The single largest distributor of games in the world, Tencent, apparently wanted “bigger tits” and “no Black people” in a film which the company was funding. Tencent owns a variety of different game studios including Funcom, Klei, and Riot.
The news broke when writer and journalist Alanah Pearce discussed some of her experiences in the entertainment industry during an interview with The Serfs. Pearce talked about how Tencent has “a bunch of problematic shit” before launching into the details of a movie which the company apparently had under production at one point in the past.
“I have a friend who had a film that was offered to be made by Tencent — or funded by Tencent — and they were like ‘no black people' and 'bigger tits.’ Like, a lot of rules that they have that I think also have had a hand in you know, some AAA games.”
Pearce was quick to walk back the allegations by expressing her reluctance to discuss any specific films or games "because I’m so worried about getting sued by Tencent, but this is what I’ve heard — rumors. I’m not sure if any of this is true.” She however said that Tencent has “games that are out where they were like ‘yeah, that character needs to have bigger tits’ or ‘you need to make her skin lighter’ type of shit.”
Pearce placed the company in direct relation to its competitors both within and outside of the games industry. “I know that most of the film industry — and that’s outside of content like ‘no ghosts!’ — they just have weird rules like that, but I think we should be way more concerned about Tencent than we should be about Microsoft.”
This comes in the wake of Tencent buying up a bigger and bigger share of the games industry over the course of the past few years. The company for example purchased a majority stake in Wake Up Interactive this past November and Yager Development in June. Tencent has often come under fire for its monopolistic practices.
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