Chapter 670: All glory be to the eldest son
As a matter of fact.
After making that Star Wars version of Warcraft up the app, Mike. Mo Wymmy and Rob. Pardo and the two didn't actually report any hope of getting through.
In the end, I learned that the reason why they couldn't get through guò was because it was impossible for the company to open a fifth IP while already having four RTS IPs, and, with a project, it was impossible to see what the quality of the game was, although the "Warcraft" with the interstellar war background they said in the plan was indeed very interesting.
However, this plan cannot be understood either.
Originally, both parties thought that this matter was over, but who would have thought that Jester suddenly asked about Mike. Mo Wymmy and Rob. The matter of Pardo and the others, after reading the two of them in the company in the past few years, especially after knowing that they had just applied for a game development plan recently, Jester asked people to show him directly.
Of course, it's not a big deal.
After all, it is impossible to determine whether an RTS is good or not based on planning alone.
When Mike. Mo Wymmy and Rob. When Pardo received a notice from the company, they were also very strange, after all, they were still self-aware, their plans were not good enough to alarm Jester, and their game idea was basically borrowed from "Warcraft", and as we all know, this is also a game of Jester, and it is a game that Jester attaches great importance to.
The graphic novels and even animations of this game are endless, and the entire Mars Entertainment can get such a race, basically no more than five.
Many people don't know why Jester is so optimistic about this game, because RTS games are not a genre with big sales.
So, many people can only infer that yes. Jester loves the genre of this game.
Mike. Mo Wymmy and Rob. Pardo came to Jester's office with some trepidation, although they knew that Jester wanted to talk to them about their idea of this interstellar war-based Warcraft, but they definitely didn't believe that it was such a simple thing, there must be something else.
Jester saw them and enthusiastically asked them to sit first, and then asked them if they were okay with coffee.
Then he told them that he still had some things on hand that he had not yet dealt with, and that he would talk to them when he was done.
The two of them don't have any opinions, and they dare to have any opinions.
As a matter of fact. Jester does have a little affection for the game "StarCraft", as a game of his e-sports enlightenment, for a period of time, in his eyes, the best game in the world is "StarCraft", what PS2 and what XBOX, etc., were completely thrown aside by Jester.
Of course, just for that time, so to speak. It was a period of time when Jester was really immersed in the fun of e-sports.
Moreover, Blizzard also attaches great importance to the IP of "StarCraft".
Including later. The overall decline of RTS games, the poor sales of SC2, in fact, cannot be regarded as poor sales, and a game that can sell tens of millions is not bad in any way. Blizzard has also been able to consistently invest a lot of money and manpower in the development of the SC2 sequel.
Some people have even analyzed Blizzard's financial report, and their financial and material investment in SC2 is almost the same as that of WOW.
To know. WOW is a monster game that can provide Blizzard with at least a billion dollars in revenue every year, and the total sales of SC2's expansion Swarm Heart are only four million.
It is even foreseeable that the sales of the third expansion "Legacy of the Void" will not even reach four million, maybe only three million, but even so, Blizzard still provided SC2 with a development team that is not inferior to World of Warcraft for the development of this game, and you can know once how much Blizzard attaches importance to this game that is not profitable.
If this were Blizzard ten years ago, it wouldn't have been.
After all, at that time, Blizzard always took the quality of the game as the first criterion, and if the game did not meet their requirements, they would rather abandon it completely than release it.
And then when Blizzard was not like this, it can be seen from the charge test of Diablo 3.
Coupled with the fact that Blizzard has now shifted from making the best game in the world to making a fun game and making the most money possible, Blizzard's first goal has changed from making the best game in the world to making a fun game and making the most money possible.
But StarCraft 2: Legacy of the Void is not the case at all.
Because of this game, it will definitely not make much money, at most three million sets of sales, for Blizzard, this level of games is simply negligible, you know, Diablo 3 sold 30 million sets in the case of only one expansion, and 1 million sets in ten days in China, if Blizzard pulls out two-thirds of the development team of the Void Legacy to the Diablo 3 team.
Then the Diablo 3 expansion may be able to be made.
This is an IP that is much more profitable than Interstellar 2.
Even if it's for Hearthstone, it's better than for Interstellar 2, after all, Hearthstone's current card output speed is still too slow, Magic can produce three or four environments a year, while Blizzard is two environments a year, and most importantly, Magic is a card, Hearthstone is not a card, and Hearthstone's annual turnover may be higher than the sales of Interstellar 2.
Even if it's for the new wandering Overwatch, it's more profitable than for Starside 2, but Blizzard is like this.
They just want to spend a lot of manpower and financial resources to develop StarCraft.
Later, many people have analyzed why Blizzard did this, and there has never been an accurate statement, but Jester agrees with one point of view, that is, the status of the "StarCraft" series in Blizzard's heart may be unparalleled.
After all, this is a work that has made Blizzard completely influential in the industry, and it is also a series that has completely changed the fate of Blizzard.
If "StarCraft" hadn't been born back then, maybe Blizzard's final fate would not be much stronger than West Wood, so "StarCraft" has a very high status in Blizzard's mind.
It's like the line that Blizzard set for the Star Spirit in the game.
"All glory goes to the eldest son."
And Blizzard's eldest son in his mind is StarCraft. (To be continued......)