I Just Want Players to Save Money, They Insist on Giving Me!
Chapter 547 - 177: Three Textbook-Level Works!_2

Chapter 547: Chapter 177: Three Textbook-Level Works!_2

Jia Xi, who had reached the venerable age of eighty, appeared to have relinquished control and handed over the family business to his children to manage.

But only the true core members of the family knew the truth.

This octogenarian was still secretly manipulating everything.

Like a puppeteer, his children were merely pawns in his hands.

Today, as usual, the assistant brought Jia Xi the briefing that had been prepared.

Among them, information about stock market fluctuations and corporate mergers and acquisitions were placed in the most conspicuous position.

Then came a series of succinct data summaries from within the industry, such as recent major manufacturers’ turnover data, paying players, daily activity, and so on.

Last were the matters within the industry that might be worth paying some attention to.

Just the content recorded and integrated on these few simple pages, if leaked, would likely cause countless investors to scramble for them.

In the information era, such firsthand data compiled by the vast Woberg Family.

Just a bit of leaked news was enough for a small company to seize the opportunity and dazzlingly soar to a market value of over a hundred million.

However, such news was just daily tedium to Jia Xi.

Blue Ocean Paradise had not had a rival in a long time.

The last competitor was the globally renowned Microsoft Group.

After years of developing in different tracks, both had become giants in their respective fields, and now they occasionally collaborated in business.

Glancing over the report and about to have the assistant, as usual, send a copy to each of his children for them to refine and handle, Jia Xi, an old man with grizzled temples and a vast wealth of experience,

suddenly encountered a piece of news at the end of the report that caused a flicker of surprise in his usually placid eyes.

To be honest, Jia Xi hardly cared about some of the recent happenings in the gaming industry.

If the commotion of an event were big enough, what needed to be acquired would be acquired, what needed to be destroyed would be destroyed.

It was that simple.

But this report contained a term that had been long absent.

Mr. Ke

The surname Ke was extremely rare on a global scale, reminding him of an old acquaintance.

And in the report,

the company Ready Player One, led by President Jin Ke,

was about to hold a grand and significant game design launch globally.

The accumulated prize money had reached more than fifty million, stirring quite a buzz within the industry.

A nearly ten-million-dollar prize pool was not modest by any means compared to major events around the world.

Second only to traditional sports event prizes.

And this money was simply to reward designers who excelled in electronic games.

Discussions erupted from Huaxia Nation and spread throughout the global gaming industry.

After his gaze flickered slightly, Jia Xi instructed his assistant to check Mr. Jin Ke’s background.

Within ten minutes, the assistant sent a file on Ke Jin’s family history and a simplified version of his family information.

Looking at the file,

he saw the familiar face under the "Grandfather" section.

His expression became somewhat distant.

Memories seemed to be pulled back to a distant time over fifty years ago.

Quickly, Jia Xi pulled himself together and briefly reviewed the history of the Huaxia gaming company Origin of Species.

Ever since the release of their first game, Origin of Species, up to the present.

In just under three years,

the company had launched 18 games.

And aside from a few niche titles that were not very popular at first, the subsequent releases had almost all been explosive hits in the Huaxia market, winning the boundless affection of gamers from the Huaxia Nation.

They even overhauled the gaming environment in East Asia.

These achievements may not amount to much in the eyes of Blue Ocean Paradise,

but what really surprised Jia Xi was the rise of this company.

Times had changed since his own early days.

In the eruptive era of the internet, it was a bloom of a hundred flowers.

For a company to fight its way out of so many competitors and establish a gaming ecosystem "dominated by Ready Player One" in just three short years—

Honestly, if these achievements had come from his own turf in Europe and America,

they would likely have been acquired or crushed by Blue Ocean Paradise by now.

Want to change the gaming ecosystem?

Sorry, you don’t have the credentials.

But the birth soil of Ready Player One was in the Huaxia Nation.

A country in the East where his own influence could not reach.

"Is it the power of legacy?" Jia Xi murmured to himself with a casual smile.

Although the Woberg Family couldn’t reach into Huaxia Nation,

it was still simple to sanction the Ready Player One company, keeping it firmly pinned in Huaxia Nation with nowhere to go.

After a moment’s contemplation, Jia Xi instructed his assistant,

"This competition seems quite interesting. Dispatch a few designers from Hope Flute to participate and sweep all those awards."

Hearing this, the assistant displayed a slightly puzzled look.

This competition... interesting?

Even sending designers from Hope Flute to take part in it?

This didn’t sound like something his boss would normally say.

Although Vivendi, one of their three game manufacturers, was the weakest, its main business was not even gaming.

Moreover, even the weakest was only relative.

Weak compared to Blizzard and Art Electricity... could that be called weak?

Designers emerging from there could easily overpower a company like Ready Player One, which had only just started to make a name in Huaxia Nation.

To participate in their competition was practically doing them a favor.

Having followed Jia Xi for more than twenty years, from a young lad to a man now entering middle age, the assistant knew his boss’s temperament all too well.