Game Development Giant

"GTA..."

Jester kept chanting the word in his mouth several times, and then sighed again.

He loves and hates this name that is destined to shine in the future game world. As a gamer, it is impossible not to make various content, gameplay and system innovations for the development of GTA. Sigh, but as a somewhat alternative gamer, he really doesn't like this kind of overly violent and pornographic game.

Jester certainly admires the company Rockstar.

The game "Red Dead Redemption" is a game that cannot be overly praised no matter what language is used. It is perfect and great. Even in Jester's mind, it may be an unsurpassable game. work.

However, it is obviously impossible for the current Rockstar to make "Red Dead Redemption". To make such a game, what is needed is the accumulation of time and the accumulation of experience, and GTA, especially the House Brothers, are about to GTA3, which is about to be produced, is the best project, and it is also an opportunity for Rockstar, a company that may not have been established yet, to skyrocket.

Of course, in the original history, GTA3, an epoch-making game in the entire game history, was not only extremely difficult to develop when it started to be developed, but two native British people making an American-style gangster game were like letting It would be difficult for two Koreans to make a Chinese-style game without being nondescript, let alone make it popular among people.

But these two people just made the game extremely popular.

Anyone who sees it will feel that this is indeed a game that tells the story of an American gangster, and not something else.

Even after its release, the game was plagued by hardships.

GTA3, or what domestic players like to call it Grand Theft Auto 3, is, after all, a purely adult-level game that can no longer be purely restricted.

In other words, there are many things in this game that are not suitable for many people, and there are even some things that even adults may not be able to control after playing it, so. Once this game was released, it immediately caused an uproar in the United States - there are more violent games than GTA3, but such games have never been as popular as GTA3.

A large number of opponents insisted on banning this game that contains murder, violence, and pornography.

A congressman named Joey Bica even proposed a bill to Congress calling for a ban on this game. The proposal at the time was called "Protecting Children from Sex and Violence in Video Games."

Even in 2003, the victims of two school shootings filed a lawsuit in federal court, demanding that ROCKSTAR compensate them a whopping US$2.4 billion because of the perpetrators of the two shootings. It is the players of GTA3.

It can be said that at that time, Rockstar, although it relied on the explosive sales of the GTA3 game and became famous in the industry, it was also surrounded by crises.

I don’t know how many other game companies were waiting to see Rockstar’s jokes at that time.

Faced with this situation, the two brothers stood up and spoke: "Of course game makers need a sense of social responsibility, but we do not have a 'social responsibility' to be responsible for all violent incidents that occur in the real world. We just provide an entertainment platform for adults. We have reason to believe that the vast majority of them are not potential gun murderers. Nor will they forget their social responsibilities just because they have played a game."

Although there is an element of shirk in this statement, it can also be seen that the House brothers and Rockstar were indeed pushed to the edge of the cliff at that time.

Due to the 9.11 incident, a large number of precious settings of GTA3 were forced to be deleted from the test version. In the end, Joey Bica's proposal was rejected by Congress. The huge compensation of US$2.4 billion was also dismissed by the federal court. GTA and Rockstar have survived the disaster, and the era of this game company has finally arrived.

But even after GTA3, GTASAN, which is hailed as the masterpiece of San Andreas by countless players, Rockstar's life is very difficult.

Needless to say, after experiencing the brilliant success of GTA3. Rockstar really wants to make a more ambitious work.

This is San Andreas.

However, a game MOD by a French player completely exposed the pornographic scenes in the game, suddenly making Rockstar a hot topic. Large numbers of conservatives took to the streets to demand government action. Block the GTA series. Hillary Clinton, who was in the Senate at the time, even accused GTA of being a cancer in the United States and demanded that the government immediately ban the GTA series.

This is the most difficult thing in the history of Rockstar.

There was a good chance that none of them would survive twenty-four hours.

The ESRB, which is the Entertainment Software Rating Board, is an association responsible for rating game software in the United States, a non-profit organization.

They also re-evaluated GTASAN.

Position the game's rating at AO level. This is a level higher than what gamers often call M-level, which is also the adult level. This move brought Rockstar at least more than 25 million US dollars in net income, which may be hundreds of dollars. Thousands of copies of the game.

TAKE-TWO was also affected, and its stock price plummeted. The board of directors is very angry about ROCKSTAR. Many states in the United States are discussing whether to ban the GTA series. An 85-year-old grandmother in New York State even took Rockstar to court for $5 million because she had bought the game for her grandson. I didn't expect this to be an adult game.

Those were the busiest days for ROCKSTAR. Their lawyers and public relations team traveled to several states in the United States all day long and worked hard. The two brothers also apologized to the public. Finally, with the efforts of the lawyer’s public relations team and R\u0026D team, the hot coffee incident ended with ROCKSTAR launching a patch to delete pornographic content. For Hillary Clinton, who was the first to stir up this matter, ROCKSTAR responded with a humorous way - go and see the Statue of Happiness in GTA4.

The later GTA4 completely pushed Rockstar to the altar, and also made the company completely achieve glory.

