The 064th Warcraft concept stock

Even if you lose money, you can make money.

A thousand players online can also make $200 million on it.

The management at the meeting was stunned!

"Spring and Autumn of the Ten Kingdoms" can succeed with infamy on its back, because countless players have piled up monthly sales of 32.91 million yuan for it. After this battle, everyone saw the power of free games that are not free, and they praised Wei Dongsheng's superb money collection skills. However, no matter how hard you try to diverge your thinking, everyone can't imagine what it is like to "lose money and go out of business". Is World of Warcraft special, or is there really such a magical way to make money in the world?

After free-to-play games are not free, is there still a Cotai Strip that does not lose money in business?

Even Chang Mingxia, whose mind is full of information about the online game market, can't imagine how a game that loses 1,000 players online and loses money to the point of bankruptcy can make 200 million US dollars.

Wei Dongsheng did not hesitate for any reason, and recited the key words to remind everyone: "SoftBank Asia, Shanda Network ......"

Chang Mingxia instantly thought of a possibility and blurted out: "IPO!" ”

Jing Minqiang followed closely and understood what Wei Dongsheng meant: "Go public in the United States." ”

Shanda Network encountered legendary copyright at the beginning of the year, and introduced $40 million in financing from SoftBank Asia at the time of crisis, and is now struggling to go public in the United States. Going public in the United States can indeed quickly raise the market value of the Spring and Autumn Network, and then grab hundreds of millions of funds, but what does this have to do with "World of Warcraft"?

Wei Dongsheng explained in detail: "Looking at international public opinion, "World of Warcraft" benefits from the accumulation of "Warcraft" and Blizzard's inherent brand effect, and has a great chance of achieving good results in the European and American markets. When we go public in the United States and want to make money for American stockholders, we can't rely on "Spring and Autumn of the Ten Kingdoms" alone. No matter how successful "Spring and Autumn of the Ten Kingdoms" is, it is also a success that is too far away to reach. World of Warcraft is different, many American investors are potential players of World of Warcraft, American investors know Vivendi, Bizzard, and World of Warcraft, and then judge the value of our company based on the performance of World of Warcraft in the European and American markets. With these social foundations, we have completely artificially created a Warcraft concept stock. ”

Lu Binqi's strength lies in his ease of interpersonal relationships, and he is not familiar with capital operation, so he questioned blankly: "Blizzard is Blizzard, we are us, if "World of Warcraft" is not adapted to the water and soil in China, who will buy our account?" ”

Wei Dongsheng: "We can go to the United States in advance before the open beta of "World of Warcraft" in China. "World of Warcraft" has not been tested in China, and there are no specific results, so American investors naturally continue to look forward to it. ”

Lu Binqi was stunned.

It turns out that going public in the United States can still be such a shameless operation.

Lu Binqi thought for a while and continued to pick and choose: "It is rumored that "World of Warcraft" will be launched in the spring of next year, so in such a short time, we don't have time to prepare for the listing in the United States, right?" ”

Wei Dongsheng smiled: "As far as Blizzard's virtue is concerned, if it can not jump to 2005, American shareholders will definitely be more enthusiastic about Warcraft concept stocks." ”

Lu Binqi: "What if Blizzard doesn't skip the ticket?" ”

Wei Dongsheng: "Don't be afraid of what happens, we still have the line of defense of China's own national conditions." Even if Blizzard had been diligent enough to launch World of Warcraft in January 2004, we would have been able to buy enough time for the Spring and Autumn Network to prepare. Hehe, what are the Ministry of Culture and the General Administration of Press and Publication here for? It is very difficult to get their approval quickly, and it is very difficult to move the whole body; But on the other hand, it's not easy to delay the normal approval process for World of Warcraft? Change here, change there, and when we change it, World of Warcraft will also be a great success in Europe and the United States. At that time, the current situation will be more convenient for us to operate a Warcraft concept stock. ”

Wei Dongsheng's way of making money is capital operation.

To put it bluntly, it's not magical.

Packaged and listed, the money was circled and left, leaving shareholders with a long-term sluggish bad stock.

Chang Mingxia doesn't understand, Lu Binqi doesn't understand much, but Jing Minqiang understands. Jing Minqiang's wife's real name is Gong Qiuqiu, and the life plan arranged by the Gong family for Gong Qiuqiu was originally to go to Wall Street for an internship, and then return to China to cut into the capital field. Although Gong Qiuqiu later resisted the arrangement of the Gong family, after all, he had been on Wall Street for two years, and Jing Minqiang was also familiar with some common sense of capital operation. Capital operation is a complex game of interests, and every promising listed company will encounter a hostile takeover by barbarians at the door.

Wei Dongsheng's capital operation is quite conscientious, at least he has built his own reputation. The more common circle of money in the capital market is the real conscience, such as temporarily borrowing 3 billion yuan to quickly acquire a listed company, publicizing good news and raising the stock price. When the shareholders entered the network, the speculators immediately took the money and left, which not only emptied the pockets of the shareholders, but also caused the listed company to hemorrhage. Speculators and some of the management of listed companies made a lot of money, while the vast majority of the losses were borne by shareholders.

In addition to the long-term reputation of the capital market, there are not many real troubles in this kind of capital operation.

Because, it's normal for a project to fail.

Introducing online games is inherently risky, and it is normal for the World of Warcraft project to fail.

Originally, no one can guarantee that World of Warcraft will be successful.

