Chapter 564 Structure (3)

Chapter 564 Structure (3)

"The cooperation is pleasant, I don't know when Star Group will be ready for the press conference." Fortu smiled and stretched out his hand to Chen Xiaowei and said, from the moment the contract is signed, Blizzard Entertainment will become a subsidiary of Star Group. "We're always ready to announce it and see when your company needs it." Chen Xiaowei nodded slightly and said politely.

Fortu nodded: "Then I hope that on September 2nd, that is, the morning after tomorrow, your company can hold a press conference to announce the news." "This is one of the conditions of cooperation between the two sides, so there is no problem with that. Chen Xiaowei nodded and agreed, it has been stated in the agreement between the two parties that the Star Group only announced the news, and as for the various consequences arising from this, it is not for the Star Group to be responsible.

The news of the acquisition of Blizzard Entertainment was not immediately sent to the outside world, but the internal affairs of the Star Group knew that Zhang Yang had already taken GOD and Mo Lei Moxin brothers and sisters straight to Blizzard Entertainment's headquarters in California. Mike, the president of Blizzard, didn't know that Vivendi and Star Group had been contacted before the two companies signed the contract, because Zhang Yang came here to negotiate in the name of inspection and negotiation, so Mike was just a good student to receive the two.

After all, although Blizzard and Star Group are partners, the gap between the two sides is quite large, the current Star Group is no longer the small company that is almost the same as Blizzard Entertainment, the current Star Group is already the world's highest market capitalization, and the company with the greatest potential, there are quite a lot of potential groups in the subsidiaries of the Star Group alone, Apple is one, Qualcomm is another.

As the owner of CDMA patents worldwide, Qualcomm's potential is undeniable. After receiving a call from Chen Xiaowei and a copy of the contract by fax, Zhang Yang directly invited Blizzard's senior executives to the conference room. Mike looked at Zhang Yang a little strangely and asked, "Mr. Zhang, is there anything you have to do with inviting us here?" ”

Zhang Yang smiled slightly, looked at the many management of Blizzard Entertainment opposite, Zhang Yang smiled and said: "Hehe, you don't have to be polite, we will be a family in the future, just now Star Group has successfully acquired Blizzard Entertainment from Vivendi Group, which means that Blizzard Entertainment will become one of the subsidiaries of Star Group in the future." Zhang Yang's words made the atmosphere in the conference room fall into a dead silence all of a sudden.

Mike: They all opened their mouths slightly, and several managers even plucked their ears incredibly to make sure that Zhang Yang was not wrong. "This is a copy of the contract I have just received between the company and the Vivendi Group." Zhang Yang handed the fax in his hand to Blizzard's higher-ups, but Blizzard's higher-ups didn't speak, they just began to bow their heads and circulate the document.

This is the sadness of a wholly owned subsidiary, you have no right to resist whoever sells you to as long as the parent company wants to. After Mike and the others finished reading the information in their hands, Zhang Yang said with a slight smile: "I think Blizzard will shine more in the hands of the Star Group, which I think you will all prove all this, please rest assured, although the Star Group has acquired Blizzard Entertainment, everything about Blizzard Star Group will not make any adjustments, of course, except for increasing investment funds." ”

Zhang Yang's words made the conference room slightly stunned for a moment, and then everyone let out a chuckle, at this time everyone can be regarded as adjusting their emotions, just now although they were a little unacceptable Vivendi Group just sold Blizzard to the Star Group quietly, but for them, as long as the Star Group does not interfere in everything in Blizzard, then it may not be a better choice for Blizzard, Vivendi Group is financially tight, and many times it needs Blizzard's support, but Star Group and Vivendi Group are differentThe last thing Star Group lacks is money

This way, Blizzard will have more money to develop the game and research the game. "I think Vivendi Group should inform you of this news soon, I won't say more here, I want to talk about another issue, I acquired Blizzard, there is only one purpose, you should be able to guess." Zhang Yang walked directly from the guest's position to the main position of the conference room, and Mike didn't have any special expression, just sat in the deputy position next to him.

"Is it because of the Starry Sky Cup?" The brains that can sit here are naturally not slow, Zhang Yang said this, they all probably guessed it, Mike asked softly. Zhang Yang nodded slightly: "Yes, it's because of the Starry Sky Cup." In addition, the most important one is that the Star Group is ready to adopt all the professions and races in the World of Warcraft, and develop the battlefield of the World of Warcraft separately as a competitive game."

"Huh?" Zhang Yang's words made everyone present choke for a moment, paused, Mike thought for a while and said: "This is not technically difficult, but World of Warcraft is a 3D game, and there is no problem with turning it into a competitive game, because the battlefield itself is a kind of competition, and we can be divided into teams of five, ten, fifteen or even twenty people." But the only problem is, how to solve the problem of broadcasting? There is no God perspective in World of Warcraft, and there is no OB perspective. ”

Zhang Yang glanced at Mike in admiration, worthy of being at the helm of Blizzard, although Mike is not good at game development, but as the CEO of the company, Mike's vision is already quite unique. Zhang Yang nodded slightly, looked at the people present and said, "This is a big problem, so my opinion is to make a new game while maintaining all the settings of World of Warcraft." ”

"Huh? Re-do? Mr. Zhang, what do you mean? A blonde man with a curly hair sitting on the other side immediately sat up straight with interest. Seeing Zhang Yang's gaze, Mike immediately introduced him in a timely manner: "This is the head of Blizzard Entertainment's game planning department, and one of the main creators of World of Warcraft, Mark. ”

After listening to Mike's explanation, Zhang Yang nodded with a slight smile and said: "Mr. Mark asked well, as a competitive game I will be honest, competitive games don't need such a big map as big as World of Warcraft, nor do they need such a big client, its main melody is competition, so the number of maps in it can be limited to a small part, we just need to make a variety of battlefield maps, so I mean to optimize all its resources, the current World of Warcraft graphics are a little too rough." ”

World of Warcraft is highly replayable, but its graphics are rough due to its large client, at least compared to games that focus exclusively on graphics.

