As a game company, of course, it is impossible to have strict rules everywhere like the urban workplace, and Lin Cheng has seen that the employees of Blizzard Entertainment are really unusual, and many employees even play games in front of the computer.

Mike's explanation for this is that the prerequisite for Blizzard Entertainment to recruit talents is to love games, so playing games during working hours is a normal operation, and Lin Cheng doesn't mind paying it off.

Lin Cheng naturally knew this, just nodded, didn't say anything, but praised Blizzard Entertainment's company system for being very humane, which made Mike and others happy.

In fact, Lin Cheng was slandering in his heart, this is also Blizzard, if it weren't for Blizzard, other company employees would dare to play games in front of him, and he would have to scold them from top to bottom.

After visiting Blizzard, Blizzard management and the heads of various game project teams gathered in the conference room to hold the first meeting after Lin Cheng became Blizzard.

Sitting in the main seat of the conference room, Lin Cheng looked around at the staff and showed them a warm smile one by one, but these game nerds may rarely gather in a meeting to sit in a precarious position, and they are still facing a big boss who has become the richest man in the world, and everyone, including Mike and others, is inevitably a little uneasy.

Lin Cheng smiled and said: "You don't have to be restrained, you can usually do what you are, I came to Blizzard for the first time, and I don't know much about Blizzard's operation, so I will make a summary report by President Mike, and I also have a general understanding of Blizzard, so I know it in my heart." ”

Mike, who served as the president of Blizzard Entertainment, stood up and said: "Dear Mr. Lin, colleagues, since the establishment of Blizzard Entertainment in 1991, Blizzard Entertainment has developed best-selling games in the United States, such as "Rock and Roll Racing", "The Lost Vikings", "Magic City 2", "Dragon's Eye", "Warcraft: Humans and Orcs", "Warcraft 2: The Black Tide", "Diablo", "StarCraft" and other best-selling games in the United States.

Among them, "Warcraft", "Diablo", and "StarCraft" are popular all over the world, becoming the southern bay of the world's research and development of PC games.

In 1995, Warcraft II was released in a bleak market, selling 500,000 units worldwide in just 4 months and quickly becoming a global hit.

In 1996, Diablo was released and sold 1 million units within 18 days of its release. The following year, in order to coincide with the release of "Diablo", the game platform, which is commonly known as Battle.net.

In March 1998, StarCraft was released and sold 1 million units within three months of its release.

In December, StarCraft: Brood War was released, selling 1.5 million units worldwide that year, and StarCraft became the world's largest selling PC game in 1998.

In 1999, StarCraft became the largest user of Blizzard's StarCraft, selling 1 million units in South Korea alone.

In addition, it is worth mentioning that Warcraft II., which sold a total of 3 million units since its release in December 1995, was the first PC game in the world to reach 3 million sales.

At present, the company is mainly divided into four major project teams, one is the "Warcraft" project research and development team, the main work is to develop "Warcraft 3";

The second is the "StarCraft" project R&D team, which is mainly responsible for the development of "StarCraft 2", and the third is the "Diablo" project R&D team, which mainly develops "Diablo 2".

The fourth is the Battle.net Maintenance Working Group, which is the world's No. 1 online battle platform launched by Blizzard Entertainment, which has 7.5 million registered users.

In addition, we at Blizzard Entertainment have also reached a close cooperation with Nintendo, and a number of classic games will be released on Nintendo's game platform.

As for the company's performance, the company's sales for the full year were $125 million and net profit was $21.5 million, and in the first half of this year, the company's performance was $75 million and net profit was $13.8 million.

Considering that in the second half of this year, Blizzard will also launch "Diablo 2", and "StarCraft 64" will also land on Nintendo N64, the performance in the second half of this year will be much more than the first half of the year, and the annual performance is expected to reach 200 million US dollars, with a net profit of 35 million US dollars. ”

After listening to Mike's report, the faces of the participating staff showed pride, Blizzard Entertainment is undoubtedly the king of the world's leading position in PC games, and in the future, with the increase of PC users, the PC game market will become more and more profitable, as long as Blizzard has been able to produce popular best-selling games, Blizzard's future is undoubtedly very ambitious.

Next, everyone's eyes turned to Lin Cheng again, although Lin Cheng is the richest man in the world, but everyone only knows that Lin Cheng is the first time to set foot in the game industry, so everyone's expectations for Lin Cheng are not too high, I just hope that Lin Cheng will continue to be a clay tire statue like the previous two months, don't make your own decisions, just meddle in the management affairs of Blizzard Entertainment.

But as a traverser with the advantage of a prophet, how could Lin Cheng not put forward some useful suggestions to conquer everyone and impress everyone?!

Sure enough, Lin Cheng said loudly: "This year is the tenth year since the establishment of Blizzard Entertainment, after listening to President Mike's introduction, there is no doubt that Blizzard Entertainment has made very brilliant achievements in the first ten years and has become the king of PC games, first of all, let me express my gratitude and congratulations to everyone." ”

Everyone loves to listen to the good words of "Papapa......", and everyone couldn't help but applaud when they heard Lin Cheng's affirmation of Blizzard's achievements.

After the applause stopped, Lin Cheng continued: "Blizzard's first ten years have passed, will Blizzard still be able to maintain its position as the king of PC games in the next ten years?"

"Well said!" the conference room burst into applause again.

Lin Cheng pressed down with his hands, signaled everyone to be quiet, and continued: "The next decade will undoubtedly be the era of the explosion of online games, and Blizzard Entertainment, as the king of online games on the PC side, cannot miss this golden age.

Next, I would like to announce a major decision, that is, I Lin Cheng will inject 10 million US dollars, organized by the United States Blizzard Entertainment Company, Sunbird Entertainment Company, and China New World Entertainment Company, to host the first E-sports World Cup, and the first E-sports World Cup will be held in New York in November this year. ”

"What!E-sports World Cup?" So the staff were shocked by the big news revealed by Lin Cheng, it was incredible that e-sports could actually hold the World Cup.

It's only 2000 now, and only CPL, which was founded in 1997, is still a little influential, but the competition is a single "Thor's Hammer", which has not made much of a splash.

However, some people noticed that Lin Cheng also said that the first E-sports World Cup will be jointly hosted by Sunbird Entertainment, China New World Entertainment and Blizzard Entertainment.

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