Although the idea of the pirate universe has to wait for the release of "The Curse of the Black Pearl" to try to monetize, since the film and game linkage is mentioned, Roland also has a whim and wants to go to a game company that he hasn't asked about for more than two years.

Originally, he wanted to go alone, after all, Irvine and Los Angeles are very close to each other, take Highway 5, do not encounter external car accidents, only with the rush hour of traffic jams from 7 am to 8 pm, a round trip is only four hours.

Leave at eight o'clock in the morning, arrive before eleven o'clock, and then do things, you can rush back at four or five o'clock in the afternoon, if you are lucky, you can eat dinner with your family, even if you are unlucky, you can sleep with your wife at night.

But this arrangement was a bit too much for Kate, and in line with the attitude that there was a house in Irvine and waste, she proposed to come to Irvine with Roland, so that Roland could do things with peace of mind and not have to be distracted to think about going home.

At first, Roland was moved by the thoughtfulness of his daughter-in-law, but when he arrived in Irvine at lunchtime the next afternoon, and then went home after eating at the pre-determined restaurant, the drama spirit who pestered himself to make the itinerary was launched.

"How about we stay in Irvine for a few more days after we're done?

It's so boring to be in Malibu every day.

Since we're here in Irvine, let's go to the San Diego Marine Park on the side to have fun~

And Disney's new adventure park, didn't they say that the traffic was not up to expectations? Then we will pack a day according to the reception limit of 33,000 people, and it doesn't add up to 2 million anyway~

I also want to go horseback riding at a regional park~

Go camping in Crystal Cove~"

When Kate, who had finished taking a shower, leaned against the head of the bed, crossed her fingers and said her thoughts in a consultative tone, Roland, who was holding an introductory law book and gnawing there, suddenly had black lines on her head.

glanced at his daughter-in-law a few times with a condescending gaze.

The guy with a smile on his face, in his eyes, is a real demon.

"Are you here to accompany me on a business trip?"

Roland pondered for a long time, and finally said what was in his heart.

"Of course!"

Kate's blingbling eyes widened and she nodded very sincerely.

"But your arrangement and planning make me not believe that you are here to accompany me on a business trip~"

Roland's left eyebrow was pressed down, his right eyebrow was raised, and his face was full of doubt.

However, just as he wanted to grab his daughter-in-law's fox tail and strip her sinister intentions out, Kate shook her head and chanted, "Why don't you believe it? Is it because I have a lot of ideas right now? But my idea was born because I accompanied you on a business trip! If you don't travel, I don't think about traveling with you, and if I don't, I don't remember that there are so many places on the edge of Irvine that I haven't visited.

I've been here with you many times in Irvine, haven't I?

Every time you've been here before, you've been playing games with them at Blizzard, for a week.

Did I say anything at the time?

I didn't say anything.

If you want to play games, I'll be there for you, and I'll be with you as late as you play.

What now?

I finally have free time.

I want you to go with me to the edge of Irvine, and then you doubt my motives for accompanying you.

It really saddened me.

I have been with you so many times unconditionally, and now you are asked to accompany me once in your free time, and you are not willing.

Boom ......"

'Good fellows! I'm a good guy straight away! ’

When Kate pouted, stared at Roland with red eyes, and a look of grievance, the guy who wanted to say something was stunned on the spot, and when Kate found out that her man did not react, her eyes were suddenly moist, and tears the size of beans slowly slid down her cheeks.

This situation made the corners of Roland's mouth twitch even more.

After staring at it for a long time, after finding that his daughter-in-law was unmoved, he surrendered decisively and laughed helplessly.

"My bad, my bad, whether it's Ocean Park or Adventure Park, we're going to go, okay?"

"Really?" This answer was the answer Kate wanted, so she blew her nose and asked again as she pretended to be hurt.

"Of course it's true!" Roland nodded vigorously.

“Yeah！ Husband, you're so nice! The repetitive affirmation made Kate burst into tears and threw herself into Roland's arms.

Feeling the softness in front of him, Roland sighed.

He really wanted to be reasonable, but unfortunately Kate didn't give him a chance to reason.

He's used to it, though.

No way, who makes women who are immersed in love the most unreasonable creatures?

Take the clothes worn backwards, when a woman in love wears the wrong clothes, she will never admit it and will not accept the ridicule of men, as for the reason for justification, it is also very simple, that is the test!

The reason why she wears reverse clothes is not that she is stupid, but that she wants to test whether men have her in their hearts.

If the man doesn't find out, it means that the road is narrow, he doesn't pay attention to her at all, he doesn't love her anymore, he doesn't have her in his heart, he can't see it when he wears reverse clothes, it's very likely that there is someone outside!

How do you reason at such a time?

A problem that obviously involves the logic of life can be elevated to an emotional problem by a woman in love, in this case, nothing makes sense, because logic can be distinguished by reason, and emotion has no logic at all.

