The reason why Hong Tao scoffed at this big move in China's online game industry was not that he could really be far-sighted, but that he adopted a backward way to estimate the situation at that time from the final fate of these domestic games, and then came to this conclusion. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

This kind of thing can only be said in a closed-door meeting in the company, and cannot be said outside, especially as a major shareholder of the mantis shrimp company.

If someone wants to ask this question, Hong Tao will not only not sing it, but also have to advocate it vigorously. There is only one reason, whether it is the Ministry of Culture or the State Administration of Publication, he can't afford to provoke him.

The approval procedures for World of Warcraft to enter China have been handed over to these two departments, the process is going, and the process is also smooth.

Speaking of these two major ministries and commissions, Hong Tao really worked them, taking the opportunity of holding a national e-sports competition, Ouyang Fanfan basically didn't do anything else for more than half a year, and he spent time with the two of them.

As long as she hears that these two departments are going to hold any activities in Beijing and Shanghai, she will come over as a sponsor as soon as possible. If nothing else, just have a good attitude, be familiar, and just ask people to stop playing any more moths in the approval process of World of Warcraft.

Ouyang Fanfan also experienced a process of conceptual change on this issue, at first she was very reluctant to deal with these people, and felt that with the relationship between the Qi family and Mrs. Wei, the approval should be foolproof.

In addition, she is not from a small family, and she is very unwilling to do this kind of lowly and low-level work. Fortunately, Qi Rui was still able to convince her, whether she wanted her to go or not, and she did it well.

Not only did he complete the work that should be done, but through the tempering of the past few months, Ouyang Fanfan also had a deep reflection on his original understanding. In her words, the water in these two departments is too deep, even if the female deputy prime minister comes to inquire in person, if the people below have ideas, it is unlikely that World of Warcraft, a game from the stronghold of capitalism and imperialism, will pass the review quickly.

In fact, it is not only Qi Rui and Ouyang Fanfan who have changed, many employees in the company have changed significantly through the exercise in the past few years, and their attitudes towards dealing with game cheating, cracking down on plug-ins, and banning are becoming more and more mature.

Another big improvement is in the attitude towards the media, most of the employees in the mantis shrimp company are not easy to be fooled, which is also a skill cultivated after years of actual combat.

Since the establishment of the mantis shrimp company, it seems that it has never been treated by the media in the industry, and singing and declining seems to always be the main tone. No matter what the mantis shrimp company does, the peers are all not optimistic, and those who are anxious stand up directly and sneer, and those who are slow talk on various occasions.

Anyway, if the mantis shrimp company wants to raise funds in China, it will be very, very difficult, because its reputation is not very good, and the performance is not very good, and the management has always been low-key and tough, and it is very difficult to get along with the virtue, and no capital wants to intervene.

But in the past six months or so, the mantis shrimp company seems to have suddenly changed its style, first taking the initiative to hold a cocktail party to invite colleagues in the industry to say goodbye, and then exclusively hosting the national e-sports competition, willing to be a pathfinder for others.

Now it is playing bigger, it is actually listed on the NASDAQ, and the stock price is still very good, and the main reason for its listing is actually a five-year agency contract signed with Blizzard Entertainment.

Now the entire Chinese online game industry has been a sensation, not to mention whether this agency contract is a loss or a profit, just such a move to list on the US stock market has made many peers and capital operation masters red-eyed.

In their eyes, the mantis shrimp company took shit luck, signed an agency contract by mistake, and as a result, they took a ride on Blizzard. As for whether the decision-makers of the mantis shrimp company are far-sighted, everyone agrees that the leadership of this company can have a fart vision, and if they have the vision, they will not operate a game that could have been very popular into what it is now, half-dead, with a lot of online people but very low efficiency.

Then they checked the agency contracts signed by the mantis shrimp company with Japanese companies and Korean companies, and their eyes were about to pop out. It's just too cheap, and if you get an agency contract at this price, it's better for a company than a mantis shrimp.

Then the question is, this time Mantis Shrimp is the agent of World of Warcraft, will it continue its previous style? What kind of results can this online game with pure European and American blood achieve in the Chinese market? There are big differences of opinion on these two issues.

The first move of the mantis shrimp company is to establish a branch in Shanghai, which is the right step, because in China's online game market, Shanghai has natural resources, so 60% of the game companies are concentrated here, and it is certainly not wrong to join in the fun.

But the second step makes some people not understand, mantis shrimp actually recruits game operation, development, and marketing personnel on a large scale in Beijing and Shanghai at the same time, and the number of recruits is similar on both sides.

In other words, Mantis Shrimp is ready to operate this game on a large scale across the country, and it will have two companies and two teams, just to make it faster and more convenient in terms of technology and customer service.

Is it worth investing so much for a game with an uncertain future? No one has a definite answer, and you can say that you have the courage or the gamble.

But when the third action of the mantis shrimp company came out, 80% of the industry insiders immediately came to a conclusion that this skin shrimp is still the same urine as before, and there is no change in nature, and it is too capable of losing!

The largest computer rooms in the country were rented in Beijing and Shanghai at the same time, and the requirements were so high that none of them were available, so we had to wait for an operator called Paper Communication to build the two computer rooms.

Some curious people inquired carefully, and it turned out that this company was not a serious product, its rise was even more strange than that of the mantis shrimp company, and the mantis shrimp company still had some shares in the company.

No one has ever seen such a large investment in China, more than 400 sets of game servers, most of which have to be purchased directly from HP, and it is said that the performance directly exceeds that of the Galaxy computer at that time.

That's about eight or nine million dollars alone, plus $20 million a year in agency fees, which can only be barely done by more than 100,000 people online at the same time.

The problem is that the highest number of simultaneous online players for such a popular game in the legendary world is only six or seven hundred thousand, and it has taken several years for such a legendary world to come out, is it possible for this game of pure European and American blood to reach?

There is no precedent, European and American games may be a hot mess abroad, but they are often unaccustomed to the soil and water in China. In the past two years, few companies have been bothered. Even if Blizzard's production must be a high-quality product, the investment of the mantis shrimp company is a bit too fierce.

Even more fierce is still to come, just after September, a lace tabloid in Hong Kong suddenly broke the news, and a photo was published on the cover, which was a scene of a man and a woman fighting.

The photos are taken very clearly, and as long as you are an acquaintance, you can see at a glance who the two protagonists are. The tabloid did not let everyone guess, and deliberately attached a few other photos below, and also made a text description. The implication is that a man and a woman in the photo above are likely to be the people in the photo below.

Who is in the photo below? Needless to ask, there are three of them Qi Rui. She is not the first newspaper to appear, and her photo was also published in Hong Kong newspapers when Mantis Shrimp was listed, but the treatment was not as high as this time, and the attention was not enough.

The other one is that of Hong Tao, which is really difficult to edit, but who is Hong Tao? If no one provides information, it is basically hopeless to expect a Hong Kong tabloid editor to figure it out. Fortunately, the clues provided by the enthusiastic masses are all sets, and Hong Tao's photo is his passport photo, as for the source, who cares.