The infantry wearing heavy armor raised the shield high, braved the arrow rain of the night elves, and tried to move forward. The dwarf musketeers behind him shot, but did not kill several enemies. The furious King of the Hill finally couldn't help it. After using the Storm Hammer to deal with an elf archer, he rushed into the night elves' large army.

Before the dwarf hero could kill all directions, he was surrounded by numerous sieges, especially the blind man with a blindfold, who sucked his magic in a few strokes, making Muladin's Bronzebeard's powerful ultimate move, but could not release it.

"Ah! Ah..."

The howls of the human infantry before death continued to sound, but they had lost their commander and seemed to be defeated.

The dwarf hero who was unwilling to fail was still slashing the surrounding enemies in vain. The demon hunter had quietly approached his side and stabbed him with a fatal blow...

The great King of Hills fell and returned to the hero altar. The human troops without command collapsed instantly, and the failure could never be restored.

"Why did you lose again?" Ryan withdraws from the game unwillingly and asks the Blizzard technician beside him, "Is there an invincible mode? I want to abuse other races one by one!"

"Sorry, Mr. Jenkins." A technician explained, "This is just the latest experimental version, and many features have not been developed yet."

"Okay." Ryan stood up from the computer and said, "Does this version have a name?"

"It is currently tentatively set to be a chaotic regime." The person who spoke was Alan Adhan, CEO of Blizzard Entertainment, "This is a brand new version of Warcraft."

"Well~" Ryan nodded. He asked the question he was most concerned about, "When will it be available for listing."

“It takes one to two years.”

As the two of them spoke, they entered the office on the other side. After sitting down, Alan Adhan continued, "The balance of the game still needs to be improved."

"I won't interfere with the specific management." He doesn't know much about the gaming industry.

Ryan came here and heard that Blizzard had developed new game projects, wanting to see if they were the classic games in his previous life. When he borrowed the novel of the same name he wrote in advance, the "Warcraft" series has a more complete world view. Several famous heroes are extremely outstanding in setting, and the development progress and sales of the previous two generations of games are very ideal.

Blizzard Entertainment was also affected by the stock market crash caused by Nasdaq. Unlike those emerging IT companies, Blizzard's stock price has been under Ryan's instruction. Moreover, Blizzard has real performance as support, and is far from being at a level of collapse.

In fact, because of the almost crazy performance in the past six months, Blizzard's stock price has gradually stabilized.

Just at the beginning of this year, Blizzard's "Diablo 2" launched, sold more than 2.5 million sets in a few months after its launch. Another popular game, "Starcraft", also reached a cooperation agreement with Nintendo, which will appear on the other party's N64 gaming platform.

There is also Blizzard's Battle Network. Since its launch, the average daily number of registered users has been around 70,000. At the highest, it reached 150,000, and now it has nearly 8 million registered users. It has become the focus of attention in the industry.

All of this shows the strong potential of Blizzard Entertainment and has become an important factor in stabilizing its stock price.

Because there was an important date at the back, and without staying for too long, Ryan left Irvine, passed through downtown Los Angeles, and came to Glendale, a small town to the north. He met the person who invited him to come in a private club full of characteristics.

The one who could let him come here was definitely not a beauty. Ryan didn't have the heart to date a woman now. Nicole ran back to Australia. Natalie didn't answer his phone call at all. Even Charlize Theron answered the new movie and left Los Angeles.

Things seem to be moving in the worst direction.

However, a man’s life is not just about feelings, but about career.

Ryan always kept a clear head for this, so after seeing Jeffrey Carsonberg and Stephen Spielberg, he threw all his thoughts behind his head.

The three of them got on the electric car and came to the golf course. Ryan picked out a set of tools and played a few random shots, and then became the audience. After all, they came here not to play basketball, but to have important things to talk about.

"Stephen, when did you come back?"

The weather was a little hot, and Ryan walked under the parasol first. After the other two sat down, he asked, "Is the filming of "Pearl Harbor" over?"

"It's over, Michael is busy with post-production."

After taking the coffee handed over by Ryan, Spielberg smiled and said, "I haven't congratulated you yet. Ryan, "The Matrix 2" should be the first movie this year to have a box office of over 300 million US dollars."

The box office he mentioned is naturally the North American box office.

