Rebirth of the big era of online games

Chapter 388 The Chinese Don't Curse the Chinese
The first international professional game alliance competition, world Professional game Alliance, referred to as "WPGA".

Although the competition lasted only 10 days and ended before the Chinese New Year, the preparations and qualifiers actually started three months ago, but Fang Jie did not participate in the specific process.

For the business market of e-sports competitions, he directly threw it to Tencent to host and manage it. The main energy of Boiling Games is still focused on game production, which can be regarded as conforming to the history of the previous life. After all, they did well in this field in the previous life, and " "Cross Fire" is their main game, there is no need to do it for them.

After half a year of qualifiers, 100 participating teams were selected from more than 128 cities in the eight major regions of the country, plus two teams from South Korea, a total of 130 teams with more than 500 players.

In terms of e-sports, there are not only "Cross Fire" and the latest "Meteor Butterfly Sword", but also international traditional competitions "StarCraft: Brood War", "Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos" and "FIFA Football 2003".

This scale is similar to the scale of the WCG (World Electronic Sports Competition) that has been held in South Korea for three times.

South Korea held the first WCG in 2001 and the third WCG just ended in October last year. The number of participants was close to 10, but the prize money was only 500 US dollars, less than half of this WPGA.

However, Huaguo just entered the WTO not long after the reform and opening up, the game environment is no better than that of foreign countries, and it is the first WPGA, so there are not many foreigners participating, and even international players have never heard of such a competition.

The domestic organizer, Tencent, has no experience in preparing for such an event for the first time, and everything starts from scratch, so that although the first event is very big, various emergencies continue, and the competitive level of the contestants is also low. Some hip-pulls are more than lively but not professional enough.

For example, the "FTNB" led by Fang Jie has never participated in the qualifiers, and directly entered the final stage to compete with 130 other teams. This is obviously against the rules and procedures of the competition, even if he is the leader.

But whenever someone raises this kind of objection, the person who refutes it has the same reason: because he is the leader!

Indeed, because he is the leader, his team is estimated to be worth as much as all other participating teams. If he is not allowed to participate, this competition will at least lose half of the game. Even if they know that he jumped the team, everyone can understand , and even look forward to his performance.

As for the rules of the game... He is the big boss who sets the rules of the game. Isn't it nonsense to talk about the rules with him?
Fang Jie's "FTNB" only participated in the competitions of "Cross Fire" and "Meteor Butterfly Sword".

For other competitive games, he and his team members' technical level is of course not a problem, but there is no need to participate. It is estimated that within two years, Boiling Games will imitate and produce better alternatives than "StarCraft" and "Warcraft" Goods, there is no need to waste feelings now.

This year's competition was held in Pengcheng, the headquarters of Tencent. Since it was a regular competition, it was necessary to attend in person, so Fang Jie and his entourage made a special trip to Pengcheng.

However, going to Pengcheng to participate in the competition was actually just a side trip. Fang Jie's real purpose in coming to Pengcheng this time was to attend the shareholder meeting related to Tencent's listing. For such an important event, he, Tencent's second largest shareholder, had to attend.

In the previous life, Tencent was listed in Hong Kong in mid-June 2004, but in this life it was listed half a year earlier.

The domestic Internet industry quickly revived after the bubble burst, the number of domestic Internet users exploded, and Internet-related industries flourished at a high speed. This is of course the butterfly effect brought about by Fang Jie's rebirth.

Tencent has completed its own channel establishment and ecological layout ahead of schedule through the two products of the instant network communication tool QQ and the online interactive community 51wan. The listing of "Cross Fire" and the successful holding of WPGA are the expansion of value-added services.

The situation is so good that Tencent has now turned a profit.

In 2003, Tencent was still at a loss in the first half of the year. When "Cross Fire" came out in the second half of the year, Tencent used its huge user base channel to instantly reverse the loss situation. The total annual revenue was 6.2 million yuan and the net profit was 7000 million yuan. It's a lot, but it's a beautiful answer anyway.

On January 2004, 1, Tencent was officially listed in Hong Kong with the stock code 16.HK.

