If you don't agree, you don't have to learn.

Everyone has their own understanding of games, and different designers will have different design ideas for a type of game.

This cannot be called right or wrong, it can only be said that the Tao is different and does not conspire with each other.

It can't be said that Blizzard forgot the original intention of making games for the sake of money, and Jester will also forget the original intention for the sake of making money.

Although he mentioned to his subordinates when instructing them to make games, sometimes when designing games, designers need to make some compromises in the face of the market, because designers also need to eat.

But the fun nature of the game can't be changed.

The game has to be fun.

This is also a standard that Jester has set for himself, because he firmly believes that fun games will be liked by people, even if it is an MMORPG, there is no escape from the restrictions of this rule, he does not need to deliberately set up something that must be done by the player to spend time, and some tasks are stinky and long and meaningless - this is not to deny that the tasks of the long plot are to cheat money and time, because there are still many classic time-consuming tasks such as love and family in the 60s of WOW.

Rather, there is no need to deliberately set up some disgusting settings in order to keep players online for a long time.

Jester was thinking about the WOW and the contents of several expansions in his mind, and he was thinking about what he could learn from and what he didn't need.

I wrote a lot.

He's been doing this for a while, and it's the most important thing for him, and he wants to make his last game perfect.

The team is gradually being formed, and although the development of Super Balotelli Galaxy has not yet been completed, Jester is not prepared to devote too much time to this when the core gameplay and the general framework of the level have been completed. And with Shigeru Miyamoto personally in charge of this game, he knows Shigeru Miyamoto's level.

If it's just about the understanding of some and the grasp of the fun of the game, to be honest, I really admire the other party's five-body throw, and I really can't catch up with it.

So, instead of wasting your time with Super Balotelli Galaxy, you might as well hurry up and prepare for your next game.

After all, in its original history, WOW was officially launched in the United States. It's at the end of 04, and the project of this game is almost 00 years ago, and it won't be more than 00 years at the latest - a full five years, more than 100 people jointly developed, and there was the first version of the game that was not perfect.

And since I plan to make WOW even better, although I can provide more people and more funds, it also needs more time.

Now that you do the math, it will take at least half a year. Or even an extra year.

So, starting now, it should be the right time.

As for the rest of the things, you can put them all aside for the time being. After all, WOW will be its last game, and that's something both inside and outside the company knows.

So, at the end of the year. Jester suddenly convened a rare meeting of all directors as the chairman of the board of directors~, and it was not just the right to vote. Even if there is no vote, but the company's senior management who has the right to dividends gathered.

They all knew that Jester was going to announce something big today, because the most senior leaders of the European, Asian, and Japanese branches had also returned to headquarters.

Of course, there are no impermeable walls in the world.

In fact, they also generally know the reason why Jester convened this all-senior meeting this time, after all, this is not a secret thing, Jester is going to retire in the past few years Jester has said many times, although they will persuade each other at every meeting, but Jester always avoids the past on the grounds that this is not a discussion at this meeting.

In fact, for them, they really don't want Jester to make the decision to retire.

Because Jester has done an excellent job in creating Mars Entertainment and in the past ten years at the helm of Mars Entertainment, all the decisions are now extremely correct, as if he can really see through the future.

Not to mention his role in the entire game development community, his games can be said to be the best guarantee of the company's hardware sales.

Even a niche game like "Monster Hunter" can sell other people's mass games super sales, it is simply beyond everyone's expectations, before the release of "Monster Hunter", no one thought that this uncompromising and difficult game would actually cause a wave of trembling, and even many people after playing this kind of action game took the initiative to find out if there was a similar game.

As a game designer, Jester is a person who has achieved the apex, and one person can support the existence of a platform.

is such a pin-like character, no one wants him to quit.

However, Jester, as the head of Mars Entertainment, has nothing to do if they want to retire.

I can only hope that today's meeting is not to discuss this matter, but they also feel that their ideas are a little unlikely, because in addition to this matter, Jester is really not necessary, at this time, suddenly convene such a meeting.

Everyone was waiting for Jester to arrive in the conference room, and no one was talking, all silent, as if they were all thinking about something.

Satoshi Iwata himself is strange.

Because according to his previous status, he was actually not qualified to participate in this level of meeting, because he was not the head of the Japan region, but only one of the deputies, but this time it seemed that Jester called his name alone and asked him if he would like to work in the United States - Iwata Satoshi thought about it for two days and gave Jester an accurate answer, he could work in the United States.

Therefore, he had previously followed Jester's instructions to hand over the work in Japan and rushed to the United States.

However, as soon as he arrived in the United States, he had to inform him to attend this meeting, and Jester said that he was going to make specific arrangements for his next work at this meeting.

Originally, Satoshi Iwata thought it was just an ordinary high-level meeting.

But when I came here, I realized that the level of this meeting was very unusual, because some high-level executives who would not normally attend meetings also came. As you can know, this time Jester is going to announce or want to discuss something extraordinary.

