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Lin Feng smiled: "If I'm not mistaken, this should be the banner of the two camps of the tribe and the alliance...... Gentlemen, allow me to begin by paying tribute to the team at Blizzard World of Warcraft, who have brought a classic and great game to game lovers around the world! I think this will be a historic moment, and it will be my honor to be able to witness it firsthand!"

Lin Feng's first sentence won the favor of the Blizzard executives present.

Mike Mohan also smiled: "Thank you, Richard, that's a great compliment. With this understanding, I believe that Blizzard Entertainment and Fengxing have the perfect foundation for cooperation. ”

I didn't expect this young rich man from China to have such a high opinion of World of Warcraft like an ordinary Blizzard game fan, and it seems that today's negotiations will be much easier.

But these people at Blizzard thought that Lin Feng was too simple and too kind.

Ye Wei whispered to Lin Feng's side.

As Lin Feng's girlfriend and a shareholder of Fengxing Company, Blizzard people did not despise her because of her youth and beauty.

After listening to Ye Wei's translation, Lin Feng had a smile like a fan on his face, but he didn't answer Mike Mohan's words, but asked curiously: "Mike, when I came to visit the company just now, I saw a lot of game development engineers...... But it seems that Blizzard doesn't have many people?"

Mike Mohan nodded and smiled, "Yes, Blizzard is a company that focuses on game development. ”

"Our main team members are game developers and testers, in fact, we have more than 100 R&D engineers divided into two teams, one for the real-time strategy games StarCraft and Warcraft series, and the other for the online game World of Warcraft...... In addition, we also have some marketing, public relations, technical and customer service, and Battle.net construction and maintenance personnel. We also have a R&D team at Blizzard North, who is responsible for the development of the Diablo franchise. ”

Mike Mohan was still more proud of Lin Feng's surprise.

Anyone who first saw that Blizzard, which had developed so many classic games, was made up of so few people, would be surprised.

Mike Mohan believes that this just proves that everyone in Blizzard is an elite.

Without thinking about it, Lin Feng then showed an expression of regret and disappointment, and shook his head: "Mike, with all due respect, I'm afraid there is a problem, you were negligent!"

Everyone in Blizzard looked at Lin Feng a little blankly.

Lin Feng didn't wait for them to answer, and continued: "I don't think Blizzard is really ready enough for the launch of World of Warcraft! World of Warcraft is a large-scale MMORPG game, and it is a game that runs 24 hours a day, 7 days a week...... This is completely different from Blizzard's previous releases of single-player games like Warcraft!"

"Believe me, as the owner of a company that operates three large-scale MMORPG games with more than 50 million users and more than 500,000 online users at the same time, I know very well that the core of making MMORPG games is to do services!"

"Running an MMORPG game is no longer just a matter of game development, and what affects the player's experience may be as important as the game itself, so Blizzard must change its mindset! You are no longer just a game developer or publisher, but a service company, and you need to do things with some of the concepts of a service company!"

"When World of Warcraft hits the market, it's going to have over a million users from all over the world in an instant! Human resources are actually a very important issue. ”

"Trust me, these things can distract the entire Blizzard team, and I've observed that your team is so understaffed that you can't focus on adding new stuff. You have to expand your team and have dedicated people do specialized things. For example, community management, customer service, management team, HR team...... So, I don't think you're ready for the great World of Warcraft yet!"

Lin Feng's words without pause made Ye Weiyu translate for a long time, especially some professional game words, Ye Weiyu was easy to translate, glanced at Lin Feng, and whispered: "You speak slowly!"

Lin Feng hurriedly smiled and apologized, and gently held Ye Weiyu's hand.

The entourage of the popular company next to them all smiled when they saw the small interaction between the boss lady and the boss.

Everyone on Blizzard's side looked at each other, and was stunned by Lin Feng's words.

Seems to make sense.......

Lin Feng's note of Ma Wei made Blizzard suddenly put away his contempt for Lin Feng.

Is it child's play for a rich man who is only 25 years old and worth more than a billion dollars?

Mike Mohan, as the president of Blizzard, immediately understood that Lin Feng's words were actually very reasonable, maybe Blizzard really didn't think too much about personnel before, maybe after the meeting, it should discuss the issue of personnel recruitment.

However, he was more interested in the other message in Lin Feng's words, and he asked, "Richard, thank you for the reminder, I noticed that you just mentioned that after the release of World of Warcraft, more than one million players will soon enter the game? Is this your estimate of World of Warcraft users? How many users do you think there will be in China?"

This question also aroused the interest of the rest of Blizzard, and they all looked at Lin Feng with blazing eyes.

This is a very central issue.

It is also one of the hole cards in Lin Feng's hand.

In the previous life, Blizzard had a lot of problems in the early stage because of the miscalculation of the number of users of "World of Warcraft".

