With the assistance of Galaxy Capital, Chen Yifan let Time Games start the acquisition mode, and many people in Time said that he was learning from Zhou Shi. It's unclear what the truth is, but it's a well-known fact that Zhou Shi is an acquisition freak, and his companies rely on acquisitions for the most part.

Yahoo has acquired yelp and LinkedIn, as well as MIPS, Stripe, Netflix and is preparing to buy AMD. As soon as it went public, Guoke acquired Harman International to enter the auto parts market, as well as DJI, Mobileye, and even Time Holdings acquired NetSuite, a SaaS company with a market value of more than $10 billion.

The acquisition of Take-Two is going relatively smoothly with Zynga's acquisition of Take-Two, and the two companies are very complementary, at least on the surface. Driven by capital, it has entered the substantive stage. However, Time Games' acquisition of Ubisoft has reached an impasse, with as many voices in favor and opposition within Ubisoft, as well as some neutral forces, and then the opponents saw that the situation was not good, and actually pulled the French government in, saying that Time Games' acquisition of Ubisoft endangered France's industrial security and culture.

I have a sentence MMP, I don't know when to say it or not, in the face of such a shameless sniper, Chen Yifan is speechless, you are not the penguin company a few years later, and you do not monopolize the French game market, you also deserve to say this? Fortunately, this trick is not difficult to resolve, Meibang Securities still has some forces in Europe, plus HSBC Holdings, which wants to deepen the relationship with Zhou Shi, the administrative obstacles in France are not so difficult to resolve. After all, it's a good time, and the single-player game market is being sniped by online games and mobile games, and the future is worrying. Ubisoft is short of money and praise at this time, and it is really not much different from a salted fish. If it is a few years later, Ubisoft, which has recovered from the recovery, has money and a market, and even Vivendi, a local media giant, will find it difficult to buy it. At that time, there were more people who were optimistic about Ubisoft, so after a few years of entanglement, Vivendi had no choice but to give up.

Speaking of Vivendi, Chen Yifan, who had just solved the problem of the French government, was in trouble again. Vivendi joined the acquisition. At this time, even those who agree with the acquisition of time hope to get a higher price, which is the so-called family has a female hundred families!

"This acquisition of Ubisoft is likely to fail, and Vivendi's addition gives us no advantage!" Chen Yifan said with frustration, although Zynga's acquisition of Take-Two is likely to be successful, and he is also the chairman of Zynga, he does not have much sense of accomplishment, and the acquisition was promoted by Zynga CEO Mark Pincas.

"You have to learn to accept failure and don't give up hope easily. "Zhou Shi

"But Vivendi is a French company, they have a local advantage, and they have a successful company like Blizzard, and Ubisoft's management is starting to gravitate towards Vivendi, not only because of the price, but also because of the hassle of auditing. "Chen Yifan

"Blizzard is Vivendi's?" Zhou Shi

"yes, what's wrong?" Chen Yifan

"Vivendi can destroy Snow Mountain, destroy the Northern Blizzard, almost destroy the Blizzard, do you think they can destroy Ubisoft?" Zhou Shi

"This should be, it should be possible to ......" Chen Yifan

"What is possible, obviously it will be, this is what you should strive for. Zhou Shi said meaningfully.

"Oh~~ I see. After a while, Chen Yifan finally reacted.

Time Games is actually very advantageous, through several iterations of versions, the international version of CrossFire (see Counter-Strike: Global Offensive) has finally opened the market in Europe and the United States, the League of Legends international version (see Dota 2) is also developing very well, and "Minecraft" has also been widely acclaimed. In the field of mobile games, Time Games and Zynga dominate the top 10 of the most downloaded versions. It can be said that Time Games is a big bug that has sprung up, and it is a big bug that global game companies have to face.

Compared to Vivendi, it is the light game that is obviously more professional, and because Time Games lacks experience in single-player games, and Ubisoft is an elite in this area, the cooperation between the two sides is very complementary. Thereupon......

"Vivendi wants to ruin Ubisoft? They can't even be a good company, let alone a troubled gaming company, bought by Vivendi, and Ubisoft disappears?"

"Outside of Blizzard, Vivendi looking for a new target?"

"Another brand that is about to disappear, the world's most evil gaming company"

The news of Vivendi's bid for Ubisoft has caused many game enthusiasts to watch, and most people are not optimistic about Vivendi's acquisition, especially since since this year, Blizzard's performance has declined, and it seems that it is also in trouble.

To add insult to injury, Vivendi itself is in trouble, with a serious debt crisis.

"Mr. Zhou, it has been found out that a jury in the Southern District Court of New York has awarded him 765 million euros, or about a billion dollars, in damages to John Malone's media company, Liberty Media, for the consequences of Vivendi's concealment of financial problems almost a decade ago. Vivendi has been expanding frantically in recent years, so the debt problem is serious. His French mobile phone company SFR is also preparing to launch a billion-euro cost-cutting plan and prepare to lay off 1,000 employees...... "Chen Wen."

In his previous life, Vivendi was even more sad, because Universal Music's acquisition of EMI Music had increased its debt, and he had already begun to plan to sell off Blizzard's shares. This life is naturally different because of Zhou Shi's involvement, but Vivendi's debt crisis is still preserved.

"Oh, got it, let the folks at Galaxy Capital contact a couple of companies, and we'll assist Blizzard's management with a management buyout. "Zhou Shi, he has always liked to attack instead of defending.

"Okay, I'll go!" Chen Wen

Vivendi has a lot of fate with him, and this entanglement seems to be unavoidable. Just when Zhou Shi was arranging plans here and causing trouble for Vivendi, Mr. France's richest man contacted Zhou Shi again.

"What are they doing this time? Do you want us to give up on our own initiative?" Zhou Shi

"It's supposed to be for Ubisoft!"

"Ubisoft is so sought-after?" Zhou Shi really didn't believe it, Time Games increased the amount of Ubisoft's offer, which has exceeded Vivendi's offer.

"......" is really hard to say, if they pay attention to it, then they can be acquired a long time ago, if they don't pay attention to it, then why compete with Zhou Shi for Ubisoft?

After a little preparation, Zhou Shi answered the phone call of the richest man in France, one of them was in Europe, and the other was in Silicon Valley, and the richest man in France was not prepared to make a special trip for this matter, so the two had some communication over the phone, and things were still unexpected.

"What did he say?"

"He said he was willing to help us buy Ubisoft ......" Zhou Shi

"Ah~~"

(End of chapter)