The virtual empire starts from the game

Chapter 407: Collective Retirement! (Seeking monthly ticket)

Corey King single-handedly transformed God of War from a fixed-perspective action game into an open narrative epic.

Successfully won the Game of the Year.

Nate Walker combines aesthetics with an open world and pioneered the “wind-guided” exploration mechanism.

At one point, "photography is the core gameplay" became a popular meme in the gaming circle.

Hideo Kamiya, a genius game producer.

Because of his outstanding talents, he enjoys a high degree of creative freedom, and he always brings surprises to players around the world with his unique gameplay ideas.

Cade Hawke, master of fragmented narrative and emotional scheduling.

Together with his wife, the "visual witch" Sofia Mikhailova, she is extremely skilled in celluloid-style art creation.

The collaboration between the two is highly recognizable and is also unique in the industry.

Together with Richard Moreno, these six people are undoubtedly SSRs in the field of game production!

If Xu Meng had not appeared and pushed for the innovation of game carriers, they would never have fallen into such an embarrassing situation now.

These six people, and the studios they lead, are the backbone of Sony Games' content production and their real foundation.

But now, all these foundations have been targeted by Xu Meng!
Once Xu Meng swings his hoe, no one can resist it!

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The next day, the news that Sony's gaming station was being sold off was still boiling on the Internet.

People from all walks of life kept discussing it, making the matter more and more heated.

Xu Meng brought Xiao Meng to the Mansheng City and sat down in a teahouse next to the central square.

The tea room is located on top of a four-story building and has an excellent view.

Xu Meng was watching the groups of flamingos walking in the square and the players shouting and yelling about [Dragon Fighting], while leisurely drinking tea and waiting for others.

Arrive at 9:.

There was a knock on the door outside the tea room.

"Please come in!" Xu Meng said.

Richard Moreno pushed open the door.

After he replied to Xu Meng's letter yesterday, Xu Meng invited him to have tea together today.

In order to avoid attracting attention from the outside world, the meeting place was chosen in a sprawling city.

Richard Moreno gladly attended the meeting.

"I have admired you for a long time."

He started by speaking in Xia dialect, and it was quite standard.

Xu Meng was stunned when she heard this, then she smiled and welcomed him.

But Richard was not in a hurry, but looked at Xiao Meng again: "Miss Xiao Meng, hello to you too."

Xiao Meng was lying by the window, watching the players fighting dragons with great interest.

Hearing this, she turned around, waved her hand and politely responded to Richard: "Hello~"

Richard then sat down opposite Xu Meng, but he couldn't help but glance at Xiao Meng - for anyone working in the digital field, Xiao Meng is too attractive!

This is the most powerful artificial intelligence known in the world.

All artificial intelligence on the market seems like a retard in front of her.

Now that I see it up close, it’s hard not to be concerned.

Xu Meng shook her head, already somewhat used to it.

This little guy has stolen his limelight more than once or twice.

He pushed a cup of tea over to Richard, which was out of his reach, and got down to business.

Without any twists and turns, the benefits were clearly stated: "ample development funds", "a high degree of creative freedom", and "the latest game development technology".

Richard nodded continuously as he listened.

After saying this, Xu Meng asked Richard about his thoughts on the latest work of "Bloody Sea".

Richard said that if they wanted to develop a game played in dreams, the previous idea was too simplistic.

He plans to start over completely.

We enthusiastically talked about many new ideas - these ideas were the inspiration that kept popping up after I received the letter yesterday and confirmed that I had the hope of making a "dream game".

Xu Meng also put forward some ideas and suggestions from time to time to help him improve and extend his thinking.

Richard became more and more excited as they talked.

It was not until he noticed Xu Meng looking at the time that he stopped with a sense of unfulfilled desire.

Then he said without hesitation: "Thank you Mr. Xu for your appreciation. I am very happy to join Dream Building."

"Give me a few days, and I can take all the core members of the team with me to leave Xinli and join DreamBuild."

"If you want us to continue working in California, I can also take everyone in the studio and move to another company."

Richard is very clear: the dream-building technology is too advanced and will have many impacts beyond games and business.

