G's eyes widened with shock.

Not because of the $1 million bonus, G Fat knew very well that the two guys sitting in front of him were not short of money at all.

Especially the one named Chuck Bass.

I almost didn't put the word "rich man" on the door of my head.

This gave G Fat another place to envy Jamie.

Why can't he meet such a good friend who is stupid and has a lot of money?

G Fat really thought about the reason for a while, and then came to a depressing conclusion.

It's easy to make friends like Chuck Bass, as long as you're as rich as he is.

And what really shocked G Fat at the moment was the timing of the Steam eSports tournament.

To be impartial, it just happened to "collide" with the time when the first World E-sports Championship WCG in Kimchi Country was held.

It can't be said that it is completely deliberate, it can only be said that the pertinence is really not too strong.

The most fucked-up thing is that "CS" was also selected for this year's WCG competition.

You have $1 million on your side, and Kimchi Country is only $300,000, do you still need to ask which side professional gamers will choose?

Most excessively, Chuck also asked G Fat a question.

How much would it cost to get Villefort to withdraw from the WCG the CS program.

G Fat wanted to ask on the spot, you two have a grudge against the Kimchi Country, right?

I wanted to quote a sky-high price directly to frustrate Chuck's arrogance.

Unexpectedly, Chuck suddenly changed his words:

"Forget it, it's better to keep this money for next year's tournament prize pool."

it!

Tricked!

G Fat glared at Chuck a little angrily, but then Jamie suddenly said.

"When will Steam's online battle and anti-cheat system be upgraded, if we can, we plan to hold a qualifier season on Steam in November, and all participating players need to register an account on Steam to form a team, and then play a certain number of points in the online battle to be shortlisted for the official tournament in December."

G Fat was dumbfounded.

This is the rhythm of soldering CS players directly to the Steam platform!

Knowing what Jamie wanted to do, G Fat couldn't stop it.

Because the cooperation agreement between Villefort and Snow Mountain Le WON Battle.net did not expire until 03.

In the previous meeting, G Fat deliberately concealed the news.

I didn't expect retribution to come so quickly.

On the contrary, it is another feature of Steam, an online digital game publishing platform, and G Fat is not too worried about it now.

With the current Internet speed, coupled with the volume of mainstream 3A games that can easily be several gigabytes, downloading disc-free games from the Internet will not become the mainstream choice of players in the short term.

If Steam wants to sell games, it can only choose physical discs, and then follow Amazon's example of e-commerce and move physical game stores online.

Now that there is still more than a year left before the end of the contract between the two parties, G Fat doesn't think Steam can snatch much share from traditional offline game publishers in such a quick time.

When the contract expires and Half-Life 2 is released, the advantage will return to Villefort's side.

For lunch, G fat can be described as eating with mixed tastes.

Even if Chuck specifically ordered Bill Gates' supposedly favorite grilled cod and burritos for him, he didn't put his mood on the food.

This lunch, I don't seem to have eaten it.

Compared to G's fat, the Villefort staff ate happily, during which Jamie invited everyone to a bottle of beer.

After eating and drinking, the 30-odd employees of Villefort left the restaurant in a big way.

This scene happened to be watched by three young people passing by.

Among them, Jason Kapaka, who had worked as a game journalist for a while, recognized G Fat at a glance.

When "Half-Life" was released in 98, he also interviewed G Fat.

It's a pity that Jason Kapaca still remembers G, but Gfat has long forgotten the young reporter he interviewed.

"See? That was Gabe Newell, the founder of the famous Villefort Company, and the restaurant they had just come out of, which was said to be frequented by Bill Gates. ”

The other two young men, one named John Vicky and the other Brian Fett, are in their early 20s.

Last year, the two listened to Kapaca's nonsense and dropped out of school to start a business.

The example that Khapaca used to motivate them at that time was G Fat.

But Cappaca only told them that G Fat was a Harvard dropout, but did not tell them that the reason why G Fat dropped out of Harvard was that he was hired by Microsoft with a high salary.

As a result, the two young people were moved by Carpacca as soon as their brains were hot, and the three of them jointly founded a game studio and gave it a strange name.

Sex Acting Cool

It doesn't sound like a serious studio.

Since the three of them were so poor that they couldn't even afford pizza at the time, they had to make a small game that couldn't be put on the table.

A poker game, and a bit of a big edge ball.

If there is any content, the game may appeal to some gentleman players.

But the problem is really just a superficial look, and the content is serious poker.

This is like an island country action movie written on the cover, but the actual content in it is a gourd baby.

Then the three stinkers got together and came up with a genius idea.

Isn't the game unplayed? They thought of cooperating with that kind of special website, and wanted to place ads on it, and the game was sold to the other party for a commission.

As a result, the person in charge of the site only said one word after watching their game.

Get lost!

The first game was lost, and the morale of the team was low.

The kobold Captain Capaca began to give the two companions chicken blood again, the bread will be there, the milk will be there, and one day they will surely achieve pizza freedom.

It didn't turn out to be of much use.

On the contrary, John Vicky found a Java mini-game in his boring time, which was crudely made and particularly troublesome to operate, but it couldn't stand the fun gameplay.

As a result, John Vicky became addicted to playing and forgot about the phone call to order pizza.

In the end, a hungry John Vicky recommended the game to two other companions, who were both captivated by the fun match-3 gameplay.

No one came up with an initiative, and the three of them thought of it together.

This game is so badly made, it is a complete waste of such an interesting gameplay idea as match-3.

Then copy it!

There's no way, if a big game company like EA plagiarizes the idea of this small game, it's not called plagiarism, it's called carrying it forward!

And nobodies like John Vicky and the three of them can afford to copy them.

It took them three full months to make a brand new match-3 game, Bejeweled.

