Feeling that the time was almost over, Zhang Lexing finally said his true intention to come this time: "Qiao, we are very optimistic about the game production strength of New World Computer, so we hope to acquire your company." ”

"What! You want to buy New World Computer?" Joe Wan Kanham came to his senses, but he usually cares most about game development, only thinking about how to make more interesting and fun games, as for the sales and distribution of games, he doesn't want to take care of it and doesn't have the energy to manage it, so if someone wants to buy New World Computer, he is not so disgusted.

However, Joe Wan Campham will not easily agree like this, at least he must know that he can leave something for his gang after the acquisition, after all, he still has more than 30 brothers under him, and he does not want to lose the development rights of his beloved games because of the acquisition of the company, so he asked very cautiously: "Zhang, how do you want to acquire?"

"There are two options for the specific acquisition. Zhang Lexing took the proposal from Hong Mingjie's hand, pushed it from the table to Joe Wan Kanchem, and then said: "The first is that we Dongfang Electronic Entertainment Co., Ltd. directly invested in the acquisition of the shares in your hands, and the specific amount of capital contribution and the proportion of the desired acquisition have been written in the plan book; In addition, if the acquisition is completed, we intend to hand over the future distribution of your company to Activision, and this time their head of the distribution department, Bey Yarez, has also come over, and the relevant details can be negotiated later. ”

Joe Wan Campham opened the plan and looked at it, and it was very clear that if it was the first plan, then the Oriental Electronic Entertainment Co., Ltd. would invest $10 million to acquire 75% of the equity of New World Computer, and he and Mark would each receive millions of dollars, while if it was the second plan, New World Computer would need to issue enough additional shares, and Oriental Electronic Entertainment Co., Ltd. would still invest $10 million to get 75% But in this way, the development funds of New World Computer will be sufficient immediately, and he can also increase some manpower, so that the development of "Might and Magic" can be faster. If Joe Wan Kanchem is chosen, he knows that he will definitely choose the second option, which can give New World Computer greater development, but the company is not his alone after all, although Mark's shares are much less than his, but the two have been partners for many years, and it is of course better to discuss such a major matter at the moment.

Seeing Joe Wan Kanchem frowning and pondering there, Zhang Lexing did not urge him, but sat opposite and waited quietly for his answer. After a while, Joe Wan Canchem stood up and said, "Excuse me, gentlemen, I need to discuss this matter with my partner, please wait." ”

With that, Joe Wan Campham picked up the proposal and turned around and left the conference room, walking through the hallway to the office of General Manager Mark Calderwell.

Joe Wan Canchem waved his hand as he entered, saying, "Hey Mark, the guy who sent the fax yesterday is here." ”

"Oh, I've heard that. Mark Caldwell put down the papers in his hand, looked up and said, "Well, what the hell are they here?"

"They want to buy our New World Computer, Mark, this is their acquisition proposal, do you want to take a look. Joe Wan Kanchem handed over the proposal in his hand.

"Okay, I'll take a look. Mark Caldwell reached out and took the proposal, lowered his head and looked at it carefully. Five minutes later, he looked up again and asked, "Joe, which option do you want to choose?"

"I ......" Joe Wan Campham hesitated for a moment, and instead of answering directly, he asked rhetorically, "Mark, if it were you, which option would you choose?"

"You don't have to," Mark Caldwell said with a smile after glancing at Joe Wan Canchem's expression, "No matter which option you choose, I will support you, we are the best partners." ”

"Thank you, Mark. Joe Wan Canchem said gratefully, not just for this matter, but for so many years, without Mark Calderville's support, maybe he wouldn't be where he is today.

"It's okay, Joe. Mark Caldwell spread his hands and said with a smile: "Well, have you figured out which option to choose? If I'm not mistaken, you must choose the second option, because in your heart, game development is definitely the most important, if you can have more funds, I believe you can do more and better, so ......"

Joe Wan Campham also smiled, or his partner knows himself best, if it's just to make money, what to do badly, why bother to go to the trouble of taking the road of game development. Every time he finishes a game and gets people's affirmation, Joe Wan Campham has an indescribable sense of joy in his heart, and every time he immerses himself in the world of the game, he feels a burst of indescribable joy that only Mark knows best, except for his own Michaela. Now that Mark has said the choice he wants to make in advance, he doesn't have to worry about it, and can already make the final choice.

At the same time, the conference room ......

After Hong Mingjie did it for a while, he couldn't help but come to Zhang Lexing's side and asked, "Boss, do you think they will agree?"

"They'll definitely agree. Zhang Lexing said confidently.

