Chapter 1004: New Year's Eve (Part 2)

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It is already not easy for a company to produce one hit, let alone Blizzard has produced several in a row; in order to bring high-quality masterpieces to players, it is normal to spend more time polishing.

However, the polishing time this time seems a bit too long; almost a year has passed and there is still no news about the new work, only knowing it is a two-dimensional open world, and nothing else is known.

In fact, the two-dimensional world has declined somewhat in China in recent years; it was originally a small circle, very popular a few years ago, but as young people gradually grow up, the loss of the audience is quite serious.

After all, middle school students now either play Honor of Kings or PUBG mobile games, or brush Douyin and Constable; Bilibili, the largest two-dimensional portal website, is also de-two-dimensionalizing itself.

The base is gone, so the situation is naturally not much better.

So fans are actually not very optimistic about this new work; they think that with Blizzard Studio's high level, they should be like the neighbor, turning Chinese IP into games.

Black Myth is an example; although three years have passed since the first video was released, no concrete results have been seen, but players are still willing to continue waiting.

Similarly, the hope players have for Blizzard Studio is also to produce a similar game, preferably one that can carry out a wave of cultural output on a global scale.

Black Myth already exists; can there be Black Three Kingdoms, Black Water Margin?

The neighbor Japan relied on Romance of the Three Kingdoms to create several big IPs, which also made many foreigners mistakenly think that the Three Kingdoms is actually Japanese.

This is caused by the insufficient cultural output in China; it's just that the number of manufacturers in China capable of outputting is really limited, so Blizzard Studio naturally shoulders everyone's hope.

However, Miss Luo Quan herself has never said anything about cultural output; she firmly believes that as long as the work is outstanding enough, it will naturally attract foreigners, and after generating interest, they will also take the initiative to understand it.

This is actually enough; if one must be like 'Lafu', making foreigners praise 'My Country is Amazing', that is called cultural output, then Miss Luo Quan feels the difficulty is comparable to landing on the moon.

Lafu himself is also acting so fanatically for money, and foreigners like him are not common on the internet.

As for how to arouse the interest of foreigners, many people may not believe it when said, and that is GHS (eroticism).

According to the report fed back from Li Jiang, among the several games produced by the studio, the ones with the highest popularity rankings are all female characters.

Tifa and Aerith in "Final Fantasy," Alice, Jill, and Ada Wong in "Resident Evil," Sylvanas, Tyrande, and Jaina in "World of Warcraft," and all the female heroes in "Overwatch."

According to data provided by certain foreign websites, the above characters are the ones with the highest search indices in the 3D area, especially Overwatch, which truly occupies half of the 3D area.

Logically speaking, League of Legends came out many years earlier than Overwatch, and there are quite a few female heroes, but their popularity on social media such as Twitter is far inferior to Overwatch.

One reason is that there are not many female heroes in League of Legends that conform to normal aesthetics, and the few that have come out recently are almost all politically correct black girls, and their images are even less likable.

And Overwatch, that is truly amazing.

As early as the internal beta, because the female heroes had high looks and good figures, it was given the nickname "Overwatch Ass."

After the public beta, character modeling was shared, directly allowing foreign big shots to make them into 3D short videos, and the heat became unstoppable.

Now search 'overwatch' on Twitter, you might not be able to search for any tweets related to competitions or games, but you can find more exciting, blood-boiling content.

So there is reason to believe that a large part of Overwatch's heat comes from these GHS video creators.

Interestingly, many people who didn't play Overwatch originally chose to join the pit after watching the videos, which served as a good promotional effect.

As for why they chose to play Overwatch, it's because the female characters in foreign games are all too ugly, none of them are watchable; they are either burly aunts or black girls with lips as thick as sausages.

Suddenly, Overwatch appeared; the female heroes inside are not all great beauties, but ones like Mercy, Widowmaker, D. Va, and Tracer are definitely the types that make people like them at first glance.

Comparing the two, those products of political correctness should all be dragged to the stake.

Without comparison, there is no harm; players' eyes are not blind, and mouths can lie, but "the body" won't.

