Three days later, the latest news came out in the game industry again, another game company was acquired by Luo Sheng.

Gabe Newell held a media conference on the same day to announce that Valve was merged into Bluestar Technology and became a subsidiary.

Luo Sheng's acquisition of Valve was completed by investment, and he won 78.5% of the company's equity with a financing amount of 165 million US dollars, which is equivalent to 30% of the premium of Bluestar Technology for Valve's current operation and asset scale.

After completing the acquisition of Valve, Luo Sheng's trip to North America can basically come to an end, and the result is quite satisfactory to him.

With the acquisition of Valve, Luo Sheng did not end his pace of buying and buying in the game industry, he thought that several major entertainment giants in Hollywood would come to talk to him, but in fact they did not.

Luo Sheng did not take the initiative to talk to Hollywood film companies or entertainment companies anymore, and waited for the scale of his online streaming video business to further develop and grow, so that he would have a greater right to speak.

Whoever comes to the door to talk will be at a disadvantage, and so far both sides are very patient.

After finalizing the matter of Valve, Luo Sheng flew directly from North America to Europe, to be exact, to Eastern Europe.

Naturally, I went there not for sightseeing, but for the acquisition of a young video game development studio, CD-Projekt-Red-Ltd, which went very smoothly and was negotiated in two days.

The company was founded in Poland in 2002 and produced its first game demo, but it was redeveloped without the approval of the publishing company, during which the studio moved to its headquarters in Warsaw due to financial difficulties.

CD -Projekt released a demo at last year's E3 Game Show and it was well received, but until now, the game has not been released.

As for the current CD-Projekt company, compared to those big-name third-party developers, it is really a small workshop.

But Luo Sheng knew that the company would soon rise to prominence, and its "The Witcher" series and "Cyberpunk 2077" were both masterpieces, and the huge success of the "Witcher" series established the status of "Polish Stupid Donkey" as one of the top developers in the gaming industry.

This time, Luo Sheng's acquisition of the developer went too smoothly, and one of the founders, Marcin Ivansky, has been particularly fond of playing games since he was a child, and his dream is to work in the game industry, so the company was founded.

Nowadays, there is a shortage of funds for CD-Projekt, and Luo Sheng came at this time, and the words "I am investing in your ninth art dream" came out, which moved Evensky and others on the spot.

It can be seen that this team really loves games and doesn't care about the gains and losses of money, so when Luo Sheng said that he wanted to "invest in their dreams", he decided to package and sell the company to Bluestar Technology for $8 million, and they only had one condition.

That is, the team had to stay at CD -Projekt and continue to make the game, which meant that the entire company was sold, but the parent company could not interfere with the team's operations.

Of course, Luo Sheng could not have driven the founders away, and the most valuable thing about CD-Projekt was this team.

Ivinsky and other founders asked for $8 million, but Luo Sheng made a decision that surprised them and was extremely pleasantly surprised, first, Luo Sheng bought 100% of the equity of CD-Projekt for $8 million and became a wholly-owned subsidiary of the company, and then decided to inject $15 million, and took out 20% of CD-Projekt's option pool reserved for attracting talent.

For Ivansky and others, they couldn't believe that they could meet such a conscientious investor, probably this is an angel investor. If Luo Sheng's dream of investing in them was polite, then after the real money was thrown out, they no longer doubted it.

CD-Projekt shows no signs of success, they haven't been able to get their hands on a masterpiece until now, and the company currently has only a few dozen people.

Isn't this an investment dream?

So the founding team did not have any doubts about Luo Sheng's words.

After winning the "Polish stupid donkey" Luo Sheng, he ended his trip abroad and officially embarked on the road home.

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On a chartered plane returning home, Qin Weimu and Luo Sheng sat opposite each other in a position in the cabin, and she said thoughtfully: "Before this, I was very confused like the outside world, but after I saw a report article on the game industry yesterday, I suddenly understood your intention to invest in CD -Projekt. ”

Luo Sheng smiled: "What do you say? ”

Qin Weimu thought for a while, then looked at the other party, and said: "When we first entered the game industry, most of the people in the industry were more resistant, thinking that we were hot money disrupting the market, and we didn't really want to sincerely promote the development of this industry. But the industry is quietly changing, especially after the acquisition of CD -Projekt, some people have said that you are an angel investor in the game industry, but people in the investment community do not understand your acquisition cases, and some even ridicule you. ”

Luo Sheng's investments are not optimistic in the VC industry, they admit that Luo Sheng has a set of skills in the Internet industry, but he is really a novice player in playing investment, far less than his attainments in the Internet industry.

Hearing this, Luo Sheng shrugged: "Laugh and laugh, laugh now, and after a few years, you will definitely praise how powerful your strategic vision and investment vision are......"

Qin Weimu said: "Actually, I am not very optimistic about your acquisition cases, and I can't say that I am optimistic or not, but I don't understand it." ”

Luo Sheng said lightly: "It's right if you don't understand, if everyone understands, how can you still have my share?" ”

Saying this, Qin Weimu really couldn't find a good reason to refute him for a while, there was nothing wrong with the logic, but Luo Sheng's self-confidence made her curious about where it came from, what are the shining points of game developers such as CD-Projekt and Valve, which are worth spending so much money to win?

Qin Weimu changed the topic and said, "Then are you going to start cracking down on domestic game piracy next?" ”

Luo Sheng shook his head again and again and denied: "No, no, this is a thankless thing, I haven't thought about changing the status quo at all, 3A-level games don't have any survival soil in the domestic market, don't think about it in the next ten years, and there may not even be a survival soil for 3A-level games in the next twenty years." ”

Qin Weimu was surprised: "Twenty years? Wouldn't it be too exaggerated. ”

Luo Sheng affirmed: "It's not an exaggeration at all, stand-alone games really don't have any way to live in China, let's take a look at you, why do you say that?" Two conditions, one is that the mass income conditions are not allowed, and the other is that the market environment conditions are not allowed. ”

"Let's talk about the income conditions first, the unit price of a genuine triple-A game masterpiece is usually 60 US dollars, nearly 500 yuan, which is almost worth the monthly salary of a low-level worker; Let's talk about the market environment, and the domestic stand-alone market has no market, players are used to the free game model, although sometimes the free game costs more money, but the player is used to this game mode, and enjoy it, but this is the status quo. ”

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