Hollywood Hunter

Talking about various topics and having lunch, Grace walked with Simon in the exaggerated mountain manor, the kind of arm in arm.

It turned out to feel like first love.

Inexplicably guilty.

My daughter also happened to be in a relationship.

However, who cares so much.

"So, do I really need to go to work this afternoon?"

"There were some arrangements, but they were temporarily pushed down."

"For me."

"Moved?"

"That's not good?"

"There is nothing wrong with the Westeros system. The Westeros system is an increasingly large machine. One goal I hope to achieve is that this machine can run on its own for a long time even if I leave it completely. Otherwise, in a few more years, Even if I split myself into several, I can't be too busy."

"..."

"what happened?"

Grace turned her head slightly and glanced at the little man next to her, with a smile on her mouth: "I'm thinking, if this machine doesn't need your control at all, would you feel uneasy?"

"Of course not," Simon understood what Grace meant, and smiled: "I am the owner of this machine, not the operator who is worried about losing his job, so the more automated the machine is, the better. If one day this machine It is completely free of my control, and I cannot tolerate it. I even have the right to break it up and sell scrap iron."

Power never comes out of thin air.

Simon's current source of power is the huge business machine of the Westeros system. The more the Westeros system expands, the greater Simon's power will become.

As for the control of this business machine, Simon is a very good person to delegate power. However, decentralization only temporarily delegates power, not forever giving up power.

Perhaps the head of a country will be emptied, but the probability of Simon encountering such a situation is very low. Because the leaders of most countries in this world are elected at least in name and ordered by the people, Simon is the true owner of the Westeros system that supports his source of power.

The bosses of other large companies hand over the company to the management. Since a mature corporate team cannot be accomplished overnight or replaced in a short time, they may be taken over by the magpie’s nest, and they are often hurt when they want to regain power.

Simon has no such scruples.

On the one hand, Simon's family background is deep enough that no management of a Westeros system subsidiary has the strength to challenge him, and he is not afraid of one or two companies. On the other hand, the most indispensable thing in the Westeros system is the talent pool, including senior professional managers who can be alone. Therefore, no one below Simon cannot be replaced.

Unconsciously walking to the end of the lawn of the manor, there is a steep **** surrounded by shrubs and iron nets outside the neat low pine fence about one person tall, and the bright afternoon sun is behind him.

Unable to move on, Grace did not turn back, and sat down on the lawn. Feeling the softness of the green grass in the sun, she lay down comfortably.

Simon sat down next to Grace, touched it with one hand, was held by the woman, did not retract, and made no extra moves.

Grace turned her body to rest her head on the man's lap, continued to hold the man's big hand, looked up, and asked softly, "When are you leaving?"

Simon raised his left wrist and looked at his watch: "We will return to Los Angeles at five o'clock. We have three hours left."

"enough."

"So easy to satisfy?"

"Can I be dissatisfied?"

"No."

"Heh," Grace said, touching Simon's handsome face, feeling the faint stubble in her palm, "I really don't understand you."

"That's good. It is said that mystery is the most attractive feature for women."

"Very skilled."

"Yes," Simon's voice suddenly became a little faint: "It's been tens of thousands of years."

Grace's light blue eyes that are common in Nordic people flashed: "Huh?"

"Did I say something?"

Grace said firmly: "You said it, it's tens of thousands of years."

"You got it wrong."

"No."

"Well, I'm actually playing mystery, you know, the little boy wants to trick the big sister into getting started, it can't be done without any means."

The woman is reluctant: "Then, make up a story for me."

Simon hesitated for a while, and slowly said: "A long, long time ago, at that time there was still a complete predicament, no country, no nation, and even a complete language system has not yet appeared. There was a primitive man who was hungry. On a rainy day, he sneaked to fish in a lake outside the cave, and unfortunately fell into the water. By chance, a lightning strike happened. The voltage of hundreds of millions of volts instantly changed the body of the primitive man. Since then, he has never changed. Old, always looking like a young man, began to wander around the world like a ghost. He witnessed the integration of tribes, the formation of nations, countless primitive and cruel cold weapon wars, and the preaching of Jesus. Witnessed the Buddha’s coming, witnessed the Mongols’ whip of God, witnessed the arrival of the great nautical era, and witnessed two world wars that ruined the world. In order to avoid my immortality being discovered, every ten Twenty years, at most thirty years, he will use the power he has accumulated in the world to find a substitute, change his name, change his surname, even change his appearance, and start life again. This time he is named Simon Westeros. "

Grace listened carefully to the man's narration, her light blue eyes blinked and blinked for a moment, and finally smiled: "It's a very good story."

