Liu Cixin's life has indeed been very comfortable recently. He is not under much pressure when working in a power plant. In his free time, he writes novels when he is inspired, and plays mahjong with his poker friends when he is not inspired.
Because his reputation has grown, he will receive invitations from certain units from time to time, asking him to come and give speeches.
When it comes to making money, unless he loses at the mahjong table, this guy really has no motivation.
After leaving the reception building and returning to the small building, Yu Dong was responding to the guests who greeted him, while also thinking about whether to write "Source Code" as a novel and distribute it.
Jimmy had told him about this before. According to Jimmy's wishes, the script had been written, and writing the novel would be just a casual matter and wouldn't cost much.
Once you write a novel, let’s not talk about how much money you can make from the book itself, but you can also imagine how much money you can make from promoting the movie.
A novel of the same name is bound to be worth tens of millions of publicity.
Jimmy is right, it would be easy to turn Source Code into a novel.
When he was approaching the door of the small building, someone suddenly hugged Yu Dong's leg.
"Uncle Dong, play with us."
It was two boys, Yu Haiguo and Feng Changdi. The two boys got willow sticks from nowhere and formed two crowns. The crowns were very thick and used a lot of willow sticks. The willow leaves on them had not been picked yet. At first glance, These two boys look like little savages.
"What are you playing?"
Yu Haiguo held a small box in his hand. Hearing Yu Dong ask him, he mysteriously lifted the lid of the small box a crack, "Uncle Dong, look."
Yu Dong stretched his head and looked in through the gap, but it was so dark that he couldn't see anything.
"what?"
Yu Haiguo simply lifted the lid up a little more: "Uncle Dong, look again."
Yu Dong saw clearly what it was this time and couldn't help but take a step back.
"Huh!"
Inside the box was a black armored general, who was holding the box on his head.
"Where did you catch this thing?" Yu Dong took another step back.
One hundred percent of the wild armored generals have rolled shit, the difference is whether they rolled shit from humans or other animals.
Yu Haiguo pointed towards Jia: "I saw this armored general there. Chang Di and I are going to catch another one and let them fight. Uncle Dong, can it fight?"
"Uh... Uncle Dong doesn't know either. Why don't you try it first and tell me when you get the results."
"Okay, let's go find it now."
Yu Haiguo happily ran towards the rockery with Feng Changdi. Yu Dong kept shaking his head behind him. He was sighing for the one in the box and the other armored generals who were about to be caught by them.
It won't be long before they are no longer alive.
Everyone always says that children are harmless to humans and animals. In fact, they are even more cruel than adults. Yu Dong personally saw Feng Changdi and others cutting off the head of a beetle and then letting the beetle eat its lower body.
Yu Dong felt numb when he saw that scene, but the children had a great time.
This is really commonplace for children. Children will tear off the wings of dragonflies, remove the limbs of grasshoppers, sprinkle salt on slugs, step on the tail of geckos...
Not only Yu Haiguo and the others, Yu Dong also did similar things when he was a child, but at that time, he did not feel cruel.
As people grow older and become more socialized, their animal nature will be covered up.
Yu Dong thinks that the word "cover" is very appropriate. He does not think that people's animal nature will disappear with socialization. They are always in the bones, but they are covered by education, which means that they It is also possible that he will be released someday.
For example, Kafka's "The Metamorphosis" ostensibly tells the story of the alienation of the protagonist's appearance, but it actually talks about the alienation of the human nature of the family members.
But Yu Dong does not think that this is a kind of alienation, but that under certain special circumstances, the animality hidden under human nature is released. The so-called alienation is nothing more than the essence of human beings.
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Yu Dong stayed upstairs for a while, and when he came down again, Yu Haiguo and Feng Changdi were each holding a piece of thatch in their hands and teasing an armored general and a beetle inside the box.
It's just that the armored general and the beetle each occupied a corner in this temporary colosseum, and had no intention of fighting to the death.
The attitude of the two competitive players made the organizer Yu Haiguo very dissatisfied. He moved the thatch in his hand and poked the beetle in the buttocks, "Go up, go up!"
