The three of them were discussing in a whisper on the side, Wang Zhiyuan looked at Zeng Liqing and asked, "How is it compared to Qianxun?" ”

Zeng Liqing understood the current situation of Qianxun Technology's research and development of instant messaging software, and sighed: "There is a big gap! ”

Wang Zhiyuan smiled with relief, patted Zeng Liqing's shoulder, and said, "I called you here today to let you know more about it, go back and sum up with Ma Huateng, so that the blue is better than the blue!" ”

"I only arrived. Pen %Fun %Pavilion www.biquge.info" Zeng Liqing nodded.

Wang Zhiyuan was still relieved of him, got up and said, "Okay, let's go over and talk to Weisge and them more and get to know each other better." ”

......

It has been two days since the launch of ICQ, but today Wang Zhiyuan played a game in an Internet café.

The name of this game is: Warcraft!

Wang Zhiyuan's previous life was a post-90s generation, and he was obsessed with Warcraft when he was a child. Now playing the game again, it's a different taste.

"This game looks like a lot of fun!" Li Xiaoyu sat next to Wang Zhiyuan and watched for more than half an hour, feeling that the game map and related game character designs were very good-looking.

Especially seeing that Wang Zhiyuan is going to be handy, he will play the character skills in it superbly.

Fighting monsters, pushing towers, and character battles, these interesting gameplay methods attracted Li Xiaoyu.

"What? .... Why don't you play it, it's a fun game! Wang Zhiyuan said while operating.

Wang Zhiyuan registered a game account, a rookie player, and a low level. After an hour of familiarization, Wang Zhiyuan has become an old driver, and he has abused novices.

At present, Warcraft is still only a local area network, and there is no online server developed, so it cannot be connected to the Internet. As a result, there aren't many players online in the same region.

"I haven't played, I won't know anything!" Li Xiaoyu smiled awkwardly.

She did want to give it a try, but she couldn't get started, and it was the first time she had entered an Internet café. The Internet is only now emerging in China, and it can be said that there are no more than ten Internet cafes.

has never played a game on the computer, and is afraid of losing face in so many people, so Li Xiaoyu behaves restrained.

"What's this, you see most of the Internet cafes are playing this game, it's very interesting!" Wang Zhiyuan encouraged.

Li Xiaoyu was very hesitant, squirmed, and said with a smile: "Teacher Wang, I'll still watch you play.... I won't know anything. ”

This Internet café is not far from California ~ Mountain View ~ Qiandu Search Company. There are sixty or seventy computers with relatively fashionable LCD monitors, and the screens of the monitors are very large, which is very suitable for playing games like Warcraft.

The Internet café is almost full, maybe it's because of today's Sunday.

Asked Li Xiaoyu to insist, Wang Zhiyuan immediately solemnized, with a commanding tone, and said: "This is work, you must learn to play this game!" ”

Li Xiaoyu bit her lower lip, with a look of grievance, and said, "Teacher Wang, bully!" ”

She's a bit loud, but fortunately, most of the people around her are wearing headphones.

"Be quiet, what are you doing?" Wang Zhiyuan glared at Li Xiaoyu and said, "If others hear it, they will think that I have recruited you!" ”

"You're a bully!" Oppressing people with work, Li Xiaoyu felt that it was bullying people, and she was very dissatisfied.

"Alas...."Wang Zhiyuan sighed softly, and said calmly: "We, Thousand Demon Technology, are preparing to acquire the development company of this game, so it is necessary to be familiar with this game, do you know?" ”

"We're going to invest in game development and design?" Li Xiaoyu was surprised and puzzled: "Isn't our company mainly investing in the Internet?" .... Why do you suddenly want to invest in games? The game market is not large, and the development and design cycle is long, so there may not be good returns...."

Before he finished speaking, Wang Zhiyuan interrupted and said, "Stop, listen to me." ”

Wang Zhiyuan put down the headphones, quit the game, looked at Li Xiaoyu, thought for a while, and said, "Teacher Wang, I'll teach you a lesson today." ”

"Oh." Li Xiaoyu sat in front of the computer obediently, looking sideways at Wang Zhiyuan, looking like a good student.

That's pretty much the same!

After a pause, Wang Zhiyuan said: "First, who said that games can't use the Internet? .... If you think about it, now that it is now possible for people to talk and chat online, even if they are thousands of miles apart. ”

Li Xiaoyu blinked her eyes and said, "Is the teacher talking about ICQ software?" ”

She has a soft spot for this software that allows people to chat with each other for free from thousands of miles away.

