Ye Shenxi didn't go to the United States entirely for the "acceptance" of the personnel in the Seattle branch, he first went to Sequoia City on the west coast of the San Francisco Bay Area in California, which is EA's global headquarters.

There, EA's Redood Shores Studio, he met with Richard, EA's global chief publishing officer, senior vice president.

Before leaving for the United States, he also brought a packaged beta version of "The Origin of Everything", the version number has come to Beta, and most of the main system functions have been completed, even including the original three different styles of weapons and combat classes: warrior, archer, and mage. You can also subdivide different class suits and weapons, including long and short swords, guns, bows and arrows, slingshots, summoning staffs, and so on.

At present, the game also provides nine different types of world bosses for players to challenge on their own, and more will be added in the future.

Of course, players can also completely ignore the combat gameplay, which belongs to the explorable content in the game, and these bosses will not automatically appear to attack the player, mainly their own choice, and they will summon them through in-game props or NPCs. As mentioned earlier, any player with a bias will find their niche in the game.

Although there are high-level minerals or materials in the game that need to be unlocked by defeating the boss, it is completely possible to divide the labor, you fight to plow the field, you fight the boss and I mine, and experience this game together in cooperation.

Shan Jie and they also specially optimized the operation and feel in battle, and the judgment and strike sense of various weapons were carefully tuned.

Under the framework of such a combat system, players can make their own mods and have a wider range of room to play, even if he wants to make a traditional RPG game.

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Ye Shenxi met with Ali, the president of EA in China, and got in touch with the U.S. headquarters through his introduction. After a few emails back and forth, Ye Shenxi came over this time with two main tasks.

The first is about the global digital distribution of EA's games, after all, EA is currently the world's largest game publisher, with strong revenue growth momentum, ranking first in the world.

EA's total revenue will reach a record $4 billion this year, compared to $3 billion last year, up 30% year-over-year.

This year, they have sold 27 games with more than 1 million units worldwide, and 15 games with more than 2 million double platinum sales.

How luxurious it looks.

Although the net profit is a bit unsatisfactory, only 76 million US dollars, high income corresponds to high investment, it can only be said that ...... There's still room for upside.

However, its large library of gamers is a must-have for the herring network's global strategy.

EA didn't have its own digital distribution platform at the time, and the idea of Origin hadn't even been raised internally yet, but the meteoric rise of steem had alarmed them, even though they still had a good relationship with Villefort.

For example, this time Villefort's "Survival Journey" is about to be released globally, Villefort itself is responsible for the digital distribution of the steem platform, and EA is responsible for the boxed distribution of the physical version, and many games between the two companies are in this way of cooperation, which is quite pleasant for the time being.

The same is true for the later "Survival Journey 2", and even Villefort originally only wanted to make a DLC release, but it was also lured by EA to finally come up with a new game to sell, which shows the relationship between the two companies at this time.

Ye Shenxi also wants to establish such a cooperative relationship with EA, Qingyu Network does not have its own physical distribution channels in North America and the world, offline sellers? I don't know anyone.

At present, the number of players who buy games through physical stores is still more than 75% in the world.

This is his second mission to the United States, about the physical release of "The Road to Survival".

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Ye Shenxi declined the reception, and first took a casual turn around the entire EA park, and the first feeling was that it was worthy of being the world's No. 1 game provider, and the headquarters was really big enough, estimated to be at least 100,000 square meters. There are two parking lots, as well as its own Starbucks café, as well as ...... Early Learning Centre.

It is equivalent to solving the problem of children for employees of their own company, and a kindergarten was built in the company park.

EA's salary is not very high, but as an international manufacturer, purely from the perspective of park construction, there is still a pattern.

There are three basketball courts downstairs in the Sequoia Coast Studio, and when Ye Shenxi passed by, he also saw several people who were obviously employees playing, wearing fitness vests, or directly playing shirtless, five big and three thick, with a burly figure.

Ye Shenxi actually stood on the sidelines and watched for a while, worthy of the United States, where the NBA is located, and the overall basketball level is indeed high. After an attack, the basketball rolled down to Ye Shenxi's feet, and he threw it back to a black buddy.

It was not unusual for the group of people to see a pair of oriental faces, glanced at Ye Shenxi, said "thank you" and continued to play, and there were no Chinese in the company.

However, Ye Shenxi looked at their knotted muscles, and thought about the group of programmers in his own company, the gap ......

But this kind of judgment seems a bit subjective, this company is willing to come out to play at this time, that must be people who are usually keen on sports, there are also a lot of fat people with fat heads and big ears sitting in the office, you haven't seen it yet.

His mood for sightseeing did not last long, and he arrived at the Sequoia Coast studio at two o'clock in the afternoon, when Richard's secretary, a blonde girl in her twenties, told him that Mr. Richard was in an important meeting and that it was not convenient to disturb him. He asked him again if he would like to wait, and then gestured to the reception couch in the hall.

Ye Shenxi asked how long it would take, and the secretary said that it was not possible to determine for the time being, but it was indeed a very important meeting, and he would be notified as soon as it was over.

What else could Ye Shenxi say, he could only say thank you, then walked over, sat on the sofa, and waited.

The secretary didn't have any expression, probably because she had seen a lot of the boss of a small company like Ye Shenxi, of course she was still competent, her attitude was just to truthfully explain the current state, and she was even enthusiastic, and she didn't show the indifference of a big company or anything, as for Ye Shenxi, who thought in her heart, she didn't know.

Of course, Miss Secretary has also investigated the person in front of her, as well as the company Qingyu Network, and what he came to figure this time.

Tsk, the revenue in the third quarter was 75 million US dollars, which is no longer a small company, of course, compared to EA, it still counts, it doesn't seem to be famous, after all, it is a Chinese company.

Sitting in Ye Shenxi's position, it was about the same time, the afternoon sun was shining through the glass window, and there were many well-known team and project leaders who were also sitting there waiting like him, and the secretary had seen a lot.

She sometimes wonders what was going on in their hearts at the time.

"Need a drink?" The secretary asked.