my return 2002

Chapter 203 Ninetowns Listing
2004 was definitely a blowout year for the domestic online game market. First, Shanda went public in the United States and became the first online game stock in the mainland. Afterwards, Inspur Technology’s Jianyu Jianghu broke the legendary record for the highest simultaneous online game. Various game manufacturers also launched self-developed or online games. Agent online games, trying to get a piece of the mainland market.

Sina and Sohu, which had no online game business before, also entered the game one after another, and even laymen like Shi Yuzhu and Chi Yufeng also tried to get involved.

However, in November, the higher authorities promulgated the [Online Game Anti-addiction System Real-Name Authentication Scheme], requiring all online game manufacturers to carry out real-name authentication for players, which can be regarded as pouring cold water on this extremely hot market.

Some businessmen who were waving banknotes began to maintain a wait-and-see attitude. Policy risks are far more vigilant than business competition, because a piece of paper on the top is likely to make all your efforts go in vain.

Although the various online game manufacturers are extremely reluctant, they can only implement the orders from above.

Shen Lang has also become extraordinarily busy. During the previous meeting, Shen Lang promised to develop an anti-addiction system for free use by various game manufacturers. Before the above file was not released, everyone naturally hides whenever they can, but now they are really hiding. However, everyone ran to Inspur Technology for help.

Shen Lang also generously opened up the anti-addiction system to all game manufacturers. After testing the functions of the anti-addiction system, the bosses of these game manufacturers expressed satisfaction that they would immediately access it when they returned, and praised Shen Lang as the contemporary timely rain. , In fact, it is estimated that many people call him stupid in their hearts for doing such a thankless thing.

In this regard, Shen Lang wished that the more people who thought this way, the better. The more game manufacturers used his anti-addiction system, the smoother the real-name authentication of third-party payments would be in the future.

It's a pity that many game manufacturers are not fooled at all. Shanda also launched its own anti-addiction system, and distributed it to the outside world for free. Netease and Penguin also launched their own anti-addiction system, which made Shen Lang sigh.

Regarding the [Online Game Anti-addiction System Real-name Authentication Scheme] issued above, the parents naturally applauded. In their opinion, with this anti-addiction system, the children at home will no longer be as addicted to online games as before. Extricate yourself.

However, the smart post-90s soon found a solution to prevent addiction. Taking advantage of their parents’ absence, they secretly took their parents’ ID cards to register for anti-addiction. Not only did they not delay the game, but even some games were rewarded for successful anti-addiction verification. .

For example, Jianyu Jianghu launched an activity to reward [-] yuan point cards for anti-addiction certification. Not only did the number of players not decline, but also through this wave of publicity, online has also improved.

Shanda also followed suit. It launched similar activities in games such as Legend and Legend World, and achieved good results.

Of course, there are also some players who can't get their parents' ID cards, what should they do?The game still needs to be played, so some ID information appeared on the Internet. Countless ID numbers of Zhang San and Li Si have registered countless accounts in countless online games. Anyway, there are no regulations in the above documents, and an ID card can only be verified. How many accounts.

As long as the thinking does not slip, there are always more solutions than difficulties. The post-90s in the new era are practicing this saying with their actions.

Parents are dismayed to find that this anti-addiction system is completely useless, and the criticism of online games has once again risen.

In this regard, the online game manufacturers are also very wronged, we have already done anti-addiction, we can't let us drink the northwest wind, right?

During this time, due to the poor performance of the self-developed project Age of Heroes, Chen Tianqiao once again set his sights on agents. Due to the early start of Korean online games, good policies, and the vigorous development of the mainland market in the past two years, there have also emerged A large number of high-quality online games.

Chen Tianqiao took a fancy to NEXON's 2D side-scrolling online game—Adventure Island. The reason why he fell in love with this game was mainly because of the successful experience of Fantasy Westward Journey and BNB, even the QQ Tang copied by Penguin. Because of the style of the Q version, it has achieved good results.

Of course, there is another point. In Chen Tianqiao's view, the 2DMMO online game market has gradually entered a period of saturation, and Jianyu Jianghu is at its peak. It is unwise to go head-to-head with it. It is better to avoid its edge, and there may be unexpected surprises.

