Chapter 188: Did You Give the Money?
Ye Shenxi wandered around the capital for half a month, running five stand-alone game agencies, in addition to Huanyu, there are also CCTV network elements, CLP Boya, Zhiguan Beijing, and Guangpu Information. ~Sui~Dream~Small~Say~щ~Suimеng~lā screened 107 games from these companies that are relatively recent, of good quality and good reputation, and are ready to be distributed on the Qingyu platform.
There are also some rumored companies that have not been seen, Ye Shenxi has not been in contact with the field of stand-alone games for a long time, and only after coming to the capital did he know that such resounding names as Bright Future, Tianren, and Century Sol have disappeared in the cold winter of the stand-alone market in these years.
Of course, there are also some reasons for their own death.
Like Bright Future Technology, many players should have been introduced to foreign games at the beginning, and some classic games of Villefort and Glass Slag were introduced into China by it at the earliest time. The agency agreement reached between Glass Slag and Bright Future is that Glass Slag sells CD-KEYS to Bright Future, and each CD-KEY represents a game license and is also the credential for players to log in to Battle.net, and Bright Future sells CD-KEY to players and then receives a commission.
However, Bright Future did not sell CD-KEY directly to players, but required players to buy the game, and then use the above "Bright Future User Number" to the official website to exchange for the CD-KEY of glass slag, many players did not go online to redeem CD-KEY after buying the game, and they could not play this is secondary, what is even more strange is that Bright Future CD-KEY did not re-purchase from glass slag after it was sold, but directly re-shuffled the previous one, and took it out to sell.
The final result is that I obviously bought the genuine version, and I can't use it yet, because several Bright Future user accounts use the same CD-KEY.
It was this incident that caused the parent company of glass slag Vivendi to question the credibility of Bright Future, and publicly announced that it would no longer provide CD-KEY to Bright Future, and also fined it a huge amount of money.
This hurt the Australian dollar a lot, not only lost the agency of the glass slag game, but also greatly reduced the status in the minds of players, which can be described as a very gain outweighs the loss.
Later, after the fire of "Legend of Blood", Bright Future also embarked on the road of online games, and the first agent of "Open Sky OL" invested a lot of manpower and material resources, but the response to the game was mediocre. On the one hand, the quality of the game itself is average, and the operation experience of Bright Future is also insufficient, unable to deal with many emergencies, and after 4 months of public beta, the game was hastily suspended.
The second "Knife OL", the server that can only accommodate 6,000 people is even more empty, no one cares, and then in 2005, a generation of stand-alone game agency giant Bright Future collapsed.
There are also people like celestials, who also died in the transition to online games. It is worth mentioning that the first game announced to players after the establishment of Celestial 01 was not on the market until the company collapsed, and that game was called "Count of Destruction Forever".
This was the first to cooperate with Japan's Sega, the distributor who published games such as "Sakura War", "VR Agent", "Sonic the Hedgehog", etc., and began to shift its focus from Japanese games to Europe and the United States in 01, and the more representative is the release of "Neverwinter Day".
However, when dealing with localization, the clumsy translation has become a laughing stock for players, and of course, it has not reached the outrageous level of "granny kicking teeth" like the agent of Yingbaoge in Wanwan's "Neverwinter Day".
However, later another RPG, "The Ancient Scrolls", landed in the early days of China, and the Celestials did translate it as "Old Man Scroll", yes, this is true, "The Ancient Scrolls Three Morning Winds" did officially be listed in Chinese mainland, but this translation and "Grandma Kicks Teeth" are also intertwined.
More and more agent products of Tianren exposed the problem of the level of machine translation, and finally it was revealed that Tianren invited the teachers and students of the Beijing Foreign Chinese College to translate the game, which may also be the worst time that the Beijing Foreign Chinese College was hacked.
At that time, the infinite scenery of Tianren represented 60 products in two years, and it was also a stand-alone game agency that was infinitely optimistic at that time, but at the end of 02, they also set their sights on the thriving online game market, and then acted as an agent for "Magic Blade".
The way they represent "Magic Blade" is to burn money.
Huge copyright fees, high-quality servers at all costs, large-scale publicity, and before "Magic Blade" officially entered the charging stage, the celestials were already empty-handed.
In July and August of 03, Tianren laid off employees twice, and until December, they also died under the magic sword of online games.
Relatively speaking, the process of the fall of Century Sol was much more joyful, infringing on his own piracy, and finally being investigated and punished by the Beijing Press and Publication Bureau, and his business license was revoked.
These are all companies that Ye Shenxi wanted to take a look at before, but couldn't see in the end.
During this time, Xia Qingyu's work in Huangpu was also very fruitful, not referring to the cooperative game company, because Huangpu itself is more about online games, a total of 31 products under the three agency companies, of which 20 are medium-cost games imported from overseas, with a certain unique gameplay, Xia Qingyu has also tried it out in person, and I think the quality is not bad.
Her work is mainly based on the progress of the acquisition of JOYTO in South Korea.
