Chapter 460
Qin Shaoyan's words seemed to have magic power, constantly tempting people who were not determined.
George helped next to him and said with a sincere expression: "Ice Frog, you know, we can definitely provide more favorable conditions than Blizzard."
"As the person in charge of the DOTA project, you are in charge of the entire project, and the company management will never interfere."
"At this point, it's impossible for Blizzard to promise you."
Ice Frog thought for a while, "I need to think about it."
At this time, he has not completely given up on Blizzard's fantasy.
Qin Shaoyan added at this time, "You have three days to think about it. After all, we have already approved the project and we will not delay the progress for you."
Ice Frog frowned and thought for a moment, "Have you ever found anyone else?"
Qin Shaoyan replied casually: "I have found Steve Guinsoo."
Ice Frog was stunned for a moment when he heard the name, and couldn't help but ask: "Did he agree?"
Qin Shaoyan smiled and did not answer, but added, "You have three days."
Fatty G sat next to him and smiled, stretched out his generous palm and patted Bing Frog on the shoulder, "Think about it carefully, V Agency is your best choice."
Ice Frog nodded, but what he was thinking about was Guisuo.
The founder of the DOTA game is called Eul. He designed a 5V5 MOD and called it Defense of the Ancient, or DOTA for short.
However, he only designed the prototype of DOTA, and Guisou subsequently improved the entire DOTA mode, turning it into a 5V5 confrontation, and became the true DOTA now.
In order to commemorate these two creators, two weapon props in the DOTA game are named after them, namely "Eul's Holy Staff (Wind Staff)" and "Guinsoo's Evil Scythe (Sheep Knife)".
In 2005, Guinsou left the DOTA production team and joined Riot Games to develop the subsequent "League of Legends".
There is also a weapon in "League of Legends" named after him, called "Guinsoo's Fury Blade".
Ice Frog knew that Guisuo had joined a gaming company, but the two had not been in contact for half a year, and the other's current situation was unclear.
Guinsou has long been aware of the fatal flaws of the current DOTA, so he left the DOTA maintenance team and prepared to start a new DOTA from scratch.
George stood up and sent the ice frog away, and Fatty G looked at Qin Shaoyan, "Will he agree?"
"He will definitely agree. Blizzard is greedy and lacks strategic vision. It is difficult to achieve anything with arrogance and stupidity. In the future, it will only live on leftovers." Qin Shaoyan sneered, "Only we can give DOTA a new life. We don't need Ice Frog now. , but the Ice Frog needs us.”
Blizzard is now at its peak, blossoming in both stand-alone and online games.
And Qin Shaoyan unceremoniously criticized the current gaming giants for being useless, which was really eye-catching. Fatty G was a little stunned when he heard this.
The DOTA project was initiated by Qin Shaoyan. He contributed part of the money to develop the game engine in cooperation with V. Fatty G only agreed because of Qin Shaoyan's face, otherwise he would not have thought of doing it.
Otherwise, G Fat would have to wait until "League of Legends" became popular all over the world before starting the project of "DOTA2". By then, the day lily would be cold.
Qin Shaoyan turned around and smiled, and started to organize, "Anyone playing DOTA? Let's hold an internal competition within the company today. The winning team will be rewarded."
This proposal quickly received a positive response, and soon V club gathered six teams and started a round-robin competition.
Qin Shaoyan is a veteran DOTA player for many years. He has not played it since he returned to this era. Today, his hands are itchy and he is ready to have a good time.
After selecting four teammates, Qin Shaoyan directly selected Dragon Rider and then started his solo show.
"FirstBlood!"
"Dominating!"
"Unstoppable!"
"MonsterKill!"
"GodLike!"
"HolyShit!"
The words of mass killing resounded through V Club, and bursts of cheers and applause erupted from time to time.
Looking at the record of 32 kills, Qin Shaoyan said with emotion: "I haven't played for a long time, and my hands are raw."
Although Mingyue didn't understand DOTA, she was watching it with interest, "Can you teach me how to play?"
"Okay, okay, let's play black together when we have time." Qin Shaoyan agreed hastily.
When the two were chatting happily, Qin Shaoyan's cell phone rang. He picked it up and saw that it was Edward's number.
Qin Shaoyan picked up and asked, "What's the matter?"
"Rist Games has agreed to our investment conditions." Edward reported directly, "Is it going according to the original plan?"
