Vol 2 Chapter 268: Annex valve

Chapter 268 Annexation of valve

"Valvesoftware", one of the world's hottest emerging computer software game companies. Although there is only one game developed by Valve so far-half-live, the others such as Counter-Strike and Half-Life: Tit Tit are all related derivative game software, but it does not affect its in the computer game industry in the slightest. status.

Half-live sold 9.3 million copies.

Half-Life: 1.1 million copies sold **** for tat.

Half-Life: 800,000 copies of Operation Blue.

Counter-Strike sold 4.2 million copies.

This series of achievements is enough to make most computer game software companies ashamed. With this fruitful sales, Valve has established its position in the computer game industry.

"Second World", the company was established for two years, acting as a legend to drive the entire online online game frenzy in one move, and then launching Plants vs. Zombies, it also set off a wave of casual online games, and then launched Audition, proclaiming a storm of leisure and entertainment online games. The launch of the Counter-Strike online Asia Internet project is even more incredible. Up to now, the monthly net profit is tens of millions of dollars. The future prospects are limitless.

The merger of these two companies is definitely a major earthquake that can change the pattern of the computer game software industry for the entire computer game industry.

When Lin Feng and Gable were about to hold a press conference to announce the merger of the two companies, almost all the media that could be there were there.

Lin Feng and Gable jointly announced the merger of "Second World" and "Valve".

This time the "Second World" and "valve" merge, the new company name is still "Second World" (Gable believes that the name "Second World" is very good, and they also hope to give all players a second place through the game. World).

The new "Second World" game software company will develop online online games and stand-alone games, both in parallel. The new "Second World" game software company, the original "Second World" holds 75% of the shares, and "Valve" holds 25% of the shares.

In the past two days, Wu Zhaopu, Gable and others have continued to grind their mouths to evaluate the market value of their respective companies. After all, the two companies are not listed. The assessment in this regard is indeed not very accurate and difficult to convince people. Finally, in order to resolve this unnecessary dispute, Lin Feng invited Hu Run to use Hu Run’s relationship and contacts in this area, and after several authoritative experts’ assessments-the market value of "Second World" was US$3 billion, and the market value of "Valve" was 10. One hundred million U.S. dollars.

Originally estimated by Hurun, the "Second World" has "cloud computing" and has become the key to counter-strike online Asia Interconnection. The market value of this "cloud computing" alone is at least more than US$5 billion, but Hurun has no What comes to mind is that the full copyright of "cloud computing" belongs to Lin Feng. Therefore, the market value of $3 billion in the "Second World" is neither more nor less.

During the evaluation, Gable learned that this "cloud computing" was derived from the inconspicuous little software (bt) of Cohen that Lin Feng bought for $50,000 at the time, so let alone the regret in his heart.

Finally, the new “Second World” shareholding ratio: Lin Feng holds 50.25%, Li Zekai holds 15%, Wu Zhaopu holds 3.75%, Cui Ming holds 3.75%, Wang Meng holds 2.25%, and Gable It holds 13% shares, minh-le holds 8% shares, and the original "valve" management holds 4% shares.

Although Lin Feng's equity has only just exceeded 50%, it cannot shake Lin Feng's position in the "Second World", and it still holds absolute controlling rights. What's more, when going public in the future, Lin Feng's personal assets will not be exchanged for cash by selling his stocks on hand. This will not have the slightest impact on Lin Feng's status in the "second world".

As for the appointment and dismissal of the new "Second World" personnel, Lin Feng is the chairman and president, Wu Zhaopu is the vice president and is in charge of the online game department; Gable is the vice president and is in charge of the stand-alone game department; the father of cs minh-le is Served as the head of the fourth game development department, maintaining the counter-strike online while developing the world war.

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At the same time, the fifth game development department was established, with Gable as the director, responsible for the development of Half-Life 2. Most of the employees are composed of members of the original "valve" game development team, and appropriately recruited several domestic programmers with solid skills.

After that, Lin Feng established the "Technology R&D Department" with Cohen as the minister responsible for research on "cloud computing". As for the ownership of "cloud computing", Lin Feng signed a power of attorney authorizing the "second world" to use "cloud computing" free of charge. Of course, the copyright is still completely owned by Lin Feng.

