414 The power of public opinion
"Qin Sang, it's been a long time."
"Morita-san, how are you doing?"
"It's okay, it's as busy as ever."
After greetings, Sheng Tianhou pointed to the dining table and made a gesture of "please": "Let's talk while eating, how about it?" ”
Qin Han only ate one in-flight meal on the plane, and then slept in Las Vegas, and now looking at the sumptuous table of food, he is indeed a little hungry.
So he nodded and sat down politely.
The two of them chatted while eating, and the conversation mainly revolved around the production of the game.
Morita Hou first asked Qin Han about the development progress of "Idol Master". This game is not only a limited-time exclusive for the PS3 debut, but also a heavyweight project in cooperation with Sony Music, which is an important part of Nogizaka's 46 idol project.
Nowadays, with the idol trend brought by AKB48, Nogizaka 46 is becoming more and more popular, and it has gradually grown into a cash cow for Sony.
"The 3D character models of the seven popular members, the Seven Lucky Gods, have been completed, and motion capture and dubbing are well underway. As for the gameplay content, a performance customization system has been made for the time being. Players can create their own idol LIVE performances through this customization system. ”
"Oh, yes, that sounds interesting."
"I have a demo program stored in my notebook, so if Morita Sang is interested, I can try it myself."
"Of course, I must give it a try." While cutting the steak, Morita Hou said with great interest, "Originally, I was still a little worried about whether Terracotta Warriors Entertainment, which has no experience in 3D development, will delay the production schedule. Now, it doesn't seem like a big problem. ”
"The main thing is that there are not many members of Nogizaka 46, so our workload has been reduced a lot. If it really has 46 members, like the name of the group, it will be troublesome to make. Qin Han joked.
Of course, the real reason why it only went smoothly is that although Terracotta Entertainment did not have 3D game development experience before producing "Idol Master", he has a group of highly capable employees under his command, and the project management work of the COO of Xinna Yuanhao is also very good, plus there is technical support from Sony, so even if it encounters various difficulties, it can be solved in time to keep up with the development schedule.
After chatting for a while, Qin Han mentioned the protesters he had seen at the door of the hotel before.
Although these boring extreme feminists have little impact on themselves. But this kind of thing before the TGA awards ceremony always makes Qin Han feel that things may not be so simple.
Morita is a member of the TGA committee, and perhaps he knows more than himself, a foreigner who has just arrived in Las Vegas.
After listening to Qin Han tell what he had seen before, Sheng Tianhou was silent for a while before he said, "Qin Sang, maybe your intuition is right. Those demonstrators are probably not just trying to express their social stance. Terracotta Warriors Entertainment was nominated for three awards at this TGA awards ceremony, and you, the star producer, are already in the limelight. ”
"It seems that someone has come up with this kind of trick against me because of the TGA awards?"
"That's how it should be." Sheng Tianhou shook his wine glass and analyzed it for Qin Han, "However, don't think it's just a little trick. Since someone wants to target you for the TGA award, then the other party is prepared and planned, and it is impossible to just let a few extreme feminists demonstrate in front of the hotel, and there must be action in the follow-up. Moreover, the public opinion environment in the United States is completely different from that of Dongying. Countries like Dongying and Huaxia are deeply influenced by Confucianism and pay attention to pragmatism, so they are not interested in the social progress movements that are popular in Europe and the United States that sound lofty, but in fact have no use of fart. ”
Qin Han nodded, deeply convinced.
The kind of Hollywood female star who has a beautiful face, gives speeches everywhere to promote women's rights, and can only move her mouth, is not as good as the great man who shouted "women can hold up half the sky" and encouraged women to actively participate in production and labor.
However, those social activists who can only talk about it cannot be eaten in East Asian societies, but in Europe and the United States, they have a considerable voice.
In the past, the war of words between Zoe Quinn and Qin Han about women's rights in games was only limited to the Internet and the game circle.
However, this TGA Awards ceremony, as an annual event in the global game industry, is no longer limited to the game industry, and many mainstream media have also reported on a considerable scale.
A careless word will not only make Qin Han lose the TGA award, but even make his reputation smeared, and then make Terracotta Entertainment lose the entire European and American markets.
Even, when the time comes, Sony will terminate the cooperative relationship with Qin Han in order to take care of its reputation.
"There are quite a few people in Europe and the United States, well, let's call them liberal leftists, who are holding unrealistic fantasies all day long, focusing on LGBT (short for gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender) issues, about racial issues, about women's rights issues, and then branding everyone who doesn't agree with them as heretics and attacking them en masse. Isn't it ridiculous? Yes, it's ridiculous. What's even more troubling is that a significant number of these liberal leftists are high-level intellectuals, or employees of the media, entertainment industry, and high-tech clubs. They also hold most of the social discourse. ”
Morita folded his fingers and listed the major American media one by one: "CNN, NBC, ABC, CBS...... With the exception of FOX, all of them are liberal leftist media. ”
"It seems that those who want to target me are indeed very clever and try to use the most powerful force of public opinion in the United States to attack me." Qin Han said.
Seeing that Qin Han did not express panic, Sheng Tian praised the young man's psychological quality in his heart, but also worried that he was inexperienced, and he was caught and criticized by the media for a while.
He said: "Those of us who make games belong to the entertainment media industry, so we are naturally the focus of public attention, and we should be more cautious. Before the TGA awards ceremony, Qin Sang, you'd better not be interviewed by the media. ”
"Of course. I was going to take advantage of these two days to get some rest. Qin Han said with a smile, "If a reporter comes, I'll just send him away with a sentence of 'no comment'." ”