My rebirth is different

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"However, you also understand the strength of VUG. Either you will lose the lawsuit, or it will continue to drag on. Villefort is no match for the opponent in the fight for financial resources. If this continues, you can still focus on it. Are you coming to game development? Half-Life [-], global players have been waiting for several years, to tell you the truth, I am a CS lover." Yu Wenfei said with a smile.

Talking about Half-Life [-], Fatty G also sighed, "In the second half of this year, we should be able to launch mature products. This is indeed our problem, and everyone has been waiting for a long time."

Effie turned the topic back again, "Mr. Gabe Newell, the Facebook game has great strength, the Facebook Battle.net we launched on the mainland, the perfect ranking points and rank division system, all of which can give half a Bring better gaming experience to players. If we work together, then Valve can devote all its energy to making better games. I think Facebook Games is better at these services and promotions! Everything It's for the players, isn't that bad?"

"Everything is for the players..." Fatty G repeated this sentence in a low voice. Indeed, although he also likes money, his love for games has always come first.

Effie's words are very reasonable. The Facebook game is indeed powerful. Of course, if the strength is not enough, how could even Blizzard buy it!

Fatty G also registered on Facebook Battle.net, and the game experience on it really surprised him.

However, with his vicious vision, he also knows that it needs numerous data centers and huge server farms to support it, and all of these are temporarily unbearable for Villefort.

That's why he didn't learn from Facebook's Battle.net ranking system in the United States, because it's impossible to build so many data centers. Sometimes things are not complicated, but you just can't do it, because of poverty...

"How about... Let's do this, I can authorize Half-Life's global network promotion rights to Facebook games, that is to say, you can set up data centers in the United States or Europe to provide Battle.net services for players around the world. In addition, This authorization is free, and Villefort does not charge a penny!" Fatty G said generously.

Of course, Yu Wenfei and Effie will not be moved by his "generosity".

Isn’t this nonsense, Facebook Battle.net has no charging items at all, and the slogan it puts out is to provide genuine players with a better gaming experience.

Providing Battle.net services in the United States or Europe requires a large investment of money to build a data center, and there is no profit!Of course Villefort was embarrassed to ask for any licensing fee.

"We'll discuss this issue later, but I heard that Villefort is planning to launch a new project called STEAM?" Yu Wenfei said with a smile.

This matter is not considered a commercial secret anymore, Fatty G nodded calmly, "Yes, because of the lessons learned from Xuele Mountain, we are preparing to build our own online distribution channel, and the current network can also support players to download games from the Internet Ontology. With the advancement of Internet hardware technology, the network bandwidth will become larger and faster, and the network speed will also become faster. In my opinion, selling games through the Internet in the future must be the general trend, just like Amazon now. "

Fatty G is really scared by Xueleshan!

He also realized that if he did not have his own sales channels, his life would always be controlled by publishers.

If the game that I have worked so hard to develop is not popular, it is fine. Even if it is really popular, most of the profits will be taken by the publisher.

They give themselves as much as they want, because it's so easy to play with the data.

As for myself, it is basically impossible to go to so many countries around the world to collect evidence and count how many games have been sold.

Chapter 557 You can do whatever you want with money

I have to say that G Fat is still very discerning.

In 2003, it was planned to launch the STEAM platform, and this game platform named "Steam" in Chinese is the "big killer" that truly established Valverde's position in the game industry!

The reason why it is named "Steam Platform" is to describe the speed of downloading games from this platform is very fast, so fast that it gushes out like steam, which is unbelievably fast!

It must be mentioned here that the download speed of the steam platform is really unmatched by all other game platforms!Students who have used this game platform should be able to experience that when downloading games, the speed is really jaw-dropping.Under normal circumstances, it can reach full speed, even if you are a domestic user, you can experience a download speed of 20MB per second!

It's not that Valve is particularly rich, and they didn't build a lot of data centers, especially early on.

So why is the download speed of this platform so amazing?

Still, Fatty G has a wide network of contacts. In order to build a steam platform, he brought in the famous inventor of "perverted" downloads, Bram Cohen!This is another genius programmer.

He is best known for writing the peer-to-peer file-sharing protocol BitTorrent and developing the first file-sharing program to utilize it.He is also the founder of CodeCon, the organizer of the Bay Area p2p-hackers conference in San Francisco, and the author of Codeville.What is more famous is that he personally developed and designed the famous game platform Steam.

