The Dota 2 stats are growing steadily, and everything is perfectly in line with Hatsune Entertainment's revised expectations:

Relying on the advantages of "One Number Reach", as well as the perfect high and low configuration with World of Warcraft, and user interoperability. In the short term, Dota 2 has significantly surpassed Crossfire in terms of the number of active users. Then relying on user stickiness, it gradually encroached on the other party's territory.

In order not to affect the balance of the game, it is not a big deal that the paid items are sold cheaper than the enemies and the profit is relatively small for the time being.

Anyway, it was already early February, and in two more months, at the beginning of April, Hatsune Entertainment went to the IPO circle in the A-share market, and immediately the entire group was not short of cash. As long as Dota 2 cooperates with Warcraft and plays the role of a cash cow in these two months, there will be no chaos.

Even, the results achieved by Dota 2 through "One Number Reach" have inadvertently fed back the social software "First Meeting".

Here's how it goes: according to the big data analysis provided by Hatsune later, about 7 million of the 20 million players who activated their Dota 2 accounts before the Chinese New Year were active for a long time.

Among them, 6 million first had a "first sight" account, and then used the first sight account to activate the game; Another 1 million users have previously played World of Warcraft or used other products of the Hatsune Group, but have never opened the chat software "Hatsumi". After playing the game, I suddenly found that there was a need to communicate with teammates such as "open black", so I registered my first meeting and added friends.

Although only 1 million new active users were added.

This may not be a big deal for the total market of "Chujian", which has "50 million active users and 16 million online at the same time".

However, this opportunity further inspired the Hatsune Group's top management. It made a possibility that was originally in the discussion clearer, and it became more supported by the top management of the Hatsune Group, especially by Gu Mojie himself.

This possibility, which was originally in the argumentation stage, is:

Can we use the social attributes generated by online game cooperation to feed back the growth of IM instant messaging software?

If so, how strong is this feedback? How much is it worth it?

Now it seems that this is a matter of necessity.

On the last day before the New Year's holiday, Gu Mojie made a decision on this matter. Let the secretary Ye Minru take the lead and help him inquire and organize a batch of market materials.

He plans to buy a few companies that can make up for his shortcomings in the "first sight" two months later, once the IPO has made up for the money.

"Check it out for me, what kind of voice chat software do the gamers who are currently playing Warcraft and start a group? Do people who play Dota 2 and CrossFire use the game's built-in party voice tool? Or was it something else? ”

Ye Minru was very efficient, assigned the things assigned by the boss, and found the answer within one day.

"YY chat room? How many games are played? The company was founded in 2005, and it has been two and a half years. 20 million registrations, 7 million daily online voices, 30,000 game guilds? That's a good stat - what is the current market capitalization? ”

Gu Mojie swept through the first alternative case reported by Ye Minru and asked.

Ye Minru explained in detail:

"At present, the current value of this company is about 8~900 million. Boss Li Xuelin turned out to be the head of Sohu and NetEase portals,05In June jumped out of NetEase,Prepare for a few months to set up this company,At that time, the main focus was to provide forums and plug-in websites for World of Warcraft,Later developed into game social。

Li Xuelin himself is a content editor-in-chief and doesn't know much about technology. So he successively relied on two technical directors, the first was Dong Rongjie, the former technical director of NetEase Portal, and Li Xuelin relied on him to make the website of the multi-game network. Later, 06 began to ponder YY voice chat, and pulled Wang Qingming, the technical leader of the former Fuji Xun QQ project, into at a high price.

At present, the main executives holding large shares in Duo Play are these three people, Li Xuelin grasps the overall operation, Dong Rongjie grasps the website, and Wang Mingqing grasps YY. Li's equity is worth more than 200 million, Wang and Dong each have about 100 million, and the remaining half of the share capital is from various venture capital institutions.

However, if it is to be fully acquired, it is certainly impossible to pay a premium of more than 30% according to the current price of the share capital, which is still the premise that no one competes - but I heard that Lei Jun, the CEO of Jinshan, who was squeezed out just two months ago because of the cooperation between Jinshan and Fujixun, also intends to take a stake in Duo Game.com. ”

Gu Mojie pondered and said to himself: "That is to say, if no one robs it, it is possible to buy out 1.2 billion and play more." If Lei Jun enters the market, may the price be raised to 1.5 billion? Lei Jun shouldn't have much spare money, right, isn't his main fund going to be UC mobile phone software? ”

Ye Minru saw that Gu Mojie was still a little hesitant, so she tried to excuse herself:

"If we had started a year earlier, maybe we would have spent only a small amount of money - at that time, before we won the right to operate World of Warcraft 2.0, Zhu Jun of the Nine Cities couldn't figure out the relationship between the upper echelons, and Warcraft 2.0 might have a difficult birth.

Later, we did a good job of Warcraft, and by the way, let the company that made more of the peripherals also 'fairy and chicken dog', and it more than doubled in a year......"

