Chapter 144: Shock (I)
Chen Tianqiao said: "Dong Li, I think you should take over Shanda Literature together." ”
Xiao Yuqing asked suspiciously: "Dong Chen, what are you doing?" Although she doesn't know much about business things, she also thinks that Li Haoyu's words are very reasonable, and Mythical Company is currently vigorously gaining a foothold in the Chinese game industry, and blind expansion is easy to fall into trouble like the current Shanda.
Chen Tianqiao smiled reluctantly, "In fact, after the Mythical Company takes over Shanda Literature, it can let them be responsible for their own profits and losses like Zongheng Literature Network, and the current operation of these websites of Shanda Literature is not bad, in addition to sending a few financial personnel to supervise the finances of these websites, these websites are operated by themselves in other things." ”
Li Haoyu thought about it, Chen Tianqiao said it well, the Zongheng Literature Network that he acquired by himself can already compete with the starting point, and now once he acquires Shanda Literature, he can join forces with the starting point, and most of the online literature industry is under his own name, and the profits are also considerable.
"Then Chen Dong, how much money do you think it takes to package Shanda Game Business and Shanda Literature together?" Li Haoyu was moved and decided to acquire Shanda Literature together.
Chen Tianqiao stretched out two fingers, "Two billion dollars!" ”
"Chen Dong, your bid is too high, Shanda's game business is basically in a situation of imminent loss, and people with a discerning eye in Shanda's literature know that the current online literature industry is not very profitable, especially at the beginning stage, but it has to invest a lot of money. Chen Dong, your bid is two billion US dollars, which is a little too much, so I can only express regret. "Chen Tianqiao's bid is too high, far exceeding the current value of Shanda's game business and Shanda literature, and Li Haoyu will not spend a penny in vain.
Chen Tianqiao asked unhurriedly: "So what price does Li Dong think is appropriate?" ”
"Up to $800 million." The sky-high asking price is the reason for paying back the money on the spot.
"Chairman Li, your offer is too low, and you will definitely not suffer a loss for $1.2 billion."
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After some bargaining, during the period, he consulted Wang Lingwei, Li Yaxi and others, and finally packaged and acquired Shanda's game business and Shanda Literature at a price of $158 million.
After initialing the agreement, Chen Tianqiao looked much more relaxed, and after getting this amount of money, Shanda's remaining business should be able to solve the urgent need, and there is no need to sell it again. Chen Tianqiao believes that with his own talent and this large amount of money, Shanda's remaining business can definitely be revitalized.
"Chen Dong, let's go to the exhibition area of my mythical company to have a look, and it will be the new game conference in a while." Li Haoyu sent out the invitation.
Chen Tianqiao asked with interest: "Oh? Is there a new game coming out of Mythology? Well, could it be the legend of the Xishan Swordsman that Xishanju has been developing? ”
Xiao Yuqing already knew about the game King of Fighting, and said: "Chen Dong, it's not the Legend of the Xishan Swordsman, as for which game Haoyu and I will sell first, you will know the way when the time comes, this new game should not disappoint you." ”
At this moment, Li Haoyu's mobile phone rang, and it was Xu Qing calling.
"Chairman? To tell you a good news, the human-computer interaction system has been developed! The Legend of the Swordsman of the West Mountain can start internal testing in three months at most! Xu Qing's voice was very excited, after more than half a year of hard work, coupled with the ready-made game of Lingyun Sword as a reference, they finally completed the human-computer interaction system.
The human-computer interaction system Xu Qing said does not refer to the general HCI human-computer interaction system, he refers to the interaction between players and NPCs, which is similar to the effect of this community game of Lingyun Sword. It's just that the game of Lingyun Sword is a game from the future, although it has all the source code, but it is not easy to make the human-computer interaction system with artificial intelligence alone, Xu Qing and their Xishanju also spent more than half a year and spent hundreds of millions of dollars to develop this system.
The benefits of this human-computer interaction system with traces of artificial intelligence in the game are obvious, and you don't see that the game Lingyun Sword is popular in China with this system, and even in the entire world, there has been a wave of Chinese trends, and the aesthetics of China have gradually become popular in the world.
"Personally, did you make the CG for the promotion? We're about to release a new game, and if possible, we're going to release the Legend of the Swordsman of the West Mountain before the new game is released, and then we're announcing the new game. Li Haoyu's brain turned quickly.
