Chris couldn't help but feel anxious when he heard this, but he didn't show it, but asked calmly: "Mr. Yao, does your company have any solution that can satisfy both parties?" ”

At this moment, Yao Jianhong was also thinking about this matter in his heart.

Ubisoft's people took the initiative to talk, which shows that the initiative is in the hands of the Cote d'Azur, and in business, Yao Jianhong is a person who fights for every inch of profit, and he will never let go if he can fight for a penny of profit.

ACC console is now obviously going to be on fire, and it's only a matter of time before the Cote d'Azur becomes the world's top first party, and the meaning is completely different before the console is on sale, if Ubisoft takes the initiative to talk about it, Yao Jianhong will not hesitate to agree.

But now it's different, offense and defense are easy to type.

Chris was also very patient and waited for the other party's reply.

At this time, Yao Jianhong suddenly made a bolder decision, one that may be very likely to make Microsoft's interactive entertainment department soft and take the initiative to present the "Halo" series on the ACC platform.

At the end, Yao Jianhong finished thinking, and then commented on Chris, and said with a smile: "In this way, I have a plan here, Ubisoft must be deeply tied to ACC, co-prosperity and coexistence, all your company's console games must be exclusively owned by the ACC platform, and as a condition, all the games published by your company will be subsidized at 50% of the retail price from the date of sale to the next two years from the date of signing the contract." ”

On the one hand, the Cote d'Azur is not short of money, and last year's annual sales were close to the $100 billion mark, and even if Ubisoft survived within two years, the maximum subsidy for the explosion of games would be about two or three billion dollars.

But if you want to get the treatment of companies like R Star and CDPR, it's impossible, and the Cote d'Azur is rich now, but it's not a strong wind.

If it weren't for the opportunity to hit the platforms of competitors such as Microsoft, Yao Jianhong would not have agreed at all, and he would not have received a penny of subsidies, because he was sure that even if Ubisoft did not have subsidies, he would definitely come up and lick wildly when the sales of ACC consoles exceeded the thirty or forty million mark.

No, it's already door-to-door.

It's all like this, why do you need to give subsidies? You can't give it so blindly if you have too much money, right? You can't just make this kind of bad head, and people's desires will never be satisfied.

Chris was stunned for a moment and said, "This ...... Mr. Yao......"

Yao Jianhong immediately raised his hand and interrupted the other party's words: "Refuse to bargain, this is my bottom line." ”

Chris: "......"

When he came to his senses, Chris said, "I'm sorry, I'll go to the bathroom first, and I'll be absent for a while." ”

Yao Jianhong nodded with a smile and said, "It's okay, go out and turn left and go straight to the left." ”

This operation is obviously to go to the bathroom and call Ubisoft headquarters, which is indeed a decision that Chris can't make.

……

“What？ Are you sure? …… OK, I see, wait for my message in half an hour. ”

Ubisoft's president, Ivers Gillum, who is far away in Europe, is woken up by Chris's phone call in the middle of the night, but quickly ends the communication and wakes up all the company's executives for an emergency conference call.

"That's the way it is, what do you think?"

"It's crazy, this is undoubtedly crushing out the life of the net worth, completely tied to the chariot of the Côte d'Azur."

"Imagine from another angle, the third party acquired by Luo Sheng is now living more and more nourishing than the other, although it is very bold and high-risk, but the benefits are equally attractive."

"It's too hasty to make a decision so quickly, it has to be voted on by the board of directors and judged carefully."

"Agreed."

……

Soon, the conference call ended, and Ivers Gillum again contacted Chris, who was negotiating with the Côte d'Azur at the front, to inform him of the decision at headquarters.

Yao Jianhong waited in his office for about ten minutes, Chris replied, and said with an apologetic expression: "I'm sorry Mr. Yao, this matter is a big matter for Ubisoft, the headquarters has not yet thought it through, and the board needs time to think about it." ”

Yao Jianhong nodded happily: "No problem." ”

Chris Erli took the initiative to shake his hand politely, and after a few words, he left, but he did not leave Sioux City.

……

Three days later, Chris met with Yao again, this time in the reception room.

"Mr. Yao, we agreed." Chris said bluntly as soon as he came.

On the contrary, Yao Jianhong was stunned for a while, but it was only less than two seconds, and he didn't drag his feet without delay, and then said with a smile: "Then sign the contract." ”

But at this point, Chris added: "But we need an additional condition. ”

Yao Jianhong said calmly: "I would like to hear the details." ”

Chris: "The board of directors wants to raise a capital under Ubisoft, where you will take over 11% of the current market value, but you will not interfere with Ubisoft's day-to-day operations. ”

Obviously, Ubisoft is in a non-stop rhythm, and has made up its mind to completely hug Luo Sheng's thick legs.

Previously, Luo Sheng made a financial investment of 1.8 billion US dollars in the name of Bluestar Technology last year, which also avoided being hostilely acquired by Vivendi, and the so-called financial investment is not to interfere in the company's operations, not to send directors, only to send financial auditors.

If the Cote d'Azur is taking over 11% of the shares, it means that Luo Shengjian will become the largest shareholder of Ubisoft.

Yao Jianhong thought about it and nodded very dryly: "According to the current market value, it is to raise 1.375 billion US dollars, okay, no problem, the Cote d'Azur will take it, in the form of financial investment." ”

For the Cote d'Azur, this investment is a small amount of money, and Ubisoft, as one of the top ten third-party game developers in the world today, is not a loss only from the perspective of investment, not to mention that Ubisoft's games are also very rich, which is of great help to the creation of the ACC console ecosystem.

Chris was in good spirits and now just wanted to sign the contract as soon as possible, and the request for investment in the Cte d'Azur was proposed by President Ivers Gillum to the Ubisoft board of directors, and his reason was that with this money, Ubisoft would have enough funds to release several major titles in succession and even develop new titles in the next two years.

You know, the cooperation with the Cote d'Azur in the past two years is the golden time, and every game sold during this time can get a 50% subsidy from the Cote d'Azur company.

This time I want to go forward on multiple fronts, and make as much money as possible in these two years, but launching multiple masterpieces at the same time requires a huge development budget, and the development budget of 3A-level masterpieces is often hundreds of millions of dollars, and Ubisoft does not have such a rich capital chain, at the end of last year, Luo Sheng's financial investment of 1.8 billion US dollars was used to fight against Vivendi's malicious mergers and acquisitions, and there is not much money left, and the investment funds in games such as the new "Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood" have not been returned.

An hour and a half later, the contract was signed, very quickly, and Chris was satisfied with the signing and handed it to the accompanying assistant to put it away.

"Happy working together!"

"Happy working together!"

The two sides shook hands again, and Chris didn't stop there, and after a few polite words, he took someone to say goodbye and left.

As soon as he came out of the Star City headquarters, Chris immediately called Ivus Gillum to report the situation here.

The trip was a successful conclusion.

The next day, Ubisoft's then-president Ivus Gillum personally hosted a media conference, announcing a major news that caused a sensation in the global gaming industry at the beginning of the new year, and made other old first-party manufacturers feel a huge crisis, because they found out that the Côte d'Azur is a drunkard who does not mean to drink.

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