Wang Zhiyuan nodded and continued: "This is not the point, the point is that if the game uses Internet technology and the network, players can play the game online at the same time. ”

"Think about it, this kind of multiplayer online, how exciting it is to play games together, and with interactive software, you can chat with each other in the game, how interesting!"

As he spoke, Wang Zhiyuan pointed to the Warcraft game on the computer and said: "This game is only a LAN at present, and there are many players. This kind of competitive game, if you join the Internet, must have a bigger market! ”

After that, Wang Zhiyuan briefly told Li Xiaoyu about the game Warcraft and the company that developed it.

The name of the company that developed the Warcraft game is: Blast Game Entertainment!

This company was founded in 1991 by three UCLA University graduates, Mo Huaimi, Ad Khan, and Pierce, who met because of a coincidental computer password JOE (stranger), and after graduation, they co-founded the company "Silicon and Neural Bonds".

In the first 91 years of the company's existence, they spent 40,000 US dollars in development funds and 4 months to develop a game called "RPM Racing" for Chaoren Company.

A year after the launch of RPM Racing, the company released its first major game titled The Lost Vikings, which was released on the Super Mandate platform.

In 1994 they were acquired and renamed "Blast Game Entertainment". In the same year, a game based on the SFC platform was developed: "Superman: Desperate Survival".

Later, the game company developed a product called Warcraft, which did not require a huge expense, but the rate of return was quite generous. Therefore, a set of "Warcraft" earned enough reproduction capital for Blizzard.

In 1995, Blast Games struck while the iron was hot and launched "Warcraft II", which was even more successful, with sales exceeding one million.

This year, Blizzard is preparing to launch a second series of boutique "Diablo" on the market.

"The game market has been cold in the past two years, but the sales of this "Warcraft" of Blast Games have increased steadily, which is enough to show its market potential. Wang Zhiyuan finally said.

Li Xiaoyu was stunned for a moment when she heard this, and said after half a sound: "I support Mr. Wang's decision, and I always play this game now.... However, I need your guidance, Mr. Wang. ”

"No problem!" Wang Zhiyuan agreed.

But Wang Zhiyuan was worried in his heart about whether Zeng Liqing could succeed in winning the Snow Explosion Game Entertainment.

At present, the company that acquired Blast Game Entertainment is a game publisher with millions of U.S. knife assets, and the acquisition of Blast Game Entertainment has been nearly two years old, and there is no profit at all.

Wang Zhiyuan values the development and design team of the Blast game, as long as he wins the Blast Game Entertainment. He is ready to make a big move, and now the average annual profit of Brushing Snow is only about 100,000 US dollars.

But Wang Zhiyuan knows that the future value of Blast is quite large, and Thousand Demon Technology also has plans to enter Internet games.

It would be great if he could win the snowstorm, and if not, Wang Zhiyuan also plans to set up a game development and design company to develop some of the games that were popular all over the world in his previous life.

However, Wang Zhiyuan doesn't like to take care of these companies by himself, he wants to be a leader!

"It's really fun!"

Half an hour later, under the guidance of Wang Zhiyuan, Li Xiaoyu was already getting started playing Warcraft.

........

Wang Zhiyuan and Li Xiaoyu were having a good time playing Warcraft in an Internet café, and they were a little carried away.

Zeng Liqing, with his two foreign friends, was in the office of the general manager of a game publishing company.

There were only five people in the whole office, but the atmosphere was tense and silent.

"President Jon, I wonder how you thought about the plan we came up with last week?" Zeng Liqing looked at the general manager of the game publisher sitting opposite ~ Jon.

In fact, as early as half a month ago, Wang Zhiyuan and Zeng Liqing came to the Internet café unexpectedly and found that many people were playing "Warcraft".

At that time, Wang Zhiyuan wanted to acquire the game company that developed "Warcraft", so he first sent Zeng Liqing to find out the situation.

Luckily, Zeng Liqing has two foreign alumni he met when he was studying abroad, both of whom studied software development and are now working at a game company.

At that time, Zeng Li Qing asked for leave to meet the two young foreign boys who were now sitting next to him.

According to Wang Zhiyuan's meaning, a company specializing in games was established abroad, named "Qianyou Entertainment!"

Qianyou Entertainment's main business includes the design, development, distribution, operation, and service of games.

