giants of the era

Chapter 489 "StarCraft: Uprising" and "StarCraft Online"

This time the US subprime mortgage crisis will be the last chance for Li Zetian to make a fortune with the memory of his previous life, so this opportunity is extremely precious!
As long as you get rich, don't care about floods~
At this time, American banks, securities companies, venture companies, and investors were all dazzled by the U.S. real estate bubble. When the subprime mortgage crisis broke out, they also suffered the consequences themselves, no wonder others.

No greed, no harm.

Li Zetian and Dongfang Yuqin are making intensive arrangements. By the end of October, they have prepared 10 billion U.S. dollars, and there will be more in the future.In addition to buying CDS products from insurance companies and mortgage credit default swaps, the money is also prepared to short the stock market and buy companies at low prices.In addition, it is Li Zetian's own company to deal with the crisis.

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This morning, Li Zetian came to Dongfang Yuqin's room. She was about to go out to do something, but Li Zetian stopped her.

"Give yourself a day off today, honey!"

"The signs of the subprime mortgage crisis are becoming more and more obvious, and I still have a lot of things on hand."

"I'm not in a rush for a day. I see that you are tired these days and you are haggard." Li Zetian stretched out his right hand and gently stroked Dongfang Yuqin's face. She is a woman in her 40s with well-maintained skin. , the charm still exists.

Dongfang Yuqin smiled, under the long eyelashes, a pair of beautiful eyes are as gentle as water, very pretty, she shook her head and said: "Honey, I'm not tired~"

"If you are not tired, you have to rest!" Li Zetian said forcefully, but Dongfang Yuqin really felt Li Zetian's concern.

"Okay." She nodded, and immediately kissed Li Zetian on the forehead.

Li Zetian said with a smile at this time: "I remember that the epic film "StarCraft: Uprising" co-operated by Blizzard and Disney is about to be released. You, I, and our daughter Yue'er went to watch the movie together, and then took Yue'er Go to Disneyland."

Dongfang Yuqin was moved when she heard the words.

"Well, what you say counts, and I will listen to you!" Dongfang Yuqin leaned her head on Li Zetian's shoulder like a bird clinging to her.Because this family is different from ordinary families (Li Zetian has two wives), she doesn't spend much time with Li Zetian and their daughters.

At this time, Yu Jingqiu, as the chairman and charity ambassador of the LY Charity Foundation, was doing charity activities in Africa.

Speaking of it, if you don't do charity, you really don't know how many people on the earth will starve to death, how many people will die of disease, and how many children will not be able to go to school. This ridiculous world, this fuck~ The world is really chilling just thinking about it.

"Star Wars" is a classic of Blizzard, with tens of millions of fans.The movie has not yet been released, but the movie tickets for the first three days have already been sold out.

On the night of November 11st, Li Zetian, Dongfang Yuqin and their youngest daughter Li Yueer had dinner at home before heading to a nearby movie theater.

Of course, Li Zetian’s home also has a cinema, but going to the cinema will give you the atmosphere of watching a movie, and at the same time, you can learn from the side whether the movie is accepted and liked by the audience.

Wearing sunglasses, no one discovered Li Zetian's identity.

Walking into the movie theater, it was dark inside, and no one knew his identity.

Xiao Yue'er sat between her parents, holding popcorn in her hands, her little face was excited and happy.This is the first time she has come to the cinema to watch a movie, and there are many people around.

"Dad, is the movie about to start?"

"Well, it's about to start." Li Zetian reached out and touched her little head, and nodded with a smile.

The screen suddenly lit up, and after a while, the movie was officially broadcast.

"In the Koprulu star region, which is far away from the earth, the human colony Mar Sara is in crisis. A group of alien insects that are governed by the will of the brood and attempt to devour all life have invaded this planet..."

As soon as the movie opened, a deep narration sounded, a distant human colony planet was ravaged by Zerg, and an unprecedented war broke out between the two sides!

