Chapter 54
Chapter 54
We all left the Golden Gate Building.
Ellie stretched her out as if frowned upon.
“Ha-am! It’s nice to be out.”
Because of this, it is difficult to pay attention to certain areas as they seem to be particularly emphasized. Even if you wear a suit, you can’t hide the volume.
Ellie looked at us and said.
“Thank you. Thanks to them, I got a free vacation.”
The manager of Golden Gate Asia gave us a staff so that our stay in Hong Kong would not be inconvenient. Those employees are Hyunjoo’s older sister and Eli.
Although the name is off-duty, it is actually a vacation.
Unlike her favorite Ellie, Hyunjoo’s older sister did not have a good expression.
“Hey, there’s a lot of work, so you’re out of business.”
“Why, sister? It’s good to take this opportunity to rest.”
At Taek-gyu’s words, Hyun-joo’s older sister pulled out her cigarette and said.
“If you don’t work, your job doesn’t go away. it’s just pushing When I go back, there must be about a truck of papers piled up on my desk.”
“·················ogue.”
Did you say that Golden Gate works 100 hours a week?
That equates to working almost 14 hours a day. The problem is that this is minimal.
I once dreamed of going to the Golden Gate, but now I hate even if I parachute it.
Seeing you think like this, I’m sure I’m full too.
At the front door, the S-Class Maybach we rode in was waiting. Ellie took her car key from her staff and said.
“Now, where shall we go?”
Taek-gyu said as if he was waiting.
“Hong Kong is Disneyland.”
Hyunjoo noona just cut it off and said.
“No. You went last time.”
“It’s fun to go again.”
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only you will have fun
I have a different opinion.
“Let’s go to Victoria Peak. It’ll be done in a little while, so let’s have dinner while watching the night view.”
“That would be great.”
Ellie was driving and made a reservation for her restaurant.
As before, Victoria Peak was bustling with locals and tourists. We parked below and took the Peak Tram up with the tourists.
We entered the restaurant and sat by the window with a good view of the night view. Ellie ordered seafood and wine in fluent Cantonese.
Hyunjoo noona asked me.
“Are you going to go back to school this year?”
“Yes. There’s nothing to do for the time being. You have to keep studying.”
My sister laughed at my words.
“I don’t know if there’s anything you can learn there. It will be fun though. I also liked when I was in school.”
Taehyung nodded his head.
“right. It was good. Since I was a freshman, I have been drinking and smoking every day, so I crawl into the house at dawn. When I saw her lying on the shoe rack this morning, I thought it was her body and my mom almost called the police.”
“Shut up.”
“Yep.”
I asked Ellie.
“How was college life?”
she said shaking her head.
“I only have memories of studying. I went to study alone, so I didn’t have many friends.”
Ellie attended an international school in Hong Kong and went to college in her mother country, England.
As the sun went down, the night view of Hong Kong unfolded. The buildings lined up along the shore were colored with colorful lights.
“So, how do you feel about meeting a legendary investor in Asia?”
I answered Hyeon-ju’s sister’s question honestly.
“It was great.”
Just by meeting and talking, I was able to get a glimpse of his beliefs and philosophy about investing. I can see why people pay so much for lunch with Warren Boat.
If I said I met Chase Southwell in person and shook hands and had a conversation, no one would believe me.
I remembered what he had heard earlier.
“But what’s the good news? Have you heard anything?”
My sister shook her head.
“I can’t remember anything.”
“Aren’t you and Ellie raising their salaries?”
Ellie nodded.
“Ah! It could be.”
“If the salary increases, the work will also increase.”
“Hey.”
Ellie was weeping.
We ate and talked about what had happened in the past. Hyunjoo noona mainly talked about the status of the companies we invested in, and Ellie asked her about her college life in Korea. And Taek-gyu was still saying something.
It looks like he’s earning a rod every time he talks, so I think you’ll be able to see Hyun-joo’s noona squeezing him out in about 30 minutes.
I was mostly the listener. If you’re still like me, you’re halfway there.
Ellie gripped her chin with one hand and twirled her wine glass with her other. Her cheeks were stained red because of drunkenness.
That look is incredibly cute
“I also want to go to university with Jinhoo.”
“Yes?”
Are you drunk?
When I looked at Hyun-joo’s older sister, she nodded her head as if it was the same.
“How about Golden Gate?”
“You can just quit and apply for admission to a Korean university. I want to go to business school too.”
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I want to go to Golden Gate, so I go to business school, isn’t it strange to quit Golden Gate and enter the business school?
Ellie said she remembered something.
“Ah! When you go back to school, you’re not going to take classes with her junior, Yuri, right?”
“Ugh······.”
How do you still remember that name?
I’m confused, Taek-gyu said.
“It would be. Both are sophomores. Not long ago, I applied for a course together.”
“No, I didn’t know that, so I asked for it.”
Ellie smiled and said.
“Hey. Can I hear a little more about it?”
I said looking out the window.
“The night view of Hong Kong is always beautiful.”
“Don’t turn around.”
“······Yes.”
* * *
After a three-day trip to Hong Kong, we returned to Korea.
I was lying on the sofa when I got a knock from Yuri.
Tiling!
