Chapter 484: Others’ Poison, My Wine

"Oh, Chen Dong, you don't have to belittle yourself."

When Yang Huan saw Chen Dong's ashamed expression, he knew what was going on.

After all, every otaku values ​​his dignity more than anything else.

The same is true for Chen Dong

"We have so many huge resources, and you just sit at home and think about it. We are only half a year ahead of you. You should be proud of this."

What Yang Huan said was not an exaggeration at all.

With WeChat's current status and influence on the Internet, its news channels and the resources it controls, it is totally beyond the imagination of an ordinary person, and it is simply beyond the reach of an ordinary person.

It is extremely difficult for Chen Dong to accomplish this by himself.

"Yes, Chen Dong, Brother Huan is right. There is no need to belittle yourself."

Zhuang Zicheng also spoke up to persuade him, he also felt that this guy was a talented person.

After the two big leaders spoke, others followed suit and offered their advice.

Chen Dong also knew very well that in today's society, no matter how capable or outstanding a person is, it is impossible for him to challenge a large company, especially a large conglomerate like WeChat that controls so many resources.

However, he still felt a little ashamed in his heart.

If I had known earlier, I shouldn't have been so boastful just now.

At least, we should be humble.

"Master Huan, I want to know who first proposed this plan half a year ago?"

Chen Dong is a bit of a gambler. Even if he loses, he has to know who he lost to.

After hearing this, everyone looked at Yang Huan.

This made Chen Dong admire him even more.

It turned out to be Master Huan himself.

"Well, actually I'm an outsider, but I tend to think of danger easily, so I came up with some ideas. It was the brainstorming of everyone present that led to a detailed plan, so it has nothing to do with me."

But having said that, everyone still had a look of admiration on their faces.

If Young Master Huan had not made such a suggestion, no one would know when everyone would have noticed this link.

Who knows, what Chen Dong said might have come true.

"Master Huan, can you reveal some specific information? For example, which company are you planning to acquire?"

When talking about this, Chen Dong's face was full of enthusiasm.

Yang Huan smiled slightly, "What do you think?"

Chen Dong's face revealed something called YY and he smiled.

“Of course it’s Microsoft…”

Everyone burst into laughter.

Acquire Microsoft, are you kidding?

It's almost like being acquired by Microsoft

Chen Dong also realized the problem, "I mean, acquiring Microsoft's game console business"

Everyone still laughed, because everyone knew that Microsoft would not give up this market.

That is one of Microsoft's most important strategic businesses.

"Or Sony's console business, and Nintendo," Chen Dong suggested.

If we can acquire one of them, it will make domestic game enthusiasts very crazy.

Yang Huan smiled and shook his head without saying anything.

Instead, Zhuang Zicheng asked with a smile, "Haven't you heard that Vivendi is heavily in debt?"

Chen Dong's eyes lit up when he heard this. "Yes, there was a rumor at the time that a domestic Internet company wanted to acquire it..."

"Oh my god!" Chen Dong was shocked. "Are you going to acquire Activision Blizzard?"

This guy was stunned by the name.

Activision Blizzard

That's Activision Blizzard.

You know, in the eyes of game enthusiasts all over the world, Blizzard is the supreme existence.

Diablo, StarCraft, Warcraft, World of Warcraft...

These games are all super classic and excellent works, which directly put Blizzard on the altar.

WeChat's status in the field of mobile games is so high that it is also called the Blizzard of mobile games, which shows how high Blizzard's status is in the minds of game players.

"Vivendi has a debt of 15.5 billion US dollars, and its stock price has fallen by more than 20%. It must sell its high-quality asset Activision Blizzard to ease the huge debt pressure. At present, their price for Activision Blizzard has been adjusted from the previous 8.2 billion US dollars to about 7 billion US dollars, which is within our acceptable range.

"The only troublesome thing is that Vivendi's condition is a cash acquisition."

Zhuang Zicheng also felt quite sad when he talked about it.

This negotiation was a protracted one. As soon as Vivendi got the news at the end of June, WeChat began to contact Vivendi. The two sides hit it off immediately, but there was a stalemate on the purchase price at first, and then they could not reach a consensus on the cash purchase.

To be honest, how many companies in the world can raise so much cash in a short period of time?

Besides, although Activision Blizzard has a respected position in the gaming industry, its problems are also prominent.

That is, Blizzard's golden signboard is built on the basis of delays.

Blizzard is notoriously slow in game development, which leads to significant cost pressure.

If you take your time and do a good job, that would be fine. But if you fail, wouldn't all your investment be wasted?

Blizzard in the gaming world and Wang Jiawei in the film festival are both masters that make people love and hate them.

In addition, in recent years, with the rapid development of mobile games, even though Blizzard has launched StarCraft II and Diablo III in the past two years, plus the still strong World of Warcraft, Activision Blizzard's overall revenue is still on a downward trend.

This has deterred game manufacturers including Microsoft and Sony.

An acquisition of $700 million or $800 million is too risky.

In the end, WeChat had almost no other competitors and only negotiated slowly with Vivendi before they were able to get the price down.

If we look at it purely from the perspective of the gaming business, the $7 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard is certainly a very risky thing.

But if viewed from another perspective, this transaction can fill the biggest weakness of WeChat.

That's console game development.