"Don't worry yet." Qin Shaoyan smiled and said, "Play with them."
"It's them who are worried now, not us. You can leave them alone for a few more days."
Edward understood instantly, and then asked: "Do you want to bargain again?"
"It's okay to cut it a little bit, don't worry too much." Qin Shaoyan said casually, "Our main purpose is not investment anyway."
Edward promised, saying that he would do a good job.
After Qin Shaoyan hung up the phone, he continued to participate in the fierce competition. After playing for a while, he left V Club.
On the way back, Zhang Pingyi, who was sitting in the passenger seat, asked, "Since you invested in Riot Games, why do you still want to cooperate with Valve to develop DOTA?"
"Children only do multiple-choice questions, but I want them all." Qin Shaoyan chuckled.
"Oh, I understand." Zhang Pingyi suddenly realized.
"No, what do you know?" Qin Shaoyan was a little surprised, why Zhang Tianshi suddenly became enlightened.
"This is your investment logic. You cannot put your eggs in one basket." Zhang Pingyi replied, "Investing in two DOTAs has a higher success rate."
Qin Shaoyan was a little dumbfounded, "If you understand it so well, you can't be wrong."
Zhang Pingyi didn’t have any perspective, so he naturally didn’t know that Riot Games and V Agency were not doing the same thing.
Both LOL and DOTA2 are MOBA-type games, but the differences are still very big, especially in terms of difficulty in getting started. LOL is much simpler than DOTA2, and it is easier to attract more players to join.
Zhang Pingyi thought for a moment and asked: "If Ice Frog doesn't agree to the invitation, will you dig up Guisou and come to do DOTA2?"
"There is a high probability that Ice Frog will not refuse, because we have given too much." Qin Shaoyan replied with a relaxed expression, "Guinsou has his uses. If he is allowed to do DOTA2, it will not be DOTA."
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"What is that?" Zhang Pingyi asked very curiously.
"No matter what it is, if two people have different design ideas, the games they produce will be very different." Qin Shaoyan said with emotion, "When the two projects are completed, let the market test it to see which one is better."
"But what is certain is that there is definitely nothing going on with Barbarian King and Ryze here."
"Who are Barbarian King and Ryze?" Zhang Minyi was very puzzled. He also plays DOTA and knows the producers of DOTA very well. He couldn't remember that there were people named Barbarian King and Ryze. "Two insignificant people." Qin Shaoyan replied, "But there is still a key person who needs to be dealt with."
"Who is it?"
"Pencil Dragon."
"Who is Pencil Dragon?" Zhang Minyi was even more stunned, "Isn't there such a person in the DOTA production team?"
"Indeed not, but this man has a very close relationship with DOTA." Qin Shaoyan laughed, "He is the key to breaking the game."
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At this time, Pencil Dragon is carefully maintaining the backend of the website as carefully as taking care of a treasure.
dotaallstars.com, the core forum for DOTA players, is Pencil Dragon's most precious treasure.
On October 14, 2004, Pencil Dragon founded this game forum mainly for DOTA players. Under his operation and maintenance, more and more DOTA players gathered here.
A year later, this small forum with 30,000 people became a large forum with one million visits per month and maintained by hundreds of volunteers.
What is the concept of one million users in 2005? It can definitely attract an investment of tens of millions of dollars.
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Countless players discuss the game in the forum, and thousands of creative ideas and ideas are gathered and collided here, and DOTA also absorbs many ideas and creativity.
It can be said that the growth of DOTA is inseparable from the active construction of players, and the DOTA forum has become an inseparable part of the DOTA game.
As the founder of the forum, Pencil Dragon is very ambitious. As the forum continues to expand, his ambitions are also constantly expanding.
He is different from other members of the DOTA game production team. Dota was founded by a group of enthusiasts from the beginning, without any commercial factors, and they all worked for free.
From the original Eul, Guinsou to Ice Frog, they all used love to generate electricity and never thought of asking for compensation.
Pencil Dragon was different. He keenly sensed the huge business opportunities in this game, so he joined the production team as a volunteer at the beginning, thinking about how to commercialize this game.
The DOTA forum is growing rapidly, which greatly increases the chance of success for his commercial ambitions.
The forum with millions of users in his hands is his greatest capital. Of course, how to use this capital is crucial.
But he currently has a very big trouble, or the biggest obstacle to making money, and that is the members of the DOTA production team.
