Chapter 320: There is always a time to meet and a time to part, and there is always a time to meet again! (The End)

Five years later.

Jiangning, Tianba Industrial Park.

Chen Ba wore a formal suit, which was extremely rare. He performed the ribbon-cutting ceremony with a smile in front of a group of media and official leaders.

Tianba Industrial Park is an industrial base integrating data center, IT manufacturing, game derivatives, metaverse and Internet 2.0 concepts. Tianba Group has invested over 20 billion yuan and Jiangning City has focused on building it.

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

certainly!

As his old profession, he naturally did not forget game development.

It’s just that 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 after following Chen Ba for so many years, they have learned some skills.

After Chen Ba gave them the power, they successively produced three more games, including a top 3A masterpiece "Mars Past".

Only three games in five years? This pace may make many old fans of Tianba feel dissatisfied. After all, when Brother Ba was the main producer, releasing a new game a year was considered relatively slow.

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

Chen Ba was very satisfied with this.

He knew that he couldn't expect everyone to have the same cheats as he did, and that making games could be as easy as playing with building blocks.

Launching three new games in five years, including a top 3A masterpiece, is really a difficult schedule for Xiao Lu and others. Not to mention, the quality of these three games is very good.

But having said that.

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

What are the characteristics of Tianba engine?

Of course, it is unexpected, and the game bugs can always refresh players' cognition in a weird way! Chen Ba is also helpless about this.

Didn't he know about this feature of the Tianba engine? He must know it, and if he knew it, then it's not surprising that this happened.

Thanks to all these years, players have been trained to have a strong heart and will not panic easily no matter what outrageous and abstract game bugs they encounter.

Otherwise the company would have gone bankrupt long ago.

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

The most eye-catching of these is VR technology.

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

But now is different...

With the advancement of technology, VR devices have undergone several rounds of updates and iterations, and have achieved good performance. More and more people are beginning to accept VR and experience VR.

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

"Past on Mars" is a science fiction exploration game and a 3A game. It is a challenge launched by Tianba Games to the VR field.

How to describe the result?

To say it was a success, it was just so-so. The sales volume of 18 million copies was neither high nor low, and the word of mouth was just average, not a huge hit.

To say it is a failure is not really a failure. After all, through the game "Past Events on Mars", Tianba Games verified many new technologies, and Chen Ba also made a major upgrade to the Tianba engine and added many new things.

Overall.

"Past on Mars" is Tianba Games' first VR game, but it is definitely not the last. The company will launch a series of VR masterpieces based on this game.

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

Thinking of this, Chen Ba couldn't help but sigh.

Brother Dong was two years older than him, and because of the tremendous work pressure in his early years, he often stayed up late to work overtime and did not eat or rest well, so he 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, it's not just Brother Dong. All the people who started the business with him in the early days, including himself, more or less have some occupational diseases.

Xiao Lu is still young and can hold on now so it doesn’t matter, but Chen Ba can’t.

Soaking wolfberries in a thermos cup has become his daily routine. Since getting married, he has gradually handed over the company's affairs to Huang Qing, and he has been traveling around.

After working so hard for so many years, the company is now on the right track. Shouldn’t he enjoy himself?

Besides, Chen Ba didn’t intend to be a hands-off boss, it’s just that his children are still young, and he really doesn’t have the time and energy to manage the company.

Maybe it's fate that cannot be defied.

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 consecutive days.

No, keep giving birth!

Old Chen and Old Wang urged their children to continue having children and would not stop until they gave birth to a precious granddaughter. Unfortunately, this wish has not been realized until now.

I guess there will be no chance of realizing this in the future. After all, as they get older, the couple doesn’t want children anymore.

For various reasons, the two children, one surnamed Chen and the other surnamed Wang, grew up together, and will study and live together in the future, but they are always different.

Chen Ba was a little hesitant about this.

This plan had been decided long ago, and he had no intention of opposing it. He just felt that the plan made at that time was a little unfair when viewed today. If the eldest brother inherited Lao Wang's family business in the future, he would probably have a net worth of only a few billion.

Don't ask, the answer is that the real estate industry has been sluggish in recent years, and Lao Wang's wealth has been shrinking. It's considered quite impressive that he still has tens of billions.

On the other hand, what about the second-largest company? Tianba Group is not a sunset industry like Lao Wang's. Instead, it is a sunrise industry that is thriving. The valuations given by major institutions are getting higher day by day.

The gap between the two sides is getting bigger and bigger.

Not to mention what will happen in the future, right now, Tianba Group’s valuation is already approaching 100 billion yuan.

How to say this thing...

