Please make money.

In the same year, Blizzard developed the breakthrough work "Warcraft: Orcs & Humans", which received widespread acclaim.

In the following year, Blizzard built on its success and completed the sequel "Warcraft II" in 10 months, which became Blizzard's first work to exceed one million copies.

From then on, "Warcraft" became Blizzard's golden signboard.

Also in this year, Davidson & Associates was acquired by Sierra.

In 1996, Blizzard, which was at the peak of its career, acquired Condor Games, and on the last day of that year, Diablo was released.

Interestingly, Sierra was acquired by CUC International in the same year, and merged with HFS Group to become Cendent the following year.

It’s dizzying, isn’t it? But this is the capital market, buying and selling.

Blizzard develops games, but it is also a pawn in the capital game, being played around with in the palm of the hand.

More than a year later, Blizzard launched another phenomenal game after "Warcraft", "StarCraft".

Compared to its popularity, the greater significance of StarCraft is that it has brought gaming to the level of e-sports competition.

At the same time as StarCraft was released, Cendent was again acquired by Havas Publishing.

Havas was soon acquired by Vivendi, and the story already hints at tragedy here - that's the infamous Vivendi!

But players tend to only notice good games.

Few people could have imagined that in the years when Blizzard continuously launched classic games, Blizzard had either just "sold itself" to others or was on the road to being acquired.

In the years from "Warcraft" to "Starcraft", Blizzard changed hands six times.

Fortunately, the addition of capital in the early years did not have a huge impact on the development of Blizzard games themselves.

Therefore, Blizzard's development has basically been smooth sailing, and they think that Vivendi is probably the same.

Brother Sponsor, you won’t harm me, right?

...That's not going to happen, right?

Vivendi: Hehe~

At this time! Alia appears!

But it didn't show up on their side...

What beautiful things were you thinking about? At that time, Alia was still the soul of a little angel and had not come yet.

Vivendi is an old company that started out in the water supply business.

Later, through continuous mergers and acquisitions and restructuring, it became a huge media company.

At this time, you can extend the little hand of the goddess of fate again and move the world line to this world line.

In this world line, because of the popularity of Atari, the Blizzard team had just developed "The Lost Vikings" and was noticed by Vivendi.

After the collapse of Atari, Alia emerged as a dark horse, started an army in the Sakura Empire and launched a global campaign.

The FC red and white console and the GBA handheld console conquered cities and killed everyone.

After all, it is called the FC red and white console, but this thing should actually be more of a TV version of the GBA, just backwards compatible with the FC.

In the GB era, gameplay was king, and Atari was fighting them head-on...

Oh, Atari is really going to hit the head, in the future they will even produce a super invincible retro console.

The model number 40+ is a perfect replica of the design from 2600 years ago, priced at US$129.99, and is said to focus on restoring the sense of the times.

But in order to adapt to the new era of equipment, an HMDI port was added, which can be powered by USB, and nothing else.

Alia was very suspicious that they had found the inventory keys from that year. How did they come up with this thing?

Fortunately, Atari in this world line died more thoroughly and was almost unable to resist the joint attack of Alia and Sega.

Vivendi has extended its tentacles into the world of video games, but it is not stupid and has not said that it plans to play on the same track as Alia.

How to play? She was born in 03, I can't beat her!

They set their sights on the PC. Blizzard was acquired by Vivendi because they thought Blizzard could emerge as a dark horse on the PC.

The original idea was good, and they did draw an invincible card.

After Alia noticed the emergence of Fiberglass, she tried to contact it, but failed because Vivendi was ambitious.

But the problem is that Vivendi expanded wildly last year and fell into financial and credit crisis, with a debt of $310 billion.

Alia also expanded madly, and made tens of billions...

All I can say is that people have different destinies. The lucky one is like this: the goddess of fate chases you and feeds your baby complementary food.

After the financial report came out, Vivendi was in a daze and no longer had the energy to develop video games.

They began planning to bid for the sale of game-related departments including Blizzard!

In another world line, this matter was jointly opposed by four original founders of Blizzard, including the creative director of "StarCraft".

They threatened Vivendi not to bid for Blizzard by threatening to resign collectively, and no one knew what they were worried about.

Fortunately, Vivendi eventually survived the crisis.

Then the "Four Heavenly Kings" of Blizzard left the company one after another...

So what are you trying to achieve?

The departure of the founding team laid the groundwork for Blizzard's "decline".

But in this world line, Blizzard has just risen, and it is so new that even Vivendi has not seen their true potential.

Warcraft and Diablo haven't come out yet, and they said they wanted to resign collectively, so Vivendi just agreed.

If you don't do it, there are plenty of people who will.JPG

This matter even made the news, and Alia, who had been following the news in this regard, just wanted to make money.

Come with small money~ Come with great force~ Come from all directions~

Could I miss this?

If I missed this cash cow, I would wake up and slap myself in the face in my dreams in the middle of the night!

There is no doubt about it, future Donghuang game players, let’s unite!

The money from your point cards is the military expenditure for the chip semiconductor industry to overtake others!

Of course, if she was a little more ruthless, she could give it to her for free.

The minimum living allowance is changed to 30 essences, and then added to the essence gift pack.

