Chapter 351: Free working environment

The most important thing is that they just do this, it's nothing more than playing both versions, but, the version they gave us for testing this time, it turned out to be only the blue version, for those collectors in our editorial group, every time you open the monster illustrated book, you see the icons on the illustrated book that can't be lit up, it will be very uncomfortable.

I can't wait for "Pokemon" to be released right away.

Jester watched the Los Angeles TV game show in the employee cafeteria with hundreds of employees in the company during lunch, and they told the story of Pokemon before its official release in a joking tone, mixed with the two biggest game magazines in North America.

After the release of this issue of "Player", which is obviously ridiculed, the anger of "GAME" is also certain, but because they are at fault first, they can only hold back, but according to reliable sources, when the editor-in-chief of "GAME" saw this issue, he directly tore the magazine with dozens of pages of coated paper to shreds.

Even, at the end of this game show, the host teased Jester.

The reason is that although there is no conclusive evidence that Jester is the real boss of "GAME", it can still be concluded from a lot of gossip and the tendency of "GAME" on weekdays.

However, after reading it, Jester smiled and ignored it, "GAME" is indeed his magazine, but in the past few years, he has not interfered in the specific affairs of "GAME" at all, at most he has put forward some of his own opinions on some things, and these opinions have nothing to do with Mars Entertainment, it is completely to increase the sales and influence of "GAME".

This is best known to the people in GAME magazine.

In fact, Jester also knows that if a game magazine wants to be really big, its position must be impartial, and if "GAME" had been sitting on the ass of Mars Entertainment from the beginning, then it would not have been possible for them to develop to this point now, so recognized by readers.

For example, Nintendo has made similar magazines, but the kind of magazine that only introduces Nintendo's games and only boasts about Nintendo's games as its core selling point, that is, to Nintendo's readers, let them go to YY alone, has no value at all, but "FAMITSU" immediately understood the key not long after the launch of "GAME", and immediately changed their name.

You know, the previous name of "FAMI-tong" was "Famicon Newsletter", but what is Famicon? The full name of FC's home game console is called FAMICOM, that is, it was originally just a publication that saw the strength of FC in the Japanese market and was launched specifically to introduce FC games, but after seeing that Nintendo had no way to dominate the market, they immediately changed the name of the magazine that was very easy to be misunderstood by readers as Nintendo.

Of course, a magazine that wants to be big must have a position, and only a firm position can attract enough die-hard loyalists, but the position cannot be limited to a certain game company, of course, it is allowed to have a favorable impression of a certain game company.

For example, "GAME" often boasts about Mars Entertainment's games and belittles Nintendo's games, but this does not arouse readers' disgust, because when they compare, they are comparing the United States to Japan, and the United States beating Japan is something they like to see.

It's about doing what the reader likes the most, not going against the reader.

Even Player, which has always been fighting with "GAME" for the sake of sales, never puts its ass on the side of Japanese manufacturers, although Japanese manufacturers are not short of good enough games, for example, when it comes to the game ratings of both of them, they will always be a little open to American games, and they will be selfless about Japanese games.

This situation is not only happening in the United States, but also in Japan, and Japan is a relatively closed country in the game industry, they have their own set of aesthetic methods, such as the Japanese-style "Dragon Quest", this game was a great success in Japan, but not many people cared about it when it was released in Europe and the United States, the reason is that European and American players are not able to accept this kind of Japanese-style game that the Japanese admire.

Such an example is actually a coincidence, in later generations, in Jester's memory, a game called "Yokai Watch" is also like this, sales in Japan have fallen to the sky, and even the sales in a single week in Japan have reached 15.6 million copies, but out of Japan, sales immediately plummeted, not even one percent of the sales in Japan.

Therefore, with the support of a large number of such Japanese players, "FAMITONG" can play independently in the comments is much bigger than "GAME", plus the contradiction between "FAMITONG" and Mars Entertainment is well known, Mars Entertainment once did not give "FAMITONG" any face, and at a certain game press conference, the reporter of "FAMITONG" was directly blasted out.

Freezing three feet, not a day's cold, let Mars Entertainment make such an excesses, it will definitely not be just the provocation of "FAMI" at the press conference site and the secret leak of the beta version of the game, but more of a concentrated outbreak of the accumulation of contradictions between the two sides.

Since the bombardment of the door, although Mars Entertainment was furious because of secretly leaking the test version to Mars Entertainment's biggest competitor, "FAMI Pass" completely began to attack Mars Entertainment, which was relatively subtle before, and since Mars Entertainment announced that it would never accept an interview with "FAMI Pass", the two sides have completely torn their faces.

But because of this, the sales of "FAMITONG" have not risen, and more people want to see how they are Black Mars Entertainment.

When Jester established Mars Entertainment, he had high requirements for the company's restaurants, employing high-level chefs, not only serving Western food, but also a lot of Chinese food, because there are many Japanese employees in the company, so they often cook some Japanese food.

Moreover, because of the relationship between Grandpa Jester, Mars Entertainment's restaurants employ authentic chefs from China, and the Chinese food they make is also very authentic traditional Chinese food, not the kind of Chinese food that has reformed its taste after arriving in the United States, although many Americans don't like this kind of Chinese food, but in the same way, as many people hate it, as many people like it, at least within Mars Entertainment, there are still a lot of people who like this traditional taste of Chinese food.

Crucially, Jester learned from a future rule that Google would set for restaurants to be completely free for in-house staff.

This is also called the best benefit of the whole company by Mars Entertainment, it is not uncommon for restaurants to be free, many companies in California will do this, but restaurants like Mars Entertainment that make the taste of a star hotel are also free, so it is extremely rare.

According to Richard Brown, who joined Mars Entertainment's hardware development department after leaving IBM at the end of this year. Lucent said that with more than 20 years of experience in the industry, he has never seen such a company.

And the reason why Jester did this is very simple, he very much agrees with Google's original idea of free restaurants, that is, if employees eat better in the company, then employees will spend more energy on game development.

And the game development work, since his birth, is not a very strict and rigorous work, more often, he needs the staff to burst out of inspiration, whether it is the programmer is completing a function, or the artist is completing a setting, or the planner is coming up with a stunning idea.

Mechanized dogmatic work can't generate inspiration, but Mars Entertainment needs a constant burst of inspiration.

The large game companies of later generations can be said to be very comfortable with the construction of the working environment of their employees, for example, Mars Entertainment, which completely copied the set of Blizzard in later generations, even if you wear pajamas to work, no one will say anything about you, as long as you can complete your work.

As for Google, there are many people who put a table tennis table in their office and find someone to play a few games of table tennis from time to time.

The company often organizes some very interesting activities, such as, how to brew beer, of course, such a forced activity is certainly not eligible for everyone to participate, in Mars Entertainment, this kind of activity is completely fair to who participates, that is, the open lot, who is caught.

This kind of activity is not a lecture to talk about, but a real practical operation, the purpose is to give each employee the ability to make a variety of flavors of beer, in fact, there is really an employee, after participating in this event, found that he is much more interested in beer than the game, so he quit his job and went home to open his own brewery.

In each office area, in addition to the lounge, there is also a wine cabinet, the wine in the wine cabinet is brought by the people in the same work area and put here, because the staff of Mars Entertainment come from all over the world, so, in this wine cabinet, there is no shortage of wine from all over the world, not only South American rum, but also British whiskey, French brandy is not lacking, of course, Japanese sake is also available, etc., etc., and even Jester, but also very bad taste put a bottle of two pot heads and a bottle of Moutai.

To his surprise, these two wines would be very popular. R1152