Back To 1995

   Chapter 224 It's hard to prevent

   For a latecomer who wants to surpass the older generation, the most useful way is to spend money. In addition, it is to cultivate partners by yourself.

Just like a certain fight Xixi, in order to catch up with the big brother, he launched tens of billions of subsidies, attracted millions of users to cut a knife, and created a century-old problem, the last 0.01, what is it going to do? break!

The same is true for Xue Leshan. If Xue Leshan Online is launched, if you want to compete with Nintendo, Sega, etc., you will either spend money to dig corners and spend money to dig game suppliers for these console platforms, or you will spend your own money to cultivate, Microsoft XBOX That's what I did, just a little bit time consuming.

Song Yang looked at Ken Williams and Roberta, "The ICQ headquarters can provide Xue Leshan with 300 million US dollars of funds to implement the ten-year "Dawn of the Game Industry Project", which will help small and medium-sized enterprises. Game makers and independent game studios provide funds and resources!"

The Xue Leshan version of the "Dawning Plan" sounds really bluffing. It will cost 300 million US dollars at the beginning, which can be divided into ten years, that is, a support fund of 30 million US dollars a year, which will be implemented for one or two years first. , continue to do it if it works, if it doesn't work, um, the project leader can't find it...

"In addition," the money is out, if you don't do some tricks, how can you be worthy of the tens of millions of dollars every year, "Xue Leshan can implement a global game award TGA, which can select the best game of the year, the best developer, Best Indie Game, Best Creative Award, and more!"

  Song Yang's words attracted the attention of the audience, whether it was the Williams couple, Mike Moraimy, G Fatty and others, all of them were attracted by Song Yang's words.

"Xue Leshan implements the TGA Awards. In addition to the awards, it can also set up a Hall of Fame to make TGA the Oscar of the game industry, so that every game in the world can be proud of the winning TGA, and let the TGA Hall of Fame witness the game. History of the industry!"

Not to mention others, Ken Williams heard the words TGA Game Hall of Fame, and his face turned red in an instant. Roberta, who was familiar with her husband, knew that Ken Williams' heartbeat and blood rate started at this time. Boom, don't ask how Roberta knew...

   For a person who has achieved financial freedom, the most fearful thing is not how to make more money, but the fear of being forgotten by others, and being forgotten by others for everything he has done.

The    Hall of Fame exists in all walks of life. The basketball and football halls of fame in the sports industry are the most eye-catching, and the game industry has not yet appeared in the hall of fame, but now, there may be a hall of fame in the game industry.

Who can become the first person to enter the game Hall of Fame, Ken Williams does not want to miss this opportunity, Ken Williams knows that for people of his position, once the TGA Hall of Fame appears, maybe Entering the Hall of Fame is more tempting than earning more dollars!

Mike Morhaime, Gabe Newell and others were also a little moved. They were not old enough to be considered for the Hall of Fame, but who didn't want their own achievements, their life experiences were regarded as legends, and they were regarded as legends by the entire peers. Looking up? !

   Now Ken Williams began to understand why Song Yang was able to make such a big splash in the game industry and the telecommunications industry. This invigorating craft is really too trendy.

  Internet digital game platform, Game Dawning Project, TGA Awards, Game Hall of Fame, this old sow wears underwear, a set of a set, just like a cannon shot halfway, it is really hard to prevent.

Ken Williams doesn't know if the Internet industry is so good at playing, no wonder the Internet can make such a big splash now, once these plans appear in the game industry, will the game industry be changed, Williams does not know , but it was turned upside down, but it was sure.

Ken Williams, whose heart was fiery, felt like he had returned to the feeling he had when Xue Leshan was first established. He didn't want to retire until the TGA Awards Ceremony and the Game Hall of Fame came out. The TGA Hall of Famer, Ken Williams, if he's thick-skinned, can name himself and Roberta.

The nesting doll mode has already started, Song Yang stopped acting, and directly said, "Xue Leshan's Dawning Project can also be combined with the TGA Awards, and the game companies that win the TGA can directly receive the Dawning Project's million-dollar bonus! "

Whether it's the Dawning Project or the TGA Awards, it's all about bringing more game zero manufacturers to the chariot of Snow Leshan. Once TGA becomes the authority of the game industry and has the right to speak, then Snow Leshan will become the leader of the game industry. rule maker.

   To use a sentence, that is, the referees, judges, media, game manufacturers, and game users in the game industry are all people from Xue Leshan. What do Sony and Nintendo do to fight Xue Leshan?

   "If you want the TGA Awards and the Hall of Fame, I'm afraid it's not enough to rely on Xue Leshan alone. You need to cooperate with other game manufacturers, such as Sony, Nintendo, Ubisoft, EA and other companies, and you can't get around it!"