For this game with excellent picture quality, sound effects and elimination effects, and the gameplay cannot be said to be exactly the same as the previous JAVA mini-game, it can only be said to be exactly the same skin-changing game, and the three of John Vicky are full of confidence.

After showing the game to friends and family around me, the feedback was very good.

This made the three of them feel that this time they were finally going to succeed.

So I confidently approached the publisher of the game and wanted to sell the game for $50,000.

That's enough money for a year or two of pizza.

However, the reality is that none of the companies have ever birded them.

Unwillingly, they made the game into a PC version and sold it everywhere, but they still hit a wall again and again.

That's when Khapaca stepped in again, claiming to have discovered the reason why the game wasn't selling.

It's all to blame for their weird studio name.

Serious game publishers, looking at their name, must think that they are making a serious game.

John Vicky and Brian decided to change their names as soon as they heard that it made sense.

They first identified the free domain name of Pop, and then found the only Cop that could be successfully registered in a bunch of suffixes, so PopCop Baokai Games Company was officially established.

It turned out to be a trick that really worked!

Less than three days after the studio changed its name, they received an email from the former Snow Mountain Le WON Battle.net, now renamed Steam.

According to the agreed time on the email, they came here.

Even a little earlier.

Before they came, the psychological expectations of the three of John Vicky had dropped again and again, and now they are willing to sell Bejeweled to each other as long as Steam is willing to pay $30,000.

At the same time, Jamie and Chuck, who had checked out and left the seafood restaurant, did not leave directly like G Fat and his party, but walked towards the yacht dock.

Chuck rented a yacht and found ten hot girls and young models, ready to go to sea and have a good time.

There will be five men on the boat today, holding one in both hands.

Chuck and Jamie were the first to board the yacht, and neither the three guests or the babes had yet to arrive.

The two sat on the open-air couch on the yacht deck, and Chuck still couldn't stop complaining to Jamie about the strange name he had seen on the profile for the Baokai company.

"Isn't it that these guys who make games are so weird? How did they come up with the name? ”

Jamie shrugged and told Chuck to wait and ask the three guys directly.

As he was talking, the yacht steward led three young people who were dressed up and looked like the kind of otaku, who had sat in front of the computer all day and had never seen much of the world.

The three of them kept looking around all the way, looking very curious about everything on the luxury yacht, with envy in their eyes that could not be concealed.

"Sir, the guests have arrived."

The yacht steward leads the three to Jamie and Chuck.

Chuck sat on the couch and looked at the three of them with his eyes.

Jamie stood up and held out his hand to John Veitch, who was closest to him.

"It's a pleasure to meet you here, Mr. John Vicky."

John Vicky stumbled over his speech when he faced Jamie, who was half a head taller than him, because he was too nervous.

He was about to say that he was a fan of Jamie's books when he was elbowed by Carpacca next to him.

"Percy Jackson" is a children's book, and you, the guy who developed a side-kick game in your first game, are embarrassed to say that you are a fan of Jamie's books?

When it was Carpacca's turn to shake hands with Jamie, this guy gave full play to the tactfulness of being a journalist, and directly said that he liked "Weakness" very much, and he was very healed and moved after watching it.

When it was Brian Fett's turn, the topics that could win Jamie's favor were all talked about by the first two, and he could only claim to be a Bulls fan.

It can be seen that all three of them are trying to please Jamie.

This made Chuck on the side evaluate the three of them a little lower.

Jamie turns around and introduces Chuck to the trio, indicating that the two are co-partners.

After inviting the three to sit down, Jamie poured them a glass of chilled champagne.

Then the yacht steward came again, clung to Chuck's ear, and whispered a few words to him.

The ten hot girls Chuck had found had already arrived, and as long as they were done talking about business, they could be called up.

In order to finish the job quickly, Chuck took out two contracts that had been prepared long ago and threw them to the three of John Veitch.

"Steam has decided to buy the little game called Bejeweled that you made, you now have two choices, one is to sell the game directly to us with your company for half a million dollars, and the other is to give you a share of the game according to 10% of the final price after the game is released on Steam, do you need to find a separate cabin for you to discuss?"

John Vicky and the three of them froze, almost thinking that they had misheard.

Half a million dollars!

That's ten times the expected selling price when they first pitched the game to the publisher!

Is this still negotiable?

The three of them glanced at each other, and chose 500,000 without hesitation in unison.

Chuck nodded in satisfaction, about to say that it was a smart choice.

However, at this time, Jamie did something that was not expected.

In front of the three of John Vicky, he tore up the $500,000 buyout agreement.

The three of John Vicky froze again.

What does it mean?

Jamie shrugged and explained:

"I love the Bejeweled game that you made, so I highly recommend that you take the share agreement, even though it seems uncertain and 10% is not a big profit."

"If the game is on Steam, it will cost $5, but in order to attract people to buy it, we have decided to do a 4% off promotion, which means that players only need $2 to get it."

"For every five games sold, you get $1, which doesn't seem like much, but imagine if the game ends up selling more than 10 million units, you can calculate how much you'd lose if you chose to buy out $500,000."

Two million minus half a million, the answer is one and a half million dollars!

However, the three of John Vicky looked at Jamie like a tale of the Arabian Nights.

Sell 10 million copies?

Honestly, the game sold 100,000 copies, and they all felt like God blessed.

And 100,000 copies they can only get a mere 20,000 US dollars, and the 500,000 US dollars buyout is a full 480,000!

Jamie looked at the three uncompetitive guys with some speechlessness, and in the previous life, Bejeweled received more than 150 million downloads and 25 million copies sold worldwide in the ten years since its release.

The name of this game is not wrong at all, it really is a real-life version of "Gem Mine"!

(End of chapter)