"Believe it or not?"

"Do not believe."

Simon smiled and asked: "Why?"

Grace stretched out her hand again and gently stroked Simon’s face, and said, "If you are really an ancient human who has lived for tens of thousands of years, you will not let yourself be known to the world as you are now, but try to Hide yourself."

"You are wrong. Actually, there was a lifetime. My name was Alexander III. I used to lead my own army and penetrate the entire Europe."

"..."

"Later, because I was interested in physics, I temporarily found myself an identity of Isaac Newton, and then you must know what happened. When I wanted to get away, I could only make one interested in alchemy. Replaced by the idiot, and he didn't make any achievements in his later years."

"..."

"More modern, I feel that humans have been ignorant for too long, so I built a steam engine. Since then, human civilization has exponentially exploded. That time, my name was James Watt."

"..."

Simon reached out his hand to hold the woman's face, his tone became faint again, and it was a bit of distant vicissitudes: "Little girl, do you want to know, who am I before Simon Westero?"

Grace's light blue eyes blinked quickly, as if struggling to protect her collapsing outlook on life.

After a while, feeling the familiar and gentle smile on the man's face, Grace forced herself to relax, and said, "You, will you kill me?"

"Why kill you?"

"I know your secret."

"Just now it was just a script I conceived temporarily, or you requested it yourself."

"..."

"Speaking of it, this is an idea that I had a long time ago, but some joints have not been figured out, that, the kind that may cause religious disputes, now, the thinking is suddenly smooth, and this can be completely bypassed. "

"..."

"I plan to use $100,000 to shoot this movie. I will do it when I go back. I can do it in a month or two. I happen to be attending the Sundance Film Festival next year. Bob complained last time that Sundance hasn't had it in recent years. A good movie has appeared. This time let them feel the charm of the movie again. For 100,000 dollars, they can also shoot a top science fiction. I have thought of the name of the movie. What do you think of "This Man Comes From Earth"?"

"Simon, I promise, I will never tell your secrets."

"God, do you really believe it?"

"..."

"It seems I need to help you clear up," Simon said, picking up the woman's lithe body, got up and walked towards the villa, and warned, "Remember, this is just a story."

"Ok."

"Well, I suddenly discovered that I have the potential to be a god-stick. Maybe now I can take advantage of the situation to create a religion, which is definitely more promising than the scammers in Scientology. You are the first believer."

"..."

"Give me everything you have."

"Ok."

"Stupid earthlings."

"Ah, it hurts."

"Endure, you must be awake before leaving today. I would not tell you any ghost stories if I knew it."

"It was really a story just now?"

"of course."

"but……"

"Stupid."

"Don't say that to me, you little boy."

"Now, give you a place. You can choose one of the girls under your name to participate in this movie. Forget it, just Qusi Gough, lest a group of fairies fight, Qusi's image is just right, take the time to let She takes a few acting classes."

"Can I do it?"

"Twenty-year-old student girl, did you act?"

"I can play the teacher."

"Don't make trouble, be your agent obediently."

After five o'clock, Grace's fantasies were soothed severely. Simon left his manor in the Portola Valley and met with Girl A who ran to Girl C for the night last night and boarded the Boeing 767 returning to Los Angeles.

In the afternoon, I was going to participate in a conference on the online gaming business of Eaglet. The core is still the "Happy Farm" which has been on fire for more than six months. Later, I felt that it didn't matter if I participated in this kind of meeting. I simply let Alison replace myself, and stole half a day with Grace in the Portola Valley Manor.

When the plane took off, Girl A gave the minutes of the afternoon meeting and a summary of the operation of "Happy Farm" to Simon.

After launching this social network casual game based on Flash technology in the first half of the year, it experienced an initial exponential explosion in the first half of the year, and the user growth curve of "Happy Farm" began to slow down.