If even Blizzard wants to cheat, Spring and Autumn Network can also register a parallel subsidiary and secretly transfer the agency operation rights of "Spring and Autumn of the Ten Kingdoms" to this subsidiary. When the operation of "World of Warcraft" failed, the stock plummeted to the point of forced delisting, and Spring and Autumn Network declared bankruptcy, and the staff changed to a new set of vests to continue to operate "Spring and Autumn of the Ten Kingdoms".

Of course, this is the worst-case scenario.

If he really did this, Wei Dongsheng would definitely be blacklisted by many institutions.

Wei Dongsheng explained his intentions: "Even if the operation of "World of Warcraft" fails, I can guarantee that you will have no actual loss of interests. ”

Jing Min thought about the language: "This way to circle money, there are too many troubles." ”

Wei Dongsheng nodded: "I understand, when I made this suggestion, I already understood the consequences." It is better to fail with a legacy than to accompany only the pants. To tell you the truth, I have faith in World of Warcraft. "Spring and Autumn of the Ten Kingdoms" is aimed at players who have time but no money and money but no time, and "World of Warcraft" is aimed at time-paid players, and the time-paid player group obviously has a demand for a real 3D large-scale production, which can supplement the coverage of the Spring and Autumn network. Legend is a phenomenal work, "Spring and Autumn of the Ten Kingdoms" may also be a phenomenal work that created history, and I believe that "World of Warcraft" is also a phenomenal work in the field of hourly payment. ”

In his previous life, Wei Dongsheng witnessed the success of "World of Warcraft", and was an ordinary player of "World of Warcraft", and successively burned more than 1,000 yuan of point cards for it. Wei Dongsheng has confidence in the Chinese online game market and "World of Warcraft", but these confidence cannot be transmitted to the employees of the Internet Spring and Autumn.

After all, in China's online game market in 2002 and 2003, Korean games were the mainstream, Japanese games were supporting roles, and domestic games were embellishments, while European and American games represented by "Magic Sword" and "Endless Mission" were all miserable. While free-to-play pirated games have fueled Blizzard's brand spread in China, who can guarantee that World of Warcraft won't die on the streets like Sword of Warcraft?

Wei Dongsheng couldn't convince his collaborators.

Some people may say that it is good to know it, persistence is success, but it can be brushed out by Jing Minqiang and others in the style of a prophet.

This kind of thinking is beautiful, but in practice, it is taboo, and it is very easy to leave the impression of being arbitrary, and then suppress the self-creation ability of the management.

There is an allusion to the Three Kingdoms at the end of the Han Dynasty. Before the battle of Guandu, Tian Feng felt that Liu Bei had been defeated, the opportunity had been lost, and it was not easy to send troops at present. Yuan Shao insisted on his own opinion, and then ushered in a fiasco in the battle of Guandu. Someone reported good news to Tian Feng, thinking that Yuan Shaoding would reuse Tian Feng because of his previous prediction. How to think, Tian Feng sighed gloomily: "If Yuan Shao wins, I can still have my whole body; If Yuan Shao is defeated, I will die. ”

Yuan Shaozhi is to Tian Feng, and Wei Dongsheng is to other partners, and the position is completely different.

However, people's hearts are always the same.

When it's not their business, people appreciate those forepredictions; When it comes to oneself, people tend to subconsciously reject these prophecies. or felt that Wei Dongsheng's cooperation did not go well, so he resigned and left; Or his confidence was frustrated and he doubted his ability, and from then on he unconditionally believed that Wei Dongsheng's choices were correct, and lost his ability to think and the courage to argue with Wei Dongsheng in court.

Either way, it's not what Wei Dongsheng wants to see.

The success of World of Warcraft was judged to come from memories of previous lives.

Wei Dongsheng has enough confidence in this kind of judgment.

However, Wei Dongsheng is not a saint born to know after all, and in other aspects, he needs the pioneering ability of the management. is similar to convincing Wei's father and Wei's mother, Chang Mingxia made a timely statement about the college entrance examination immigration, and quickly dismantled the psychological defense line of Wei's father and Wei's mother. Wei Dongsheng needs Chang Mingxia's ability, and he also needs more Chang Mingxia to open up territory for the Spring and Autumn series of companies, instead of playing the role of a prophet and doing everything himself.

The clues of the characters in this life are complex and changeable, the head of Tencent is Ma Huateng, the head of Alibaba is Ma Yun, and the head of Baidu is Robin Li, and it is impossible for everything to evolve as the trajectory of the previous life. In this world, Tencent, without Chang Mingxia's rescue in danger, wouldn't "Triumph" fail?

Wei Dongsheng's actions will disturb the course of history.

The more successful Wei Dongsheng is in the future, the stronger this disturbance will be.

Thirty years of memory from a past life is very useful, but it is not a panacea. Wei Dongsheng clearly understands his strengths and weaknesses, so he will not be a fortune teller prophetic and arbitrary, but will make reasonable use of excuses such as going to the United States to go public and operate Warcraft concept stocks, and deceive Wei's father and Wei Ma with good intentions to dispel the unnecessary worries of collaborators such as Jing Minqiang.

Jing Minqiang was willing to sit and watch Wei Dongsheng take risks, and after knowing the Warcraft concept stock plan, he supported Wei Dongsheng more clearly: "Thinking about the problem from the perspective of going public in the United States, it is indeed necessary for us to represent "World of Warcraft". However, 800 million RMB is not a decimal number, how can Vivendi believe that we have the strength to pay 800 million RMB? ”