f2p regardless and steamaccounts also are free to get. Steam updates on it's own so there won't be any complicated version switching like they had to with wc3. So I don't see what there's not to like about Dota2 being on steam. Really a mystery to me. Someone can give any insight on why particular it is bad to have Dota2 on steam?
Sorry I was talking about having steam in China in general. Maybe they already have but it doesn't seem like a profitable thing. |
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| FreakyDroid Macedonia. October 20 2012 03:53. Posts 248 | Profile # | |
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| Meta United States. October 20 2012 04:04. Posts 5802 | Profile Blog # |
| This is great news, hopefully they will finalize deals with a distributor in Korea soon. I'm sick of LoL taking this country by storm when Dota 2 is on the horizon, barely out of reach. |
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| urashimakt United States. October 20 2012 04:23. Posts 1524 | Profile # |
| So if non-Chinese Dota is on Steam and Chinese Dota is not on Steam, doesn't that basically put some sort of great wall inbetween the two communities? |
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| Roflhaxx Norway. October 20 2012 04:47. Posts 1011 | Profile # |
On October 20 2012 04:23 urashimakt wrote:
So if non-Chinese Dota is on Steam and Chinese Dota is not on Steam, doesn't that basically put some sort of great wall inbetween the two communities?
Not any bigger than it already is tbh. And it's not like you need to level up, buy heroes or anything like that anyways if you go to china. And besides, we don't know how the service will run yet, too early to say. |
| | A game where the first thing you do is scout with a “worker”. Does that make any sense? Who scouts with a “worker”? That’s like sending out the janitor to perform recon, what general would do that? Retarded game. |
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| Jehct New Zealand. October 20 2012 04:56. Posts 3522 | Profile Blog # |
How exactly do they monetize the chinese scene if it's not running on Steam? Are Perfect World just going to run a Steam mirror, of sorts? Seems really weird
I mean fuck, WHAT ABOUT THE HATS, MAN?Last edit: 2012-10-20 04:56:39 |
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| SilverStar Sweden. October 20 2012 04:58. Posts 5659 | Profile # |
On October 20 2012 04:56 Jehct wrote:
How exactly do they monetize the chinese scene if it's not running on Steam? Are Perfect World just going to run a Steam mirror, of sorts? Seems really weird
I mean fuck, WHAT ABOUT THE HATS, MAN?
How is the ingame store bound to steam? This could be easily hosted by a different server. But again this is probably being finalized between Valve and Perfect World. Anything up to this point is pure speculative. |
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| Roflhaxx Norway. October 20 2012 05:20. Posts 1011 | Profile # |
On October 20 2012 04:58 SilverStar wrote:
Show nested quote +On October 20 2012 04:56 Jehct wrote:
How exactly do they monetize the chinese scene if it's not running on Steam? Are Perfect World just going to run a Steam mirror, of sorts? Seems really weird
I mean fuck, WHAT ABOUT THE HATS, MAN?
How is the ingame store bound to steam? This could be easily hosted by a different server. But again this is probably being finalized between Valve and Perfect World. Anything up to this point is pure speculative.
Indeed, well the ingame store is bound to the workshop and steam wallet (which could probably easily be replaced by whatever coins perfect world uses) Gonna be awesome to see what kind of items chinese people will be able to make though, (looking at how much money some ppl have made creating TF2 items, 40k USD in 2 weeks you'd be a millionaire in china in no time o.O) |
| | A game where the first thing you do is scout with a “worker”. Does that make any sense? Who scouts with a “worker”? That’s like sending out the janitor to perform recon, what general would do that? Retarded game. |
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| SilverStar Sweden. October 20 2012 05:21. Posts 5659 | Profile # |
On October 20 2012 05:20 Roflhaxx wrote:
Show nested quote +On October 20 2012 04:58 SilverStar wrote:
On October 20 2012 04:56 Jehct wrote:
How exactly do they monetize the chinese scene if it's not running on Steam? Are Perfect World just going to run a Steam mirror, of sorts? Seems really weird
I mean fuck, WHAT ABOUT THE HATS, MAN?
How is the ingame store bound to steam? This could be easily hosted by a different server. But again this is probably being finalized between Valve and Perfect World. Anything up to this point is pure speculative.
Indeed, well the ingame store is bound to the workshop and steam wallet (which could probably easily be replaced by whatever coins perfect world uses) Gonna be awesome to see what kind of items chinese people will be able to make though, (looking at how much money some ppl have made creating TF2 items, 40k USD in 2 weeks you'd be a millionaire in china in no time o.O)
If anyone is wondering what he is talking about read the latest blog: http://blog.dota2.com/2012/10/a-cloven-skull-for-the-cloven-hooved/ |
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