Chapter 172 is still a loss, two games, two movies
Rnd actually overlooked a problem.
When he was worth 300 million, the most valuable asset in his hand was Berkshire Hathaway stock.
When he was worth 800 million, the most valuable asset in his hand was Berkshire Hathaway stock.
In two and a half years, Berkshire Hathaway has risen from 15,400 per share to 31,300 per share, and he got more than 50 million from "Jurassic Park". The proceeds from sharing ounts only turned into 140 million in cash.
He feels that this kind of ie is already very considerable, but...
The speed of asset appreciation has never surpassed that of stocks that do not need to be taken care of!
After all, of the 140 million, there are more than 90 million is his own endorsement value and "The Lion King" share!
If you calcte carefully, the more than 50 million you got at the beginning, after two and a half years of operation, he yed it into more than 40 million!
The operation is as fierce as a tiger, take a closer look at the stick in ce!
loss!
Compared with the increase in stocks, it is still a blood loss!
What a sad story this is!
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Although "The Seven Deadly Sins" and "The Shawshank Redemption" can bring him a steady stream of ie, as well as tickets to other circles, the book algorithm that ying film and television will result in long-term losses is still established.
The production cycle is too long, the return of funds is too slow, there are too many force majeure factors, and the risks cannot be controlled...
In this case, it would be silly to use your own money to make a movie!
Calm down, after reading the report that David brought, Rnd decided that if he starts a project in the future, he must not give David Fincher 30 million real money from his own pocket like "Seven Deadly Sins"!
Must find a bank loan!
Or start a film production project fund!
Borrow other people''s chickens toy golden eggs for yourself!
And my own chickens are thrown into the Inte field to produce nuclear bombs!
"140 million will be put in thepany ount first. Recently, there seems to be nowhere to use the money."
"Keep up with Yahoo''s financing progress and ensure that 20% of the shares will not be diluted. Then let the guy at the investmentpany pay more attention to Intepanies. If anyone seeks investment, just fax me the project report. "
"Other than that, there seems to be nothing else going on, right?"
"Oh, no!"
"Blizzard Entertainment, is the game ready?"
"Sony, is the game console released?"
Regardless of the past two months, Rnd has spent most of his time at home.
But he wasn''t just ying, but was concentrating on the announcement and release of the two films!
So much so that he ignored that yStation had logged in to America on September 9 this year, and he even forgot what Blizzard Entertainment''s "Spider-Man" development looks like, and has "Warcraft 2: Dark Tide" already started production?
He doesn''t know anything!
Looking at Rnd who was pping his forehead, David leaned back in the chair and yawned. After searching for a while, he pulled out a book and threw it in front of Rnd, "yStation has been released, "Jurassic" "Ji Park" game discs have also sold a lot, as before, people who like Steven don''t like this game, but they still bought it."
"From September to now, sales have exceeded one million sets."
"However, Sony has encountered a problem. The yStation is prone to overheating during the running of the game, resulting in disk reading errors, so that many yers choose to turn the machine upside down to let it dissipate heat when ying games."
“Because of this problem, Sony had to adjust and modify the machine that has not yet left the factory.”
"The new version will beunched next year. In this way, even if the sales are good now, it will not be enough for them to celebrate the sess."
"Because the problem of disk reading error cannot be solved, then this product will eventually die violently."
Oh...then I''m relieved...
Hearing what David said, Rnd nodded.
Anyway, he was the one who encouraged Spielberg to sell the game copyright of "Jurassic Park" to Sony.
If the sales die suddenly, it will affect Spielberg''s ie, now...
Sony just got into the heat dissipation problem that Rnd encountered in his previous life, so how to adjust and modify it has nothing to do with him!
"As for Blizzard Entertainment..."
After seeing Rnd nodding his head and expressing his understanding, David continued: "The "Spider-Man" game has been finished, but Sony ns tounch it together with next year''s movie, and "Warcraft 2: Dark Tide" will be released on the fifteenth day of next month." No., it will be listed for sale.”
"Because you are rtively busy, Blizzard Entertainment directly connects with Sony and EA."
