Jamie's engagement with the Call of Duty team was very smooth, and he was already planning to leave his job and start his own business, while the other was willing to provide financial support and maximum creative freedom.

In later generations, the value of up to $30 billion, which is equivalent to about one-half of Activision Blizzard's super game IP "Call of Duty" series, was successfully cut off by Jamie.

This series has always been the best-selling game on Sony's PS4 and PS5 models, which is one of the reasons why Sony desperately blocked Microsoft's acquisition of Activision Blizzard in later generations.

If PS loses the exclusivity of the Call of Duty series, the damage caused will be immeasurable.

In this life, Jamie is ready to let Sony lose before he gets it.

When Call of Duty is completed, Jamie plans to switch to an exclusive platform and go directly to Microsoft to cooperate.

It is said that during the development of this project, the codename within Microsoft was "Midway", which shows how determined Microsoft is to overturn Sony and Nintendo, the two major Japanese game manufacturers.

CALL OF DUTY WORKS WITH XBOX AND SHOULD SELL FOR A GOOD PRICE.

On the other hand, Chuck's negotiations with Vidiwang took a little twist and turn.

Vidiwang did not plan to sell Snow Mountain Le, and did not want to refuse this cooperation, so he played the old trick of splitting and reorganizing.

They split the battle net of Snow Mountain Music and sold it to Chuck separately, and the asking price was not low.

Vidiwang did some research on Chuck's identity and background in advance, and found that he was the only son of New York real estate tycoon Bart Bass.

Such a super-rich second generation, can't the price be higher?

In order to shorten the negotiation time, Chuck finally bought the WON battle network of Snow Mountain Le at a large price.

On the one hand, Chuck doesn't want to live up to Jamie's trust.

Chuck, on the other hand, really regards the digital game publishing platform proposed by Jamie as his first career.

The rich second generation starts a business, and the main thing is a loser.

Jamie was a little crying and laughing when he learned about this, and at the same time decided that he would not let Chuck participate in similar negotiations in the future.

Even if you can't, prevent Chuck from uttering his famous mantra on similar occasions.

I'm Chuck Bass!

Pretending to be forced is enough to pretend to be forced, and it is also very in line with the character of the Dragon King with Chuck's crooked mouth.

However, if it is placed in business negotiations, the meaning of this sentence completely changes.

I'm Chuck Bass!

People are stupid and have a lot of money, come and pit me!

Luckily, Chuck met Jamie, and although he paid an expensive tuition fee for the price of Snow Mountain Le WON Battle.net, it was really insignificant compared to the income he would receive in the future.

After Snow Mountain Le's WON Battle.net was acquired, Jamie and Chuck jointly established a new company, each holding a 50% stake.

However, in terms of voting power in the company's decision-making, Jamie has one more vote than Chuck.

To put it simply, if Jamie and Chuck disagree on a company decision, Jamie has the final say.

The first thing the new company did after its establishment was to officially rename the WON Battle.net to Steam.

It wasn't until they logged on to Battle.net to play the game and found that their names had changed, and they learned that Vidiwang had sold Battle.net to Jamie and Chuck.

At this time, it has been less than ten days since the two sides last met in a pizza place.

At the same time, G Fat's mailbox also received an email in the official name of Steam.

Jamie and Chuck are about to visit Villefort again.

Last time, Jamie sent an email in his personal name, and finally made an appointment with G Fat, with a bit of a negotiating tone.

This time, Steam's official email has become a direct notification to G Fat, this time we are coming, you are ready to receive.

Not only was the time set, but even the meeting place became a local high-end seafood restaurant in Seattle.

G Fat knew about this restaurant because his former owner, Bill Gates, loved to eat here.

It's not very clear how the food tastes in this restaurant, G Fat.

But he's sure Bill Gates loves the restaurant because it's not just the taste of the food, but also the location.

The restaurant is directly opposite a marina.

When the Gates family returns from a yacht trip, they can get off the boat and eat in the restaurant, which is very convenient.

At the same time, G Fat also knew in his heart that Jamie and Chuck put the place of their second meeting in this restaurant, of course, the purpose was not only to show off their wealth in front of him.

Inviting G Fat to dinner at the favorite restaurant of the former boss of G Fat is actually a kind of pressure in disguise.

Of course, G fat is not the kind of person who gives in easily.

In response, he decided to bring more than 30 people from the company to the appointment, which was regarded as going out for team building.

On the day of the meeting, the shocking scene of G Fat coming to the appointment with a large number of people left a very deep impression on both Jamie and Chuck.

Jamie and Chuck don't care, though.