You know, unlike Blizzard's previous single-player games, which can be predicted by subscribers, World of Warcraft is an online game, and it can only be played online, so if you can't predict the number of players, there will be problems, because it determines how many servers you need to buy, where to set up servers, how many customer support staff you need, how much bandwidth those servers need, and so on.

There's a lot of infrastructure here, and these operators need to be aware of that.

Lin Feng smiled, but did not answer positively, and threw out another topic out of whims: "This is a very interesting topic, I think we can discuss it later......"

"Ladies and gentlemen, you should know that Fengxing Company has recently acquired Haofang Online, China's largest game battle platform. It's a massive LAN gaming platform that works in the same vein as Blizzard's Battle.net, with millions of loyal StarCraft and Warcraft players on it...... I actually hope to talk to Blizzard about whether it is possible to have some imaginative cooperation on Battle.net and Haofang. ”

Although Lin Feng didn't answer positively, he threw out a topic that Blizzard was very interested in.

"World of Warcraft" is important, but after all, it is not on the market yet, and no one knows what will happen.

Blizzard's current core business is "StarCraft", "Warcraft", "Diablo" and other stand-alone games!

China has millions of loyal users of these games, how big is that?!

However, because of the piracy problem and the fact that Battle.net has not entered China, Blizzard can only sigh and watch China's Haofang and other game battle platforms make a lot of money with their games.

If we can have the opportunity to cooperate with Fengxing, we can jointly promote the legalization of these games, so that Chinese users can also log in to Battle.net......

It's a wonderful thing to think about!

Blizzard's eyes flashed with a fine light, and they were all moved by the bait thrown by Lin Feng.

Mike Mohan steadied his mind and realized that Lin Feng in front of him had the chips they longed for.

And Lin Feng obviously hopes to have some preferential conditions for the agent of "World of Warcraft".

Mike Mohan thinks it's completely negotiable!

Fengxing is different from Jiucheng, and Lin Feng is also different from Zhu Jun.

The resources and channels in Lin Feng's hands, and even the young billionaire's thinking, are obviously more valuable to Blizzard!

He didn't want to continue to go around in circles with Lin Feng, and said directly: "Richard, let's talk about the agent of World of Warcraft, you can put forward your ideas, Blizzard is very interested in cooperating with Fengxing in more aspects." ”

Meaning, okay, don't go around.

You make an offer. Let's talk.

Lin Feng also felt that the heat was almost over, and said with a smile: "Mike, you and I have thought together, indeed, in addition to acting as an agent for "World of Warcraft", I am also very much looking forward to cooperating with Blizzard in more aspects, such as Battle.net, such as "Warcraft 3"...... , let me start with World of Warcraft. ”

"Popular in Shanghai, China, has set up a company, Shanghai Popular Information. ”

"This company will be used by me to run World of Warcraft in China. I think that simply buying the rights is a very low-level cooperation, and I am very interested in accepting Blizzard's stake in Shanghai Fengxing - no more than 25% of the time, of course. I think it would be very meaningful for Fengxing and Blizzard to run World of Warcraft together. ”

He offered a ruthless enough price to write off the copyright fee of up to $50 million with only 3% more equity than Jiucheng's share of the Shanghai Fengxing Company.

Without waiting for Blizzard's objections, he continued to throw out fierce news: "I have calculated, when World of Warcraft is open beta in China, I expect that it will exceed 1.5 million paying users in the first month, and the number of online users may reach more than 500,000 in a week!"

"Therefore, for the sake of a better gaming experience for players, I will invest a lot in servers and bandwidth!"

"My initial plan is: Fengxing will build 200 sets of servers in all regions of China! and use HP's latest and most advanced blade servers! The initial purchase of the first batch will not be less than 1,000 servers, and Fengxing will continue to increase its investment in servers as the number of users increases! The amount of investment I am prepared for in this regard will not be less than 40 million US dollars. ”

"At the same time, I have also prepared $20 million for the marketing and promotion of World of Warcraft in China. You know, there are more than 20 million online game users in China, as long as we can get 50%, 10 million users of them into World of Warcraft, what a great number will it be?" Lin Feng said passionately.

The faces of everyone in Blizzard, with Lin Feng's words translated by Ye Wei, were shocked first, then angry, then surprised, and then happy, changing so quickly that it was quite interesting.

Ye Weiyu also seemed to be infected by Lin Feng, and the translation of the words was equally hearty and passionate.

After the words were spoken, everyone in Blizzard was silent for a while.

Finally, Mike Mohan came to his senses, shook his head and smiled: "Richard, you have brought us so many surprises today, and of course surprises...... Well, we need to have an internal discussion, so why don't we take a break, have a drink, and then we can continue the meeting. ”

Lin Feng nodded and smiled: "Of course, there is no hurry, I think that Fengxing and Blizzard still have more places to cooperate, we need more time, talk slowly." ”