Once Upon a Time In Hollywood

  Chapter 383 Sense and Sensibility

  Although the idea of ​​the pirate universe can only be realized after the release of "The Curse of the Black Pearl", since the movie and game linkage was mentioned, Roland also had a whim, and wanted to go to the game company that he hadn't done for more than two years.

Originally, he wanted to go alone. After all, Irvine and Los Angeles are very close. If you take Highway 5, you won’t encounter any external traffic accidents. Just because of the peak traffic jam from 7:00 am to 8:00 pm, you only need four round trips. Hour.

Leave at 8:00 in the morning, arrive before 11:00, then get things done, and go back at 4:00 or 5:00 in the afternoon. If you are lucky, you can have dinner with your family. Even if you are unlucky, you can still hug Wife sleeps.

But this kind of arrangement was a bit too urgent for Kate. Based on the attitude of Irvine having a house and letting it go to waste, she proposed to come to Irvine with Roland, so that Roland could work with peace of mind and not have to be distracted by thinking about going home. .

At first, Roland was moved by his daughter-in-law's thoughtfulness, but when he arrived in Irvine around lunch time the next day, after finishing his meal at the pre-booked restaurant and going home, he pestered himself to make the itinerary The showman is online.

   "How about we stay in Irvine for a few more days after we're done?

   It's so boring to stay in Malibu every day.

  Now that we’re in Irvine, let’s go to the nearby San Diego Ocean Park~

   There is also Disney’s newly opened Adventure Park. Didn’t they say that the passenger flow did not meet expectations? Then we will cover one day according to the upper limit of 33,000 people, anyway, the total is not two million~

  I also want to go horseback riding in a regional park~

  Go camping in Crystal Bay~”

  When Kate, who had finished her bath, leaned against the head of the bed, snapped her fingers and expressed her thoughts in a discussing tone, Roland, who was holding an introductory book on law, was suddenly full of black lines.

   He glanced at his daughter-in-law with a condescending gaze.

  The smiling guy, in his eyes, is a real devil.

   "Are you here to accompany me on a business trip?"

  Roland considered for a while, and finally spoke his mind.

"certainly!"

  Kate opened her big blingbling eyes and nodded sincerely.

   "But your arrangement makes me not believe that you are here to accompany me on a business trip~"

  Roland lowered his left eyebrow and raised his right eyebrow, doubts written all over his face.

However, just when he wanted to grab his daughter-in-law's fox tail and strip her sinister intentions, Kate shook her head and said, "Why don't you believe it? Is it because I have a lot of thoughts now? But My idea was also born because of accompanying you on a business trip! If you are not on a business trip, then I will not think of accompanying you on a business trip, and if I do not accompany you on a business trip, then I will not think of Irvine I have never played in many places.

  I have accompanied you to this place of Irvine many times, right?

  Every time you came here, you played games with them at Blizzard, one for a week.

  Did I say anything?

I did not say anything.

  If you want to play games, I will accompany you, and I will accompany you as late as you play.

What now?

   Finally have free time.

  I hope you can accompany me to the edge of Irvine, but you doubt my motives for accompanying you.

   This really broke my heart.

  I have accompanied you so many times unconditionally, and now you are not willing to let you accompany me once in your free time.

 ...

  ‘Good guy! I am very direct, good guy! '

When Kate pouted, red eyes, and stared at Roland with an aggrieved face, the guy who wanted to talk about the matter froze on the spot, but when Kate found out that her man didn't respond, her eyes immediately became moist. Big teardrops slowly slid down his cheeks.

   Such a situation made the corners of Roland's mouth twitch even more.

   After staring at her for a while, he realized that his wife was unmoved, and he didn't hold back any longer, and he surrendered resolutely, and laughed helplessly.

   "My fault, my fault, whether it's Ocean Park or Adventureland, let's go, okay?"

   "Really?" This answer was what Kate wanted, so she blew her nose and asked again pretending to be hurt.

   "Of course it is true!" Roland nodded vigorously.

   "Yeah! Husband, you are so kind!" The repeated affirmation made Kate laugh through tears, and threw herself directly into Roland's arms.

   Feeling the softness in front of him, Roland sighed.

  He really wanted to reason, but unfortunately Kate didn't give him a chance to reason.

   But he's used to it.

   No way, who makes women immersed in love the most unreasonable creatures?

  Take wearing reversed clothes as an example. When a woman in love wears her clothes reversed, she will never admit and will not accept the ridicule of men. As for the reason for the excuse, it is also very simple, that is the test!

  The reason why she wears reverse clothes is definitely not that she is stupid, but that she wants to test whether men have her in their hearts.

  If the man doesn’t notice it, then the road is narrow, he doesn’t value her at all, he doesn’t love her, he doesn’t have her in his heart, and he can’t tell if he wears reversed clothes, it’s very likely that there are people outside!

  How do you reason at a time like this?

  One thing that obviously involves the logic of life can be elevated to an emotional problem by a woman in love. In this case, no reason makes sense, because logic can be argued with reason, but emotion has no logic at all.

