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Chapter 215 Lost

After a while, Bill's door raised his head, looked at Jester carefully, seriously and thoughtfully for a while before he sighed. + Top + Dot + Novel x.

"You're talking about alliance?"

At this time, Bill Gate said a word used in Jester's words just now, not cooperation, but alliance.

"Yes, alliance."

Jester said with a smile, as if to say something very ordinary.

However, Bill's door was obviously thoughtful, and a hint of hesitation flashed across his face. He might not have made up his mind. But in the end he shook his head and rejected Jester's proposal: "I don't want to be so in-depth from the beginning. Cooperation can be negotiated, but the time for alliance has not come."

Hearing Bill Gate's answer, although Jester's face had not yet shown a voice, he was still a little disappointed. He knew that Microsoft would form a famous Microtel alliance with Intel in the near future. It was this alliance that closely cooperated and finally completed the unification of the PC field. However, Jester thought about it carefully and knew that the reason why Microsoft formed this alliance with Intel in the future is that both of them can complement each other in their respective advantageous areas, but he himself did not have the strength to impress Microsoft.

At least the gaming industry, especially the PC gaming industry, is not favored by Bill Gate. In fact, even Jester is not very optimistic.

Bill is not very anxious about cooperation. He cares more about what Jester said that he would buy Microsoft shares. To be honest, Microsoft shares are not difficult to sell now, and many people want to buy them. The problem is that at this critical moment, at the beginning of the New Year, he will go public and sell his shares to. The most important thing is to sell his shares. And Jester is indeed a more suitable choice.

No, Jester is famous enough, rich enough, and his entrepreneurial experience is legendary enough.

Of course, this kind of purchase is definitely not a small amount, and the price will not be low.

Bill asked the question of how many Microsoft shares Jester would buy in a very obscure way. Jester thought about it and although he couldn't buy too little, he couldn't buy too much. Just keep a moderate amount. If you want, you can continue to increase your holdings of Microsoft's shares in the future, because Jester knew that the report that Microsoft could bring him would be rich and terrible.

So, Jester revealed a price.

Although Bill Gate had heard about Mars Entertainment's money-making, a game can sell over 100 million US dollars in just a few days, it seems to be in it. However, seeing Jester's generous spirit seems to be not fake, he is very satisfied with this offer, expressing his sincerity and playing the purpose of promoting and attracting attention, and not overshadowing the main point. He essentially agrees.

Microsoft is not a company that he can decide alone, although it is the founder of Microsoft. So far, it still holds the vast majority of Microsoft shares. Selling such a large amount of shares with about 5% of the total shares still needs to be discussed on the board of directors.

But first of all, Bill must understand. In addition to expressing his sincerity, the other party should also ensure that the other party does not aim to make money by selling stocks after Microsoft's listing. Although there will definitely be a clause that prohibits trading within one or two years when trading stocks, and now asking Jester may not necessarily tell the truth, Bill still thinks it is more appropriate to ask questions.

Jester's answer also made Bill's door extremely satisfied.

"Mr. Bill, actually, I knew that when I had your speech today, I had this plan. I heard before that you are raising stocks and your company is planning to go public after the New Year. I am very interested in this, so I got the words I just met at UCLA today. Of course, I am very sincere about the cooperation in graphics operating systems, and I also want to form an alliance with your Microsoft company."

After hearing this, Bill Gate smiled. He felt that it was not impossible to form an alliance, but it was not necessary for the time being. In his eyes, it was impossible for Jester's game company to intersect the development of his Microsoft company.

In the end, the two just reached a verbal agreement, and the specific content will be back to the later agreement.

Before leaving, Bill also invited Jester to attend a charity party he held a month later, and there would be a small charity sale. Of course, the most important thing was to discuss Microsoft's listing. At that time, many Wall Street figures would participate.

Jester also agreed to the fullest, not caring about the big man on Wall Street, because his company will not go public and will not have any intersection with those people. He is not clear about the future, at least now, and Sandy Will is also steadily carrying out his plan to make a comeback, which is basically the same as the acquisition content of the data control company for commercial credit companies. In a few years, as the second largest shareholder of the commercial credit company, he will naturally become a big man on Wall Street.

A few days after his return, Jester originally wanted to think about what to do in his next game. Now that "Heavy Fighter" is about to be released, his team has already made corrections on holidays, and some people in the team have vaguely expressed their idea of ​​making the game by themselves, Jester has had to consider these.

With the development of the company and the continuous photos, Mars Entertainment is now the largest game developer in the world. As far as Jester knows, at the same time, his company had at least seven or more games produced at the same time, and the development team, including those wholly owned studios, had more than ten.

The more development teams the better, but Jester was happy to let it go. Those design teams with poor sales naturally face the embarrassing situation of disbandment.

It is so cruel in game development. Although the development team that makes the successful designers dazzling and the development team that produces best-selling masterpieces can turn into a sparrow and become phoenix and become luxurious in an instant, under the feet of these famous development teams, they are given one failed development team or studio after another.

Some development teams that could leave their names in later generations actually developed stumblingly, not just Japanese, but American, for example, Naughty Dog. This is the establishment of two high school students who love games on a whim, one of them was responsible for programming and the other was responsible for painting.

At the beginning, Naughty Dog's games were only made for their classmates to play, and they were only made PC games - as for why you don't make Fes games, this is not something you can make if you want to. Although it is not a Nintendo FC Alliance game company that can also buy development machines to develop games on FC, Nintendo's game review was very strict. At that time, Nintendo's certification was equivalent to being synonymous with high-quality products.

Whether it can pass Nintendo's certification and prevent its own development investment from being missed, it is just that the price of FC development machines is not something that two high school students can afford.

At that time, the game company of these two founders was not called Naughty Dog, but called Jam Software. Their first game earned 200 US dollars from their classmates, which greatly enhanced their confidence, so they began to develop on the Apple 2 computer, which was very popular at the time.

To be honest, if the first generation of Japanese game designers were trained through FC, then the first generation of American game designers were trained from Apple 2. Unlike other PCs, the promotion of Apple 2 at that time was that this was an entertainment computer. To put it bluntly, this is the meaning of a game console. Therefore, although Apple 2 is not equipped enough compared to other brands of computers, it is very popular among children, and there are many game programs on it.

Basically, the earliest group of computer game developers in the United States started their game development path from Apple 2 computers.

Naughty Dog, or the jam software, did not develop very smoothly. They started making games on Apple 2, experienced many failures and some minor successes. A person in charge of ea even met them and encouraged them. However, these two young people, their pet, a pet dog named Morgan, were also confused. Faced with the heavy academic work in college, they thought that they should continue this game company that has been renamed Naughty Dog.

Later, when these two young people were confused about their future, they met Mark Seni, who was then the vice president of Global Interactive Entertainment, and later the Victory Di Entertainment. After learning about their experiences and games, Mark Seni immediately knew that the two people he met were the two of them, and then began to provide guidance and help them as much as possible.

So much so that afterwards, when the founders of these two Naughty Dogs talked about Mark Seni, they would always call him their spiritual mentor. Without him, there might not be Naughty Dogs today.

Now Jester is also in a state of confusion. It is not that he does not have the inspiration for the game. In fact, even if one game is one every day, it can’t be copied for ten years. However, Jester wrote four or five games in a row this time, but after all, he suddenly felt disgusted and then tore up a lot of the plans he wrote to pieces.
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