The news of "World of Warcraft" swept across the entire gaming industry like a gust of wind.

Everyone was surprised that Jester leaked the news in a very ordinary interview, because such a major news should be chosen to choose a cautious day, and then publish it, and then invite some media to hype the news.

However, some people think about it again and again that this is actually Jester's style. Moreover, Jester's new game was originally a big shot and does not require much publicity at all. At least it was not needed at the beginning. Later publicity must be done, just like the future gta series, which is already famous enough, but their gta5 still has to pay nearly $100 million in publicity.

Many people wonder if this is worth it?

The realistic answer is that it is worth it.

There was a more formal interview afterwards, to be precise, a press conference. After the carnival, Jester will answer some topics that are interesting to the outside world. Of course, there is the feeling of their hot hype during this period, as well as "Super Balotelli Galaxy", as well as his next game "World of Warcraft", and of course, there are some other questions.

For example, a point that many people pay attention to.

That is, since Sega has announced without concealing it, their next-generation console is about to be released, and the game "Shenmu", which is specially developed for next-generation consoles, has entered the final sprint stage. Does Mars Entertainment have no response and testing at all? Is there no new super-large sandbox game in development for Mars Entertainment?

No one believes this.

So, taking this opportunity, I can just ask Jester.

Faced with this expected problem, Jester was not surprised. He smiled and looked at the reporter he had just asked, then looked around at the people on the scene, and found that most people were very interested in this issue.

So, he cleared his throat first.

Then he said: "How to say, sandbox games, especially super-large sandbox games like this, are a very large project. Perhaps the largest project in the industry so far is in such games. When I first developed the pioneering work "Haoxia", it required a lot of attempts, so the number of people needed at that time was very large."

"This situation has been alleviated a lot now. After all, the current team does not need to make continuous attempts and explorations like the Explorer, but this is still a large team. As far as I know, Mr. Yusuki's "Shenmu" development team has reached 150 people. A game of this scale may only take three months to establish a project."

"And I have my new plan. This plan has been running for two years. Since the development of "Super Balotelli Galaxy", "World of Warcraft" has begun to be initially designed. My next game will occupy a lot of my time. This will also be the largest game in the history of PC games. I can even assert that for a long time, there may not be any larger PC game projects in this game."

When Jester said this, everyone present showed a look of surprise.

"Is it PC exclusive?"

Someone asked this question. Jester nodded without hesitation: "Yes, this game is exclusive to PC. I already said on GDC a few years ago that "Super Balotelli Galaxy" will be my last console game."

When many reporters also recalled Jester's remarks about the time he had mentioned on GDC a few years ago.

Originally, many people thought that after so many years, Jester had found the passion and motivation for game development again, but it seemed that this was not the case.

It seems that Jester has already had his own plan, and now things are developing according to his plan. He still has not changed what he said on GDC, that is, this legendary developer in the game industry is very likely to officially retire after "World of Warcraft". When everyone present was thinking about this, they were also moved.

"Yes. My plan has not changed. World of Warcraft will basically be my last game." Jester admitted this again.

After saying that, he continued to talk about the interrupted part before.

"So, if such a big project, a large sandbox game, if the company really wants to do it, it will definitely take a long time to consider it. I think you have never received any news about this, right?" When Jester said this, many people laughed. Indeed, like them, the industry reporters, there must be many acquaintances in Mars Entertainment.

Although some particularly confidential things are unlikely to be revealed, it is impossible to hide something from those who are interested if there is a big project in progress.

And the reporters now know that in addition to the game "World of Warcraft" that Jester is about to start, which may be a very large-scale project, there is indeed no project that can be compared with "Shenmu" in the headquarters of Mars Entertainment.

Even include studios that are not well-known at the headquarters.

As for whether there are no Mars Entertainment studios, it is hard to say, because Mars Entertainment still has a lot of studios and cannot cover everything. However, even if such a large project is handed over to the studio, it will definitely be handed over to some famous development groups instead of those unknown development groups.

In addition, Mars Entertainment’s shark policy for its development team.

Only outstanding people can survive, so generally those who are not famous may disappear after a while. In this case, they will not be able to take on such a large project.

While the reporters were drawing conclusions about their own guesses, Jester changed his voice: "We do not have a huge project like Shenmue, at least for the moment, but I can reveal that we do have an attempted sandbox game in development. The scale of this game is not large, at least not larger than the scale of Shenmue described by Mr. Yu Suzuki."

"Of course, this game has some interesting connections with "Shenmu", for example, the background of this game is also modern. However, according to Mr. Yu Suzuki, "Shenmu" was in Japan, Hong Kong and Z countries in the 1980s, and the background of our game was actually a city in the United States... I can even reveal that this city is Apple City, which is New York."

