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In June 2012, Tencent purchased about 48 percent of Epic’s outstanding shares, or roughly 40 percent of the company, for $330 million. Along with a sizable chunk of the company, Tencent also picked up the right to have two representatives on Epic’s seven-person board of directors. But Sweeney says that has no real impact on the games the team makes.
Tencent, Sweeney is quick to point out, is the number one operator of live games in the world, the number one game publisher in China and the number three internet company in the world. "They're not a game developer," he says. "Their expertise is how to operate these games on the large scale and to really appeal to customers, and we found that their values are very similar to ours and that we had a great deal we could learn from them."
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