Rebirth 98, the rise started from ripping off Microsoft

When Ning Xuehua heard that the person had left, she glared at Lu Yiming and said, "Then why are you still standing here? Why don't you go for a walk with the cat?"

Lu Yiming: "..."

Well, my lord mother has orders, and Lu Yiming didn't dare to refuse, so he had to take Fat Tiger downstairs for a walk.

The community is not big, and it has a certain age. There are a few big trees in the community, but the sense of age is too obvious, and it cannot be compared with the current new community.

But Lu Yiming asked Ning Xuehua and the others to go to Bihailongting, but they didn't go, saying that they were surrounded by decades-old neighbors who were familiar with each other, and it was very troublesome to change places and re-establish neighborhood relationships.

In fact, they also gave Lu Yiming and Shi Qingxue a separate space.After all, both of them have graduated from college, and they can both talk about marriage.

Fat Tiger was having fun in the community, even exercising for a while with Lu Yiming following.

Back home panting, Lu Yiming helped Fat Hu untie the rope, and went to take a shower.

After coming out of the shower, just as he was about to eat, Lu Yiming suddenly received a call from Li Quanwang.

"Hey, Wangzai, where are you? Come and eat."

Li Quanwang said unhappily: "Still in the beautiful country, just finished talking with Blizzard."

After Tongxin Internet Cafe was sold, Li Quanwang wanted to start a profitable business. Lu Yiming and him jointly established Xingwang Technology Co., Ltd., and the first move was to talk about cooperation with Activision Blizzard.

For this company, Lu Yiming also attaches great importance to it. After all, he has personally experienced how huge the game market in the later Xia Kingdom is and how profitable it is to make games.And the game is such a thing, it can not only make money, but also affect technology and economy, and even affect policy, which is very amazing.Now that we are in the pioneering era of online games, Lu Yiming naturally chose to occupy the pit first without hesitation.

"How did the talk go?"

Hearing Lu Yiming's question, Li Quanwang became angry just thinking about the scene at that time, and immediately complained: "Don't mention it, these foreigners are looking at me directly with their nostrils, and the terms of the negotiation are even more harsh. They sent them to negotiate Man, you need me to prepare an independent telecommunications computer room, and the servers in the computer room can only run "World of Warcraft". I asked someone to help me out, just preparing these basic conditions according to what they said would cost a lot of money. The funds are tens of millions of dollars, if this game does not become popular in China, I will die in place."

Speaking of this, Li Quanwang's tone was also helpless. If Lu Yiming hadn't strongly recommended him to represent the game "World of Warcraft", and he himself liked playing "Warcraft", otherwise he would have left already, who has money? People can bear this bird spirit?
To put it bluntly, when Activision Blizzard puts forward such a condition, it is passing the risk to our game company.As long as Li Quanwang agrees to this condition, Activision Blizzard will not lose anything even if the game is a mess.

However, Lu Yiming knew how popular this game would be in the end. Although Activision Blizzard's attitude was very arrogant, who would be against money?
He persuaded Li Quanwang: "This cooperation is possible. I am still very optimistic about "World of Warcraft". But their attitude is so arrogant, even if they want to cooperate, we can't suffer. In this way, you ask to increase the revenue share of our game company." Compared to, five points more than before. Then sign a 50-year agency contract, and if they want to change Xia Guo's agency within 50 years, let them pay a sky-high price."

Li Quanwang was taken aback by Lu Yiming's words, especially the last agency term of 50 years, which was outrageous.

"The life cycle of an online game, ten years is enough to be recorded in the annals of game history. What's the use of signing for 50 years?"

Lu Yiming couldn't help sighing secretly when he remembered that this game had been making money in China for more than 50 years.He said to Li Quanwang: "Speaking of which, the game cycle is ten years anyway, so if you sign for 50 years, you will not lose money, right? Blizzard thinks so too, so they will only think it is funny when you say that you sign for [-] years, not be opposed to."

Fifty years later, it's hard to say whether Blizzard is still around.

Compared with this inexplicable request, Li Quanwang thinks that the extra 5.00% income ratio is more realistic.

"Okay, then I'll just talk to them like this. Can they really agree to this request?"