Chen Ba felt that the gap between hundreds of billions and tens of billions was indeed a bit too big. If this arrangement was made, would the two children, especially the eldest, feel that it was unfair in the future? Would they blame their elders? Absolutely possible! For this reason, Chen Ba simply talked to Lao Wang and analyzed the pros and cons of this matter for him, hoping that he would think carefully and not cause complaints from the children in the future.

Lao Wang thought it made sense. To this day, his wealth was indeed incomparable to Chen Ba's. If he continued to follow the previous plan, it would be unfair to the boss.

Then let's merge the two companies! In order to eliminate this possibility, Lao Wang simply merged his company into Tianba Group, so that in the future, the profits would be divided equally according to the shares, and there would be no such thing as unfairness.

The two little guys, who could hardly speak clearly, had no idea what their father and grandfather were discussing behind their backs.

Of course, Wang Ya knew it.

There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!

Not only did she know about this, she also knew that her husband was having an affair with a certain Bai Yueguang behind her back.

Fortunately, things were not as bad as she thought. Chen Ba did not cheat on her. He just helped Bai Yueguang out of nostalgia.

But this is also worth being cautious about.

After all, Chen Ba's white moonlight is now divorced, and is living in a house that Chen Ba has not sold. She was also arranged by Chen Ba to be the manager of an offline store.

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

Fortunately, both sides exercised restraint.

Although they were quarreling, they were not really angry. It was just that Wang Ya didn't want Chen Ba to help others, and Chen Ba couldn't bear it.

"You just want my body!"

"Oh, yes, yes, yes, I am greedy for the body of a divorced woman with a child, I am a slut..."

Chen Ba was too lazy to argue.

As the saying goes, a person who is not guilty is innocent, a person who is upright is not afraid of his own shadow, and a person who has done nothing wrong is not afraid of ghosts knocking on his door. His obsession with Bai Yueguang had been eliminated when he got married.

The reason why I am taking action now is just to give the other party a hand based on the name of fellow villager and old classmate.

After all, her ex-husband ran away with a lot of foreign debts from gambling, leaving behind a pair of orphans and a widow with no money in their pockets. How could they survive? Chen Ba was a soft-hearted god.

Just like last year when a distant relative in his hometown fell seriously ill and was unable to afford the treatment costs, he immediately remitted 500,000 yuan to the other party as soon as he received the news.

Although he was very unhappy with this distant relative at that time, thinking that he was too snobbish and despised the poor and loved the rich, he often said some sarcastic words during the New Year, which led to a very strained relationship between the two families.

But in the face of such a serious illness and disaster, Chen Ba put aside his past meanness and helped the other party.

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 "poor students" in his hometown.

Old Chen has been pretending to be living a life of debauchery, 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 been dissatisfied with those people in his hometown. If Chen Ba knew about this, it would be difficult for Old Chen to continue donating in the future.

But what Old Chen didn't know was that Chen Ba was aware of every penny of his money flowing to him.

Although Chen Ba had a lot of opinions about the people in his hometown and disliked them very much, he thought that he was only targeting those "adults".

There was no need to involve the next generation in the grievances of the previous generation, so Old Chen quietly sponsored the children in his hometown to go to school, and Chen Ba had no objection at all.

Time will change many people and things.

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

This is a very sad thing.

After all, the better our time together was, the more painful and reluctant we are to part now.

But all good things must come to an end! At this moment, just like in the original League of Legends, when summoners grow up and start to enter society and face life, it is difficult for them to return to the canyon.

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

No matter how beautiful the memories are, they will eventually be shattered. As players grow up and have their own jobs and lives, the number of online players of the popular games in the past will inevitably decline.

The only thing that remains unchanged is probably the legendary game "Don't Go After School: Marbles"! But even "Don't Go After School" has gone through many rounds of player iterations, and the players who are still playing this game are no longer the same group of people recorded in "Marbles Dynasty Chronicles".

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

"I'm new here, does Star Emperor 3 require a lot of system configuration?"

The old is replaced by the new.

Looking at this help post by Zhen Mengxin, Chen Ba immediately thought of that afternoon ten years ago, when it seemed that there was also a group of people posting on the forum asking whether "Star Emperor" had any configuration requirements.

This seems like a cycle!

Chen Ba, who had just been feeling sad about the loss of old players, suddenly wasn't so sad anymore because he saw a new future.

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

[Gamebugs: This game doesn’t require high configuration, so newbies can play it without any worries. I can play it at 60 FPS with a 4060Ti from ten years ago without any pressure at the highest quality…]

The first lesson for newbies is to start by getting to know GameBugs!

(End of this chapter)