Vol 2 Chapter 269: One stone stirs up a thousand waves

The 269th chapter one stone stirs up a thousand waves

The lament of many domestic online game companies is not unreasonable.

It should be noted that now they were already breathless by Lin Feng, and a legendary "ten thousand battle" almost robbed the same type of gamers; afterwards, the Audition Troupe took away a large number of female players. It took away a group of male players; the counter-strike online launched just a few days ago on the first day of its listing, it almost emptied all male players, except for the new wolf net with the magic baby laughing comfortably on the side, and the rest of the game operation Shang Jun hated his teeth, and this time Lin Feng swallowed the "valve" again. How could this make them survive?

Most online game companies just feel that their eyes are darkened, and they can't see where the way is!

Transformation! Transformation! Many online game operators decided to transform at the fastest speed. The first is a turn-based online game similar to Magic Baby; the second is the casual and relaxing online game market that Tencent has now expanded; and the third is the 3d online game market. But no matter which aspect is very difficult, the turn-based online game magic baby is the only one, Sohu’s Apple Pie also has a unique way of focusing on campuses, occupying a lot of space, and there are no outstanding turn-based games in the online game market today. Many online game companies are at a loss. It is said that NetEase is also working on a new turn-based online game-Fantasy Westward Journey, which makes many online game companies even more daunting.

As for the leisure and easy online game market, Tencent relies on its absolute dominance in the chat tool market to easily unify leisure and entertainment online games. After all, for all netizens, it is not necessary to play games, watch movies and listen to songs online, but they must have QQ. With QQ, Tencent has a way to make these QQ users become potential players. Other online game operators want to compete with Tencent, and their future is extremely slim.

There is no way out in these two aspects, and can only target the 3d online game market. Nowadays, the miracle of 90% of the companies is very popular in China. Although it is greatly suppressed by the legend, besides the legend, the miracle is also the second place in the real-time battle online game, and the number of online users is barely 300,000. Of course, it is not so easy to enter this market, after all, there are so many good games, not to mention competing with miracles, one word, difficult!

As for the counter-strike online first-person shooter game that has been in hot speculation for several months and was temporarily suspended the day before the public beta the day before yesterday, these domestic manufacturers were still interested in getting involved, but now they see that the "valve" has been swallowed by Lin Feng. What to use to compete with Lin Feng, why bother to be boring and waste money.

In the end, most of the domestic game manufacturers have unified ideas, and the 3D online game market has been a road since ancient times.

Compared with the entanglement of the domestic online game market, the world's major game manufacturers have also expressed their opinions when interviewed by reporters.

ea-Electronic Arts, the world's most famous interactive entertainment software company, and the world's largest third-party game developer. Since its founding in 1982, it has launched countless games that have fascinated all players. Command and Conquer, fifa football, nba-live, The Sims, and Need for Speed ​​are all under ea.

In an interview with ea president Peter Moore, when asked by reporters whether the merger of "Second World" and "valve" would affect ea's position, Peter Moore pondered for a few seconds and confidently said-although the two companies merged in their respective fields (Online online games and first-person shooters) are both outstanding, but it will take at least 30 years to shake ea's position in the computer game industry.

Ubisoft-Ubisoft, founded in France in 1986, the world's third largest game company, the signature game-Lehman, and of course the Football Manager, and later developed popular and popular masterpieces such as Prince of Persia and Assassin's Creed.

Ubisoft President Ivis Gulimot, in an interview with reporters, in response to the merger of "Second World" and "Valve", smiled and said-both companies have their own competitive products, but there is no doubt that the two companies They are all too "young" and have insufficient background. It is still too early to reach the height of Ubisoft. But I look forward to their growth. Maybe in my lifetime, I can see them become one of the top 10 game software vendors in the world.