Li Quanwang was still a little hesitant. After all, with an initial investment of tens of millions of dollars, it was too difficult for him, a poor guy who didn't even dare to order meat dishes for dinner five years ago, to make a decision for him.

Lu Yiming smiled and said: "I think it is possible. We can make a lot of money by winning the agency of this game. Believe me, my hunch has never been a problem. By the way, after the cooperation, the game must be approved by wegame The client is started, and only the QQ account can be used to log in, and the Alipay system is used for transactions."

"Okay, I'll listen to you."

Li Quanwang trusted Lu Yiming unconditionally. Since Lu Yiming said that this cooperation was possible, he would not hesitate.

Just as Lu Yiming was about to hang up the phone, Li Quanwang continued: "Actually, I was going to sign a contract with Blizzard, but someone made trouble at the critical moment, and these foreigners started to raise prices again and again."

Lu Yiming asked curiously, "Who is it?"

Lu Yiming thought about the agent list of "World of Warcraft" in his previous life, and asked, "Is it Zhu Jun from the Ninth City?"

In the original timeline, in July 2002, The Ninth City obtained the exclusive agency rights of "Miracle MU" in the mainland, and thus became the only company in the industry that could compete with Shanda, which represented "Legend".

In the 2003 Forbes Xiaguo rich list, the 37-year-old chairman of the Ninth City Zhu Jun ranked 66th, with a net asset of 1.5 million US dollars, becoming the second Xiaguo game to enter the billionaire list after Chen Tianjiao, the chairman of Shanda Industry people.

In April 2004, The Ninth City obtained the exclusive agency right of "World of Warcraft" developed by Blizzard in Xiaguo at a price of 4 million US dollars, and once again became the center of players' attention.

In the same month, Ninth City acquired 400% of the shares of Target Software for USD 20 million, and obtained the right of first refusal to operate the Xiaguo online games developed by Target Software within the next two years. The online games under development by Target Software include "Tianjiao II" and "Aoshi Online".

On December 2004, 12, Ninth City was officially listed on NASDAQ, becoming the ninth and last Xiaguo company listed on NASDAQ in 15.

However, since May 2009, Ninth City once brought Blizzard to court on four grounds of property damage compensation, commercial slander, computer software copyright infringement, and computer software copyright licensing contract disputes. "World of Warcraft" has also been discontinued.Not long after, The Ninth City issued an announcement announcing the termination of its cooperation with Activision Blizzard.

At that time, the suspension of "World of Warcraft" even made news on CCTV.

This is also the reason why Lu Yiming first thought of the ninth city when he heard Li Quanwang said that there was competition.

However, Li Quanwang's answer was beyond Lu Yiming's expectation.

"Who is Zhu Jun? I don't know him. It's not the Ninth City who caused the trouble, but Brother Ma."

"Matten?"

Lu Yiming thought about it in his mind, and immediately understood.

In the previous world, the Ninth City relied on the agency of "Miracle MU" to rise up, and only then did it have the capital to win the agency rights of "World of Warcraft".

But in this world now, the pony brother who was originally socializing was cut off by Lu Yiming, so he had no choice but to represent the game, and happened to cut off "Miracle MU", so the ninth city is actually quite miserable now, and there is no competition on the table at all. Qualifications.

But Ma Teng, who won the agency rights of "Miracle MU", is not much better. "Miracle MU" has now been abolished by Lu Yiming with cheating.

Logically speaking, Brother Xiao Ma was cut off twice by Lu Yiming, and his situation is not much better than that of The Ninth City, but who made him have such an awesome father?
Therefore, Ma Teng, who came from an ordinary family, made another move this time, wanting to win the agency rights of "World of Warcraft".

I have to say, Brother Ma, he definitely has vision.Everyone complains that Xiao Ma only plagiarizes, not original, but in fact the threshold for plagiarism is also very high - at least you have to know which ones will be popular before you can plagiarize, otherwise the original works will hit the market, how lonely are you for plagiarizing?

