Tencent Games unilaterally made major changes to the cooperation between the two parties at 17:57 on December 31, 2020, which caused major obstacles to the continued cooperation between the two parties. After careful evaluation by the company's legal affairs department, we had to suspend relevant cooperation in accordance with Tencent's unilateral request and remove Tencent games from the Huawei platform. Huawei deeply regrets this.
In the early morning of January 1, 2021, Huawei Game Center Community Leader Original Pudding issued an official announcement: Due to Tencent Games unilaterally entering into cooperation between the two parties at 17:57 on December 31, 2020, There have been major changes, which have caused major obstacles to the continued cooperation between the two parties. After careful evaluation by our legal affairs, we have to suspend relevant cooperation in accordance with Tencent's unilateral request and remove Tencent games from the Huawei platform. ?
Tencent Games responded that because Huawei’s mobile game platform and its “Mobile Game Promotion Project Agreement” failed to renew as scheduled, Tencent Game-related products were suddenly removed from the shelves early this morning. Tencent Games is currently actively communicating and negotiating with Huawei’s mobile game platform to strive for an early recovery.
Huawei Game Center stated that it admires Tencent Games’ achievements and absolute market position in the industry. Although it does not agree with it, it also understands Tencent’s requirements based on this. Thank you Tencent Games for your past support. We hope that both parties will have the opportunity to work together again in the future to provide high-quality game content services to Huawei users. Huawei Game Center sincerely apologizes to all users affected by this removal.
In response, Tencent responded that because the "Mobile Game Promotion Project Agreement" between Huawei's mobile game platform and us failed to be renewed as scheduled, Tencent's game-related products were suddenly removed from the shelves early this morning. We are currently actively communicating and negotiating with Huawei’s mobile gaming platform and striving to restore it as soon as possible. We sincerely apologize for the inconvenience caused to all users.
According to previous reports from the game industry media website GameLook, Tencent has recently renegotiated revenue sharing ratios with major domestic Android channels, requiring some of Tencent’s new games to adjust their revenue sharing ratio on its platform channels to 70%. The revenue sharing ratio between publishers or developers and channels is generally 5:5.