Of course, Yu Dong has enough money to buy Blizzard, but it is impossible for him to do so.
After so many years, regardless of their relationship, he and Jimmy have been tightly tied together in their careers and it is difficult to separate.
Jimmy might be able to have a career without him, but most likely he would still be a middleman after all these years, making a little money in the entertainment industry.
Without Jimmy, Yu Dong could naturally make money by relying on his rebirth advantage, but the Deep Space Group would never be able to develop to the scale it is today.
In less than ten years, the Deep Space Group has developed to where it is today, and Jimmy is indispensable.
Seeing that Yu Dong seriously wanted to win over Blizzard, Jimmy also became serious, "I haven't done much research on Blizzard's business, but based on my feeling, their company's business is probably worth a few million dollars.
For a normal acquisition, it will definitely not exceed 50 million US dollars. The reason why I just said 200 million US dollars is to scare you on the one hand, and on the other hand it is also based on my understanding of the company Vivendi. Vivendi has in hand
Qian has been expanding rapidly in the past two years, and they have prospects for their company to enter the gaming industry."
Yu Dong nodded and expressed understanding, "It means that if we want to acquire Blizzard, we must pay a premium."
"Yes, Vivendi is a hyena with a mouth full of fangs that is ready to bite at any time. If they bite someone, a piece of flesh will definitely fall off. From an emotional point of view, I also hope to acquire Blizzard.
Because I know that in Vivendi, Blizzard’s development will definitely not be healthy.”
"Let's do it as soon as possible. If it doesn't work, we can pull it down. It doesn't have to be done by them," Yu Dong said.
"As soon as possible, my idea is to finalize this matter before the Chinese New Year, and then take advantage of the annual meeting to test the waters of a game competition. If possible, next year's World Electronic Game Competition can be officially launched.
The experience is over."
"If you start working on it right after the annual meeting, won't you be a little nervous in the meantime?"
"It doesn't matter, there is no audition, just invite directly. Set the bonus higher to ensure that no one can refuse." Jimmy smiled, "Speaking of which, now is the time to do this, our deep space game center
It was only opened to the public this year. There are two halls and a small hall in the game hall, which can be used for competitions."
"Well, since this is the first year and it will be held during the annual meeting, there will be no charge for tickets this year. Let's give it out as a benefit of the annual meeting."
"That's what I think too. We need to create a gimmick first, and when we do it again next year, we can charge tickets generously."
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At the end of November, Vivendi received an offer from Deep Space Company for Blizzard, with a total price of US$8 million.
If this offer came from some small company, Vivendi probably wouldn't even take a glance at it, but it comes from a company as hot as Deep Space.
A few days ago, there was a wave of lottery draws on the Deep Space Tribe. A lot of companies and celebrities participated. It was a carnival on social networks. Vivendi also followed suit on the official account of the Deep Space Tribe.
A lottery draw.
Although the price of eight million US dollars was a bit outrageous, Vivendi responded to Deep Space Company immediately and expressed its willingness to negotiate further.
Vivendi acquired Havas and acquired Havas's Blizzard and Sierra. It was indeed for them to enter the gaming industry, but if they could sell these companies and make a lot of money, why wouldn't they be happy about it.
Although Vivendi is acquiring companies everywhere, they know their own business. Today, Vivendi has been increasing its debts, and it will be over if it cannot bear the debt at one go.
After the first contact between the top executives of the two companies, Vivendi expressed very generously that it was willing to transfer Blizzard to Deep Space, and not only that, they also wanted good people to go to the end and transfer the entire game division to Deep Space.
However, the packaged price is a bit high, costing US$560 million.
When he heard the price, Jimmy almost cursed.
This price is even more outrageous than the eight million US dollars he quoted.
Vivendi is indeed rich, and they have been buying and selling everywhere over the years, but the size of their entire company is only there. In June this year, Vivendi merged with EMI Film Company, and the merger exchange ratio was 3 Vivendi shares 2 EMI shares
, after that, the Wall Street Journal valued them at US$2.6 billion.