Although Brother Xiao Ma was cut off several times, Lu Yiming did not dare to underestimate this guy who cheated.If Brother Xiao Ma is really the agent of "World of Warcraft", then it's okay?
Therefore, cut off, must cut off!
"Unexpectedly, fate brought us to meet again. Since I can kill him once or twice, I can naturally kill him for the third time."

Lu Yiming smiled slightly, and said, "Go talk to them again, no matter how much Brother Xiao Ma asks, you will pay 200 million dollars more than Brother Xiao Ma, and you must win the agency of "World of Warcraft" no matter what."

Li Quanwang was frightened, and exclaimed: "It's just an online game, what about it? Now the agency fee has risen to 800 million US dollars, adding 200 million US dollars, wouldn't it be 1000 million US dollars?"

You know, this is just an agency fee, not counting the revenue share after the game is operated, and the initial investment costs such as servers.

Li Quanwang felt his heart rising to his throat.

A few hundred million may be a drop in the bucket to Lu Yiming, but this money is Li Quanwang's entire net worth, so he cannot help being careless.With such a large investment, if the project cannot be carried out, it will have to lose Kuchazi.

However, Lu Yiming said to Li Quanwang: "It's rare to fight a few times in life, don't you want to be satisfied with the current life of being a little rich?"

Li Quanwang smiled wryly: "My assets of several hundred million yuan, how can I be considered a small rich? Don't treat money as money, okay! But you are right, it is rare to fight a few times in life, I believe you, this is a gamble!" Anyway, I was already a poor person, so it’s a big deal to be poor again.”

If Li Quanwang stops now, his wealth can enable his parents, himself, his wife, and even his children and grandchildren to live a good life.But Lu Yiming's buddy is too dazzling, Li Quanwang is also a passionate young man after all, it's impossible to say that he doesn't have any thoughts in his heart.Therefore, after being taken away by Lu Yiming, he was still not satisfied and wanted to go further.

At the critical moment, Li Quanwang had nothing to dare to bet on.

When he opened an Internet cafe, he even took the risk of going to jail to get 1% of the shares. Now that he has money, has he become a coward?

impossible!

beautiful country.

After several days of consultation, Ma Teng and Zhang Zhidong brought their latest agency plan to the Activision Blizzard Xiaguo branch and walked into the office of General Manager Bob Ives.

"Thank you, Mr.

Bob Ives looked up, and immediately said enthusiastically: "Mr. Ma, Mr. Zhang, you are here, please sit down."

Ma Teng came up with his own plan and said impatiently: "Mr. Xie, we are here today to continue talking about the agency of "World of Warcraft". This is our latest plan. Look..."

Before Ma Teng finished speaking, Bob Ives said: "Mr. Ma, Mr. Li of Xingwang Technology has raised the agency fee to 400 million US dollars. If you can't come up with a higher fee than this If there is an offer, there is no need for us to continue negotiating.”

"Eleven million?"

Ma Teng's eyes widened, and he couldn't believe the price.

This price is really crazy, he thinks that either Li Quanwang is crazy, or Li Quanwang is crazy!
You must know that when Tenglong Games represented Bangguo's "Miracle Mu" at the beginning, the agency fee was only 200 million US dollars, which was the price after several Xiaguo game companies snapped up.

Now that two Xiaguo game companies are competing for the agency right, it's only been a few days, and the agency fee is 1400 million US dollars?

It's not that Ma Teng can't get the money out, but if he really wants to spend it, it's a gamble.

But now he is a billionaire at least, so what's the point of playing with others?
But Bob Ives said: "Our Blizzard product must be a high-quality product. "World of Warcraft" is worth the price. Mr. Ma, you are too insincere. On the contrary, Mr. Li always asks for 200 yuan every time. It is obvious that he understands our Blizzard."

I know your size!

Ma Teng could not wait to step forward and give this guy two big pussies.

Ma Teng looked at Zhang Zhidong and asked, "Li Quanwang added another 200 million, should we follow?"

Zhang Zhidong: "..."

He dare not speak, Ma Teng came from an ordinary family, he is not!

In case of accepting it, even if the agency succeeds later, what if Ma Teng asks him to be responsible if he fails to make money?
After thinking for a while, Zhang Zhidong said, "Why don't we take another look? This Li Quanwang, every time he bids 200 million more than ours, it's just arguing."