Jester's answer was a surprise to everyone, even including another senior Mars entertainment executive sitting next to him.

Because he didn't know about this game.

"This is not a game that is being developed by the headquarters, but a studio that is being developed by our company."

After Jester smiled, he continued to explain, and then someone immediately asked: "So can you reveal it? What type of this game is?"

This question made Jester hesitate for a while. However, after thinking for a while, Jester nodded: "I can say one thing, this game may be about crime or gangster themes. I can only say that this is the case in the initial development plan. You also know that we respect the developers' full rights to game development, and I will not interfere with their ideas. Therefore, it is still difficult to judge what will happen to this game."

"Can you reveal a little more information about this game?"

Faced with this problem, Jester shook his head: "This is not the project I am responsible for. Although I am constantly paying attention, I think there is no way to tell more information. However, if I can guarantee that this game will definitely be excellent, because I have talked to their producers, they have made excellent games before, and they are very talented and very hard-working... They have all the conditions necessary to succeed."

Jester said it was very certain.

This immediately made the reporters present feel a little strange. Because according to Jester's statement, the one who is now in charge of the development of this game must not be an unknown studio or game company.

It must have been famous before.

However, they have basically inquired about the studios under Mars Entertainment, and have never heard of such a plan.

unless……

Yes, these reporters' minds are also very fast. Unless it is a newly acquired game company in the past year or so, this game company may have made relatively famous games before, but after it was acquired by Mars Entertainment, it has been developing new games, so it has not been valued yet.

However, in their memory, it seems that no company has been acquired recently. Even if it pushes the time to two years, the several famous studios that have been acquired have been dissolved due to their own reasons, there seems to be no rumors. They are carrying out any particularly major large-scale projects, which has caused many people to fall into deep thought.

In this case, there is only one possibility.

Many people think of another possibility, that is, Mars Entertainment’s acquisition of game studios is not just acquiring the United States, but in fact, they acquired it worldwide.

Although there are many in the United States, there are many in Japan and Europe.

So let’s talk about it, is the studio in Jester that is developing a brand new sandbox game in Europe or Japan?

Let’s summarize what Jester said, this time the subject background is the United States. Since it is not from the United States, it is very likely that it means it is a European studio, and it should not be Japanese, because this style of games is obviously not good at Japanese companies, and in terms of PC game development, Japanese people are not as good as European.

Thinking of this, basically all the mysteries will be solved.

I immediately thought of the game company that Jester acquired about a year ago, which was previously headquartered in Northern Ireland. However, the game company had moved to the United States after being acquired by Jester, as if the location was New York.

"Rock Star!"

Soon, someone thought of the name of this studio, which is a very unfamiliar name for them, because no game has been developed as a studio with this name, but it is exactly what Rugest said. Indeed, the predecessor of this game company is indeed somewhat famous, and their GTA series is also well-known in the US market.

Moreover, this game is a game with gangsters and crime themes.

However, one problem is that this game series has a bad reputation. Because the content of the game is too violent, it is often criticized by mainstream game media.

After Jester acquired this company and changed its name, the game media also felt that they were planning to turn the game company back and would not make such games again. Unexpectedly, combined with the roughly type of game that Jester mentioned just now, it happened to be the game company, which has been renamed Rock Stars, is good at.

"Is the game you are talking about to prepare the work you use to compete with Sega's "Shenmu"?"

After a reporter figured out all this, he immediately asked.

"No."

Jester denies this first.

"First of all, I want to emphasize that there is never any competition between games, because players do not play a game, and we never develop games to compete with our opponents, but this game is indeed fun, and we should develop it for players to play. This is a crucial point, so I don't understand what you mean, and we are competing with "Shenmu".

After Jester said this, the reporter was speechless.

But soon, he reorganized the language: "I mean, the same sandbox game, the same modern background, is even likely to be released at about the same time..."

But before he could finish speaking, Jester interrupted him.

"I think you have some conjectures, sir. We developed this game just because we saw the project and thought it was great. You can just try it. It's that simple. Can you think of us using this game to snipe Mr. Yu Suzuki's "Shenmu". I'm bluntly speaking, you underestimate Mr. Yu Suzuki too much, right?"

When many people heard Jester say this, they nodded.

You said that this game was developed by Jester, and it was almost the same to snipe "Shenmu", but it was developed by a small company that was not famous yet. What did he rely on to snipe Yu Suzuki, a master who can be compared with Shigeru Miyamoto in the game world? (~^~)
Chapter completed!