The richest man starts with a blind box

Chapter 407 00 All over the world [Additional]

The next afternoon, Blizzard held a shareholder meeting. At the meeting, everyone unanimously agreed that Huang He would be the new chairman of Blizzard. Huang He also explained Blizzard's future development plan at this meeting.

In fact, in the eyes of capital, this plan is undoubtedly very bad, because it cuts off the possibility of Blizzard making a lot of money, and limits Blizzard to the role of a game developer. The Jiangnan Group was in charge of the agency, so it must be the internal price. It is impossible for Blizzard to expect to make a lot of money. "

But everyone in Blizzard was very happy, because Huang He promised that regardless of whether Blizzard's games could make a lot of profits, Jiangnan Group would heavily subsidize Blizzard's special game production funds.

It is enough for Blizzard to allow Blizzard to concentrate on making games without being troubled by production funds.

On the spot after the meeting ended, Huang He even directly injected 5 million US dollars into Blizzard, and told Blizzard with domineering facts, listen to Dad, Dad told you to eat meat every day.

So with the end of the board of directors, the hearts of the people inside Blizzard were quickly settled down, and those who were not stable also chose to leave directly. Fortunately for Huang He, the four giants of Northern Blizzard did not leave Blizzard this time as they did in history.

They made it clear that as long as the conditions promised by Huang He do not change, they will at least produce Diablo 3.Diablo 3 was created by the real original team. Huang He himself is looking forward to this game.

After the meeting of the board of directors, Alan Adhan voluntarily submitted his resignation letter, but Huang He did not approve it. Khan is not making money for himself, but for his boss. This kind of wage earner mentality is okay.

In addition, Blizzard will completely transform into a pure game production company, so what the company needs is a technology-oriented president, not a marketing-oriented president, so Alan Adham is the company's optimal solution.

Not to mention that Blizzard is currently experiencing turmoil. If Alan Adhan, the former president, is rashly fired, it may lead to Blizzard's slack, so Alan Adhan finally succeeded in staying in his post and continuing to serve as the president of Blizzard. Location.

After the board meeting ended, Huang He kept Alan Adhan and asked a question he had wanted to ask a long time ago and was also very curious, "Alan, why don't you learn from him?" So, how about selling blind game boxes in the United States?"

This is a problem that has always troubled Huang He, because in Huang He's view, Alan Adhan wants to obtain higher profits, but in fact he doesn't need to do other things, he just needs to follow the calabash and learn from himself. In the US market, only blind boxes of various skins are sold, so that Blizzard can make a lot of money, which is much faster than selling agency rights by jumping left and right.

And once Blizzard does this, then Blizzard will not be a company that Huang He can buy for 3.5 million U.S. dollars. I am afraid that Vidiwang will directly raise the price to more than 5 million U.S. dollars.

It's just that Alan Adhan didn't implement this policy in Blizzard USA from beginning to end, which made Huang He very puzzled.

"What? You said that you don't have the money to buy servers and upgrade Battle.net, so you can only watch us engage in blind boxes?" When Huang He learned the truth from Alan Adhan, he was quite dumbfounded. a feeling of.

It turns out that Alan Adhan is not stupid, of course he thought about doing the same thing as Jiangnan Group, so this would involve a problem, that is, to upgrade Battle.net.

Although Battle.net was first created by Blizzard, anyone who was lucky enough to experience Battle.net in the United States in the early 21st century knows how rubbish Battle.net is to use, and all kinds of disconnections.

It is very normal for your opponent to stop moving, or you simply crash the game, which is why many American players prefer to play the national server.

Although the delay of the national server is high, its stability is much better than that of Blizzard.

The reason for such rubbish is because Blizzard has been reluctant to increase the servers of Battle.net, and the few servers that Battle.net was first created are always working there.

When the number of players in the battle is small, the user experience is not bad, but once the number of players increases sharply, the server of Battle.net can't keep up.

The best way to solve the problem is naturally to increase the number of servers on Battle.net.

At the same time, if Blizzard wants to learn from the Jiangnan Group's blind box strategy, it must carry out a comprehensive upgrade and replacement of the entire current Battle.net.After all, the original Battle.net was just a simple battle platform, but now it needs to add various functions such as modifying the internal files of the game, resetting the model, and recording data. This Battle.net needs to be updated.

