Chapter 781: Designing a Go-Kart Arena
Yang Yun's requirements are simple, but for Oliver, it is a bit difficult to be strong.
"Your World War II game, try to meet the requirements of the Chinese government, otherwise, it will be difficult for me to make the game platform open for you, do you understand what I mean?"
"You mean, exaggerating the combat achievements of the Chinese army?"
"No, not to exaggerate China's victory, but to reduce the defeat of the Chinese army, for example, to avoid the task of seizing a certain Chinese position in the mission as much as possible."
"But...... Shouldn't our games follow the truth and restore history as much as possible? ”
"Germany has also banned a lot of games that praise the spirit of Na or smear Jews, and China has banned some games that have a negative impression of it, which you should understand."
"I still can't understand what you mean at all, China was the victor in World War II, even if it was a partial defeat, it was ...... overall"
"No, you shouldn't tell me these things, sometimes, the state doesn't need to be reasonable, right?"
This sentence, the translator lady does not know how to translate it for a while, and it may be difficult for the Swede Oliver to understand the thinking of the Chinese, but this is too common for Yang Yun, and in the ideological industry of game making, a national decree prohibits the release of this ninth category of art.
On the one hand, the Chinese government's ban on the introduction of this kind of overly real killing game is not in line with the positive and healthy upward guiding role, and it is not as good as the domestic blockbuster "Glorious Mission" developed by the Ningcheng Military Region, showing the battlefield in order to defend the territorial integrity of the motherland and safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of the motherland. A magnificent and touching story.
On the other hand, EA service providers also do not open their games to Chinese IPs, on the grounds that Chinese players with low quality are not welcome. After the Chinese players entered, various planes collided. Card bugs, transparent people, dragging corpses, very affect other normal games of European and American players, plus there are many pirated operating systems in China, there are many pirated software, some Chinese players are unwilling to pay and like to spray game garbage, etc.
In fact, it's a fun game.,But for various reasons, a mountain stands between game operators and players.,The White House in the United States was bombed in the game N times and still released.。 In China, even the children's cartoon Pleasant Goat will be the defendant, so Yang Yun really doesn't want to cause trouble for himself.
He would rather let DICE reduce China's role from the beginning, don't make any maps of China, and let China disappear from World War II, which is better than making an expansion film of "The Rise of China", who to coax, who to do, the second uncle patted his head with a sentence, can you beat him? Don't you see me all moving Red Alert to Patis?
Oliver left China seemingly without understanding. He returned to Sweden with a CD of the game "Saroman Snake: Red Alert" personally given by Yang Yun, reported his trip to China to the top management in detail, and carefully considered cooperation with Longteng or the sale of it.
Victor signed a cooperation agreement directly with Dragon, and Bungie's "Halo" will be the focus of Dragon's training. With a 10-year exclusive supply contract, Bungie secured and sponsored R&D funding, and Longteng secured a partner with unlimited potential. Ten years is enough to sweep the whole world.
Looking at the competitors, Microsoft's real-time strategy games for the game versus platform include the Age of Empires series. Cavedog's "Sweep of Thousands of Armies" series, the first-person shooter is Activision's "Call of Duty" to carry the flag. The strength is not strong.
There are no new masterpieces on Longteng's side for the time being, and the classic "Red Alert", "StarCraft", and "Warcraft" have not launched follow-up versions, and "Counter-Strike" has also not been patched, but the new "Halo" and "Battlefield" have served as Dragon's attackers, comparing Activision's "Duty and Call", although everyone has not seen the real thing, and it will be a year before they can fight it.
In March 2000, the turmoil in the game industry gradually calmed down.
The world has formed a big pattern in which one giant dominates the group, three sub-giants compete to catch up, and there is no chance of survival outside the four.
In terms of market share, Longteng occupies 80% of the TV game console, Microsoft 7%, NewSonic 8%, KTT Nintendo 5%, although the latter three have a small market share, but they are supported by a large number of die-hard fans, so their share will not be depressed to too much.
In the PC industry, if you don't take out the statistics of individual companies, but only talk about game platforms, then the Dragon Game Battle Platform and its alliance of third-party game companies occupy 50% of the share, Microsoft Game Alliance occupies 30%, and 20% is independent game companies, Apple MAC games, or Amiga computer games.