This astonishing special effect, this magnificent scene, is simply an audio-visual feast.

The audience is instantly hooked.

Next, the human colonized planet was invaded, and the Zerg began to devour all life.In order to survive, human beings fought back and launched an uprising, and a magnificent uprising story unfolded, which touched the hearts of countless people every moment...

At the end of the movie, there is no doubt that the old plot is that humans finally repelled the Zerg and won.

"Oh, it's so beautiful! It's wonderful!"

"Shocking special effects, touching story, classic!"

"Better than Star Wars!"

"Blizzard is really powerful!"

"..."

The audience applauded and were very satisfied with the film.

Seeing everyone's reaction, Li Zetian felt that he had done the right thing when he proposed to let Blizzard and Disney cooperate to make a movie. The success of "StarCraft: Uprising" has allowed Blizzard to embark on a new path, which is of great significance. Creating and operating IP will be the key development direction of Blizzard in the future!
There is no empire on which the sun never sets.

For a game company, if it cannot produce excellent game works all the time, then it will eventually decline.

Games developed by Blizzard cannot always be popular.

In the previous life, at least in Li Zetian’s opinion, Blizzard really declined after the latter stage. Compared with the popularity of Blizzard’s development of games, “StarCraft 2” and “Watching Pioneer” can only be listed as unpopular. .

At this time, a smile slowly appeared on Li Zetian's face. He took Xiaoyue'er's little hand, and Dongfang Yuqin quietly left the cinema with the crowd...

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"StarCraft: Uprising" has a great reputation, and film critics and media all praise it.

A week later, the North American box office reached 2.1 million U.S. dollars, which shocked everyone, and then set off a wave of game adaptation movies.Investors and studios are very bullish on this.

During this week, the market value of almost all game companies soared.

In mid-November, taking advantage of the hot screening of "StarCraft: Uprising", Blizzard released a new game "StarCraft Online", which is the second online game released by Blizzard after "World of Warcraft".

Once the game was released, it became very popular, and it became a huge hit!
Overnight, the number of game downloads on the Battle.net platform reached 500 million, which is amazing!

"StarCraft Online" can carry out various activities in the sandbox universe of the game, including mining, industrial manufacturing, scientific research, financial trade, exploration and archaeology, etc.The types of activities that players can engage in increase with the learning of related skills. Even if the player is not online, the learning of skills in the game is ongoing at any time.

It is worth mentioning that this game is a cooperation between Blizzard and Kronos Industrial Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. There are a large number of NPCs (non-player control characters) in the game. These NPCs have super high artificial intelligence. When communicating, trading, or even developing wars, it is impossible to tell whether the opponent is an NPC or a player.

This is the characteristic of "StarCraft Online", which has attracted a large number of players.

The number of NPCs in "StarCraft Online" is much more than that of player users, but these NPCs can be bought or even subdued.If you are awesome, you can even subdue many NPCs as your own army and dominate the game, such as being a robber robbing a merchant ship, or even an army, or occupying an NPC planet...

The map of "StarCraft Online" is very large, with countless planets, as well as Zerg and Protoss, players will not worry about getting tired of playing.

Li Zetian has been investing in the development of virtual helmets that are often written in novels. If the virtual helmets are applied to "StarCraft Online" in the future, it will be very exciting.Players drive a spaceship, lead an army to launch a war in space, or drive a mecha to fight, oh~~ This feeling is really unimaginable!

Of course, a virtual helmet seems impossible, but Li Zetian has money, so he wants to make the impossible possible!In Li Zetian's view, every stimulus or reaction of a person will generate brain waves, including taste, hearing, vision, touch, etc... The core technology of the virtual helmet should be brain wave technology!
Regarding the research on brain waves, Chronos Hospital and Gene Technology Company have been doing research, and have achieved good results, such as wearing brain wave equipment on the head, which can remotely control an aircraft to fly by sending out brain wave commands.

(End of this chapter)