Ken Williams said that unless you play monkeys behind closed doors, if you want to make TGA an authority in the game industry, you must invite Sony and Nintendo to enter the game. The history of the game industry over the past few decades, to a certain extent , is the glorious history of the three major game console manufacturers, bypassing them, there is nothing left in the game industry.

Just like the Oscars, if the seven major Hollywood film companies are excluded, what is left of the Oscars? Isn’t the Oscars just used by the major Hollywood film companies to brag. Most of the Oscars’ awards for decades have been used by the seven major film companies. If you take it away and don’t let the seven major film companies blow it, then what’s the point of Oscar’s existence?

   The same is true for TGA. In the future, a large part of the game awards will be awarded to game manufacturers such as Nintendo, Ubisoft, EA, and Nippon Benzene. This is inevitable.

  Inviting Sony, Nintendo, etc. to enter, must give them a large part of the right to speak, let them become TGA judges and the like, otherwise TGA will hardly become the Oscar of the game industry.

  Song Yang knew what Ken Williams was telling the truth, but Song Yang didn't want the hard-to-build TGA, which turned out to be a tool for Japanese benzene game manufacturers to brag.

After thinking about it for a while, Song Yang said, "Of course other game makers should be invited to join, but I think Microsoft, Yahoo and other manufacturers should also be added. In the future, the game industry will not be able to bypass the Internet. In addition to the management of the TGA Council In addition to being in charge of Xue Leshan, the judges of the annual TGA Awards should adopt a rotating system, and game media people, theater designers, independent game producers, etc. from different regions are invited to serve as judges every year!"

  Song Yang is secretly poking at the big game companies such as Nintendo and EA, so as not to allow them to take over the Snow Leshan and control the jury of TGA. Anyway, it takes turns every year, and no one should think about taking too much advantage.

   For the establishment of the TGA and the Hall of Fame, Ken Williams is very motivated and has put forward many opinions in a row. He can't wait to build it now.

   After talking with Ken Williams for a while, and after confirming the plan, Song Yang looked at Blizzard and the rest of the staff, "So, Blizzard, Valve, and Rockstar, what do ICQ headquarters need to do?"

  Song Yang asked Gabe Newell and others to put forward their own conditions. If there were no difficulties, ICQ would have to start work and develop games.

A few people looked at each other, but Blizzard was the first to speak, Mike Morhaime and Alan Adhan exchanged glances, "Boss, Blizzard needs funds and more people, Blizzard is now The development of "Diablo", "StarCraft", "Warcraft 3" several game projects, the manpower is too short!"

  Mike Mo Huaimi took courage and complained bitterly to Song Yang. In the era of CUC International, Blizzard complained, but CUC International didn't care at all, just forced Blizzard to finish it soon and then sell the game.

Song Yang nodded, glanced at Irene, and then said to the Blizzard group, "All the research and development costs of Blizzard's games are borne by ICQ headquarters. The most important release task of Xue Leshan this year is to release." Diablo", I want it to appear in front of all users and players!"

  Xue Leshan, which was acquired by ICQ, also needs to fight a turnaround and announce to all people in the game industry that Xue Leshan has returned. There is no more suitable game than "Diablo".

After Mike Moraimy and others spoke, the people from Valve followed closely, Gabe Newell said to Song Yang, "Boss, Valve has already made a game plan, and we are going to develop a brand new game. FPS game, a new FPS shooter beyond Quake!"

   Gabe Newell and Harrington said with promise, but Ken Williams frowned, "Beyond Thor's Hammer?!"

It is no exaggeration to say that "Thor's Hammer" is the ceiling of today's shooting games. Whether it is game settings, picture quality or operability, it is an era ahead of other similar games, and even because of this game, it appeared abruptly. A 3D game engine has been developed that has never appeared in the game industry before.

  There is no game engine in the world, and there is no concept of FPS shooting games. All of this is due to John Carmack, the father of FPS in the game industry, who is a big man in a game era.

How fierce is John Carmack? For a game, he developed the world's first game engine by himself. Carrying 3D graphics technology alone, he has advanced for more than ten years. For the first time, he made 3D games appear in front of the world. , let game fans experience that there is such a game.

With the part games "Wolfenstein 3D", "Doom", and "Thor's Hammer", the game industry has a new type of FPS. Last year, Microsoft released the Windows 95 system, all of which rubbed off on the popularity of Carmack to promote the new system. It is evident.

Now I hear that the fledgling Gabe Newell is going to challenge Carmack. If Ken Williams has no doubts, it will be hell. This is like a novice whiteboard player who wants to challenge a full server full-level player A mid laner who has just played League of Legends wants to challenge a certain mid laner big devil, although it is not impossible to win, but after all, it is a bit unreal.

   (end of this chapter)