Chapter 269 - Gaming Platform Facelift (1/2)

After their meal, Chen Mo brought Zhao Zihao and Lin Mao to visit his experience store.

Zhaoo Zihao was incredibly interested in the holographic projectors on the second floor. After watching others play a match or two of Warcraft, he decided to buy one at home.

Lin Mao on the other hand was more interested in Chen Mo’s office. Chen Mo showed him what he was working on and introduced the two games that were in development.

As the two of them know each other really well, Chen Mo didn’t need to hide things in front of his brothers.

Chen Mo also asked Zhao Yunting to give Lin Mao’s new game a better promotional spot.

Zhao Yunting was responsible for the operations of various games as well as overlooking Thunderbolt Gaming Platform.

Chen Mo chatted with Lin Mao and Zhao Zihao for some more time. Before they left, Zhao Zihao managed to get the contact for the author for COG.

As the author for the map wasn’t a well known designer or anything, Zhao Zihao had to go through various different channels through a few friends from overseas to get the author’s email.

After sending off Lin Mao and Zhao Zihao, Chen Mo sent the author an email.

It was someone named Clive Raman. They were so low profile that Chen Mo couldn’t get anything other than either name.

But one thing’s for sure, he probably wasn’t working for any large videogame company nor has he made anything else noteworthy. COG was probably inspired from playing Chenghai3C.

Chen Mo wrote an email in english, introducing himself (Designer of Warcraft), expressed his interest in the map, and hopes that they could work something out.

He didn’t receive an immediate reply and that could’ve been from a time difference issue and they could still be asleep.

Clive Raman finally replied around 9pm.

Fortunately he didn’t think that the email was a fraud attempt.

“Nice to meet you Mr Silent.”

“To be honest, I was surprised to receive an email from you. I’m not familiar with countries across the sea, and I never thought that the designer of Warcraft would notice the map I’ve designed. It’s an honour to meet you.

“Regarding a collaboration, I’m sorry but I’m afraid it cannot happen. I’ve already signed an agreement with another company (I can’t reveal anything at this point), and the higher ups plans to provide me with a lot of resources to develop COG. We are both happy with our sides of the agreement and I plan to sign the contract soon.

“Moreover, I don’t fancy the idea of working with someone overseas. This might be offensive, but I think people outside the country, especially the Chinese are sometimes quite nerdy (of course this is a neutral nerd with no derogatory meaning, and you’re obviously not included in that generalisation), I doubt if someone outside of the country could understand my design intentions well.

“Moreover, I have my own decisions and hope to have absolute power over the project. Not many can accept this. Therefore, I could only apologise regarding your proposal, and I won’t be changing my mind.”

Chen Mo closed the email after reading through it.

THey were quite absolute about their decisions, so Chen Mo didn’t want to waste either of their time.

Chen Mo’s ‘collaboration’ was actually a hire attempt. He felt that their ideas were decent and wanted to add him to his team.

And the design process? He’d probably still overlook it himself.

But from the looks of the email, he can probably write that off.