In addition to selling blind boxes, you need to open up offline sales channels. All in all, this requires a lot of expenses. Alan Adham asked his staff to make a budget report, which will cost about 1 million US dollars. , to be able to promote the entire plan.

Alan Adhan went to Vidiwang with this budget report, hoping to get Vidiwang's approval, but Vidiwang didn't say approval or agreement, only that the money would be borne by Blizzard itself.

In other words, I am worried that this cost will be borne by Blizzard's own profits, but the annual profit quota set by Vidiwang for Blizzard is there. Once Alan Adhan spends 1 million If the US dollar is used to do this, it is absolutely impossible to retain the demand of the Big Four of the Northern Blizzard.

So Alan Adhan had no choice but to postpone this plan, intending to get a huge amount of agency fees from Huang He or Shi Yuzhu, and then start this plan.

"Can't Vidiwang see the potential of this blind box? Do you know how much money this can make them?" Huang He asked in surprise.

"How do I know, but according to my experience, Vidiwang is a guy who can't see any future in his eyes and only focuses on immediate interests. Especially their joint venture management department, they only consider current performance, not We will consider the impact of these decisions on the future of the company!" Alan Adhan said indignantly, and the resentment towards Vidiwang was obviously deep to the extreme.

"Now you can tell those guys what a stupid decision they made!" Huang He smiled slightly, "I will set up servers in the United States, Europe, and Southeast Asia, and connect them to the OO game platform uniformly. All future Blizzard games Users can play Blizzard games directly on the OO game platform anywhere in the world!"

"This is just a crazy plan!" Alan Adhan opened his mouth wide when he heard that, and set up servers all over the world, gradually becoming a game platform covering the world. Such a huge ambition really made Alan Adham Shocked.

"Such a huge plan, the server alone may require an expenditure of hundreds of millions of dollars!" Alan Adham exclaimed.

"It's okay, the server is our own, no money required!" Huang He chuckled.

"My own...Huang, has your Jiangnan Group already set foot in the server business?" Alan Adhan looked at Huang He in disbelief. He didn't pay much attention to the news of the server industry recently, otherwise You will know what great things the Jiangnan Group has done these days.

"It's natural. In the future, Jiangnan Group will get involved in more industries and form a fist that can shake the world!" Huang He showed his ambition to Alan Adhan, and then said, "So your frozen Throne, let’s wait a few more months, wait until our global network is completed, and then use the Frozen Throne to create a huge impact around the world!”

"Still bounced?" Alan Adhan rolled his eyes and said, "Originally, the Frozen Throne was launched a week ago, but it was delayed for a month, but now it will be delayed for several months, boss, so Is it not good, it is too cruel to the players!"

"It's okay, the players are used to your family bouncing tickets!" Huang He said cheerfully.

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In mid-July 2003, Boss Huang Hehuang, who had been wandering in the United States for nearly two months, finally returned to China, and this time he did not encounter any unexpected reporters, and everything went very smoothly.

In the past few days when Huang He went out, there was no major event happening in China. If there is any major event, it is probably MSN's high-profile announcement of entering the Chinese market.

That's right, Microsoft, which had already received the residual assets of QQ at the beginning of the year, waited for half a year before announcing their entry into the Chinese market with their MSN family bucket a few days ago.

This is not news in itself, after all, it has been blown for more than half a year, and everyone has no sense of expectation.

However, the Internet is looking forward to this very much. When MSN comes, all evils will disappear.

As soon as MSN comes, the end of 00 will come.

What Chinese people can finally connect with world-class chat software, anyway, many people seem to think that foreign monks are easy to chant scriptures, and OO will face a very powerful opponent this time.

The operation team of QQ is also quite excited. They feel that they are finally able to keep the cloud open and see the moon. Although the market share of QQ has dropped to less than 20% now, and they have nothing to do with Microsoft, but Microsoft's MSN came in. Yes, it must absorb some talents, maybe I still have a chance to enter Microsoft.

In the anticipation of everyone, Microsoft China finally released the first announcement, that is, one month later, the operation of QQ will be completely suspended, and the time for QQ to come to an end.

(End of this chapter)