At a time when everyone is thinking like this.

The wooden door of the conference room was pushed open, and Jester and his personal Claudia entered the conference room together.

At the same time, everyone in the conference room quickly stood up and nodded to Jester, and Jester also nodded in return.

Jester and Claudia then sat down together at the table.

Everyone was a little surprised to see Claudia also appear in the conference room, although they knew that Claudia was already the second shareholder of the company after marrying Jester, but she had not been involved in the company's operation for many years. Since marrying Jester, the European branch of Mars Entertainment, which was originally relatively independent, has also merged with Mars Entertainment Corporation.

It's no different from other branches.

This time, in addition to some shareholders who rarely appear on such memories, some people from studios who don't usually participate in the affairs of the headquarters were also present.

This is a studio with a high degree of independence, although it belongs to Mars Entertainment, but Mars Entertainment does not participate in the daily operation of these studios at all in addition to publishing games. Wright and Sid. Mel's studio.

They're here for this meeting.

Jester took his seat and looked around the room. Seeing that everyone's expressions were a little serious, he first smiled, as if he wanted to ease the atmosphere, and said, "Don't be so nervous. Actually, I convened this meeting a little suddenly, mainly to announce a few things that have something to do with me, as you may have guessed before, but I think it's better to announce it to you formally. ”

After hearing Jester say that. The more than 100 people present were also concentrated, and there was silence in the conference room.

"I said before that I would retire after the last game was made. A few years ago I said that I still have two games, one is Super Balotelli Galactic, which is already half completed, and now I basically don't participate in it, mainly Shigeru Miyamoto is in charge, and I am very relieved about him Shigeru Miyamoto, and all his ideas are my approval. ”

"And WOW, which I'm working on now, is my last game."

"Actually, the thoughts in my heart at that time were indeed these two games, but I also left myself a way out, to give myself a time, if I could have a new understanding of the new game in the past few years, maybe I would change this idea, but unfortunately, in the past few years, I feel that I have not made any progress, and my current understanding of the game, the idea is still at the level of a few years ago."

"During this time, I re-sorted out my knowledge of WOW, and after combing, I completed a design outline of almost 300,000 words."

"Of course, it's just an outline, and there are millions of words that may need to be refined, but this is not something I can do alone, and I need to gather the wisdom of many people."

"When that was done, I thought about my retirement again."

"I felt it was time to make a decision."

"As you know, I made a game for the first time more than 10 years ago, in 1984, and it was a very special situation, my father, who was a hardware designer, was struggling to live because of the Atari shock, after all, the company he worked for was Atari, and everyone was saying that video games were dead, and this thing would only appear in the encyclopedia entries to be remembered."

By the time Jester said this, many of the people in the room had gone through that era.

It was arguably the biggest crisis in the entire history of video games, and everyone lost confidence in the video game industry.

“…… My father also had a sad face every day, saying that the matter of home consoles also affected the arcade machines, especially the Atari brand, and basically no one wanted to buy them...... To be honest, I grew up playing games, and because of my father's work, I was able to get those latest games almost immediately, and in '84, I got FC, which wasn't released in the U.S. at the time. ”

"The game on it is really fun, it's like reopening a door for me, allowing me to see a completely different game, and I think, if the games are so fun, then how can the game die?"

"I don't believe in this, so I made American Cubes, a game that still sells on handhelds."

"The success of this game gave me courage and made me feel that there is still a market for video games, so, I feel that I should do something for this industry, which is to make the best games and make people re-understand this industry, this is not an industry to die for, this is a thriving industry, I love video games."

Jester's words were very moving.

Those in attendance were also very moved, because many of them had lived through that era, and both the makers and players knew how pessimistic the perception of video games in the United States was at that time.

"I founded Mars Entertainment, I still remember the scene when it opened, I sent out recruitment, and many colleagues who have not died of games have come to my company, and now many of them, some have left, some are still working in our Mars Entertainment, and even, in this room, there are many people at that time."

Jester said this.

Some of the people in the room laughed.

"To be honest, Mars Entertainment has been able to develop to this day is the joint efforts of everyone, and I am not the credit of me alone, although many people like to add these achievements to me, but I know that I don't have such a big effort, I am just a very ordinary game developer, I want to make fun games, that's all."

"I've been making games for more than ten years, and I can't count the number of games I've done, and I feel that my inspiration is about to run out, so I want to make a game seriously and wholeheartedly in the last time, and remove all distractions - WOW, an MMORPG that I have planned for many years, so I decided to hold today's meeting as the chairman of Mars Entertainment."

"I would like to resign from the company, in order to make this game with peace of mind, I want to resign as the chairman and chief administrative officer of Mars Entertainment, and I propose that my wife, Claudia, the company's second shareholder, take the position of chairman ~ of the board of directors."

Although it was expected, when Jester really said it, the audience was still moved. (To be continued.) )