After the reorganization, due to the differences between the two countries, most of the employees of "valve" are in the Silicon Valley of the United States, which is too far from the domestic wage level. If the domestic wage standard is still used, it will definitely attract the original" "valve" employee dissatisfaction. After careful consideration, Lin Feng formulated a new salary structure.

The salary is divided into three levels, and the salary level of each employee will be rated by the company's personnel department for each employee's level and business ability.

Ordinary programmer, the first-level salary is 80,000, the second-level annual salary is 100,000, and the third-level annual salary is 50,000 US dollars (now valve programmer salary).

The main programmer has a first-level salary of 120,000, a second-level annual salary of 200,000, and a third-level annual salary of 100,000 US dollars (now the main programmer salary of valve).

Art design, first-level annual salary of 50,000, second-level annual salary of 80,000, third-level annual salary of 25,000 US dollars (now the main programmer salary of valve).

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This new salary structure setting has won the welcome of all employees of the company. Both the original "Second World" employees and the original "valve" employees are extremely satisfied with it.

Lin Feng is also extremely satisfied with this salary structure. This can prevent game production talents cultivated by the "Second World" from being poached by other companies, and it can also promote healthy competition within the company. Especially now that the company has a "valea" game development team, these people are the original team who successfully developed Half-Life. With their guidance, Lin Feng believes that this group of domestic programmers will grow up soon. Although digging around for talent is the easiest way, it is far inferior to the people who have been trained to have a sense of belonging and loyalty to the company. What's more, this has also cultivated game production talents for the motherland, and it has also contributed to the development of the motherland's games.

Of course, this comprehensive salary adjustment has not only brought passion and motivation to all company employees, it has undoubtedly greatly increased the wage costs of the "second world", but it has also unexpectedly resolved the dissatisfaction in the hearts of employees before.

Previously, due to the success of the "Second World", legends, Plants vs. Zombies, and the Audition Group that has attracted a large number of beautiful women, the "Second World" has made a lot of money, and Lin Feng has become the best in mainland China. The youngest man. But for ordinary employees, wages have not risen, which makes most employees extremely dissatisfied and often complain. Of course, the most important reason is that the technical level of these employees is only worthy of such a high salary, but for employees, they will not consider their own level, but feel that Lin Feng is too stingy. In this unexpected salary adjustment, although most employees did not increase their wages, the three-level salary system also brought hope and motivation to all employees, and naturally eased the dissatisfaction in the hearts of employees.

Although the cost of wages has doubled several times, fortunately, the "Second World" Legend and Audition are now very popular. Of the two games, Legend is the most profitable, with a monthly net profit of about 10 million US dollars. Although Audition is temporarily far away Not as good as the legend, but the monthly net profit is more than 1 million US dollars.

As wage expenditures in the "Second World" have risen linearly, it has become the company with the highest salary among domestic online game companies, but it has also become the company where all game talents most want to find employment. With promising prospects and high salaries, no one can refuse. "Second World" jobs have instantly become dream jobs in the eyes of all game industry talents.

As for this merger, the industry is full of exclamations-the wolf is coming!

Several important domestic computer magazines and media published the merger of "Second World" and "valve" in the most important pages. After the merger, this new computer software game company involving computer stand-alone games and online online games-"No. "The Second World" has become the darling of all media vying to report.

In the evening, News Network also focused on the news of the merger of "Second World" and "Valve". This is also the second time that Lin Feng is on the news network. The last time it was in the United States because of the "Judgment of the Century", it was on the news network, but that time, CCTV took into account various factors, and it was almost just a sentence. Unlike this time, Lin Feng appeared on the camera for three minutes. . Three minutes appearing on the news network is enough to prove the sensation caused by this merger and the country's importance to Lin Feng.

The domestic media have unanimously praised Lin Feng, saying that this is a big step for the Chinese game industry to officially go out of the country and face the world, which proves that China also has the strength to compete with the world's outstanding game manufacturers. It is highly praised that Lin Feng is from the Chinese game industry-Armstrong (Apollo landing on the moon, American who took the first step).

As for the domestic competitors of Lin Feng, they have a look of resentment, loneliness, and a bit of jealousy and unwillingness. Obviously they didn't expect Lin Feng to have such a courage to swallow "valve" and become a game software company with stand-alone and online game development capabilities. For these domestic online game companies, more are just online game operators, and they have no game development capabilities at all. Undoubtedly, Lin Feng's annexation had already left them far behind. They were too far behind, and even sighed.