Negotiations can't be negotiated all at once, and the major directors of the NFL league said they should think about it, and politely refused.

Henry didn't have much to say, just nodded. In Henry's view, the reason why they did not immediately agree was because they did not see tangible benefits!

As the saying goes, seeing is believing.

These people are all capitalists who don't see the rabbit and don't scatter the eagle, and even if Henry says that the sky is falling, they may not fully believe it! Henry can only build up a stronger influence to force them to submit. Ma Yun once said, today you ignore me, tomorrow I will make you unattainable.

If one day, when the NFL league sees that the NBA league is making crazy profits around the world with the support and promotion of Henry, it will know how much it will regret it!

Henry returned to San Jose, and the next thing to do was to send his men to continue contact with the NFL league, and he didn't have the leisure to grind with a bunch of greedy capitalists.

July is coming, and the Firefly game platform is ready to go live!

In the beginning, there were only two games that landed on this platform, one was Warcraft 1 jointly developed by Blizzard and Westwood, and the other was Doom developed by ID-software Games!

Warcraft 1 is a real-time strategy game, while DOOM is a first-person shooter, and both games are the first of their kind to be the first games to be released!!

In the previous life, "Warcraft 1" was tepid, mainly because there was "Dune II" developed by Jasper-Westwood Studios, but "Warcraft 1" is a work that imitates "Dune II". But now, instead of developing Dune II, Westwood Studios is working with Blizzard on Warcraft 1, the first real-time strategy online game that is bound to take the world by storm!

And "Doom" is even more popular, and there are almost no computer players who have not played the game at the height of "Doom...... In the previous life, if it wasn't for the fact that Internet cafes were not prevalent at that time, otherwise, the Internet cafes would definitely be playing "Doom"!

Firefly Games has been dormant for years. There has never been a game work, and it is just a blockbuster!

Countless game designers will fall in love with it. Countless gamers will go crazy about it!

In addition, Henry has always been an advocate of online gaming, so both Warcraft 1 and Doom can be played online!

Internet cafes will usher in the era of explosion!!

July 1st.

The firefly game platform is launched!

The interface of the ICQ chat software has been partially changed, changing the original "ICQ game platform" to "game".

Then click on "Game". Then there will be two options: "ICQ Game Platform" and "Firefly Game Platform".

In order to strengthen the cooperation between the two sides, an option "Firefly Game Platform" has been added to the interface of the "ICQ Game Platform". Naturally, there will also be an option for "ICQ Game Platform" on the interface of "Firefly Game Platform".

This kind of bundling, basically every software company is playing!

In order to achieve seamless cooperation, Henry intends to let ICQ make a strategic investment in Firefly Games and cross-sharehold!

Henry ultimately decided that ICQ would own a 20% stake in Firefly Games. And Firefly Games holds a 5% stake in ICQ!

The market capitalization of Firefly Games is much lower than that of ICQ, not even a quarter of it, but Henry believes that Firefly Games has great development potential and should not be undervalued, so he cross-swaps shares according to 1:4!

For Henry, the cross-swap is all the same anyway, it doesn't matter. But for shareholders on both sides of the company, there will certainly be ideas.

Therefore. Before the release of the Firefly game platform, Henry invited Tian Shuai, CEO of ICQ, to go to Firefly Games to try out "Warcraft 1" and "Doom", and even let him look at other games that the company is developing, such as "FIFA1994". "FIFA Football Manager", "Need for Speed" and many more.

After finishing, Tian Shuai said to Henry excitedly: "Chairman, Firefly Games Company will definitely become the overlord of the game industry, this is a very great company! I have no objection to cross-shareholding!!

"Chairman, can you let me copy "Doom" back to play?" Tian Shuai asked with his eyes shining.

Henry shook his head. Smiled: "Copying is useless, we have designed a program in the game, you need to log in to the firefly game platform to buy the registration code to play!

When Tian Shuai heard this, he couldn't help but be stunned, "But in this way, wouldn't you give up a big market?" You know, there are still many users who have not opened the Internet!"

"Hehe, do you know hunger marketing?" Henry asked with a smile at Tian Shuai, but before he could speak, Henry himself continued, "There is no doubt that online games are more fun than single-player games. If you can't play a stand-alone game, Internet cafes will inevitably be in short supply, which can create an unprecedented situation where the game is very popular, and even dozens of people queue up to play games in Internet cafes!!"

"The more you can't get it, the more you want to play! When the player's desire reaches its highest point, we will launch a stand-alone game disc, and when the time comes, the sales will explode to an unimaginable extent! Haha...... I'm afraid I won't have time to produce more game discs!"

After Henry finished speaking, Tian Shuai couldn't help but nod in admiration.

This hungry marketing didn't say that after hanging people's tastes, they will make a lot of money!