According to WeChat's plan, after WeChat Games acquires Activision Blizzard, it will begin to increase its efforts to develop new games on the virtual reality technology platform, including Blizzard's new games.

And Activision Blizzard owns too many high-quality copyrights.

For example, World of Warcraft, Starcraft, Call of Duty, etc., these are all high-quality resources that can be adapted into movies.

The key is to see how the company operates

The Yang Group now owns the largest cinema chain in the world. As long as the quality of the movies they make is good enough, why should they worry about not making money?

As the saying goes, someone's poison may be my wine.

In this way, the acquisition of Activision Blizzard is not only not risky, but may become another beautiful and worthwhile acquisition for Yang Huan.

Rich people are so cool

It's even better for a rich man like Master Huan

Chen Dong did not think as far ahead or as broadly as Yang Huan. He focused more on the gaming field.

So he soon realized a problem.

"Master Huan, although Activision Blizzard has the world's best game production and distribution capabilities, they do not meet the business we just proposed, which is to replace PCs and occupy the position of home entertainment center."

Could it be that Master Huan wants to start over?

Isn’t that too slow?

By the time you, Activision Blizzard, have made it, the opportunity will be gone

After hearing this, Yang Huan still smiled and said nothing.

Zhuang Zicheng glanced at his brother-in-law. Behind other people's backs, he and Yang Huan were good buddies and had no scruples, but in front of others, he always positioned himself as a superior and a subordinate.

"Chen Dong, have you heard of the Valefort Company?"

"Villefort?" Chen Dong was shocked again when he heard it, and was stunned again.

He swore that in his entire life, from childhood to adulthood, he had never been frightened so many times and so miserably as he was today.

Valve is another legendary company in the gaming industry. Its most famous games are Half-Life and Counter-Strike.

Oh, yes, there is also Dota

But soon, a light bulb went off in Chen Dong's mind, and he realized that he had grasped the most important clue.

Valve's most important business now is no longer games, but their game platform m. This platform now has 4.5 million independent users every day, and at least 2.5 million online at the same time, accounting for 75% of the global p-game market, and its potential value is quite amazing.

First, it acquired Activision Blizzard, and then Valve. Now the entire strategic layout was clearly presented in front of Chen Dong, which made Chinese technology geeks feel unprecedented and inexplicably excited.

He felt this was a perfect opportunity.

The company started planning six months in advance and expanded its own strength through continuous acquisitions. As long as the integration is good, the entire ecosystem of virtual reality technology will take shape.

By that time, even if companies such as Microsoft and Sony launch their own virtual reality technologies, it will be difficult to shake WeChat's position.

"Master Huan, the market value of Valve is probably not cheap, at least one billion US dollars, plus Activision Blizzard, how can you..."

Chen Dong stopped asking the question halfway through.

Because what he saw was the silent and smiling Master Huan, and the equally mysterious Zhuang Zicheng across from him.

Yes, I am an expert in game development and software technology, but when it comes to capital operation, I am a complete layman, even worse than a layman.

But who is this Young Master Huan?

He has the famous investment expert Mr. Zhao Yuanfang under him. WeChat Company and Yang Group also have outstanding capital operation teams. These people must have a way to help Young Master Huan achieve his goal. Otherwise, how could Young Master Huan dare to propose it?

Thinking of this, Chen Dong felt relieved.

The more Yang Huan looked at him, the more he felt that this guy was a smart man, but he might have stayed at home too long and lacked the skills to communicate with the outside world.

But he is definitely a smart man, and a very smart one.

"Chen Dong," Yang Huan called out with a smile, "Are you interested in working at WeChat Research Institute?"

Chen Dong received an invitation from Zhuang Zicheng last night and had already been tempted.

At this time, Master Huan personally invited him, and he didn't hesitate at all, and nodded and agreed immediately.

Yang Huan was in a very good mood when he saw that he agreed.

"With your joining, I have more confidence in the future"

Chen Dong was grateful for his boss's appreciation and actively offered suggestions.

Not to mention, although this guy never leaves his house, he knows the domestic gaming industry like the back of his hand, and is familiar with all the companies, big and small. He has also proposed several plans to promote virtual reality helmets, which have been recognized by everyone present.

This undoubtedly further deepened Yang Huan and Zhuang Zicheng's recognition of Chen Dong.

In the next few days, Yang Huan stayed in the country and was in charge of Pengcheng.

With the brilliant performance at the exhibition, the promotion of major media around the world, and the high evaluation of virtual reality helmets by the gaming industry, the sales of the developer version of virtual reality helmets have been rising steadily.

In less than 24 hours, the number of orders exceeded 10,000, and soon exceeded 20,000 on the fourth day.

By the fifteenth day, the number of copies had successfully exceeded 30,000.

After that, many orders were delivered every day.

The WeChat Research Institute has promised to start work immediately and strive to officially launch the first generation developer version to the market in two months.

This immediately sparked a heated discussion in the industry, and countless people were looking forward to it.

In the eyes of the Chinese people, this is undoubtedly a strong counterattack of Made in China.

I used to think that the United States and Europe were very high-end and classy in terms of high-tech, but this time, China also has a high-tech company leading the world, which is really shocking.

Awesome!

WeChat's influence in the country has also been further enhanced.

Just when Yang Huan booked a flight and was about to return to Europe, he suddenly received a call from Long Hai's home.