Ma Teng thought the same way in his heart, this Li Quanwang seemed to have taken the wrong medicine, no matter how much they paid, Li Quanwang would add 200 million.

Who knows if this product will continue to increase in the future?

After hesitating again and again, Ma Teng sighed helplessly, and said to Bob Ives: "Unfortunately, Mr. Bob, this price is really beyond our ability to bear."

Bob Ives also expressed regret.

Why don't you keep going up?
You add another 200 million, and Li Quanwang adds another 200 million... Wouldn't it be great?
When leaving, Zhang Zhidong asked Ma Teng: "Did you really give up like that?"

Of course Ma Teng didn't want to give up, but at this moment he could only say helplessly: "Maybe "World of Warcraft" is excellent, but there is a price for everything. We, Tenglong Games, can't afford to lose."

Zhang Zhidong complained: "Has Li Quanwang gone crazy? In terms of assets, he is not as good as you. This is trying to mess with us."

Ma Teng gritted his teeth and said: "Who let him have someone behind him, and he dared to make such a bid, I guess it must be Lu Yiming's trick. I have to say, in terms of vision, Lu Yiming is really amazing."

Zhang Zhidong is also extremely painful: "The last time the source code of "Miracle mu" was leaked, I suspected that he did it. Now the whole game is half dead, and the popularity and profit have dropped greatly. In half a year, I'm afraid it will be Immediately no one will play."

Ma Teng said angrily: "What's the use of doubting? Do you have any evidence? Of course I know he must have done it, but you can't come up with evidence, and your words are useless."

The two looked at each other speechlessly. Although they were full of resentment, business competition was like this, and they used everything to the extreme.

It's not that they haven't used the same method against other game companies before. They can only say that the big fish eat the small fish, and the small fish eat dried shrimps.

After successfully winning the agency rights of "World of Warcraft", Li Quanwang returned with a big victory, and Lu Yiming went to the airport to pick him up in person.

Walking down the gangway, Li Quanwang came to Lu Yiming, and jokingly said, "Fuck, do I have such a big face? I actually let the richest man pick me up?"

Lu Yiming laughed and scolded: "Stop doing this with me, tell me in detail, how is the matter going?"

Li Quanwang said proudly: "What else can I do? I'm back now, and of course everything was negotiated according to your requirements."

Lu Yiming remembered that he would finally be able to play "World of Warcraft" happily in the future, and was immediately very happy. He put his arm around Li Quanwang's shoulder and said, "The next step is to develop WEGAME and connect it with "World of Warcraft". Let's go and have a celebration party." .”

On the way to the hotel, Li Quanwang asked about the news of the battle between Taobao and eBay, and said: "I saw newspapers talking about this in the beautiful country. How did you and Jack Ma win? It's unbelievable, the news in the beautiful country is saying that it must be your conspiracy."

Lu Yiming said contemptuously: "What kind of conspiracy, is it just right that I won Tangtang?"

Li Quanwang was abroad at the time and was busy negotiating every day. Naturally, he didn't know the inside story, so he was very curious about this matter.

"Tell him what's going on. After all, eBay is a big company with a market value of 300 billion U.S. dollars. How can you and Jack Ma overthrow this?"

"At that time in the beautiful country, eBay has been promoting this matter, saying that it will take the entire Xia country in less than two months. I can't swallow this breath even thinking about that arrogant attitude."

At this time, the beautiful country is at the height of the sun, looking around, invincible is the most lonely, it is not surprising to have such an attitude.

Seeing that Li Quanwang was filled with righteous indignation, Lu Yiming smiled and said: "Don't be so angry, you said that these foreigners came all the way to burn money to promote, let more ordinary people in Xia Kingdom know about e-commerce and online shopping, and finally the operation failed. A blank market that has just completed in-depth development is left to our local e-commerce companies. What should such a person be called?"

Li Quanwang was stunned when he heard this, and his heart was even more confused—isn't eBay the sworn enemy of Taobao?
But obviously, Lu Yiming never regarded Yi Bei as an enemy. Instead, he smiled a bit: "I, I would like to call them international friends, the contemporary Bethune."