Top of the Great Era

Chapter 1846
"It doesn't matter, what's wrong?"

Zhou Buqi noticed that the beautiful waitress was staring at him, so he winked at her, then put a finger on his mouth, hoping she would keep it a secret.

Yan Xinlei looked serious, "Changyou has a very serious internal problem. If you don't take care of it, this company... I think it will be ruined!"

"what?"

Zhou Buqi was slightly taken aback, a little amused.

I think this kid is a bit alarmist.

Changyou in this life is different from the previous life.

Changyou is a separate subsidiary from Sohu, and Ziweixing participated in the investment, and the two sides launched an in-depth cooperation.Among them, Sohu holds 55% of the shares, and Ziwei Star holds 35% of the shares.

In addition to Changyou's inherent 17373 mini-games and the well-known online game "Tian Long Ba Bu", Zhou Buqi has also made great plans for Changyou's business structure.

At present, there are four major achievements.

One, took over the agency rights of "World of Warcraft" from Ninetowns;
Second, Changyou is also in charge of the chess and card game hall related to Helo, which is the business that Yan Xinlei is currently in charge of in Changyou;
Third, cooperated with Blizzard and Ice Frog to win the copyright of DOTA, the map of "Warcraft", and launched the independently operated multiplayer online competitive game "Dota 2". The most popular games with the largest number of online players;

Fourth, won the copyright of "League of Legends" and further exerted strength in the field of multiplayer competition.

In addition, Zhou Buqi also suggested that Changyou acquired 3 British game studios and 1 German game studio, all based on the layout of the mobile game terminal.

Changyou is very powerful now, not only now, but also in the future!

After Changyou goes public, it will get enough money, and it will continue to expand its global presence in the game industry, especially in the mobile game market...

In Zhou Buqi's vision, Changyou's opponents are not domestic companies such as Penguin, Shanda, Ninetowns, and Giant, but world-class game giants such as Blizzard, EA, and Ubisoft!
This kid actually said that Changyou is no longer good, that he is going to die, which is somewhat inexplicable.

Yan Xinlei didn't seem to be joking at all, and sighed, "It seems that you don't know anything about Changyou's internal affairs."

This is the truth, Zhou Buqi nodded, "Is there any internal problem? How could I pay so much attention to it, but Changyou's report is quite beautiful, I think last year's net profit will probably reach 5 million U.S. dollars."

Yan Xinlei said angrily: "A financial report is a financial report, that thing is useless! You don't understand Changyou at all! Not only you, but even Zhang Chaoyang, who ignores Changyou every day. If this continues, Changyou will be over!"

Seeing that his tone was wrong, Zhou Buqi restrained his smile and warned, "What's going on? There's a big problem with internal management?"

Yan Xinlei said: "It's nothing more than ordinary minor problems, but now it's... how should I put it, the guiding ideology is wrong, and I'm talking nonsense."

"what?"

"Our king is cultivating immortals."

"What? Immortal cultivation?" Zhou Buqi was amused, "Is he obsessed with cultivating immortal novels?"

Yan Xinlei shook his head, and said seriously: "Mr. Wang is obsessed with a spiritual practice."

"what?"

Zhou Buqi was shocked and speechless.

How could such a thing still exist!

He had also heard before that Jobs was a decadent young man who went to seek spiritual practice to satisfy his pursuit of the spiritual world. He even gave up things like white noodles that were impossible for ordinary people to give up.

Different people have different pursuits, which is normal.

But from Yan Xinlei's words, Changyou's current CEO, Wang Fang, is not quite right, it's going too far.

If the facts are as he said, then this nature is too serious.

It can indeed be related to Changyou's life and death.

Zhou Buqi was deeply shocked and couldn't believe it, "How could this happen? What about Lao Zhang? How could he let such a person be the CEO?"

Wang Fang is just the CEO of Changyou.

The chairman is actually Zhang Chaoyang.

"Mr. Zhang?" Yan Xinlei shook his head helplessly, "I've never seen him in the company, and he's never been in charge of Changyou's business, so he's probably similar to you."

Zhou Buqi said: "This old Zhang!"

Impressed!

It is estimated that the upper beam is not straight and the lower beam is crooked.

Lao Zhang is usually like this, he became famous and earned money that he could never spend in his life, and then he began to look for various spiritual practices, from Buddhism to psychology, and he was still doing yoga every day to pursue the health-preserving methods of ancient India .

This Wang Fang probably developed along the lines of Lao Zhang.

In fact, it's not just Wang Fang, but also Wang Xiaochuan.

