My rebirth is different

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It can be said that people in the industry understand the significance of Facebook Games' acquisition of Blizzard.

After seeing the news, NetEase's Ding always turned pale.

Years later, he decisively cut off the blogging project and devoted himself to transforming the game industry, just to avoid competition with Facebook.

result……

Still haven't escaped, Facebook has officially entered the game industry after all.

Previously, although Facebook also operated a chess and card game platform and a battle.net platform, they were all platforms in nature and had nothing to do with NetEase's independent research and development and online games.

But now, Facebook Games has directly won Blizzard. Whether it is in terms of game development capabilities or game publishing capabilities, compared to NetEase, they are all at the crushing level.

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Similarly, in Pengcheng, in the Tencent headquarters, Xiao Ma and several capable subordinates locked themselves in the conference room to discuss the impact that Facebook Games' acquisition of Blizzard would have on Tencent.

"Facebook is pressing every step of the way! We were just about to launch our efforts in the game industry, and they followed suit. It's making life difficult!"

The Director of Tencent Game Project Department said in a muffled voice.

He has the biggest resentment towards the Facebook game, isn't it? The Tencent game platform that everyone had high hopes for had just started to compete with Facebook Battle.net.

As a result, Facebook Battle.com almost failed to "death" the Tencent game platform.

Now Tencent is preparing to launch online games, and has sent people to the next door to find suitable games, and they are actually very interested in Blizzard's long-standing masterpiece "World of Warcraft".

It's good now, the Facebook game directly took Blizzard to the pot.

Needless to say, World of Warcraft must have fallen into the hands of Facebook Games.

I just don't know the quality of this game. If it is really another "magic game", then domestic online game companies will have a hard time.

The Facebook company's traffic is comparable to that of any Internet company, even Tencent!

"Hurry up, we need to launch the online game project as soon as possible! Facebook's acquisition of Blizzard is not a big problem, and Blizzard will not be able to produce any new games in a short time. According to their World of Warcraft, it will not be available until next year at the earliest. Only one year It's time, we have to grasp this blank period in the market! In addition, we still have to find a way to make a fuss on QQ, with [-] million users, it is impossible not to find a profit model." Xiao Ma said firmly.

In the early years of 2000, Tencent never gave up the idea of ​​making profits through QQ.

Registration fees, QQ shows, pop-up advertisements, etc., all profitable methods have been tried.

That is to say, at that time, there was no network communication software with enough strength to compete with it on the market, so it survived for several years.

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Naturally, Yu Wenfei didn't know the reactions of his competitors, but he had seen the reactions of male and female fans on his facebook.

Yu Wenfei also responded to the female fans' complaints.

Chapter 551

"Don't worry, cousins, Blizzard is not just a gift for cousins, it's for you too. I can assure you that Blizzard will soon bring a game that everyone, male and female, will love. Games. You'll be thanking your cousin when the time comes."

After the launch of World of Warcraft, Yu Wenfei's popularity is still fresh in his memory.

Not only male players like to play this game, but also countless female players are addicted to it, unable to extricate themselves.

In World of Warcraft, I don’t know how many couples have been made. Many people met their significant other through this game. At that time, the so-called "Benxian" became popular!

Of course, there were also a lot of gossip, such as the famous "Bronze Beard Gate", so I won't go into details.

Since Yu Wenfei has made such a promise, everyone can only choose to believe in him, and they are full of longing for the upcoming World of Warcraft.

"My cousin must be talking about World of Warcraft! This is a masterpiece that Blizzard has polished for more than ten years!"

"100%, other Warcraft and Diablo are not suitable for female players, that is, online games like World of Warcraft. I'm really curious, can World of Warcraft be more fun than Legend and Miracle?"

"The people upstairs are idiots! How can the company that develops Legend and Miracle compare with Blizzard! Just because of the name of Blizzard's development, World of Warcraft will absolutely crush all online games at this stage once it is launched."

"A product produced by Blizzard must be a high-quality product! This sentence is not just a joke."

At that time, Blizzard had too many fans. Through their word of mouth, World of Warcraft, an online game that had not yet been released, had already become popular on the Internet. Countless players began to look forward to the launch of World of Warcraft.

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Here, Facebook Games and Vivendi have just completed the acquisition procedures, and on the other hand, Southern Blizzard issued an open letter again.

"I'm glad that Blizzard has finally got rid of Vivendi's control! After discussing with Facebook Games, Southern Blizzard decided to merge into the original Blizzard company. After all, there are our youth and good memories there. As long as there is a little room for maneuver, we will also I don't want to leave there!"

After Richard saw the news, he was really furious this time!

"These goddamn Yankees, they must be in collusion! Deliberately put pressure on us to sell Blizzard at a low price, and then let Facebook Games buy it!"

His guess was almost the real answer, but unfortunately even if he knew it in advance, it wouldn't change anything.

Not to mention that now that the purchase procedures have been completed, the raw rice has already been cooked into cooked rice.

Yu Wenfei met with Alan and Mike again, and promised not to take a penny of profits from Blizzard for at least ten years!

Blizzard's annual profits will all stay in the company and be used for company expansion and production of new games.

Moreover, after this acquisition, Blizzard didn’t have much cash on its books. Yu Wenfei proposed a content expansion financing plan. According to the proportion of shares, Facebook Games once again took out 7000 million, and Mike and the others took out 3000 million as the company. operating funds.

Everything is done, everyone is happy.

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After Facebook Games passed a new round of financing, Yuwenfei’s shares were diluted to 70.00% [-]%, Effie’s was [-]%, and Cai Congxin’s was [-]%.

On the contrary, Softbank's shareholding ratio rose to 20.00% point one.

For this 11.00% stake, Softbank paid a huge sum of US$15 billion.Among them, [-] million is financing costs, and the other [-] billion is interest-free loans.

After the acquisition of Blizzard, the valuation of Facebook Games can basically be said to be steadily higher than that of Facebook.

Originally, Yuwenfei and SoftBank valued Facebook Games at US$40 billion when financing, and now Blizzard is also added.

And Blizzard is worth at least 15 billion U.S. dollars. Of course, even if someone paid 20 billion U.S. dollars, Yu Wenfei would not sell it.

Because this company is his bridgehead and pioneer in entering the game industry, and its strategic significance is very important.

Effie and the company's legal and financial personnel were left to work with Blizzard, while Yu Wenfei went to Stanford University alone.

Here, there is an old acquaintance of him!

Zhou Mengqi came here to study after the Chinese New Year. As a cousin, how could Yu Wenfei not visit her when he came here this time?

Moreover, both Blizzard and Stanford University are in California, not too far away.