A big war is inevitable, all kinds of conspiracy methods, yang conspiracy countermeasures, money-burning games, support plans, in order to compete for partners and gamers, Microsoft and Longteng have long torn their faces and done it openly.
Bungie and DICE, who were originally favored by Microsoft, were taken away by Longteng and signed an exclusive contract.
More than a dozen small game companies that had been supplying Longteng for many years were tempted by Microsoft, bought with a lot of money, and defected into Microsoft's camp.
Executives frequently change jobs, and today in this company, tomorrow they may be in a directly hostile company.
The voluntary resignation of excellent backbone game designers not only brings competitors to the new company, but also disrupts the deployment of the other party's lack of people in key positions.
But fortunately, with the development of science and technology, the Moore's law of the computer industry is still faithfully verified, every 18 months, the performance of the computer will be doubled, the IT industry is developing rapidly, the performance of personal computers is gradually increasing, and the price is going all the way down, more and more ordinary families have bought computers, game consoles, learning machines and other electronic products, and the information age is becoming more and more close to people's daily life.
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In Shanghai, Lujiazui, in the Shanghai Central Culture and Arts District, a medium-sized sports venue is busy with the final renovation work before opening.
The property rights of the building, called the Central Cultural District Gymnasium, belong to the Shanghai Municipal Government, located next to the Shanghai International Music Theater in the third phase of the project, and are managed by the Shanghai City Hall.
Yang Yun, the president of Longteng Entertainment and Game Company, appeared at the stadium decoration venue, which made some media friends with a keen sense of smell curious, why did Longteng have anything to do with the gymnasium again?
Could it be that the Shanghai Longteng Sharks Club is going to move its home stadium to this gymnasium?
Or is Longteng going to hold a press conference here?
Or is it possible that Dragon is preparing to develop a new indoor sports competitive game?
There are many suspicions, only a few people around Yang Yun know his true purpose, and now their group appeared on the underground floor of the gymnasium, where in addition to the five safe passages that were temporarily blocked, only one exit was left for people to enter and exit, and the entire underground floor was fenced and closed, and the renovation construction was underway.
Two tall blonde foreigners with high noses were pointing at the drawings wearing hard hats, and Yang Yun was also wearing hard hats, nodding his head while listening, occasionally expressing his opinions, and the words he said would make the two foreigners ponder.
Zhang Guoqiang and the others stood behind him, looking at the entire floor, and were also discussing in a whisper.
In the core urban area of Shanghai, where every inch of land is expensive, such a large stadium will inevitably be used very well, and there is also a second and third underground floors used as parking lots, and the basement is leased by Longteng Company at a low price for 30 years, used to operate a relatively trendy game, go-karts.
The development of karting in China is not long, and it has only been more than ten years, but according to the statistics of the China Automobile Federation, there are more than 30 teams in the country, more than 100 drivers, few spectators, and expensive vehicles and accessories, which bring danger to safety.
The security guard at the entrance of the basement floor intercepted a small Audi convoy, the windshield of the head car was written with "Shanghai Sports Bureau Pass" in a few big words, a middle-aged man who looked like a secretary got out of the car, stood in front of the security guard and bowed his head to explain something, but the security guard with a helmet shook his head resolutely, refused to open the door to the team, and said a word on the walkie-talkie, even if the secretary took out his work card to show him, the security guard still shook his head resolutely.
"Director Liu, they are not allowed to enter the ......" After the secretary who took the lead and the people from the back car gathered, they walked to the second car together, and explained to the officials in the car a little depressed.
"You didn't show them your papers?"
"Yes, but they said they didn't know, and they didn't receive a notice to release the vehicles of the non-construction unit, hoping we wouldn't embarrass them."
Director Liu was also dumbfounded, he is a deputy department-level official, it shouldn't be so difficult to meet someone outside the system in China, right? Such an obvious government convoy was blocked by a few mud-legged security guards, what about him pretending to be the president of the country?
But it's more serious with the security guards, this is too off, right? The meaning of the security guards is obvious, if they really want to go in, then go to the people above, as long as they are notified to let them go, they will not stop them.
But where did Director Liu contact the person in charge? He heard that Yang Yun had come to inspect the construction site, so he hurried over, for fear of neglecting the big financier. (To be continued......)