As always, I wake up at 7 am sharp, get out of bed, brush my teeth, have a shower, get dressed, go outside to pick up the newspaper, back inside for a cup of coffee then back to my regular old leather chair and sit down, turn on the T.V. and read the newspaper.
'Once again, Eternal is on the front page.' I thought as I skimmed through the newspaper with the T.V. in the background.
After skimming through the newspaper I look at the date 23/05/2130. 1 day before the release of Pandora, I was excited for several reasons, the main ones are that I likes the game, it looks great the graphics are out of this world, the economy took several teams of economists to perfect and because I own 15% of the shares I can take a few sneak peaks at the game during the making and it will give me the opportunity to earn ten lifetimes worth of money.
'It all went down like this, Eternal its a multi-billion dollar company, they have assets over several tens of billion and they had enough resources to make this game several times over, or at least they did at the time the game was planned out, the game was originally planned out to take 2 years, but that all relied on the fact that they were generating enough money, but after 2 years they started having some money problems, not that they didn't have enough, just that they weren't generating enough, because they had focused on creating Pandora and had not put enough manpower into creating and promoting expansion packs and new games to keep the income high, but instead of stopping there and looking for other avenues of income they carried on.
Another 4 years later and they start to have money problems, serious money problems, when you are a multi-billion dollar company the least thing to expect is going into debt but it happened, 6 years into a 10-year game, just over halfway done and they almost had to start giving up.
So they started looking for guarantors, people who would vouch for them when they needed to take a loan out from the bank and of course for a billion-dollar company to take out a loan they would need a guarantor with a billion dollars or more, that was where I come in, my total possessions left to me were $1.5 Billion total, I had managed to become a guarantor and after several weeks of negotiating I was able to secure 15% of the shares in the company in exchange for becoming a guarantor and paying a total of $500 million after the loan has been paid back, so technically I had to pay nothing to get the 15% not like they are really worth anything as of yet.
When a company goes in debt the share prices will typically go down as shareholders will try to sell the shares before they lose even more money that is until they can pay them off, so they are only worth a fraction of the price they usually sell for, but if they manage to pay off the debt the prices will go back up possibly even becoming double or triple since the creation of this game has generated so much media attention and popularity.'
Finishing his morning newspaper and coffee I go back to my computer.
Like every other day, I go onto the wiki for Pandora because unlike many other games Eternal has decided to post a lot of information about the game on the wiki page, whilst I am looking at the wiki I notice a lot more information has been posted that wasn't there before, like the types of classes that you can start as, some of the basic starter quests and the different types of quests, but most of the essential information was still missing, such as dungeon placements and how to advance from start villages etc. but that is not what important for now because in 6 hours my capsule will arrive.
Eternal has created several tens of thousands of capsules, they are to be distributed to all the staff members and the shareholders.
Of course, they have plans of being able to supply everyone with a capsule but with the limited amount of funds available right now they are unable to create them.
After browsing the internet for several hours I stopped absorbing the information on the wiki to cook dinner and by cook I mean look at a takeaway menu, pick up the phone, dial the number and order Thai food.
Some 15 minutes later the doorbell rang.
I rushed from my office to the door, unexpectedly it wasn't the food I was starting to crave for, but the delivery men for the capsule. I let them in to do the installation which I was told will take 2 hours and leave them to it while I go back to my office and await my food which is supposed to arrive any time now.
Another 10 minutes later and I start to give up 'I'm not wasting my time for this food' I thought to myself and decided to have something else to eat.
I open my special take-away drawer, containing around 50 different menus for food to eat based on what I'm craving.
'Since Thai food has failed me today I shall go for Indian' Whilst thinking about what I was going to eat I pick up the previous Thai takeaway menu and throw it in the bin beside my desk.
15 minutes later my food had arrived and 15 minutes after that I finished my food and back to the computer to absorb more information on the 'Best game in the history of games' for the rest of the day.
Some hours later the day turned into night, time had flown by without me realising and when I looked up to the clock on my wall I had noticed that it was 3 am in the morning, I turned off the computer went to the kitchen, got a drink and headed upstairs where I changed my clothes got into bed and drifted off to sleep.