Even so, within seven months of its launch, the total number of players of "Happy Farm" worldwide reached an astonishing 53 million, easily breaking through the game operation team's expectation of achieving 50 million players in the first two years. At this stage, the number of global Internet users whose growth rate has also exceeded expectations in the first half of the year has reached 200 million.

Therefore, the number of players in "Happy Farm" is equivalent to a quarter of the number of netizens in the world, and the degree of activity may be different, but one in every four netizens who have access to the Internet activates the game "Happy Farm". The ratio is still terrifying.

The EA and Facebook teams responsible for the development and operation of this game are already considering applying for the Guinness Book of Records for this game, but because the number of players in "Happy Farm" continues to rise, this has not been put into action for the time being. Some media in the industry even predict that the total number of players in "Happy Farm" may double in the next two years, breaking the unprecedented 100 million mark.

Because of the popularity of this game, EA and Facebook have deliberately set up a team of hundreds of people to be responsible for the operation of this game for the past six months.

Because of the meticulous care of the two major technology entertainment giants, this time "Happy Farm" is also clearly separated from the former leisure nature, but shoulders more missions and meanings in the initial development of the Internet. This has been tried by many universities. The phenomenon-level online games of the MBA case, whether it is development or operation, have too many things to learn and learn from.

A large part of the teams of the two companies is also quietly capturing and sorting out the operating models and key data that can be used as a reference for the future in the process of game operations.

In order to make way for "Happy Farm", although Eaglet has opened up Flash technology and IE game platform, for the past six months, casual games similar to "Happy Farm" have basically been suppressed, and some obvious imitators have also been met. Prosecute.

Even within EA, "Happy Ranch", which is similar to the "Happy Farm" model, is temporarily put on hold after the development is completed.

Because "Happy Farm" is still on the rise, as long as its gameplay is constantly updated, its popularity will not go down for the time being, so there is no need for "Happy Ranch" to add icing on the cake. The team plans to see the situation on the "Happy Farm" online 12-18 Choose the right time to launch "Happy Ranch" during the month.

Relying on the linkage of the two games, the vitality of "Happy Farm" is extended to the greatest extent.

For the outside world, many people are most concerned about how profitable "Happy Farm" is.

The two companies did not give a clear figure on this, but only some industry media estimates, even if it is a fairly underestimated figure, it is enough to make too many game manufacturers and even other parties capital jealous.

Naturally, Simon has the most detailed data.

At the very beginning, only in the first week of its opening, "Happy Farm" received $2.61 million in prop sales revenue, and the number of users at that time was less than 7 million.

Now, the total number of game users has reached more than seven times that of the original. Due to the inconvenience of payment channels in many overseas regions and the inevitable decline in the payment rate of the increase in users, the weekly income has not shown the same multiple level increase. However, the game has just passed. The turnover for a week still reached USD 13.91 million.

Taken together, from the launch on March 25 to the previous revenue statistical cycle on October 20, in 7 months, "Happy Farm" relied on its huge player base and accumulated a huge revenue of US$196 million.

An online game with a development cost of less than US$1 million has earned US$196 million in half a year. This kind of huge profit makes it unavoidable that even Latin American drug dealers are jealous.

Moreover, drug trafficking is criminal, but gaming is legal.

Stimulated by the success of "Happy Farm", in the past six months, hundreds of new game companies, large and small, have sprung up in North America. Although most of them are just two or three studios, there are many capital giants involved. .

Many people of course also understand that the success of "Happy Farm" is due to the fact that the game itself has fortunately catered to the needs of players, as well as the support of Eaglet. However, who can be sure that he will not be the next lucky person? What's more, even if only one-tenth or even one-percent of the success of "Happy Farm" is a peak for many people.

Although the interests of "Happy Farm" are absolutely inviolable, in the past six months, Eaglet has indeed consciously or unconsciously fostered a number of successful cases that have reached the peak of life through the development of Flas***.

Not only that, the popularity of "Happy Farm" has also made the Flash technology launched by Eaglet quickly become the industry standard with absolute advantages. As a result, relevant software of Eaglet has also been sold at special prices and continued to bring to the company. Large sums of money.