Chapter 320 There is a time to gather and part ways, and there is also a time to see each other agai

Chapter 320 There is a time to gather and part ways, and there is also a time to see each other agai

Five years later.

Jiangning, Tianba Industrial Park.

Chen Ba rarely wore a formal suit and performed the ribbon-cutting ceremony with a smile in front of the media and official leaders.

Tianba Industrial Park is an industrial base that integrates data center, IT manufacturing, game derivatives, metaverse and Internet 2.0 concepts. Tianba Group has invested more than 20 billion and is an industrial base built by Jiangning City.

In the five years after the release of the "Death of an Old Scalper" DLC, Chen Ba mainly promoted this matter.

certainly!

As his old profession, game development has naturally not been forgotten by him.

However, in the past few years, he has focused more on his career and family, so the development of new games has basically been handed over to Xiao Lu, Luo Ji, Liu Jinfu and others.

They did a pretty good job.

Facts have proved that they have not learned any skills after following Chen Baer for so many years.

After Chen Ba delegated power to them, they successively produced three more games. Among them is a top 3A-level masterpiece "Once Upon a Time on Mars".

Only three games in five years?

This progress may make many old Tianba fans dissatisfied. After all, when Brother Ba was the main producer, it was relatively slow to release a new game a year.

But this progress is actually the normal game development progress, and it can even be considered relatively fast.

Chen Ba was very satisfied with this.

He knows that he cannot require everyone to have plug-ins like him, and that playing games can be done as easily as building blocks.

Three new games have been launched in five years, including a top 3A masterpiece. This progress is really embarrassing for Xiao Lu and others. Not to mention, the quality of these three games is very good.

But then again.

These three games are all developed based on the upgraded Tianba engine, and naturally have some inherent characteristics of Tianba engine.

What are the characteristics of Tianba engine?

Of course, it is an unexpected game bug that always refreshes players’ knowledge in a weird way!

Chen Ba was also helpless about this.

Doesn't he know this feature of Tianba engine? He must know, and since he knows, it's not surprising that something like this happens.

Thanks to so many years, players have long been trained by him to have a strong heart, and they will not panic easily no matter what outrageous and abstract game bugs they encounter.

Otherwise the company would have collapsed long ago.

In recent years, with the advancement and development of technology, the gaming industry has also undergone earth-shaking changes.

The most eye-catching one is VR technology.

In the early years, VR games were just a gimmick at best, with really no prospects. Coupled with the performance limitations of VR equipment at that time, VR games could be said to be in a very embarrassing position.

But today is different from the past...

With the advancement of technology, VR equipment has also gone through several rounds of updates and iterations. With good performance, more and more people are beginning to accept VR to experience VR.

On this basis, VR games have naturally become the blue ocean market that major game companies are focusing on, and Tianba Games is no exception.

"Once Upon a Time on Mars" is a science fiction exploration-themed game, and it is also a AAA game. It is Tianba Games' challenge to the VR field.

What should I say about the result?

Let’s call it a success, but in fact it’s just that. The sales volume of 18 million copies is neither high nor low. The reputation is also quite satisfactory, and it has not become a hit.

Call it a failure, but that’s not a failure. After all, through the game "Once Upon a Time on Mars", Tianba Games has verified many new technologies. Chen Ba also made a major upgrade to the Tianba engine and added many new things.

In general.

"Once Upon a Time on Mars" is Tianba Games' first VR game, but it is by no means the last. The company will launch a series of VR masterpieces based on this game.

Perhaps the only sad thing is that Dong Ge retired early and may not be able to witness the prosperous VR era in the future.

Thinking of this, Chen Ba had to sigh.

Brother Dong was already two years older than him, and because of the huge pressure at work in his early days, he stayed up late and worked overtime all year round without eating and resting well, so his body accumulated a lot of injuries.

Especially the lumbar spine.

Brother Dong really needs to take good care of himself and continue to stick to his job. Chen Ba is afraid that he will suddenly collapse one day.

In fact, not only Brother Dong, but also the group of people who started the business with him in the early days, including himself, also suffered from occupational diseases to a greater or lesser extent.

Xiao Lu is still young, so it doesn't matter if he can survive now, but Chen Ba can't.

Soaking wolfberry in a thermos cup is now his daily routine. Since getting married, he has gradually handed over the company's affairs to Huang Qing, while he travels around.

After working hard for so many years, now the company is on the right track, why can't he enjoy it anymore?

Besides, Chen Ba didn’t really want to be a hands-off shopkeeper, but his child was still young and he really didn’t have the time or energy to manage the company.

Maybe it’s destiny.

In the first year after he and Wang Ya got married, they gave birth to twins, both boys, which made Lao Chen and Lao Wang so depressed that they sighed for two days.

No, keep going!

Lao Chen and Lao Wang urged them to continue having children and would not give up until they gave birth to a precious granddaughter. Unfortunately, this wish has not been realized until now.

It is estimated that there will be no chance to realize it in the future. After all, as the age increases, the couple does not want children very much.

Due to various reasons, the two children, one named Chen and the other named Wang, although they grew up together and will study and live together in the future, they are still different.

In this regard, Chen Ba hesitated.

This plan had been decided a long time ago, and he had no objection to it. He just felt that the plan formulated at that time was a bit unfair when viewed today.

If the boss inherits Lao Wang's family business in the future, he will probably be worth several billion.

Don't ask, the question is that the real estate industry has continued to slump in recent years, and Lao Wang's net worth has also continued to shrink. If he still has a few billion, he is considered to be relatively powerful.

