It is no longer the game that was opened a year ago, it has now been acquired by the French publishing company Havas, whose parent company is Vivendi, a French media multinational conglomerate.

Joanna, senior vice president of Havas Publishing, was in CG's live VIP room, she had just attended the opening ceremony, and she hadn't had time to leave, in fact, she also wanted to stay to see what the difference between the acting competition "Counter-Strike" and "Half-Life" was.

The headquarters of HAVAS has always been very worried about whether their acquisition of Xuele Mountain is a wrong choice, especially after learning that "Counter-Strike" is produced by Longteng, the CEO is even more regretful toothache, they sent Joanna over to attend the CG opening ceremony, just worried that something would go wrong, and Joanna would solve it immediately on behalf of HAVAS.

"Miss Joanna, how much do you like Counter-Strike?" The questioner was Kevin Williams, the representative of Microsoft's gaming department, who was sitting in the same VIP room to enjoy the CG game, and of course many uninterested guests left early.

Joanna was a little absent-minded and replied casually, "Mr. Williams, I don't really know about games, so I'm just watching the fun." ”

She does have a heavy responsibility, and she came to have a good relationship with Long Teng.

China and France have a lot of trade in recent years, last year China ordered 3o airbus, this year France in China to carry out insurance and banking business, Vivendi's biggest competitor in Europe is the British Pearson Group, they saw Pearson Group sell S private to Longteng, in exchange for the opportunity to enter the Chinese market, in Longteng lead. Pearson cooperates with Tsinghua University Press, Longteng Hong Kong Press and other powerful enterprises. The business in Asia has been very smooth and fruitful.

Vivendi's acquisition of Cherlotsan began in the second half of last year. At that time, Xueleshan had just acquired VA1VE and IDSusoftare, and the biggest project in their hands was "Half-Life", ID had an engine, VA1VE had innovation, Xueleshan was optimistic about this game, and Vivendi was also optimistic, so it was logical that after a lot of money was spilled, the small fish ate the shrimp. Big fish eat small fish, normal business activities, that's all.

Vivendi bought this qiē in March this year and got all the copyrights of "Half-Life", and Xuele Mountain was not disbanded, but was still in charge of the game, and it looked very good.

However, in June, Long Teng's "Counter-Strike" made Xue Leshan panic, and Vivendi even scolded the people of Havas Publishing House with blood, and Vivendi has been trying to have a good relationship with Long Teng. To open up the Chinese market, they are trying to introduce digital channels to China, sell the TV rights of European sports events to the Chinese, and also want to get the license of Longteng's game channel in Europe - they compete with the French No. 1 TV station Neta1+. Their eyes were red.

Their high-level wanted to befriend Long Teng, but as a result, the people below blindly acquired the director zhì and had a conflict, what could be more depressing than this?

Joanna serves as Senior Vice President of Managed Markets. is to find a way to make up for the broken relationship with Longteng.

The authorities are fascinated, and she wants to hear what outsiders think about it. So he asked, "Mr. Williams, what kind of relationship do you think Half-Life and Counter-Strike should be?" I mean. Is it competition, or complementarity, or is Half-Life not worth mentioning and simply not worthy of being called an opponent of Counter-Strike? ”

Kevin smiled, he took the opportunity to get closer, pointed to "Counter-Strike" playing on the big screen and said, "On the contrary, I personally don't think 'Counter-Strike' is worth mentioning. ”

Joanna's face was dark, but the light was too dark for anyone to see her face clearly.

If Longteng's game is not worth mentioning, it will be even more difficult for her, if they want to get their business into China, they will have to find other Chinese companies to cooperate with, for them, there is no Chinese company better than Longteng.

She asked, "You mean, Counter-Strike may not be accepted by players, while our Half-Life will be sought after by players?" she asked. The game of dragon tsuò is not as good as ours? ”

Kevin replied, "That's right! You see, I wonder if you have noticed the options for this game? We at Microsoft Games recently got the closed beta of Counter-Strike, and I've seen that Counter-Strike has a lot less features than Half-Life, and one of the most important is that they don't have a personal campaign, which is the essence of the whole game! ”

This is a fatal flaw, the fun of the stand-alone game lies in its plot, if the player doesn't even know the story background, the various weapons used, the map of the story, the distribution of different forces, what missions and missions, etc., who will have the interest in continuing to play?

Joanna heard similar things from the top management of Xuele Mountain, and as an assessment of the risk, their professional team believes that "Counter-Strike" is inferior to "Half-Life" in terms of gameplay, but they also said another thing, that is, competitiveness, from a professional point of view, "Counter-Strike" uses Dragon's new generation of engine technology, which is likely to be a little stronger than their improved version of Quake.

