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Although I knew about the Crazy Fun Festival a long time ago, I have been preparing to deal with the penguins.

But when the Crazy Fun Festival actually arrived, Lin Li was still a little unhappy.

This unpleasant feeling wasn't because the penguins were coming on strong.

Rather, it was because his own plans had been disrupted.

Originally, according to Lin Li's plan, Xinghuo was to enter a closed-door mode after E3 this year.

After more than two years of rapid development, which felt like inflating a balloon, we needed to rest and recuperate. We took one to two months to sort out our internal issues.

The pits that Xinghuo has created so far resemble countless stars.

Although these projects appear to be operating well, Lin Li can get a general idea of ​​what's going on.

But who knows if there are any landmines planted here?

The current spark is in its rising phase.

The collapse of a game's reputation affects not only that game, but also the entire market.

Lin Li knew, of course, that sooner or later, Spark would inevitably produce boring, even trashy, games, but he wanted to postpone that day as much as possible.

Why are generals who win every battle the most terrifying? Because people believe they will win the next war as well.

For Lin Li.

Before the Spark platform can gain momentum, he must ensure quality and maintain Spark's competitive edge.

To ensure quality, one really needs to calm down and focus.

So, the penguin's sudden stab.

This is what made Lin Li feel somewhat uncomfortable, because it essentially forced him to refocus his energy on the competition.

He also saw the advertisements for the Penguin October Crazy Fun Event.

To be honest, this move was quite deadly.

The current Spark platform is in a very delicate period.

It's about to take off, but it hasn't really taken off yet.

The comprehensive cooperation agreement signed between Ubisoft, Sony, and Lin Li is still just a pipe dream; it hasn't materialized yet.

Lin Li signed PC platform login agreements with a large number of Japanese companies, but these are just contracts; many games have not yet been launched.

Therefore, the current Spark platform still needs time to develop.

The penguins arrived precisely at this time.

Of course, Lin Li has never been afraid of competition.

Lin Li's trip to Ubisoft this time is also one of the countermeasures.

Chapter Forty: Three Purposes for This Trip to Ubisoft

There are three reasons for my trip to Ubisoft.

Firstly, regarding IP collaboration, Ubisoft and Spark had many discussions after the E3 investment, but very few things actually came to fruition.

Many details have not yet been agreed upon.

Ubisoft can wait.

But Lin Li couldn't wait any longer.

Especially regarding the promotion of Heroes of Might and Magic III Remastered, Lin Li hopes that Ubisoft can also get involved and support Xinghuo.

Besides Heroes of Might and Magic.

Lin Li also wanted to select one or two more IPs from among the many Ubisoft IPs to endorse, especially one that could be popular in China.

Furthermore, incorporate Chinese elements, such as in "Assassin's Creed: China".

When Heroes of Might and Magic III Remastered is released, let players have a taste of it first, and then promise them a bigger deal.

At that time, Assassin's Creed: China won't even need to release gameplay footage.

Just these few words: Assassin's Creed: China

sufficient.

Considering the sensation caused when Total War: Three Kingdoms was announced, Lin Li felt that Assassin's Creed should be just as good.

Even now, Assassin's Creed: China is only in the state of a newly created folder.

In addition to IP collaborations.

Lin Li's second objective was engine cooperation.

As time goes by, the application scope of the Spark Engine is becoming wider and wider.

This year...

We're already starting to move towards the 3A direction.

In the future, we may develop some extensions of major works.

Putting everything else aside, if we're going to expand on the development of Assassin's Creed: China, the Starfire engine is still far from sufficient.

This is not a technical deficiency, but an experiential one.

Many aspects of Assassin's Creed are optimized from the game engine's core; blindly applying them without proper understanding can easily lead to problems.

In addition, the Spark Engine has encountered some bottlenecks.

Both "Girls' Frontline: Siege" and "Future Defense" have been progressing with some stumbles and setbacks during their development.

Especially in the United States, where Spark is located.

For "Girls' Frontline: Siege", we had to communicate with headquarters about engine issues almost every one to two days.