"Well, I agree with Mr. Zhang, your opinion, but if Mr. Zhang makes a separate resource like this, this is just a matter of art, and there is not much to revise, what I want to know is what Mr. Zhang wants to remake the picture of World of Warcraft in this new competitive mode look like?" Mark nodded, curious.

"What do you guys think of us using the characters from the promotional video that Star Group made for World of Warcraft?" Zhang Yang said directly.

"Huh? Mr. Zhang, do you mean that the entire game environment has to be created with your company's special effects? IMHO, there is no doubt about the quality of the game's graphics, including the special effects of the skills, etc., I admire your company's special effects, but the only thing is that the computer power required to make the game is too large? I'm afraid that the current mainstream graphics card can't support such a picture. Another man with a beard immediately asked.

"This is one of the creators of the company's art effects and game engines." Mike made an introduction to Zhang Yang again. "I agree with you, it's very reluctant to bring such a game with current computer technology, but it's not impossible, if the Star Group launches a graphics card specially made for this game, the overall performance of the CPU, plus the perfect optimization of the system by the photon defense under the Star Group, do you think it is difficult?." Zhang Yang smiled and threw out his next target.

Zhang Yang's words made the conference room immediately quiet, and everyone's eyes were a little abrupt, and they were a little shocked to find that Zhang Yang's purpose may not be just a game, a starry sky cup. Although these people are also engaged in technology, their ability to take up management positions proves that they also have good business vision.

As soon as Zhang Yang said this, they thought about it for a while, and their faces were full of admiration, and everyone's eyes seemed to have changed a little, and they thought that the Star Group not only has games, but also system optimization software, and the Star Group can now also produce CPUs and graphics cards, which is almost a complete industrial chain.

After joining Qualcomm's CPU development department, AMD's CPU development work can be described as a thousand miles a day, although it is said that it cannot catch up with intel in a short period of time, but at least it is much stronger than AMD in the world of Zhang Yang's previous life, and now ATI, in the process of resource integration, when the CPU and graphics card are fully matched together, the performance is naturally not comparable to the performance of those computers assembled by themselves.

In fact, whether it is an assembly machine or those brand machines, the CPU and graphics card performance that can be played are about 70% at most, and the compatibility between these hardware is bound to lose some performance. "Well, this IMHO, Star Group currently only has a production line of CPUs and graphics cards, and the motherboard also plays a considerable role in this regard, so there are still certain defects in the impact on the overall performance." Another shareholder asked tentatively.

Zhang Yang immediately smiled, he quickly turned to Mike and asked, "May I ask Mr. Mike, is there a TV here?" Can you receive a TV from the Star Group press conference? ”

"Yes." Mike was stunned for a moment, but he still stood up and turned on the large LCD TV in the other section of the conference room, and after switching a few stations, the California TV station was broadcasting the press conference of Star Group. The press conference was held in H City, and it was morning in China at this time, while Blizzard was already off work here.

“…… I would like to announce that just today Star Group has just reached four acquisition agreements, first, Star Group and Vivendi Group have successfully signed a contract to acquire Blizzard Entertainment for $1.5 billion, and Blizzard Entertainment will become a wholly-owned subsidiary of Star Group. In the second transaction, Star Group has just completed the wholly-owned acquisition of Taiwan's Asus for $7.5 billion and the related share integration. The third and fourth transactions are the wholly-owned acquisition of Maxtor Corporation of the United States and Seagate Inc., two major hard disk manufacturers of the United States, for a total price of 10.1 billion US dollars. Chen Xiaowei smiled at the endless flashing lights and said.

As Chen Xiaowei's explosive news was announced, others didn't know, anyway, the people in this conference room were already there. ASUS is already almost a complete assembly line manufacturer, in addition to the CPU, graphics cards ASUS have production, but now ASUS is acquired by the Star Group, not only that, the Star has also acquired Seagate and Maxtor, that is to say, the world's hard disk manufacturers are basically taken into the arms of the Star Group.

The other most important component of the computer, the memory module production company, has long been acquired by the Star Group before the top memory module manufacturer in the industry, the Corsair company or the pirate flag company Corsair memory module, although its shipments are not much, but this company is indeed the world's most respected overclocking memory manufacturer, its memory module is quite expensive, is one of the best choices for countless game fanatics.

After announcing these four news, Chen Xiaowei did not continue to speak, but stood on the rostrum with a smile and let the reporter take a few photos before Chen Xiaowei continued: "In this regard, Star Group now announces that the subsidiaries of Star Group, AMD, ATI, Qualcomm, Asus, Corsair, Seagate, and Maxtor will merge, and Star Group will hold 62.3% of the new company, and other shares will be distributed by the shareholders of the original companies. The new company will be named Star Computer AG and will be one of the holding subsidiaries of the Star Group. ”

As Chen Xiaowei's last word fell, the flashes in the TV had already been connected, and at this moment, all the computer manufacturers in the world remained silent all of a sudden, and Intel and other companies held an emergency board meeting. With the series of acquisitions of Star Group, this means that Star Group has completely formed a complete industrial chain in the name of a company, in other words, in terms of personal computers, Star Group can be said to have no need to look at the face of any other company.