Last month, the Chinese regulators released game licenses for 45 companies after a 263-day freeze, but Tencent, as the leading game company, didn’t get one this time.
Yesterday, Tencent’s Chairman Pony Ma and President Martin Lau explained that for large-scale companies with multiple games at hand, the lack of license doesn’t hurt too much. They’re happy to see smaller developers and startup companies have more chance of having a publishing license number. Tencent would put more resources into several major game projects.