Chapter 506 Player's Welfare (Part I)

When Yang Yiwei arrived in Redmond City near Seattle City, Crab and the others had already begun to contact the agents of the Warcraft World in the World Continent with great interest, and they were going to unify the clients of the World of Warcraft.

Steve. Ballmer, although he and the president of Nokia are the same name, and both have worked at Microsoft, but the two are completely different types of people, Ballmer is the kind of person who is more passionate, although he is not young, but when he speaks within the company, it is easy to get excited, and when he is excited, he is used to emphasizing everything three times, it can be said that this person has an irrepressible surging power when speaking, like a young man.

I remember that Yang Yiwei once talked about Ballmer as a finance teacher in college, and once said that if Ballmer is engaged in sales, he will definitely be the best sales talent. When Yang Yiwei's plane landed in Seattle, he saw the Microsoft CEO who has been with Microsoft for 33 years.

A somewhat balding white old man with only a ring of blonde hair around the periphery, a pair of glasses, and a slight amount of hair. "Ha Luha, Mr. Yang, welcome to Microsoft." As soon as Yang Yiwei got off the plane, Ballmer laughed twice, and then came up very enthusiastically and gave Yang Yiwei a hug.

Yang Yiwei touched his nose, stretched out his hand and hugged Ballmer, and then said with a smile: "Mr. Ballmer, I didn't expect you to pick it up in person." ”

Ballmer let go of Yang Yiwei and said quickly: "Of course, I heard you call and say that it is possible to speed up the progress of the things that we have discussed between us." This is something that the entire Microsoft board of directors takes very seriously. "Can you not pay attention to it? The market for home consoles is at least 10 billion dollars in the world! Now it has always been a three-point world, Sony, Nintendo, Microsoft, and the other two are Japanese manufacturers, which have the natural advantage of cooperation.

So it's not easy for Microsoft to maintain the current situation, although it seems that the market is not large, about 10 billion dollars a year, but don't forget, the most important thing to sell this game console is not the sales machine. Instead, sell the game in the machine! How big is the software market in iPhones? And Microsoft's current situation is almost the result of malicious marketing at the beginning, the first generation of X-box, almost every time it sells a unit, Microsoft has to lose more than 100 dollars.

Losses in this area amount to $1 billion a year, but even so. Microsoft is still happy to do it, how similar is this to the promotion window when Microsoft was not afraid of piracy madness? To put it bluntly, it is to grab users. As long as you grab the user. It's easy to say anything.

"Let me introduce, this is Xu Zhennan, CEO of Starfall Group, so I don't need to introduce him, right?" Yang Yiwei introduced Xu Zhennan to Ballmer, and then pointed to Steve who was standing on the other side and said.

Ballmer shook hands with Xu Zhennan and said hello, and then smiled and hugged Steve: "Of course not." In fact, we've been in touch before, haven't we? After a short chat at the airport, everyone got on the bus that Microsoft came to pick up people, because Yang Yiwei brought more people this time, and Xu Zhennan and Steve directly brought the negotiation team when they came over. Therefore, the number of people this time is not easy to pick up by ordinary cars, so Yang Yiwei and them were directly picked up by bus.

"The outside world still doesn't know about this incident, right?" Yang Yiwei has a deep understanding of the degree of bullshitness of the American media, so Ballmer's visit to the airport this time may also be known by the media.

"There may be some news from the media, but I don't know who we pick up, but I'm afraid we will know tomorrow." When saying this, Ballmer also pointed out the window, the huge Boeing 747 special plane that was parked on a tarmac according to the instructions of the airport, although it was Yang Yiwei's special plane, but Yang Yiwei was from the Starfall Group, and the huge 747 fuselage was painted with the logo of the Starfall Group, and the entire airport near this side saw it, not to mention the media.

Yang Yiwei touched his nose, even if his own plane landed at some airports in China, it is difficult to attract the attention of the media, but it is different in the United States, where the sensitivity of these media to the news is many times higher than that of the unknown road in China. So Ballmer's words are not wrong, but this doesn't matter, anyway, after negotiations with Microsoft, sooner or later it will be announced to the public, as for what the media guesses, let them guess.

"Mr. Yang, I don't know why your company has suddenly accelerated its progress?" Ballmer looked at Yang Yiwei and asked. "Hehe, in fact, we have made great progress in the research of computer servers, the previous data exchange all relied on satellite servers in the air, but now our ground data center has been put into use, and the data transmitted by satellite can be transmitted through the ground data center, so the communication resources are enough."