Xu Qingdao: "The promotional video hasn't had time to start production yet, but we have already taken dozens of screenshots of the main characters and scenes in the game, which should be enough for the initial publicity." ”
Li Haoyu thought for a while and said, "Okay, you feel like you've sent all the screenshots, it's about to be time, I'll call them first." ”
After hanging up the phone, Aunt Li Hong said apologetically to Chen Tianqiao and then dialed Li Yayan's mobile phone, this time ChinaJoy was still hosted by Li Yayan. Li Yayan pondered for a moment after listening to Li Haoyu's story: "Haoyu, I think you should announce the new game conference this time, as for the acquisition of Shanda, we still have to wait for a while, let's break the news after we officially sign the agreement with Shanda, and it may not be a good thing to break too much news at the same time." ”
"Well, I'm outside the showroom right now, and I'll be coming in right away."
After hanging up the phone, Li Haoyu said to Chen Tianqiao, who had been waiting: "Chen Dong, let's go in together." ”
Chen Tianqiao didn't ask Li Haoyu about the content on the phone, nodded and smiled: "It's good." ”
The three of them entered the exhibition hall of ChinaJoy again, and they came directly to the exhibition area of the mythical company, and the exhibition area of the mythical company this year was much more lively last year, especially the very players came to the booth of the Sword of Lingyun to experience the new content of the first expansion pack that the Sword of the Clouds is about to open in advance.
There are also some visitors who heard that the mythical company will release a new game this afternoon in ChinaJoy, and the mythical company has the nickname of "China's Blizzard" in the minds of players in China, and every game produced in the past two years since its creation is a high-quality product, and there has never been a defective product.
At half past two in the afternoon, it was the busiest time of the day in the ChinaJoy exhibition hall, and when they learned that Myth was about to release a new game, countless tourists and news media had already flocked to Mythic's exhibition area. Suddenly, the number of people in the exhibition area of other game companies has decreased a lot, and the staff of those game companies see the extremely popular exhibition area of Mythical Company, and then look at the deserted exhibition area on their side, they can't help but feel like crying without tears.
Li Haoyu walked up to the front desk from behind the curtain of the booth, waved his hand to the audience of at least five or six thousand visitors, and said: "Hello everyone, I am Li Haoyu, welcome to the exhibition area of the mythical company, I will soon introduce you to the two new games that the mythical company will launch soon." ”
Many tourists in the audience began to stir, many of them became excited, and they all knew that under normal circumstances, Li Haoyu, the chairman, would not attend the activities of the mythical company, and would only participate in person when there was any major event.
Tourists and reporters held their breath and patiently listened to the new tour introduced by Li Haoyu.
"The first new game of the mythical company must have been guessed by everyone, that's right, this new game is the Legend of the Xishan Swordsman produced by Xishanju Studio!" As soon as Li Haoyu's words fell, screenshots of the Legend of Xishan Swordsman began to appear on the big screen behind him, and the picture was changed every once in a while in the mode of a slideshow.
The reporters and tourists in the audience couldn't help but take out their cameras or mobile phones to record this scene, and the shutter kept ringing for a while.
"After more than a year of repeated carving by the Xishan Swordsman Studio, the development work has finally ended today, so there are only some screenshots to show you at present. Some people may ask, why did this game take so long to develop? The reason is very simple, our mythical company has always adhered to the concept of high-quality games, so the requirements for the Legend of Xishan Swordsman are so strict. ”
Before Li Haoyu's words were finished, someone in the audience shouted to introduce the features of the game, don't talk nonsense.
Li Haoyu smiled and said: "Okay, I'll first talk about the characteristics of the Legend of Xishan Swordsman, first of all, this is a 3D MMORPG type Xianxia game......"
There was a burst of laughter from the audience, and as long as anyone who paid even a little attention to the game knew something about it, they felt very happy when they heard it, and they couldn't help but laugh.
"Secondly, the Legend of Xishan Xianxia is also a mature community game, and the interaction between players and NPCs that appear in the game Lingyun Sword can appear in the Legend of Xishan Swordsman, and we call this technique a human-computer interaction system with traces of artificial intelligence. Again, most of the characters and scenes in the Legend of the Swordsman of Xishan are drawn by the artists one by one, rather than the stickers that are now used in online games, so everyone can be absolutely assured on the screen. After the last, the Legend of the Swordsman of Xishan has also inherited the huge world view and plot of the three sword networks, and players who love the plot should not miss it. ”
Li Haoyu and other tourists and reporters in the audience digested his words before he continued: "The next thing I want to introduce to you is the new game of the Mythology Studio under my Mythology Company - the King of Fighting!" ”
As soon as the big screen on the booth dimmed, a poster of several men and women wearing practice uniforms fighting each other appeared, and the words "King of Fighting" were particularly conspicuous.
All the tourists and reporters in the audience couldn't help but exclaim in unison when they saw this enthusiastic poster.