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No matter the expressions of the crowd, the Great God on stage remained as calm as ever.
As the competitors were about to enter their respective competition booths, Position suddenly turned around to glance at Penguin Entertainment's gdv.
gdv naturally noticed this scene, but he had no reaction.
To Position, he was just a passerby encountered in a usual rank match. If he found him displeasing, he would just crush him.
With the players gradually entering the competition booths on both sides of the stage, this highly anticipated Opening Match was finally about to begin.
Meanwhile, Li Hong was pondering another question.
When Ma Ge asked him how many more years Goddess Alliance could remain popular, it caught him off guard.
Even with Li Hong's imaginative mind, he couldn't figure out what Ma Ge meant by bringing this up.
Every game has its own rise and fall. Despite Goddess Alliance being popular all over the world now, it couldn't escape this fate when it came down to it.
It had only been a short while since Ma Ge and their company had finalized their investment. At this moment, Ma Ge suddenly inquired about how long Goddess Alliance could stay hot, which left Li Hong feeling troubled.
To be fair, as a game producer, he naturally hoped that this duration would be as long as possible. However, he had to admit that Goddess Alliance could not fulfill that expectation.
The cooperation between the two companies was not that simple. Even though they had already agreed on a partnership, if Ma Ge had other ideas, it wouldn't be surprising if the collaboration fell through.
“Ma Ge, what do you mean by that?” Unable to understand, Li Hong could only ask his companion.
Ma Ge shook his head, his gaze fixed on the dazzling stage. “It's nothing. I was just thinking that for your company, relying solely on one game might seem a bit thin.”
“Of course, don't think too much about it. Since we've agreed on the partnership, I won't back out at the last minute. This amount of money for investing in a popular game is something our Penguin Group can manage.”
With this reassurance from Ma Ge, Li Hong felt much more at ease.
However, regarding Ma Ge's concerns, Li Hong felt somewhat helpless.
It wasn't that he didn't want to develop new games; it was simply a matter of lacking funds.
Game development was no joke, and the costs involved were substantial. Without investment, relying solely on the designers' efforts could mean it might take two or three years to create a game, which was not impossible.
That timeframe was far too long. In the fast-paced Internet Era, two or three years could bury an excellent idea.
"In fact, my plan is to start the development of a new game as soon as the funding from your Penguin investment arrives," Li Hong replied.
"Oh?"
Ma Ge asked in surprise, "Do you have a project?"
"Yes, we have one. After our evaluation, this project seems to be one of the better options. Once developed, its success may rival that of Goddess Alliance," Li Hong explained.
The project for this new game had been submitted to Li Hong by Mark shortly after the launch of Goddess Alliance.
The name of the project was somewhat unfamiliar; at least Li Hong had never seen this game before.
PUBG: Battlegrounds—that was the name of the new game project.
At that time, Li Hong hadn't regarded this game as particularly important; he thought it was just something for Mark to handle on his own.
Later, after Mark explained it to him, he realized that PUBG had become immensely popular in the Shroud World.
In Shroud World, the share of League of Legends was continuously being eroded by PUBG.
If it weren't for the different release method of this game and its classification as a paid game, League of Legends might have already been overshadowed.
Fortunately, the game's release method kept it popular only among high-end players and streamers. As long as this model remained unchanged, League of Legends would continue to dominate as the top PC game.
Arriving in the world where Li Hong resided, League of Legends was nothing more than a modified character model, transformed into the Goddess Alliance. For a group of highly skilled individuals, this was hardly a challenge.
Thus, Mark recalled the game PUBG.
After careful comparison and differentiation, Mark and the others at Riot Games discovered that this world had yet to see a game like PUBG.
This was certainly great news, and Li Hong immediately expressed that this game could be developed.
However, he soon realized another issue: the company’s funds were running low.
Despite the immense profits from the Goddess Alliance, most of the revenue had to be converted into marketing expenses to maintain its vast market share.
Therefore, launching a game like PUBG seemed impossible.
While some minor tasks could be completed by the programmers in advance, the bulk of the work would still require significant financial investment.
Indeed, developing a game was not as simple as it seemed.
The initial engine development alone demanded substantial manpower and resources. Not to mention, this was a job that required high standards from employees; most of the expenses were salaries paid to programmers and artists.
Ma Ge worried that Riot's product line was too thin, and Li Hong shared that concern. The problem was that he simply didn’t have enough money to waste.
"Since you're short on cash, why not let people from the Penguin Game Department join your development team?" Ma Ge suggested.
Li Hong's expression darkened. What a terrible idea!
Could they really participate? By the time they finished their development, Penguin might already have released a product.
Without even considering it, Li Hong politely declined.
Game development was a highly confidential process; aside from company employees, no one else was allowed to leak information. Moreover, all designers involved in the project had signed extremely strict confidentiality agreements.
Li Hong had an extreme level of trust in the loyalty of his subordinates; otherwise, he would not have leaked information to Ma Ge.
If it had been someone else who learned of this news, they would have immediately tried to poach Li Hong's team.
If the details of the new game were revealed, Li Hong would surely regret it deeply.
Fortunately, Ma Ge was a reliable person. Li Hong mentioned it casually and did not take it too seriously.
Of course, Ma Ge's behavior might also be related to the failed attempts to recruit talent in the past.
During the time when the Goddess Alliance was launched and became a hit, Li Hong frequently heard about how Penguin was trying to poach employees and designers from Tencent.
Fortunately, Li Hong's subordinates were bound by loyalty contracts. Even after Ma Ge made every effort to recruit them, he ended up with nothing.
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