Nintendo-Nintendo, Japan's largest game manufacturer, and the world's second largest game manufacturer. It follows ea in terms of market value and sales, but is far behind the third Ubisoft company. It is involved in games, hardware and game peripheral markets, and its developed fc (8-bit red and white machine), sfc (16-bit Super Nintendo), n64 (home 64-bit game console) and gb (8-bit handheld) are all affected The market is enthusiastic, and the games it develops are countless. The vast majority of Chinese players have grown up with classic software such as Nintendo's Mario and Pokemon.

The current president of Nintendo, Satoshi Iwata, was extremely disdainful of the merger of “Second World” and “Valve”. When interviewed by reporters, he made no secret of his contempt for him. Both companies are newly established small companies. They have achieved certain success in these areas, but they are still too young to become the most famous game manufacturer in the world. I heard that Lin Dong is interested in entering the home appliance market, and I personally welcome it. I will let him know how the console game market is played.

Obviously, Iwata Satoshi has learned through some channels that Lin Feng wants to enter the home appliance market. For a Chinese who wants to acquire the hardware development department of Japan's national brand Sega, the self-confident Iwata Satoshi thinks this is Japan's national shame, and naturally wants to teach Lin Feng a lesson.

Blizzardeai-Blizzard Entertainment, founded in 1991, is now the most prosperous game software company in the industry, and the "valve" that launched Half-Life and Counter-Strike and is known as the "valve" of the game software industry in the 21st century. Double pride". But compared to the single "valve" product, Blizzard Entertainment has the StarCraft, Diablo and Warcraft that make all players obsessed with. Although the three games are of different types, they are undoubtedly high-quality. Also break out-produced by Blizzard, must be the reputation of boutique.

When Mike Mohamed, the current president of Blizzard Entertainment, was interviewed by reporters, when the reporter asked whether the brand new “Second World” would replace Blizzard, Mike Mohamed smiled slightly and spoke to the “Second World” and Lin Feng. Appreciation is beyond words-"Second World" has always been a computer game software company that I admire very much. Whether it is the legend of its agent, or the independent research and development of Plants vs. Zombies and Audition, they have achieved extraordinary results. The amazing counter-strike online Asia Internet, the merger of "Second World" and "valve" is undoubtedly a win-win situation. I believe that they will be like our Blizzard Entertainment, becoming a truly first-class player in the game industry. Maybe we will have cooperation in the future.

When Mike Mohamed praised the "Second World", he did not forget to take the opportunity to promote his Blizzard company.

auzw.com Compared with many game companies or hostile or welcoming attitudes, domestic netizens are praised. The merger of "Second World" and "Valve" has greatly made domestic game companies famous. And after the annexation of "valve", counter-strike online will surely be more mature and can also provide players with more complete and humanized services.

But the sensation that Lin Feng caused to the world is definitely not only here. At the press conference, in addition to announcing the merger of the two companies, Lin Feng also announced that it will launch Half-Life 2 (stand-alone game) in the summer of next year, and will develop an online game that can be globally interconnected in the next three years. -World War.

These two news are undoubtedly another atomic bomb, making the already restless game market declare even greater shock waves.

Half-Life's success has sold 9.3 million copies worldwide (not counting domestic, almost 99.99% of domestic pirated copies, otherwise the number must exceed 10 million), and its sequel Half-Life 2 is undoubtedly highly anticipated. This time, Lin Feng accurately told all the players about the launch time, which naturally made many players who had been waiting for a long time satisfied.

Next summer, Half-Life 2 and Blizzard’s Warcraft 3 will be listed. I believe that the summer of 2002 for all players will no longer be lonely.

As for the world war that Lin Feng revealed, Lin Feng did not introduce much in the press conference, nor did he introduce much in detail on his official website, but introduced that it is a first-person shooter online game with a certain strategy. And building ingredients. The brief introduction of the official website naturally cannot arouse the interest of many players, but its "global interconnection"-the slogan of allowing all players around the world to play on one server has attracted the attention of many players. But after all, it was finished in three years, so it's still early.