Since the painting style of the Q version of the online game determines that there will be no bloody or violent scenes in this type of game, the review process is also very fast, and soon Shanda got the version number.

On November 11rd, MapleStory started internal testing. This time, Chen Tianqiao didn't dare to sell any activation codes anymore. All players can directly enter the game. So the game was launched only two hours ago, and the number of people online at the same time broke through 3. A group of dark horses at the end of 10.

On the other hand, thanks to the success of QQ Hall, Penguin has more confidence in entering the end game market. This time, Ma once again proposed to develop a large-scale end game, which also won the unanimous approval of the executives. support.

However, the final project of this end game was named: QQ Fantasy.

In addition, Sina also launched at this time, the agency's Korean national-level online game [Lineage 2]. This game was launched in South Korea as early as the end of 2003, and it has been sought after by countless players. Sina is also full of confidence in this game. Lots of resources.

Not only is it the best recommended location on the homepage of Sina.com, but it also spends millions on hype on 17173 and Duowan.

With its excellent quality, Lineage 2 has attracted a large influx of players just during the closed beta period, with as many as 5 online at one time.

For a new company that has just entered the online game industry, this result is actually quite good. However, Sina is one of the three major portal websites after all, and Lineage 2 is a national-level game in South Korea. This result is somewhat unreasonable. Well, if this continues, even the agency fee will not be earned back.

The reason for this is that Lineage 2’s requirements for computer configuration are too high. Many players can play games such as Legend, Sword Rain, Jianghu and other games on their computers. After entering Paradise, they will be stuck in PPT within 2 minutes, let alone fighting monsters. Yes, even walking is stuck.

This is not the wild era of online games in 2001. Legendary cards were also played by people at that time. It was because there was only one online game, and it was 2004. Is it still like this?Goodbye to you.

Many players were attracted because of the quality of Lineage 2, and were also persuaded to leave because of the harsh configuration requirements for the computer. In the end, so many players remained, which is actually enough to prove the quality of this game.

Unknowingly, time came to December 2004, 12. On this day, Zhu Jun appeared on Nasdaq wearing a neat suit and rang the listing bell, which also meant that Ninetowns was finally listed.

Eight months ago, Zhu Jun also stepped onto the world stage on the same path as Chen Tianqiao walked. At this moment, he became the focus of the world. Ninetowns also completed the transformation from an obscure virtual community company to a world-renowned game company. .

At this moment, Zhu Jun was in high spirits, as if the world was under his control, and since Ninetowns had obtained the agency right of World of Warcraft in the mainland, in the eyes of American stockholders, Ninetowns would definitely soar. An increase of up to 25%.

Ninetowns also raised 1 million U.S. dollars by virtue of this wave of listing, and Zhu Jun's net worth also skyrocketed. Although there is still a certain distance from Chen Tianqiao, many media have already regarded him as Chen Tianqiao's second.

The successful listing of Ninetowns is undoubtedly a huge stimulus for many domestic online game manufacturers. The main reason why capital games make people crazy is the fission of wealth. When you go to the US stock market, you can easily earn tens or even hundreds of times the profit. Who can refuse such a temptation?

As a result, more and more online game manufacturers began to seek opportunities to go public in the United States. At the same time, more and more capital began to pay attention to online game companies in the mainland. This is a crazy time. As long as the products on hand have a little performance , the valuation will skyrocket, and individual investors and investment institutions will start waving money, crying and clamoring to invest in these online game companies.

Inspur Technology is no exception.

Lei Jun pushed open the door, sat down, hugged the teapot and started pouring it, then gasped and said to Shen Lang: "This is not the way to go, I can't live without receiving these investors every day."

Shen Lang fawned over Lei Jun again: "There is no other way, if I step forward, there will be no room for turning around many things, and I can only rely on you to deal with it."

This also made Shen Lang very helpless. Although he has no plan to go public for the time being, it is better not to offend these investors as much as possible.

At this time, the landline on Shen Lang's desk rang again. After connecting, the lady at the front desk said that it was a Japanese visiting.

"What's his name? Which institution?" Shen Lang asked casually.

"He said his name is Sun Zhengyi."