From the beginning of May, Qingyu Network submitted for administrative approval, to last week, the domestic approval process was green-lighted, and it took more than a month to complete the procedures that other companies may take three or four months.
The acquisition team set up by Xia Qingyu has now gone to South Korea to conduct the first round of due diligence, and the entire team includes Qingyu's own technical, commercial, legal, financial, and tax personnel, as well as Yiji's professional consultants, and the investment banks, accounting firms, and local law firms they found.
The parties had previously signed a non-disclosure agreement, and JOYTO had already conducted self-due diligence to gather the appropriate information and fully opened their data room to the acquisition team.
The team leader of the herring team to South Korea this time is called Yang Wei, a 32-year-old woman, a returnee doctor, who worked in a partner company in the Midwest of the United States before returning to China, and returned to China to enter Shengda Investment Center as an associate director.
Since last year, the herring network has received a lot of investment intentions from companies, Xia Qingyu all declined, in February this year, Huangpu herring also received investment intentions from Shengda, who was also in Huangpu.
Then Xia Qingyu met their deputy director Yang Wei.
And then ...... Yang Wei came to Qingyu and currently serves as the investment director of the investment department of Qingyu Network.
In the future planning of Ye Xia and the others, Qingyu Network will have frequent mergers and acquisitions around the world, and Yang Wei, who has worked abroad, is really a talent sent by Shengda himself. After joining the Qingyu network in April this year, the acquisition of South Korea's JOYTO is Yang Wei's first time in Qingyu.
It is expected that the first round of due diligence on JOYTO will be completed within a week, and the blue fish network will make an offer based on the results of the survey. Xia Qingyu will then go to South Korea in person to conduct a second round of due diligence before officially entering the negotiation process.
According to the current survey results of JOYTO, Yang Wei's feedback is that the purchase price should be around 18 billion won, which is about 120 million yuan according to the exchange rate in 08.
100% full acquisition, when JOYTO will become a wholly-owned subsidiary of Qingyu Network, and Qingyu Network will become a multinational enterprise.
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The two of them didn't eat and went back to Longhua Pavilion's love nest directly, and then ordered a takeout after finishing their business.
When I walked downstairs, I happened to meet the girl who took the elevator together last time, and Ye Shenxi was still a little impressed, as if her surname was Li. Unlike last time, this girl has two other girls behind her.
Li Yuelin also saw Xia Qingyu and greeted: "Girl herring, are you back?" ”
It seems that the relationship between several people in the past two months has been quite familiar, and the herring girl has been called.
Ye Shenxi suddenly remembered that there was a gambling appointment last time, and he glanced at Xia Qingyu, probably turning his eyes in a circle, glancing in the direction of the four girls who came over, and then returned to Xia Qingyu's side, and then opened his eyes suddenly, and his eyeballs moved sideways and quickly from side to side, and finally closed tightly.
Meaning: What was the result of the last bet? Is this girl a real estate agent or a furniture seller?
This kind of eye contact is extremely testing of the level of tacit understanding between couples.
Of course, Xia Qingyu also understood, so he also gave him a look, squinted, wrinkled his nose, and then smiled smugly.
This is much easier to understand than Ye Shenxi's set, this girl is a real estate agent, and Xia Qingyu won.
"You are Mr. Ye, I still remember you." Li Yuelin looked at Ye Shenxi and said. It's not that she has such a good memory, she usually occasionally meets Xia Qingyu asking questions, and she also knows that her boyfriend works in Funan and can't be seen often.
"Sister Li, you just got off work?" Xia Qingyu asked.
"No, I took the two of them out for a day."
The latter two look like little girls who have just graduated, sharing a house with a long-established elder sister like Li Yuelin, and they are usually taken care of. The two also said hello to Xia Qingyu, and then pointed at Ye Shenxi with a smile, they hadn't seen it.
"My boyfriend, Ye Shenxi. This is Li Yuelin, Sister Li, you saw it last time; Zhan Ping, Xiao Zhan, and Luo Xiaomin, Xiao Luo. Xia Qingyu introduced them one by one.
In fact, Xia Qingyu has just graduated for a year, but in terms of temperament, he can't see the similarity with Xiaoqiu Xiaoguan at all.
"You didn't call me when you secretly went to eat something good." Xia Qingyu was joking, but Ye Shenxi could see that she was getting along well with these girls.
"We went to call you, there was no one in the house, it turned out that you went to meet your boyfriend." Zhan Ping said with a smile.
"What about Liu Jing? Didn't go with you? ”
"She's working overtime, she's going to see clients. They are also in this business, they see customers every day, and when they come back after drinking, they vomit up and down, and we have to take care of her. Li Yuelin sighed.
"So you're going out for a day today?"
"We're going to watch the game in the afternoon." Luo Xiaomin said.
"What game?" Xia Qingyu didn't know that they had an interest in sports.
"Herring Cup, we thought that the name of this competition was exactly the same as yours, Sister Xia, did you give money?" Luo Xiaomin grinned.