In California, USA, in the office of the president of Blizzard's corporate headquarters, McMohan is immersed in corporate affairs.

"Mr. McMohan."

A fiery secretary knocked on the door of Blizzard's president's office, "Mr. Li from Huaxia has arrived in California." ”

"It's already there?" McMohan was surprised, "So fast?" ”

"Looks like our little friends can't wait."

He laughed, just a little gloomy.

At the beginning of the year, Blizzard was preparing to enter the world online game market, that is, the source code leak of "World of Warcraft", and the entire Blizzard was overshadowed.

You know, Blizzard's entry into the online game market is divided internally.

Some people think that Blizzard should focus on the stand-alone market, and only by focusing can they reach the top, so they are very optimistic about Blizzard's entry into the online game market, and even hinder it in every way, after all, Blizzard has not been involved in online games before, and no one knows if it can succeed.

It's okay if it succeeds, but if it doesn't, Blizzard's signboard will be smashed.

However, McMohan is very optimistic about the online game market, and he believes that the online game market still has a lot of potential to be tapped, so he overcame public opinion and launched the World of Warcraft project.

Rao is so, and there are many people who are dissatisfied internally.

As a result, during the closed beta of "World of Warcraft", the source code leak broke out, and a fierce conflict broke out within the entire company.

"Let's hope his presence will make a difference!"

Half an hour later, Li Lin and Qi Xiangdong walked into McMohan's office together. In his office, negotiators were already prepared.

"Mr. Lee, welcome to Blizzard." McMohan stood up to welcome.

"President McMohan. I've come to you as promised. Li Lin said with a smile: "Your company's "World of Warcraft" has entered the internal beta, I think you Blizzard should choose Huaxia's agent." ”

"Actually, yes." McMohan said unhurriedly: "Many game companies in China are eager to represent our World of Warcraft, but because of you, we are still hesitating. ”

"My friend, I hope you can surprise me."

"President McMohan, I'm honored." Li Lin had expected McMohan to say this, and he nodded to the east. Let him give his agency plan to President McMohan.

He remembered that at this time, there were indeed Huaxia game companies that sent proxy requests to Blizzard, after all, Blizzard has a great reputation in the stand-alone game industry. Out of Diablo and Warcraft.

Coupled with the legend's super ability to absorb gold, many people are impetuous and eager to represent a game like a legend, but even so. The conditions offered by Huaxia Company have just exceeded 10 million US dollars.

And this condition does not satisfy Blizzard. So it dragged on until 05 years, Jiucheng signed the agency of World of Warcraft for 4 years with a signing fee of 17 million plus a 2% share, and finally lost the agency of "World of Warcraft" in 09, the reason is that NetEase saw that "World of Warcraft" made money, so it cut off Jiucheng.

He is now acting as an agent, so naturally he can't make the same mistakes as Jiucheng.

"$51 million to sign a 10-year contract with World of Warcraft? Version requirements and international synchronization? Only give us a 10% share? Mr. Lee, I beg your forgiveness for not being able to agree to your representation. McMohan put down the proxy scheme. said: "One percent of the share is too little. ”

"And 10 years is too long, and it is not in line with international practice."

Internationally. Acting for a game is generally 3 years, 4 years or 5 years, rarely more than 5 years, a short time for online games to emerge, its predecessors are not very long, 5 years is already the limit, 10 years is too risky, after all, no one can guarantee that a game can be popular for 10 years.

As for the signing fee, he is satisfied.

He believes that with this signing money, the entire Blizzard will have no objection to the ability of "World of Warcraft" to attract money - the game has recovered more than half of the cost before the open beta, what is there to be dissatisfied with?

"How long has it been since online games were born? Is there an international practice? Li Lin smiled lightly, "It's not 10 years, it's 4 years, 17 million US dollars to sign "World of Warcraft" for 4 years, so it's okay!" ”

McMohan glanced at Li Lin, not sure whether Li Lin was optimistic or not?

If you are not optimistic, why sign for 10 years? Why would the optimistic give up? Is it playing psychological tactics or what? McMohan wasn't sure.

Huaxia's policy restrictions determine that it is impossible for Blizzard to enter Huaxia on its own, so it is the right way to choose a game company with the best conditions from game companies with agency intentions.

And now, Li Lin is the highest bidder.

After winning the conditions again, McMohan's face was cloudy, he carefully considered the conditions given by Li Lin, and looked for Li Lin's attitude in them-his confidence in "World of Warcraft" and the psychological price.

