Chapter 581: EA's First Appearance
April 12, 1994 was another day to remember in the gaming industry, because on this day, Warcraft: Humans and Orcs was released.
However, the actual situation on this day was a little chilling, because the whole game launch ceremony was very simple, Blizzard rented a conference room in a nearby hotel, and then invited some game media, held some game trial activities, and then announced that World of Warcraft: Humans and Orcs was officially on sale, landing in the entertainment market and stores in the whole rice country.
Boss Jia only participated in the whole process and didn't do too much, because Boss Jia clearly knew that even if he didn't do anything, Warcraft: Humans and Orcs would also achieve sales of 1.2 million sets, laying a good foundation for the Warcraft series.
Because the quality of the game itself is excellent, and it was not released in a hurry back then, but after getting sufficient funds, it took three months of repeated polishing before it was launched.
So Boss Jia doesn't need to do anything, just wait for Warcraft to slowly occupy the market by himself, anyway, Boss Jia is quite Buddhist.
And this time Boss Jia will not stay in the United States for too long, at most until April 20th, Boss Jia will return to China. Because of the wedding of Boss Jia and Zhu Qiushui, it will be held on May 20th.
Well, it seems that I have always forgotten to say that this is something that was decided in February, because in February, Zhu Qiushui was confirmed to be pregnant.
Boss Jia can't let Zhu Qiushui get married after the child is born, or with a big belly, so the time for marriage is set for May 20.
This is a good implication, and there are no days when the stomach rises and falls.
So Boss Jia is busy, he hasn't even taken wedding photos now, and there are still a lot of marriage things waiting for him to go back to deal with, if he doesn't go back, Zhu Qiushui will be furious.
It's a pity that although Boss Jia's wishes are sincere and beautiful, there are always some people who don't want our Boss Jia to be a good man.
It all starts with EA.
As we all know, EA is a well-known game company in the United States, and its resume is much earlier than Blizzard, it was established since 1982, and now it is the most powerful PC game company in the whole country.
But this EA has an advantage.,That is, he likes to be prepared for danger in times of peace.,In addition to his own games,,He also stares at other game companies all day long.,Any game company has a new work.,Buy a copy and come back to play as soon as possible.。
Let's see if other companies have made any good games, and if the games are really good, can this game company buy them back? If you can't buy it back, can you take out the contents and use them for reference?
Anyway, as long as the content is different, the gameplay is not plagiarism or anything. And the one I changed is more fun than your original, believe it or not?
How's that, isn't this routine very familiar?
Therefore, the world is as black as a crow, and there are some things that foreigners made first, and they have little to do with our people, and no one is more noble than whom.
Fireproof, anti-theft, and anti-art electronics are basically the consensus of game manufacturers in the United States.
Getting back to the point, after the release of Warcraft, EA naturally played its own fine tradition, and bought Warcraft back as soon as possible, and after playing for two days, EA's professional players and planners couldn't help but exclaim, this Nima is a masterpiece!
EA's planners and professional players who specialize in identifying games have tens of thousands of game hours and have played more games than they have eaten, so they can naturally tell the pros and cons of the game at a glance.
First of all, this Warcraft is actually a new real-time strategy game that has only recently come out, and for this type of game, Electronic Arts has already begun research work, and then they think that real-time strategy games are actually very chicken.
Not to mention the long time of the game, and the game process is relatively boring and boring, and the main fun of the game can only be experienced in two-player battles, but the problem is the current network environment, unless there are two computers in the house, you can set up a local area network, otherwise it is impossible to play two-player battles.
So real-time strategy games have not been favored by EA, although EA is actually making a strategy documentary game internally, but they are just using it to seize the high ground for experiments, what if real-time strategy games can be popular?
Unfortunately, there is no need to wait for the results of future experiments, when these professional game reviewers played Warcraft, they were completely conquered by this game.
Excellent picture quality, perfect plot, ingenious hero system, and most importantly, the breakthrough innovation of the fog of war, these are all unheard of and unseen things in Yidian, which will definitely be popular!
So, the staff of Electronic Arts immediately wrote a report and sent it to report all the advantages just listed. However, the report itself misses another advantage that really makes Warcraft rise.
But it doesn't matter, the merits of this report are enough to make EA's senior management pay attention, these executives are not stupid, they have played for a few hours, and they have decided that this is a masterpiece, so EA first used the old methods and sent a letter of acquisition to Blizzard Games, trying to directly acquire Blizzard Games.
Boss Jia was taken aback when he saw this acquisition letter, and then sighed that EA is really still EA, and finally rejected it mercilessly, and also said very directly that Blizzard is a subsidiary of Daqian Group and is not short of money.
EA saw that it was Daqian, and after checking it again, it found that it was a Pokemon company, and instantly understood that he was not trying to buy Blizzard from others.
But EA couldn't have another plan, they first immediately increased the investment in the company's team responsible for developing the game of timing strategy, added excellent talent, and more importantly, stuffed all the advantages they found from Warcraft, and let the team staff copy it.
On the other hand, EA wants to lick and block Warcraft, and can't let the other party sell it so easily.
At this time, EA and Hasbro are in a strategic alliance, EA has licensed some of its game IPs to Hasbro to produce peripherals, and EA CEO and Medea are good friends, and he clearly knows how hostile Mediar is to Daqian.
So EA decides to play a trick and the boss of EA finds Medea and tells him that another game, Warcraft, is on sale.
And the quality of this game is very good, it will definitely be a hit, not even much worse than Pokemon. If it is not blocked, then Warcraft will be the next Pokemon, and when the time comes, Daqian Puzzle will hold two super IPs, and Hasbro may not be able to do it!
Medea was not stupid, and she heard it on the spot, this was the other party's intention to use herself, but the use was used, as long as she could hit the opponent, so what's the matter.
Anyway, now Warcraft is just a small transparent, and it is very easy and simple to deal with, as long as it is an official document.
So, Hasbro sent another letter to all its distributors, which very simply demanded that all shopping malls prohibit the sale of Warcraft, otherwise it would be a choice between Hasbro and Warcraft.
Although this dealer is angry at Hasbro's behavior, Hasbro is really fragrant, and Warcraft is just a computer game that has only been on sale for a few days and has not even heard of the name, so it is not a big deal not to sell him.
So, when Boss Jia was about to return to China, he received the news that Warcraft was removed from the shelves in Quanmi, and Boss Jia's face suddenly darkened.