Meizong Wealth Life

Chapter 94 Baokai Trio

Fatty G’s eyes widened, his face full of shock.

Not because of the $100 million bonus, Fatty G 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.

He just didn't have the words "rich man" plastered on his forehead.

This gave Fat G another reason to envy Jamie.

Why can't he meet this kind of good friend who is stupid and rich?
G Fat really thought about the reason, and then came to a depressing conclusion.

It's easy to make friends like Chuck Bass, all you have to do is be as rich as he is.

What really shocks G Fat right now is the time when the Steam e-sports competition will be held.

Unbiased, it happened to "collide" with the holding time of Kimchi Country's first World Electronic Sports Competition WCG.

I can’t say it’s completely intentional, I can only say it shouldn’t be too targeted.

The most damning thing is that "CS" was also selected as a competition event in this WCG.

Your side has 100 million U.S. dollars, and Kimchi Country only has 30 U.S. dollars. Do you need to ask which side the professional players will choose?
The most outrageous thing is that Chuck also asked Fatty G a question.

How much money would it take for Valve to withdraw the "CS" competition event from WCG.

Fatty G wanted to ask on the spot, do you two have a grudge against the Kimchi Country?
I wanted to directly quote a sky-high price to dampen Chuck's arrogance.

Unexpectedly, Chuck suddenly changed his mind:

"Forget it, I'd better keep this money and put it into next year's competition prize pool."

What the hell!

been played!

Fatty G stared at Chuck angrily, but then Jamie suddenly said something.

"When will Steam's online battle and anti-cheating system be upgraded? If we can make it in time, we plan to hold a pre-qualification season on Steam in November. All participating players need to register an account on Steam to form a team, and then compete in online battles. Only with a certain amount of points can you be shortlisted for the official competition in December.”

Fatty G was dumbfounded.

This is a rhythm that will directly weld "CS" players to the Steam platform!
He knew clearly what Jamie wanted to do, but Fatty G couldn't stop him.

Because the cooperation agreement between Valve and Snow Mountain WON Battle Network did not expire until 03.

During the previous meeting, Fatty G deliberately concealed the news.

I didn't expect the retribution to come so quickly.

On the contrary, it is another function of Steam, an online digital game distribution platform. Fatty G is not too worried about it yet.

With the current Internet speed and the fact that mainstream 3A games are often several gigabytes in size, downloading CD-free games from the Internet will not become a mainstream choice for 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 the physical game store online.

There is still more than a year until the end of the contract between the two parties, and G Fat doesn’t think Steam can steal much share from traditional offline game publishers so soon.

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

For lunch, Fatty G had a lot of mixed flavors.

Even though Chuck specially ordered grilled cod and tacos, which are said to be Bill Gates' favorite, for him, his mood was not focused on the food.

This lunch seems to have been eaten but not eaten.

Compared to Fatty G, the employees at Valve had a great time eating, during which Jamie even treated everyone to a bottle of beer.

After eating and drinking, more than 30 Valve employees left the restaurant in a grand manner.

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

Among them, Jason Kapaka, who had worked as a game reporter for a period of time, recognized Fat G at a glance.

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

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

"Did you see it? That's Gabe Newell, the founder of the famous Valve Company, and the restaurant they just opened. It is said that Bill Gates often patronizes there."

The other two young people, one named John Veitch and the other Brian Fite, are just in their early 20s this year.

Last year, the two of them dropped out of school to start a business after listening to Kapaka's lies.

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

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

As a result, the two young people were persuaded by Kapaka as soon as their minds got excited. The three of them jointly established a game studio and gave it a weird name.

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It doesn't sound like a serious studio.

Since the three of them were already so poor that they could hardly afford pizza at the time, they could only create a small game that was not on the market.

A poker game with a bit of a side effect.

If there really is Thurs content, this game might be able to attract some gentleman players.

But the problem is that it really just looks like a game on the surface, and the content is serious about playing poker.

This is just like saying "Island Action Movie" on the cover, but actually the content inside is "Calabash Baby".

Then these three cobblers got together and came up with a genius idea.

Isn’t there no one playing the game?They thought of cooperating with a specialized Tese website, and wanted to place advertisements on it, and give the other party a commission when the game was sold.

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

roll!
After losing the first battle, team morale was low.

The dog-headed strategist Kapaka began to inject blood into the two companions again. There would be bread and milk. One day they would be able to achieve pizza freedom.

It turned out to be useless.

On the contrary, John Veitch discovered a small Java game when he was bored to kill time. It was rough in production and very troublesome to operate, but the gameplay was not interesting.

As a result, John Veitch became so addicted to playing that he forgot about calling to order pizza.

Finally, a hungry John Veitch recommended this game to two other companions, and they were both fascinated by this interesting match-[-] gameplay.

No one made any suggestions, and the three of them came up with the idea together.

This game is so poorly made, it's a complete waste of such an interesting gameplay idea as match-[-].

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

And unknown people like John Veitch and the three of them, everyone thinks highly of them.

They just did what they said, and they spent three full months to create a brand new match-[-] game "Bejeweled."