Call!

McMohan exhaled and rubbed his temples slightly, "Mr. Li, the conditions you gave are very good, I want to ask if you represent World of Warcraft, how you will operate." ”

"Point card." Li Lin replied without hesitation.

In his previous life, World of Warcraft was a point card system, and the point card system also made Jiucheng and NetEase make enough money, so he was not ready to try the free system, although the later market proved that free games are attractive to players.

Comparing DNF's 2.3 million gamers to World of Warcraft's millions, it has been confirmed which method is more popular with players.

But Li Lin didn't dare to guarantee whether "World of Warcraft" would still be brilliant after changing the mode of operation, although this probability was very low.

Of course, the biggest reason is no longer here, the real reason is that "World of Warcraft" is a game that operates globally, and when other countries adopt the point card system, Huaxia's servers adopt the method of free games, which is a catastrophic blow to foreign servers.

He promised that if he dared to say it was free, McMohan would dare to refuse his agency.

"Very well, congratulations, you've got the agency rights to World of Warcraft, well, ten years." McMohan gently hugged Li Lin, "You have brought me some good news. ”

"What's the good news?" Li Lin was puzzled for a moment.

"Haven't you been following U.S. news lately?" McMohan laughed, "The source code of our game at Blizzard has been leaked, but this does not affect the operation of World of Warcraft, and no one can remake World of Warcraft with these source codes, I promise." ”

Source code leak?

Li Lin was stunned for a moment, and then reacted.

He remembered that in his previous life, the source code of World of Warcraft had indeed been leaked, and many news stories had speculated that it was the work of a hostile commercial company, and that the finger was directed at EA.

However, the leak of the source code of "World of Warcraft" did not have much impact on "World of Warcraft", and China's World of Warcraft private server and legendary private server are not at the same level at all.

The legendary private server is popular, and the private server is forced to kill the official, while the World of Warcraft private server is half dead.

"If you want good news, I think I should be able to give you another one." Li Lin smiled, he casually took the text handed over by Qi Xiangdong and gave it to McMohan.

"President McMohan, I heard that you Blizzard are developing an online version of Warcraft, I don't know if I can act as an agent."

Historically, the online version of Warcraft should be Dota .

Dota is a third-party map developed by a private team, which was once popular in China, LOL League of Legends is similar to Dota in terms of mode, and he relies on the power of Tencent to directly beat Dota to the ground.

It's like CF and CS.

However, there is no QQ in this time and space, only YY, and YY has not yet entered the game market, without such a giant, Li Lin believes that the online version of Warcraft developed by Blizzard will be very popular, even if it can't reach the height of LOL, it must at least reach the point of dota in the previous life.

He didn't believe that the official online version of Warcraft would not be as good as the Dota developed by a private team.

"It's just been developed, and you're going to act as an agent?" McMohan was surprised.

The online version of Warcraft is inspired by Li Lin, although the time is still short, but after all, it is only on the basis of Warcraft to develop new features, which is very easy, if it weren't for most of the Blizzard team to develop "World of Warcraft", the online version of Warcraft would have been operating a long time ago.

Of course, there is also Blizzard's desire to be perfect in it.

"I believe in Blizzard, and I believe in Warcraft." Li Lin said with a smile.

McMohan smiled when he heard this, he took Li Lin's agency conditions, glanced at it, and found that this agency was decent, with a five-year signing fee of $17 million, and a 10% share per year.

Compared to the excellent "World of Warcraft", this condition is obviously not enough attention, but for McMohan, this is already very good.

Because the development of the online version of World of Warcraft does not cost $17 million, they have already earned it.

"Li Lin." McMohan laughed, "Your two agency contracts can be said to have solved my urgent needs, and I believe that these two contracts are thrown to the board, and no one will have any objections to our Blizzard developing online games anymore." ”

"It's a win-win situation." Li Lin also laughed, "Blizzard's reputation and attitude, and our operation, I believe that World of Warcraft and the online version of Warcraft will become popular." ”

"By the way, what is the name of the online version of Warcraft, you can't always call it the online version, so it's easy to give gamers a disrespectful attitude."

McMohan thought for a moment and said, "There are many heroes in Warcraft, let's call it League of Legends, LeagueofLegends!" ”

“LOL。” Li Lin's heart moved, and he apologized to the League of Legends in his heart, "LOL we occupy it, you can change your name yourself!" (To be continued......)