The root cause of the current conflict between the president and Dream Building lies in technology.

So he was ready to lead the team to leave the United States and head to Xia Country.

Even compared to staying in California, he personally prefers to go to Xiaguo.

——Otherwise, if we stay here, maybe half of the people in the studio will become FBI agents in a month, and the other half will become CIA informants.

As for the IP of "Bloody Sea", if Xu Meng can handle it, he will buy it back. If not, he will just change the name. It's not a big problem.

Xu Meng nodded and said, "I suggest that you all come to Xia Country together, preferably Ningzhou."

“If nothing goes wrong, this will become a gaming city in a few years.”

"But don't be in a hurry. Communicate with your colleagues in the studio first and get your visa approved."

"I'll make this news public once I've arranged other things."

"Okay!" Richard Moreno nodded immediately without saying anything.

After saying goodbye to Xiao Meng seriously again, he left the teahouse and disappeared from the sprawling city.

Ten minutes later, Corey King knocked on the tearoom door.

30 minutes later, Corey King bid farewell to Xu Meng and Xiao Meng with joy.

Ten minutes later, Nate Walker knocked on the door.

Next up were Hideo Kamiya, Cade Hawke and Sofia Mikhailova.

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In one morning, Xu Meng completed the meeting with six outstanding game producers.

Without exception, they all accepted Xu Meng's invitation.

Either you directly join DreamZhu, or you set up a studio and sell half of your shares to DreamZhu to become a second-party studio.

There is not a single person who is loyal to Sony Game Station and refuses the invitation from Dream Building!

Neither side was surprised by this result.

——In today’s gaming circle, how many people can refuse the olive branch thrown by DreamCraft?
If you like money, then DreamCraft has the most money in the gaming industry and also has the largest user base.

If you are an idealist, you will never miss the opportunity to build a small world in the dream world and travel in it personally.

The foundation of Sony's content field has become shaky silently!
Until it was completely destroyed by Xu Meng——

Last day of June.

With Sony Group's continued goodwill and numerous concessions, PIF finally reopened its acquisition agenda.

However, the acquisition price was drastically reduced, from 500 billion US dollars to 420 billion US dollars.

Seeing that the official process was finally about to begin, Xu Meng sent a message to the prospective star producers who were building her dream.

Richard Moreno did not hesitate and immediately released the statement that had been edited long ago -

"Good morning, everyone!

I regret to announce one thing to you all:

I'm going to take a break from making games.

Over the past decade, I have devoted all my passion and energy to game production and gained tremendous happiness that cannot be measured by money.

I sincerely thank everyone for their support and likes.

But now is the era of holographic games, and it will soon be the era of dream games.

I am full of anticipation and joy about this.

But I have to admit that traditional gaming formats are no longer applicable in this new era.

Especially 3A games that require huge investment are even more difficult to survive.

So I thought, it's time to take a break.

Break away from the identity of a game producer, return to the identity of a player, and immerse yourself in a new era of gaming.

Maybe one day in the future, we will meet again in the sprawling city.

goodbye!"

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The media and players in the gaming circle were very surprised at first when they saw this "retirement statement".

But soon I felt it was not surprising.

Even a giant like Sony Group is forced to sell its gaming business, so how good can these gaming studios be?
Especially for 3A masterpieces that require huge investments, who would be willing to continue investing money?
What if I don’t retire?

Players left messages of regret and blessings in the comment section.

Lamenting that there is no hope for a sequel to a well-known IP.

But just when everyone's sad mood was aroused, Hideo Kamiya suddenly appeared and issued his own [retirement statement].

The players were surprised and began to try hard to keep him:
"No wow! If you make traditional games, we'll buy them too!"

And then there was Corey King’s [retirement announcement].

Nate Walker's [retirement statement].

Cade Hawke and Sofia Mikhailova [statement on retirement to have and raise a baby].

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The most famous, well-received, and most sales-appealing star producers at Sony Game Station:

Without any warning, collective retirement!
This once again caused tons of damage to the Sony Playstation that was being packaged and sold!

(End of this chapter)