Tencent to Officially Acquire Full Ubisoft from Vivendi Next Year

Tencent is certainly one of the busiest giant companies this year. One of them is the Tencent Gaming division which constantly brings new news from various lines of its company, especially for the mobile market which is indeed its strongest base. Starting from collaborating with Square Enix to bring AAA games to mobile to using Face Scan to login to suppress gaming addiction. Now Tencent is definitely targeting a bigger market by acquiring Vivendi’s shares in Ubisoft.

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Ubisoft itself has been rumored to be working with Tencent to close the gap in Vivendi’s acquisition since last March. The value of shares owned by Vivendi in Ubisoft is now 6.7% which is worth around 500 million Euros or 8.7 billion Rupiah. In the press release, the share transfer process is divided into two stages, namely 0.91% on October 1, and the remaining 5.74% is planned to be carried out on March 7, 2019.

Ubisoft itself has been at war with Vivendi since 2016. And the presence of Tencent is considered a savior for Ubisoft and even the original owner of Ubisoft, d Yves Guillemot and his family from the acquisition of entertainment giant Vivendi. With the transfer of shares to Tencent Guillemot regained the highest rights from Ubisoft after it was previously owned by Vivendi.

Ubisoft has also shown very positive progress this year with their new games getting positive reviews from gamers, an eSport system that is getting more mature for their Rainbow Six: Siege game. Even though they currently have very limited collaboration with other developers.

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