"When will Pixar's "Monster Electric Company" be released?" Jeffrey Carsonberg, who had been silent, suddenly spoke. "Facts have proved that computer animation is the future development trend, and hand-painted animation is destined to decline."

"Don't be so pessimistic, Jeffrey, I believe if we introduce computer animation technology from Pixar." Spielberg looked over, "Ryan will definitely not refuse."

"Of course." Ryan nodded solemnly, "Only when this industry has formed a sufficient scale can it create huge profits."

"Do you need me to say thank you, Ryan?" Katsenberg laughed.

"We don't have to be so polite."

Despite saying this, Ryan didn't think so in his heart. If it were just such a little thing, just a call would be enough. DreamWorks would never send out the two giants Jeffrey Carsonberg and Stephen Spielberg.

They made an appointment to meet themselves, and they must have other purposes.

"Toy Story 2 has not been released in some overseas regions yet, right?" Katsonberg brought the topic back to the animation. "The final global box office will definitely exceed $600 million! The achievements created by Pixar Studios are becoming more and more amazing."

"Dreamworks animation studio is equally excellent." Compliments are not expensive, and Ryan also said praise, "The Prince of Egypt has won the rare praise of animated feature films..."

"But the box office is far from what we expected, and you probably know that, Ryan."

Hearing Spielberg's words, Ryan nodded slightly. "The Prince of Egypt" has won more than 200 million US dollars in the world, but compared with huge investment, it is very difficult to even recover the cost.

Moreover, movies are too adult. Although they have been praised by the industry, they are not very popular among children, which directly affects the sales of peripheral products that are the revenue of animated movies.

The atmosphere fell into a brief silence. After Katzenberg gently buckled the table a few times, he said, "Ryan, we are all old friends. You should know the dilemma encountered by DreamWorks Animation Studio..."

Before Ryan could make any statement, he continued, "Breaking into the Golden City has brought us huge losses, which has directly dragged down the finances of the entire DreamWorks. We intend to divest it alone and become an independent company."

Ryan didn't speak, actually, he kept staring at DreamWorks Animation Studio, and was very clear about what happened during this period.

Since "The Little Ant Soldier", DreamWorks has been thinking of making a difference in the animation market, but in fact, the strength of this emerging company cannot be underestimated. Although "The Prince of Egypt" did not meet expectations in the box office last year, its combination of computer technology and traditional painting style magnificent visual effects and fine painting techniques has been praised by the industry.

Most importantly, they clearly analyzed that the themes of the previous two works were too serious and were not suitable for the atmosphere of animated movies. They deliberately dug up Tang Han, the producer of "The Lion King" from Disney, and invested 100 million US dollars to produce a family-friendly feature film "Brave into the Golden City" that children are more acceptable.

However, the change in style did not bring good luck to DreamWorks animation studio. "Golden City" landed in North America in March. After nearly four months of long-term screening, it only won a poor $50 million box office in North America. The overseas market has always been DreamWorks' weakness. Besides, the few overseas markets we have entered have only gained a few million dollars, which can only be said to be better than nothing.

Compared with the production cost of the movie of $100 million and the promotional cost of more than $30 million, this box office directly pushed the entire DreamWorks to the edge of the cliff...

If DreamWorks Animation Studio is stripped and it will conduct separate financial accounting, if there is no capital injection, there is only one way to go to bankruptcy.

"To be honest, Ryan, DreamWorks Animation Studio has encountered great difficulties."

These things are no secret in Hollywood. Katsenberg simply said directly, "The financing is very difficult at present..."

Another impact of the collapse of the IT myth is that major investment groups have shrunk their money and carefully examined related industries. DreamWorks Animation Studio has suffered consecutive failures in animated movies, and it is strange that they can attract investment from these vampires.

From the day when Drew helped buy the adaptation rights of "Shrek Monster", Ryan was actually waiting for an opportunity to reach out to DreamWorks Animation Studio.

"Stephen..." Ryan just looked over and Spielberg shook his head, "Dreamworks Animation Studio not only needs funds, but also needs great works that sell well."

"Although Pixar has excellent skills, the Toy Story comes from "Rion Story Collection". "Carsonberg hesitated for a moment," said, "Dreamworks Animation Studio next step will focus on computer animation. How about Ryan, let's hand over the adaptation rights of "Looking for Nemo" and "Kung Fu Panda" to us?"
Chapter completed!