Hollywood Hunter

Talking about various topics, having dinner, and walking with the little man in the somewhat exaggerated mountain manor, holding his arms.

Actually produced the feeling of first love.

Inexplicable guilty.

His daughter also happened to be in love.

However, who cares so much.

"So, don't you really need to go to work this afternoon?"

"There were some arrangements that were temporarily pushed away."

"For me."

"Moved?"

"That's not good?"

"It's nothing bad. The entire Westeros system is a larger and larger machine. One goal I hope to achieve is that this machine can run on its own for a long time even if it completely leaves me. Otherwise, In a few more years, even if I split it up into a few, I can't be too busy at all."

"..."

"what happened?"

Grace glanced sideways at the little man next to her, with a smile on her lips: "I was thinking, if this machine no longer needs your control, would you feel uneasy?"

"Of course not," Simon understood Grace's meaning and smiled: "I am the owner of this machine, not the operator who is worried about losing his job, so the machine must be more automated as possible. And, if one day this The machine is completely out of my control, and I can’t tolerate it. I even have the power to break it up and sell scrap iron.

Power never comes out of thin air.

Simon's current power source is the huge business machine of the Westeros system. The stronger the Westeros system, the more powerful Simon will be.

As for the control of this business machine, Simon is a person who is very good at decentralization. However, decentralization is only a temporary release of power, not a waiver of power forever.

Perhaps the head of a country will be overhead by subordinates, but Simon is less likely to encounter such a situation.Because the heads of state in most of the world are at least nominally elected and ordered by the people, Simon is the real owner of the Westeros system that supports his own source of power.

Moreover, the shareholders of other large enterprises may hand over the enterprise to the management, and there may still be situations where they are occupied by the dove.

In the increasingly huge Westeros system, the most important thing is the talent pool, including senior professional managers who can be on their own. Therefore, no one can be replaced under Simon.

Unconsciously, I walked to the end of the manor’s lawn. A neat low pine fence that was about one person tall was a gentle slope surrounded by bushes and iron nets. Behind it was the bright afternoon sun.

Unable to move on, Grace did not turn around. She sat down on the lawn, felt the softness of the green grass in the sun, and lay down comfortably.

Simon sat down next to Grace and touched it with one hand, held by the woman, without retracting, and no extra movement.

Grace turned to rest her head on the man's lap, looking up at Simon, and asked softly, "When will you leave?"

Simon raised his wrist and looked at his watch: "Go back to Los Angeles at five o'clock, we still have three hours."

"enough."

"So easy to satisfy?"

"Can I not be satisfied?"

"No."

"Oh," Grace touched Simon's handsome face, feeling the faint stubble in her palm, and said, "I can't understand you."

"That's fine, it is said that mystery is the most attractive trait of women."

"Very skilled."

"Yeah," Simon's voice was suddenly faint: "It's been tens of thousands of years."

The light blue eyes that are common to Scandinavian women are flashing: "Ah?"

"Did I say anything?"

Grace said firmly: "You said it, it's been tens of thousands of years."

"You heard it wrong."

"No."

"Okay, I'm actually making a fuss about it. You know, the little boy wants to trick the elder sister into it, it doesn't have to be done by some means."

The woman is not reluctant: "Well, make up a story for me."

Simon hesitated a little,

Grace listened carefully to the man’s narrative. Light blue eyes blinked and blinked for a moment, and finally smiled, saying: "What a great story."

"Believe it or not?"

"Do not believe."

Simon smiled and asked, "Why?"

Grace reached out again and gently caressed Simon’s face, saying, "If you are really an ancient human who has lived for tens of thousands of years, you will not let yourself be known to the world like now, but try your best Hide yourself."

"You are wrong. Actually, there was a lifetime. My name is Alexander III. I once led my army and penetrated the whole of Europe."

"..."

"Later, because I was interested in physics at that time, I temporarily found myself an Isaac Newton identity. When I wanted to get out of that year, I could only replace a stupid who was interested in alchemy. No more achievements."

"..."

"In a little bit more modern times, I think human beings have been ignorant for too long, so I made a steam engine. Since then, human civilization has exploded exponentially. At that time, my name was James Watt."

"..."

Simon stretched out his hand to hold the woman's face, and the tone became faint again, revealing a bit of distant vicissitudes: "Little girl, do you want to know, who was I before Simon Westero?"

Grace's light blue eyes flickered, seemingly struggling to protect her collapsing outlook on life.

After a moment, feeling the familiar and gentle smile on the man's face, Grace forced herself to relax and said, "Will you kill me?"

"Why kill you?"

"I know your secret."

"Is it just a script I conceived temporarily, is it very interesting?"

"..."

"This is an idea that I had created a long time ago, but some joints haven't figured out, um, that, the kind that may cause religious disputes. Now, the idea is suddenly smooth, and it can be bypassed."

"..."

"I plan to use the film for 100,000 dollars to shoot this film. I’ll go back and put it on next year’s Sundance Film Festival. Bob complained last time that Sundance hasn’t seen any good movies in recent years. They once again felt the charm of the film, and it was able to produce a top-level sci-fi for US$100,000. I think about the movie name, "How about this man from the earth?"

"Simon, I promise you will never tell your secret."

"God, do you really believe it?"

