Wind Rises 2005

Chapter 672 The Big Three

Teacher Feng was making a secret move, and Ma Liang knew nothing about it.

He also urged senior executives to take advantage of the listing of Liupo Malatang to vigorously promote the further development of its catering brands.

At the same time, I was busy preparing my graduation thesis. After all, I still had to go through the process.

While Ma Liang was busy with both tasks, Twitter and Kaixin.com finally launched their big move after half a year of preparation.

March 3, Beijing, Ritz-Carlton Hotel, banquet hall.

The press conference attracted the attention of science and technology media from all over the country and even the world, and hundreds of reporters flocked to the event.

Twitter CEO, Jack Dorsey, attended the event in person, which shows how much importance he attaches to it.

[Kaixin.com] CEO Cheng Binghao, as the host, arranged everything, and the two of them appeared at the press conference together.

At ten o'clock in the morning, the meeting officially began amid countless flashes and shutter sounds.

Under the gaze of thousands of people, Jack Dorsey slowly walked onto the stage. He was no longer the humble entrepreneur a few years ago, but a global business tycoon.

Although Twitter's technology content is not high, no one can underestimate this company.

After all, everyone knows the power of social media, and Twitter, as the world's leading social giant, has an influence that covers almost the entire world.

Therefore, Jack Dorsey's every move is watched by countless people at all times.

Now, he represents Twitter and [Kaixin.com] to reach a strategic cooperation and will jointly launch a new product.

And at this moment, everyone present will become a witness.

Jack Dorsey walked to the center of the stage. The big screen behind him had already lit up, and the Twitter and [Kaixin.com] logos appeared on it.

Along with it, a third LOGO appeared.

It was a pure red fist-like pattern with the English letters "Riot Games" clearly written on the side.

That’s right, it is the gaming company that Ma Liang wholly owns through Dafeng Capital.

Jack Dorsey glanced around the scene and slowly began to introduce: "Ladies and gentlemen!

It is a great honor for everyone to be here at the strategic cooperation press conference between Twitter and Kaixin.com.

Today, we will launch a brand new product, and I believe some media have already received the news in advance.

That’s right, as everyone guessed, it is a game product - "League of Legends".

As we all know, [StarCraft] and [Warcraft] are both very interesting real-time strategy and competitive games.

But the product I am going to launch today is different from those two. It is a hero battle MOBA (multiplayer online tactical arena) online game.

The game has dozens of heroes with different skills, as well as special systems such as ranking system and rune system.

The playability and fun of this game are unmatched by any previous games.

To this end, we also invited the strongest team of screenwriters to create background stories for the game's heroes, and the game's world view is unprecedentedly powerful.

In the future, we will even shoot a corresponding movie or MV for this game.

The most important thing is that one of the highlights of today's press conference is that Twitter and [Kaixin.com] will jointly host a global top-level competitive event for this game.

This event has an annual prize pool of tens of millions of US dollars and is now open to all major gaming clubs around the world to sign up and participate.

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Jack Dorsey was introducing the event slowly on the stage, while reporters below were taking photos and recording quickly, writing texts at the same time, and releasing the news reports immediately.

In the Internet age, speed is everything. Because of Ma Liang's involvement, the fate of the game League of Legends has changed drastically, and Riot Games has also embarked on a different development path.

When this game was first released in my previous life, there were only twenty heroes.

Now, the beta version will have more than sixty heroes, and the game’s background settings and world view information are much more complete than when it was first released in the previous life.

With the help of Ma Liangchao's ability, Riot Games even created some heroes that did not exist in the previous life. It has to be said that it is amazing.

As for the biggest change, it has to be in the event.

Now that the two social giants Twitter and Kaixin.com are jointly organizing the event, its influence has already reached the top before the event has even started.

Coupled with the prize pool of tens of millions of US dollars, the attraction is absolutely unique in the world.

You have to remember that this was only 2009, and such a high prize money would definitely attract countless gaming clubs and professional players to join in.

At that time, the live broadcast and rebroadcast of the event will attract more players to join in.

Only social networking giants like Twitter and Kaixin.com can afford to launch this entire system.

If it lacks some influence, it would not be able to make so many big moves at once. Even Tencent in its previous life did not have such a big move in 2009.

But this life is different. With Ma Liang’s intervention, many things have taken a different development path.

[Riot Games] is just one of them, and all the companies invested by [Dafeng Capital] are like this.

Ma Liang has set two routes. If it is a technology company, he will take it step by step.

If it is a gaming company, then we will do everything possible to achieve controlling stake, or even 100% equity acquisition.

There is only one goal, which is to make money as much as possible after the advent of the mobile Internet era.

Especially for those companies that launch casual games, the next few years when smartphones have not yet reached their peak performance are a good time to maximize their value.

Once these small game companies are listed like Zgnia, with a market value of over 10 billion US dollars each, it will be a good time to cash out.

By then, the wealth controlled by Dafeng Capital will reach a new height.

By that time, Ma Liang will have sufficient financial strength to invest in more technology companies, such as Tesla and Nvidia.

As Jack Dorsey finished his speech, Cheng Binghao followed up to give a summary.

Press releases flew to all parts of the world, and along with them, various game trial review posts continued to flood the Internet.

The game is free to play, and profits are only achieved through the subsequent sale of skins and other merchandise. This has made countless players look forward to it, and a large number of test applications have been submitted.

Such a grand event is naturally inseparable from the marketing support of two social giants, Twitter and Kaixin.com, which have invested heavily in it.

In just one day, the landscape of the gaming industry has undergone dramatic changes.

If we say that the previous "Happy Farm" and "Plants vs. Zombies" were just small-scale games that had not attracted the attention of peers.

The launch of "League of Legends" has completely made the gaming industry uneasy.

Foreign gaming giants such as Blizzard, Sony, and Nintendo have all felt the crisis, and domestic game companies can't help but have similar feelings: the wolf is coming!
There has always been a saying that there are three giants in China's Internet industry. BAT is currently the undisputed giant in China, and its position is unbreakable.

But nowadays, a huge gap has been torn in the gaming industry.

Everyone realized that the pattern of the three giants, Tencent, Shanda and NetEase, has been broken by [Kaixin.com].

As for which company will be replaced, I believe the answer will be revealed soon.

(End of this chapter)