But now, Vivendi wants to package up their game division and sell it to Deep Space for US$560 million.
After receiving this price, Shenkong said it didn't need anything else but Blizzard, and was willing to raise the price to $10 million.
Seeing the second offer from Deep Space, Vivendi was not only not disappointed, but even more interested. It directly sent a team of five people to fly to the United States from Europe to meet with the senior officials of Deep Space America.
After two days of negotiations, although the two parties still have not reached an agreement, they are getting closer and closer to completing the sale.
Deep space has basically explored Vivendi’s psychological price.
Vivendi hopes to pack out the game division directly because they believe that they can't make much money just by selling Blizzard, so they want to give all other messy things to Deep Space.
Especially Xuele Mountain.
Since being taken over by Vivendi last year, Xueleshan Company's business has begun to decline crazily. In just the past year, Xueleshan headquarters has decided to close most of its development studios, and its main business has changed from game production to game publishing.
What followed was a large number of employees being laid off. It is reported that over the past year, Xueleshan has laid off nearly 300 people in total.
In Vivendi's view, Xuele Mountain is a bit like a dragster. Except for some IPs saved before, it has no development potential at all.
If Blizzard were to be sold at this time, then Snow Mountain would have even less meaning to exist.
Therefore, Vivendi wants to package Snow Mountain together with Blizzard and sell it to Deep Space. Their psychological price should be between 150 million U.S. dollars and 200 million U.S. dollars.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Last year, due to a financial scandal, Xueleshan's previous parent company, Cengteng, had to sell the software departments of four companies, including Xueleshan and Blizzard, to 100 million yuan.
It was sold to Havas for US dollars, and Havas was acquired by Vivendi not long after.
To put it bluntly, Vivendi purchased several companies such as Sierra and Blizzard for less than US$100 million, and some of its debts were forgiven as a result.
If they can really sell these companies to Deep Space for more than $150 million this year, it will undoubtedly be a huge business victory.
Jimmy wanted to lower the price to less than 1.5 billion U.S. dollars, but after several negotiations without success, he finally had to settle the deal with 1.8 billion U.S. dollars, and Vivendi also said that it must be in cash and not in any other equivalent.
Pay in full within forty days.
After the contract was signed, Jimmy called Yu Dong and complained to Yu Dong for ten minutes.
"Dong, if it weren't for you, I wouldn't be so angry. Didn't you see how happy the person in charge was when he signed the contract? This can be said to be the most useless deal I have ever made in my life."
It's not that you said that I must take them down as soon as possible with 100 million US dollars. They have ruined Xueleshan. This is good. Not only did they not lose money, they have doubled their profits in less than a year.
, How can there be such a profitable business in the world."
Hearing Jimmy's complaint, Yu Dong said it was understandable. If he hadn't known about Blizzard's subsequent development, everyone would have felt that Deep Space Company had been taken advantage of this time.
Deep Space spent 180 million U.S. dollars to buy something that was acquired for less than 100 million U.S. dollars. It seems silly no matter how you look at it, and Snow Mountain has been taken over by Vivendi Kuaishou.
However, Yu Dong is quite happy that Xueleshan was packaged together. If nothing else, at least Xueleshan helped V Club publish "Counter-Strike". This alone can help Deep Space earn back its costs.
"Okay, isn't it just 1.8 billion? We don't lack this amount of money. Now that the contract has been finalized, let's handle the handover as soon as possible and start the World Series as soon as possible. There is not much time left before the New Year."
"Well, as soon as possible...should we form a gaming club for the World Series?" Jimmy asked.
Yu Dong thought for a while and said, "No, let others do it. As long as there is profit, someone will naturally invest in it."
"Haha, I was thinking that I could win the first championship."
"Since when do you care about such nonsense? I don't care at all whether we can win the championship. I only care whether we can take the initiative in the World Series. If we have the initiative, we have the right to speak.
When you make money, it doesn’t matter whether you are a champion or not.”
To put it bluntly, what Yu Dong wants is to be able to produce and export more good games. As for whether China can produce a championship team, that is secondary.