Therefore, even if Roland knew that the reason why his stinky lady would come to Irvine with him was that he felt that it was too boring to stay in Los Angeles and wanted to spend a vacation in another place, he could only pinch his nose and admit that the other party was here to accompany him on a business trip.

However, while Roland took the initiative to admit defeat, Kate did not treat him badly.

Under the banner of punishment, he said that he wanted to bite Roland, and then the whole person shrank down.

I want to become an immortal and be happy.

…………

The next morning, Earth Globe Grass went out refreshed.

Half of the bodyguards were left around the house, and the remaining eight followed him to Blizzard's headquarters.

Before, David helped him get a piece of land not far from the villa to build a new headquarters for Blizzard, but because the idea was too large, the idea was very ingenious, and it could not be realized by manpower, so far, it has not been completed.

All right......

Don't talk nonsense.

Purely because the act of erecting a statue in front of the building made the Blizzard triumvirate feel ashamed.

At first, they thought that it would be a compulsive act to erect a statue of the founder in front of the headquarters building and surround the classic characters they created, as Walt Disney Group did, but considering that there were only two or three classic characters in the company, the project was stopped by them who couldn't cross the threshold of self-isolation shortly after it started.

As a result, the blueprints were also revised, and the square, which was supposed to house a large number of statues, was directly banned.

However, since the office building with a half-arc design has already been built, considering that the cost of demolishing it all is too great, and they only feel that the IP is not enough for the time being, there are not many statues, and the bare pestle of the three people is a little ashamed there, the square where the statue should have been built was changed by them to a garden fountain, just waiting for the blizzard to become famous in the world and bulldoze it to erect the statue.

As a result, the construction period was delayed to the end of 01, and they are still working in the old office building.

Although the ideas of the three young guys are really a bit of a work, but considering that it is really not something that ordinary people can afford to set up a project and write a book, Roland was relieved, and when he stepped into the Blizzard headquarters again after many years, the crowded office environment, the structural layout of a radish and a pit, made two words pop up in his head-

Workers.

"There are so many people in the company now?" Roland asked Mike Mohami with emotion.

"There's no way, now the company has too many projects, we have recruited three sets of people, and we will break three hundred soon."

Mike Mohami had grown a beard, and his tired eyes were bloodshot, "This is still the result of a complete separation from Blizzard's north, if you add the north, the number of people has already exceeded three hundred, and if you add other studios, now there are five hundred." ”

'Oops! There are so many of them! ’

Mike Mohami's words allowed Roland to find a hint of capitalist pleasure.

Watching those coders sweat in front of the computer, he had the feeling of going to the field to inspect.

The hard work of these guys can make his wealth appreciate rapidly, and the most important thing is that they are gathered because of their dreams, because of their dreams, as long as they have the hope of achieving their spiritual goals, then they will not become the people who do things!

After a brief walk around the company, Roland went to the conference room with familiarity, and then gathered the three giants of Blizzard, and told them about their scavenger hunt game ideas.

However, in a short period of time, no one will be able to get started.

"We're too busy right now, really too busy."

Frank Pearce, one of the founders and now president of R&D, said: "We have just too many projects on our hands.

The game we are currently working on at our headquarters is Warcraft 3: Reign of Chaos, which is expected to be released next summer.

Its expansion pack "The Frozen Throne", the script has already begun to be written, and it will definitely be released in 03 years.

As I told you before, we are already working on an online game based on Warcraft, and it is expected to be launched in 04 years.

Because we are doing online games for the first time, we are now very cautious in the use of personnel.

I'd rather have no task assignment than see a shortage of manpower.

In addition to these three, we have another "Spider-Man" that we haven't done yet.

I've just created a new folder. ”

This made Roland laugh.

It is his intention to let Blizzard make an RPG game based on the "Spider-Man" series, and the joint pre-sale with Amazon is also to complete the previous agreement with Jeff Bezos, because of this, the Blizzard triumvirate who received the project plan is actually confused, so that so far, they have not figured out how to make a multi-threaded RPG stand-alone game.

Therefore, what is being made in the eyes of fans is actually an empty folder.

Even the name, it's very fucked up -

‘.——Spider-Man’

"No, I asked you to make the Spider-Man game, not yourself!" Roland waved his hand and shook the pot and said: "There are so many studios under our name, whichever one has time, we will throw it to whichever one does it, you just control the overall situation!" ”

However, as soon as these words came out, they stabbed the hornet's nest.

The three guys cried with bitter faces: "Several other studios are also busy! ”

Mike Mohami said: "Blizzard North is coming to the Diablo 2 expansion 'Lord of Destruction' this June.

As a studio that must be controlled by us in real time to avoid mistakes, we don't dare to add weight to them! ”

Before he could finish speaking, Aaron Adhan continued: "Rock Star is going to launch two games this year.

One is GTA3, the sequel to GTA, and the other is Max Payne, a new installment.

There are also a lot of naughty things.

