Chapter 260: Joy (Part 1)

Ye Jiayi completed the negotiations with Activision and returned to China.

He was joined in China by Arnold and a test team from Activision.

This team will complete the testing of "Taiwu 2" together in Shenghai, the headquarters of Wedo Entertainment.

"Taigo 2" is now very complete, such as the translation of the English version, the German version, the Japanese version, etc., have been completed, and only some supplementary designs of combat actions are left, and they can all be completed in half a month. In fact, as far as the current degree of completion of "Taiwu 2" is concerned, it is enough to take it out.

Although, at the press conference, "Taiwu Picture Scroll 2" showed extremely high quality, and later at the E3 exhibition, at the media trial in the exhibition area of Wedo Entertainment, all the people who have personally experienced this game have undoubtedly given this game a very high evaluation, but this thing, what others say, is not as good as what they have personally experienced.

The team that Arnold brought with him came to test the game.

In the contract between Dimension Entertainment and Activision, there is still a clause that after testing the quality of the game, if the other party is not satisfied, it can stop the cooperation.

However, all parties basically feel that this is just a formality, and it should not have much impact on the final result.

It's impossible for Activision to waste so much effort just to amuse Dimension Entertainment.

And that's exactly what happened.

Arnold's team stayed in Shenghai for three days and played the beta version of "Taiwu Picture Scroll 2".

During the three days of playing, except for going out for a meal in the middle, these people were almost immersed in the game the rest of the time, and they didn't go to the Bund for a walk.

It was supposed to be a business trip, but after the test was over, the gang didn't want to leave.

"Mr. Arnold, let's test it for two more days, my apprentice actually poisoned me and stole my Cold Moon Treasure Knife! I'm going to get him and clean up the portal! ”

One tester was very angry.

A person next to him gloated and said: "I told you when you accepted the apprentice, let you see his character, it is 'only me', there may be problems, you don't listen to yourself, it depends on the apprentice's qualifications, and now you are at a loss, right?" ”

Arnold was crying and laughing.

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No matter how reluctant they are, they have to go back.

In fact, the time for the entire publicity is still quite tight, and Arnold and their entire Activision propaganda department will have heavy tasks in the future.

Now, it's the end of June. It is expected that at the beginning of July, "Taiwu Picture Scroll 2" will complete all the debugging work and officially announce the completion of development. Throughout the game, Wedo Entertainment claims that there are very few bugs, and there are no bugs that may directly affect the core functions of the game. At least in Arnold's team, in the three days of testing, not a single bug was encountered.

In fact, this is quite a scary point, even if it is a large manufacturer, many very mature studios, it is difficult to say that the game developed, not a single bug is not encountered.

This also strengthened Arnold's grasp of the success of this work from the side.

According to the requirements of Dimension Entertainment, they want to make "Taiwu Picture Volume 2" launch simultaneously around the world in early August.

If you follow the plan strictly, the time left for Activision is actually quite tight.

With less than two months to go, they have to make a publicity plan, complete the preparation of channel distribution, and place advertisements on various publicity channels......

Gotta hurry.

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The time has advanced to the beginning of August, and the launch of "Taiwu 2" is imminent, but before that, there is one more important thing for Wedo Entertainment - "Martial Arts Grandmaster" has been completed.

This film, which may have a total of 153 episodes and will be screened in two parts, has finally been filmed after nearly a year.

In the process of filming the TV series, the related post-production work has actually been advancing simultaneously.

Thanks to the powerful function of the 'Dimension' system, with a large number of design drawings, some of the captured live shots can be directly imported into the system at the same time for related special effects production.

In the beginning, the special effects production work in this area was still relatively slow.

At that time, because the production of "Taiwu 2" was also at a critical time, Fan Zhe successively configured computer clusters with a total price of nearly 30 million, and most of the performance was swallowed up by the art needs of "Taiwu 2". Only a small part of it has been left outside, and the demand for "Martial Arts Grandmaster" has to compete with "Amber" and "The Evolution of the Four Billion Ensemble".

But now, "Amber" and "4.6 Billion Ensemble" have been completed, and some of the remaining art resources of "Taiwu" have all been completed in early July, and there are no other projects to compete with "Martial Arts Grandmaster", so the speed of the entire post-production process has suddenly increased.

According to the latest forecast, it is estimated that the entire late-stage project will definitely be completed by October. If it's fast, maybe in October or November, you will be able to meet the audience on major platforms, and it is estimated that when the upper part ends, it should be around the Spring Festival to usher in the finale.

It's actually pretty good in this world.

At the same time, after the company's current manpower is vacated, there is another project that has been officially launched, which is another TV series project, "Emperor Ruzi".

However, the special effects used in this drama are much less than those used in "Fantasy Three Kingdoms" and "Martial Arts Master", but at the same time, its filming time is also longer, and it is estimated that it may not be able to be filmed by this time next year, and it will be possible to go online by the end of next year.

In this way, Wedo Entertainment has had five consecutive projects this year, and two of them have been launched in the first half of the year, and in the second half of the year, two particularly important projects of "Martial Arts Grandmaster" and "Taiwu 2" are concentrated.

If these two projects can meet expectations, the entire company's marketing this year will have a very huge improvement compared with the previous two years!

A conservative estimate may reach about 3 billion, and optimistically, 4 billion or even more is possible.

The big one, of course, fell on "Taiwu 2".

Throughout the summer vacation of July, Activision's strong strength in the European and American world has also been demonstrated.

In major TV stations in the United States, Europe, Japan and other places, a large number of advertisements about "Taigo 2" have been placed intensively. Offline advertisements have been posted in the subways of major cities, and even on some bustling streets, a large number of huge advertisements have also been erected.

Hundreds of millions of dollars in publicity investment are not in vain.

On August 8, such an auspicious date in China, "Taiwu 2" was officially launched!