Chapter 474: You don't want to be sued for monopoly

Blizzard really doesn't want to license this kind of technology to Apocalypse Games, it doesn't matter if it's licensed to other companies, it's not a big threat, but Apocalypse Games is different, and the two major terminal games of the fairy world civilization and the disorderly world are developing very fiercely.

The fairy world civilization is now the most influential game in Southeast Asia, and the world of disorder is attacking the European and American markets, seriously threatening the market share of Blizzard World of Warcraft.

After discussing for a long time, there was no result, and finally decided to see if the player accepted the effect.

In one day, the disorderly world and the fairy world civilization have completed the server upgrade and maintenance, and have begun to fully serve as this peripheral equipment, and the sales of headphones and microphones on the Internet are hot.

In just three days, Amazon announced that Apocalypse Games had received more than 400,000 orders on the company's website.

Immediately afterwards, Dongdong.com announced that Apocalypse Games had received more than 600,000 orders on the company's website, and sales are still increasing.

Seeing this data, many game companies began to be nervous, especially the Japanese game companies, which were even bigger, and had already taken away part of the market share by Blizzard, and now the companies of the Celestial Empire have also come to grab the food.

The only way to get through this is to get a patent for a voice-activated system and make a change.

After waiting for a few more days, the game company really couldn't sit still, and began to act one after another, sending personnel to the Celestial Empire to negotiate with the Apocalypse Game Company about patent licensing.

Amazon's headquarters in the United States released a data that the sales of this voice-activated device in the United States have reached 600,000, which makes Blizzard unable to sit still.

After some discussion, Vice President Drafort set off for the Celestial Empire and began to negotiate with Apocalypse Games about voice-activated patents, and was ready to exchange patents.

Two hundred euros for Celestial Coins is about 1,008, such a high price has not been able to stop the enthusiasm of players, Dongdong.com also released a summer vacation, domestic sales exceeded one million, this data really blinded the eyes of domestic game manufacturers.

Buy a device and get you a monthly card, the monthly card of the Apocalypse Games Company was only sold once at the beginning, and it has not been sold since then, just as a means of promotion.

Although the usual point card fee is a little lower than that of World of Warcraft, it is also a large expense, and this time without exception, the launch of this promotional trump card directly mobilized the enthusiasm of players.

Xu Ping'an was satisfied, picked up the teapot and filled Ye Changlin's teacup, just now Ye Changlin came to report that the number of registered players had increased by 100%, and the goal was completed beyond the plan.

"When will the Fairy Civilization Theme Park be completed," Xu Ping'an asked.

"Mr. Xu, I learned that it will not be completed until August next year, and the scene technology equipment needs to be customized, so it has taken a lot of time," Ye Changlin explained.

Xu Ping'an nodded and said, "Changlin, manage the company's current games well, and at the same time, don't forget to develop new games, serious, professional, and sincere, which is the foundation of the game company."

"Please rest assured Mr. Xu, I will keep this sentence in mind, our game company has begun to set up a project, based on the current Three Kingdoms real-time battle game, to develop a large-scale online terminal game"

"At present, the hardware of the computer has been upgraded by leaps and bounds, and we can also carry out this large-scale historical online game that integrates strategy, military hegemony, and exploration."

"You can develop as a prince to participate in the battle for hegemony in the world, you can also explore in the game, and you can be recruited as a hero, and multiple systems coexist and run,............." Ye Changlin talked a lot.

"How's the negotiation with Blizzard going?" asked Xu Ping'an.

"The other party is still hesitating, thinking that it is very difficult to swap patents with us, and they don't look at the current situation, and players will feel very aggrieved if they don't shout out when they play online games."

"According to the information we have collected in several Internet cafes, many players have directly launched games that can't be shouted after playing for a while to log in to our fairy civilization."

"This is the general trend, if they don't change, the market shrinkage will be more and more pleasant," Ye Changlin said very seriously.

"The next time you negotiate with them, ask them if they have any plans to be acquired, and I will give them full authority to develop the game and acquire them as a sole proprietor" Xu Ping'an said directly, he has coveted Blizzard for a long time, but he has never had the opportunity.

"I'll give it a try, I guess they won't agree, although the profit has dropped a lot now, but it is also profitable," Ye Changlin said directly.

"Just try it, you can send out a formal acquisition offer," Xu Ping'an looked at Ye Changlin and said directly.

"I'll have a good talk with Blizzard's vice president Delafort, who came over this time, and will ask him to truthfully transmit the information back to the headquarters, which is also a lot of pressure on Blizzard."