Therefore, even if Roland knew that the reason why his stinky woman came to Irvine was because she felt that staying in Los Angeles was too boring and wanted to change places for vacation, but he could only pinch his nose and recognize that she was here to accompany her. I am on a business trip.

  However, when Roland took the initiative to admit defeat, Kate did not treat him badly.

   Under the banner of punishment, he said that he would bite Roland, and then he shrank down.

  I want to become a fairy, happy as heaven.

  ...

  The next morning, Earth Ball Grass went out refreshed.

  Leaving half of the bodyguards around the house, the remaining eight followed him to the Blizzard headquarters.

  Before, David helped him get a piece of land not far from the villa to build a new headquarters for Blizzard, but because the concept was too large and the idea was so subtle that it could be realized without human effort, so far, it has not been completed.

All right…

   Don't talk nonsense.

  Purely because the act of erecting a statue in front of the building shamed the Blizzard trio.

At the beginning, they felt that, like the Walt Disney Group, erecting a statue of the founder in front of the headquarters building and surrounded by the classic characters created was indeed a full-fledged behavior, but considering the classics in the company There are only two or three roles, so this project was stopped shortly after it started, because they couldn't cross the threshold of autism.

   Therefore, the design drawings were also modified accordingly, and the square that should have accommodated a large number of statues was directly banned.

However, since the half-arc design of the office building is already under construction, after considering that the cost of demolition is too high, and they only feel that the IP is not enough for the time being, there are not many statues, and the three people stand there naked. The square where the statue should be built was changed into a garden fountain by them, just waiting for Blizzard to become famous all over the world and level it up.

   As a result, the construction period was delayed until the end of 2001, and they are still working in the old office building now.

Although the idea of ​​the three young guys was really pretentious, Roland was relieved when he considered that setting up a book project was not something ordinary people could afford, and when he stepped into the Blizzard headquarters again after many years, the crowded office The environment, the structural layout of one radish and one pit, made two words pop up in his head—

   beat workers.

   "There are so many people in the company now?" Roland asked Mike Mohamy full of emotion.

   "No way, the company has too many projects now, we have already recruited three groups of people, and we will break 300 soon."

Mike Mohamy has grown a beard, and his tired eyes are full of blood, "This is the result of a complete separation from Blizzard North. If you add North, the number of people has already exceeded 300. If you add other studios , now there are five hundred people."

  ‘Ouch! I actually have so many people under my command! '

  Mike Mohamy's words made Roland find a touch of capitalist pleasure.

  Watching those code farmers sweat profusely in front of the computer, he felt like he was going to inspect the fields.

The hard work of these guys can quickly increase his wealth, and the most important thing is that they met because of their dreams, because of their garden dreams. As long as they have the hope of realizing their spiritual goals, they will not become troublemakers. civil!

After a brief stroll around the company, Roland went to the meeting room familiarly, and then gathered the Big Three of Blizzard, and told them about his idea of ​​a treasure hunt game. They felt that it was possible to try the video game linkage. Indicates that the project can be done.

  However, in a short time, no one can get started.

   "We're too busy right now, really busy."

  Frank Pierce, one of the founders and current president of research and development, said: "We have too many projects on hand.

  The games we are currently working on at our headquarters include "Warcraft 3: Reign of Chaos", which is expected to be released next summer.

   Its expansion pack "The Frozen Throne", the script has already begun to be written, and it will definitely be released in 2003.

   As I told you before, we are already working on an online game based on "Warcraft", and it is expected to be launched in 2004.

  Because we are making online games for the first time, we are now very cautious in using personnel.

  I would rather have too many people and no task assignments than see a shortage of people.

  In addition to these three, we have a Spider-Man that we haven't done yet.

   Just created a new folder. "

   This made Roland laugh.

He meant to ask Blizzard to make an RPG game based on the "Spider-Man" series. The joint pre-sale with Amazon was also to fulfill the previous agreement with Jeff Bezos. Because of this, the Blizzard Big Three who received the project plan In fact, they were so confused that so far, they haven't figured out how to make a multi-threaded RPG stand-alone game.

  So, in the eyes of fans, what is being produced is actually an empty folder.

  Even the name is very fucked—

  ‘R.A.—Spider-Man’

"No, I asked you to make the "Spider-Man" game, but I didn't ask you to do it yourself!" Roland waved his hand and said, "We have so many studios under our name, whichever one has the time, we can leave it to whichever one to do it." , you just control the overall situation!"

  However, as soon as this remark came out, it stabbed a hornet's nest.

  The three guys grimaced and cried: "The other studios are also very busy!"

  Mike - Mohamy said: "Blizzard North will release the "Diablo 2" expansion pack "Lord of Destruction" this June.

  As a studio that must be controlled by us in real time so as not to make mistakes, we dare not overweight them! "

   Before the words fell, Alan Adhan continued: "Rock Star will launch two games this year.

   One is the sequel "GTA3" of "GTA", and the other is the new work "Max Payne".

   There are also many naughty things.

  Last year, after the contract with Sony ended, they made a new game "Jack and Daxter".

