Chapter 301: The alliance broke down, and EA turned around

Faced with Jiang Shaoyun's hostile rhetorical question, Hawke haha: "This is not necessarily, we have to see how the growth of this company is." I didn't go around in circles anymore, I fell in love with Silicon & Synapse, two existing PC games, and there was also an interesting real-time strategy game that appealed to me. ”

Jiang Shaoyun secretly complained in his heart, hell! He really didn't hear what haode was about the idea of the medieval shijie war, weishenme Yang Yun and Hawke were so optimistic?

"We still have something, we're out of company!" Hawke saw Jiang Shaoyun deflated, secretly hid his smile, then shook his head, and left with the people of EA Company.

The group of people only left Jiang Shaoyun and Ed looking at each other, and the latter looked very embarrassed.

Jiang Shaoyun didn't embarrass them, but before leaving, he still said: "Since the acquirer is EA, then I won't say more." But President Ed, I'll give you two words before I leave. Dragon can bring "Saloman: Dune 1993" to PC at any time, as for weishenme not doing that, you can think about weishenme for yourself. In addition, real-time strategy games are Longteng's advantageous projects, just look at Ximutou, if you think Longteng has no strength on PC, you can try to compete with us! ”

Disrupting their deployment and making them retreat in a difficult way, Jiang Shaoyun could only do this, he needed to report to Yang Yun immediately.

If necessary, he will use other methods, since he can't be a friend, he is an enemy, and he doesn't have to show mercy to his enemies!

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Ed returned to his office, looking a little dazed.

Obviously, Jiang Shaoyun's two words shocked him. Feeling apprehensive, he called in two other partners. And Wyatt.

"Wyatt, let's talk more about your vision of Warcraft!" Ed looked at Wyatt. Said worriedly.

The rest of the people didn't know what Ed was worried about, and Wyatt happily introduced: "This game is actually the idea I came up with after playing Dragon Teng "Saloman Snake: Dune 1993", using the framework of Dune 1993 and then putting the shijie view of the Warhammer game, what a wonderful thing it would be!" ”

Ed interrupted him: "In that case, we will need to get authorization from two companies, one is GW (GamesWorkshop) in the UK and the other is Longteng in China. For the former, we need to get their Warhammer Shijie view license. And the latter...... Truth be told, they just warned us that our revered Dune 1993, they can be released to PC platforms at any time to compete with us! ”

"Oh my God!" The three of them let out exclamations in unison.

Longteng wants to compete directly with them? Isn't that killing them? This is the difference between an elephant and an ant!

But Wyatt shook his head and said, "No! They won't bring Dune to the PC, because the SS dedicated CPU and GPU can present the game smoothly and perfectly, and the PC can't achieve this effect, and they can't launch a low-effect version. ”

Ed asked rhetorically, "Then you mean, we made the Warcraft effect." Not better than Dune 1993? ”

Wyatt shrugged: "If it was on the PC side, of course it would not be possible to surpass Dune 1993, but if it was released on the SS side, we would at least not lose to them." ”

The crowd fell silent. This is all nonsense.,The effect on the PC side is definitely not as good as others.,As for the SS side.。 Hehe, since we can't be friends. Could it be that Sega will still allow Warcraft to be released on the SS platform?

There is only one 32-bit home TV host in the world, and that is the Sega Saturn SS......

Wrong! Ed remembered. Excitedly, he said: "We also have the 3DO platform of Panasonic Japan!" They are also 32-bit hosts! EA is one of the big supporters of 3DO! ”

There is no endless road!

A few people here finally figured it all out, the truth of the whole thing should be the battle between SS and 3DO, Longteng is fighting against EA company by attracting those PC game makers around the world, because EA is the world's largest PC game company!

Jiang Shaoyun's support for jihua, EA's vice president Hawk said that he fancy the potential of Warcraft, these are all superficial phenomena, but in fact, they are all pointing to the direct collision of two 32-bit hosts!

Ed knew that his company was weak, and he would definitely be at the mercy of others and become a pawn in the game between several large companies.

But looking at the $5 million check, the corners of his mouth couldn't help but curl up, and he smiled: "What are we worried about?" Leave the confrontation to EA. Let's make our games in peace, Wyatt, it looks like we need to get our hands on the 3DO platform development package as soon as possible, and maybe we'll be able to use it when EA sends an executive to take over the company next week! ”

Everyone laughed, this is the way of survival of a small company, everyone divides the money, and they settle for safety, as for the outcome of the confrontation at the top, they don't care, if EA loses, they pat their butts and leave, and they can start again in another place.

