Super Game Empire

Xueleshan is no longer Xueleshan, which was simply engaged in game development a year ago. It has now been acquired by French publishing company Havas, and its parent company is Vivendi, a multinational group in the French media industry.

Joanna, senior vice president of Havas Publishing, is in the live VIP room of WCG. She has just finished the opening ceremony and has not had time to leave. In fact, she wants to stay and see what the performance competitions "Counter-Strike" and "Half-Life" are in

gap.

Havas headquarters has always been very worried about whether it was a wrong choice for them to acquire Xueleshan. Especially after learning that "Counter-Strike" was produced by Long Teng, CEO regretted the toothache. They sent Joanna to attend the opening ceremony of WCG because they were worried about it.

What kind of mess, Joanna also represents Havas to solve it immediately.

"Miss Joanna, do you like the game "Counter-Strike"?" The question was Kevin Williams, the representative of Microsoft's game development department. They all sat in the same VIP room and enjoyed the WCG game, and of course there were many disgusting things.

All interested guests left early.

Joanna was a little absent-minded and replied casually: "Mr. Williams, I don't actually understand games, so I'm just watching the fun."

She really has a heavy responsibility, and she came to establish a good relationship with Longteng.

China and France have had a lot of trade exchanges in recent years. Last year, China ordered 30 Airbus. This year France carried out insurance and banking business in China. Vivendi's biggest competitor in Europe is the British Pearson Group. They saw Pearson Group sell s.

I gave Longteng privately to exchange for the opportunity to enter the Chinese market. With Longteng's connection, Pearson cooperated with powerful companies such as Tsinghua University Press and Longteng Hong Kong Press. The business in Asia was carried out quite smoothly and I gained a lot.

Vivendi's acquisition of Xueleshan began in the second half of last year. At that time, Xueleshan had just acquired Valve and idsoftware. The biggest project they had is "Half-Life". Id has engines and Valve has innovations. Xueleshan is optimistic about this.

Vivendi is also optimistic about the game, so naturally, after sprinkling a lot of money, the small fish eat shrimps, and the big fish eat small fish, which is normal business activities.

Vivendi bought all this in March this year and obtained all the copyrights of "Half-Life". Moreover, Xueleshan has not been disbanded and is still responsible for the game. Everything seems beautiful.

However, in June, Longteng's "Counter-Strike" made Xue Leshan panic, and Vivandi even scolded the people from Havas Publishing House. Vivandi has been trying to establish a good relationship with Longteng and expand the Chinese market. They tried to

They introduced digital channels to China and sold the television broadcasting rights of European sports events to Chinese people, and also wanted to obtain Longteng's game channel authorization in Europe - they were in a competitive relationship with the French No. 1 TV station Canal+. They were jealous.

Their senior management wanted to have a good relationship with Longteng, but the people below made a blind acquisition and caused a conflict. Is there anything more depressing than this?

As the senior vice president of the market, Joanna wants to find a way to make up for the broken relationship with Longteng.

The authorities were obsessed with her, and she wanted to hear what outsiders think about this. So she asked: "Mr. Williams, what kind of relationship do you think "Half-Life" and "Counter-Strike" should be? I mean. It's competition,

Or is it complementary, or is Half-Life worthy of being called an opponent of Counter-Strike?"

Kevin smiled, he took the opportunity to get closer, pointing to the Counter-Strike that was on the big screen and said, "On the contrary, I personally think Counter-Strike is not worth mentioning."

Joanna's face was dark, but the light at the scene was too dark and no one could see her face clearly.

If Longteng's game is not worth mentioning, it will be even more difficult for her to handle. If they want their business to enter China, they have to find other Chinese companies to cooperate. For them, no Chinese company is better than Longteng.

She asked: "You mean, Counter-Strike may not be accepted by players, and our Half-Life will be sought after by players? The games produced by Longteng are not as good as we did?"

Kevin replied: "That's right! Look, I wonder if you have noticed the options for this game? Our Microsoft gaming department recently got the internal beta version of "Counter-Strike". I have carefully observed it, "Counter-Strike"

Elite has many fewer features than Half Life, the most important one is that they don’t have a personal battle, which is the essence of the entire game!”

This is a fatal flaw. The fun part of a stand-alone game lies in its plot. If the player doesn't know the story background, the various weapons used, the map of the story, the distribution of different forces, what tasks and missions are there, etc.

If so, who will still be interested in continuing to play?

Joanna heard the senior executives of Xueleshan say similar things. As a risk assessment, their professional team believes that "Counter-Strike" is not as good as "Half-Life" from the perspective of gameplay, but they also said another thing, it is competitive.

, From a professional point of view, "Counter-Strike" adopts Longteng's new generation engine technology, which is likely to be a little better than their improved version of quake.