John Veitch and the other three are full of confidence in this reskinned game with excellent picture quality, sound effects and elimination effects. The gameplay cannot be said to be exactly the same as the previous JAVA game. It can only be said to be exactly the same as the reskinned game.

After giving this game to friends and family to try out, the feedback I received was very good.

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

So I confidently found the game publisher and wanted to sell the game for $5.

This money is enough for them to eat pizza for a year or two.

However, the reality is that no company loves them.

Unwilling to be reconciled, they made the game into a PC version and sold it everywhere, but they still hit a wall one after another.

At this time, Kapaka stood up again. He claimed to have discovered the reason why the game could not be sold.

It's all because of their weird studio name.

A serious game publisher, when they look at their name, they will definitely think that they are producing an unfair game.

John Veitch and Brian thought it made sense and immediately decided to change the name.

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

It turns out this trick really works!

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

According to the time appointed in the email, they came here.

Even a little ahead of schedule.

Before arriving, the psychological expectations of John Veitch and the others had dropped again and again. Now as long as Steam is willing to pay $[-], they are willing to sell "Bejeweled" to them.

At the same time, Jamie and Chuck, who had paid and left the seafood restaurant, did not leave directly like Fat G and his group, but walked towards the yacht pier.

Chuck rented a yacht and found ten hot young models, ready to go out to sea and have a lot of fun.

There will be five men on the boat today, with two arms holding one on each side.

Chuck and Jamie were the first to board the yacht. Neither the three guests nor the hot girls had arrived yet.

The two of them were sitting on the open-air sofa on the yacht deck, and Chuck couldn't help but complain to Jamie about the weird name that he saw in the documents about the previous name of Baokai Company.

"Are these guys who make games so weird? How did they come up with this name?"

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

Just as he was talking, the yacht steward led three young people who looked like otakus in their attire and had not seen much of the world while sitting in front of the computer all day long.

The three of them kept looking around, looking very curious about everything on the luxury yacht, with unconcealable envy in their eyes.

"Sir, the guests have arrived."

The yacht steward led the three people to Jamie and Chuck.

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

Jamie stood up and stretched out his hand to John Veitch, who was nearest to him.

"Nice to see you here, Mr. John Veitch."

When John Veitch faced Jamie, who was two years younger and half a head taller than him, his speech became stumbling because he was too nervous.

Just as he was about to say that he was a fan of Jamie's books, he was elbowed by Kapaka beside him.

"Percy Jackson" is a children's book. You, a guy who developed a side-scrolling game as his first business venture, have the nerve to say that you are a fan of Jamie's books?

When it was Kapaka's turn to shake hands with Jamie, the guy gave full play to his tact as a journalist and directly said that he liked the novel "Weakness" very much and that he was very healed and moved after reading it.

When it was Brian Fite's turn, all the topics that could win Jamie's favor were mentioned by the previous two people. He could only claim that he was a Bulls fan.

It can be seen that the three of them are trying their best to please Jamie.

This made Chuck's evaluation of the three of them even lower.

Jamie turned around and introduced Chuck to the three, indicating that the two were joint partners.

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

At this time, the yacht steward came over again, whispered into Chuck's ear, and whispered a few words to him.

The ten hot girls Chuck found have already arrived. As long as they finish talking about business here, they can be called up.

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

"Steam has decided to buy the little game you made called "Bejeweled." You now have two options. One is to sell the game and your company to us directly for $50, and the other is to sell the game to Steam. After it is put on the shelves, I will give you a share of 10% of the final selling price. Do I need to find a separate cabin for you to discuss?"

John Veitch and the other three were stunned, almost thinking that they heard wrongly.

50 million dollars!
That’s ten times what they expected to sell the game for when they first pitched it to publishers!
Does this still need to be discussed?

The three of them looked at each other and chose 50 in unison without hesitation.

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

However, at this time, Jamie did something beyond all expectations.

In front of John Veitch and the other three, he tore up the $50 buyout agreement.

John Veitch and the three were stunned again.

What does this mean?
Jamie shrugged and explained:
"I really like the game "Bejeweled" that you made, so I strongly recommend that you choose that sharing agreement, although it seems full of uncertainty, and 10% of the income is not high."

"If this little game is on Steam, it will cost $5, but in order to attract people to buy it, we decided to do a 2% off promotion, which means players can get it for only $[-]."

"For every 5 sets of the game sold, you can get 1 US dollar. It does not seem like much, but just imagine, if the final sales of this game reach more than 1000 million sets, you can calculate if you choose to buy out 50 US dollars. How much will you lose?"

Subtract 200 from 50 million, and the answer is $150 million!

However, John Veitch and the other three looked at Jamie as if they were hearing a tall tale.

Sell ​​1000 million copies?
To be honest, they all think it's God's blessing that this game can sell [-] copies.

And for the 50 shares, they could only get a mere US$48, and they lost a total of US$[-] from the US$[-] buyout!
Jamie looked at these three unsatisfied guys with some speechlessness. In the past ten years since its release, "Bejeweled" has received more than 1.5 million downloads and sold 2500 million sets worldwide.

The name of this game is not wrong at all, it is really a real-life "gem mine"!
(End of this chapter)