Chapter 205: A Meeting of Star Entertainment

After returning to Xiangjiang, Wu Ming, who had rested for two months, fell into busyness again.

The comic drafts that had been accumulated for a long time have now been exhausted, and Wu Ming has to rush the manuscript every day as before, but fortunately, now that "The Legend of Nezha" has ended, there are only four comics in serialization now, otherwise the task will be heavier.

In addition, Wu Ming also needs to learn some business management knowledge, computer knowledge, music knowledge and so on every day.

However, the heaviest task and the most time-consuming task is the development of new games.

In the conference room of Xingchen Entertainment, Wu Ming held a plenary meeting again after a long time.

Wu Ming sat on the main seat and glanced lightly at the employees below. coughed lightly and said, "I convened this meeting to make plans for the next stage of our Star Entertainment's development. ”

Seeing everyone looking at him intently, Wu Ming smiled lightly, and continued: "I don't know if you have heard that Atari lost the lawsuit between Atari and Activision. ”

As soon as these words came out, the pot suddenly exploded below.

As the second-largest employee in the global gaming industry, there has been a lot of attention paid to Atari, the leader in front of them.

Last year, Atari sued Activision, which caused a heated discussion in Star Entertainment. Everyone was speculating about which side would win the case, but most people thought that Atari would win the case, but unexpectedly Atari actually lost the case.

Because of Wu Ming's relationship, the employees of Xingchen Entertainment believe that the most important thing about games is quality, not publicity. Therefore, for Atari, which has always relied on advertising to become the leading boss, the people of Xingchen Entertainment have always been very unconvinced and always want to replace it.

Now hearing that Atari had lost the case, everyone gloated.

Wu Ming crossed his hands to support his chin and asked lightly, "Remember when I said that the garbage games on the market will become even more?"

"Is it?" exclaimed someone below.

All of you here are elite talents who have been selected at various levels, and their heads naturally turn quickly, Wu Ming asked, combined with Wu Ming's earlier mention of Atari's defeat, many people thought of the answer.

Some developers who often stay with Wu Ming even thought of what Wu Ming used to say.

"Yes," Wu Ming smiled slightly, affirming, "Since Atari has lost the lawsuit, then those capitals that covet the huge profits of video games will pour into the game industry, bypassing Atari's control, and freely producing and selling Atari 2600 games."

The U.S. branch has reported that many incompetent and experienced programmers are now ambitious to develop games for the Atari 2600. You should know exactly what the consequences will be!"

Hearing Wu Ming say this, many people below blushed. Most of them developed games from scratch, and with the support of Wu Ming, they developed many games on their own. However, most of these games were killed by Wu Ming, and only a very small number of games survived and were released.

At the beginning, they were all fledgling newcomers, so they naturally made the mistake of blindly expanding their self-confidence, thinking that if they developed one or two popular games behind Wu Ming, they could develop games independently. Now that I think about it, I realize how young and naΓ―ve I was at the beginning.

However, because most of these people have developed games independently, although they failed in the end, it is a valuable experience to grow into the current elite. Wu Ming can also delegate most of the tasks now, and only personally presided over the development of "Gold Digger" last year. Otherwise, if they have been following Wu Ming, these developers will never have the ability to innovate independently, and Wu Ming will not be as easy as he is now.

However, this experience cannot be learned by other companies, and ambitious game companies simply do not have the financial resources to learn from Star Entertainment. Companies like Atari only think about making money, regardless of the quality, they are all listed and released, and they don't pay attention to the quality of games and the cultivation of talents.

Everyone understands very well that programmers who do not have the ability and experience to develop games independently are just not able to do their own thing, and the probability of being able to develop excellent games is too low. And not everyone is as talented and self-taught as their boss. When the time comes, it will only be all kinds of garbage games that will frantically flow into the market.

"The full opening of the third-party market will put countless garbage games on the shelves. In the absence of mature media publicity, reviews and word-of-mouth communication, most players can only rely on cassette covers to choose the games they want, and the taste and quality of the game are completely dependent on luck. ”

The corners of Wu Ming's mouth slanted slightly, revealing a sarcastic expression, "After all, only we in the market are Game Star and a very small number of media that will evaluate the game fairly, and most of the other media are doing things with money." Relative to the sheer number of games on the market, there are so few games that can get a fair review. So most of the games you buy are low-quality garbage games. ”

"Game Star" is a magazine that Wu Ming completely controls, and Wu Ming has never thought about making money from this magazine, only thinking about expanding its influence, so "Game Star" can be said to be the most fair magazine in the industry to evaluate games.

It's different with other magazines, most of them want to make a fortune in the extended circle of the gaming industry, and they don't have any big goals at all. It has completely been reduced to the tongue of Atari and other companies that wantonly produce garbage games.

Wu Ming went on to say: "Gamers' purchasing power is limited, and although there were many junk games in the past, you can still buy a few games you like by luck. But in the future, the shipment of Atari 2600 games will skyrocket, and the number of junk games will increase dramatically. It's hard to find a game you like. ”

"What do you think will happen when gamers are exhausted by the sheer number of junk games on the Atari 2600 console on the market?"

Cao Yongping, the head of the game software development department, said seriously: "The game market will collapse, and players will abandon Atari and even give up games." ”

Cao Yongping has been studying with Wu Ming for more than two years, and he is very clear about Wu Ming's thoughts, and he has discussed this question with Wu Ming, so he can naturally answer an accurate answer.

As soon as the words were finished, the people below began to discuss fiercely again.

Although after Wu Ming's explanation, most people still can't believe that Atari, who has been hit by their Star Entertainment several times, but is still standing at the top of the game industry, will really fall from the top of the mountain as Wu Ming said.

After all, it's a rival who has been fighting with them Star Entertainment for so long!

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