"But I just saw that Mr. Campham seemed hesitant. Hong Mingjie was still a little worried, but he didn't think that he would not be able to complete the acquisition, but a small company with thousands of dollars could stun him just by smashing it with money, he was afraid that the other party would hesitate and delay for too long.

"It's okay, he just doesn't know which option to choose, I'm sure he'll have the answer when he comes back, but whichever one he chooses, it's pretty much the same for us. Zhang Lexing is still full of confidence in completing the acquisition, after all, Hawkins's 3DO company "had" done it once, and it seems that there are no obstacles.

"But......" Hong Mingjie was about to continue, Joe Wan Kanchem came back, still with a bright smile on his face, it was obvious that there should be a good result, he had to shut up and return to his seat.

Joe Wan Kanchem walked directly to Zhang Lexing's side and said with a smile: "Zhang, we accept your acquisition and choose the second option. ”

"That's great, Joe. Zhang Lexing stood up, stretched out his hand in the face of Joe Wan Kanchem, and said happily: "Happy cooperation!"

Joe Wan Kanchem also stretched out his hand and shook Zhang Lexing's hand: "Happy cooperation!!"

The details of the acquisition contract will be communicated by the lawyers of both parties, and Hong Mingjie and Mark Calderville will also be responsible for signing the acquisition contract, and the future issuance will only need to be negotiated by Mark Calderville and Bay Yarez. In this way, Zhang Lexing and Joe Wan Kanchem have become the two most leisurely people, and while others are negotiating the contract, the two continue to discuss the issues of "Might and Magic" and "Heroes of Might and Magic".

After this chat, Zhang Lexing learned that the birth of "Heroes of Might and Magic" was born out of the efforts of Joe Wan Canchem's wife Michaela, as well as the general environment. In fact, Joe Wan Campham has always wanted to release a sequel to "Might and Magic" (that is, the sixth generation), but this period is the low ebb of role-playing games, first "DOOM" sparked a boom in FPS games, and many "DOOMToo" FPS games were born one after another, and this year because of "Command and Conquer" Not only did game critics dismiss RPGs, but even gamers abandoned their focus on RPGs because they were addicted to FPS and real-time strategy games, and RPGs seemed to have entered an ice age.

It was in this situation that Mrs. Michaela made such a request, so Joe Wan Kanchem made a turn-based strategy game based on "Might and Magic", "Heroes of Might and Magic", on the one hand, trying to transform, and on the other hand, hoping that through "Might and Magic", "Might and Magic" can continue to remain in people's hearts and not be forgotten. Obviously, the first aspect of the goal has been achieved, and although there are no sales figures yet, "Heroes of Might and Magic" is very good, at least in the eyes of game critics, based on the unanimous praise in computer game magazines.

Success is a good thing and sometimes a bad thing, and the success of "Heroes of Might and Magic" made it difficult for Joe Wan Kanchem to make a choice, whether to continue to make "Heroes of Might and Magic 2" or should continue the previous preparations to complete "Might and Magic 6", he didn't know how to choose.

In the end, Joe Wan Campham put the question in front of Zhang Lexing, hoping to get a good advice. Which game to make first, this is not a problem for Zhang Lexing at all, because he remembers that "Heroes of Might and Magic 2" was launched almost a year earlier than "Might and Magic 6", and the plot of "Might and Magic 6" follows the end of "Heroes of Might and Magic 2", obviously "Heroes of Might and Magic 2" must have been developed first. Now that the answer has been determined, the next step is to prepare the reason.

After thinking about it for a while, Zhang Lexing replied: "I think it is more appropriate to take advantage of the success of "Heroes of Might and Magic 1" to launch a sequel, which can not only continue the enthusiasm of players, but also make up for the imperfections in the generation. Then take advantage of the popularity of "Heroes of Might and Magic 2", and then launch "Might and Magic 6", there is an old Chinese saying, the moon is cloudy and sunny, and I think it is impossible for role-playing games to be at a low ebb at that time. ”

"Zhang, thank you for the advice, I know what to do. Joe Wan Campham actually had the same plan, just hoping that someone would be firm in his thoughts, but the "imperfections in a generation" mentioned in Zhang Le's jargon just now also aroused his interest: "Zhang, what do you think needs to be improved in "Heroes of Might and Magic"?"

"This ......" suddenly asked, Zhang Lexing really couldn't say it, after all, they were all games that were played "a long time ago", fortunately, "Heroes of Might and Magic 2" is Zhang Lexing's most played, and after searching his stomach for a long time, he finally remembered it: "The current castle (race) only has four kinds of humans, devils, elves and orcs, you can consider adding two more, the types of buildings can also be increased, and some neutral troops can also be designed in the wild." Classes need to be able to be upgraded so that they can distinguish new recruits from veterans, and players will appreciate their troops more.