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Jiang Shaoyun blushed and called the country, it was around 12 o'clock in the middle of the night at this time, and he was worried about whether Yang Yun had fallen asleep.

However, Yang Yun was waiting for him, and after connecting the phone, he asked lightly, "Was he preempted?" ”

Jiang Shaoyun replied ashamedly: "It's EA!" ”

As expected, Yang Yun sighed, this is the inconvenience after becoming the focus of attention.

Longteng's every move is watched, they can find out the itinerary of EA executives within EA, and EA can also know the schedule of Longteng executives.

"Huh! Whoever we fancie, they buy? I've been aware of this since I acquired Distinctive. Yang Yun was rarely angry, "Last time, EA was deceived by me with a trick to hide the world. They must have reacted, and this time they finally tore their faces! ”

Jiang Shaoyun said angrily: "I deliberately asked them if they would continue to follow me to inspect other companies, and that Hawke actually said yes!" ”

"Hah! Who told us to have good vision? There are almost no failures that we fancie! ”

Yang Yun smiled lightly: "The shopping mall is like a battlefield, and conspiracy and conspiracy are all used. I was guarding against EA 3 years ago, and now that everyone is doing it, there is no need to continue to cover it up. First of all, I will withdraw all the employees who have been assigned to EA, and then, you continue to take them around in circles, visit all the companies that are slightly more famous, and try to consume EA's funds as much as possible! ”

Jiang Shaoyun snorted coldly: "Okay! I'm going around in circles in North America this time! By the way, I've warned Silicon &Synapse that they're probably not going to make real-time strategy games. ”

Yang Yun laughed: "Have you forgotten 3DO? Don't worry, I'll give them a little color, I've got a trick up my sleeve! ”

After hanging up the phone, Yang Yun lay on the bed, staring at the ceiling, and a jihua had slowly formed in his heart, a big hole he dug before, and finally had a chance to fill it, this time he will definitely be able to make EA suffer a big loss!

After officially turning over with EA, it's a pity that the brand EA-Sports is gone......

Yang Yun sighed, in the past two years, EA has shamelessly allocated all new sports games to the new brand of EA-Athletics, replacing the partially controlled "EA Sports" with a fully controlled "EA Athletics", what the purpose is at a glance.

At the beginning, he exchanged Contra for 30% of the rights and interests of EA-Sports, and the profits brought to him in the past few years have been recouped, but it is obvious that there is no point in continuing to hold it, and EA-Sports has become a chicken rib and can be abandoned.

After 3 years of training, the 20 employees sent by Yang Yun to work in EA Lab have basically become experienced programmers, especially in the field of sports games, and many of them have served as leaders of their respective project teams.

In the case of an alliance, EA can secretly transfer the project, but it does not dare to blatantly snub these Chinese employees, which is a tacit understanding between EA and Yang Yun, Yang Yun does not pursue the transfer responsibility, EA will not be able to snub Chinese employees.

Moreover, the diligence and intelligence of Chinese employees make it impossible for EA R&D department to give up easily, and these experienced Chinese can be used for free, and EA can't take care of too much.

"Come back!" Yang Yun said to himself: "There will be a Shijie Cup football match in June next year!" Give me all back to make football games! ”

The next day, Yang Yun secretly booked a ticket to London, and Xiao Liangyu of Longteng France Branch had already sent employees to wait in London, for the sake of safety, the matter of meeting with GW was strictly confidential, Yang Yun couldn't help Blizzard, but a war hammer was always okay!

Yang Yun was on the plane, looking through the original Warhammer board game manual, thoughtful.

He has not managed card games for a long time, and the popularity of table games in Europe and the United States is not only a card, DND and Warhammer are also very popular games.

GW has produced Warhammer Pre-Owned, Warhammer 40K, and the Lord of the Rings series, to be precise, they are also influenced by the Lord of the Rings novels, and are the game adaptation licensors of JRR, the author of the Lord of the Rings novels.

Yang Yun knew that Blizzard's Warcraft series was a parody of GW Warhammer Pre-Owned, and the StarCraft series was an imitation of Warhammer 40K, and their official authorization was not negotiated, resulting in a considerable number of players accusing Blizzard of plagiarism after 2000.

It's a pity that it's been too long, Blizzard has become the unshakable hegemon of the gaming industry, and no matter how much players protest, it won't help.

And now, Yang Yun is ready to start from the roots, on the one hand, to fight Blizzard and EA, and on the other hand, to prepare for himself to be Warcraft.

Blizzard's target is too small, and it's understandable that GW doesn't look down on them, but the Dragon Goal is too big to work without authorization. (To be continued......)