Chapter 486: Dragon Teng can't mess with Ubisoft
Ubisoft, in real history, has "Assassin's Creed", "Prince of Persia", "Splinter Cell", "Rainbow Six", "Watch Dogs" and other well-known games, the world's third largest game producer and publisher, with more than 5,000 developers, founded research and development companies in more than 10 countries and regions, and has developed rapidly in the field of Hollywood movie special effects, with the number of games published by it exceeding 100 million and countless honors......
Although many of Ubisoft's masterpieces were made after 2000, but you can't let your guard down because of this, Yang Yun sat up straight, his expression was solemn, he definitely didn't dare to underestimate this company, the emergence of Dragon Teng has changed the game industry all over the world, maybe Ubisoft has also undergone great changes!
"What are the details of Ubisoft's listing?" Yang Yun asked, he had a general understanding, and vaguely remembered that Ubisoft had a very bleak life at the end of the 90s, no money, no people, no games, and he had been forbearing, which was a typical example of the kind of thin accumulation and thick hair, and it was out of control after the outbreak, similar to Nvidia in the graphics card field.
Xiao Liangyu sent two copies of the prospectus, the French version of the prospectus of Ubisoft Software, followed by the Chinese notes, Yang Yun looked at it, these are two slightly different listing application documents.
"Ubisoft originally intended to raise funds and list on the Paris Second Board market, and last year the Paris Stock Exchange founded a wholly-owned independent company, Nouveau-Marche, known in Chinese as the French emerging securities market, which was officially opened to trading in January this year, and Ubisoft was one of the first five companies." Xiao Liangyu introduced, explaining in as simple and easy-to-understand words as possible.
"The Paris second board market is a supplementary institution independent of the main board market, and the entry threshold is very low, and the total capital of Ubisoft's first prospectus is only 25 million when converted into US dollars."
Yang Yun raised his head: "So low? One of our games has sold more than $25 million, so Ubisoft can't be that poor, right? They should be tens of millions and hundreds of millions. ”
Xiao Liangyu shook his head: "It's not that Ubisoft is poor, the minimum total assets required for listing on the second board market are 5 million US dollars." With a net asset of 2 million, the market has taken a fancy to the high-growth Ubisoft software company, so Ubisoft has a valuable one in the first batch of 5 places. ”
Yang Yun looked at the first prospectus carefully, he didn't know much about the second board market, but it seemed to be similar to the GEM of China's A-shares.
"This kind of thing. Why didn't Yang Zhan mention it? "Yang Yun is a little displeased, Ubisoft is listed, such a good opportunity, how can Yang Zhan not get involved?
Yang Zhan is such a powerful financial expert, an ace trader in the stock market. There's no reason to give up on swallowing Ubisoft!
Yang Yun had ordered it many years ago, and Ubisoft Software should keep an eye on it. Because he took advantage of the collapse of the USSR to personally go to Moscow to dig up the employees of 1C. At that time, it passed a move quietly with Ubisoft, the office software project department of the 1C company was acquired by Ubisoft, and the game department belonged to Longteng, and the two divided 1C, at that time Yang Yun found that this competitor was not easy to mess with.
Xiao Liangyu explained: "Yang Zhan has been involved from the beginning, but the actual situation is too complicated. He went to Germany yesterday with two lawyers, saying that he was planning to ask for an explanation from two other stock markets. If Ubisoft had initially been listed on the second board, things would have been less complicated, and we would have taken the opportunity to fish in troubled waters to get some of the equity. But the problem lies with the French exchange. ”
According to the second prospectus, Ubisoft submitted a listing plan directly to the main board of the French exchange, skipping the second board and directly entering the main board, and the total capital soared from $25 million to $300 million!
$300 million in total assets is absolutely impossible to reach, and Ubisoft doesn't have that much money, so they brought in predator investors, Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, The Walt Disney Company, and UBS Warburg, which was just formed this year.
"I'll go ......" Seeing this equity description, Yang Yun was completely speechless.
Ubisoft is 30% owned by the Lawrence Gilmot family, 15% by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, 15% by Disney, 10% by Swiss Bank, and the remainder by outstanding shares in the stock exchange market.
Warner Bros., can't be messed with......
Disney, can't be messed with......
Swiss banks, Yang Yun is still their big customer, and they can't afford to mess with ......
With the support of these capital predators, they have covered all the funding gaps of Ubisoft Software, and in the fields of bank investment, film, television, broadcasting, entertainment, music, games, etc., in the fields of virtual games and physical games, Ubisoft has got enough chips, no wonder Yang Zhan was frustrated and couldn't get involved at all.
Warner Bros. has a large number of businesses that duplicate with Longteng, although in movies, animation, music, and games, Longteng does not scare each other, but Longteng can't beat each other, Warner's other business scope is too huge, far from Longteng, a professional game production company, can confront each other.
