Super Spender

Chapter 179 - 179: 175: The Thing in the Bag

When you first watched the video, you wouldn’t have had this feeling because you knew that video game characters don’t realistically move their mouths when speaking. This in a way confirms just how realistic the rendering of characters is!

The video had been compressed by Finn Lewis to about half an hour long. After watching the video, Yuri Johnson was left speechless. At first, he even suspected that Finn had tricked him using special effects made by an external agency. But after half an hour of watching, he dismissed that thought.

Because, within that half an hour, if calculated according to the special effects charges of Floral Village, it would cost at least seventy to eighty million federal coins! The naturally fantastical landscapes in the game were already quite stunning but not very realistic. But after rendering… those landscapes and special effects left Yuri stunned. Even a movie like Avatar with exceptional special effects wouldn’t dare to consistently give its audience such large amounts of special effects. Many scenes are actually quite small scale.

But this footage was created directly by controlling the game characters, so there were as many panoramic shots as needed. Particularly, there were many grand buildings in the game, and not a single shot was missed of those. With so many special effects shots, if really calculated in the Floral Village’s way, it would cost at least seventy to eighty million.

Maybe this amount of money isn’t a big deal for Finn Lewis, but who would want to just burn money that way, especially when it’s easy to uncover the fraud?

“Mr. Lewis, can your game engine render videos too?” Yuri Johnson cautiously asked. If your special effects are this good, why bother buying a game company? Why not go directly to Floral Village for special effects? How many movies in Floral Village don’t need special effects now? You could make a fortune just from these costs annually.

“No, of course it can’t render videos directly. Like I said, it’s a game engine. I used the Top Three client, added my game engine, and then hired someone to reshoot everything.” Finn answered with a light smile.

Hearing this, Yuri jumped up from his seat in surprise, staring at Finn wordlessly.

Others may not understand what this means, but how could Yuri not understand? Being directly equipped with Finn’s game engine means that the entire Top Three client has been thoroughly cracked, even the server-side components! All source codes have been cracked! Otherwise, such a feat couldn’t be achieved!

If Top Three’s client was cracked, if Finn wanted to destroy the game, he could just make the client available, and there would be an influx of private servers! Every game’s biggest enemies are private servers and hacking. See those other games created by other companies, aren’t they rampant with hacking? Especially games from Southland Country.

With access to the client’s source code, developing hacks or setting up private servers would only take moments, and even more extreme hacks could be created. Because every game developed will inevitably attract private servers, haven’t you seen private servers for World of Warcraft?   gradually restricted Warcraft’s source code within a certain range thanks to their decent collaboration with Blizzard.

That led those private servers version updates lagging behind and gradually fading away, but Finn being able to do this means that he has the complete source code of Top Three! This… Although Finn didn’t explicitly state this, Finn, sitting there and smiling in Yuri’s view, was an obvious threat.

Yuri quickly sat back down, and Finn smiled, “Mr. Johnson, consider it again. You should know that with my technology, no matter what game I create, it won’t be bad. What other lucrative games does WY have now?”

Yuri knew what Finn was saying was the truth, but should he just sell the entire company? After a while, Yuri lifted his head to look at Finn, “Mr. Lewis, I wonder it we could work together instead

“Collaborate? How do you foresee us collaborating?” Finn asked with a non-committal smile.

“I can sell you 32% of the shares.” Yuri directly proposed, meaning that he would let Finn have controlling interest of over 51%, but it would be impossible to completely buy out WY and kick him out.

Finn immediately laughed, of course he wouldn’t control 100% of a company. That’s unrealistic. Because any healthy company’s shares wouldn’t all be held by one person. Executives of the company need incentive shares, even if these shares could only be used for dividends, and any selling of them could only be done back to the company, these shares still needed to exist.

For Finn, the standard for completing the assignment was to own more than 50% of the company’s shares, so Yuri’s suggestion of collaboration was no problem. Moreover, Yuri retaining 20% of the shares was good news for Finn.

“Deal!” Finn agreed decisively, “But, having confirmed that I possess these technologies, shouldn’t you help me at the shareholders’ meeting to correctly assess the value of my capabilities?”

Yuri couldn’t help a wry smile and begrudgingly said, “Of course, that’s no problem. However, I think the most valuable thing should be your technology that could host two hundred thousand players on the same server.”

“I won’t be leaving that technology with WY.” Finn shook his head decisively. It wasn’t that WY wouldn’t be able to handle it, but rather that Finn wasn’t foolish. Honestly speaking, the technology was simple, it was a first-generation photon computer that he had exchanged for about 10,000 points to act as the server. This can’t be casually exposed. Thus, Finn planned to operate it under the guise of a different company.

As for the public announcement, ordinary players don’t need to know what server technology you used. They just need to know whether they can log on to that server..