Chapter 536: The time for the first WCG competition has been set
Robert looked at Kutaragi Ken, trying to find the weakness in the other person's eyes, but in addition to banter, pride, and victory, he also saw greed, and a high-minded posture.
Kutaragi Ken is a smart man, Sony's TV console competitive games are very few, and they don't have a plan to march into PC games for the time being, he knows what EA is bad about, and he can also provide these helps, provided that the price paid by EA can impress him, like "pay to be a sponsor" or something rotten advice he doesn't want to listen to, he wants real money dry goods.
The two tacitly stood up at the same time, walked out of the room, and came to the next small room to close the door and discuss, they were the protagonists in this competition.
"The CPL alliance will operate as a company, and I promised to leave 10% of the shares to MuΓ±oz, with the remaining EA 60% and Sony 30%, with additional investments and dividends based on shares."
"Hah! Since the additional investment and dividends according to the shares, Sony must account for at least 51%, otherwise I can set up a new form of alliance by myself, why rely on a CPL alliance? Isn't it just to expand the scale of the Sony Game Annual Conference into the scope of the whole world? β
"President Kutaragi, this is impossible, Sony is up to 35%, EA must have absolute control! When it comes to global publicity and scale expansion, our team is the most efficient! β
"Tsk, big talk, right? Sony is also a global multinational company! We have to pay for it again, we have to do things, and we only take such a little, and this condition does not impress me. β
ββ¦β¦ 40%, that's my bottom line! And the CPL in the first year is very important, and it is likely to get into a fierce battle with the WCG. We'll revisit the cooperation in a year's time! β
"Good, President Robert. It's up to you to convince the others, and I'm waiting for good news! β
As EA considers the huge customer base that leverages Sony's Nintendo platform. Isn't Ken Kutaragi planning to take the opportunity to promote Sony games to the world through CPL? The greater the right to speak, the more small interest groups he can tie up around him, and as for those investments and funds, he doesn't care at all, naturally someone will pay for them.
It's just that a loose alliance with no strong binding force, multiple members with their own small calculations, the leader who has no choice but to fight against the water, and the second shareholder who is ambitious. Moreover, the validity period of the temporary alliance is only one year, and the combat effectiveness of such an organization can be imagined, and it will certainly not be too high.
That is, in the front and back, the day before and the day after the day, the news of the establishment of WCG and CPL was announced to the whole world almost at the same time, the same organizational nature, similar competitions, and they belong to the two rival camps of Longteng and Sony, which makes the game industry smell an unusual smell.
Looking at the faxed "World Computer News" CPL-related news. Yang Yun laughed dumbly.
It's really-for-tat, the tip of the needle is against Maimang!
Obviously, they all mean the same thing, they are all vigorously promoting competitive games, hoping to popularize e-sports as a sport to the whole world. CPL has to put it another way, saying that "I hope to popularize game software as soon as possible in the era of rapid computer development." Promote the development of the IT software industry", as if this is the only way to prove that it is original. It's a complete practice of covering your ears and stealing the bell.
Look at the games, Red Alert and Command & Conquer. Isn't this the battle between Li Ghost and Li Kui?
However, Yang Yun is a little proud, although this Li Ghost is an imitation of Ximutou's "Command and Conquer", but its influence is definitely more than a positive coefficient multiplier, and then he repackaged it with the background of the Saloman Snake series, and the remodeled "Red Alert" only has a similar game interface to "Command and Conquer", but the two games are listed almost at the same time, who dares to say who copied whom?
Let's take a look at the improved version of "Delta Special Forces", this is originally a game from 1998, in the case that the hardware and technology are not very mature now, compared with "Thor's Hammer 1", which has been making shooting games, the only advantage may be the online system and the 3D game engine physics system, you must know that the "Thor's Hammer" series has always been a frequent visitor in the real world e-sports competitions, and the survival time of "Delta Special Forces" is far less than that of "Thor's Hammer".
Football and basketball competitions, in all fairness, are still a bit niche, and now is an opportunity to play brand promotion, and after Blizzard's several classic real-time strategy games are launched, these sports competitive games will gradually lose attention.
Of course, as long as EA does not go bankrupt, these two games will not be removed from WCG by Yang Yun, and maybe there will be an increase in the competitive game of rugby and baseball.
