"Up to $475 million, refuse to counteroffer, I don't care how to buy it back, your company's management team solves it, I give the money, you give the equity, it's as simple as that."

Luo Sheng was obviously well prepared, and without any hesitation when the other party asked for a price, he immediately quoted.

It is worth mentioning that according to Take-Two's current market value of $1.276 billion, 55% of the equity is equivalent to $700 million, but Luo Sheng's M&A of Take-Two this time can basically be said to be carried out from within, and he didn't even go to the secondary market to buy big.

"Is it cash?" Ryan Blunt asked again.

"Cash, of course, I don't have anything but cash." Luo Sheng said without hesitation, the other party was worried that he would use the equity cross-shareholding of Bluestar Technology to complete the acquisition, even if the other party was willing, Luo Sheng would definitely not do so.

In fact, Ryan Blunt didn't want to do this either, because the company was also in dire need of cash.

Immediately calculated in his heart, Luo Sheng provided 475 million US dollars in cash, 55% of the equity is definitely not enough, then it has to be repurchased from the market, and the news of the acquisition must not be hidden, shareholders are not stupid, once the news is released, it is not surprising that Take-Two's stock price will stop falling and rebound strongly.

Ryan Blunt put away the thoughts in his heart, looked at Luo Sheng and said, "Okay, I will try to convince the board, but I don't make absolute guarantees." ”

Luo Sheng nodded, and the two sides exchanged ideas again for about twenty minutes before ending the meeting.

Obviously, at least Ryan Blunt has accepted it, but it will take about five days to a week to reach a formal agreement at the earliest, and he still needs to convince the Take-Two board of directors that Ryan Blunt has made a conservative promise to Luo Sheng on this matter, but is actually full of confidence.

Comparatively speaking, it is better to sell yourself to Bluestar Technology than to be sucked by a capital scourge like Vivendi that is purely in the game industry, and Luo Sheng's sincerity surprised him, and it is rare to have the capital to truly love games and have the heart to promote the development of this industry.

On the Take-Two side, Luo Sheng also left a few people for follow-up contract drafting consultations, and these people were naturally directly transferred by him from the legal team of the North American branch.

Two days later, Luo Sheng had just arrived in Seattle, and the news that Bluestar Technology was going to acquire Take-Two and that the two sides had negotiated was finally exposed.

Sure enough, the company's stock soared, and the market reacted swiftly.

Luo Sheng's operation made the industry and Wall Street once again incomprehensible.

As an Internet company, what does it mean to somehow go to the game industry to get involved?

However, even if the investors of Bluestar Technology can't understand his approach now, no one jumped out to oppose it, first, even if he opposes it, Luo Sheng is determined to do something and can't stop him, and second, Luo Sheng has never overturned so far.

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"I've heard that it seems that Take-Two has accepted your company's acquisition offer, and although Valve is not as large as Take-Two, I will definitely not accept your acquisition offer, Mr. Luo."

In a reception room, 42-year-old Gabe Logan Newell swore to the young man in front of him that this young man would not be anyone else except Luo Sheng.

At this time, Luo Sheng was interviewing the famous "G Fat" in his previous life, Villefort Software Company (Valve), which was later commonly known as V Society by players.

Gabe Newell is definitely a unique talent, coincidentally, he is also a member of the "Dropout Club", dropped out of Harvard to work at Microsoft, became a programmer, worked for 13 years, and finally got tired of it, always felt that games were his life, and then left to form Valve.

The FPS masterpiece "Half-Life" was born from this company eight years ago, and the FPS games at that time were basically guns and bursts, at most a few cutscenes and it was over.

And "Half-Life" can actually be like a movie, the plot happens in real time, super immersive, gamers at the time have never experienced such a game, G Fat and Valve company became famous, and "Half-Life" has become one of the most memorable works in game history.

Ryan Blunt was also strongly resisted at first. Luo Sheng smiled: "As a result, you are still willing to follow me." ”

"He may be involuntarily, but Valve is different, I am different, we are small, but we are healthy, and Valve is not a public company, and I am not going to seek to go public. So, you don't want to take my company. Gabe Newell said firmly, speaking of which, the current G is not fat at all.

Luo Sheng naturally used his best skills, G Fat is a master of iron, which is better than Ryan Blunt, especially concerned about Valve's control.