He made a bet with Feng Changdi that if the beetle defeated the armored general, the candy in Feng Changdi's pocket would be his.
Yu Dong bent down and watched for a while. He didn't wait for the duel between the Iron Armored General and the Neem Star Beetle. When he was about to leave, suddenly Jimmy patted him on the shoulder from behind, "What are you doing with them?"
Being startled by Jimmy, Yu Dong said angrily, "It's scary, scary to death."
Jimmy couldn't help curling his lips, "It's so busy in Luoyuan today that you'd be frightened. I can only say it's your problem."
Yu Haiguo and Feng Changdi were not frightened, but they heard Jimmy's voice. The two little guys looked up at Jimmy and smiled: "Uncle Ji, you are here too."
Jimmy touched the heads of the two little guys and asked, "What are you two doing?"
"It's a competition!" Yu Haiguo said with clenched fists, "My beetle is fighting with Chang Di's dung beetle."
Hearing this, Yu Dong couldn't help curling his lips. When Yu Haiguo had this dung beetle just now, he called it Iron Armored General. Now that it belongs to Feng Changdi, it has become a dung beetle.
Jimmy smiled and took Yu Dong's arm: "I was just about to tell you about the competition."
Pulled aside by Jimmy, Yu Dong asked strangely: "What did you tell me about the competition? It's still early to talk about the short film competition."
"It has nothing to do with the short film contest. What I'm talking about is the game contest. Jiang Jie mentioned it to me. He said that our company has made many games and has rankings, but we haven't held a game contest yet." At this point, Jimmy sighed. He took a breath and said, "Jiang Jie told me about the game competition in the spring, but I didn't take it to heart. In the second half of the year, I suddenly saw Blizzard's game competition, and I remembered it."
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"Well, it's mainly to build momentum for their Battle.net. After this game, Battle.net has obviously become more popular. It's a pity. If I had listened to Jiang Jie earlier and held a competition, then we might have been able to steal Battle.net
The limelight."
Speaking of Blizzard, Yu Dong felt a little regretful. In the early days, he didn't know much about games and missed the best opportunity to win over Blizzard. Now it's not that easy to win over Blizzard.
But until now, Yu Dong is still thinking about Blizzard. After all, if he wins Blizzard now, he will still be very promising in the future. If nothing else, at least "World of Warcraft" can help the company make a lot of money.
And after buying Blizzard, you can directly develop Dota games.
Regarding the game competition, Yu Dong didn't take it that seriously... Actually, it wasn't that he didn't take it seriously, but he thought there was no advantage in competing with Deep Space's existing games.
There are quite a few hit games in Deep Space, such as "Lianliankan", "Xiaxiaole", "Escape", and "Resident Evil", all of which are sales miracles.
But when it comes to playing games, I'm afraid only "Escape" is slightly better, but it can only be said to be better, and it doesn't have much enjoyment.
These games all have one characteristic, that is, they are fine to play by yourself, but not very interesting to watch others play.
Looking back at Blizzard's games, the competitive nature of "StarCraft" can absolutely crush deep space games.
Yu Dong smiled and said: "Jimmy, your thinking is actually wrong."
"What's wrong with my thinking?" Jimmy said with a confused look on his face. "What's wrong with my thinking? Shouldn't we hold a game competition?"
"No, the idea of ​​holding a game competition is very good, but just relying on our own games is not right."
Jimmy has 3,600 eyes in his body. Hearing Yu Dong's words, he narrowed his eyes and said with a smile: "You mean, we use other people's games to hold competitions, like..."
"Just like Blizzard's "StarCraft", don't they hold competitions on Battle.net? We will hold a world-wide competition." As he spoke, Yu Dong laughed, "I've even thought of a name for you.
, it’s called the World Electronic Sports Competition, or WCG in English.”
Seeing Yu Dong's smile, Jimmy was a little confused. Isn't this a good name? Why does he smile so strangely? Does this name have any connotation?
After thinking about it for a long time, Jimmy couldn't figure out what was wrong with the name. "Why are you laughing?"