So this time.

Lin Li also brought Borg along; besides Borg, there were about 20 other people.

Mainly people from the engine department.

They will be staying at Ubisoft for a while.

Ubisoft at this time was not like it would be a few years later. A few years later, Ubisoft was badly hurt by political correctness, but Ubisoft at this time was at its peak and had real substance.

As for the third thing.

This is also related to political correctness.

In Lin Li’s view, the reason why major international companies have been facing so-called political correctness issues is because…

The reasons are also related to the profitability of these large companies and the owners' expectations for management costs.

As ByteDance's CEO himself said, once ByteDance became huge, he was even willing to accept an additional 30% in management costs.

What do you mean?

This is something that could be done normally, and probably by seven people.

But in reality, there are 10 people in this position at the company.

Three out of these ten people represent normal management costs; this is a very normal management cost.

But as the company grows, 10 people may not be enough; 13 people may be needed to do the job well. These extra 3 people represent additional management costs.

Note that this management cost does not mean that the 13 people did nothing; it is very likely that these 13 people were working themselves to the bone.

As the team expands, a lot of useless and repetitive work will occur.

all in all.

For the owners of large companies, the larger the company, the higher the management costs are—this is something they are all well aware of.

Just like when you're thirsty, you need to drink water.

But precisely because they all knew about it and were used to it, they all fell into the trap of political correctness.

Many of the owners of large companies.

Because we've been making money lying down for too long.

I don't think it's a big deal to add female employees to my company, or to add LGTB people who are trying to cater to mainstream politics.

Do many people think these big bosses are stupid?

You know perfectly well that having LGBT individuals join the company is not good for the company, so why did you do it?

In reality, these big bosses are well aware that these LGTB employees probably won't be able to do much after joining, but they don't care.

They felt this was harmless, merely increasing management costs while gaining a good reputation.

Compared to the reputation gained, the additional human resource costs are negligible.

But they didn't expect it.

Once these people join the company, they will quickly infiltrate the entire company like a virus.

Whether it's because of LGBT or because of being a fairy.

Their actual work ability is not 0, but -10, or even -100.

Anyone who has worked in the workplace understands this.

If a company has a valuable possession, it can cause unrest throughout the entire company.

Not to mention a large group of LGBT people.

They will sideline regular employees and attract more LGBT people to join the company.

This series of reactions.

It fell to 24 years.

That's why major companies have all gotten caught up in the LGBT issue.

On the contrary, those companies that didn't open any loopholes in the first place were fine, like Rockstar.

of course.

This is not a bad thing for Lin Li.

It's even a good thing.

Everyone is running forward, so it's obviously difficult for Xinghuo to catch up. But if everyone is retreating, wouldn't it be much faster for Xinghuo to catch up?

Moreover, the influx of LGBT individuals into these large companies will inevitably disgust some of the bigwigs, at which point Lin Li can take advantage of the situation.

If you think about it carefully, most of the current employees at Spark America are people who were disgusted by those big companies.

Even though Ubisoft is currently enjoying its golden age.

That wouldn't be a problem; Lin Lixian could first cultivate relationships with his future employees and then establish a branch in France.

Who knows, in the future they might even be able to shout that Ubisoft's true lineage is at Spark.

of course.

At this moment, Ubisoft was unaware of Lin Li's wolfish ambitions.

Ubisoft executives made special preparations for Lin Li's personal visit to the company.

After all, Lin Li is also a major shareholder of Ubisoft.

In addition, Lin Li came under the guise of engine exchange and cooperation.

Ubisoft also prepared a special meeting, planning to invite Lin Li and several Spark executives to the stage to share their experiences with Ubisoft employees.

This is exactly what I wanted.

Lin Li was naturally willing.

He was just wondering how to have more friendly communication with Ubisoft employees when this opportunity came knocking on his door.

Think of this.

Lin Li turned his head again and asked Borg, the boss of Starfire Engine, who was sitting next to him.

"Borg, have you prepared your speech draft?"