Chapter 670 All glory belongs to the eldest son
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After making the application for the Star Wars version of Warcraft, Mike Mohuaimi and Robert Pardo did not actually expect to pass.
Finally, the reason why they couldn't pass was because the company could not have opened a fifth IP while already having four RTS IPs. Moreover, with a plan, there is no possibility of seeing what the quality of the game is. Although the Star Wars background "Warcraft" they mentioned in the plan is indeed very interesting.
However, this plan cannot be passed.
Originally, both sides thought that this matter had just passed, but who would have thought that Jester suddenly asked about Mike Mohuaimi and Robert Pardo. After seeing their performance in the company in recent years, especially after knowing that they had just applied for a game development plan, Jester asked someone to show him directly.
Of course, this is not a big deal.
After all, based on planning alone, it is impossible to determine whether a RTS is excellent or not.
When Mike Mohuaimi and Robert Pardo received the notice from the company, they were also very strange. After all, they were still self-aware. Their plans were not good enough to alarm Jester, and their game creativity was basically based on "Warcraft". As we all know, this is also a game of Jester, and it is a game that Jester attaches great importance to.
The comic novels and even animations of this game are endless. There are basically no more than five such games for Mars Entertainment.
Many people don’t know why Jester is so optimistic about this game, because RTS games are not a game type with high sales.
So, many people can only infer that yes. Jester likes the type of this game.
Mike Mohuaimi and Robert Pardo came to Jester's office with some anxiety. Although they knew that Jester wanted to talk to them about their ideas about their Star Warsized Warcraft, they definitely did not believe that it was such a simple thing, and there would definitely be other things.
After seeing them, Jester enthusiastically asked them to sit first, and then asked them if they were compatible with coffee.
Then he told them that he still had some things on hand that he had not finished dealing with, and he would talk to them after he had finished dealing with them.
The two of them had no objection, and they could say they dared to have any objection.
In fact, Jester really has some feelings for the game "StarCraft". As a game for his e-sports enlightenment, in his eyes, the best game in the world is "StarCraft", and what PS2 or waves are all thrown aside by Jester.
Of course, it was just a period of time that could be said. That period of time was a period of time when Jester was really immersed in the fun of e-sports.
Moreover, Blizzard also attaches great importance to the IP "Starcraft".
Including the overall decline of the RTS game later, the poor sales of S2 cannot be considered poor sales. A game that can sell tens of millions of dollars is not considered bad anyway. Blizzard can still invest a lot of financial and manpower in the development of the s2 sequel.
Some people even analyzed Blizzard's financial report, and their investment in s2 is almost the same as that of o.
You should know.o is a monster-level game that can provide Blizzard with at least one billion US dollars in revenue every year, and the total sales volume of S2's expansion pack, SS Swarm Heart, is only four million.
It can even be foreseen that the sales of the third expansion film "Legend of the Void" could not even reach 4 million, maybe only 3 million, but even so, Blizzard still provided S2 with a development team that is not inferior to World of Warcraft to develop this game. You can tell at one time how much Blizzard attaches great importance to this game that is not profitable.
It would have been fine if this was the Blizzard ten years ago.
After all, at that time, Blizzard always used the quality of the game as the first criterion for assessment. If the games that did not meet their requirements were completely abandoned than to be released.
Later, when Blizzard was not like this, it can be seen from the charging test of Diablo 3.
In addition, afterwards, he turned to the development of small-level games and gave up big projects that could really affect the industry, he knew that Blizzard's first goal now has changed from making the best game in the world, making a pretty fun game, and then making the most money as much as possible.
But StarCraft 2: The Legacy of the Void is not the case at all.
Because this game will definitely not make much money, with a maximum sales of three million sets. For Blizzard, this level of game is simply negligible. You know, Diablo 3 sold 30 million sets with only one expansion pack, and 1 million sets were sold in ten days in China. If Blizzard draws two-thirds of the development team of Void Legacy to go to Diablo 3's team.
Then the expansion pack of Dark 3 may be created and can be made.
This is an IP that makes more money than Star 2.
Even if you give Hearthstone, it's better than Stars 2. After all, Hearthstone's card output speed is still too slow. Magic can produce three or four environments a year, while Blizzard only has two environments a year. The most important thing is that Magic is a card, Hearthstone is not a card, and Hearthstone's annual turnover may be higher than Stars 2's sales.
Even if you give the new game Overwatch, you will earn more than to give the Star 2, but Blizzard is like this.
They just need to put in a lot of manpower and financial resources to develop StarCraft.
Many people later analyzed why Blizzard did this, and there was no accurate statement. However, Jester agreed with one view, that is, the status of the "Starcraft" series in Blizzard's heart may be unparalleled.
After all, this is a series that completely makes Blizzard a work with industry influence and a series that completely changes Blizzard's fate.
If "Starcraft" had not emerged, Blizzard's final fate might not have been much better than Ximu, so "Starcraft" has a very high status in Blizzard's mind.
It's like the line Blizzard set for the Star Spirit in the game.
"All glory belongs to the eldest son."
And the eldest son in Blizzard's mind is "Starcraft". (To be continued...)
Chapter completed!