Yes, Pencil Dragon really wants to kill these DOTA production members.
Although there would be no Pencil Dragon's current opportunities without the free contributions of these DOTA production members, they also hindered his commercial ambitions.
Pencil Dragon is not the developer of the forum website, he is just the operator of the website, so he proposed an idea to the production team on the pretext that website operation requires a lot of money.
He hoped that Neichus, a member of the production team, would change the name of the razor from razor to razer so that he could obtain commercial sponsorship, but Neichus refused without hesitation.
DOTA is the result of everyone's wisdom. If you use commercialization to make money, you will tarnish the game.
Not only is Neichus's idea, but Ice Frog also has the same idea.
Pencil Dragon was very angry in his heart. He felt that these fools were simply sick. Can their enthusiasm be used as food?
If you don’t want to make money, don’t stop me from making money!
It can be seen from the operation of this matter that Pencil Dragon is a very smart businessman, but his businessman seems incompatible with the selfless dedication of these developers.
Pencil Dragon's commercialization idea was frustrated, but he still did not give up. He has been actively looking for any opportunity.
Soon, he waited for an opportunity.
When Pencil Dragon maintains the forum, he often communicates with some players and users. Recently, he met a very thoughtful user.
This user ID is called Guoren. He will often come up with some amazing ideas, which soon attracted the attention of Pencil Dragon, so the two often communicated by email.
Motherland: "Hi, bro, I recently got an inside message, it involves some business secrets, it's about DOTA, I'm hesitant to tell it."
Pencil Dragon: "It doesn't matter, you can tell me and I will keep it a secret for you."
Motherland: "Really? I don't believe it unless you swear."
Pencil Dragon: "Okay, I swear, can you tell me?"
People from the motherland: "Do you know? Where did Guinsou, the second designer of DOTA, go after he quit the production team?"
Pencil Dragon felt a little disdainful. Of course he knew where Guisuo had gone.
Guisuo also knew that he could not make much money from DOTA, so he quit and found a job at a game company. He planned to make money while making a new game, which was more in line with his concept of a DOTA game.
Pencil Dragon: "I don't know."
Homelander: "He went to a company called Riot Games. That company recently received an investment of 10 million US dollars. Did you know that Guinsou holds 30% of the shares in that company?"
Pencil Dragon: "I bought it!"
The news shocked him, an investment of ten million US dollars!
If calculated this way, wouldn't Guisou have three million US dollars...
No, US$10 million is just an investment, it does not mean that the company's valuation is US$10 million, which means Guinsoo's net worth is higher.
Pencil Dragon's eyes turned red with jealousy after hearing the news. Guinsoo is nothing but a game designer with some creativity and ideas. He can get so much money just by being creative.
I have a website with one million users, so I should get more money.
People from the motherland: "Guisuo is not the only one who has made a fortune, you know Bing Frog, right?"
Pencil Dragon: "What happened to the Ice Frog?"
A native of the motherland: "He received an offer from Blizzard. Blizzard is going to give him a designer position to specialize in maintaining and developing DOTA. I heard there will be bonuses."
Pencil Dragon: "Fake!"
Homelander: “Not only that, I heard that Valve also extended an olive branch to Ice Frog and asked him to set up a DOTA game project alone. The funds and resources are very sufficient, and the bonuses and shares given are also very generous.”
Pencil Dragon: "HolyShit!"
Damn it, you all talk about being noble and pretend to be like chaste and fierce women, but in the end, each one of you is selling faster than the other behind your back.
Pencil Dragon's face was almost twisted with jealousy, and he wanted to smash the computer in front of him.
When I asked you to get sponsorships, you all refused, but then you turned around and sold DOTA yourself.
You can sell it, but I can’t?
Motherland: "Actually, you are also the creator of DOTA and a member of the core team. You can also raise an investment to establish the DOTA project."
Pencil Dragon was a little embarrassed when he saw this suggestion. Why didn't he think about it? But he didn't understand technology and had never participated in the production and development of DOTA. He was just a website operator.
People from the motherland: "They have all gone to work on projects in game companies. I am afraid that no one will maintain DOTA in the future. I am afraid that this forum will also lose its usefulness. It is a pity."
Pencil Dragon's eyes lit up, yes.
I still have this forum. While the forum still has value, I can sell it for a good price!
(End of chapter)