My rebirth is different

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Facebook Games has just acquired Blizzard, so it turned around and came to find itself. Could it be... that they want to acquire Villefort? !

If the other party offers a high price that I can't refuse, then should I sell it or not...

Fatty G felt that it was difficult for him to choose for a while.

On the one hand, my company is booming, and the Half-Life series has become popular all over the world. Not to mention how rich the company is, but at least it is not difficult financially.

On the other hand, I am preparing for a big project!

If this project is successful, then Villefort will become one of the overlords in the game industry in the future, and it can even be said that there is no one!

So at this juncture, he is really reluctant to let Fatty G sell the company.

But since people from Facebook Games are coming, I still have to warmly welcome them. After all, Villefort and Facebook Games are also partners now.

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"Welcome everyone to visit Villefort." Fatty G greeted with a smile on his face.

Yu Wenfei took a look at this legendary fat man. Fatty G's full name is Gabe Newell, and he is not a fat man now.

He is in his early thirties, with a medium build, wearing a casual T-shirt and jeans, and has thinning hair. Sure enough, he has to become bald to become stronger.

Fatty G himself is also a technical expert. He came from Microsoft. Because of his love for games, he left his job to start a business. He and his good friend Harrington started the company Villefort.

This unremarkable fat man has a very wide network of contacts in the IT industry!

Ordinary small game companies may not even be able to get a game engine when they first start a business, but Fatty G directly approached a friend and brought the famous Thor's Hammer engine over.

This engine is used in the Half-Life series. It can be said that the excellent shooting feel of CS is also inseparable from the credit of Thor's Hammer.If you didn't get the Thor's Hammer engine at the beginning, whether Half-Life can still be popular is another matter.

"Everyone, let me show you around our company first. The game Half-Life was born here!" Fatty G said enthusiastically.

Villefort at this stage has nothing to visit. To put it bluntly, any department of Facebook or Facebook Games has many more people than this company!

After a group of people sat in the meeting room, Effie made it clear what she came for, and she said to Fatty G: "Mr. Gabe Newell, we are here this time to seek further cooperation between Facebook Games and Villefort, for example, let Facebook Gaming has invested in Villefort!"

This is the strategy drawn up by Yu Wenfei and Effie before coming here, and they talked with Fatty G. The best result is to be able to acquire Valve, and the second is to get the right to operate the Battle.net of CS.

Fatty G raised his head, sure enough, he's still here!

"Sorry, Villefort is fine now, I really can't find a reason to sell it."

Yu Wenfei smiled slightly, and said, "Is everything all right? What about the lawsuit with Xueleshan?"

Fatty G's face immediately changed.

Chapter 556 Everything Is For The Players

Villefort has indeed encountered trouble recently, which is what Yu Wenfei said, the dispute with Xue Leshan.

Speaking of which, Villefort and Sierra were once close comrades-in-arms and had a "honeymoon period" for a long time.

But in the end, they turned their faces because of interests.

This matter should be discussed from the very beginning of Villefort’s establishment. If there was no help from Sierra Mountain, Villefort might not have the present Villefort.

Villefort was founded by Gabe Newell and Harrington in 1996. At the beginning of the company's establishment, G Fat and the others wanted to develop their own engine, but after seeing Carmack's Quake1 engine, they were shocked. This is the game engine of my dreams.So I decided to ask for authorization from id and develop the game based on it.

At that time, their referrer was Abrash, who had been retained by Bill Gates himself but still switched to ID.Abrash has a very good relationship with ID boss Carmack, both of whom are experts in computer graphics, so Newell and Harrington met Carmack smoothly.The process of getting the engine license was also quite smooth, but the owners of ID were not very optimistic about their companies.

One problem solved, here's another: What about the company's name?Gabe Newell and Harrington thought hard, trying to find a name that was impressive but wouldn't have a negative impact. Valve!That's it!Villefort was finally born and began his own legendary experience.