However, the more G fat is like this, Luo Sheng thinks that this thing can be successful, because no one in this world can escape the "True Fragrance Law", but it is worth mentioning that the "True Fragrance Law" has not yet been discovered, but this law does exist, because many people swear not to do something but finally do it, this is the True Fragrance Law.

To put G fat on the table, Luo Sheng only needs two tricks to get it, one trick relies on flickering, and the other trick relies on small money.

According to the usual practice, Luo Sheng's opening is to raise his hand first, and then say, and the way of praising G fat to make an online game store is simply a genius idea.

At the beginning, G was still a little embarrassed, because Steam's current scale and popularity are not as exaggerated as Luo Sheng said, after all, people in their forties.

But this person, even if he doesn't accept being praised, he will never be angry, the first time he was praised, G Fat felt that Luo Sheng was killing, and the second time he felt that he was almost, but when it came to the third or even the fourth time......

Under the successive bombardments, everyone will feel in their hearts that maybe it is really possible that this is the case, and no matter how modest a person is, he will float.

And at this moment, G Fat feels more and more that Steam is indeed his genius creativity.

"Steam is definitely something that only geniuses can imagine, and it is no exaggeration to say that the emergence of Steam is a disruptive innovation for the game industry, and it will bring new changes to the game industry. Especially for small and medium-sized indie game companies, they don't have to struggle to find a hairstylist anymore, Steam is the best digital distribution platform, and uploading games to Steam can easily do everything. Luo Sheng continued to boast without hesitation.

Gradually, the two sides chatted like this, and more than half an hour had passed unconsciously.

At this moment, G Fat's heart was moved, not because of Luo Sheng's various praises, but because there was finally someone who could understand his creation of Steam.

It's hard to find a soulmate.

Gabe Newell also became more and more talkative, only to see him say: "In fact, the birth of Steam did not go well, I have approached my old employer, Microsoft, and Yahoo, and I hope to work with them to develop it, but the reply I received is only two letters...... NO！ Because no one had heard of, or even thought about, the 'online game store' model, the gaming industry was not so optimistic at the time, and of course, it is still not favored now. ”

Talking about G fat is slightly embarrassed.

Steam platform released in 2002,I didn't know what the hell this was in the early days.,No one can understand G fat products.,No one knows.,No popularity.,Now a little fame is still in 2003 and the name of the game history of CS1.6 bundled online to play.。

Up to now, although there are third-party games on the Steam platform one after another, there are no big-name third-party parties, as for Ubisoft, Take-Two, Square Enix and other super-big third-party brands, you don't have to think about it.

Compared with these third-party game developer giants, the current Valve is still a younger brother, and any one can buy Valve.

"Maybe others are not optimistic, but I am optimistic, and I am here for this." Luo Sheng said with a very affirmative tone: "If you think that I came here to take a fancy to Valve or its "Half-Life", then it is a big mistake, I really fancy the Steam platform, this idea is not only a subversion of the game industry, but even has a huge impact on the global Internet in the future." ”

Gabe Newell never expected that Luo Sheng would have such a high evaluation of the Steam platform, he originally believed that this model was promising, and now he is undoubtedly even more convinced.

This time, Luo Sheng didn't say this as a fool, but thought so from the bottom of his heart.

You must know that before Steam, Apple's App-Store, Google's Google-Play App Store, and even Teng Xun's later We-Game, all had to call Steam "Dad".

Because whether it is Apple's App Store or Google's App Store, it is the same model as Steam, and the game company V Society is the pioneer of the online app store model.

Gabe Newell said for a while: "But I still don't want to be bought by you, since Steam has a lot to offer, why should I sell it to you?" ”

Luo Sheng leaned behind the sofa, crossed Erlang's legs and said slowly: "If that's the case, from the level of business competition, you will face a strong enemy strangulation, I will do my best, I swear, and you and I both know that the current Steam has not become a climate, but it is easy for me to strangle it." ”

If the soft one doesn't work, then come to the hard one, two-pronged, grasp with both hands, and both hands are hard.

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(PS: The fourth watch is over, ask for votes.) The pit of the game industry has been basically dug up, and it has successfully occupied a pit, in order to lay the foundation for the future virtual game platform, the protagonist of the game industry will definitely not play the legend of 999, and it has not been forced to be written on the street by other commercial science and technology, and it is also forced to play "Cyberpunk 2077", immersive virtual games and other high-tech elements, which are more technology companies. ）