Chapter 376: Tencent's Reaction
In Tencent's headquarters, almost all the heads of departments and branches have come here, and they have gathered in a large conference room, some people are looking through the materials in front of them, and some people are looking at Ma Huateng sitting above the conference room, and there is no sound in the whole conference room except for the occasional rustling sound.
"I think you know what the reason is for this call, this time the new version of the crooked version launched by the Myth Group has nearly 20 million users, and these are very active users. Although the registered users of our QQ have exceeded one billion, the real active users are only 400 million, which is only 20 times the crooked version of the new version. Ma Huateng said.
Tencent President Martin Lau continued: "In the past, Crooked only focused on voice communication, but now after being acquired by Mythical Group, it immediately launched an instant messaging software with similar functions to QQ and still retained the original Crooked Messaging software, and it has been obvious that they want to compete with us for the market in the field of instant messaging, and if we can't take measures to deal with it in time, then it is very likely that many users will be pushed to the side of Mythical Group, so I and Mr. Ma want everyone to use their brains." β
Ma Huateng swept around the conference room, and saw that most of the people were with a disdainful expression, and knew that they didn't regard Crooked as an opponent at all.
Ma Huateng didn't say anything, he had a sense of worry in his heart, feeling that this era of Huanju, which was acquired by the Mythical Group, would sooner or later become Tencent's fierce rival, but at present, it seems that most of the employees of his company do not care much about crookedness.
Ma Huateng, who was able to grow QQ step by step to the monopoly position of Huaxia today, has a very strong sense of crisis, and it is this sense of crisis that has led him to become a super giant company with a market value of more than 100 billion US dollars.
Xu Chenye, Tencent's chief information officer and one of Tencent's original five shareholders, smiled: "Mr. Ma, Mr. Liu, I don't think there is any threat to our QQ at the moment that the new version is crooked. Although the user base has grown very fast during this period of time after the launch of the new version, the vast majority of these users are gamers of the Mythical Group, and the 20 million users of Crooked are almost saturated, and the growth rate of users will become very slow in the future. According to the data I got, the number of people who go out of their way to download crooked in order to experience the chat is very small, so there is no need to be too nervous, at least for the next five years, crooked will not have any strength to fight against us. β
Xu Chenye's words made many people present nod their heads, they all thought the same, you must know that users on the network are sticky, unless your software is really poor, otherwise users will not change a software casually. QQ dominates the field of instant messaging in China for many years, and has already made Chinese people develop the habit of using QQ for anything, and when it comes to online chat, they will think of QQ for the first time, and even many people don't know that there are several instant messaging software in Huaxia!
In the past, when Tencent was not bigger, the new Lang launched the new LangUC chat software, and then it has not become synonymous with history?
Peng Jiaxin, vice president of Tencent, said: "Although Crooked can't make any Lang flowers, but once the new version of Crooked is launched, our UT voice share will decline rapidly, and if we don't come up with any measures in time, then we are very likely to lose the market share of voice communication!" β
Ma Huateng frowned and said: "So what can you do to make UT regain the lost market, or even seize more markets?" β
Ma Xiaoyi, vice president of Tencent Games, said: "I personally think that if we can't do anything in games, UT will be difficult to do, because in the past, because Tencent Games had a certain market share in China, so our UT was able to expand with our games. But since the emergence of the Mythical Group, they have robbed us of the game market everywhere, and at present, we have basically lost the share of MMORPG games, and currently mainly rely on casual competitive games to support the faΓ§ade. That's why I'm suggesting here that we give up the MMORPG game market and only consider affiliates for very classic games. Focus on mobile and casual competitive games, encourage the use of UT in the game, and give players certain rewards. β
Tencent President Martin Lau looked at Ren Yuxin and asked, "Mr. Ren, is that what your game department plans?" β
Ren Yuxin nodded and said: "That's true, in the field of MMORPG, we really can't grab the Myth Group." β
Martin Lau thought for a while and said, "Since the game department has this plan, then you can do it, but the RPG games that have been represented at present should continue to operate, unless the vast majority of players have given up on it before considering the matter of shutting down." β
Ma Huateng looked helpless, knocked on the table and said: "Everyone is here to discuss how to deal with the new version of the Mythical Group, not to discuss the game department, if the game department has anything to report, we will discuss it separately!" β
Everyone didn't say anything anymore, looking at Ma Huateng, a few days ago, even when the new version of crooked users was growing the fastest, the users of QQ and WeChat basically did not fluctuate, which shows that crooked has indeed not yet impacted the strength of QQ.
Ma Huateng exhaled and said: "Maybe everyone is crooked and far from being able to fight against us, but everything must be prepared, and we can't take any opponent lightly, let alone a chat software that already has 20 million users?" β
Hearing Ma Huateng's repeated insistence, the people in the conference room also began to make suggestions one after another, anyway, they have encountered this kind of thing many times, and they are very familiar with it.
After some discussion, Tencent's top management finally came up with measures, they can't deal with crookedness openly, otherwise it is difficult to guarantee that the Mythical Group will not sue them for monopoly, it is said that the chairman of the Mythical Group also has someone on it, in case they really win then Tencent will be miserable.
The plan they came up with is that QQ will be upgraded again in the near future, removing some unnecessary features, and making the bloated QQ lose weight. In addition, the interface and user experience will be beautified again, and free users will get more benefits, so that Crooked will become a voice communication software completely!