"That's true." Jimmy laughed and said, "Okay, the acquisition will be announced soon, and the World Series will also be announced at that time."
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Ever since he listened to the song "Dad, I'm Back" at the Werewolf Club last time, Hacoon has been madly infatuated with the Chinese singer named Jay Chou.
Although he couldn't understand the lyrics because he didn't understand Chinese, Hacohn felt particularly energetic whenever he heard Jay's voice.
Later, Hacohen also bought the entire "Fantasy" album. After listening to it, I discovered that this Jay is really damn talented. There are many songs in the album that sound very strange at first, but they become better after listening to it.
.
In addition to "Dad, I'm Back", he also prefers three songs: "William's Castle", "Ninja" and "Nunchaku".
During this period, he only listened to two albums, one was "Fantasy" and the other was Jay's last album "Jay".
"Mars, you must listen to this song. It will definitely make you feel like the lid of heaven is about to be lifted."
Hacohen took off one of his headphones and talked to his good friend Mars Amway about his newly discovered singer.
Mars was surfing the Internet and couldn't help laughing when he heard Hacohen's words, "You have told me many times. In addition, I want to remind you again that I have listened to Jay's songs earlier than you. I
I have a copy of "Jay" at home, and it has been in my bookcase for almost a year."
Hakoun curled his lips, "But you never told me before, otherwise, I would have listened to his songs long ago."
Mars shrugged.
In fact, he had told Hakoun about Jay before, and he said that he had listened to a pretty good Chinese singer during that time, but Hakoun just raised his eyebrows and said, "Oh, really?"
But Mars didn't want to argue with Hakohn, because he knew that Hakohn must have forgotten the incident.
"You've been in front of the computer all morning, Mars, aren't you afraid that your eyes will be damaged?"
"You spend more time in front of the computer every day than I do." Mars retorted, and then said, "The Deep Space Tribe's logo has turned red. Normally, this means that there will be major official announcements. I
I'm looking to see if anyone knows what the news is."
"Oh, really?" Hacohen also sat up, "It should be that Dongdong is fully online."
Mars shook his head, "I don't know. After shopping around, I didn't see any definite news."
"It may also be news related to the Deep Space Annual Conference. The Deep Space Annual Conference will be held in more than a month."
"Really?" Mars felt that this guess was not reliable, but he was not sure, "Maybe YU has a new book?"
"This is important news, but the Deep Space Tribe's logo didn't turn red before the release of The Da Vinci Code last time."
"It doesn't seem like...hey, it's here."
The Deep Space Tribe official suddenly sent out a message, and Mars immediately saw it after clicking on it.
"Two important news are announced. The first one is that YU's new book "Snowman" will be officially released on January 15th... Let me just say, YU is going to publish a new book."
Hacohen also raised his eyebrows, "There is indeed a new book called "The Snowman". It is quite appropriate to publish it this season. Didn't you say there are two messages? What is the other message?"
"Well, the second thing is that our company will hold the first World Electronic Sports Competition. The competition will be on January 22, 2000. The venue will be the Game Hall of Jinling Deep Space Park in China. The competition will be open to the public. Friends who are interested in watching the competition can go to
Apply below this post, the application format is as follows..."
By the end of reading, Mars was so excited that he could hardly speak.
He is a complete game fan. Unlike Hacoun who only likes to play Werewolf, Mars plays all games, whether they are PC games or console games. As long as they are fun games, he has dabbled in them, and he plays several games.
It's pretty good.
World Electronic Game Competition, the name of this competition makes people feel very powerful.
Moreover, the details of the competition also stated that this competition will invite more than 30 countries and more than 400 players to participate in the competition. There will be a total of four competition events, namely StarCraft, Quake 3, FIFA2000 and Escape.
Regardless of the event, the first place bonus is US$30,000, the runner-up bonus is US$8,000, and the third place bonus is US$3,000. In addition, every player who participates in the competition can receive a Star Card with 5,000 points.
Chapter completed!