Last year, after the contract with Sony ended, they made a new game, Jack & Daxter.

The game will also be available by the end of the year.

In addition, Bend Studios will also launch "Siphon Warrior 3" this year;

Sucker Punch's new work "Foxy Adventure" will be released to the public next year;

In the same vein, there is DreamWorks Interactive Entertainment, which we have just acquired, and they are already working on "Medal of Honor: Frontline" and "Medal of Honor: Rising Sun" with the script written by Steven Spielberg.

It is expected that it will be launched next year and the year after.

The point is, these games are all connected to XBox, and in this case, we can't put pressure on them.

Oh, there's another studio I forgot.

That's CD Projekt in Poland.

It's just that they haven't made a game yet, so we can't let them risk it with Spider-Man. ”

The head was the words of the Tao, and Roland was a little helpless when he heard it.

Where are you leaving the bread here?

The more people there are, the more projects, the more projects, and the more people who don't have enough?

It's a vicious circle!

However, compared with the lack of manpower, Roland, who has come to his senses, is actually more concerned about the games that will be launched intensively this year and next.

Because in addition to "Max Payne" released on PC, "GTA3", "Jack and Daxter", and "Foxy Adventure", which are all escort masterpieces of the original PS2, especially "GTA3", slaughtered the entire market as soon as it was released.

In less than half a year, global sales exceeded three million.

Because of his existence, PS2 shipments in North America increased by nearly 100,000 units that week.

With this kind of crazy delivery machine, Microsoft is afraid that it is not going to laugh crazy.

Now Blizzard, in fact, has been out of the stage of blood transfusion, as long as "GTA3", "Warcraft 3" and "World of Warcraft" are launched one after another, their reputation will definitely not lose Nintendo and Bandai, which have been doing for decades, and waiting for them to rub out "Call of Duty" and "The Witcher", then EA will firmly occupy the position of the second game manufacturer in North America.

At that time, "Uncharted" will be released, and the two brands of Blizzard and "Pirates of the Caribbean" alone will be able to drive sales.

And the brand effect is also the key to the success of a movie universe.

Don't you see, dessert-oriented movies like "Ant-Man" can sell high box office!

"Okay." Thinking of this, Roland slapped his thigh and said, "Then you can divide your own time."

Spider-Man can be made for anyone, but the quality must be ensured.

As for the scavenger hunt I'm thinking about right now, I'll talk about it when you take a break.

Oh yes, and in addition to those two projects, I also have The Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter.

These two can also make games.

But you don't have time right now, so you're looking for me when you're free. ”

The trio had no objection to Roland's arrangement.

After all, a boss who can leave the company to his employees for two years is really an angel.

Seeing that it was almost time to eat, Roland also invited the three of them to a meal, and at the dinner table, the three of them asked another question.

"Roland."

"Huh?"

"We've got three games to announce at XBox this year, will you be there then?"

"What am I doing on site? Isn't it all your developer's job to introduce games? ”

"But we heard that because it is entering an unfamiliar field, the first launch of XBox will be hosted by Bill Gates himself, and the bosses who sell consoles can come to the stage to bring goods, and we can't lag behind when selling games!"

'Gotcha! ’

As soon as he heard this, Roland's eyes immediately widened!

It turns out that these little beep cubs want to kill themselves!

All companies' press conferences can be platformed by the boss, but the press conference of game companies cannot be presented by the boss.

Because whoever comes forward is unlucky.

For example, everyone knows that Sanshi is the owner of the pig farm, and then what?

came out of "Journey to the West", players couldn't play happily anymore and were scolded;

Out of "Fantasy Journey to the West", players can't play happily anymore, and they are still scolded.

out of "Shunhuo Warm", players can't play happily anymore, and they are still scolded;

For another example, everyone knows that Pony is the owner of the goose factory, but what happened?

came out with "CrossFire", the player was unhappy and was scolded;

When a "Dungeons and Warriors" comes out, players are unhappy and continue to be scolded;

came out with a "League of Legends", players were unhappy and were still scolded;

If that's all there is to it, then forget it.

When the game video of "Black Myth" spread wildly on YouTube, game makers around the world also expressed their amazement at the effect of the actual demonstration, but when they learned that the production team was the original goose factory team, Xiao Ma's garbage words were directly spewed out.

The boss of the game company is a high-risk profession!

7X24 hours uninterrupted by players to greet the whole family!

In this case, Roland will not take the initiative to show up for anything.

If he really shows up, it's over, because twenty years later, when "Warcraft 3: Remastered" is launched, the treatment that Little Pony once enjoyed will also be reproduced on him!

"No, no, no, no!" Roland refused, "Say nothing and don't go!" ”

Not only that, but he also threatened: "If anyone of you mentions this to me in the future, then I won't allow them to with pay!"

Install a timer sign at the door of the toilet, and all employees can go to the toilet with the card, but only the three of you, there is a time limit!

Who is out of time! I'll deduct whomever I want! ”