At half past nine in the morning on June 12, Los Angeles time, the premiere ceremony of "Getaway" was held in Hollywood, a suburb of Los Angeles.

In fact, at this time, many players around the world have already bought this game, and the physical version or the digital version purchased and downloaded on the FG platform are all available, and they have even begun to play, after all, there are many places where June 12 is much earlier than the United States.

Gamestop's Hollywood store sits on the Sunset Boulevard, a highway that stretches from the bustling business district to the famous Malibu Beach, winding through Hollywood and through the star-studded Beverly Hills, the road to wealth and fame that many consider the road. There are a lot of old clubs, movie studios, luxury hotels, fine restaurants, and ivy climbing up the somewhat mottled looking walls.

On the street corner here, maybe in a luxury car, Tom? Cruise, or Tom? Hanks or Brad? Pete was inside.

The store is less than a kilometre away from Hollywood's famous handprint-strewn Walk of Fame.

Since the early hours of the morning, there has been a long queue at the door of the store, and when Ye Shenxi came, he was in the carriage, and he saw a little bit of the feeling of grabbing tickets for the Chinese Spring Festival.

The employee who accompanied Activision to this is called Lawrence, who is Dawson's assistant, and he can be regarded as having some friendship, she followed Dawson to Funan before, Ye Shenxi and Xia Qingyu can see that it is not a completely formal relationship between superiors and subordinates.

Xia Qingyu joked in private: "Do you want to find an assistant, beautiful and capable." ”

Ye Shenxi said: "Chen Xiaofan, you are still not at ease. ”

Lawrence looked out the window, talked to several other employees, and said to Ye Shenxi: "Sir, you see, American players are very enthusiastic about "Getaway". ”

Ye Shenxi said: "I'm more worried about whether they still have the energy and mood to watch the song and dance performance......

The blonde American girl didn't know much about the culture of complaining, and swore that "don't worry, we have a lot of energy." ”

The two walked into the lounge from the staff passage, and the manager of Gamestop and the employees came up to shake hands with him very affectionately, and took a group photo, and asked for an autograph by the way. Ye Shenxi should have practiced in advance for today's signing event, he signed "Pasca" instead of Chinese name "Ye Shenxi", firstly, the American people can't understand Chinese, and I haven't seen Schwarzenegger sign "Schwarzenegger" instead of "Arnold Scharzenegger" for Chinese fans...... What's more, the former has far fewer strokes than the latter.

The store manager asked Ye Shenxi if he needed any services, Ye Shenxi said in his heart that I want to do acupuncture, can I do acupuncture, shook his head and said You can just go and get busy, I'll take a rest first.

Outside the lounge, a black host was telling some jokes about Fisoa, which was professional after all, and the audience burst into laughter from time to time.

Ye Shenxi turned on his mobile phone, and Shan Jie sent a message, real-time sales statistics said that at this time, the global sales of "Getaway" have reached 2.27 million sets, of which 1.53 million sets come from the pre-orders of the FG platform, as well as several large markets that have been sold, such as the United Kingdom, the British people have contributed 470,000 sets of sales, and the three major platforms are combined.

Ye Shenxi replied: "Continue to follow up, keep the information smooth, and fix major bugs in time." "Go back, and then start closing your eyes and recuperating.

It's also difficult to be a single master, at this time China is officially in the early morning, but they are all used to it.

……

Among the long queues outside the stadium were two young men, Julio and Stan, who came here at about three o'clock in the morning to start the queue, but they did not take a very good position, and they were only in the middle of the line.

There are also many media outlets, set up machines to film them, but they don't know whether to smile and wave in front of the camera, or turn a blind eye.

The whole site is arranged like a "Yaochi Wonderland", and I don't know where they got the rockery and potted plants, and they also rented two artificial fog machines over there and swallowed the clouds...... It's like the opening of the boss's Journey to the West, I don't really look at the ground, who will be responsible for stepping on the sewer cover......

Some actors dressed in the game's modified costumes of ancient Chinese ethnic minorities also interspersed with the crowd, but fortunately they were all Asians with yellow skin, black hair and black eyes, and they didn't look so awkward. As the game's theme music played, they quickly gathered from the crowd into the mist-shrouded clearing in the middle, and then danced to the music.

Fortunately, this link Qingyu Network has communicated with Activision in advance, otherwise they would have to invite the dance troupe to hold a literary performance such as "Thousand Hands Guanyin" on this occasion according to their own understanding, which is really high and low. This is a street, not a theater, and the launch ceremony needs to mobilize the excitement, cheerfulness, and excitement of the audience.