It is precisely because of this reason that Overwatch saved a large sum of publicity fees; although it didn't sound very glorious at the beginning, it became a meme after a long time.

Blizzard Studio is also hailed as the studio that understands male players the most; from Final Fantasy to Overwatch, the heroines have never been 'lame', all are top-tier, and LSPs truly love them to death.

So GHS is the primary productive force; if a game with decent gameplay and image quality has characters that are pleasing to the eye, then it is easy to become popular.

Why can't Dota 2's popularity compare to League of Legends?

Besides the troublesome account application and more complex operation, the strange character modeling is also one of the reasons.

So Miss Luo Quan has always emphasized to the subordinates doing art that the game's characters are the facade; only when the characters look good can they attract players.

And the design can be bolder; female characters can also be sexier; 'bland nun' games are hard to become popular.

After all, not only men, but female players actually prefer these more charming female characters.

And this is also the reason why she chose to make two-dimensional games.

Don't look at the two-dimensional world as if it's not working in China, but it is quite influential internationally; after all, with Japan's efforts over the past few decades, it has made a name for itself and opened up a huge market.

She is now picking the peaches; after all, Japan's current two-dimensional games are also in a state of succession, with nothing particularly outstanding.

Standalone masterpieces are coming out every year, but the art style is 3D realistic, which is very different from the pure two-dimensional style.

This is a huge market gap; although netizens are not optimistic, she has discovered the business opportunities hidden in it.

It's just that the game is not ready yet, so no matter how fans play, she has no content to talk about:

"I understand everyone's mood of wanting to play new games, but I can only say that the game is still in production, and news cannot be revealed in a short time."

Fans also knew this result, so they were not particularly sad, just teased:

"It's being made, it's being made, referring to just having created a new folder."

"Haha, in fact, Blizzard Studio's production speed can be considered a leader in the industry; an average of 1.5 works a year is really not small."

"Recently, many foreign media are attacking Overwatch for having characters that are too good-looking and politically incorrect; I hope Luo Bao can withstand the pressure and not be too affected."

"Don't worry, Luo Bao is most afraid of these media."

"Looking forward to the new work; as an old two-dimensional fan, I also want to change my taste."

"Mobile and computer interoperability, the image quality probably can't be counted on too much."

"It's the first time making a mobile game; be cautious and optimistic; wait until the first promotional video comes out before blowing it."

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Miss Luo Quan's fans are relatively rational in most cases, and only appear relatively fanatical in a few times, such as when she takes swimsuit photos.

It is regrettable that this period of fanaticism has not appeared for a long time.

Urged by the fans, Miss Luo Quan, who was not very sleepy, was forced to go offline and asked to go to sleep quickly.

"Aging starts to accumulate from every time you stay up late; don't look at your skin being smooth and tender now; continue staying up late and wait to become chicken skin!"

"Hurry up and sleep, Luo Bao; early to bed and early to rise is good for the body."

"You've been broadcasting for several hours; no matter how excited you are, you can't do this."

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Before, when she didn't broadcast much, fans shouted every day to add time.

Now that she is broadcasting at high intensity, she is urged to rest quickly; Miss Luo Quan also thinks it's quite funny.

However, the fans are also doing it for her own good, so she will respectfully obey.

After closing the live broadcast, Miss Luo Quan lay on the bed and closed her eyes, and the spiritual power in her body began to circulate.

After meditation and sleep are combined, cultivation becomes an easy and pleasant errand.

Feeling tired, she can fall asleep in less than five minutes after closing her eyes, and can also increase her cultivation; even in the Universal, this is a very rare way of cultivation.

It is a pity that she cannot continue in this state for too long; after all, there are many things to deal with during the day.

The next day, Miss Luo Quan spent a whole morning reading this year's financial report.

The benefits this year were good, with a net profit of about 3 billion, and the reputation is also skyrocketing; now the Springwater Company is quite famous worldwide.

Next year, Miss Luo Quan decided to continue to expand the scale and seek more diversified businesses.