"What do you think of its competitive game?" Joanna asked.

Kevin continued to analyze: "Look at the big screen, first of all, the game uses 5vs5 mode, which continues the setting of "Special Forces" and has not been optimized or improved. Except for the money system, there is no flash in other things.

The number of maps increases, the confrontation between terrorists and special forces, the mission is won, the team is completely wiped out, and these are no different from your "Half-Life". So, in terms of gameplay, both games are similar

, but overall, Counter-Strike is one level lower than Half Life, and they are not as good as you guys."

"But the Longteng game battle platform can bring tens of millions of players to "Counter-Strike". How should we deal with it?"

"That's even better. You can set up a battle platform yourself. I believe that with Vivendi's influence, there are actually many PC games in the world that can be included."

"Does Microsoft also have plans to build its own platform?"

“X wave x is our gaming platform.”

Joanna has no objection on the surface, but she is disdainful in her heart. Kevin's words are clear, and it sounds like she is standing on Vivendi's side, and she gives good suggestions to fight against Longteng. In fact, she analyzes it carefully and many

The problem is avoiding the important thing. Being able to be an executive at Microsoft is definitely not a simple person, so she decided not to talk to him anymore.

On the big screen, the game begins, the referee's perspective is quickly switching. In the studio, the host constantly introduces the gameplay, the two sides are fighting against members, what is victory, what is loss, how to play the game, what is the level

Expert.

Unfortunately, these words were all in Chinese, and Joanna couldn't understand a single word. She could only frown and look at the screen, thinking about the conversations introduced by herself.

Kevin's temptation did not achieve the effect. He knew very well that Vivendy could achieve this scale, and there must be some success in their success. This woman seemed confused and was actually very smart, and she was not so easy to convince.

Two people with ulterior motives sit together to watch the game. The picture shows a small street with blue bricks and stone tiles, with red wood and red railings. There are lanterns hanging at the door of each house, and occasionally high debris piled up. The center of the street is

A half-man-deep river, connected by stone bridges on both sides, at least twenty meters away, is a typical scenery of a small water town in the south of the Yangtze River.

"The map name B-Dge, medium-sized map, the scenery of a small town in Jiangnan, China, beautiful pictures, but unfortunately there is a hidden murderous intent..."

"The police cymbals were born in Hedong, and the bandits were born in Hexi. This is the level of hostage rescue, and it is the first game. As a performance game, this level is a pistol and close-fitting weapon battle."

"Okay, let's use the big map to watch first. The gangster base is in Hexi. If the police cymbals want to cross the river, they can only pass through two stone bridges. The gangsters can choose to guard the bridge, or wait in the hostage room to wait for the rabbit..."

Awei introduced this map very easily. After he talked about the general situation, he started chatting and joking with Kiki and Lin Zhihong, asking Lin Zhihong to reveal the secrets of game development, and implying that Kiki acted coquettishly and asked insider information. If he acted coquettishly, he would make an appointment for a fight. Kiki said he must find an opportunity to

Lin Zhihong was 5vs5 on the game battle platform. Lin Zhihong exclaimed why it wasn't 1vs1. Kiki said that his fans were all over the country and the experts were of course chosen 5vs5.

The three of them joked, and automatically stopped talking when the police and gangsters were in contact and handed it over to Awei for commentary.

"A battle is about to happen on Gaoshi Bridge. Let's see, there are three people on the offensive police cymbal side, two bandits on the defensive police cymbals, and the firepower police cymbals are the dominant ones, but they may not be able to attack. Look at the police cymbals that move!

First, he used a flash bang to open the way, and the flash bang was... and rushed forward! Two bandits opened fire, and the first police cymbal fell on the bridge and was shot at the head... Beautiful. The police cymbal used the moment when the other party changed the ammunition and seized the opportunity to rush over.

Kill the bandits without bullets... Oh my God, the battle seems to be over on the low stone bridge. Three people died on the police cymbals, and two people died. There are not many bullets on both sides. A dagger battle may be held next...

…”

The match of Jiangnan Town Map "Bridge" ended soon, the bandits won, 3 for 5, and the two survived. The two of them harvested the most police cymbal heads, so after the second game, they also rewarded the money.

The most.

"In the second game, let's take a look at the effects of the close-range micro submachine gun and assault rifle. Wow! As I expected, the bandit bought a sharp gun ak47!"

In addition to the different focus of the performance in the second game, the map has also changed. This level is a bloodstand map, a very good small melee murder map, and a famous Yinren map.

After seeing the full picture of the referee interface map, the audience has been calling louder, and this map is cool! (To be continued, please search for Astronomy, novels are better, updated and faster!