The dance is not the kind of traditional Chinese classical dance in the cold national evening, but a war dance specially choreographed for this launch ceremony that seems to integrate the barbaric tension of Chinese ethnic minorities, full of a sense of power, prostrate on the ground, waving hands, and twisting the body, all of which are the feeling of fists to the flesh.

However, the action is obviously designed to conform to modern aesthetics, and from time to time there is an action such as shaking the hips and chest, with the cool costumes of the actors, under the neat and uniform movements, the waves are turbulent, attracting cheers from the audience. Ye Shenxi is very suspicious that Activision has strict requirements for body shape from time to time when selecting dancers.

The climax of the ceremony was when Ye Shenxi finally walked among the players, Julio and Stan were in the crowd, and saw him walking out of the lounge, wearing a cultural shirt of the herring network, blue and white tones, and also wearing a baseball cap printed with the company and game logos, waving to everyone.

"How are you?" Ye Shenxi picked up the microphone and said the first thing to the American players.

"Look, it's Pasca!"

“Pasca！”

"Ah!!h

Teenage girls, young women, and of course more of the screams of otaku.

They waved, closed their eyes, twirled and jumped, as if there were no more ways to express their inner excitement, and Pasca did appear a little less often in American public.

Ye Shenxi walked through the crowd, and between the enthusiastic American players and him, there was a copper wall composed of a big man in a security uniform, and a hand stretched out from the armpit, neck, and even crotch of the security personnel on the spot, Ye Shenxi also high-fived them one by one, and then walked to the center of Yaochi Wonderland.

He thanked all the players and media friends who were here today, said a few innocuous words, and said, "I know you don't want me to talk too much nonsense at this point. ”

"Haha." The audience responded with friendly laughter.

"So, all players, welcome to the world of Getaway."

With this sentence, "Getaway" officially went on sale in North America.

Almost at the same time, amid a cheer, the first player to get the physical version of the American version was born, an American man with a long beard and standard body hair. The people at the back of the line applauded him politely, and those at the front were waiting to buy their own CDs.

The man also posed like a superman to show off his muscles, and then several reporters came up and asked him how he felt about winning the first place in the United States.

Ye Shenxi had already done it at his autograph table at this time, and he was going to sit here for two hours next. The arrangement is arranged like this, but looking at the situation at the scene, Ye Shenxi estimated that he couldn't do it in two hours, and he couldn't bear to let many players who might have traveled thousands of miles from various state capitals to participate in the launch ceremony return without signing.

The man didn't say anything to the reporter at all, because in addition to the first CD, he also had to get the first autograph to be complete, and he had been here yesterday evening, with an oversized bag on his back and a sleeping bag, indicating what he had experienced that night. If you don't hurry up, the first signature may be snatched away by someone behind you.

After apologizing to the media, he almost trotted to Ye Shenxi and stretched out his hand: "Hello, Pasca, I am a loyal player of Fisoa. ”

Ye Shenxi also stretched out his hand to shake him: "Thank you, what should I call you." ”

"You can call me Daniel, I've played every Fisoa game." Daniel fumbled through his backpack and pulled out several CDs, including the PS3 version of "Survival", "The Origin of Everything", and even the disc version of "The Eternal War". Although it is an online game, "Eternal War" also has a disc version, mainly because it also comes with some game peripherals and souvenirs, which can be said to be a deluxe version.

Players don't buy it to install the game.,Even if you install it with a CD.,I don't know how many G's you have to update to play.,Mainly for collections.,And to show their identity as a Fisoa fan.。

Ye Shenxi looked at the disc of "Eternal War", and actually had his own signature: "Have we seen it before?" Daniel. ”

Daniel shook his head and said, "No, no, this is the signed version I bought on eBay." ”

"Thank you for your support." Ye Shenxi signed his ID on the packaging box of the "Getaway" disc, and then shook hands with him again: "Thank you." ”

"Can I take a picture with you?" Although there were already other players waiting behind him at this time, the man still made this request, after all, this is the first in the United States.