At this time, Henry said to Tian Shuai: "We are also developing disc encryption technology now, by entering the registration code in the process of reading the disc, even if others know the registration code, it is useless, because he does not have a game disc! At present, the research and development of this technology has reached the final stage, and it will not take long to mature the application! Of course, if you want to play now, you can log in to the Firefly server and output the authorization account password." Later, you can ask for an account with Simon Hodge, CEO of Firefly Games!"

Tian Shuai smiled: "That's great, I just hit the first level of "Doom Slayer"!"

"Huh. John Carmack: They have designed more than 30 levels in total, and the difficulty is getting bigger and bigger, and some of them are you playing!"

"Doom" has a battle mode and a tackling mode, of which the tackling mode is divided into single or multiplayer!

The versus mode can accommodate up to 8 players. The tackling mode can accommodate 4 people.

This game, Henry played for a while, then stopped playing, the picture is a bit frustrating, and it is bloody. Of course. The game was only 11.5 MB, which was already a big game at the time, and the average game was only a few MB, even Warcraft 1 was only 7.6 MB in size. For these players who have not been exposed to a few GB of games, "Doom" is already very awesome, and the game screen is still 3D, which is too shocking for them!

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After three or four hours of fermentation, the firefly game platform finally broke out.

Brand new game mode, brand new combat gameplay. Warcraft 1 and Doom simply fascinated them, and it didn't take long for them to become popular.

"Oh my God, it's great, it's classic, it's the best game I've ever played!!" In the Blue Star Internet Café, Jack stared at the screen, his eyes lit up, and he couldn't help but scream.

"Hi. Brother, what game are you playing, is it really so fun?" The surrounding Internet users couldn't help but look over.

Jack didn't turn his head and replied, "Of course." Super fun !!"

"it, this picture is actually 3D, it's really awesome, and it's a first-person shooter, it's so cool!

"Doom Slayer !!"

Jack replied casually. Suddenly, the character controlled by Henry was bitten to death by a blue-eyed, bloody, and fat monster in front of him, Jack couldn't help but push the keyboard forward in frustration, and scolded, "Oh, f~uck......" After scolding, he took the time to turn his head and look at the large number of people standing behind him, "Hey, buddy, are you going to play? Let's go online and tackle the problem together, Temad, this level is too difficult, I can't beat it alone!"

"Can I still play this game online?"

"That's right, you can fight online for PK, and you can also network to tackle key problems together!" Jack said.

"it, this game is so hanging! Tell me, where can I download !!"

"Oh, click on 'Game' on the ICQ chat software interface, and then download the Firefly game platform, and then after entering the Firefly game platform, there is Doom. However, if you want to play the game, you must also download the game, and then purchase the registration code before you can play!

Jack urged, "Hurry up, I'll wait for you." I'll download "Warcraft 1" and play it now, this firefly game platform, there are only these two games for the time being, "Doom" is so fun, it doesn't make sense that "Warcraft 1" is not fun, it must be a classic game!"

"Okay, then I'll download the game now!"

Warcraft 1 is only 7.6MB, and with a 56kbps internet speed, it was downloaded in a few minutes.

Jack started playing Warcraft 1 and paid $20 for a registration code, which is the same price for Doom. Jack felt that the price was too good for money, and that if he bought a game CD, it would cost at least a hundred dollars. But now, for just $40, you can play two classic games!

"Well, there are two modes of stand-alone games and online games? Oh, then I'll play a stand-alone game first, and get familiar with how to play!"

After Jack chooses to play a single-player game, since it is the first time to play, he will be prompted at first how to play. Jack quickly picked up and found that this was a completely new game, developing a base, building various buildings, gathering resources, building troops, and fighting wars. The game is a bit cumbersome to operate, but it is really cool to be able to control where the troops are pointing and fighting, like an arm making a finger!

Jack has created a lot of various types of troops, and he is full of a sense of achievement, but just when Jack's heart is crooked, the computer suddenly sends troops to call!

"Oh!The computer is coming to hit me!!"

Jack screamed and hurriedly commanded the army to counterattack, but at this rookie level, he was quickly slaughtered by the computer. All the things that had been worked so hard to make before were destroyed, and Jack watched the base headquarters being destroyed, and finally exploded with a "bang", and he was immediately angry!

"Made, Lao Tzu is not convinced, obviously bullying me and not playing...... Hmph, Lao Tzu wants to do it again, this time, the computer armor that Lao Tzu wants to kill will not leave !!"

Just as Jack was about to click on the start of the game, a man patted Jack on the shoulder and said, "Hey, brother, I've already finished the Doom game, come along!"

"You play first, I'll play with you later. I'm going to play Warcraft 1 right now, and I'm going to get my revenge!!" Jack said through gritted teeth!

(To be continued.) )