   This game will also be available at the end of this year.

   In addition, Bend Studio will also launch "Siphon Warrior 3" this year;

  SuckerPunch's new work "Sly Fox Adventure" will meet with the public next year;

Similarly, there is also DreamWorks Interactive Entertainment, which was just acquired by us. They are already working on "Medal of Honor: Frontline" and "Medal of Honor: Rising Sun" with the script written by Steven Spielberg. .

  It is expected to be available online next year or the next year.

  The point is that these games will be docked with the XBox, and in this case, we can't pressurize them.

  Oh, there's another studio I forgot.

   That's CDProjekt in Poland.

   It's just that they haven't made a game yet, so we can't let them take risks with Spider-Man. "

   Hearing the clear and logical words, Roland felt a little helpless.

  Would you spread the pie here?

  The more people, the more projects, but the more people the projects are, the more people are not enough?

   This is simply a vicious circle!

  However, compared to the lack of manpower, Roland, who came to his senses, actually cares more about the games that will be launched intensively this year and next.

Because in addition to "Max Payne" released on the PC side, "GTA3", "Jack and Daxter", and "The Adventure of the Fox" are all **** masterpieces of the original PS2, especially "GTA3", As soon as it went public, it slaughtered the entire market.

  In less than half a year, the global sales volume exceeded three million.

  Because of his existence, the weekly shipments of PS2 in North America increased by nearly 100,000 units.

   With such a crazy delivery machine, Microsoft is probably going crazy with laughter.

The current Blizzard has actually left the stage of blood transfusion. As long as "GTA3", "Warcraft 3" and "World of Warcraft" are launched one after another, their reputation will definitely not lose to Nintendo and Bandai who have been doing it for decades. , and waiting for them to rub out "Call of Duty" and "The Witcher", then EA will firmly sit on the position of the second game producer in North America.

   At that time, "Uncharted" will be released, and the two brands of Blizzard and "Pirates of the Caribbean" alone will be able to drive sales.

  And brand effect is also the key to the success of a movie universe.

   Who sees it, a dessert-oriented movie like "Ant-Man" can sell high box office!

   "Okay." Thinking of this, Roland slapped his thigh and said, "Then allocate your own time.

   "Spider-Man" can be made for anyone, but the quality must be ensured.

  As for the treasure hunt game I'm conceiving now, let's talk about it after you rest.

   Oh, by the way, besides these two projects, I also have "Lord of the Rings" and "Harry Potter".

   These two can also make games.

  But you don’t have time now, when you are free, you are looking for me. "

  The three of them had no objection to Roland's arrangement.

  After all, the boss who can leave the company to the staff for two years is really an angel.

   Seeing that it was almost time for dinner, Roland invited the three of them to have a meal, and at the dinner table, the three of them asked another question.

   "Roland."

"Um?"

   "We have three games that will be announced at the XBox press conference this year. Will you be there then?"

   "Why am I going to the scene? Isn't it your developer's job to introduce the game?"

   "But we heard that because it is entering an unfamiliar field, the first XBox conference will be hosted by Bill Gates himself. The boss who sells consoles can come to the stage to bring goods, and we can't lag behind game sellers!"

'have to! '

  Hearing this, Roland stared straight away!

   It turns out that these little beeps want to kill themselves!

   All company press conferences can be held by the boss, but the game company's press conference cannot be made by the boss.

  Because whoever comes forward will be unlucky.

  For example, everyone knows that Sanshi is the owner of the pig farm, then what?

  When "A Chinese Journey to the West" was released, players were unhappy and were scolded;

  When "Fantasy Westward Journey" was released, the players were not enjoying themselves, and they were still scolded.

  When "Shun Huo Nuan" was released, the players were not enjoying themselves, but they were still being scolded;

  For another example, everyone knows that Xiao Ma is the owner of the goose factory. What happened?

   "Cross Fire" was released, the players were upset and scolded;

   "Dungeon and Fighter" was released, the players were upset and continued to be scolded;

  A "League of Legends" was released, and the players were upset, but they were still scolded;

  If it's just these, then forget it.

When the game video of "Black Myth" was spread wildly on Youtube, game producers from all over the world also expressed their amazement at the effect of the actual machine demonstration, but when they learned that the production team was the original Goose Factory team, Brother Xiao Ma was trash The words were sprayed out directly.

  The boss of the game company is a high-risk occupation!

  7X24 hours uninterruptedly being greeted by players and the whole family!

  In this case, Roland said that he would not take the initiative to show up.

   If it really shows up, it's over, because twenty years later, when "Warcraft 3: Remastered Edition" is launched, the treatment that Brother Xiaoma once enjoyed will be reproduced on him!

   "No, no, no!" Roland refused, "Don't say anything!"

   Not only that, he also threatened: "If anyone of you mentions this to me in the future, then I will not allow them to pay to shit!

   Install a timing card at the door of the toilet, all employees use the card to go to the toilet, but only the three of you, there is a time limit!

  Who is over time! I will deduct anyone's salary! "

  (end of this chapter)