There can be more treasures, and the treasure pictures should be designed beautifully, so that players will have more motivation to collect. Now you have to go back to the city to re-remember when the magic runs out.,Although it's very D&D style.,But it's too inconvenient.,It's recommended to change it to a mana to limit.,So that you only need to replenish the magic when you're used up.,No need to run around and learn again.。 Add a second skill to the hero, so that there are more types of combinations, and the hero's abilities are more different. ”

Joan Wan Canchem nodded and said, "What you're saying is interesting, I'll consider adding it to the game." Zhang, I can't believe you're so good at game design. ”

"No, just some thoughts. Zhang Lexing shook his head with a smile and said, "Qiao, I want to buy the Chinese adaptation rights of the company's future games, and I want to bring your games to China." ”

"Oh, by the way, Zhang you are Chinese. Since you're already a major shareholder, I won't object to your proposal, but can you make money by bringing the game to China?"

"I don't want to make money, I want to bring more good games to Chinese players, and the current environment over there, the game sales are generally not ideal, even if it is a good game, I am afraid that it is only tens of thousands of units, and the price is generally not more than 15 US dollars. ”

"Ah, that's so bad, then you're not going to lose money. Joan Wan Campham was surprised by Zhang Lexing's decision, but also admired: "Either the royalty will be a little less, or use the way of sharing, anyway, you should be able to make a lot of money by relying on the market here." ”

"Joe, thank you so much, why don't we sign now. Zhang Lexing remembers that the price of the game has been lowered a lot after Xintiandi adopted this method, and it has achieved good sales results.

Therefore, after the acquisition agreement and the distribution contract were signed, a game agency contract was added temporarily, and Zhang Lexing had a great appetite and signed it for a full ten years in one go, and from then on, all the sales of New World Computer's games in China must be approved by Zhang Lexing. And this Chinese region includes the mainland, Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan, so at least it will not lose money. Got the agency of the game,The next thing to do is the work of sinicization,Different from general agency companies,Zhang Lexing belongs to the level where you can directly get the source code,So the difficulty of sinicization is correspondingly much smaller,The key is how to establish a high-level translation team。

Speaking of the sinicization of games,Zhang Lexing can't help but think of the history of the sinicization of computer games he experienced。 It started when domestic game agencies were popular, a large number of foreign games poured into the country, at first the strength of the game agency was not strong, there are games that need to be sinicized when they are generally temporarily invited to translate one or two people, and even sometimes invited college students, and the translation time given is generally very short (in order to keep up with the release plan, of course, the key is the cost), and the so-called "Chinese Simplified Chinese version" finally made often has many errors and omissions, especially role-playing games with many words. Sometimes, in order to be in a hurry, the agency will also divide the materials that need to be translated to several people, and each person is responsible for a part, due to poor information communication, the result is that the translation is inconsistent and full of errors and omissions.

For example, the translation of game titles, because of different translation channels, even the same game will have multiple different names, such as "TombRaider", which can be called "Tomb Raider" or "Pretty Baby Attack", "Half-Life", which can be called "Half-Life", "Half-Dead" or "Shiver", "Age-of-Empires", which can be called "Age of Empires" or "Century Empires", and "RainBowSix" This game, in addition to the literal translation of "Rainbow Six", also has a very magical "Rimbaud Episode 6" (it is estimated that the translator was too poisoned by watching "First Blood"). The most amazing translations belong to "The ElderScrolls" (The Elder Scrolls) and "NeverwinterNights" (NeverwinterNights), especially the translation of "Old Man Scrolls", which can catch up with "Kicking Teeth", brought a lot of jokes to netizens back then, but for those who pay for the original version, it can only be described as a cup.

In addition to the name of the game, there are also common sense errors such as "tracked vehicle" (should be "tracked motor vehicle"), "weapon tower door" (should be "weapon pylon"), "sighting box" (should be "aiming indicator ring") in the instruction manual of the military game "KA-52", and the so-called "US 82nd Air Force" appeared in "Delta Special Forces". The translation of "The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind" is even more extreme, Zhang Lexing once understood, and the first sentence that came to the game was "What is your name", and it was a full version of the mixed Chinese and English. Many players said bitterly: "When I used to play the English version, I understood half of the content, but since I used the 'Chinese Simplified version', I can't even understand a sentence......

Zhang Lexing doesn't think he has the ability to manage all the things in the world, but at least the games he likes must not be ruined. In fact, the requirements of the players are very low, they just want to be able to play the game in their hands well, Zhang Lexing is not willing that they can't even achieve such a small wish.

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