"..."

"It seems I need to wake you up," Simon said, picking up the woman's light body, and got up and walked towards the villa, with a warning: "Remember, this is just a story."

"Ok."

"I think I can now take advantage of the situation to create a religion, which is definitely more promising than the scammers of science."

"..."

"Stupid Earthman."

"Ah, it hurts."

"Bear it, you must wake up before you leave today, and I won't tell you any ghost stories before I know it."

"Just really a story?"

"of course."

"but……"

"Stupid."

"Don't tell me that, you little boy."

"Now, give you a place. You can choose one of the girls under your name to participate in this movie. Forget it, let’s go to Qu Si Gaofu, lest a group of goblins fight. The image of Qu Si is just right. She takes several acting lessons."

"Can I come to act?"

"Twenty-year-old student girl, did you act?"

"I can act as a teacher."

"Don't make trouble, be your agent."

At more than five o'clock, he calmly appeased Grace's cranky thoughts before Simon left the mansion in Portola Valley, merged with Girl A who ran to Girl C overnight last night, boarded Boeing 767 and returned to Los Angeles.

In the afternoon, I was going to participate in a conference on Igret's social gaming business. The core is "Happy Farm" which has been in flames for more than half a year.Later, I felt that it didn't matter whether I attended the meeting or not. I just let Alison take the place of myself and stolen with Grace in the mansion of Portola Valley.

After the plane took off, Girl A handed Simon the minutes of the afternoon meeting and a document about Happy Farm.

After the launch of this technology-based social network casual game on March 25 in the first half of the year, the initial exponential outbreak in the past six months, the user growth curve of Happy Farm started to flatten.

Even so, after being online for seven months, as of now, the total number of players in Happy Farm has reached an astonishing 53 million worldwide, easily breaking through the expectations of the game operation team to achieve 50 million players in the first two years.At this stage, the number of Internet users worldwide is close to 200 million. Therefore, this number is equivalent to one in every four Internet users worldwide activating this phenomenon-level online game.

The EA company and the Facebook team responsible for development and operation are already considering applying for a Guinness record for this game, only because the number of players in Happy Farm continues to rise, and this has not been put into action for the time being.

Because of the huge popularity of this game, in the past six months, EA and Facebook have specially set up a team of hundreds of people to be responsible for the operation of this game.

Under the attention of the two major technology giants, this time "Happy Farm" has also clearly deviated from the leisure nature of the two versions of East and West, but shouldered more missions and meanings in the early stages of Internet development. The phenomenon-level online games that the universities try to enter into the MBA case, in various aspects such as development or operation, have too much to learn from and learn from.

A large part of the team of hundreds of people from the two companies has been quietly extracting and collating certain operational models and key data for the past six months.

In order to make way for "Happy Farm", although Igrid has opened its technology and platform, in the past six months, casual games similar to "Happy Farm" have basically been suppressed, and some obvious imitators have also been prosecuted.

Even within EA, after the development of "Happy Farm", which is similar to the "Happy Farm" mode, is only temporarily shelved, because "Happy Farm" is still in the ascending period, as long as its own gameplay is continuously updated appropriately, the popularity will not go temporarily. Downhill, so there is no need for "Happy Farm" to add icing on the cake. The team plans to choose the right time to launch "Happy Farm" during the 12 to 18 months of "Happy Farm", depending on the situation. The two games will be linked to continue "Happy Farm". vitality.

For the outside world, what is most concerned about is undoubtedly how much money "Happy Farm" has made so far?

The two companies did not give too clear figures, but only some industry media estimates, even if the figures are quite underestimated, enough to make too many game manufacturers and even other parties to the capital eye-catching.

The nature in Simon's hands has the most detailed information.

Initially, in the first week of opening, Happy Farm earned $2.61 million in sales of props, and the number of users at the time was less than 7 million.

At present, the total size of game users has reached the initial 7 times, because the payment channels in many overseas regions are not smooth and the increase in users' payment rates is inevitably reduced, resulting in a single week of revenue does not increase by the same multiple level. The income of the company still reached 13.91 million US dollars.

Putting it all together, from the time it went online on March 25 to the most recent revenue statistics before October 20, it took exactly 7 months. "Happy Farm" relied on its huge player base and accumulated a total of 196 million US dollars in game revenue. .

An online game with a development cost of less than US$1 million will receive US$196 million in half a year. This kind of huge profits, even if it is seen by a Latin American drug lord, is inevitable.

Moreover, drug trafficking is guilty, but the game is legal.

Stimulated by the success of Happy Farm, over the past six months, there have been thousands of game companies in North America. Although most of them are only two or three studios, there are many traditional giants involved.

Many people certainly understand that the success of "Happy Farm", in addition to the game itself to meet the needs of players, there is also the reason why Igrid has spared no effort to support, but who can be sure that he will not be the next lucky person, more Probably, even if only one-tenth or even one-hundredth of the success of "Happy Farm" is a peak for many people.

Although the interests of "Happy Farm" can never be violated, in the past six months, Igrid has indeed intentionally or unintentionally supported a group of successful people who have developed to the peak of life.

Another effect of this matter is that the technology launched by Igret has become an industry standard with absolute advantages, and the related software has also been sold so much, bringing Igret with a large amount of money.