[Senior, are you from Korea?]I sent a reply.
[I just returned.][When do you come to school?][I will go tomorrow.]I was going to go today, but I decided not to go because I was bored. After all, it is also the period of correction of admission.
I was lying down with my eyes closed, when suddenly I heard a scream from next to me.
“Ahh! No!”
“What is it?”
Taek-gyu said urgently to me.
“Hey, it’s a big deal now!”
“What? Did the Fed suddenly raise rates by 100 basis points?”
“It is incomparable to that!”
“What is it?”
“Look for yourself.”
Taek-gyu went to a site called Lulu Web and opened an article.
[Stop developing Lost Fantasy M]
Linix Pentagon has stopped developing the mobile RPG game Lost Fantasy M.
According to industry insiders, Linix Pentagon withdrew from the mobile market due to the failure of the previously released Raccoon Tales and Parostone 2, and naturally stopped the project.
Linix Pentagon explained that it was an inevitable decision to focus on the production of console games, and that it had sufficiently consulted with the developers in advance.
However, Ichikawa Shigeru, the father of Lost Fantasy and former Pentagon manager, said he could not accept the company’s unilateral decision and that he would resign along with the developers.
“What is this?”
Taek-gyu groaned and groaned.
“The development of Lost Fantasy M has been stopped!”
“No, so what is Lost Fantasy?”
At my question, he looked frustrated.
“The character on my car is Lucy, the main character of Lost Fantasy 12. I told you before, but have you already forgotten?”
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I don’t even remember.
I calmed Taek-gyu once.
“Why was development stopped?”
“There is a story that cannot be heard without tears.”
“Oh yeah? Then you won’t listen.”
“Just listen.”
The guy began to explain sullenly…
Lost Fantasy is a game produced by a Japanese game company called Pentagon.
Traditionally, Japan has been a strong player in the console game market. However, as the axis of the game market shifted to online and mobile, the situation for companies that made console games became difficult.
The Pentagon, which was suffering from financial difficulties, decided to merge with Linix, which is in the same industry, and a giant company called Linix Pentagon was born.
However, the situation did not improve significantly after the merger. Although it is not a spec industry, the status of console games was not the same as before, and in the online game market, which entered the market late, it was defeated by game companies such as Icestorm in the US and LC Soft in Korea.
In the end, it ambitiously entered the mobile game market, but it failed two games in a row and recorded the largest quarterly loss in history.
If it fails one more time, management will be all over the place and nothing will be said.
Unlike mobile, which has a lot of light users, the console game market has a large fan base. Linix Pentagon has a large number of enthusiasts, so if it makes and releases a suitable console game, it can make enough money.
The management decided to stop the development of Lost Fantasy M and disband the team to focus on console game development.
In response, Shigeru Ichikawa, who has been developing Lost Fantasy since the early days, strongly protested and threatened to leave the company.
“Because this is what Shigeru Ong got in the back of the head.”
Pentagon and Linix merged equally.
As neither side took over, it was a question of who would take charge of the business, and Pentagon’s CEO Shigeru Ichikawa gladly handed over to Linix.(Read more @ wuxiax.com)
As he was originally a developer, he wanted to quit the business and make the game he wanted.
But now that doesn’t seem possible either.
Taek-gyu said as if he was angry.
“Our Shigeru Ong stopped development because we didn’t have 1 billion yen! Does this make sense?”
“Did you know that 1 billion yen is 10 billion won?”
“So! Because of only 10 billion won!”
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Is 10 billion a joke for kids?
I didn’t understand, so I asked.
“If that doesn’t work, can’t we just play another game?”
Then Taek-gyu clenched his fists and shouted.
“Lost Fantasy is different from other games.”
“What’s different?”
“Dreams, adventures and hopes!
“·················ogue.”
At this point, I really don’t know what it means.
“Look at the Luluweb Lost Fantasy bulletin board here. I’m getting signatures to send a protest email to the Linix Pentagon as a group right now. A gamer named edm here even bought a ticket to Japan saying he is going to a one-man protest in front of the headquarters the day after tomorrow.”
There was indeed a photo of the plane ticket and the protest sign written in Japanese.
Hmm, it looks like there isn’t much to do. is it white?
Taek-gyu looked into my eyes and asked.
“At this point, can’t you see something in front of you?”
“What do you see?”
“Something like ‘Lost Fantasy M Invitational’.”
“no. Not at all.”
Although what Yeji shows is correct, it does not show everything that is correct. If that were the case, tens of millions of holograms would come to mind every day.
Taek-gyu said as if he had made up his mind.
“I can’t. Just let us invest.”
“Huh?”
“It’s like lending Shigeru Ong development costs for Lost Fantasy users around the world. That’s right, it’s only 10 billion won.”
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How do you earn money and spend it? I use it for ducting.
I want it this way, but I’m sorry to dry it. There’s plenty of room for 100 million or so.
“Wait a minute.”
I called the CEO of K Company.
click
“Are you okay on the phone now?”
[Sure. Talk.]I just said the gist.
“There is a game company called Linix Pentagon in Japan, and there is a developer named Shigeru Ichikawa. Contact that person and tell him that Oh Taek-gyu… No, OTK Company will invest 1 billion yen for development.”