"Not only that, they are also eyeing a game studio. Do you remember the bonus you gave them at the beginning of the year?"
"You gave them 30% of thepany''s profits as a bonus, and let them handle the remaining 70% by themselves. They can develop any game, so they asked for half a million dors from the financial department to pay for it. The name of thepany has invested in another game project called Condor Studio, ording to the report given to me by the general manager of thepany, what is the name of that game project..."
"Diablo?"
"Mike wants to swallow that studio. Although you told them that they don''t need to call you for project establishment and acquisition, and they can make decisions on their own, they didn''t do it right away, but wanted to tell you when you were done. One sound, anyway, the project has already been taken down, so there is no rush to buy it sooner orter..."
I''ll be good!
Isn’t Condor studio Blizzard North?
Rnd, who was cosying Sunflower with his hands on his cheeks, justughed.
This is what a qualified employee should do!
Thepany is my family, and development depends on everyone!
After learning that the group of guys ''made their own decisions'', Rnd nned to go to thepany.
Regardless of how "Spider-Man" is doing, whether "Warcraft 2" can be released or not, he will not change the decision of professionals, and what he wants to do is actually to find some fun in a boring life.
For example, y a game you just made.
So, after instructing David to call Scarlett''s mother when Double Star''s new season-changing products areunched, and inform the other party to bring her daughter to take pictures, Rnd throws a lot of things to David''s feet again. .
Picked up the phone and asked the driver to drive to Blizzard Entertainment headquarters in Irvine.
With Rnd''s arrival, the Big Three of Blizzard, who hadn''t seen him for a year, extended a warm wee to him. When the project went on sale, and when the new project wasunched depending on the sales situation, Rnd was not stingy, and paid for it out of his own pocket, and set up an internalpetition within thepany.
Thepetition items, of course, are "Spider-Man" and "Warcraft 2"!
Employees can choose their own projects to participate in. All registered contestants can get a participation award of 1,000 US dors, and the individual champion can get a huge reward of 100,000 US dors. million bonuses.
Of course, the prize money for the championship and Asian season does not ovep with the participation award.
To put it bluntly, Rnd was annoyed by those ttering phone calls, and paid employees to y games with him.
But for those staff members in Blizzard, this is simply a way for the boss to give benefits in a different way!
Programmers from gamepanies are indeed very popr these days, but that ispared to fresh graduates from other industries.
After all, video games these days are not a money-absorbing weapon in the future, and the sry of programmers is high, but it is unimaginable to spend 100,000 dors a year. In addition, many guys are self-employed, so...
Everyone is fighting for their dreams, as for money?
Under Rnd''s decentralization of money, Blizzard''s treatment is already in the first echelon of the industry.
Rnd knows better than anyone else that the boss sings well rather than doing well.
Under the circumstances that the gamepany is not expected to make a profit at all, giving benefits to these guys is actually helpful to the development of thepany''s products, and what he wants is actually fun games and IPs!
So, when Rnd asked his assistant to take out the cash and pile it into thepany, more than forty people had already signed up.
As the bonus sponsor, Luo Lanna certainly has the right topete with everyone.
Although he has yed "Warcraft 2" before, but he touches the keyboard again after many years. If he wants to beat the developers in the battle, it is simply a dream, and the gap between the third generation and the second generation is actually very big. Big one, so what kind of armaments cooperate, in fact, they can’t fight, but the introduction of the fog of war for the first time allows him to stage various tactics, but unfortunately, the game is yed in a public ce, he just yed Twice, the next yer has already watched the meeting.
"Wow, can you stop peeping at the screen!" Rnd was a little ''crashed''.
"Boss, of course we can avoid spying on the screen, but your tactics are indeed something we didn''t think of when developing the game before. We are just learning now, er... yes, learning, in order to better develop the next version."
With such ''shameless'' employees, even if Rnd has three heads and six arms, he can''t beat them!
He also finally understood why Harry told Ron that two guns were better than wands.
Because as long as you headshot your opponent with one shot, you can win!
