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Chapter 542 - 175: The Fall of the Godfather of Gaming! (Worldview Completion - , Skip if Disliked)_5

Chapter 542: Chapter 175: The Fall of the Godfather of Gaming! (Worldview Completion Chapter, Skip if Disliked)_5

Higher resolution made the term "color" to take center stage in the history of computers.

At the same time, the precision of pixels also became higher and higher.

Ke Xiangyang began the development of a new generation of "Martial Arts Grandmaster" (akin to Street Fighter), with more vibrant colors and finer pixels

due to Li Xiaolong’s already considerable fame in the United States.

The acceptance of Huaxia Nation’s martial arts games was quite high in the West too.

As "Martial Arts Grandmaster" sold well in the United States,

that same year, Ke Xiangyang, along with his partners, founded the first gaming company on Blue Star—Blue Ocean Paradise.

"Blue" represented Blue Star,

and "Blue Ocean" was also used to describe the great prospects of the gaming industry.

And "Paradise" needs no explanation.

Each year after the company was founded,

Ke Xiangyang almost always created a completely new game genre.

Among these, some game genres have gradually declined,

while others like ’FPS (TPS)’, ’ACT’, ’RPG’ and a few other popular genres remain strong to this day.

One could say, compared to today’s leading players,

the Blue Ocean Paradise founded by Sir Ke

was more of a creator.

It was the entity that set the rules for all subsequent game manufacturers.

This couldn’t help but make Ke Jin marvel inwardly.

Goodness me...

Just saying,

our old master,

couldn’t also be a time-traveler, could he...

No wonder dad said current achievements of the top player can’t yet match Sir Ke.

How could they be matched...

Successors can’t possibly surpass "My World" no matter how they develop sandbox games.

However, Ke Jin thinks it’s hard to say.

He still holds several groundbreaking game genres in his hands that haven’t been released yet.

Sandbox.

Open world.

CRPG

Soulslike

RTS

MOBA

These are all categories that have not yet appeared on Blue Star.

And around these types, countless bestsellers and even hall-of-fame works can be born.

Given time, Ke Jin felt that the top player might well achieve and even surpass the success of Blue Ocean Paradise from those days.

However, as Ke Jun’s reminiscing came to an end,

the Ke siblings finally understood the ultimate reason why their father had been insistent on keeping them away from games for all these years.

Back in the day, Ke Xiangyang and his partner had established Blue Ocean Paradise.

And that partner, during the same period, had been ousted from the computer system industry by the abruptly rising Microsoft, and afterward turned his focus to the gaming field.

As several shareholders worked together to grow Blue Ocean Paradise bigger and bigger, and by the end of the ’90s, there was a trend of monopolizing the entire game industry’s development,

a commercial conflict occurred.

Sir Ke, on the principles of game development, had a strong disagreement with the other shareholders.

The other American shareholders were unmistakable capitalists.

They believed that, since Blue Ocean Paradise had already succeeded and was well ahead,

Then one should raise the banner of monopoly high and patent every game genre to complete the monopoly.

Any game developers who want to develop games first have to pay a hefty patent fee to Blue Ocean Paradise.

Otherwise, gamers worldwide would only have access to games developed by Blue Ocean Paradise.

By then, a vast gaming empire would be established.

It would make countless tangible industries give way.

Yet Ke Xiangyang, as the core lead game designer,

believed that monopolizing the gaming industry was extremely dangerous.

He thought the gaming industry could even stand shoulder to shoulder with some of the artistic and cultural industries.

And industries considered to be at the level of art usually share one characteristic.

Strong extensibility.

For example, with literary works, no one can patent a writing method they invent.

If that were the case, it would completely obstruct the creation of more and fresher inspirations.

The same logic applied to the gaming industry.

Once someone locked down the patent for RPGs,

others would not be allowed to design any games related to the RPG genre.

Then it would be difficult for it to develop branches and bloom into something more.

But for capitalists,

the thought of not allowing them to monopolize was more unbearable than the execution of their entire clan.

And at that time, Ke Xiangyang also held a significant share of Blue Ocean Paradise’s stock, without his approval, the whole plan naturally couldn’t move forward.

Soon, a group of capitalists came up with an excellent solution.

Consolidation of shares.

That is, to first dilute the shares they held into their respective subsidiaries, and eventually consolidate them into one subsidiary to appoint a puppet shareholder to inherit the company.

In turn, use the subsidiary to control the parent company. (For those who do not understand, you can refer to "Ball Wars" split and then suddenly gather; although it’s somewhat abstract, the principle is largely the same.)

This allowed the capitalists’ chosen puppet shareholder to become the largest shareholder of the whole Blue Ocean Paradise with decisive speaking rights overnight.

Ke Xiangyang, who had always been engrossed in researching new game genres and more expandable gameplays,

had no achievements in business and naturally, could not outplay the capitalists.

He was bewildered by the sudden and unexpected share consolidation.

Before he could even realize what was happening,

Blue Ocean Paradise had completed the transfer of ownership to the new largest shareholder, and maliciously acquired the small portion of shares held by Ke Xiangyang.

And they expelled him from Blue Ocean Paradise.

It was the biggest hostile takeover in the history of Blue Star’s gaming.

Afterwards,

to prevent Ke Xiangyang from rising again with his remarkable talents,

through a series of complex and precise operations, they shorted the company’s stock, causing Ke Xiangyang to lose stock value overnight and suddenly bear an enormous debt that would be difficult to repay in several lifetimes.

Moreover, they sold this baseless massive debt to the United States at an extremely low price.

All subsequent spending would be monitored under United States law.

This move completely cut off Ke Xiangyang’s path to a comeback.

At this point, the nearly forty-year-old Ke Xiangyang, who once was famous in New York, once called the godfather of the gaming world, and even made players worldwide go crazy for him,

stood disconsolate in New York Times Square at the end of the 1990s.

He numbly looked up at the large screen that continuously looped negative news about him, listening to the harsh discussions of passersby on the bustling streets.

His gaze was somewhat vacant.

The corners of his mouth also gradually slackened into a weak grin until it formed a smile of despair.

Blue Ocean Paradise?

No.

It was too far from paradise, too close to capital.