"What do you think of the competitive nature of the game?" Joanna asked.

Kevin continued to analyze: "If you look at the big screen, the game adopts the 5vs5 mode, which is a continuation of the setting of "Special Forces", and has not been optimized and improved. Aside from the money system, there is nothing else to shine about, the increase in the number of maps, the confrontation between terrorists and special forces, the victory of completing missions, and the total defeat of the team, which is no different from your Half-Life. So, in terms of gameplay, both games are similar, but on the whole, Counter-Strike is a notch lower than Half-Life, and they are not as good as you. ”

"But the Dragon game battle platform can bring tens of millions of players to Counter-Strike, how should we deal with it?"

"That's better, you can set up a battle platform by yourself, I believe that with Vivendi's influence, in fact, there are many PC games in the world that can be included."

"Does Microsoft also have plans to build its own platform?"

"X-wave X is our gaming platform."

Joanna has no objections on the surface, but in her heart she is dismissive, this Kevin's words are not leaky, it sounds like she is on Vivendi's side, and gives a good idea to fight against Longteng, in fact, after careful analysis, many issues are avoiding the important and trivial, and being an executive at Microsoft is definitely not a simple person, she decided not to talk to him anymore.

On the big screen, the game starts, the referee's perspective is switching rapidly, and the host in the studio keeps introducing the gameplay, the two sides play against the members, what is a victory, what is a loss, how to play the game, and what kind of level is a master.

Unfortunately, these words are all in Chinese, Joanna can't understand a word, she can only frown and look at the screen, and make up the introductory dialogues in her own brain.

Kevin's temptation did not have an effect, he knew very well in his heart that if Vivendi could achieve this scale, there must be their success, this woman seemed to be confused but was actually very shrewd, and she was not such a persuasive person.

Two people with ghosts sit together and watch the game, the picture is a small street of blue bricks and stone tiles, mahogany vermilion fence, lanterns are hung at the door of each house, and occasionally high sundries are piled up, in the center of the street is a half-human deep river, the two banks are connected by stone bridges, the distance is at least 20 meters away, this is a typical Jiangnan water town scenery.

"Map name B day dge, medium-sized map, scenery of a small town in the south of the Yangtze River, China, beautiful picture, but unfortunately hidden murderous ......"

"The police cymbal was born in Hedong, and the bandit was born in Hexi, this is the level of hostage rescue, and it is the first game, as a performance game, this level is a pistol and hand-to-hand weapon battle."

"Okay, let's use the big map to watch first, the bandit base is in the west of the river, if the police cymbal wants to cross the river, the only way to pass is from the two stone bridges, the bandits can choose to guard the bridge, or wait in the hostage room to wait for the rabbit......"

Ah Wei introduced this map very easily, he began to chat with Kiki and Lin Zhihong after he finished talking about the general situation, let Lin Zhihong reveal the secret of the game, hinting that Kiki is coquettish and asks for the inside story, coquettish does not make an appointment, Kiki said that he must find a chance to fight with Lin Zhihong on the game platform 5vs5, Lin Zhihong exclaimed why not 1vs1, Kiki said that his fans are all over the country, and of course he chose 5vs5.

The three of them made jokes, and automatically stopped their mouths when the police and bandits came into contact and handed them over to Ah Wei to explain.

"There is about to be a battle on the high stone bridge, let's see, there are three people on the attacking side, two bandits on the defending side, and the police cymbal has the advantage in firepower, but it may not be able to attack. Look at the cymbals in action! They first cleared the way with flashbangs, which were...... Rushed! Two bandits opened fire, and the first cymbal fell to the bridgehead and was headshot...... Pretty, the police cymbal took advantage of the moment when the other party changed ammunition and seized the opportunity to rush over and take out the bandits who had no bullets...... Oh my God, it seems that the battle is over on the low stone bridge, three dead on the side of the cymbals, two dead on the bandits, there are not many bullets on both sides, and there may be a dagger battle next......"

The game of the Jiangnan town map "Bridge" ended quickly, the bandits won, 3 for 5, and two people survived, these two people harvested the most heads, so after the second game was reborn, they also rewarded the most money.

"In the second game, let's take a look at the effectiveness of close-range submachine guns and assault rifles, wow! As I expected, the bandits bought a sharpshooter AK47! ”

In addition to the different focus of the performance in the second game, the map has also changed, this level is the chaotic mode b1oodst day ke map, a very good small melee killing map, and it is also a famous yin man map.

After seeing the full map of the referee interface, the audience is calling for it even more, this map is cool! (To be continued!)

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