What really excites all players is that Lin Feng announced that it will host the "E-Sports World Cup", which will be held every two years and will be exclusively hosted by the "Second World". At the same time, Lin Feng will establish an "e-sports league."

This news attracted the attention of all players who love e-sports games around the world.

The "e-sports World Cup" is also felt by the success of South Korea's wcg e-sports competition, Lin Feng decided to build it into a global e-sports event, as if the "Football World Cup" in the football arena. Since those such as "ea" and "Nintendo" despise themselves, they must take a good look at them. Let them know that in the game industry, there are also the status of Chinese companies, and it is the most authoritative kind.

This "e-sports World Cup" will undoubtedly not only promote the development of e-sports level, but also consolidate the position of one's own game company in the industry. After all, all game software companies rely on gamers for food. As long as there are gamers' support, the game company can survive forever.

As for the e-sports league, Lin Feng is purely to promote the level of domestic e-sports, so that domestic e-sports players can at least rely on this to support their families and even become millionaires. Of course, Lin Feng is not limited to the domestic league, but is planning to make it into a football league, making his league like "La Liga Real Madrid", including high-level e-sports players from all over the world. The league comes.

Of course, in order to distinguish it from the "eSports World Cup", one is represented by the country and the other is represented by the club.

This news has ignited the interest of all e-sports players, but I don't know how Lin Feng will promote his "e-sports World Cup" and "e-sports league", but all players are looking forward to it.

But whether it's the "eSports World Cup" or the development of World War, or Half-Life 2, all these projects require money. The "Second World" now has only US$100 million in circulating funds, and it is impossible to guarantee the normal operation of various projects. After discussion by the board of directors, Lin Feng privately injected US$500 million in financing for "Second World".

After the capital injection, Linfeng shares reach 56.49%, Li Zekai shares 13.12%, Wu Zhaopu shares 3.28%, Cui Mingze shares 3.28%, Wang Meng shares 1.96%, Gabriel holds 11.37 shares, and minh-le holds 7 shares. %, the original "valve" management holds 3.5 shares.

This capital injection not only solved the problem of insufficient funds in the “Second World”, but also weakened the shares of many shareholders, and at the same time strengthened Lin Feng’s absolute control over the “Second World”. Even if Lin Feng, the company's boss, wants to sell his stock due to some accident in the future, it will not affect Lin Feng's position in the company.

As for Li Zekai's shareholding reduction from 20% to 13.12%, he has no opinion. Although there are fewer shares, there is no doubt that the market value of the "Second World" after the merger and re-injection of capital has increased.

Originally, the two companies were expected to have a combined market value of US$4 billion before the merger, but after the merger, after the capital injection by Lin Feng, the market value has exceeded US$6 billion. Li Zekai’s 13.12% of the shares, converted into US dollars, is about 787 million US dollars. At the beginning, he invested 500 million US dollars. In more than half a year, he made nearly 300 million US dollars. Everyone once again looked at Li Zekai with admiration, and also towards the “second world” The prospects are more promising.

Lin Feng did not lose, although he injected another US$500 million in capital and reduced his shareholding to 56.49%, but his "Second World" assets have increased to nearly US$3.4 billion. In less than one month, Lin Feng's personal assets in the "Second World" have far exceeded the rankings just made by Hu Run.

Regarding the speed at which Lin Feng made money, other domestic tycoons who were on the list at the same time could only sigh their inferiority.

According to Hu Run’s private gathering, it is conservatively estimated that Lin Feng’s personal assets are close to 5 billion U.S. dollars (of course, most of them are real estate, almost all stocks, such as 10% stocks of Tencent, 10% stocks of tnet, etc. .). If he is not conservative, I am afraid that it is not uncommon for Lin Feng's assets to exceed tens of billions of dollars. Of course, all of this will have to wait for Linfeng Company to go public before the final conclusion can be made.