2007年1月24日,记者曾报导威旺迪公司收购中国开发团队的事件(点击查看详情),在其宣布了本次成功收购行为之后,记者就积极与威旺迪公司取得联系,并请到了Mark Warburton——Vice President Sierra Online Asia Pacific(雪乐山在线亚太地区副总裁)解答本次收购的一些问题:
七月流火:请问本次收购的行为,在去年9月的时候就已经对外宣布,到2007年1月24才宣布通过中国政府的批准,在这段时间里,你们主要解决的是什么问题? On September 2006, it had been reported that Vivendi Universal Games was willing to acquire Studio Ch’in, but finally it had been approved by Chinese government on Jan 2007, we’d like to know what happened during this period.
Mark Warburton:去年11月份我们就顺利的收到了中国政府的正式批准函,在正式向中国游戏业内宣布这一消息前,我们主要进行了一些内部的组建工作。 Approval was quite normal with final confirmation coming to us in November. We focused on our internal set-up before formally announcing to the Game industry in China.
七月流火:本次贵公司收购的“秦”工作室,在中国玩家中显得很神秘,请介绍一下这家工作室的业务? As one of the acquired studios, Ch’in is a mystery to Chinese consumers. Can you please tell us more about it?
Mark Warburton:在中国,“秦”是一家致力于中小型PC在线游戏和Xbox Live® Arcade在线游戏的公司,公司有50多名员工,他们有着丰富的业内经验, 能为全球玩家开发游戏。 Ch’in is a PC online and Xbox Live Arcade (Xbox 360) short and mid-session focused team here in China, which has 50 people with good experience in the Game industry. To Make games for the world!
七月流火:中国从事游戏开发的工作室很多,为什么你们选中了“秦”呢? Could you tell us why you select Ch’in among so many game studios in China?
Mark Warburton:“秦”拥有一支非常优秀的管理团队,有良好的企业文化,极尽创意的设计师,和才华横溢的技术力量。不仅如此,“秦”与其兄弟工作室——“Sierra Online” 西雅图工作室(前身为Secret Lair Studio)更是关系密切。 Studio Chin had a great management team, good internal culture, creative artists and talented technical team. It also had a strong established link with it’s sister studio; Sierra Online Seattle Studio (formerly Secret Lair).
七月流火:收购了“秦”之后,是否意味着威旺迪会在今后的游戏开发中更加重视中国的游戏市场? Is that to say Vivendi Games will pay much attention on Chinese game market after purchasing Ch’in studio?
Mark Warburton:中国的在线玩家非常狂热,从我们收到的积极反馈来看,中国玩家对公司的在华项目和构思表现出极大的潜在兴趣。因此,我们会尽一切努力,引进一些全新有趣的PC在线游戏到中国,希望广大玩家可以体验到我们公司的更多游戏。 Chinese online gamers are very passionate and we have received regular positive feedback on the potential interest in our catalogue and ideas in China, so we want to try our best to bring some new exciting PC online products from the Sierra Online division to China in the future and hope all game-fans can enjoy more games from our company.