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   Chapter 383 Hermaphrodite

  Song Yang was about to name and name, and he wanted Blizzard to develop "World of Warcraft". It is conceivable that after Diablo, the concept of online games will rise around the world, and the world's most profitable Internet industry is about to emerge.

  The concept of online games is played by Xue Leshan, and naturally it cannot be faked in the hands of the likes of the stick. North American and European game manufacturers love 3A masterpieces, but Xue Leshan cannot miss the concept and market of online games.

   A World of Warcraft is enough to push Blizzard to the top of the global game industry. As long as this game is launched, it will not be in vain for Fisher Leshan to buy Blizzard!

When the Mike Moraimi trio heard Song Yang's words, their heads began to grow big. When they arrived at the new owner, the treatment was indeed improved, and it was much better than that of CUC International, whether it was development funds or other. In terms of support, Song Yang, the financier, gave his full support, and this time the announcement of "Diablo" can be seen.

   But in the same way, for Blizzard and their game studios, the requirements are much higher, at least there is no chance to be lazy.

"Now Blizzard has a number of games under development. StarCraft, which will be released next year, plus Warcraft 3 and Diablo 2, if we develop another online game, I'm afraid Blizzard will not have enough manpower!" Mike Morhaime said bravely.

  Blizzard's game development in the next three to five years is already full, but now a new game is going to be added. Mike Morhaime feels that they will not have a vacation in a few years.

Hearing this, Song Yang glanced at Ken Williams, who immediately understood what Song Yang meant, coughed and said, "Xue Leshan will fully support Blizzard Studio, don't worry about funding, you can recruit More people into Blizzard Studios!"

   A month for Xue Leshan and ICQ, madly taking 200 million US dollars, Blizzard's ability to attract money is undoubtedly obvious, at this time, the treatment of Blizzard is naturally top-level, asking money to give money to people to give.

   Hearing that Song Yang, the gold sponsor, and Ken Williams, Blizzard's Bole, have already expressed their opinions, Mike Moraimy and the three of them can only bite the bullet and respond.

   "After Xueleshan settles with game distributors and agents, rewards will be issued to Blizzard and Xueleshan immediately!"

Song Yang said directly in front of the crowd that there is nothing more motivating than a US knife to give huge rewards to Blizzard staff. In this wave, ordinary Blizzard employees can get hundreds of thousands of US dollars. Bonus, Mike Morhaime, not to mention the three of them.

   "Mike, the equipment explosion rate of Diablo is too low!"

The atmosphere in the villa became noisy, and Gallo complained to the Blizzard trio that as long as it was a game with explosive equipment, there would inevitably be two types of people, the European Emperor and the African Chief. Gallo obviously belonged to the latter. Now, none of the top equipment has ever been exposed. When PKing with people online, they are chased and chopped by others.

  Evan Spiegel, who was mixed with Gallo, was worth more than 10 million US dollars in a hunting hedge fund some time ago, and now he is also rich and rich, "If only I could trade game equipment, I would like to trade with US dollars!"

Hearing these beautiful words, Gallo glanced enviously at Evan Spiegel, feeling a little regretful. He double-clicked the company some time ago. When he was in crisis, why didn't he look like Evan Spiegel? The same dog-legged gallant, also bought Double-click stocks, and now he can make a lot of money, and now he can take out one or two million dollars in cash.

The speaker had no intention, but the listener had a heart. Song Yang turned his head to Ken Williams, who was sitting beside him, and said, "The Xue Leshan online platform needs to continuously improve new functions, and can introduce game trading business. In the future, game trading will be very common. The Xue Leshan online platform can act as a third party to supervise and guarantee player transactions and charge a certain commission!"

  Once the game industry develops, many industries will be derived, whether it is the transaction of second-hand game consoles, game discs, various game collectibles, game accounts or even in-game equipment transactions, etc., will appear one after another.

This is an emerging industry, but it also means opportunities. The scope and operability of the PC game industry definitely surpasses the traditional game console industry. As long as Xue Leshan occupies the distribution and trading of PC games, it will be a waste in the future. It is estimated that Can be eaten for decades.

   Hearing that the player trading area will be launched on the Xue Leshan online platform, for Ken Williams, it feels like a new door has been opened. He never thought that the game industry could be so tossed!

The previous TGA Global Awards, the Game Hall of Fame, etc., are to control the right to speak in the game industry. Snow Mountain Online is for game channels. There will be game e-sports in the future. Half a year is much more experienced than he has been in the game industry for so many years.

