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Chapter 706 706: The Louvre Heist

In reality, Wizards of the Coast not only treats its employees harshly, but it's even harsher on others.Before Baldur's Gate 3, Wizards itself wasn't at all capable of rebooting the series.

But once Larian made Baldur's Gate 3, Wizards immediately felt it could do it alone.

Dungeons & Dragons is a standard collaborative series, where numerous third-party studios leverage its core rules to create their own adventures, rule books, and even new games for their livelihoods.

This collaboration led to the prosperity of the Dungeons & Dragons series, bringing substantial income to Wizards.

Yet, Wizards wasn't satisfied with this.

Others added content to its series, helping its IP flourish.

Wizards planned to charge creators a staggering 25% royalty fee, along with an additional condition: Wizards could freely use any content created within the Dungeons & Dragons series framework.

This condition was downright shameless.

Even in countries less concerned with copyright, if the copyright owner arbitrarily uses fan-created content, they would face backlash and criticism.

Yet Wizards wants to freely use content created by others.

This approach directly sparked a global outburst among creators, uniting to resist Wizards and refund their paid services.

In the end, Wizards had no choice but to sheepishly withdraw the draft.

If this draft were passed.

The foreseeable future of the Dungeons & Dragons series would be akin to the player-made maps in Warcraft 3, disappearing entirely.

Indeed, this absurd plan had already been enacted once in North America.

It was the notorious Blizzard, the creator of Warcraft 3, along with its map editor.

Witnessing the map editor of Warcraft 3 give birth to the MOBA game DOTA, yet realizing it hadn't profited from it.

So, during the development of the Warcraft 3 Reforged edition, Blizzard modified the user agreement, stipulating all maps created with the map editor would have copyright belonging entirely to Blizzard.

This certainly prevented a second money-losing DOTA for Blizzard, but it also led to the complete disappearance of player-made maps for Warcraft 3.

After all, if the maps you create no longer belong to you, who would continue making maps?

"I figured out the cause and effect." Chen Yiyang replied to Luobu on the phone, "From Blizzard, CDPR, EA to Ubisoft, this group of big company executives fundamentally doesn't understand why a game can make money.

They're hired by the company's top management with high salaries, with only one purpose: to earn more money for the company.

So, they don't care about the players, nor do they care about the countless creators who form the IP; they only regard players as cash machines, wanting to extract money from them recklessly."

"Exactly." Luobu said, "Larian has its own Divinity series; they essentially don't need to work for Larian. The reason they made Baldur's Gate 3 is purely out of sentiment for the Baldur's Gate series — that's why I approached you to see if you could invest in Larian."

Though Larian has created several successful series, the costs for producing AAA titles are now incredibly high.

If Larian wants the next work to reach the level of Baldur's Gate 3, a substantial amount of funds is needed.

In fact, when Larian was making games before, due to lack of funds, they were forced to crowdfund and even engaged in various side businesses, funneling the earnings from these into their games.

However, this amount of money isn't much to Chen Yiyang.

"Give me Larian's contact information, and I'll invest in them."

"Thank you so much." Upon hearing Chen Yiyang agree, Luobu immediately expressed gratitude.

"By the way, are there any noteworthy news in France recently?" Having finished the serious talk with Luobu, Chen Yiyang started to chat.

"Speaking of news, recently the Louvre in France was robbed. A group of robbers spent only seven minutes stealing eight pieces of precious jewelry from the Louvre."

"Wait a minute!" Chen Yiyang was stunned. "You're saying the Louvre was robbed?"

"Yes," Luobu nodded, "This happened just recently, so many details are unclear, I only know the general situation.

Apparently, a group of robbers using a vehicle-mounted telescopic ladder climbed to the second floor of the Louvre Museum, then cut through the glass to steal eight precious antique jewels. Oh, actually, it was nine, but one was dropped halfway."

"Wasn't anyone there to spot them?" Chen Yiyang was puzzled.

Considering it's the Louvre, equivalent to the Forbidden City in China.

Although not stealing isn't Italy, and not robbing isn't France.

But the Louvre can be robbed?

Bear in mind, the Paris Police Headquarters is just eight hundred meters from the Louvre in Paris!

"This group wore maintenance worker outfits, and passersby and security guards assumed they were there to repair the Louvre's facilities."

Hearing Luobu say this, Chen Yiyang couldn't help but recall the joke.

It said, as long as you wear a maintenance worker's uniform and carry a ladder, you can enter any place you want.

Including cinemas, company buildings, and government offices.

In fact, many internet celebrities have done similar experiments.

Carrying a ladder into a cinema to watch movies for free, and they mostly succeeded.

But Chen Yiyang didn't expect that this trick could even get you into the Louvre!

The robbers used a ladder.

"The robbers haven't been caught yet; I heard others say the robbers would dismantle and directly sell the jewels they stole, likely making them hard to retrieve." Luobu added.

Upon hearing this from Luobu, Chen Yiyang felt something was off.

Such a professional and daring group of robbers, if they only wanted to dismantle these valuable jewels and sell them, then there's no need to rob the Louvre.

Any jewelry store could be robbed this way and it's easier to get rid of the loot.

An antique-level piece of jewelry originally worth tens of millions, but if dismantled for sale, might only be worth hundreds of thousands.

If these robbers are caught, the court wouldn't look at how much money you sold for — they'd view the original value of these jewels.

Moreover, once these antique jewels are dismantled, they cannot be restored anymore. If they don't dismantle, hiring a good lawyer might even reduce their sentence.

However, if they dismantle, they might end up serving very long sentences.

After talking a bit more with Luobu, once the call ended, Chen Yiyang first called an assistant to prepare the investment matters for Larian.

As long as Larian's terms aren't too unreasonable, Chen Yiyang is sure to invest a sum of money into Larian to let them produce the game.

Then Chen Yiyang thought for a moment, picked up the phone, and dialed a number.