At the beginning, Ziweixing acquired the search business Sogou from Sohu, and then reorganized it into Weidian Search.At that time, Zhou Buqi was very strange for a while, thinking that Wang Xiaozhou, the person in charge of the business, was very smart and had a high level of technology, but he was a bit distracted. He wanted to combine traditional Chinese medicine with science and come up with a new set of theories. Thoughts come.

Fortunately, after being influenced by Ziweixing's series of values, Wang Xiaozhou "reformed evil and returned to righteousness".

Unexpectedly, the "big king" came out of the quagmire, while the "little king" sank deeper and deeper.

They were all misled by Lao Zhang!
What's even more exasperating is that this old Zhang still doesn't do his job properly, and doesn't care about Changyou's business, so the chairman is still a fart?
Zhou Buqi was a little angry, and if he couldn't do it, he would become the chairman of Changyou himself. No matter how bad it was, he could send Zhang Yiming, He Yang, Ji Zian, and Meng Houkun to concurrently serve as the chairman of Changyou.

The development path designed by Zhou Buqi for Changyou, as long as there are no internal problems, then Changyou will be able to walk out a road to the sky, and gradually become a world-class game giant at the level of Blizzard and EA.

But now the problem really came, something really went wrong inside!
Yan Xinlei said: "During this period of time, I have specifically investigated some things and asked some people. It seems that Mr. Zhang can't be blamed for this. He promised back then that Wang Fang will be fully responsible for the game. Changyou's understanding should be It is a game company founded by Wang Fang with resources provided by Sohu, and Wang Fang is the founder.”

"Oh?" Zhou Buqi raised his eyebrows, "What's going on?"

If Wang Fang is the founder of Changyou, then Zhang Chaoyang's substantial delegation of power to Changyou is justified.As an employer, as long as the report looks good, it doesn't matter how the company manages and what deformed values ​​it promotes.

Yan Xinlei said: "Back then, Shanda introduced "Legend" from South Korea, and it was a great success. The three major portals saw the opportunity and started making games one after another. Sohu successively represented two games, "Knight" and "Sword" from South Korea. , all suffered failures. At this time, Mr. Zhang is looking for a change, and wants to find someone who really understands games to be in charge of Sohu’s game business department.”

"Wang Fang is the one you found?"

"Yes, it's Mr. Wang. He used to make red and white computers, like Xiaobawang cassettes. Later, he felt that this line of business had no future, so he started to make stand-alone game software. Have you played "Three Kingdoms"? He made it. of!"

""Three Kingdoms"?" Zhou Buqi had some impressions, "Did you play this game in the dormitory when you were in school?"

Yan Xinlei was very happy, unexpectedly he still remembered, "Yes, it is that game, it can be called the best Three Kingdoms game designed in China, not worse than Japan's Three Kingdoms game. However, domestic piracy is too serious , The software game industry has not developed much, so Wang Fang has changed jobs again and started to make online games.”

Zhou Buqi hugged his shoulders with a heavy heart, knowing that this is a major matter that must be handled carefully and seriously, and kept a listening attitude.

Yan Xinlei went on to say: "Later, Wang Fang focused on an American online game called "Magic Sword", which is actually similar to "World of Warcraft". Race. He is in charge of the game, for Sinicization, porting and maintenance.”

"The game failed?"

Zhou Buqi has never heard of this game, so there is only one possibility, this game has not been made.

Yan Xinlei sighed, "This game didn't develop, not because it failed, on the contrary, because it was too successful. This is a world-class game. There is an Asian server, which is a group of Korean players and a group of Japanese players. Guys, and a group of Chinese players with the CN logo, like a national war. During the closed beta, it was unprecedentedly popular, whether it was word of mouth or fame, it was much better than "Legend". Because of the confrontation between countries Related, there have been many touching plots, such as compatriots from the mainland, Hong Kong and Taiwan joining forces to defend the territory against foreign forces. Anyway, it was very popular. Then something happened.”

Zhou Buqi understood now, "It's too popular, so it failed."

Yan Xinlei said: "That's right. At that time, the agent of this game was a small company. It was too weak to afford too many servers. As a result, during the public beta, if you let go a little bit, the server crashed directly. Don't talk about making money, even It is difficult to maintain the basic operation of this game.”

Zhou Buqi blinked, with a strange expression.

It feels so familiar!
It's a bit like Suning Tesco.

Yan Xinlei said: "Later, Mr. Wang became disheartened and decided to join a big company. Without him, the small company would not be able to make this game. Wang Fang joined Sina, but was arranged by Sina to be in charge of the game. Chess and board games. After working for a while, he really didn’t like it, and felt that it would limit his performance. Just at this time, Sohu was very anxious to find a real game expert to lead the game business back to life. Wang Fang appeared, and he and Mr. Zhang hit it off right away."

(End of this chapter)