After hanging up Wu Yingying's phone, Wu Tao suddenly felt the need to go to the United States again.

No matter how well the domestic game market is developed, it is still untenable without a few excellent games as the core competitiveness.

Especially in the absence of supervision in China, the wind of copycats has risen at the same time.

If you act as an agent, I can also act as an agent, and the discount for my agent is greater.

In this way, a price war will soon start and fall behind.

At that time, he finally flattened the domestic game market, but he made a wedding dress for others for nothing.

I can't find a place to cry.

This is not uncommon in the history of Internet development in previous lives.

Therefore, it is imperative that the 'core' of this game company is indispensable and must be paid special attention.

As for starting a game from scratch, it has naturally become the last resort.

After all, there are shortcuts, so why not try.

After some thought, Wu Tao made a decisive decision.

At this moment, Shi Qianxue also finished the call, came out of the study with her eyebrows fluttering, and then stood in front of him, and said triumphantly: "It's all done!"

Looking at the meaning of the invitation, he almost pasted the words 'you want to reuse me' on the door of his head.

Wu Tao immediately waved his hand, "Okay, don't show off." The organization of this Internet Summit is left to you. If you have any needs, contact Mr. Qin directly from Tianqi Investment. ”

"Oh yes!" Shi Qianxue excitedly raised her arms and clenched her fists, looking so excited that she didn't even know that her flat and tight little belly was exposed.

However, Wu Tao didn't look too much, and his attention was now all on the information about Valve.

Since you plan to poach people and projects from here, it is necessary to know yourself and your opponent.

In short, there is no room for error this time.

After taking such a closer look, Wu Tao noticed that Wu Yingying also noticed the other party when she was looking for a game publisher at Villefort Software Company.

And as the founders, Gabe Newell and Mike Harrington were both old employees of Microsoft, and their relationship with their old employers was handled very well.

The engine they used to develop the game was licensed through a Microsoft relationship.

This means that Gabe Newell and Mike Harrington, like Alan Adhan, will probably be less willing to be subservient and work for others, but more inclined to do a career of their own.

After all, a big company like Microsoft has not retained them, and their newly created game company, even if it is said to be a breakthrough, will not fool others.

It seems that his initial judgment was correct.

Shi Qianxue came back to her senses and found that Wu Tao was already calling to ask others to book tickets for him.

"You're going to the U.S. in person?"

"If you don't enter the tiger's den, how can you get the tiger?" Wu Tao made up his mind, and he was also determined to win Li Ming, the father of CS.

In the middle of the night, Wu Tao was awakened by a rapid ringtone of his mobile phone in his sleep.

When I picked it up, it was Wu Yingying calling from Seattle.

There was a tired voice in his voice: "Boss, what you said about Mr. Li Ming, Valve Company does not have this person at present. ”

Wu Tao was stunned, could it be that he remembered it wrong?

On second thought, it's quite possible that I'm actually misremembering. What's more, once Li Ming has been put under the command of Valve, doesn't it mean that the copyright of Counter-Strike has been owned by Valve?

In this way, since Valve has not found this person, it shows that it still has a chance.

So Wu Tao was not only not discouraged, but said in high spirits: "You can find a way to investigate on the Internet, focus on finding out, the guy whose ID is called Goose Man." ”

Wu Yingying answered and hung up the phone.

GooseMan didn't find it, but Wu Tao couldn't sleep.

Good things are always grinding.

I don't have much information about the goose man Li Ming, and now I can only hope that Wu Yingying's search for the person can be effective as soon as possible.

Fortunately, Wu Yingying did not disappoint him.

The second call came twelve hours later.

At that time, Wu Tao was lying on the sofa taking a nap, and when he saw that the call was from abroad, he sat up with a spirit.

"Hey, Yingying, how's it going?"

On the other end of the phone, Wu Yingying's excited voice soon came, "Found it, found it!"

"That's great!" Wu Tao slapped his thigh with excitement.

"But, boss, are you sure the person you are looking for is him?" Wu Yingying's hesitant voice came immediately.

Wu Tao and Wu Yingying confirmed the ID name again, after all, there are not many names called GooseMan, so they can basically be determined, "It's him, what's wrong?"

Wu Yingying thought for a while before she considered it and said, "When we first met, I had a very general impression of him, and I didn't feel like he could be entrusted with a heavy responsibility. ”

When she said this, Wu Yingying was very tactful in her tone, and the implication was that this person was actually not very good.

However, she knows very well that her own opinions will directly affect the boss's decision-making to a large extent.

Wu Tao listened, but didn't react, but asked himself, "Is he a programmer?"

"It's a programmer, that's right. Wu Yingying continued, "But he wasn't doing anything like Counter-Strike, and when I asked him, he was particularly inexplicable." ”

Wu Tao patted his head, didn't he just do it!

At the moment, the Half-Life game has not yet been released, and the new mod made by Counter-Strike, which is based on the Half-Life expansion mode and interface platform, is naturally impossible to exist.

As for the release time of the Half-Life shooter game, it will be about half a year later.

If you wait until the Counter-Strike mod comes naturally, I'm afraid you'll have to wait a few more months.

This kind of thing must not be passively waited, otherwise it will be preempted by Valve when the time comes, and it will be too late to regret it.

What's more, Half-Life hasn't been released yet.

If Counter-Strike can be launched first based on similar engines and platforms, the potential copyright and platform battles will naturally not exist.

In that case, this is a good opportunity.

At least I'm taking the lead. As soon as he thought of this, Wu Tao immediately decided: "You stabilize Li Ming first, and I will fly over in the next few days." Let's talk about the specifics later!"

After hanging up the phone, Wu Tao's thinking was clear.

I thought of using money to build a game company, but in the end, I still had to build one by myself.

When you think about it, you can't help but feel a little tired.

But then again, the thought of being involved in the design and creation of the three classic games Counter-Strike makes me feel a little excited.

At the moment, I found a pen and paper to record the character design, battle mode, map type, game objectives, and the change information of several versions before and after in my impression to the greatest extent.

Fortunately, my favorite game in my previous life was Counter-Strike. So it's easy to write, and it's well organized.