Breakfast time at Dume Point Manor.
Time has entered September, it is Thursday, September 3rd.
Inside the restaurant.
As usual, Jennifer looked after a group of restless little ones. Occasionally, she rolled her eyes at the couple who were dining next to each other as if they were not involved. She lamented that her life was miserable, as if she owed it to this family.
Simon and Janet had the two biggest ones sitting next to them as always, Melbourne and Seattle, so they didn't need to pay much attention to them.
The final details of the renovation of Westeros Towers in New York are currently being discussed.
After being topped out at the end of 1996, after more than one year and nearly two years of follow-up construction, the Westeros Building in Manhattan has finally reached a level where it can be occupied one after another, and the ten-story super mansion exclusive to the Westeros family on the top has also entered the building. The closing stage.
Simon means that after the decoration is completely completed, let it sit for at least a month or two before moving in.
This is a deep-rooted belief after watching too much news in the previous life. Even if the decoration materials of the Westeros Building reach the highest environmental standards, it is definitely correct if you put it aside for a while.
"High-rise swimming pools can actually play the role of dampers. When our swimming pool is opened, the Westeros Building will be equivalent to having double dampers. The engineering team has done simulations. By then, even if it encounters a Category 5 hurricane, the building's The shaking amplitude will not exceed one meter, which is very powerful.”
"Actually, I'm more concerned about sound insulation," Jennifer on the opposite side heard Janet say this and interjected: "There will be a lot of wind noise in super high-rise apartments?"
"We definitely don't have it," Janet shook her head and said, "How about this, Janet, you also go to Manhattan this weekend to see it. You haven't seen it even once since the ban?"
"I'm going to New York on the weekend. Are you going to take care of the kids?"
"I..." Janet looked around and said, "Call after breakfast and ask Sophie to come over."
Then another eye roll.
Janet smiled and stuck out her tongue, then looked at the man next to her: "By the way, this time, should we transport the 150 tons of gold from Russia to New York or Melbourne?"
Simon thought about it for a moment and said, "Let's keep it in Australia."
Simon never stopped buying gold in large quantities.
As for many media and economists repeatedly saying that gold is the most worthless investment, Simon always just thinks they are farts. Gold is the king of money. It has lasted for thousands of years and will continue for at least another hundred or two hundred years without much change. As for those arguments that gold has no value, if you think about it for a moment, you will understand why.
Still in US dollars of course.
The U.S. dollar is decoupled from gold, and gold cannot be too valuable.
In addition, in the past year, in the face of the financial turmoil in Southeast Asia that has spread to the world, one thing that is very paradoxical is that gold has continued to fall sharply, from a peak of nearly 380 US dollars an ounce last year to around 270 US dollars currently, a drop of nearly 30%.
Under normal circumstances, when there is an economic crisis and capital seeks safety, gold should rise.
Why did it fall this time
And it has reached its lowest point in 20 years.
When things go wrong, there must be monsters.
However, as long as you take a closer look, you can roughly understand who will benefit from the sharp fall of gold and who will suffer greater losses.
Simon will not expose the general direction plans that are closely related to the interests of the Westeros system, but since gold has plummeted, he will certainly not miss the opportunity to buy gold in large quantities.
Coincidentally, in the past year, many countries in Asia and Eastern Europe have been selling large amounts of gold to cash out foreign exchange in order to survive the crisis.
Um.
Look, we have found a reason for the plunge.
And then there's the steady, quiet buying in of the Houses of Westeros.
Just like this time.
Russia, which is so poor that it can only sell iron, plans to sell another gold reserve of 150 tons in the near future. Rather than investing such a sum of gold in the international market and suffering price reductions and paying huge handling fees, of course it would be better for Simon to take it personally.
Hence Janet's casual mention.
After standing up to stop the two little guys Snow and Greenwich from fighting with spoons, Jennifer sat down again, remembered something, and said to Simon: "Speaking of gold, Simon, I remember you mentioned a digital currency plan. When are we going to do it?”
Simon shook his head and said: "Definitely not now."