Of course, "Warcraft 2" can''t beat the developers, it doesn''t matter, "Spider-Man" is a side-scrolling fighting game, it''s purely about operation and understanding; Rnd could clearly feel that the game in front of him was really simr to the "King of Fighters" with cool skills!
The point is, the operation is simple!
Let’s take the key position of ‘→+X’ as an example.
Use Spider-Man to rub out this sequence, that is, the wrist spits spider silk;
Use the Green Goblin to rub out this sequence, that is, throw the pumpkin bomb;
Using Dr. Octopus to create this sequence, that is, the arm behind the back is suddenly extended for a long-distance extended strike;
Use Professor Lizard to rub out this sequence, that is, take out a brick or trash can or stone from the ground out of thin air, and smash it forward.
To put it bluntly, during the development, Mike Mohamy and the others made the final refinement of each character.
What long-range attack, melee attack, and control skills, these operations are all fixed by the same key position, so that yers can be familiar with all characters in the shortest time after purchasing the game.
Doing this can help yers get started quickly, as for the degree of yability...
That of course follows the decline in the difficulty of getting started, and there is a certain reduction.
However, in their words, "The selling point of the whole game is actually the name Spider-Man and the skill maps made ording to theic book prototype. As for the operability, it can only be explored by the yers themselves."
"We don''t know what kind ofbos they can y."
"It''s like when you y "Warcraft 2" these days, you can y different tactics."
“A lot of things we couldn’t think of at the time of development.”
Rnd can understand the exnation of the Blizzard Big Three.
After all, the Big Three of Blizzard are just coders, they know a **** game!
DOTA was born in the map editor of "Warcraft", but it was acquired by Fatty G.
The behavior of throwing away the money that others stuffed into your hands, isn’t it enough to prove that the Big Three of Blizzard don’t understand the game at all?
The guy who doesn''t understand the game speaks the words to let the yer explore the game by himself, Rnd naturally understands it!
Of course, as far as he is concerned, he is already very satisfied with the current level of "Spider-Man".
Easy to learn and quick to fight, this is the core mystery of the game, there is no need to make it the same as "Street Fighter", rub skills and build energy, "King of Fighters 97" is Rnd''s favorite difficulty.
After all, the threshold is low, and the audience is wider, so the guys who are willing to spend money to try will increase ordingly.
Different from traditional fighting, "Spider-Man" is sold as a derivative product developed by IP, not a pure fighting game.
After spending a week holding the first Blizzard internal gamepetition, the dizzy Rnd was annoyed by the phone call, and finally left Irvine refreshed. Before leaving, he also told Mike and others, He felt that the game n of "Diablo" was well written, and he could try to win the opponent''s studio.
Rnd spoke up, and the others had no objections. Just when they were about to invite the four founders of Condor Studio to discuss acquisition matters, Rnd returned home and finally found a peaceful life.
He has been out and hiding for a week, if other people are still chasing him, it will be really unreasonable.
After returning home, as Christmas was approaching and the awards season hype was in full swing, Rnd actually didn''t have much work.
Together with the three Olsen sisters and James, I went to the theater to watch Pixar''s first step on the road to greatness - "Toy Story"; then I supported the Olsen sisters and participated in " Jumanji premiere.
At the premiere, Robin Williams, who had helped Rnd once, asked him if he was interested in participating in his new project.
"New project?" Rnd blinked his eyes, feeling that there was something wrong with Robin Williams'' inquiry.
A-list like him, how can there be new projects that cannot attract investment?
"Yes, a new project, from Miramax, the Weinstein Brothers." Robin Williams nodded, not feeling that there was any problem with Rnd''s surprise, "You know, the two brothers like to save money. money."
"They searched for a book in 1995. It was about a cleaner with mathematical talent who solved the math problems of the MIT mathematics professor, but because he was rebellious and uninhibited, he often caused trouble."
"The mathematics professor appreciated his talent, released the cleaner on bail, and found a psychiatrist to help him find the meaning of life."
Hearing what Robin Williams said, Rnd immediately understood that this is "Good Will Hunting"!
Matt Damon and Ben Affleck''s famous work, and Robin Williams won the Oscar for Best Actor!