"After all, our Apocalypse Capital is notoriously strong, their president can resist, and other shareholders may not be able to resist, even if they can't be acquired this time, they must increase their internal chaos and prepare for the next acquisition" Ye Changlin was extremely serious in his book.

"Very good, that's what you do, I'm relieved if you think so"

"You and Jacques are in competition, if you deduct the impact of monetary added value, your side is ahead of Jacques, and Jacques is currently focusing on the promotion of the disorderly world"

"I am not as good as you in terms of the future development of the enterprise, come on, in a few years, I will completely integrate the two game companies into the Apocalypse Game Group, and I hope you can take the position of the president of the group" Xu Ping'an looked at Ye Changlin and said.

Ye Changlin was excited, "Please rest assured, Mr. Xu, I will not be ashamed."

"Very good, but you have to remember, keep a normal heart, don't rush for quick success, what I value is the steady development of an enterprise" Xu Ping'an told Ye Changlin, Ye Changlin nodded seriously.

The two chatted for a while and Ye Changlin said goodbye, Xu Ping'an returned to his desk, put on headphones, and started playing games.

The next day, when Ye Changlin negotiated with Blizzard, he proposed the acquisition of Blizzard, which made the people on Blizzard's side tired for a while, and it can be seen from Ye Changlin's conditions that Ye Changlin was not joking.

The negotiations were terminated, the news was transmitted back to Blizzard's headquarters, and the president directly refused to be acquired, according to the regulations, once the joint-stock company received the acquisition offer, it must convene a board of directors, and the board of directors must make a decision.

The meeting was very intense, and the shareholders were very unhappy with the current earnings, some for and some against, leaving President Haggs exhausted.

It is easy to say that he passed the rejection of the acquisition proposal, promising to make every effort to improve this year's performance, and immediately after the meeting, he called Delafort and agreed to the request of Apocalypse Games to exchange patents and end the talks as soon as possible.

It must be almost over, and then it will be delayed until the end of the year, and the reports of major game companies will disclose that the vampires on the board of directors will definitely not give up, and will definitely think of other crooked tricks, and the probability of this kind of thing must be reduced.

A day has passed, and the negotiations between the two sides have been very smooth again, and the long list of patents proposed by Apocalypse Games Company has passed, which makes Ye Changlin a little confused.

However, it is also a good thing that it can be passed, and the two parties have directly signed a legal contract, which is signed in Hangzhou, and after the breach of contract occurs in the future, it will also be tried in the Hangzhou court.

Many documents need to be faxed to Blizzard headquarters for signature and sealing, and then faxed back, and it took almost a day to complete all the formalities.

The next step is simple, start to swap patents, all kinds of data begin to pass to each other, Ye Changlin found Mi Jian, immediately used it, optimized the client, and further improved the smoothness of the game.

Time passed slowly, and in just ten days, all the games of Apocalypse Games were suspended for eight hours, and comprehensive upgrade and maintenance were carried out, after the upgrade, the client will be reduced by 20%, and the smoothness of the game will be greatly improved.

Blizzard's speed is not slow, it only took five more days, and it was directly announced that the World of Warcraft game was suspended for twelve hours for upgrade and maintenance, and after the upgrade, the voice control system of Apocalypse Games supports World of Warcraft, and it can also be used in Warcraft time.

In this way, the three most influential PC games in the world have unified the gameplay, and in the future, you will not have voice-activated gameplay in PC games, and there will be no market for 100%.

Celestial Empire, Japanese game manufacturers are collectively in pain, not because they did not negotiate patent licensing with the Apocalypse Group, but because the cost is not low, so these companies are reluctant to pay.

Charged annually, regardless of your game sales, the annual fee of 50 million euros, if you agree, you will be authorized, and if you don't agree, you will think about it slowly.

The contract also stipulates that only for one game, not for the game company, that is, every game of your entire game company must be authorized and cannot be used uniformly.

Seriously, this contract is a big blow to many game production studios, but now the general trend is that voice-activated games dominate the world, and you can only be eliminated if you don't have the financial strength.

Many manufacturers are not reconciled, and have written to ask the government to participate in this matter, asking Apocalypse Games to reduce the patent fee, the reason is simple, we want to survive.

The bigwigs of various countries are also big for a while, which involves many people's jobs, and they don't want to see the game industry completely monopolized by the companies of the United States and the Celestial Empire, and start to be active.

After a short time, Zhang Jianbin came to Xu Ping'an's office and drank tea with Xu Ping'an.

"Fifty million is indeed a bit high, I hope you can lower it a little, you don't want to be sued for monopoly," Zhang Jianbin looked at Xu Ping'an and said.