Chapter 503: Blizzard (I)

Xu Zhennan wanted to put the phone away directly, but he still didn't do it after the end, and he could only reluctantly accept the new task sent by Yang Yiwei, Xu Zhennan suddenly felt a little regretful now, Yang Yiwei rewarded her with a total of two percent of the shares of the Starfall Group, this number is already very large, it is not an exaggeration to say that she is the fourth largest shareholder of the Starfall Group, but it is ...... How do you feel that after taking over this share, this guy will call himself like an animal?

"By the way, if you have something to order, I will give you half a year at most, and if you can't finish your work within half a year, I don't care." When he was about to hang up the phone, Xu Zhennan suddenly said again. Yang Yiwei was stunned for a moment, and immediately asked with some suspicion: "What are you going to do?" ”

It should be impossible to resign, I didn't give her 2% of the shares for free, this guy has to work for the company until he retires, otherwise, the company will have to take back the 2% shares. "What are you doing, my mother is not young, am I going to have a child? Could it be that you still expect me to be pregnant, and like now, the world is tired and tired to let you be called like an animal, let me tell you, no way, my mother is an older mother, and you are responsible for something? Xu Zhennan yelled back directly at the phone.

"Hungry, okay, okay, I'll try to get everything done within half a year." Half a year is enough, and now the entire Starfall Group has not been established for a long time, but in fact, except for a few at the top, the experience of other middle and high-level is not bad at all, some of them have applied for the job, some have been dug by headhunting companies, and some have been directly acquired by acquisition companies, so even if Xu Zhennan is not there. The company can also operate normally.

At that time, it is estimated that Yang Yiwei will go up by himself, Xia Xuelan is still busy with the affairs of the foundation, Yang Yiwei can only take Xiaoxi to the United States by himself, this time it is much easier than going to the old Rockefeller's house, because there is no need to fly over the entire United States, Blizzard Entertainment's headquarters is located in California, USA. At the same time, it is also the West Coast of the United States, because it is a private jet, the time difference is much easier than that of ordinary passenger planes, and when he landed in California, Xu Zhennan had already sent a message to Yang Yiwei. The contract has been officially signed.

And Xu Zhennan has also informed the executives of Blizzard Entertainment, and the current head of Blizzard Entertainment is Mike. Mo Huaimi, who is also one of the founders of Blizzard, was a little surprised to hear that Yang Yiwei had taken off from China thousands of miles away before the contract was signed. Even when Blizzard was acquired by Vivendi, it seems that there was no such treatment. Originally, Mike thought that Blizzard would disappear into history. But I didn't expect this kind of peak loop.

Although Activision Blizzard still has Blizzard in its name, after all, Blizzard is only a part of Activision Blizzard, and with the passage of time, who knows how long Blizzard can exist? But no one expected that just ten days ago, he suddenly received a message, saying that he was the youngest in the world. Yang Yiwei, who is also the richest man, spent $3.5 billion to buy Blizzard from Vivendi.

At first, Mike also thought that the other party was buying the entire Activision Blizzard, but he didn't expect that it was only Blizzard Entertainment that was acquired. And the news from the head office said that Yang Yiwei is a loyal player of Blizzard Entertainment? This Mike is convinced. After all, Yang Yiwei's age is also in line with this age range, so Mike's mood is actually very weird, how to say it? In fact, he himself didn't know what kind of mood he should be in.

Gratified? Fortunate? Disturbed? And this new boss is undoubtedly generous, regardless of the money he spent on Blizzard, he gave all Blizzard employees a 30% increase in salary, which is not a small number, taken together, this is already a very large number, but for this young man, who is also his biggest boss, this money is really not a thing.

Mike personally went to the airport with his assistant to receive Yang Yiwei, Blizzard actually does not have as many employees as other large companies, including more than 2,000 technical personnel who maintain servers and other technical personnel. So the people who can pick up Yang Yiwei are Mike, who are no longer in charge of game development, of course, the company's game testing or something, Mike and others will still be involved.

Blizzard's mission is for everyone to be avid game enthusiasts, and Mike, the company's founder, is no exception. "Hello Mike." got off his own plane, Yang Yiwei saw Mike picking him up at the airport, Yang Yiwei had seen Mike's photo before, so he recognized it directly.

"Hello Mr. Yang." Mike didn't expect Yang Yiwei to come up so directly and take the initiative to greet him first, so he hurriedly stretched out his hand and shook Yang Yiwei's hand, and said quickly.