With this game company, he managed to buy Blast Game Entertainment.

After understanding the basic situation, a week ago, Zeng Li Qing communicated with a game publishing company that had acquired Blast Game Entertainment Co., Ltd., and proposed to acquire their company's Blast Game Entertainment.

At that time, the proposed condition was to buy their company's Blast Game Entertainment Company at a double premium. However, Jon did not reply immediately at that time, and made a decision after communicating with the shareholders.

Now that Zeng Liqing came to the door again to mention this matter, Jon had already made up his mind and said, "Mr. Zeng, we have to admit that the plan you put forward is very tempting. ”

As soon as he heard this, Zeng Li Qing secretly shouted that it was not good.

Sure enough, Jon said, "However, we are very optimistic about the future of Blast Game Entertainment and do not plan to change hands at this time. ”

There are no plans to transfer at the moment, which means that the transfer is still possible, but the conditions have not been met.

"What a lion's mouth!" Zeng Liqing complained in his heart, he would not wait to be slaughtered, this would make Wang Zhiyuan despise him, how could he stay in Thousand Demon Technology in the future!

Zeng Liqing smiled and said, "President Jon, as far as we know, the game development cycle developed by Blast Game Entertainment is very long, and although the games made are good, the reward is just enough to maintain the company's continued development of new games. ”

"Since your acquisition, you shouldn't have recovered your capital, right? .... And we heard that your company's performance has not been satisfactory this year, and it needs a cash turnover. ”

Jon looked at Zeng Liqing with a strange expression, but quickly regained his composure and said, "That must be Mr. Zeng misheard, our company is developing smoothly and there are no problems at all." ”

Sure enough, it was not easy to deal with, Zeng Liqing felt a little tricky. Wang Zhiyuan attaches great importance to this acquisition, and tells him several times that he must win the Snow Game Entertainment, and it doesn't matter if he pays more.

But Zeng Liqing also wanted to show his ability, if he was asked by the other party, then how should he go back to face Wang Zhiyuan.

Can't afford to lose that person!

Zeng Liqing decided to take another step and said to Jon: "Our boss likes the game Warcraft for personal reasons and hopes that he can participate in the future development of this game, so he wants to buy this company. ”

"President Jon, do you think this will work, how about we add another fifty percent to the price?" Zeng Liqing said.

"Hehe.... Mr. Zeng, as I said before, our company is very optimistic about the future of Blast Game Entertainment, so we have no intention of selling it at present. ”

"Damn, do this trick again!" Zeng Liqing gritted his teeth in anger, and suddenly paused, and said: "We are willing to pay twice the price, this is also our highest price!" ”

"What? .... Zeng, you're crazy, that company doesn't have that kind of value at all. "The person who spoke was called: Rhett, a friend of Zeng Liqing. He stood by Zeng Liqing and was very opposed to Zeng Liqing spending such a large price to acquire a game development company with only fifteen employees.

"Yes, Zeng! .... It's not worth it. If we have the money, we can make a better game than Warcraft on our own! "The person who spoke was: Galen, who was also the friend that Zeng Liqing brought this time. It's all about game design and development, and the abilities are good.

Zeng Liqing also felt that such a price was very high, but this was also a death order given by Wang Zhiyuan.

"How's it going, President Jon?" Zeng Liqing asked again.

Jon knocked on the table, deep in thought. Since Zeng Li Qing submitted a letter of intent to acquire Blast Snow last week, their company has held a meeting to discuss the feasibility of the acquisition plan.

In the end, half agreed, half opposed. That is, half of the people do not see the future of the snowblast, and the other half still have hope for the snow.

The two sides reached an agreement that if Zeng Liqing and the others were willing to pay a higher price, the acquisition could still be discussed.

At this moment, Zeng Li Qing exposed a double premium acquisition, and Jon was shaken. This is a two-fold premium compared to the price of the acquisition of Blast a little over a year ago, which is now a profit target that Blast will take five years or more to achieve.

However, people are always greedy, and Jon is such a person. The most important thing is: Jon is not very optimistic about the Blizzard Company in the first place, they only have fifteen people, and they also require independent development, which makes it very inconvenient for them to operate and promote.

Therefore, in Jon's heart, as long as the price is satisfied, he is willing to cut love.

However, he also wanted to try where Zeng Liqing's bottom line was. So, he said, "It seems that Mr. Zeng is very sincere, and you have indeed moved me." However, this price is too low. ”

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