And the VPN protocol, after it came out, immediately became the general standard for all downloading software. The Internet Express, Thunder, QQ Tornado, etc. that everyone is familiar with all use this protocol.

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In the early days of the Internet, the United States did have the most technical geniuses, and basically all cutting-edge technologies emerged from here and then went to the world.

This is also the reason why Yu Wenfei wants to let the Facebook game go abroad as soon as possible and develop in the United States, just for the talents here.

"However, even if this steam platform is established, you Valverde is only a game like Half-Life, what will you use to support the development of the platform?" Effie asked with a smile.

"Well... Of course we have our own plan, we will seek the cooperation of major game companies, and welcome them to bring the digital version of the game to the Steam platform for sale." Fatty G said frankly.

"Maybe you don't know yet, Facebook Battle.net will merge with Blizzard Battle.net to establish the world's largest online battle platform. And...Facebook Battle.net will also have its own online distribution platform, and all future Blizzard games will be on its own platform. In comparison, do you think major game companies will trust the strength of Facebook games more, or will they trust Valve more?"

Effie's words already contained threats.

She just told Fatty G clearly, aren't you going to sell games on the steam platform?

Sorry, Facebook games are also being developed, and we already have the support of the strongest game company at present, with strong economic strength, Blizzard's reputation blessing, and the largest player users in the world.Then there is no need to compare Facebook's online sales channels and steam, which one is more promising.

Sure enough, after hearing Effie's words, Fatty G's face finally became ugly.

He has great expectations for the steam platform, and there is no similar competitor in the market for the time being, so he is confident to open up this market.

But I never expected that before the steam platform was launched, a competitor would come to the door, and it was such a powerful opponent!

Effie made a lot of sense. The Steam platform is only supported by Valve, while Facebook’s game sales platform is supported by Blizzard. Coupled with Facebook’s huge financial support, how can I compete with it.

Others are rich and can do whatever they want, Fatty G feels powerless.

"Providing a sales platform for digital games is a market with great prospects. Similarly, it requires a lot of investment in the early stage. So why can't we join hands to make this market bigger? Why should we cooperate with each other? What about the competition?" Effie's tone softened.

Under Effie's "coercion and temptation", Fatty G has no power to fight back.

After all, compared to business negotiations, he is better at making games...

"Okay, so how should we cooperate?" Fatty G asked in frustration.

He really doesn't want to face such a behemoth like Facebook Game anymore, because once the two sides start to compete, it may mean that the road ahead for Villefort and the steam platform will be more difficult.

If he is a third-party game manufacturer, he is obviously more willing to hand over his games to Facebook Games for sale instead of Valve's steam platform...

"It's still the same sentence, let Facebook Games invest in Villefort! Think about it, Mr. Gabe Newell. In the future, Villefort will no longer need to be distracted from thinking about game releases, player services and other chores. Facebook Games has a professional and A strong department will solve everything. Valve will be like Blizzard in the future, devoting all its energy to the game itself. With the strong support of the head office, we will strive for excellence and contribute more exciting games to players around the world! In addition You can rest assured that even if Facebook Games becomes Valve's major shareholder, we will not interfere in the company's game production and internal management, everything is up to you. Oh, by the way, if the cooperation is reached, you can cooperate with Blizzard has become a brother company, and can exchange technology and personnel at any time. Many game production technologies on Blizzard will also be shared with you..."

Effie talked eloquently, her attitude was very sincere, and her words were full of temptation.

Fatty G was really moved.

He's not stupid, of course he knows that Facebook's investment in Villefort must be profitable, and it can't be for doing good deeds.

But again, Villefort can have this "big tree" as a backer, which will really save a lot of trouble, which may not be a good thing.

"So..., how many shares do you want?" Fatty G pushed his glasses on the bridge of his nose and asked seriously.

"60.00%, and then take the steam platform project separately and merge it into the North American branch of Facebook Games. Mr. Gabe Newell, you can make a price." Effie said seriously.

In fact, Yuwenfei’s main purpose of coming here this time is to win Half-Life’s global network agency rights, the steam platform is second, and Valve’s equity is the last.

Of course, it would be even better if all three goals were met.

The current Villefort is a company owned by Fatty G alone, and the company is not listed, so the asking price is entirely up to him.

Hearing that Effie asked him to make an offer, Fatty G hesitated.