2: Possible sources of conflict
"Do you know Blizzard Games?" Mishan asked Dr. Ziegler in a subtle tone, with a thoughtful expression on her face.
"I know, what happened to that game company?" As a resident of Overwatch World, he must be a loyal fan of Blizzard Games. One percent of Dr. Ziegler's annual revenue is spent in Blizzard Entertainment's game companies.
How much does Dr. Ziegler earn annually? From the end of the year, she has been saving refugees at her own expense in the war zone, it can be seen that it will definitely not be a minority.
As for where one percent was spent, even Dr. Ziegler himself couldn't say.
"I asked the wrong question. What I originally wanted to ask was whether there is a Blizzard Game Company in your world." Mishan changed his words when he saw Dr. Ziegler's misunderstanding, "To be precise, what I want to ask is whether Blizzard North has existed?"
"Blizzard North?" Dr. Ziegler showed a puzzled look.
"No?" Mishan asked immediately after seeing Dr. Ziegler's reaction.
"I don't know..." Dr. Ziegler replied.
"I don't know?" Mi Shan didn't react for a moment.
"Well, I don't know, because these things have nothing to do with my profession," replied Dr. Ziegler.
Although Dr. Ziegler spends one percent of his income every year in games under Overwatch World Blizzard Entertainment.
But this does not mean that Dr. Ziegler is a loyal fan of Blizzard Entertainment.
It’s just because the only major entertainment in this world is Blizzard Entertainment… At least 90% are Blizzard Entertainment, which is a monopoly nature.
There is also a similar monopoly nature of the Three Deep Enterprises in a large universe country. Some people once complained that the people of the universe used Three Deep Products at every moment from their origins to their graves.
But even so, there are a few mountains in the Sanshen Group, which is a chaebol-level chaebol level. What kind of internal struggle is just an ordinary topic of conversation, not a serious matter worth caring about.
Blizzard Entertainment is the same for local residents like Dr. Ziegler. The games they play every day are Blizzard Entertainment, which does not mean that Dr. Ziegler needs to care about what the company Blizzard Entertainment is like.
Just know it is a super game company, and the rest will not help her save the world and attack smart machines.
"Oh" I understand why Dr. Ziegler said he didn't know Mishan nodded.
Then, just as Mi Shan raised her head and was about to say something, she heard Greenhill ordering the game characters present:
"Collection of all the historical information about Blizzard Games in this world right away."
Finally, I added "Everything can be used"
In the Overwatch world that was disrupted by Mishan, this sentence means a permanent member of the United Nations, forcibly requiring a game company to open its own database.
Fortunately, when Overwatch World was originally designed, it was not a cyberpunk world.
Even if Blizzard Entertainment in this world masters national entertainment, it only masters national entertainment. Faced with the unreasonable and strong demands of the "White Claw Empire", it has no effect except crying and winning the sympathy of netizens.
Soon, all the historical information of Blizzard Entertainment, which was set up by the second in Overwatch World, was placed in front of Mishan.
After a simple search, there is no record of "Blizzard North" in Overwatch World's Blizzard Entertainment's information.
This term does not exist in the synchronous collection of data from the Overwatch World's entire world.
It seems that the term "Blizzard North" does not exist.
But for Mishan, a fan from the root dimension, to players, Blizzard North is an important step in the historical process of Blizzard Entertainment.
It is different from the works such as "Starcraft", "Warcraft", and "World of Warcraft" that are mainly featured by Blizzard Headquarters, as well as a large number of derivative works.
Blizzard North had only one game until it was disbanded - Diablo
Moreover, this IP was first acquired by Blizzard after nearly half of the game maker's work... It was more of a cooperation than an acquisition.
Because from beginning to end, until its dissolution, Blizzard North has a separate department in Blizzard, and the two departments are probably considered to have a brotherly relationship.
"Is this true?" Mishan's description made several game characters, especially Greenhill and Jia Jia, fall into deep thought.
Greenhill was really thinking. Jia Jia just felt that her elder sister was thinking, and she had to look thoughtful.
"If I guess correctly..." Mishan put the information in her hand aside, put her chin on her hands and said, "Heyokawa's face with her chin," she said:
"The people in that world will show hostility towards Greenhill and Jiajia because of the problems of Greenhill and Jiajia's origins."
"??" Greenhill, who was in contemplation, and Jia Jia, who was pretending to be contemplating, showed a surprised expression at the same time.
"When Blizzard North was disbanded, there were a lot of unverified gossips." Mi Shan explained:
"One of the rumors said that the disbandment of Blizzard North was because Blizzard North wanted to make their only IP, Diablo, into MMOGame, a large-scale multiplayer online game."
"But this idea had a conflict with the Blizzard headquarters at that time."
"At that time, Blizzard Headquarters used all its resources to create World of Warcraft."
"Blizzard North's plan is equivalent to occupying the resources of Blizzard headquarters. After the production is completed, it will become a strong competitor of World of Warcraft."
"In the direction of Blizzard Headquarters and Blizzard North at that time, if Diablo's online game was completed, Blizzard Headquarters' World of Warcraft is likely not a rival."
"Because Blizzard North started with role-playing games, while Blizzard Headquarters made its fortune by making real-time strategy games."
"For the same game type, players will definitely choose companies that are more familiar with."
"No one knows what the quarrel inside Blizzard is like. Everyone only knows that the final result is the dissolution of Blizzard North, the miscarriage of Diablo's online version, and the birth of "World of Warcraft".
A very typical story of brothers fighting to split up in front of interests.
After saying these things, Mi Shan was silent for a while, letting the game characters, especially Greenhill and Jia Jia, work hard to digest the news.
Dr. Ziegler, who found himself as if he had touched the truth of the world, subconsciously glanced at the conference room door.
Mino and Shepard, who noticed Dr. Ziegler's reaction, looked at each other, changed their positions, and sat down next to Dr. Ziegler, one left and one right.
"If this is the case, then the hostility of that world towards me and Jia Jia can be explained." Greenhill glanced at Postdoctor Ziegler, who had a somewhat collapsed look, looked at Mi Shan and said.
"This is just my guess, not necessarily true." Mi Shan said.
"I think that's the truth as the final winner, sir," Greenhill said seriously.
From Greenhill's tone, there seems to be a pride in it.
No one knows whether Blizzard's internal infighting was right or wrong, but since its birth, World of Warcraft has suppressed all enemies in the world in a crushing manner for a long time.
It is precisely because of the success of World of Warcraft that Blizzard has the ambition to produce "Titans".
Then this ambition GG and the game "Overwatch" was born.
Chapter completed!