"Now that we're a family, there's no need to see each other like this, I'm here this time mainly to get to know you, and then there's a job for you to cooperate." Yang Yiwei said with a smile.

Mike was slightly stunned, and then said with some embarrassment: "That Mr. Yang, I heard that when you signed the agreement, your company promised not to make any restrictions on the company's game development and so on. ”

Yang Yiwei laughed twice, and then said: "Mike, you're too worried, I'm not trying to dictate Blizzard's work, but I think I can still make my own suggestions, right?" If this suggestion had been good, you would have taken it, wouldn't you? ”

"Ah, of course, of course, you have the right to make suggestions, after all, the whole Blizzard is yours." Mike said with some embarrassment. Yang Yiwei smiled slightly, although Mike was just over fifty years old, he looked no different from those who engaged in techniques, a little stupid, compared to those people in Fortu, they were simply two extremes.

"Don't worry, I didn't buy it for fun with all that I spent, and it wasn't a whim, and besides, my suggestion can take Blizzard to a new level, don't you want to know about it?" Yang Yiwei sold a pass, looked at Mike with a smile and asked, Yang Yiwei has the intention to tease this middle-aged man who is extremely crazy and loves games, although Mike's age is even about the same age as Yang Yiwei's father, but in terms of hobbies for games, the two sides have countless things in common.

"Can Mr. Yang talk about this?" Sure enough, Mike couldn't help it.

"Ha Luha, I'll tell you when it's time to visit the company in a while." Yang Yiwei said with a smile.

It's a two-hour drive from the airport to Blizzard's company, but once you leave San Francisco, you can barely see many cars on the road and speed up a lot. Yang Yiwei didn't know if what Xiaoxi's eyes saw was the same as what people's eyes saw, but along the way, Xiaoxi looked at the surrounding scenery with great curiosity, like a child who had never been out of the house.

Blizzard's headquarters is not as big as imagined, but the arrival of Yang Yiwei and his party has attracted the attention of many people, Mike has told everyone before, and the new boss of the company will come here today. Seeing Yang Yiwei's age, many of the technical personnel inside had indescribable expressions on their faces.

At the same time of visiting, Yang Yiwei was also chatting with these developers, at first everyone was still a little restrained, but Yang Yiwei's age was there, and soon everyone chatted and directly forgot about this estrangement, and also forgot that Yang Yiwei was their biggest boss, and they were all chatting with great interest.

Xiao Xi didn't speak, just followed behind Yang Yiwei and looked at everything around curiously, although she attracted the attention of many otaku, but Xiao Xi was not interested in humans, and it was not human. After visiting several important game R&D departments of Blizzard Entertainment, Xiaoxi's voice sounded in Yang Yiwei's head: "The equipment here can't be compared with me at all, just this art and rendering, as well as this game engine, does it take so long to develop?" And the balance of the game, with such a little workload, I can completely calculate it in an hour, and it is guaranteed to be more effective than a hundred times of their internal testing. ”

Yang Yiwei believed this, and after listening to Xiaoxi's words, Yang Yiwei also smiled and said to Mike: "Well, the hardware conditions here are not very good." Mike was directly choked by Yang Yiwei's words, in fact, Blizzard's hardware conditions can also be said to be the top in the world, after all, Blizzard's status in Vivendi is not low, so a large part of the annual profit is used to update hardware.

I dare not say that the hardware conditions here are the best among all the companies in the world, but among the game companies in the world, Blizzard's hardware conditions are definitely one of the top, but now Yang Yiwei said that the hardware conditions are not very good. "Have you seen our company's latest internal announcement?" Yang Yiwei looked at Mike with a smile and asked.

"Uh...... I haven't paid attention to this. Mike said honestly, after all, he was only notified more than ten days ago that Vivendi intended to sell Blizzard Entertainment, and he was busy with Activision Blizzard's spin-off work during this time, so how could he have time to pay attention to himself.

"Well, let me tell you, our company's largest and most advanced supercomputer in the world has been put into operation, if you test the game balance, as well as calculate damage, etc., you can directly use the company's supercomputer, in terms of supercomputers, even IBM does not dare to compare with our company." Yang Yiwei had a strong self-confidence when he said this.

Mike and the others were stunned, but their faces also showed joy, although Blizzard's hardware is very good, but compared with supercomputers, it is naturally incomparable. But everything that can be called a supercomputer costs more than a billion dollars, and the computing power is beyond doubt. (To be continued.) )