Chapter 501: StarCraft Uprising and StarCraft Online

This time the subprime mortgage crisis in the United States will be the last chance for Li Zetian to make a big profit with the help of the memories of his previous life, so this opportunity is extremely precious!

As long as he gets rich, he doesn't care if he floods~

At this time, American banks, securities, venture companies, and investors were all carried away by the bubble in the real estate market in the United States, and the subprime mortgage crisis broke out.

If you are not greedy, there is no harm.

Li Zetian and Dongfang Yuqin were nervously arranged, and by the end of October, they had prepared $750 billion, and there will be more in the future. In addition to buying CDS products from insurance companies, mortgage credit default swaps, these funds are also prepared to short the stock market and buy companies at low prices. In addition, Li Zetian's own company is used to deal with the crisis.

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This morning, Li Zetian came to Dongfang Yuqin's room, she was about to go out to do something, but was stopped by Li Zetian.

"Give yourself a day off today, my dear!"

"The signs of the subprime mortgage crisis are getting clearer, and I still have a lot of things on my hands. ”

"It's not a rush for a day, seeing that you are tired these days, you are all haggard," Li Zetian stretched out his right hand and gently stroked Dongfang Yuqin's face, a woman in her forties, her skin is well maintained, and her charm is still there.

Dongfang Yuqin smiled, under her long eyelashes, a pair of beautiful eyes were gentle as water, very good-looking, she shook her head and said, "Honey, I'm not tired~"

"If you are not tired, you must rest!" Li Zetian said in a tough tone, but Dongfang Yuqin really felt Li Zetian's concern.

"Good. She nodded and said, and immediately kissed Li Zetian on the forehead.

Li Zetian smiled at this time: "I remember that the epic movie "StarCraft: Uprising" cooperated by Blizzard and Disney is about to be released, I, you, and our daughter Yue'er went to watch the movie together, and then took Yue'er to Disneyland to play." ”

When Dongfang Yuqin heard this, her heart was moved.

"Well, you have the final say, I will listen to you!" Dongfang Yuqin leaned her head on Li Zetian's shoulder like a bird. Because this family is different from ordinary families (Li Zetian has two wives), she does not spend much time with Li Zetian and their daughters.

At this time, Yu Jingqiu, as the chairman and charity ambassador of the L.Y Charity Foundation, was doing charity activities in Africa.

Speaking of which, if you don't do charity, I really don't know how many people on the earth will starve to death in a year, how many people will die of disease, and how many children will not be able to go to school.

Star Wars is a Blizzard classic with tens of millions of fans. The movie has not yet been released, but the tickets for the first three days have long been sold out.

On the evening of November 1, Li Zetian, Dongfang Yuqin and his youngest daughter Li Yueer went to a nearby cinema after having dinner at home.

Of course, Li Zetian's home also has a theater, but going to the cinema to watch it has more atmosphere of watching a movie, and at the same time, you can also understand whether this movie is accepted and liked by the audience from the side.

Wearing sunglasses, no one found out Li Zetian's identity.

walked into the movie theater, it was dark inside, and no one knew his identity.

Xiao Yue'er sat among her parents, holding popcorn in her hand, excited and happy on her little face. It was the first time she had come to the cinema to watch a movie, and there were many people around.

"Dad, is the movie about to start?"

"Well, it's almost begins. Li Zetian reached out and touched her little head, and nodded with a smile.

The screen suddenly lit up, and after a while, the movie was officially broadcast.

"In the Koplu Sector, far away from Earth, the human colony of Mar Sara is in crisis. A group of alien insects governed by the will of the brood and trying to devour all life have invaded the planet in a big way......"

As soon as the movie opens, accompanied by a deep narration, a distant human colony planet is ravaged by the Zerg, and an unprecedented war breaks out between the two sides!

This amazing special effect, this magnificent scene, is simply an audio-visual feast.

The audience was immediately captivated.

Next, the human colonized planet was invaded, and the Zerg began to devour all life. In order to survive, human beings fought back and launched an uprising, and a magnificent story of uprising began, tugging at the heartstrings of countless people at every moment......

At the end of the movie, there is no doubt that the old episode is that the humans finally repelled the Zerg and emerged victorious.

"Oh, it's so beautiful!

"The special effects are shocking, the story is touching, and it's classic!"

"Better than Star Wars!"

"Blizzard is really amazing!"

“……”

The audience applauded and were very satisfied with the film.

Seeing everyone's reaction, Li Zetian felt that he had done the right thing when he proposed to let Blizzard and Disney cooperate in making movies. The success of StarCraft: Uprising has opened a new path for Blizzard, which is of great significance, and the creation and operation of IP will be the key development direction of Blizzard in the future!

There is no empire on which the sun never sets.

For game companies, if they can't always make excellent games, then they will eventually decline.

Blizzard's games aren't going to be popular all the time.

In the previous life, at least in Li Zetian's view, Blizzard was really a bit in decline, and compared with the popularity of Blizzard's development of games, "StarCraft 2" and "Overwatch" can only be included in the level of non-popularity.

At this time, Li Zetian's face slowly showed a smile, he took Xiao Yue'er's little hand, and Dongfang Yuqin quietly left the movie theater with the crowd......

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"StarCraft: Uprising" has a good reputation, and film critics and the media have praised it.

A week later, the North American box office reached $210 million, shocking everyone, and a boom in game-based film adaptations followed. Investors and studios are very optimistic about this.

During the week, the market value of almost all gaming companies rose sharply.

In mid-November, taking advantage of the popularity of "StarCraft: Uprising", Blizzard released a new game "StarCraft Online", which is the second online game released by Blizzard after "World of Warcraft".

The game, as soon as it was released, was a huge hit, and it was a hot mess!

Overnight, on the Battle.net platform, the number of game downloads reached 5 million, which is amazing!

StarCraft Online allows for a variety of activities in the game's sandbox universe, including mining, industrial manufacturing, scientific research, finance and trade, and exploration and archaeology. The types of activities that players can engage in increase as they learn related skills, and even when players are not online, in-game skills are being learned at any time.

It is worth mentioning that this game is a collaboration between Blizzard and the Chronos Industrial Artificial Intelligence Lab, and the game has a large number of NPCs (non-player control characters), all of which have super high artificial intelligence, and when communicating, trading, and even developing wars with them, it is impossible to distinguish whether the other party is an NPC or a player.

This is a feature of StarCraft Online, which attracts a large number of players.

There are many more NPCs in StarCraft Online than player users, but these NPCs can be bought or even subdued. If you're awesome, you can even subdue a lot of NPCs as your own army and dominate the game, such as robbers robbing merchant ships or even armies, or occupying NPCs' planets......

StarCraft Online has a large map, with countless planets, as well as Zerg and Protoss, so players won't have to worry about getting tired of playing.

Li Zetian has been investing in the development of virtual helmets that are often written about in the future, and it will be great if the virtual helmet is applied to StarCraft Online in the future. Players are driving a spaceship, leading a large army to launch a big battle in space, or driving a mecha to fight, oh~~ This feeling is hard to imagine!

Of course, virtual helmets seem impossible, but Li Zetian has money, which is to make the impossible possible! In Li Zetian's view, every stimulus or reaction of a person will produce brain waves, including taste, hearing, vision, touch, and so on...... I think the core technology of the virtual helmet should be brainwave technology!

Regarding the research of brain waves, Chronos Hospital and Gene Science have been researching for a long time, and they have achieved good results, such as wearing a brain wave device on their heads, they can remotely control an airplane to fly by sending brain wave commands.