Shen Lang was stunned. He had heard of Sun Zhengyi's name. This generous investor was also well-known in China. The most well-known one was Jack Ma's proud [Convincing Sun Zhengyi in 6 minutes].

At one time, Sun Zhengyi was praised as the "God of Investment" by some unscrupulous media. It was not until Softbank's financial crisis broke out that Sun Zhengyi stepped down from the altar.

"Why is he here?" Lei Jun didn't think that Sun Zhengyi was the kind of person who would throw money casually.

Shen Lang was also a little surprised, because as far as he knew, Sun Zhengyi had invested in Shanda before. According to Chen Tianqiao's temper, if he knew that Sun Zhengyi had invested in Inspur Technology, what expression would he have.

At the entrance of Inspur Technology, a man with little hair on his forehead was looking around. When he saw Shen Lang and Lei Jun, his face was filled with smiles, and he greeted them very politely in Japanese.

Shen Lang politely welcomed Sun Zhengyi and his party into Inspur Technology.

After entering Inspur Technology, Sun Zhengyi looked at the company curiously. When he entered Shen Lang's office, Sun Zhengyi babbled again in Japanese.

Through the translation of Shen Lang, I found out that Sun Zhengyi said very bluntly that if you want to invest in Inspur Technology, you can spend as much money as you want.

Well, rich people are really self-willed. If it is an ordinary person, they would probably have been knocked out.

However, Shen Lang asked curiously: "Mr. Sun Zhengyi, isn't your decision a bit too hasty? Don't you fear that your investment will be in vain?"

Sun Zhengyi gave Shen Lang a thumbs up with a serious face: "In the mainland, it is the first time I have seen a company of this size with such simple office conditions. I believe that Mr. Shen must be a very good leader."

The fact is also just as Sun Zhengyi said, when the bosses of many Internet companies in China have money in their hands, they will move out of their original offices. Prepare.

After all, letting investors see that the company is dilapidated will always damage the company's image, especially the offices of some bosses, which are even more magnificently decorated, and are specially prepared for receiving investors.

In fact, in Sun Zhengyi’s view, these guys just don’t feel bad about spending other people’s money. When he invests, he likes to see how the boss’s office is decorated. The reason for Jack Ma.

After listening to the translator, Shen Lang couldn't help laughing secretly, wondering if those bosses would want to vomit blood when they heard what Sun Zhengyi said.

"First of all, I am very grateful to Mr. Sun Zhengyi for his affirmation of Inspur Technology. However, so far, our company is operating in good condition and we have no plans for financing. If we have a financing plan, we will definitely inform you as soon as possible." Shen Lang said with a smile these days The rhetoric has been said badly.

Sun Zhengyi was disappointed when he heard the words, but he didn't give up, but said to Shen Lang.

"Mr. Shen, apart from money, Softbank can also help Inspur Technology go public. Shanda's successful listing is also supported by our Softbank."

If it were someone else, they would definitely be moved when they heard about the listing. However, Mr. Lei looked at Sun Zhengyi gloatingly, listing?At the beginning, Shen Lang rejected the olive branch offered by Yang Zhiyuan. If Inspur Technology wants to go public, it will be able to launch an IPO next year.

"Sorry, Mr. Sun Zhengyi, Inspur Technology has been established for less than two years, and we still have many internal imperfections. We don't plan to go so fast for the time being. Thank you for your affirmation of us."

Sun Zhengyi sighed, took out a business card and handed it to Shen Lang: "Okay then, since President Shen insists, I respect your choice, this is my private phone number, if you need to invest someday, call me anytime. "

"Thank you." Shen Lang took the business card with a smile, and then, at Sun Zhengyi's request, showed him around Inspur Technology.

During the visit, Sun Zhengyi's expression changed again and again. He found that he seemed to have underestimated the strength of this company, and he also saw the business opportunities in it. However, he was rejected by Shen Lang twice before. He knew it and brought it up again. There will be no better results, so I can only suppress the excitement in my heart and try to build a good relationship with Shen Lang.

Although he just took a quick look at it, Sun Zhengyi said to the secretary when he left: "Send someone to keep an eye on the company's movements, and if there is any trouble, you must report to me in time, no matter what time it is, remember?" ?”

"Hi!"

(End of this chapter)