Disney is the same, Disney games, Disney movies, Disney online and offline have become the pinnacle of the industry, industry standards, the object of imitation by others, even the sales team of Longteng's game peripherals are dug from Disney, all the routines are imitations of Disney's sales plan, how dare this apprentice argue with the master?
As for UBS...... Speechless, speechless, Yang Yun almost raised the white flag and admitted defeat, no one to fight, don't fight with the bank, people have nothing, only money!
"Let Yang Zhan come back, no matter how much you protest, it's fuit, we're fighting against the capital predators, and we can't play with others. If it really provokes the other party, it will not be good for us in other aspects. Yang Yun quickly made a decision, and since it was impossible to try to participate in or even control Ubisoft, there was only one way to go.
"Hit! Who are we afraid of, the last thing Longteng is afraid of is competition! ”
"That is, we have dozens of games above the Silver Palace, how many does Ubisoft have? Do they have a total of 10 games produced and released? ”
"Mr. Yang, playing a Sony is a fight, playing the second EA is also a fight, and by the way, bringing the third Ubisoft, it's not a difficult thing, right?"
"Hahahaha......"
A group of Chinese all laughed, Mandarin spoke fast and slippery, in Yang Yun's declaration full of war spirit, the atmosphere on the scene was warm, so that the old Mao Zi Tuzolev and the big-nosed Pete were dumbfounded, how did these Chinese suddenly change from a state of sad faces to fighting spirit, talking and laughing?
Regaining confidence again, Yang Yun asked Zhang Guoqiang to send out several materials he had prepared, starting with "Special Forces".
"Special Forces" is an FPS, a first-person shooter game, I believe everyone is familiar with it, IDSoft has developed "Doom" before, and the sales have been good, and the response has been particularly good. We are not following the trend, any powerful large-scale game production company will not give up this genre lightly, and Longteng is no exception. ”
Yang Yun asked everyone to turn to the fourth page, which was a simple map drawn by Xiang Tian, and the successive pages were warehouses, barracks, train unloading yards, research institutes, Gobi Desert towns, etc., explaining: "In addition to anti-terrorism military tasks, special forces also have anti-riot and public security requirements, so we selected 8 typical locations. ”
FPS games are not too difficult technically, with the current technical level of Longteng, the "Stereo No. 4" engine is very mature, Laura in "Tomb Raider" is first-person when she changes her perspective, and "Thief" also has a lot of shooting action, so this is not a problem.
"I want Pete to be in charge of this project, do you have any questions? If there is no objection, it is decided! Pete chooses his own people, anyone can do it, even if he has other projects in hand, all of them are stopped or handed over, and the priority system is "Special Forces"! Yang Yun looked around and looked into everyone's eyes.
Pete was the most stunned, there were so many Chinese here, Yang Yun would choose him, which made him surprised and a little excited.
Hu Jun is the person in charge, of course he will not compete with Pete for this position, Tuzorev is very envious, Xiao Qing thought that Yang Yun would hand over the important task to Zhang Guoqiang, but everyone will not oppose it openly, the most is envious that Pete can be valued by Yang Yun and entrusted with important tasks.
And Zhang Guoqiang looked at Pete with a strange face, only he knew a little reason and secret, and he would not envy the fact that Pete took the heavy responsibility.
"Mr. Yang, I want to ask, how long is the R&D cycle of the game project?" After confirming that he was in charge, Pete asked excitedly, he hoped that he could lead the team and make a game with platinum palace sales!
"30 days!" Yang Yun replied with a smile.
Burst......
laughed at a group of people, Zhang Guoqiang only knew that Yang Yun was in a hurry, but he didn't expect it to be a fatal request like 30 days!
And Hu Jun and Xiao Qing were unprepared, and a little envy was also knocked out of the clouds by the word 30 days, and now they are no longer envious, but that kind of kind ridicule, wanting to see Pete make a fool of himself.
Tuzolev laughed the most exaggeratedly, pounding the table, patting Pete on the shoulder, opening his mouth wide and making a few haha, his face was red from his own saliva.
Pete's face was full of astonishment, a hundred times more stunned than before, his eyes widened, and he gasped and leaned back in his chair, barely believing his ears.
"Mr. Yang, project establishment, architecture, find a screenwriter to design the plot, subcontract to the programmer, let the artist make the map, code, test, modify, it will take at least 3 months!" Pete was a little discouraged and very puzzled, and there was a slight sense of grievance in his words.
Yang Yun knew in his heart that anyone who heard this request, his first reaction was impossible, he explained: "I know, the Dragon game is definitely not so shoddy, but now, the game plot is all suspended, we only do game online battles, and launch it as quickly as possible!" 40 days, plus testing and modification for a total of 40 days, can't it be more, can you do it? (To be continued......)