Janet next to her took the initiative to add: "The Federation can launch a war for the hegemony of the US dollar. If we do this now, it would be strange if Washington doesn't fall out."
"When will that take place?"
"Perhaps ten years, perhaps twenty years," Simon said: "By then, the international dominance of the U.S. dollar will weaken, and perhaps, the national strength of the federation will also weaken. In order to ensure our own interests, we will use our own gold reserves and business Credibility, you can try to issue a dedicated Westeros digital currency.”
Janet listened to what her man said, nodded her head in agreement, and added: "However, before that, we can take the initiative to release an unofficial anonymous digital currency solution and create an unregulated digital currency trading system. This system can do a lot of things.”
The more she talked, the more excited she became. Janet turned to look at her man: "Simon, I think this can be done now?"
"It's still too early. There are not enough Internet users in the world now, and the computing power of the overall Internet platform is not enough. If we launch such a digital currency in advance, if it fails to develop, it will point out ideas for others in the future. Then we will Stop trying to take control.”
"Yes." Janet nodded: "Then wait another five years. Five years should be enough, right?"
Simon thought for a moment and nodded: "Maybe."
In the past, Bitcoin was proposed in 2008. This time, the development of the Internet industry has been advanced by three to five years by Simon. Taking advantage of the trend and developing a digital currency in 2003, perhaps we can make a big difference in advance.
The key is to ensure that the Westeros system controls this digital currency.
Even, you need to control your greed.
Such a piece of cake, when the time comes, we cannot cut too much away to avoid serious imbalance of interests. Of course, not too little. Too little is better than nothing.
…
On weekdays, I still have to go to work after breakfast.
Arriving at Malibu Studios, the first meeting in the morning was about gaming.
After finishing some projects in South Korea, Daenerys Entertainment will launch the first role-playing game from South Korea in September to test the waters. The three games that attracted Simon's most attention at that time were "Frozen Age", "Wind Kingdom II" and "Heavenly Legends", Daenerys's upcoming debut is "The Frozen Age".
The main reason is that compared to the other two games, this game was completed last year. The last few months have been dominated by language translations and some minor adjustments to adapt to the North American market.
After this trial game, next, in November at the end of the year, Ygritte will launch "Wind Kingdom II", and finally in February next year, it will return to Daenerys Entertainment. What Simon values most "Legend of Paradise" is online.
This is the schedule that was finally determined after many meetings and consultations.
The first "Ice Age" tested the waters, and the other two have attracted more attention, serving as the two key projects of Ygritte and Daenerys respectively.
There are also some other games that will be launched in the next year. Or, if these three games become popular, in order to prevent the same type of games from impacting the market, we do not rule out the possibility that some games will be permanently frozen.
While arranging the game business in North America, Simon also paid attention to the Asian side.
First of all, the two games in June, "Counter-Strike OL" and "StarCraft", continue to be popular.
Then, in July, Jiangnan Interactive Entertainment in Suzhou launched "Happy Farm", which has now become a popular casual game in China and is very popular among office workers.
Although it adopts a free model and only relies on a small amount of fees for fertilizers and props, the revenue momentum of "Happy Farm" is not much worse than that of "StarCraft", which is unexpected. After all, even if this game is very popular in the West, even the Chinese team themselves did not initially think that "Farm Farm" would be very successful in the Chinese mainland market because of certain deep-rooted concepts.
Next is "Kingdom of Wind II", which is about to be released by Paradise Online Company in Hangzhou, which has taken over Yigrite's China instant messaging business. The domestic name will only be "Kingdom of Wind" and the planned launch date is September 11.
Simon didn't think anything about this at first, but after thinking about it for a while, he found that it was Chen Qing who was causing trouble again.
Because of the three games from South Korea that Simon valued most, only "Kingdom of Wind II" had not yet been developed. The other two games, "Frozen Age" had already been launched when Simon contacted them, and "Legend of Paradise" was also waiting to be launched.
Chen Qing handed over this recently completed game to Lin Su, almost as a closed test in the Chinese mainland market.