"There's nothing to regret about this kind of thing. Our own money was also a turnip, and it was difficult to come up with another seven or eight billion at that time. What's more, buying a company with the social attributes of the game in advance means starting a war with Brother Pony in advance - at that time, we had just taken down Warcraft, and even the relationship with NetEase was very stiff, and it would be too unwise to fall out with Pony again. I'd rather stretch the time gap between this enemy and trade it for a window. ”

Gu Mojie never regrets this kind of thing, it is impossible for everyone to make all the cheap in the world, and it is easy to pull eggs when he takes a big step; If the output is too fast, the aggro will be easy to OT.

"Isn't it just spending seven or eight billion more than last year, I did this business - come back after the New Year, as soon as the Lantern Festival passes, let Brother Yong talk about it, the budget is within 1.5 billion, it's acceptable, I want to see the transaction results in mid-April." If it's more than 1.5 billion, report it to me.

Also, don't give people who play too much time to think, and do a good job of prevention, and don't give them the opportunity to find a horse and vine to ventilate and ask for a price at both ends. You tell Gu Yongjiang that as long as he does not let Ma Huateng have the opportunity to interfere in this acquisition and do things beautifully, I will personally reward him with an additional 100 million. ”

It's time to see how dry Gu Yongjiang, the CFO of the investment tycoon, has.

(Note: Historically, Duoplay finally successfully spun off YY in 2012 and went public on the U.S. stock market, with a market value of $600 million after the IPO.) But that was four years later, and there was a wave of mobile Internet development in the interim. At this point in time in the book, playing more is only worth 900 million, of which YY is about 600 million, and the portal is worth 300 million, of course, all in RMB. ）

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After deciding on the first place to spend a lot of money after the year, Gu Mojie can finally go home for the New Year with peace of mind.

In the past 1 month, he was a model boyfriend for half of the time, going home every day to accompany Lu Wenjun. He also knew that since Fei Liluo was pregnant, there was another incident with Quan Baoer, and he owed some of his legitimate girlfriend Lu Wenjun, and he was very gentle and comforted for a while.

As for Wen Wanqing, who has no sense of existence, she is somewhat pitiful. Since he was harmed by Gu Mojie, he can't just let it go. People have no relatives and no reason, the New Year is approaching, and Gu Mojie also took the time to accompany her twice.

Fortunately, Wen Wan and Qingzhen are pure-hearted and desireless, or maybe they are young. After all, he has just turned two decades, and he is quiet and elegant. Even if Gu Mojie didn't accompany her, she didn't have any complaints. Even if she has the opportunity to be together twice a month, she will not ask for the joy of the pillow every time, sometimes she is satisfied by stroking the piano and chatting together, appreciating the snow and chanting poetry.

Anyway, from the very beginning, Gu Mojie was completely taking the initiative between the two, what a trouble-free girl.

As for Quan Bao'er, throughout January, since she flew to Los Angeles on the 6th, she was busy DJing in the United States. hurriedly signed with the CAA agency and the agent Troy Carter, and then found a reliable distribution company and released her first album "BoA" in the United States.

For 20 days, he either attended various promotional activities, or occasionally appeared on variety shows to get acquainted with American audiences, and went to New York to shoot a short film for promotion. After doing so much work, Quan Bao'er only sleeps for two hours a day - fortunately, when she is on the road on various means of transportation, she can piece together and sleep for three hours.

She had to make up for the time she had lost because she was having fun with Gu Mojie.

South Koreans celebrate the Spring Festival, and three days before Chinese New Year's Eve, she flew across the Pacific Ocean. went to Hujiang first and saw Gu Mojie, who had been away for a month - in order to save time for Bao'er, Gu Mojie didn't let her come to Qiantang, but he went to Hujiang by himself and booked a five-star hotel directly in Pudong.

Gu Mojie accompanied her like this, stayed in the room for two days and two nights without going out, and fed this girl who was still in the honeymoon period. Then she was put on the plane back to Seoul at noon on Chinese New Year's Eve.

"You've lost weight again, you fight so hard, don't die! I'd rather you don't come to see me and go back to Seoul for the New Year, so that you can rest for two more days. When he said goodbye to Pudong Airport, Gu Mojie had such a distressed sense of regret.

"You're so cruel, you turned people into women, and you only wanted it for a week, and you didn't want it anymore......"

"That's not what I meant! But you're ...... It's going to be exhausting. After the New Year, don't run to China, the coming day is long, please. ”

Quan Baoer curled up in the big windbreaker, read a lot of things from Gu Mojie's eyes, and confirmed that she was not tired of being bored, but that the other party really felt sorry for her, and finally said "good".

The matter of 30,000 miles to the door is really not so easy.

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It's a dull February, and there's nothing exciting anymore. People in the IT circle are always quiet in the New Year, and all business just needs to be allowed to grow naturally. Even if Gu Mojie doesn't bother, the number of users of new games and "first sights" will slowly but surely climb.

From Chinese New Year's Eve to Lantern Festival, this half month belongs to the family. In the Zhuxi Trail, every day is full of joy and warmth, which also soothes Gu Mojie's nerves, making him feel that the whole person is full of energy and can devote himself to the New Year's fight.

"There will be two meetings next month, and Cardinal Qi will move another step in order, right? There's nothing to say about it...... After two meetings, you can enter the IPO listing tide. I don't know how much money Hatsune Entertainment can circle, Dota 2 is such a big new good news, it should be able to add a lot of extra points, right? (To be continued.) )