What about the second child?

Tianba Group is not a sunset industry like Lao Wang, but a rising sunrise industry. The valuations given by major institutions are getting higher day by day.

The gap between the two sides is also getting wider and wider.

Not to mention what will happen in the future, just now, the valuation of Tianba Group is approaching the 100 billion level.

How do you say this thing...

Chen Ba feels that the gap between hundreds of billions and several billions is indeed a bit too big. If arranged like this, will the two children, especially the eldest, feel unfair in the future? Blame these elders?

It's absolutely possible!

Because of this, Chen Ba simply had a talk with Lao Wang and analyzed the pros and cons of this, hoping that he would think about it carefully and avoid causing complaints from his children in the future.

Lao Wang thinks it makes sense. To this day, his net worth is indeed not comparable to that of Chen Ba. According to the previous plan, it is indeed unfair to the boss.

Then let’s merge the two!

In order to eliminate this possibility, Lao Wang simply merged his company into Tianba Group, so that in the future, the shares would be equally divided, and there would be no unfair argument.

The two little guys, who couldn't even speak clearly, had no idea what their father and grandfather were discussing behind the scenes.

Of course, Wang Ya knew it.

Not only did she know about this, she also knew that her husband was secretly having something unclear with a certain Bai Yueguang.

Fortunately, things were not as bad as she thought. Chen Ba did not cheat on her, he just helped Bai Yueguang a little because of old feelings.

But this is something to be wary of.

After all, Chen Ba's Bai Yueguang is now divorced and living in a house that Chen Ba has not sold. Chen Ba also arranged for him to work as a store manager in an offline store.

Because of this incident, the couple, who had respected each other for five years, quarreled for the first time.

Fortunately both sides were very restrained.

The quarrel was a quarrel, but he wasn't really angry. It was just that Wang Ya didn't want Chen Ba to help others, and Chen Ba couldn't bear it.

"You are just greedy for other people's bodies!"

"Ah, yes, yes, I am lusting after the body of a divorced woman with a baby. I am despicable..."

Chen Ba was too lazy to argue.

As the saying goes, those who are pure will be pure themselves. If you are upright, you will not be afraid of slanting shadows. If you do not do bad things, you will not be afraid of ghosts knocking on your door. His obsession with Bai Yueguang had been eliminated when he got married.

The reason for taking action now is just to give the other party a hand in the name of fellow villagers and old classmates.

After all, my ex-husband ran away with a huge foreign debt due to gambling, leaving only a pair of orphans and a widowed mother without a penny in their pockets. How can they survive?

Chen Ba is a soft-hearted god.

Just like last year when a distant relative in his hometown was seriously ill and unable to afford treatment, he immediately wired 500,000 to the other party after receiving the news.

Although he was very unhappy with this distant relative at the time, feeling that he was too snobbish, disliked the poor and loved the rich, and he often said some weird things during the Chinese New Year, which led to a tense relationship between the two families.

But in the face of such a serious illness and disaster, Chen Ba still put aside his old ugliness and gave the other party a hand.

The same goes for Lao Chen.

As far as Chen Ba knew, a large part of the private money he gave to Lao Chen was used by Lao Chen to donate to the "poor students" in his hometown.

Lao Chen has been pretending to be "living and drinking", but in fact he just doesn't want Chen Ba to find out that he donated money to people in his hometown.

After all, he knew that Chen Ba had always had opinions on those people in his hometown. If Chen Ba knew about this, it would be difficult for Lao Chen to continue donating in the future.

But what Lao Chen didn't know was that Chen Ba was aware of every flow of his funds.

Although Chen Ba had strong objections to those people in his hometown and disliked them very much, he thought he was only targeting those "adults".

There is no need to involve the previous generation's grievances with the next generation, so Lao Chen silently supported the children in his hometown to go to school, and Chen Ba had no objection at all.

Time will change many people and things.

Among them, Chen Ba believes that the biggest change is that the fans who once supported him endlessly have now grown up and have their own lives.

This is quite sad.

After all, how wonderful it was to get along once, but how painful and reluctant it is to part ways now.

But there is always a banquet in the world!

At this moment, just like the original "League of Legends", when summoners grow up and begin to enter the line between society and life, it will be difficult for them to return to the canyon.

Tianba’s games have been with you for so many years.

No matter how beautiful the memories are, they will eventually be shattered one day. As players grow up and have their own jobs and lives, games that were once popular will inevitably see a decline in the number of people online.

The only thing that remains unchanged is probably the legendary game "Don't Leave After School: Pinball Storm"!

But even after school, it has gone through many rounds of player iterations. The players who are still playing this game are no longer the group of people recorded in "The Chronicles of Pinball Dynasty".

Chen Ba, who had just had a fight with his wife and was driven to the study, turned on his computer, logged into the Tianba community account that he had not logged in for a long time, and saw a post on the homepage.

"I just got into the game, what are the configuration requirements for "Star Emperor 3"?"

A new generation replaces the old.

Looking at this new request for help posted by Zhen Meng, Chen Ba suddenly thought of that afternoon ten years ago. It seemed that a group of people posted on the forum asking whether "Star Emperor" needed the configuration.

This is like reincarnation!

Chen Ba, who just now was feeling sad about the loss of old players, suddenly felt less sad now because he saw a new future.

So, he raised his eyebrows and replied to the post.

[Gamebugs: This game doesn’t require configurations, so newbies can play it with ease. I can play it at the highest quality at 60 frames without any stress using a 4060Ti from ten years ago...]

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