Chapter 565 Structure (4)

Chapter 565 Structure (4)

Perhaps these companies acquired by Star Group are not the most advanced in the industry, but their integration power is not worse than other companies, especially when these products form a complete industrial chain, its hardware performance will be perfectly played, although I dare not say that it reaches 100%, but at least more than 90% is certain.

For example, hard disks, most of the current hard disks are parallel port hard disks, and high-speed serial port disks have just begun to develop, but if Star Group says that it is a complete computer, it does not need to be like this at all, and can directly use the onboard solid state drive with mechanical hard disk to mention the operation efficiency of the computer, as well as the utilization rate, and its cost will be lower than that of other companies.

For example, the graphics card can be made into an onboard graphics card, the onboard graphics card is not the onboard video memory, these are two concepts, that is, the independent graphics card is directly soldered on the hard disk through technology, so as to increase the efficiency of video memory and so on, maybe this is not the best, but it can show one thing, that is, the Star Group has formed an industrial chain, no need to look at the eyes of any other company.

After communicating with the Warcraft creation team of Blizzard Games, Mo Lei and Mo Xin stayed here, and now there is no better environment on the Star Group side, but it is not as good as Blizzard's side, but Zhang Yang transferred Wu Bo and others, who are responsible for writing lucky software, to Blizzard for cooperative development.

In fact, it is not difficult to modify the situation of World of Warcraft, the main characters, map art resources Nebula software can be generated directly, which saves a lot of art, you must know that when World of Warcraft was created, the most important effort was spent on art. And now the other data is ready-made to call, and the artist has Nebula software there, so the progress should be quite fast.

When Blizzard settled down, that same evening, that is, in the morning of Europe, the Vivendi Group suddenly unilaterally announced the termination of the contract with General Motors and the resumption of negotiations to sell a majority stake in Universal Theaters. When this news came, Zhang Yang immediately understood why Vivendi Group asked Li Keqing to announce the injection of 50 billion US dollars.

At this moment, the Vivendi Group is riddled with debts, and if it does not sell most of its shares, it is afraid that the Vivendi Group will face the danger of bankruptcy, so in the last life, it was forced to sell most of the shares of Universal to the General Motors Group. But to Zhang Yang's surprise, if his memory is correct, it seems that in 04, Vivendi sold Universal to GM, right? Why was it still in Vivendi's hands in '05?

Could it be that this is also their own influence? But he didn't have any intersection with Vivendi, except for signing a contract with Blizzard, he didn't have any intersection with Vivendi Group itself. No matter how much the butterfly effect is, it can't affect it here.

I can't figure it out, Zhang Yang didn't think about it, anyway, he couldn't go back to his previous life to check if Vivendi Group was sold in 05 Universal, but now it seems that Vivendi Group is unlikely to sell Universal. However, Zhang Yang still couldn't figure out that the Star Group did not really want to finance the Vivendi Group, the two sides were just an agreement, the Vivendi Group's current financial situation was quite poor, and the debt had reached the point where they had to repay it, where did they come up with the money.

However, Vivendi Group soon explained to Zhang Yang, and less than an hour before the time agreed by the two parties, Vivendi Group suddenly broke the news that it had submitted a new loan financing application to BNP Paribas, one of the world's four largest banks, and further increased the loan amount, and submitted a new investment plan to BNP Paribas.

When the news came out, everyone was a little stunned, is Vivendi Group crazy? Vivendi had applied for a loan several times with BNP Paribas, but they were all rejected, and although Paris Yin Yang was quite interested in Vivendi's new investment plan, it asked Vivendi to repay the first installment of the loan before it could issue a second loan.

But now Vivendi has not only proposed a higher loan amount, but also applied again? What confidence do they have to guarantee that BNP Paribas can apply through their loan? Just when everyone was stunned, a new news suddenly came out from the Star Group, Miss Li Keqing, the chairman of the Star Group, and the French Vivendi Group reached a preliminary agreement, and the most preliminary agreement was to invest 50 billion US dollars in the Vivendi Group.

When the news came out, everyone immediately realized that it was no wonder that the Vivendi Group dared to apply to BNP Paribas, it turned out that there was a big rich man standing behind him, 50 billion US dollars, who had been able to buy half of the Vivendi Group, and BNP Paribas was bound to be affected by this news. After Zhang Yang saw the news, he immediately understood what Fortu was doing, this guy played this financial trick happily enough.

The previous debt of the Vivendi Group was about 10 billion US dollars, and now they have submitted a loan application of 15 billion US dollars to BNP Paribas, if the loan application of BNP Paribas is approved, then the Vivendi Group can not only repay the first batch of 10 billion US dollars of loans, but also get 5 billion US dollars of liquidity, plus the 1.5 billion US dollars paid by the Star Group for the purchase of Blizzard Entertainment, the Vivendi Group has nearly 7 billion US dollars of liquidity in its hands.

Regardless of what Vivendi Group's next investment plan is, this money is enough for Vivendi Group to support the next year, and after a year, Vivendi Group's income can keep their capital chain from breaking, but they have kept the money-making machine of Universal.

With the advancement and development of science and technology, the living standards of various countries are getting higher and higher, and the consumption of movies in various countries has also begun to expand on a large scale.

