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Mygames is a Russian company, what part of them not having anything to do with this game anymore is bad lmao?
The 4 Winds is the bogus company for mail.ru group (MyGames)
Uh...let's see some proof that The 4 Winds is just My.Games under a bogus company.
My naive american friend. You have no idea what the guys from mailru group are willing to do for money :) They couldn't «just disappear». So one of the two «new» publishers is MyGames. And yes, today Mail.ru The Group sold MyGames for $642 million. That is, the guys just went out in cash :)
But in fact, they just shifted from one pocket to another.
Cool, so you should have some links or something for us to read, right? I'll just wait.
https://the4winds.com/publishing-world-war-3-in-mena-turkey
In case you are too lazy to go to the link, here's a little bit of what it says.
Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 20 January 2022: Today, The 4 Winds Entertainment (T4W) is proud to announce a new strategic publishing partnership with The Farm 51 and MY.GAMES to launch their upcoming tactical online multiplayer FPS World War 3 in the MENA territory and Turkey. MY.GAMES will be the publisher for the game for the rest of the world.
1. That ^^^ clears up that The 4 Winds is not My.Games.
2. As for the recent sale of My.Games:
VK completed a multi-stage deal to sell 100% of MY.GAMES to Aleksander Chachava, the company said in a press release.
Chachava is a serial entrepreneur and managing partner at LETA Capital, a venture capital firm that invests in software-related startups. Its portfolio includes over 30 companies.
https://gameworldobserver.com/2022/09/27/vk-sells-my-games-for-642-million-details
Leta fund website announcing the purchase of My.Games.
Some of the games published by My.Games were listed, though WW3 was not. Not conclusive proof by any means, but made me wonder why the latest game would be left off that list if My.Games was still the publisher.
https://www.leta.vc/news/alexander-chachava-bought-an-international-game-developer-and-publisher-my-games
3. Then I found this 9/23/22:
https://www.money.pl/gielda/komunikaty/6815470420084865.html
The above link is in Polish, and this is the DeepL translation (likely not perfect translation, but should be reasonably adequate)
F51 Change of partner for release of World War 3 game
The Management Board of The Farm 51 Group S.A., headquartered in Gliwice ("Issuer", "Company") announces that on September 23, 2022, it signed an agreement to transfer ("Assignment") from MY.COM B.V., headquartered in Amsterdam("MY.GAMES"), to GRN+LTD, headquartered in Cyprus ("GRN+"), the rights and obligations of the Company's partner under the cooperation agreement, the conclusion of which was announced by the Issuer via ESPI Report No. 16/2020 of June 18, 2020. (the "Agreement"). As a result of the Assignment, there has been a change in the partner supporting the development of the WW3 brand responsible for the release, distribution and marketing of the World War 3 game. The Issuer, as before, will be responsible for the development of the World War 3 game, while retaining full creative control over the game.
GRN+ will assume all existing rights and obligations of MY.GAMES effective from the date of the Assignment. The above implies that GRN+ must perform all MY.GAMES' obligations under the existing Agreement. At the same time, the Issuer's Management Board indicates that MY.GAMES will participate from the technological side in supporting the substantive development of the World War 3 game, but no longer as a publisher of the game. In addition, in order to ensure an uninterrupted process of further development of WW3, an appropriate transition period has been agreed upon in order to transfer the technical side of the World War 3 game and its knowledge from MY.GAMES to GRN+.
The Board of Directors of the Issuer indicates that the Issuer's share of the profit from the distribution of the World War 3 game, as stipulated in the Assignment, is contingent on the launch of open beta testing of the game ("OBT"), which is scheduled to take place by the end of September 2022, with the specific date for the launch of OBT to be made public by means of an appropriate ESPI report. The launch of OBT will be associated simultaneously with the launch of the World War 3 game in the free-to-play distribution model, with the suspension of pre-release package sales. After the OBT launch, the game will be available to all who install it, allowing players to access new content and other updates planned for the near future.
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4. Also on 9/23/22
https://www.money.pl/gielda/komunikaty/6815477791119489.html
F51 Open testing of beta version of World War 3 game begins
The Management Board of The Farm 51 Group S.A., headquartered in Gliwice (the "Company", the "Issuer"), in reference to ESPI Report No. 4/2022, announces that on September 29, 2022, open beta testing ("OBT") of the game World War 3 will be launched. The launch of OBT World War 3 is the result of the start of the Issuer's cooperation with GRN+LTD, creating, based on industry veterans and the support of GEM Capital Fund, a new publisher: Wishlist Games.
The launch of PTI will see the launch of World War 3 in a free-to-play distribution model, with the suspension of pre-release package sales. The beta of World War 3 will be made available to all eager players, after it has been downloaded and installed for free. The OBT release will be preceded on September 26, 2022, by the OBT headstart. This is the release of the game's final OBT version but only to current users who have previously purchased access to it.
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5. GEM Capital Fund, Cyprus that created a new publisher for WW3, Wishlist Games
https://gem.capital/
6. If there's a connection between My.Games (owned by Leta Fund) and GEM Capital Fund (creator of Wishlist Games and current publisher of WW3) I'm not seeing it. That leads me to reason that as of 9/23/22 My.Games is no longer the publisher for WW3, beyond a transitory period for Wishlist Games to take over.
What Anti-Cheat does it use for the Open beta?
lol
sounds legit haha
You don't see the connection because, like I said, you're naive and you don't understand how the world of big money works. And the bad people in the mail.ru group are very good at money and are very, very fond of it.
However, I must admit that you have correctly traced the connection to GEM Capital. Now sit back and listen:
The founder of GEM Capital is Anatoly Paliy, a former top executive at Gazprom, whose fund bought 100% of Volga Gas, a British company that produces hydrocarbons in the Povolzhye region of Russia.
In addition to his personal oil company, Mr Paliy, who is the ONLY shareholder in GEM Capital, has many stakes in various energy companies around the world ... blah, blah, blah, it's not that important.
What is more important is that MyGames is owned by the Mail.ru Group, which was recently bought out by Gazprom-Media, which is owned by the state company Gazprom, and renamed VK.com, the largest social network and super-app in the CIS and Russia. Gazprom, on the other hand, is the Russian state. And what does this mean? That's right, sanctions.
So what about the sale of MyGames for mere pennies to the investment fund LETA Capital? Well one of the owners of that fund was for many years shareholder of Russia's biggest cyber-security companies, which means he's a cool and trustworthy guy, if you know what I mean comrade ;)
Without any irony, LETA Capital is a great fund to help ex-Mail.ru Group get some of its assets out from under the sanctions :) After all, the gaming division was bringing in at least 1/3 of the company's revenue.
Ah, yes! After February 24, all Russian companies, as well as companies associated with Russian capital and Russian banks, interested in preserving their business and NOT getting hit by secondary sanctions, have re-formed en masse in Cyprus and other "neutral" offshore zones.
A prime example is WarGaming (World of Tanks, World of Warships), which "sold" its Russian business to the St Petersburg-based company Lesta Studio. And honestly, honestly, it has nothing to do with the "toxic" Russian market :'D