This kind of movie drew him into the game, of course he was interested, maybe after he asked about the entry conditions, he just waved his hand and refused.
"For a project with a total investment of 10 million yuan, they want to give up 8 million investment shares?"
"The point is, the ie that matches the 8 million share is only overseas distribution rights and copyrights other than America?"
"I can''t ept this kind of condition at all, Robin, if the copyright of the script is not in the hands of the Weinstein Brothers, then you can ask Matt and Ben toe to me directly, but if it is, I can''t get involved .”
That''s right, just when Rnd made up his mind to borrow chickens toy eggs, the Weinstein brothers had already used this trick with great proficiency.
80% of the investment share is sold overseas copyright?
The guy with a broken brain agrees to be ughtered!
Seeing that Rnd didn''t even have the mind to negotiate, Robin Williams, who knew the cooperation offer was a scam, stopped there.
After the premiere, Rnd, who was debt-free and young, booked the show and dragged James to watch two movies with him.
One is "007: Golden Eye" and the other is "Twelve Monkeys".
To be honest, when Rnd took James to the cinema at first, James refused because he didn''t like the "007" series. It has been disintegrated, that kind of old-fashioned routine, he is even morezy to waste time watching it.
As for "Twelve Monkeys", he felt that there was a problem with this movie just by hearing the name.
What''s wrong with seeing it?
Must see twelve monkeys?
With this free time, is it really not good to go to the zoo to see it by yourself?
The money including the movie theater is enough to buy hundreds of monkeys!
But after watching the R-rated movie, James, who couldn''t resist Rnd, realized that there was a reason why Rnd didn''t pull himself here!
"Who is the heroine in that movie just now? She''s so beautiful!"
As soon as he finished watching "Twelve Monkeys", James directly abandoned the plot of traveling through time and space, and asked about the information of the heroine Rnd.
"Do you know how old she is?" Rnd did not reply directly.
"How much?" James was very curious.
"My name is Madeleine Stowe. She was born in 1958 and is now thirty-seven years old."
"What? You can''t see it at all!"
"It''s right if you can''t see it! If you could see it, would you still be surprised now?"
That''s right, since "Twelve Monkeys" avoids a bunch of theories such as parallel universe, quantum theory, grandfather paradox, butterfly effect, etc., then Rnd really regarded this movie as a romance movie.
And what is the essence of romance movies?
Of course the heroine is beautiful!
When he was watching "Twelve Monkeys", he thought the heroine was pretty, andter he chased "Revenge" because of her beauty.
Now, after reading it again, he thinks it’s okay.
As for "007: GoldenEye"...
What I saw was actually the heroine.
There is no other reason. It is purely that the new version of Phoenix Girl Sophie Turner is really not as good-looking as the old version of Bond Girl Famke Jansen!
When "X-Men: Apocalypse" came out, he couldn''t get the appearance of Sansha, and the appearance in "X-Men: Dark Phoenix" was even more earthy, plus Aunt Johnson yed Phoenix When I was a girl, my appearance was already at a low point, so now I have the opportunity to see the Phoenix Girl when I was young, why would I refuse?
After "007: GoldenEye" was finished, Rnd turned to look at James and said, "How do you feel?"
"I think it''s OK." James pursed his lips and nodded, "It''s on par with Madeleine Stowe."
"Hey, by the way, why did you suddenly remember to watch these two movies?" James, who came back to his senses, felt something was wrong.
"Choosing an actor." Rnd shrugged and prevaricated with legitimate reasons, "I have a lot of copyrights in my hand."
"Choose an actor?" Hearing what Rnd said, James'' voice suddenly raised a lot, "What movie are you going to make?"
"My dad told me before that you have no intention of starting a new project recently!"
Note: ①yStation did encounter overheating when it was firstunched, and when it overheated, it read the disk incorrectly, so that Sony urgently repaired it. It wasunched in North America less than three months ago, and a repaired version was released in 1996. ②The copyright of "Good Will Hunting" was taken away by the Weinstein Brothers in 1995. They are also known to use other people''s money to do their own things when they make independent films. Even if they have money, they will not pay the full amount Invest in projects, and the benefits that are distributed are a beep.