In this listing, Goldman Sachs is the global coordinator, bookrunner, lead manager and sponsor of the listing. Tencent sold 3.70 million shares at a price of HK$4.2 per share, and the closing price on the day of listing was HK$4.37.

The 4.2 million shares are only a quarter of Tencent's total share capital after the additional issuance, and its total share capital is 16.8 billion shares. Therefore, based on the closing price on the day of listing, its total market value has reached 72 billion Hong Kong dollars, equivalent to 59 billion RMB!

That is to say, Tencent’s last round of financing was valued at 6000 million US dollars, or 4.9 million RMB. Now when it goes public, the valuation has directly doubled by [-] times!
As the second largest shareholder of Tencent, Fang Jie owns 44.99% of the shares. Not to mention what will happen in the future, at least at the beginning of Tencent's listing, these shares were worth 26.5 billion RMB.

Of course, "such a small amount of money" cannot be compared with 51mai's listing on NASDAQ. It should be said that it is incomparable. When compared, it feels a bit tasteless.

And if you compare the trend of Tencent's stock price in the previous life, 15 years later, Tencent's total market value is as high as 30998.95 billion Hong Kong dollars, that is, on the basis of the pre-listing valuation, it has increased by 5060 times!
So 26.5 billion is actually not pocket money. As long as you continue to hold shares, theoretically, the value can rise to trillions of RMB in the future. This alone is enough to make him the richest man in the world.

Moreover, 51mai is different from Tencent. The IPO of Boiling Commerce is actually a very special situation, not only because it is too profitable, but also because there are too many comrades in the trenches, no matter private capital or state-owned capital, domestic capital or foreign capital, all are capital tycoon.

Foreign investors prefer this kind of stable large-cap stocks with a lot of capital. If 51mai is an e-commerce website, it is better to say that it is a comprehensive growth stock of e-commerce website + bank + telecommunications + Internet technology + brokerage.

This kind of investment target has great development potential and a deep background of human resources. Once something goes wrong, all parties will come out to cover the bottom line. Buying 51mai stocks is almost a guaranteed profit. There is no need to worry about any black swan incidents. , the risk is lower than investing in some local small banks, but the growth returns are much higher.

Tencent is just an Internet company. Although it has developed very well, its profitability still needs to be improved. Moreover, its valuation has grown from less than 5 million to 59 billion when it was listed, which is already good enough. If it is not for Goldman Sachs, it may not be To be able to circle so much money, I can no longer expect anything more.

In fact, Tencent spends so much money to hold the WPGA, it is also to add a storytelling weight to the IPO roadshow before the listing, otherwise the scene will not be so big, the gimmicks are so full, and the capital holds such a competition. For the sake of the players, why would people spend manpower, material and financial resources on things that are actually not beneficial?
Even for boiling games, such competitions are not held solely for the sake of players, but to make boiling videos and game live broadcasts, and ultimately to make money.

Naturally, there will be no live broadcast during the qualifiers, but the wonderful videos will be put on Boiling Video for players to enjoy. The final stage will be broadcast live. There are both Boiling Video's official live broadcast room and the personal live broadcast of the game anchor. At this time It depends on everyone's ability, whoever is good at broadcasting can attract more traffic and make more money.

Fang Jie was going to participate in the shareholder meeting, participate in various activities of Tencent's listing, and also participate in the WPGA competition. Naturally, there was no way to broadcast it live, but it didn't matter, as long as his competition was the first choice of other game anchors.

There is no need for Fang Jie's face-to-face instructions for such things as traffic flow, and everyone can learn by themselves without a teacher. Even if the game anchor is not very smart, the water friends will send bullet screens to remind him to quickly cut to the leader's game screen.

"FTNB", the team led by the leader, is still very strong. It should be said that except for Shisanmei, everyone else is very strong.

Thirteenth Sister is purely here to join in the fun. He is suitable for playing some slow-paced online games, and he is not very suitable for competitive games. His level of this type of game can only be said to be average, more than enough than the top, and he is particularly timid and afraid of death. He has never dared to confront others head-on, and belongs to the existence of a dragging bottle in the team.