Selling a Blizzard is nothing, after all, Blizzard is a game company, and the annual revenue of various games is only hundreds of millions of dollars, and if Universal makes a good movie, I am afraid that the money will be recovered. And don't you say, there is really a fairly competitive movie at the moment at Universal, that is, a large-scale game adaptation made by Star Group for Blizzard Entertainment's StarCraft One.

The whole movie is no shorter than The Lord of the Rings, with a three-hour runtime, and that's just the first step. Because Blizzard was still a subsidiary of the Vivendi Group at that time, the entire movie produced for StarCraft One was divided into three films, and all the copyrights were in the hands of the Vivendi Group, that is, they were all in the hands of Universal, and the Star Group only owned 20% of the sales of the film.

But the whole movie does not use any live-action shooting at all, except for the use of the portrait rights of some Hollywood stars, and the whole movie is produced by CG animation, which is also the first CG animated film completed by Nebula Software alone, which is better than Japan's Final Fantasy special effects.

And, if Zhang Yang remembers correctly, the first StarCraft movie seems to have been released in North America during China's National Day, but what makes people a little speechless is that there is another movie that was released at the same time, and that is Paramount's Superman Returns. Originally, Superman's return was not Paramount's, but Zhang Yang didn't know why this thing ran to Paramount.

But in any case, the two special effects films produced by Star Group will begin to fight against each other. No matter what idea the Vivendi Group has, it has nothing to do with Zhang Yang anyway, anyway, he gets the Blizzard he wants. I just don't know if BNP Paribas will be able to approve Vivendi's investment application.

However, the well-made StarCraft movie Zhang Yang has seen it, and the scene is absolutely grand, because it is CG special effects, there is no problem with any production costs at all, so the whole story is that kind of unusually grand war scene, and the Galaxy Troopers is like a graffiti work compared to this film, although the whole movie can still be seen by people who know the inside story carefully, it can still be seen that it is not played by real people, but Zhang Yang dares to guarantee that the effect of Nebula can definitely reach the point of being fake and real, so that those audiences can't tell it.

And after the trailer of StarCraft was released in Europe and the United States, it has been at the top of the movie expectation list. However, its production cost has not been disclosed to the public, Vivendi and Universal don't know what to say, Zhang Yang can't tell them, can't tell them that the cost of the entire film production is the wear and tear of the supercomputer, depreciation, and employee salaries and so on, right? Not even the actors' salaries, they just used their image rights, and of course, if the film can compete for Hollywood Best Picture or something, those heroes and heroines will still have to come forward.

After boarding in the United States for a few days, Wu Bo and the others who were transferred from China were arranged, and Zhang Yang took a special plane back to China. GOD also followed Mo Lei and them to stay in Blizzard, and when Zhang Yang returned, Bai Su had already recruited almost all the personnel, at least to maintain the basic operation, including the application for the establishment of clubs in various countries, and the invitation of various governments to the Star Group's e-sports league, etc.

After returning to China, Zhang Yang quickly asked Bai Su to hold a press conference, announcing the news about the World of Warcraft battlefield and the profession joining the Star Cup, as well as other news that could join the Star Cup game. With the announcement of the Star Group, the most excited in the world are the players of World of Warcraft, after all, such an announcement, only those who play World of Warcraft regularly can become members of the professional team.

Didn't Star Group say it? Although the World of Warcraft Competitive Edition is a remade art resource, etc., the damage data of the game, the skills, attributes, and talents of the game characters are all directly pulled from the data of the World of Warcraft, and will not be reset, although the skill effects will be reset, but the role of the skill, the effect, etc. will not be reset.

In this way, with the World of Warcraft's talent plus point method, as well as the use of skills, etc., only veteran players of Warcraft can figure out these skills, and they are naturally more high-end than others. Therefore, these people are very likely to hit the first batch of team competitions, individual competitions of one million dollars.

The prize money provided by Star Group is for all games, and the championship is about one million dollars for each game, but the bonus is not the main factor that stimulates the development of the industry, in fact, the main factor is the advertising and sponsorship that the clubs are looking for, which is one of the keys to the prosperity of the entire industry.

And now the games of the Star Cup not only include the world's most fun single-player games, but also the online games with the highest number of registrations in the world. How big is this reaching? I'm afraid there are at least hundreds of millions of players, and these people are the objects of major advertisers.

Although the Star Cup began to recruit advertisers, what Zhang Yang didn't expect was that the first advertiser to invest in was not any advertiser that Zhang Yang was optimistic about before, but Pepsi Pepsi was the first to come to the door, and came up to buy the advertising of the Star Cup in key positions around the world at a price of 500 million US dollars.

Zhang Yang was still shocked when he got the news, Zhang Yang didn't know how much Pepsi spent on advertising every year, but the $500 million was quite a terrifying handiwork, and Zhang Yang also explained to Bai Su in advance, if an advertiser came to him, the first advertiser would give a discount.

$500 million, is that still a discounted price? Zhang Yang was a little speechless, but Zhang Yang also understood that Pepsi's $500 million spent was not unjust at all, in fact, let alone the world, even if it was spent in China, it was not unjust at all, do you know how huge and terrifying the Star Group's current influence among Chinese young people is?

As the first advertiser to support Star Group, Star Group held a press conference for Pepsi, and future sponsors will not have this treatment. Although Pepsi is gambling, it was the first to eat crabs, and no one can say what the effect is. However, Pepsi's president and directors were happy on the third day of the press conference, because from the approximate statistics just obtained, on the second day of the press conference, Pepsi's sales increased by at least 300% year-on-year