Chinese company headed to steal its staff.
Most of the time, I’d read this tale and pass on, but on a Friday afternoon there was just something wonderfully optimistic about it. It seems that the head of Chinese ‘online game developer’ Shanghai Storm Information Technology is headed on a trip to Irvine, California, with one thing on his mind.
Irvine is where Blizzard Entertainment is based. According to Chinese media outlet Sina, “he intends to steal talent from the World of Warcraft developer”. He also has plans to set up in Korea.
So, who is Shanghai Storm Information Technology anyway? It is apparently the developer of a 2.5D MMO called Yuyan Online. Have a look around the web for Yuyan Online, which, surprisingly, wasn’t on this writer’s radar and it looks like the game is already heavily influenced by Blizzard’s MMO.
This is the rundown of the company from the Yahoo Finance website:
Shanghai Storm Information Technology, Co., Ltd. (“Shanghai Storm”) was founded in July 2007. After only one year, it has developed from the small scale of 6 persons to a large corporation of over 300 employees. In early 2009, a new branch has been established in Changzhou, and its comprehensive strength has been improved. Furthermore, the corporation has accomplished diversified series of product in a very short time, extending from one to five games, including the “Yuyan Online” based on the Fone online game engine.
Shanghai Storm has established itself as a unique one within the industry. It has demonstrated its ingenuity by creating an exclusive mode of “Fantastic games are created by players”, that is to aggressively ally those elite players to join into the team of professionals. By directly feedback of market opinions on the quality of games, the corporation has thus gained benefits from the market. Apart from the 2.5 D works of “Yuyan Online”, Shanghai Storm will also launch a variety of independently developed products, as well as the second version of online game engine with independent rights of intellectual property. The types of product will cover web games, recreation game, a horizontal version of the action game, MMOG (Massively Multiplayer Online Games), forming a complete line of product series.
While the ability to snatch staff from the world’s most successful PC games developer may well be beyond this plucky young company, there’s always a small chance that it’ll happen. It is nice to see someone aiming high, though.
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