1000精华只要198，2000精华只要378，还有648超值大礼包！

A lucky coin costs only 6 yuan each, and a 10-layer rice key costs 15 yuan each.

A Titan creation costs 99 each, and is limited to each week. You can upgrade a piece of equipment to become a Titan creation, with an equipment level of +15.

Well, if the mount system is also made into a krypton gold point...

As Alia was writing, she slapped herself.

Alia, Alia, have you forgotten your original intention?

You are here to bring happiness to everyone! How can you only think about earning points?

"Someone is coming——"

Alia tore off the note in her hand and handed it to the secretary who came over with gritted teeth.

"Contact the property department... just for this one time! Don't do it again - oh, let me bear this infamy..."

The secretary looked at the simple note with confusion. There was a rough plan on it.

"New Year's Super Linkage... Wandering Blue Star... Game props... Commemorative cards... Mobile phone theme redemption code... Free with the purchase of milk tea... Hmm?"

The secretary didn't quite understand: "Miss, is this joint activity for the property department?"

It's a bit messy, there are quite a lot of things.

"For the Aili supermarket. There is a beverage counter inside Aili. I will ask the art department to develop a set of themes that can be used for our mobile phones overnight, as well as souvenir props in many popular games. For example, in Pokémon, you can use this redemption code to get a special prop called... well, called "Souvenirs from a Wandering Planet" or something like that. It doesn't look out of place to make it a bicycle prop or something - after all, you can get it when you order at the beverage counter. Then, we will issue a set of commemorative cards, limited to this one version, made into the size of Yu-Gi-Oh, the card face must be good-looking, and it must have an NFC redemption function... No, let me think about it..."

Alia was confused for a while, and the secretary recorded and crossed out the information, and then finally figured out this activity that she had just made up her mind.

When you spend 15 drinks, you can draw a card.

The commemorative card itself has a flash card appearance and NFC function.

Because Alia's mobile phone and game console both support NFC recognition, such commemorative cards can be directly swiped to redeem commemorative props.

There are five games that will get corresponding props, which depends on the style of the game itself.

For example, a plumber can get a special mechanical exoskeleton skin, or the protagonist in Pokémon can get a mechanical-style bicycle for transportation.

The sixth card can be used to redeem themes for Ai Group’s mobile phones and discount vouchers of various denominations at Aili supermarkets.

Alia even gave out coupons worth 100-50, not worrying about losing money.

What supermarkets fear most is never these promotional activities, but that no one buys things even if they hold an event.

The secretary girl finally figured out this seemingly simple joint activity, which is quite novel in this world line.

No one has done this before, just like there was no such thing as collecting the five blessings before, but she went to grab them every day.

The Five Blessings Collection activity has not ended yet. It will officially end on the seventh day of the Lunar New Year. I don’t know how big the red envelope will be for the lucky users who get all the blessings.

Seeing the secretary's relaxed look, Alia seemed to have let out a caged beast, grabbing her hair and repeatedly admonishing her -

"Tell the property department that this is not an exercise, nor a joke. They must be prepared for a battle..."

"……Oh."

"Contact the manufacturer and ask them to make 3.7 million cards, just one batch."

"Isn't this a bit too much?" The secretary thought for a moment. "There are currently 37 Aili supermarkets, million cards, an average of cards per store? How many drinks can this sell?"

Yes, the Aili supermarket business is very good. In the main store in Tianhai, if it is a hot summer, they can even sell 20,000 bottles of mineral water a day.

But mineral water costs two yuan a bottle, and milk tea drinks cost 15 yuan to get the card, and besides, it’s not summer now.

One hundred thousand cups of milk tea, how long will it take to sell them?

This will weaken the sense of surprise of the so-called limited collaboration event, and there will be no point in making it popular.

Ailia just sighed, "The crowdfunding I asked someone to do was just a test... Just do it. Let the supermarket employees suffer. I'll take the blame. The relevant materials must be prepared. Don't cut corners on the essence of making the drink."

But no matter how genuine the materials are, Alia can still make 60% profit with her eyes closed.

Three million and seven hundred thousand orders, with a profit of eight yuan, that’s another thirty million yuan.

But this is just the beginning. The essence of joint activities has never been to make money from the activities, but chain advertising.

Mobile phones, game consoles, game cartridges, physical supermarket shopping...

Aaliyah pulled a net, but the poor fish were still unaware.

Seeing Alia's painful and self-blaming look, the secretary could only faithfully implement Alia's decision.

"...Yes, I'll do it right away."

"Wait a moment--"

Alia struggled for a while, and finally asked the secretary to add another item to the linkage prize.

"This loss-free voucher can be directly redeemed for two games! If we follow the 5% winning rate, will we really not lose money?"

Aaliyah leaned back in her chair, staring blankly at the ceiling.

"It's so bad... I'm so bad that I'm about to cry... Look, even you think so, and they think the same."

"That--"

"Go ahead and do it. Go ahead and don't ask any more questions."

"Yes!"

448-Loss, too much loss, looking at the ruins for the reward 3/3

Friday, Friday, bang the gongs and drums.

The seventh day of the first lunar month, holiday.

The Spring Festival holiday of Ai Group can be enjoyed until after the Lantern Festival on the 15th day of the first lunar month unless you have to work overtime.