In contrast to WCG's performance program, CPL has also created a dedicated section for sponsored games, which has added star games from Sony and Nintendo's camps, such as "Ridge Racer", "Super Smash Bros., and Fist of the Dragon and Tiger".
"It looks like you're just that, it's all about making a remake of my WCG!" Yang Yun smiled, although he was still a little worried about the game, but in terms of marketing, he really felt that it was really a wise choice to design the battle version of "Red Alert" and "Special Forces" before.
The $10 "Saloman: Red Alert", compared with EA's $80 "Command & Conquer", coupled with the good reputation of "Dragon Teng's production must be a high-quality product", you don't need to think about who will sell more!
Wang Zhe and Lin Zhihong walked in from outside the door together, talking and laughing, looking relaxed.
Everyone has seen the CPL's countermeasures, and it is obvious that this is the practice of the opponents, and in terms of formulating the rules, the actions of the EA side not to be outdone make people feel funny.
"Okay! Do you see it? What do you think? Yang Yun smiled.
Wang Zhe smiled: "It's okay, let them follow, let's just run away with them, see who is dragged to death, let them know the way, it's not so easy to be a fart." β
Lin Zhihong came over and said with a smile: "Mr. Yang, is the game baby ready to start the global audition?" β
Yang Yun glared at him: "You only thought of game babies?" Do you know that the official website of the company has been produced? When the official website is launched, and the audition is announced in the middle of the homepage, you still have two weeks to prepare. Let's play something else, let's try EA their bottom line and see if they really plan to be a follower all the time. β
Wang Zhe's eyes lit up, and he raised his hand and rubbed it: "Start the global publicity plan and accept the registration of private clubs?" β
Yang Yun nodded: "That's right!" Until an agreement is reached with each country's government, we can only host WCG in the name of the club. As long as the relevant authorities of each country agree to this private competition system and allow each club to represent the country, we will upgrade it to a national honor competition. Isn't CPL willing to follow? Let them follow and see if they get tired! β
Several people laughed, there are many more of Longteng's back moves, the rules of the game can be modified at any time, some new regulations can also be formulated at any time, if there is any different innovation in the CPL, they can go, anyway, Yang Yun is confident, the WCG in real history is killed from the blood, history has proved its correctness and authority, according to it, it is absolutely right.
Two weeks later, the official website of China Longteng Entertainment Game Company was officially launched, the domain name is www/Long/com, officially open to the entire Internet, the main server is set in the United States, and there are two standby servers in Paris, France and Shanghai, China, which are connected to the local communication backbone network, and netizens from all over the world will be automatically assigned to the fastest one when visiting.
The page is very simple,1996The Internet and IE browsers do not support complex multimedia data streams,A 56K modem is best to watch the information brought by the text,So the homepage of the official website of Longteng is basically text messages,The limited plate distinction is also with the ICO format pictures approved by the browser,Monochrome task columns are large paragraphs of text newsγ
In Yang Yun's view, the design of this official website is so rustic, even the website design homework he did in his junior year is not as good, and the specific point is that it is a search page that does not even have a whiteness LOGO icon picture, and then enlarge those columns to the full screen, and then match the text news in segments, and the home page is done.
Well, in 1996, can you still expect the homepage to make flowers, Yahoo's pages are very simple, Yang Yun shook his head and approved the first edition, but decided to revise it once a year in the future, which is very necessary.
Looking at the headlines on the Longteng homepage, the WCG Global E-sports Competition Organizing Committee issued a statement that from now on, it will start accepting registration from e-sports clubs all over the world, and 15 countries around the world have Longteng's contact personnel, and will continue to expand its outlets.
The first WCG competition is scheduled to start on June 1, 1997, International Children's Day, the preliminary round is responsible for the organizing committee of each competition area, and the final will be held in Shanghai, China.
After all, the Internet is still a luxury, and although the official website is online, there are too few people who have the conditions to access the Internet.
A number of powerful media have taken the initiative to contact Longteng and began to bombard WCG, CCTV, Japan's NHK, Asahi Shimbun, Merck Multi News Group, British Pearson Group, Yahoo, every media has got Longteng's promotional video, and soon asked to shoot a feature film.
Far away on the other side of the world, the CPL alliance, EA is sitting on pins and needles, and they are going to do it again. (To be continued......)