Everything is ready, only the talents and publishers are responsible. In those days, game distribution was a big trouble. If there is no powerful publisher for a good game, then players will have no chance to get in touch with your game.

Gabe Newell personally invited John Guthrie and Steve Bond, who were delivering food at the university at the time, both dropped out of school.After the company was basically formed, they began to poach people everywhere, and Microsoft did not escape their search.

Once fully staffed, the selection of publishers once again gave Newell a headache.But those who are blessed don’t have to worry, Xue Leshan, who had planned to buy id with 250 million US dollars in stock (but was rejected by id because they wanted cash), offered an olive branch. It can be said that the Williams couple of Xue Leshan did have a pair Huiyan, the two choices are quite accurate.Sierra not only undertook Villefort's publishing work, but also provided them with a lot of money for game development.

Valve's talent, funding, and distribution issues have all been resolved, and the next step is to develop the game at full capacity.

But things didn't go so smoothly, because the investor Sierra Mountain's requirements were very demanding, surpassing Quake!

That's Thor's Hammer!

An epoch-making work that makes the game leap from 2D to 3D!

Relying solely on game graphics technology and Carmack?

That is absolutely a dream, even if Fatty G and Harrington are genius programmers, they clearly know that they are not qualified to compare with Carmack in terms of image technology.

So Valve decided to work hard on the game background and plot, as well as the player's sense of integration. id's Doom and Quake pursue a sense of speed and game play, so Carmack said: "The background of shooting games is like the plot in a small movie. Although it is necessary, it is not the most important." This sentence has also become a sentence. A classic, it has been talked about by people in the game industry for many years...

But Valve is trying to break out of this shackle. G fat spent a lot of money and commissioned the famous novelist Marc Laidlaw to write scripts for his games, so there were the famous protagonists "Gordon Freeman" and "Half-Life".

In the second half of 1997, after nearly a year of hard work, Villefort released screenshots of the game and made a splash at the E3 exhibition that year.Many people have praised Half-Life.That year's E3 brought Villefort a good reputation, but many people, including Carmack, were still not optimistic about the licensee and gave Villefort a lot of advice.

In August, Fatty G and Harrington made up their minds and decided to rewrite all the AI ​​and levels of the game, because they themselves were not satisfied.

So, everything has to be overthrown and started again.

Another year has passed, and 98 was quite an exciting year for Valve.The game development work is proceeding in an orderly manner, and the modified Half-Life once again shined at E3. After the first beta version was released in September, Half-Life immediately caused a major earthquake.

Half-Life has won numerous accolades, and Valve has since established itself in the game development world!

But in 2000, Harrington, one of the founders of the company, resigned and traveled around the world with his wife.This is quite similar to id, both are two talented programmers, both created great games, but both fell apart.

The happy Harrington went on vacation, leaving the lonely fat G to stick to the company alone.

After struggling for two years, during this period, Valverde has not released any new works, and the development of Half-Life 2 has not been smooth.

Because when Harrington left, Fatty G gave him almost all the company's cash in order to repurchase his shares!After Harrington left, in order to reduce expenses, Villefort even made layoffs, which is very rare in this company.

Blessings and misfortunes never come singly. In 2002, when Villefort was still recovering, the relationship with Sierra Mountain began to deteriorate again.

G Fat found that Sierra was illegally distributing copies of Villefort's games!

In other words, they secretly sold the game, but did not give Villefort a corresponding share.

No wonder Half-Life has become popular all over the world in the past few years, but Valve Corporation has not received as much money as imagined.

In a rage, Fatty G took Xue Leshan to court.After Xueleshan was acquired by VUG, they in turn sued Valverde for not working hard to make games, deliberately delaying time and wasting investors' money!The lawsuit between the two has never been resolved.

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Hearing Yu Wenfei mention Xuele Mountain, Fatty G's face naturally became ugly.

"Although it's a little troublesome, I think it will be resolved. It's not a big problem..." he muttered.