Chapter 300: EA Hostile Preemptive Takeover
As a reborn person, he obviously has the advantage of memory, but Long Teng has to run behind other people's butts, and Yang Yun actually has a lot of difficulties.
Taking the Warcraft series as an example, before "Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne", Blizzard released five Warcraft versions: Orc Wars, Kuroshio, Dark Gate, Battle.net version, and Reign of Chaos, and what really made the Warcraft series a classic was the Reign of Chaos version, but this time it was already 2002.
Yang Yun knows very well that when the PC hardware can't keep up, any big game is a childish thing in his eyes, for example, he really wants to do "Battlefield", "Monster Hunter", "League of Legends", "CS", and "NBALive", but can he do it?
If he is reborn into a parallel shijie, as long as the hardware can keep up, he will definitely make the first version of the Frozen Throne, not from the first generation!
But in this situation now, no one will wait for him, whether there is Yang Yun or not, Blizzard will do "Warcraft I" according to its own jihua from 94 onwards.
Even if Blizzard is suppressed in the bud, as long as "Ancient Warhammer" is popular on this shijie, sooner or later someone in Europe and the United States will follow the Shijie concept of Warhammer and imitate and make games similar to Warcraft, Yang Yun is likely not to wait for 2002, or to make Warcraft series games in advance when the PC hardware can't keep up.
So Yang Yun was forced to do it, on the one hand, he really didn't want to do the miserable version of "Warcraft I", and on the other hand, he could only be forced to start grabbing Blizzard in 1993, otherwise he really waited until 2002 when Blizzard came out of the Frozen Throne, and then he launched another game with a different name to fight Blizzard?
Of course. With his strength, in 2002 he directly launched a confrontation game. He can definitely beat Blizzard, but he will definitely not have a sense of substitution. Because he is familiar with the heroes Demon Hunter, the Lost Temple map, the Griffin Knight, the Twin Ghosts of Heaven and Earth, and not the heroes "White Tiger Wine Fairy", "Great Hills" map, Drill Dragon, Bulldozer wave of such names of tactics!
Moreover, in his memory. The ones that people play the most, the most classic, and the most impressive, are still those series that have been circulating for many years, FIFA, NBAlive, Diablo, Warcraft shijie, and Resident Evil. Final Fantasy, what game hasn't existed for more than ten or twenty years?
"Shaoyun, anyway, buy them first. Led directly by you. I don't care about the means, as long as the result! "Yang Yun is out of the way, even if it is said to be a monopoly. He's going to be this wicked man too!
Jiang Shaoyun was a little surprised, he had never heard Yang Yun's desperate attitude. Hurriedly agreed.
After hanging up the phone, Yang Yun breathed a sigh of relief. looked at the Warcraft information organized on his desktop, and opened it silently.
Titans, Dragons, Orcs, Elven Kings, Sunmages, Undead Lichs, ......
Under his arrangement and guidance, Liu Cixing, who had studied European and American fantasy content for two years, handed over a fairly good answer sheet to him.
If this game script and shijie view are set in the hands of Nintendo, or in the hands of EA, it is definitely an excellent fantasy script that cannot be sought.
However, everyone is different!
Liu Cixing is not a designer of Blizzard, and it is impossible for him to make the same shijie concept as the original, so Yang Yun will face two choices, either change the shijie concept designed by Liu Cixing, which is the same as the original, or follow his come, make something different from the memory, and tear down and rebuild part of the content.
It's a headache!
"If necessary, I'd better go to Los Angeles myself!" Yang Yun thought to himself.
This can only be done, this is "Warcraft", not "StarCraft", the future "Warcraft shijie", "Dota", "Hearthstone", and "League of Legends", this is all the same game, if you really want to change it yourself, the workload in the future is quite amazing!
The work of making changes is too big, and if you want to repair the game in the future, it is better to tear down and rebuild it and make a new ......
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The next morning, Jiang Shaoyun met with the Longteng lawyer team who arrived on a red-eye flight.
Leaving them at the hotel to sort out the contract documents, Jiang Shaoyun came to Silicon &Synapse alone.
It's just that he found that President Ed's attitude towards him seemed to have become subtle.
"Mr. Ed, I wonder what you're thinking?" Jiang Shaoyun sighed in his heart, but he still asked tentatively.
This time Ed was the only one to receive him, everyone else was busy, and the atmosphere in the company became weird, and everyone seemed to be happy.
Ed said euphemistically: "Mr. Jiang, after we discussed it yesterday, we felt that we might not be able to meet Longteng's requirements, so we ......"
Jiang Shaoyun's smile remained unchanged, and he listened to this kind of prevarication a lot: "Longteng is not an unreasonable company, I just want to hear your real reasons." ”
Ed's smile froze suddenly, and he began to hesitate, not knowing whether to say it or not.
