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CTOnews.com February 19 news, NetEase Game announced the acquisition of "Detroit: changing people" developer Quantic Dream at the end of August 2022, but did not disclose specific information. According to the latest news, the deal cost about 100 million euros (currently about 733 million yuan).

According to foreign media Insider Gaming sources, Quantic Dream had a long-term cooperative relationship with Sony. The partnership ended with the release of Detroit: changing people in 2018, and Quantic Dream has been looking for partnerships or acquisitions ever since.

NetEase bought Quantic Dream for about 100m euros (currently about 733 million yuan), a deal said to be "easy to calculate" under the PACTE law, according to sources. In 2019, the French Parliament passed the PACTE Law, which means that all employees invest in Quantic Dream in order to better share the value created by the enterprise with employees.

Some sources privately disclosed that they received payments of between 50, 000 and 100000 euros after the acquisition, and that Quantic Dream was sold at about 100 million euros, based on their own percentage of shares. In addition, sources also revealed that the company's founder and CEO David Cage and his family own 51% of Quantic Dream, which means he may have received about 50 million euros.

▲ "Detroit: changing people" CTOnews.com has learned that Quantic Dream is known for its movie-like adventure games and is currently developing Star Wars: eclipse. The studio also released the Parallel Studio narrative adventure game "Under The Waves".

NetEase is steadily increasing investment in AAA-rated game production, including a $100m investment in Bungie, a strategic investment in dawn kill studio Behavior Interactive, and the opening of new studios such as Nagoshi's and Jar of Sparks in Seattle, following the acquisition of Grasshopper Manufacture, the "hero no longer" developer of Koichi Sukuda. NetEase will also release Everstone Studio's "Sixteen sounds of Yan Yun", which has an impressive performance on Gamescom 2022.

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