Chapter 335: Secret R&D Zone
However, this very emotional remark was recognized by everyone the moment he finished shouting.
Almost everyone present stood up in unison, clapped at Jester with all his strength, and even some people clenched their fists, waved their arms vigorously, and kept making strange screams in their mouths, as if to vent their deep excitement.
After saying the previous paragraph, Jester's inner emotions were almost cathartic, and he also returned to his usual flat demeanor.
"Thank you."
Seeing that the people present continued to express their support, and Ester was also a little moved, he bowed slightly, thanked him, and then he looked at the blonde young man just now, this young man saw Jester looking at him, a little embarrassed smile, and Jester shrugged his shoulders, he said humorously: "Actually, what you said is not bad, for example, you don't dare to make this decision about the bonus for the carnival rising to 200,000 US dollars, so if I were you, my opinion would be the same as yours." ”
Hearing Jester's words, the blonde young man nodded vigorously.
"To be honest, don't look at the fact that I have set a prize fund of 200,000 US dollars for a competition, a game competition that not many people pay attention to, and even some real Olympic sports are not as high as this prize money, but what I want to tell you is that in the future, the total prize money of an esports competition will reach 1 million US dollars, 10 million US dollars, and this will definitely be achieved."
Although Jester was very sure, he could see from the faces of the people present that they didn't believe Jester's words very much, and even they thought that even if they could do what Jester just said, make esports a real healthy community. It is no longer a deformity that only has input but no output, so it is impossible to reach the prize money of 10 million US dollars in a competition.
What is the concept of 10 million dollars?
Although they don't have so much money. But it doesn't affect them to know what kind of purchasing power 10 million dollars have, to put it mildly. No sport has yet won that amount.
Seeing the disbelieving faces on the faces of the others, Jester just smiled, he didn't want to explain, because there was no way to explain it, because when Dota 2 really made a $10 million prize money through crowdfunding, before that, no one dared to believe that it was real, it was like a dream. It's going to happen right in front of your eyes.
And that's only a quarter of the crowdfunding.
This is Jester's admiration for Valve's Dota 2 initiative when he later discussed with him about the deformity of e-sports, because Valve Guò held a world competition, not only did not spend money, but also earned at least 20 million dollars of net income, which is completely from Dota 2 players, not to mention Dota 2 This game, only this one, Valve and Dota 2 can go down in history forever.
What about another Dota game?
But by virtue of its global strength. Continuing on Blizzard's closed, deformed old path that doesn't involve the player. Let the entire game community win a win-win situation, this kind of deformed community policy, when a game is still in its prime, may not see anything, but once it begins to decline, then it will be out of control.
The key thing is that Blizzard's "StarCraft 2" did not provoke the banner of "StarCraft 1", and after "Warcraft 3" declined for various reasons, they still have "World of Warcraft" to carry the flag. These losses are nothing to them.
But what about fists?
This company relies on lol only one game. If the game goes into decline over time - and that's a given. No royal power can last forever, this is something that countless realities tell us, and what can they rely on to continue to maintain their position or make a profit? At this time, Jester's mind flashed countless things in an instant, and he suddenly remembered an old saying, which seemed to be extremely correct when used on the body of the fist.
Watching him rise up a tall building, watching him feast guests, watching him collapse a building.
"There will be a day."
Although those present still did not believe it, Jester repeated it in a more precise tone, and he said it so definitely that everyone present could not believe it.
They know that their boss has always been a person who has one thing and two things, and has never heard of him having any habit of bragging, but they still have a sense of unreality when they associate $10 million with what their boss just said, which is completely beyond their cognition.
As if Jester wanted to be speechless, he smiled and went on to add, "Maybe it's not just ten million dollars. ”
Under the gaze of everyone's incredulous gaze, Jester beckoned to Li Fuzhen, who had been on the side just now, signaling that she could leave, and he would take her to visit other places.
And Li Fuzhen also hurriedly followed.
It seems that this Lee Kun-hee's daughter is also full of doubts about what Jester said before, she frowned her beautiful eyebrows, and after following Jester's footsteps, she couldn't help but ask: "What you just said is true?" I didn't lie to them! ”
"Huh."
Jester chuckled, he shook his head, "All I can say is what I think is possible. ”
After speaking, Jester had already led him to a development room on the basement floor, this development room has the strictest security measures, and even has a fingerprint recognition system, people who are not in this system cannot enter it at all, and this is also the development center of Mars Entertainment's top-secret development projects, and many secret development projects are carried out here.
As for why he let a person who is not related to his company come to this place that is forbidden to many employees of Mars Entertainment, it is just because Jester feels that it is necessary for him to let Li Kunxi behind Li Fuzhen know some things about Mars Entertainment, after all, Li Kunxi's Li family is the second largest shareholder of the real Jester Holdings.
Even if he doesn't bring Lee Bok-jin here, he will send it to Lee Kun-hee in the next quarter's financial report.
This is also the reason why Jester wanted to secretly set up a handheld machine development team for fear of leaking the news, so he could only set up a leather bag company outside to do it.
Now in this development center, there are only three project teams in the development task, this is that task, and it is also rare in Mars Entertainment, even if it is an employee within the company, as long as it is not a relevant person, it must be fully confidential, one of them, is the development of a thirty-two game console, and the second, it is a color screen handheld game console, both of which are long-term axes, and the current development team has very few personnel, just in the project plan.
However, what is certain is that for the 32-bit home console, Jester's instructions were to improve 3D performance at any cost, and Jester's exact words to the development core of the next generation of home consoles at the time were: "I want our next-generation game consoles to be perfect in terms of 3D and 3D processing." ”
The third and final development project is the Unreal II engine that Carmack is currently working on.
This is no longer a pseudo-3D engine, but a real, powerful, capable of simulating the real 3D world of the engine, this development team is not very large, in fact, at the beginning, Carmack even said that only he alone is enough, for Carmack can make the best engine in the world, this Jester has never doubted, will not even have such an idea.
Because both now and in the world in his mind, Carmack is the authority of this era, the first person, no second person can compare with him in terms of 3D engines.
However, considering the time of development, Jester still did not hesitate to reject Carmack's offer, and Jester's reason for refusing was very simple: "I ask to see a perfect engine within four months, can you do it alone?" ”
Then, Carmack shook his head decisively.
Three assistants were selected from the people they had worked with before, and they worked together on research and development - one more than the first time.
When Jester saw Carmack, Carmack's eyes were red as usual, and he had obviously not slept all night.
Although this time it was secretly developed in the secret development department, it did not prevent Carmack from hoarding a whole refrigerator of Coke and a warehouse of instant noodles here, and in this room that was not too big, with seven or eight computers with bright screens, there was a lingering strange smell, Jester sniffed hard, it seemed that all kinds of unpleasant smells were sandwiched together, this smell was very unbearable.
And Li Fuzhen, a girl who has always been clean, turned around instantly when she saw the scene in this room again.
Carmack saw someone come in, he looked up, after recognizing it was Jester, his face immediately showed a look of great surprise, he quickly stood up, rushed to Jester's side in a few steps, grabbed one of Jester's arms, and then dragged Jester to his work computer.
"Look! See what we've accomplished! ”
Pointing to the flickering computer screen, Carmack had a smug look on his face that could not be concealed. (To be continued)