It is obviously impossible for more than 30 people to eat poor in one meal, and even this amount of money is a piece of cake for Chuck, who is used to spending money.

After asking Fat G to sit down at a separate table, Jamie went over to contact the thirty-odd employees of Villefort for a wave of affection.

Thanks to the unforgettable memory brought by the space spring, Jamie memorized the information of all the employees in Villefort.

Not only can you accurately call each of them by name, but also know their professional experience and hobbies.

Coupled with the fact that Jamie showed his impressive blind sniping skills during his last visit to Villefort, it was easy to get along with these game nerds.

watched Jamie play a wave of affection in front of the Villefort employees, so much so that G Fat regretted it a little.

If he knew that Jamie was so "good", he shouldn't have brought all the employees over.

If the two sides really tear their faces, isn't it convenient for Jamie to plant spies and dig into the wall in the company?

When Jamie returned to his seat and sat down, Fat immediately complained like an angry little daughter-in-law.

"Mr. Dutton, I admit that your acquisition of Battle.net was really unexpected, it's hard to imagine how bad our servers and anti-cheat features were more than a week ago."

"But this only shows one thing, you guys are really rich, sorry this is not a compliment, what I really want to say is that if you invest the money you used to buy WON Battle.net to me, it will be enough for me to make a new platform with more than ten times more powerful functions than the current WON Battle.net."

"Gabe!"

Jamie interrupted G-fat and reminded him with a serious expression.

"Last time, you rejected us first!"

Idol, it's your choice!

G fat is completely speechless now.

Jamie didn't talk nonsense either, and went straight to a showdown with G Fat.

"If you think that we have only done one thing during this time, you are very wrong."

"I've made a deal with a studio from a major game company that will form a separate game company, and Steam will buy their company and support them in developing a new FPS (First Person Shooter) game."

Although he was shocked by Jamie's efficient execution, G Fat, who had already begun to prepare for the production of "Half-Life 2", was not panicked at all.

There was even a faint hint of joy.

He didn't think that the big game studio that Jamie had found in such a short period of time would really be able to make something eye-catching.

Especially in the field of FPS games, which they are best at.

G Fat even can't wait to see the scene of crushing the masterpiece in Jamie's mouth into scum after the release of "Half-Life 2".

"Really? Hopefully they'll be quicker, because Villefort's new game is expected to be in '03, and it will be interesting to have a duel at that time. ”

After hearing this, Jamie was a little skeptical that G's mouth had been opened.

Because in the previous life, the first part of "Call of Duty" was released in 03.

Now that Jamie has contacted the production team in advance, the game production process will be accelerated, but it will not be available until 03 years at the earliest.

Not surprisingly, Half-Life 2 will also be released in the same year.

Both games have been played by Jamie in previous lives, and the quality and playability of the games are not comparable, but the influence is definitely greater in Half-Life 2.

However, the greatest value of Call of Duty is to give the entire series a good start and reputation.

And "Half-Life 2" belongs to the peak of debut, until Jamie's previous life crossed, "Half-Life 3" was still lying on the wish list of many players in their lifetimes.

If these two games really come together, Half-Life 2 will definitely be far ahead in a short period of time.

After all, the reputation and player base of the previous work are there.

The premise is that the two games can actually come together.

However, Jamie, who knows what the future holds, knows that this is not possible.

Half-Life 2 was finally released in 2004, a full year later than originally planned.

Seeing that G Fat was full of confidence in this, Jamie felt that there was no need to remind him to be careful about the security of the company's database and not to be killed by hackers.

When the game is postponed, Jamie will definitely condemn G Fat's ticket skipping behavior on behalf of the majority of players.

Of course, Jamie's purpose for meeting G Fat this time is not to "make an appointment" with "Half-Life".

After talking about competition, of course, we should also talk about cooperation.

This time the speaker was replaced by Chuck.

"We plan to use the same funds as the acquisition of Snow Mountain Le Battle.net to hire Villefort to upgrade and update the Steam Battle.net platform in all aspects, including the development of anti-cheat functions, you should have no reason to refuse this cooperation, right?"

Now renamed Steam, the Battle.net platform mainly serves games such as "Half-Life" and "CS", improving the online battle experience, and banning cheats can increase players' loyalty and stickiness to these two games.

It's good for both the Steam platform and the Villefort company.

Although this move will also lead to a certain dependence on the Steam platform, it will still have more advantages than disadvantages overall.

In order to convince G to be fat, Chuck then released another bombshell.

They are preparing to host a CS eSports tournament on Steam, where the winning team will receive $1 million in prize money.

It was in early December.

Ask for a wave of monthly pass support!

(End of chapter)