Yu Dong twitched his lips and said, "My daughter is having a full moon today, and I still can't laugh? Okay, let's continue talking about this game. Just pick a few popular, competitive, and ornamental games.
If we want to promote our own game among the competition items, we can add "Escape" to it."
Jimmy nodded: "It is indeed a good idea to add "Escape" to the game. Now that video games are getting better and better, this type of competition must also develop. Let's seize the opportunity and win the right to host the World Series.
With it in your hand, you can grasp the lifeblood of video games."
"It's not that simple. The lifeblood of video games still lies in the ability to produce good games... By the way, does our company have any hope of getting involved in Blizzard's business?"
Jimmy raised his eyebrows and asked, "What level of intervention do you mean?"
“What about a full acquisition?”
Jimmy shook his head very simply, "It's difficult. If we had prepared enough money a year ago, we could still give it a try, but now Blizzard is in the hands of Viveanda, and we want to get it from Viveanda."
They're going to take over Blizzard unless we can make them a price they can't refuse."
"What's the price you can't refuse?"
"Maybe... two hundred million, US dollars." Jimmy was actually a little unsure, and he didn't know much about it.
Yu Dong raised his eyebrows, but this was not as much as he imagined.
"Can we get two hundred million?"
Seeing Yu Dong's reaction, Jimmy walked around him with a surprised look on his face, looking at him up and down several times, "Don't tell me that you want to buy Blizzard for two hundred million dollars."
They have indeed developed well in the past two years, but it is obviously unwise to acquire them now. Viveanda's acquisition of Havas is actually mainly to enter the video game industry, and Havas's Blizzard and Sierra are his goals. Do you think
If you think about it, since they want to enter the video game industry, of course they can't give up easily."
"If it was more than a year ago, we would have been able to fish in troubled waters and acquire Blizzard. If we push forward a few years, Blizzard has not been acquired by Davidson, and we can also acquire them with only a few million dollars."
Yu Dong asked again, "Are you sure you can win Blizzard with 200 million US dollars?"
Jimmy squinted at Yu Dong for a while, "Let me ask. It depends on Viveanda's attitude towards Blizzard. In fact, they didn't spend much money to take down Havas. If they just want to make a small profit, we
It doesn’t take a lot of money to take over Blizzard from them, just because they are afraid of opening their mouths.”
Yu Dong smiled and said: "Hey, if the price is right, buy it. If they are too aggressive, don't buy it. If Blizzard can be taken down, it will be easier for WCG to be held. Then we can directly use our own games to go into battle."
Jimmy shook his head and sighed, "We have saved this little fortune, but you are going to wipe it out. You yourself said before that you should keep some money, and when the Internet industry is almost in decline, we can then buy stocks of major companies.
, now that the money has been spent, it will be difficult to implement the follow-up plan."
"Didn't you predict before that the Internet will take some time? It will take time for stocks to fall, and it will take time for stocks to rise. We definitely have enough time to prepare funds." Yu Dong laughed.
He said calmly, "Let me do the math for you. We invested 40 million U.S. dollars in the movie "The Martian," and I won't count too much. The box office revenue in the later period will reach 1.5 times, and we can get back 60 million U.S. dollars.
.What if the movie performs well and the box office can exceed one billion U.S. dollars? We can recover a few hundred million U.S. dollars."
Jimmy nodded. One billion dollars might be difficult, but the global box office of 7 to 80 million should be no problem. Moreover, the copyright of the movie is in their hands, and there will be other income in the future, which is not a small sum.
In addition to "The Martian", there will be movies such as "Pirates of the Caribbean", "Heartbeat", and "Source Code" in the future. In the next two years, the income of Deep Space will not be small.
When Jimmy was settling the accounts, Yu Dong patted him on the shoulder: "Jiji, if you have any concerns, it's no problem. I still have money in my little treasury. It should be no problem to take out 200 million US dollars. Otherwise,
If so, let me set up a company of my own and then acquire Blizzard, what do you think?"
Chapter completed!