Before Ye Shenxi could speak, Lawrence stood up: "Sir, this will delay the players behind, they are still waiting." ”

The man also knew that this request was not very reasonable, and said with some frustration: "Okay, ma'am, I know what you said is the truth. ”

Ye Shenxi said to him: "Daniel, you are the first player today, if you don't mind very much, such as busy going back to sleep or playing games...... You can go to the staff lounge and wait for a while, play games or games, and wait until the autograph is over before we can take a group photo, maybe we can have lunch together. ”

Danielton's eyes lit up: "Really? Pasca。 ”

Ye Shenxi asked Lawrence: "Miss Lawrence, is this okay?" ”

Since the big guy said this, Lawrence couldn't find a reason to refuse: "Sir, if you insist, of course you can." Then he exchanged a few words with a security officer next to him and said to Daniel: "Mr. Daniel, you can go to the staff lounge with our staff and wait, there are sofas, drinks, and of course, game consoles." ”

Ye Shenxi said: "Whether it is PC, PS or XBOX, there is a cloud archive function, so you don't have to worry about not being able to continue the progress after you go back." ”

"Thank you, Pasca."

"I'll see you later, Daniel."

……

"Hello Pasca, I'm a fan of Fisoa." This is a standard eyed otaku with a plaid shirt and a backpack.

"Thank you."

"Pasca, I'm a fan of yours personally, my name is Katie." This is a young girl who is about sixteen or seventeen years old.

"Thanks, Katie, and have a great gaming journey."

"Pasca, this is my personal contact information." This is a blonde and blue-eyed, about twenty-four or five years old, exuding a hormonal smell and flaming red lips, she was lying on the table with her hands propped up, put the important part of her chest in front of Ye Shenxi's eyes, took out a note and stuffed it to Ye Shenxi, and said charmingly.

"Hello." Ye Shenxi took the note out of politeness and put it in the drawer of the table, and the note didn't look good on the table.

"Can you write a paragraph?"

"Of course."

"To the beautiful Suri."

"Okay." Ye Shenxi wrote: "To the beautiful Suri, Sorry." ”

The woman didn't look at the game packaging, she kept staring at Ye Shenxi like catching prey, and made a phone call gesture when she left.

"Ah...... Pasca！ "There are also some people who are simply speechless with excitement and are simply screaming.

Ye Shenxi also kept smiling and met their various speech requirements one by one.

"Pasca, my name is Julio."

"Hello Pasca, my name is Stan."

Two boys

"We came specifically from Copas Cristi, which is a beautiful city by the sea."

"The first time we left Texas, we drove ourselves."

The two young men blushed, looked restrained, and talked a little nonsense.

"Thanks, I haven't been, is it far away?" Ye Shenxi asked while signing.

"More than fifteen hundred miles."

Ye Shenxi looked up at the two boys, more than 2,400 kilometers, Ye Shenxi converted, it was farther than going to Huangpu from Funan, he had never lived in the United States, and he had no idea about the highway transportation network here, and asked, "Then how long did it take you?" ”

"Two days." Julio said with a suffocating voice.

Ye Shenxi handed the signed disc to the two, and then patted the two of them on the shoulder: "Thank you, you have a lot of perseverance, and I hope this is a meaningful journey." ”

Two days of travel, 1,500 miles of travel, this shot made the two young men feel that the life of the Sprinkle family was worth it.

It was just a short meeting, twenty seconds, not much conversation, and a pat on their shoulder, but they felt that the journey was complete.

……

"Getaway" was officially launched in the United States, that is, the signing session started at ten o'clock in the morning, and three hours at one o'clock at noon, Ye Shenxi could still talk and laugh with players from the beginning, and then slowly mechanically thousand words, nodded, thanked, took the time to shake his hand in the middle, and twisted his head. He couldn't remember how many he signed, but after asking the staff next to him, he found out that he had signed 527 in three hours.

On average, it takes 20 seconds to sign out, including greetings and handshake time.

He wasn't very interested in pop music, but he began to admire the singers.

However, there are still a lot of players waiting to be fed in the back, looking at these expectant faces.

How can you turn a blind eye?

How can Ye Shenxi endure it in his heart?

So after discussing with the staff, Ye Shenxi decided to extend the time of the signing meeting.

On this day he felt how wise it was to feel that his ID was Pasca.

But perhaps...... It might have been better to use a single-letter ID like "A" in the first place.

According to media reports, after the signing session ended that day, Ye Shenxi first had dinner with the first player who grabbed the CD, of course, he had a treat, and then went directly to Chinatown in Los Angeles City and found a Chinese medicine physiotherapy club to go in to heal his injuries.

By this time, the satisfied players who had been signed had returned to their homes, turned on their consoles or computers, installed the game, and started another virtual journey.

There were also some people who were still on the road, and they had come from far away, such as the Texas boys Julio and Stan. The two of them watched Ye Shenxi sign for a while on the side, and then "took a group photo" from a distance, and then left Los Angeles and rushed home as soon as possible.

On the third day, they returned home, turned on their PS3, and entered the world of Getaway.