Many people say that GTA5 is the best in this series, but Jester always believes that GTA5 is just a completed version of GTA4.

Because what Rockstar did in GTA5, you can find it in GTA4. The reason why it was not done in the 4th generation is just because of the lack of technology.

GTA4 is destined to be no ordinary game. As the best one in the GTA series. GTA4 broke three records in the Guinness World Records at the time - the single-day sales of the game "Halo 3" with the highest single-day revenue was US$170 million. The highest-grossing film in a single day is Sam Raimi's version of "Spider-Man 3" with a single-day box office of $60 million. The book with the highest single-day revenue is "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" with single-day sales reaching 220 million US dollars. These three records were broken together by GTA4.

Although these records were broken again by the COD series, and then refreshed by GTA5.

The total sales of GTA4 in one day reached 4.46 million units, and the revenue in one day reached 500 million US dollars. This has never happened before in history. GTA4 is a story about the American dream, and it once again shows New York. New York - an international metropolis, a black apple. In some corners that you can't see, maggots are chewing on this big apple. To achieve your dreams, you have to sacrifice something. Although the sacrifice weighs so heavily on you.

GTA4 is undoubtedly the GTA series. Even a milestone in sandbox games. There are so many games in the gaming industry that have challenged GTA, but none of them have won. "Saints Row", "Bad Guys", "True Crime", "Justified", "Reservoir Dogs", "Mafia"... Why did they fail?

Jester had also considered this issue deeply at the beginning.

But it was difficult for him to come to a conclusion in the end.

Probably the House brothers spent several years sitting in front of the TV day and night to study American culture in order to develop GTA3. Finally, the GTA series has its own soul. This is something that others don’t have. GTA is GTA. You can’t learn it from other games, and you don’t need to learn it. Each game has its own characteristics, and blindly imitating the GTA series will only lead to a sad end.

Rockstar is a game company that has never let down its players. This is the biggest difference between them and other game companies.

It doesn’t matter whether you like them or not. They always stick to their own style.

They are Rockstar, Rockstar is them.

He doesn’t want to be as impatient as Activision, nor does he want to make money like EA. It's not like Blizzard, which becomes fast food for money. He is who he is and will always be him. He used his black humor and American culture to bring GTA to all players. In real life, players may have to wear a mask due to various reasons when they are in front of others or behind them.

And in games, especially Rockstar games.

Players don't have to do this, because the player is the king in the game. You can do whatever you want, and always will. Jester once discussed with a friend why the GTA series is so successful.

His friend's answer left a very deep impression on him - "In reality, we have to be serious when doing things. But in GTA, we can rock and roll. Maybe this is what the name Rock Star wants to pass. It’s what the game delivers.”

Although Jester does not agree with the GTA game series, he will never deny the greatness of this game and the extremely outstanding contribution this game has made to the entire electronic game industry.

soon. Jester's assistant conveyed him news from distant Edinburgh.

Both DMA and BGM are excited about the attention of Mars Entertainment, the dominant company in the gaming industry. They said that if necessary, they will send their team to Los Angeles within a week to interview Mars Entertainment, and, for Jester They were also very surprised to meet the House brothers and Mr. Donovan.

After they told the three people the news, the three said they were very honored to be able to meet Mr. Jester.

And whether it is the House brothers or Donovan, they have been fans of Jester's games since they were young. They were before, are now, and I am afraid they will still be in the future.

Jester was quite happy after receiving the other party's reply.

But he did want to go to England once during this period.

Because he is the chairman of Manchester United, Manchester United's achievements in recent seasons due to his high investment are extremely amazing. They defended the European Champions Cup and completed six consecutive championships in the league. Having completed the Triple Crown for two consecutive seasons, not only last year, Manchester United's coach Ferguson won the title of Jazz three years earlier than in the original history.

Moreover, this year Jester, as the chairman of Manchester United, was also nominated.

Moreover, he was invited to attend a recent banquet held by the British royal family. Jester really needed to go to England during this time.

So, after thinking for a moment, he said to his assistant: "You can reply to them. I am indeed going to the UK in a few days, so I will visit in person at that time. This also shows our sincerity."

Among the remaining documents, there was news in an inconspicuous place that caught Jester's attention.

When the assistant was sorting out the files, he might have thought that this was not very important information. It was just the development of a new game by a gaming company owned by Sony, and it was an MMORPG game on PC. Such games are not It wasn't too popular, so the assistant didn't take it seriously.

Jester looked at the news.

The game company that developed it is American Sony Online. The game they developed is called "Ever-Quest", or EQ for short. If translated, it is called "Ever-Quest".

Judging from the information about this game disclosed by this company, this will be a 3D MMORPG game that is completely different from other MMORPGs. There are currently two types of MMORPG games. One is Ultima Online. In this way, another category is a derivative of the Diablo series Battle.net.

There are some players in both categories. Although many people play, it cannot be said to be very popular.

For example, the dark-style MMORPG from Mars Entertainment has a peak number of online users of only 100,000 at the same time.

It's still far less popular than the Dark Battle Network.

This is also the reason why Jester’s assistant doesn’t pay much attention to this type of game. (~^~)