But I can't stand this guy's personality is too coquettish, he is very good at making troubles, he insisted on participating in the competition, and in the end he just squeezed out other competitors and successfully mixed into the "FTNB" team

Among the others, the strongest is not Fang Jie, but his lover.

This guy graduated from Qingbei University with a major in computer science, and his brain is naturally brighter than ordinary people. He was originally the number one master in the Jianghu in MUD games. He is a genius player himself, and he is naturally very good at playing other games.

Especially in "Cross Fire", the lover's marksmanship is accurate, he is good at using sniper rifles, and he is proficient in instant sniping and sniping. Basically, as long as anyone meets him, he will be instantly crushed at the first sight.

Of course, he can also play with other guns, and they are basically headshot marksmanship. When watching him play sniper, he often uses the Desert Eagle headshot to know that his other marksmanship is actually not bad.

The second is Fang Jie. Although he seldom played "Cross Fire" after it was launched, and the number of rounds he played may not be more than 10, but after all, the foundation and muscle memory of the previous life are still there, and he will recover after a little adaptation. Eighty percent of the strength.

However, he is purely for fun, so he does not limit his weapons. Sometimes he plays AK, and sometimes he also plays with sniper rifles or machine guns. He is weak because the gun is not stable enough. It depends on his performance. So when it comes to seriousness, the main weapon will choose the M4 with more stable and uniform ballistic distribution.

The level of Kai Wu and Wang Yu is slightly weaker than that of Fang Jie, but in fact they are about the same level.

What's interesting is that Kaiwu is the same in the game as in reality. He has become Fang Jie's bodyguard assistant. Wherever Fang Jie goes, he will follow him. The two always act together, so there will be some conflicts between each other. With tacit understanding and cooperation, most people will either be wiped out when they meet them, or they will kill one thousand enemies and lose eight hundred.

Wang Yu is a lone wolf. He is very good at point shooting with an AK47. He likes to jump around in the game and often creates some interesting gameplay. Because this guy has always been in charge of game engine development, he likes it. Study the scene map in the game and some places that can get stuck.

And he also has a characteristic that he likes to buy game skins, all the skins of all guns and characters, he bought a full set, which looks garish and eye-catching.

But he learned this from Thirteen Sisters.

Thirteen Sister’s game skills are not good, but she is an art student. She is naturally weak against beautiful and beautiful things, and because she is the person in charge of the game art department, she has a bit of occupational disease, and she is also suspected of selling and boasting. She especially likes to buy all kinds of skins , Decorate yourself very coquettishly.

Therefore, you can often see the coquettishly dressed thirteen younger sisters. After a series of coquettish moves, she is the first to be knocked to the ground after hiding in XZ, which is very funny.

So to sum up, the "FTNB" team is an amateur team playing tickets. It has skills, but almost no tactics. At most, there is a little cooperation between Fang Jie and Kaiwu. mode, and Thirteenth Sister is soy sauce.

But even so, after two rounds of elimination on the first day, the "FTNB" team still advanced to the top 32.

It's not that they are too strong, but that the opponent is too weak.

They pull their hips, and their opponents pull their hips even more. They have no tactics, and others have even less tactics than them.

This is the most speechless part of the first "WPGA". The overall level is not good at all, and it seems a bit amateurish.

To say that there are professional ones, there are not none, the most professional ones are the two Korean teams sent by South Korea's SK and CJ Group.

Well, even though they may not even count as third-tier teams in South Korea, when it comes to Huaguo, other Huaguo teams are no different from weak chickens in their eyes, and they won the game by a big score in minutes.

This makes many Chinese players very depressed, but they have to admit that they are really awesome, and domestic game teams do have a long way to go.

Of course, there are also Han's.

Called the Hallyu for four years, by 2004, the Hallyu has become more and more serious, this is a common phenomenon.

Most of the games that were queued up to be shot last year were from Korean agents. Although few survived in the end, they still left a deep impression on everyone, and then Korean dramas and Korean stars were also imported into China.

In fact, there is also Fang Jie's "contribution" in it.

If you want to ask what is the hottest drama in 2003, it must be "Dae Jang Geum" which was invested by South Korea's JYP Entertainment, imported from South Korea by Boiling Entertainment, and premiered by Hubei Satellite TV!
This drama became very popular in China. The heroine Kim Hee-sun, who was already well-known in the country, became even more famous, and now she has almost become a household name.

