>>44004558It's not Japan. It's Nintendo (or Game Freak, no idea who pulled the trigger on this one) seeing the absurd amounts of money that MOBAs makes in China.
The chinese market is hard to access for foreign companies though, so they partnered with the Communist Party's right hand Tencent to get into it. It's all about money.
I hate to be petty but god I hope that backfires.