Now the company's businesses involve entertainment, games, and food; Miss Luo Quan feels that the development potential of electronic products is also quite large, and she can try to enter and see if there are any good projects.

"Finally finished reading." Miss Luo Quan lay on the sofa, lifted her feet, and stretched.

There is a lot of financial report data for a year, and after reading it carefully, she is already a bit dizzy.

The key is that as the boss, she cannot not look at this data; although the company's executives are people she trusts relatively, one must guard against others.

A predecessor once said that in any company with more than 100 people, it is impossible not to have corruption; the larger the company, the more serious it is.

Now Springwater Company is already a large company with thousands of people; she definitely doesn't believe that everyone is fair and honest.

So she won't investigate deeply if some small accounts don't match; it's normal wear and tear.

But if the amount exceeds a certain amount, she will definitely have to clean it up properly.

Many celebrities who collapsed this year fell into economic problems; she earns so much every year, so she must be more careful about taxes.

The good news is that Miss Luo Quan didn't find any big problems after reading the financial report, but the procurement prices of some products and employee travel expenses were a bit high; these can be treated as benefits.

After reading the financial report, Miss Luo Quan threw it aside and rubbed her slightly sore temples.

"Luoluo, have you seen the news?" Seeing Wen Xia, who was sitting next to her, suddenly asked.

"No, I've been reading the company's financial report." Miss Luo Quan twisted her body on the sofa, wanting to loosen her stiff joints, "What happened?"

"Si Cong hit someone and was administratively detained." Seeing Wen Xia replied, "It is said that Si Cong is very tough, refusing to accept mediation, preferring to be locked up for a few days rather than pay compensation."

"Haha, is his temper that big?"

Hearing such a big piece of gossip, Miss Luo Quan hurriedly opened Weibo to search.

Sure enough, Si Cong hitting someone and being detained has exploded; it happened last night, and the discussion count has exceeded 100 million.

As a celebrity who has been active since the early days of Weibo, Si Cong has been a top-tier celebrity for many years.

At first, he relied on his father being the richest man, speaking unscrupulously; he dared to comment on any celebrity, and from time to time, he would break some news unknown to the public.

Also because of his "true temperament," he gained quite a lot of fans online.

Of course, most fans were actually chasing his money.

However, as his father's Yifa Group fell into a debt crisis, and Si Cong's own investments also lost everything, he owed a lot of debt.

The entertainment industry's discipline committee, which was originally fearless, also became low-key and rarely appeared on the internet.

The last time he was on the hot search was a recent photo of him entering and leaving a bar with his girlfriend; he didn't know which girlfriend it was, and the last time he had four girls sitting next to him, he didn't know which one was his girlfriend, or maybe they all were.

Although the investment failed and the family wealth was not as good as before, Si Cong still possessed deposits that ordinary people could not reach, and he could still live happily even if he didn't work hard.

Many netizens criticized Si Cong, but in fact, who wouldn't want to have his background and family?

However, it is obvious that Si Cong didn't know what conflict happened with the person he hit this time, so he personally broke the other person's nose, which was preliminarily identified as a minor injury.

If he doesn't accept mediation, he will be detained for at least seven days; if he is unlucky, he will have to spend this New Year in the detention center.

The netizens in the comment section were also clapping and cheering, shouting that since he is a public figure and has caused such a bad influence, it is best to punish him to the limit!

In short, they were very happy to see Si Cong unlucky.

No way, after all, Si Cong was too jumpy on the internet before and offended many people; now that there is a chance to kick him while he is down, they naturally won't let it go.

However, Miss Luo Quan thinks that for the sake of face, Si Cong's father will definitely fish his son out.

It doesn't matter if the compensation is a bit higher, but if Si Cong really stays in the detention center for so many days, it would be too embarrassing.

So Miss Luo Quan predicted that it wouldn't be long before news of reconciliation would come, and maybe they are already discussing it now.

"See, the rich have to pay the price for doing evil."

After reading the news, Miss Luo Quan turned to her brother and said. ===== CHAPTER 1005 =====