   Now Ken Williams understands why Song Yang is so sought after in America and even in the global Internet industry. He can clearly feel that Xue Leshan is changing the entire game industry, or redefining the term game!

   "The strategy of relying on friends to download and register on the Xueleshan online platform and issuing game currency rewards is indeed very effective. Now the users of Xueleshan Online have exceeded 15 million, and it is expected that by the end of this year, the number of global users will exceed 20 million!"

Ken Williams said that the game industry and players are all focused on the sales of "Diablo", but the Internet industry, Silicon Valley, and Wall Street are actually paying attention overnight, and suddenly millions of people appear. User's Snow Mountain Online.

Snow Mountain Online, the development speed is too fast, just like it suddenly popped up, it has become one of the websites with the most users in the world without waiting for the outside world to react, even if ICQ, Hotmail, double-click, etc. are used for its drainage, But the speed is still beyond the imagination of many peers.

   The strategy of pulling people’s heads to reward them is absolutely useful in any era, but in this era with few routines, it is especially obvious.

   "70% of the users of Xue Leshan Online are basically attracted by the users themselves, and the platform has paid 14 million US dollars worth of game currency for this!"

This result is already much better than what Ken Williams expected. This more than 10 million dollars is equivalent to 240,000 sets of "Diablo" games for which he was prostituted for nothing. Compared with more than 1,000 If thousands of users come, such a cost is basically negligible. If other websites rely on this money to have such an effect, it is estimated that investors will laugh crookedly.

   "However, for these users who are drawn to the platform by other users, it may not be easy for them to stay on the platform or increase their activity!"

   The sudden increase of so many users is both happy and worrying for the Xueleshan online platform. The huge number of users doubles the maintenance cost of the platform, and it is not so easy to retain these users.

   For this point, Song Yang is not too worried, any website must go through this, "Continue to acquire game copyrights, improve the functions of Xue Leshan Online, attract more game manufacturers, and use Xue Leshan Online as a distribution channel!"

Xue Leshan online platform does not seem to make much money now, and it is expected to lose money for a while, but the emergence of Xue Leshan Online is of great significance to ICQ. A website with more than 10 million users will make ICQ's The valuation, once again raised by a large margin, will also become another bargaining chip in the hands of ICQ!

   "Diablo's online battles may be more popular than expected in the future. Stand-alone and 3A are not the whole of the game industry. In the online game industry, Xue Leshan must not miss it!"

Before leaving, Song Yang explained to Ken Williams again, "Xue Leshan wants to promote or acquire more online games, as well as companies that develop online games, Asian sticks, and emerging game companies in Europe, Xue Leshan can invest! "

Even if the game studio under Xue Leshan is exhausted, it is impossible to develop all the games. If Xue Leshan wants to occupy the game industry, it can only acquire it, especially the online game company on the stick, and the mobile games in Europe, Finland and other places. Wait.

The hot sale of "Diablo" has an impact not only in the game industry, but almost immediately after the monthly sales of the game were released, Wall Street institutions and investment banks in Silicon Valley raised ICQ's valuation again, and it was A full increase of several billion dollars, from the previous valuation of 7 billion dollars, has directly increased to 11 billion dollars, becoming a well-deserved American Internet leader!

Now it seems that ICQ is indeed "impeccable". It is the world's largest instant messaging company, with more than 10 million users. It launched ICNC TV station with NBC Group and entered the media news industry. Now it is a game business with heavy investment , and it shines again. The first game released, it took 200 million US dollars in a single month. Does this still not explain everything?

The emergence of Xue Leshan Online has also allowed Wall Street institutions to greatly increase the valuation of ICQ. ICQ, which holds many trump cards, has various businesses such as instant messaging, portal websites, TV stations, and games. Now it seems that it is true It is the sweet pastry of the Internet industry!

Immelt, the next candidate for the head of General Electric, also called Song Yang, and it sounded that Immelt was in a good mood, "Song, congratulations, ICQ is beyond my imagination, if ICQ continues If things go on like this, I don't think ICQ merges with NBC, maybe President Welch will directly let GM acquire ICQ!"

Immelt said in a joking tone, but Song Yang heard something different when he heard this. This may not be a joke. If Welch really had the idea of ​​acquiring ICQ Woolen cloth? !

  Song Yang reminded Immelt, "If ICQ is really acquired by GM, then we have to see in whose hands it was acquired!"

Hearing this, Immelt was silent for a while. He heard the overtones in Song Yang's words. If ICQ was acquired, then their previous agreements would all be waste paper, and the credit would go to Weir. Strange, what does it have to do with him Immelt?

   (end of this chapter)