But after filming this drama, Kim Hee-sun is destined not to be the daughter-in-law of Lotte Group in this life, because after the filming of "Dae Jang Geum", she came to China to make a movie, starring in "Mythology", the heroine and the heroine It is the eldest brother.

Originally, the filming of this drama will start next year, but Fang Jie made a little arrangement and instructed Boiling Entertainment to invest some money in it, so the funds are in place. The movie "The Love of Terracotta Warriors from Ancient to Modern Wars" starring Gong Li has entered the preparatory and shooting stage ahead of schedule.

After the "Mythology" movie project, there will also be a "Mythology" TV series project. The heroine is still Kim Hee-sun, and let this one stay in China in the future and be a daughter-in-law for the Chinese people.

Leaving aside the IP layout of the "Mythology" series and Fang Jie's bad taste, the 54-episode "Dae Jang Geum" is still on the air. According to its broadcast plan, it premiered in China in November last year, and it will end before the end of the year. Then replay after the New Year.

Right now, the TV series "Dae Jang Geum" and its classic theme song can be said to be the hottest top stream, attracting many Chinese audiences to watch. Then Korean variety shows, such as JYP's own girl group audition "sixteen", As well as "XMAN" and "Love Letter", they were also introduced to China through boiling video and boiling Internet cafe system, and were deeply loved by young people.

It can be said that the entire entertainment industry in China is currently being invaded by the Hallyu. Apart from the game industry, Fang Jie is behind the scenes in other aspects.

As for accelerating the introduction of Hallyu, Fang Jie's idea is that if he can't stop it, then he should do it more violently, which is called flattery.

Everything has a process of extremes and opposites. Rather than long-term pain, it is better to have short-term pain. It is a solution to fight poison with poison.

Moreover, in this process, it can be regarded as increasing the knowledge of the Chinese people who are sitting in a well and watching the sky, letting them know that in the entertainment industry, there are people outside the world, and it is not good to work behind closed doors. Take this opportunity to speed up the pace of learning and reference. regain lost ground.

As for the problems encountered in the previous life, Fang Jie thought that they should be treated in two parts.

Little fresh meat idol costume dramas really have no connotation, even full of loopholes and go against historical facts, but foreigners, especially people in Southeast Asian countries, like to watch them very much. With this obsession, I also began to actively learn Chinese, and popularize various classical Chinese and idioms.

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This is a very effective means of cultural output.

The culture of Huaguo is extensive and profound. At the beginning, it was too deep for foreigners to understand, but these ancient costume idol dramas are quite suitable, because they are superficial and popular enough, and it is easy for people all over the world to understand and empathize with them. All handsome men and beautiful women are pleasing to the eye.

So in the future, let these little fresh meats go to harm foreigners. This can be regarded as making the best use of everything. The domestic side still relies on acting skills and connotation. As long as the culture of the fan circle is well controlled, there is actually no need to beat them to death.

However, Fang Jie couldn't bear to harass Han in the game competition.

Games are his one-acre three-point land. Don't you see that as long as there are Korean online games in China, except for "Miracle MU", other games are suppressed by him?
In the game circle, Fang Jie will never allow the existence of Ha Han, whether it is making games or playing games, he thinks he is no worse than Koreans.

And it's about competitive competitions, the nature is not a problem of Kazakhstan, but a problem of a crooked position, just like the problem of rice circle culture, there is nothing wrong with liking small fresh meat stars, the fault lies in many behaviors that have violated Basic public morality and the bottom line of principles.

Therefore, for those Kazakhs and Koreans who are rhythmic in live broadcast rooms, chat rooms or online forums, one of Fang Jie's methods is to ban IPs and prohibit logins, and even suspend accounts in serious cases.

Many people who were banned sent complaints and questioned, feeling that Boiling and Tencent seemed to be making a big deal out of a molehill, and the official reasons they received were very strange, but it also made them blush and speechless: Chinese people don’t scold Chinese people, please self-examine you words and deeds.

(End of this chapter)