Kind of like a guinea pig.
If the response is not good, there is no need to bother promoting it to other markets.
After all, role-playing online games are still absolutely new in mainland China. "Kingdom of Wind" was the first to test the waters. In any case, it is equivalent to cultivating the market, and "Legend of Paradise" and "Frozen Age" will follow. Entering is equivalent to having obtained a certain consumption base.
Although he discovered this matter, Simon did not interfere.
This is a detail, not to mention, Simon thinks that Paradise Online, which has the instant messaging software AO, will not necessarily fail, and perhaps, it can be more successful.
Just like "Legend" used to be.
Is this game that great
no.
The key is to be the first to eat crabs, or at least the first to make eating crabs famous and become a phenomenon, and then it became the sentiment of a generation, and the popularity has continued for twenty years and has not extinguished.
In short, there are pros and cons.
On the same day, another more important task was to watch the sample film of "Resident Evil".
The idea came up last year, the main creator was finalized at the beginning of the year, and filming started at the end of May. "Resident Evil" was officially completed last week.
Since he plans to take advantage of the situation and make a small "Resident Evil" universe, not just a movie, but also a game, Simon has always attached great importance to this project, including the production cost of the film, which was increased from the original 25 million US dollars to 35 million by Simon himself. Dollar.
No matter how high it is, it won’t work.
After all, considering the size of the project itself, US$35 million is already considered a large sum for a zombie-type science fiction horror movie. Simon really wanted a good start, so he gave so much.
Zack Snyder, who was initially entering Hollywood, did not disappoint Simon.
First of all, on the screen, the completed sample has Schneider's strong personal style, which is very eye-catching.
As for the story.
During the script creation process, Zack Snyder had a certain degree of participation, but it was still dominated by Daenerys Entertainment's team. After all, Simon is aware of someone's shortcomings, and Zack Snyder is more suitable to make a film based on the original work.
Forget it if it’s original, it’s easy to fly.
"Resident Evil" seems to be original, but in fact Simon has a complete world view and even a very large story line. If you take some cuts from it, whether it is made into a movie or a game, it will be very exciting.
The story of the first "Resident Evil" movie is still based on the previous movie version of "Alice".
Because of Simon, this movie series will certainly no longer have the situation where the background of the story was almost completed while filming, and the final conflict was difficult to justify.
First of all, 'Alice' herself has a complete story setting that is closely related to the background of the "Resident Evil" series. It is no longer the situation where she was forced to become the heroine because she was the director's wife.
Basically the plot.
The heroine Alice wakes up in the laboratory of Umbrella headquarters, and together with a group of teams who enter Umbrella to investigate biochemical leaks, they go through many hardships and encounter corpse-turned staff, zombie dogs, lickers and even the ultimate The biochemical weapons tyrant finally escaped from Umbrella's underground laboratory.
During this period, you will also encounter another Resident Evil character that Simon likes very much, Ada Wong.
Aunt Wang, played by Chen Xingwei, will appear in the film as both good and evil. She has a very sassy style and is good at Chinese Kung Fu, which is the most popular among audiences at the moment, as well as various weapons and top hacking skills.
At the same time, there will be intersections with the story of the game that is also under development.
The ending of the first part is that the heroine and her party escape from Umbrella's underground laboratory and announce Umbrella's conspiracy to the outside world.
It seems to be a very sunny ending, but the story will turn around in the second part.
Probably a common Hollywood routine, the government covers up the truth. Raccoon City will be purged in the second part. Alice is framed as a murderer and becomes a wanted target of the government.
Because of this cover-up, the third part was created.
extinct.
In previous Resident Evil games, viruses basically broke out in a small area and were successfully contained by humans.
This time, the two story lines of the movie and the game go hand in hand. Simon is no longer satisfied with this small fight, but allows the T virus and even other evolved versions to explode in all directions, and mankind is plunged into a crisis of extinction. In the end, with the joint efforts of the protagonists in both the game and the movie, mankind defeated the virus, and the world regained hope.