Jiang Shaoyun smiled faintly: "Maybe you've heard of Distinctive, right?" In the beginning, they also said this to us, and at that time, EA took a fancy to them, and they wanted to quote a high price. But later, no one made an offer to them again, and finally it fell to the point that no one cared about it, and it was bought by KTT at a low price. I guess...... Is it because you've been contacted by another company? ”
Ed smiled fakely, as if to hide something: "No, we are different from Distinctive, Mr. Jiang, we haven't even talked about the price......
Jiang Shaoyun let out a sigh of relief, fell back, lay on the back of the comfortable sofa chair, and said: "Many people have misunderstandings about Longteng, and there are also many people who are prejudiced against China. At Business, I hope that it will not be because of some political reasons or personal biases that will hinder the cooperation between the two of us. As long as it is a reasonable refusal, we will not have any complaints, of course, if there is a competitor, we just need a fair chance! ”
Ed's face was ugly at this moment, he was only about 25 years old, a few years younger than Jiang Shaoyun, and he didn't have as much time as Jiang Shaoyun running outside, and he didn't see as much as he did.
Therefore, under the pressure of Jiang Shaoyun, Ed Zhiwu said: "Mr. Jiang, we have no prejudice against Chinese, and we have no idea about China. It's just that...... IMHO, Dragon is really good on arcade, handheld, and video game consoles, but it may be a little weak on jishu in the PC game industry, so ......"
Or is it an excuse to use jishu, do you really treat me Jiang Shaoyun as a fool? You've also developed MD games, but you really don't think the PC and SS platforms are universal?
Jiang Shaoyun laughed: "Tell me about your latest conditions?" ”
Ed was embarrassed: "Mr. Jiang, I'm sorry, I want to discuss it with my companions again." ”
is unwilling to mention the conditions, and refuses to say the reason, Jiang Shaoyun's heart is like a mirror, something must have happened, it must be a third party involved, and this third party has a high price, jishu is good, except for EA, only Ubisoft them.
"Yes, I'll be in Los Angeles for another day, and I hope to get a reply from President Ed soon." Jiang Shaoyun stood up and shook hands very gracefully to say goodbye.
As soon as he left the office building, Jiang Shaoyun took out his mobile phone and dialed Alexey in New York.
"Alexey, help me check the itinerary of EA executives and see which one came to Los Angeles yesterday!"
Alexey agreed, KTT also arranged an internal line in EA, and Longteng himself has more than a dozen software engineers who have worked in EA for three years, and it is not too difficult for them to inquire about the news of EA executives.
Jiang Shaoyun and his lawyer team were sorting out the contract in the hotel, while patiently waiting for Alexey's call back, and the news came close to noon.
EA's vice president Hawke arrived in Los Angeles yesterday afternoon, and the heads of the copyright department and the finance department also flew to Los Angeles overnight on a red-eye flight this morning.
Jiang Shaoyun was taken aback, it was indeed EA!
But by the time he rushed to Silicon & Synapse, it was too late, and he saw Hawke shaking hands with Ed and the others at the gate, the secretaries and supervisors on both sides carrying thick briefcases, each with a smile on their faces.
"President Jiang, I'm sorry, our EA company has already signed a contract." Hawke also saw Jiang Shaoyun and the others who were belated, and laughed proudly.
Jiang Shaoyun held back his anger, tried not to turn his face in person, squeezed out a smile, and said, "EA's movements are all so fast. I'm going to check on the other two companies today, so why don't you go with Mr. Hawke? ”
Hawke shrugged his shoulders and seemed to be a victor's smile: "No problem, I'm always available!" ”
Jiang Shaoyun's face suddenly fell, and the two sides were deadlocked.
Ed, as a third party, had to come out to play a round: "Mr. Jiang, EA's achievements on the PC side are obvious to all, so we finally chose them with stronger strength, which is more in line with our company's development plan." And we are very grateful to Longteng for acknowledging us......"
Jiang Shaoyun raised his hand and interrupted him, it was useless to say anything now, what he wanted now was to be calm, he had not completed the task given to him by Yang Yun, he had to find a way to remedy it!
If they can't be acquired, there is only one way to go, and that is to disrupt their current work and deployment, especially the real-time strategy game that Yang Yun values very much!
"Hawke, can you tell me what you like about them?" Jiang Shaoyun asked calmly, as if he was doing a homely job.
Hawke squinted: "Whichever point you fancies, we will fancy which." ”
Jiang Shaoyun didn't laugh angrily: "I just said that there are still a few small companies that I haven't seen, so who do I see, and who will EA sign the acquisition contract with?" (To be continued......)