Yang Yiwei explained with a smile, and at the same time told Ballmer from the side that he told Bill Gates at that time that it was okay, and Microsoft would be responsible for the satellite launch, so don't talk about it, our satellites are now enough to use. Ballmer naturally heard this kind of extraneous sound, but he didn't say anything with a smile, the tone of the negotiations between the two sides is still there, and as for the price, it can still be discussed!

"So our cooperation will start soon?" Ballmer's eyes began to glow.

"Well, it should be soon, a month at most." Yang Yiwei probably thought about it, the continents that Xiaoxi said could cover are actually the main sales places for Microsoft's game consoles, and as for the remaining states, it will be an extra month at most, which is completely acceptable.

When they arrived at Microsoft's headquarters, Yang Yiwei and others naturally visited Microsoft's headquarters first, as the most stable in the world, and it can also be said that Microsoft, which has always been the leader in the software industry, is naturally worth visiting. This is Yang Yiwei's first time coming to Microsoft, although the acquired Nokia, which is now Xingnuo Communications, has always cooperated with Microsoft, but Yang Yiwei has never come.

After visiting Microsoft, at the dinner, Yang Yiwei and their table were almost the top management of the two companies, and everyone else sat at the other table, who said that only Chinese people talk about things at the wine table, although foreigners are relatively few in this regard, but talking about business during dinner is definitely not a domestic patent.

"I heard that Mr. Yang was in California before?" After the meal, Ballmer looked at Yang Yiwei and asked tentatively.

"Yes." Yang Yiwei smiled slightly and nodded.

"Because of Blizzard?" The conversation at the old Rockefeller's birthday party has also spread in the upper circles of the United States, although many people say that Yang Yiwei is a nouveau riche, but in fact, they are very envious of Vivendi, who doesn't want Yang Yiwei to be a little more upstart? If Yang Yiwei took care of their business, it is estimated that they would shout wildly and let the nouveau riche come more violently.

Of course, these people are also very touched by Yang Yiwei's behavior that day, everyone is rich, right? But it is estimated that Yang Yiwei is the only one who dares to play with money like this. Could it be that this is also the vitality of young people? So it's not surprising that Ball knows about Blizzard, although there is no specific thing, but this circle is very small, and the price offered by Yang Yiwei is enough for the shareholders of Vivendi Group to be moved, and the value of Blizzard Entertainment is worth about half of it at most, that is, about $1.7 billion.

And the remaining billion dollars, how many years does Blizzard need to sell games to make this kind of net profit? What's more, isn't Blizzard a game company in this world? And in this world, there is not only the game industry, most of the shareholders of Vivendi are investment companies, and for investment companies, what makes money they invest in, regardless of whether the industry has a prospect or not.

"Yes. I've already acquired Blizzard, and in a little over a month, there will be a major improvement in Blizzard's World of Warcraft, and it may even affect the development of future Blizzard games. Of course, I'm very bullish on the gaming industry in the world. Yang Yiwei said with a smile.

In fact, the game industry in the whole world is definitely a huge cake every year, not to mention the cost of Yang Yiwei...... It can be said that there is no cost at all, but what can be said about energy? Anyway, no one cares about the minerals in the depths of the seabed, in fact, no one has the ability to take care of them, they are almost mined for nothing, and the cost of energy is naturally negligible, so the cost of operating this game is pitiful.

After the Titan comes out in the future, if Yang Yiwei is willing, he doesn't even need an agency company, just run it himself, of course, in order to avoid the joint opposition of the whole world's countries, the agency company still needs it, such a big profit, don't tax people, this is not from people's pockets, no government of any country will be willing.

What Yang Yiwei said is very similar to Microsoft's current strategy, isn't X-BOX based on this? "So that's the case, then look forward to us have better development in other aspects, about the cooperation between us, I don't know if the company has tested it, whether your wireless network can be supported." Ballmer only brushed the subject on the subject, and quickly got straight to the point.

The cooperation with Microsoft,And the cooperation that Blizzard will carry out is not quite the same,The game on X-box,Although Microsoft was supposed to allow players in the whole world to connect to the game,But in fact, it's a multiplayer game like Call of Duty and other games.,Each room is limited.,Up to 32 people in a room.。

Although many players are in a huge lobby server, in fact, there are still so many people playing in a room, and the pressure on the server is very small, and ordinary servers can be satisfied, just Microsoft's current server, and the server provided by Microsoft is actually just a game for players in the world to exchange data.

It's like when we hit CS in a combo, just a console is enough, and it doesn't need the game publisher's server, it's nothing more than the interconnection between the networks. (To be continued.) )