Top of the Great Era

Chapter 1860 Compete with technology giants

Now that Zhou Buqi is successful and famous, he is increasingly pursuing some personal pride. The most typical choice is the choice between career success and self-realization.

As he said, if he wants to succeed in the game business, it is not too difficult.

The current Changyou has basically completed half of the layout.

As long as Wang Fang and his gang are cleaned up in China and a better management team is recruited, Changyou with games such as "Dota 2", "League of Legends", "Dragon Babu" and "World of Warcraft" is enough to produce the best performance results.

It is not difficult to do overseas business.

As long as you win several popular mobile games around the world, such as "Fortnite", "Angry Birds", "Temple Run", "Clash of Clans" and "PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds", you will basically be a big success.

Relying on foresight and maintaining a high degree of attention to the market, as long as the relevant games are launched, they will rush to buy them, and they will be invincible.

But if that's all, Zhou Buqi is not satisfied.

This style of play is really too "fool". In the eyes of outsiders, Boss Zhou may feel that Boss Zhou is miraculous, has a unique vision, a keen sense of smell, and has a superior judgment on the commercial market.

But he knew what was going on in his heart, and he couldn't convince himself that it wasn't something to be proud of.

He has to make some real career achievements of his own, and make some original products based on his own judgment and consideration, so that he can feel more fulfilled, just like Xiaonei and Youyou.com, which were developed in the early days of entrepreneurship.

The same is true for games.

Zhou Buqi was even obsessed with this.

No matter how popular the game is, it is also designed and developed by people.Others can make games that are popular all over the world, why can't I?
If not, at least give it a try!
Zhou Buqi seldom plays games, and knows nothing about game design, so he can only learn from each other.What he is best at is mode design, so why not make a new breakthrough in the game mode level and create a game that is different from all the games in the world in the past!

The direction he is grasping is the concept of "block chain", which is to combine games and virtual currency.

In the past games, the gold coins in the game can only be consumed in the game, and they are all virtual currencies with no real value.However, the virtual currency under the blockchain concept has actual value that can be intertwined with the real world.

Although the current bitcoin price is still very low, 1 dollars can buy 10.But as long as it shows value, it is enough to provide a new direction and new thinking for the future of virtual finance.

If you combine the two, players can create real-world value when they play games and collect gold coins.In the past, players made money through games in an indirect sense, with sponsors, advertisers or platforms giving money.

Under the new concept of "blockchain + virtual digital currency + game", players can directly make money, and the gold coins collected during the game can be extracted and exchanged on a platform similar to the bitcoin trading platform.

Like bitcoin mining, mining software is used to continuously calculate on a powerful mining machine, and an "answer" is calculated. Even if one mining is successful, bitcoins are collected.

This mod is so boring.

Think of mining as hard work.

If you design a new game currency... such as Changyou Coin, if you want to mine, you need players to form a group to play some difficult copies in the game.

If the copy is successfully downloaded, even if the mining is successful, you can collect Changyou coins.

In order to make it easier for players to play dungeons, players have to constantly upgrade, farm monsters, and spend money on props to create more powerful equipment, and this business model has also started to run.

It is even possible to launch some special props, which can only be purchased with Changyou coins.

In order to obtain these special items, many players have to go to the Changyou Coin trading platform outside to buy them, or download Changyou Coins to collect Changyou Coins... In this way, Changyou Coins will have a recovery mechanism, which can be recovered by the platform through some means. It will cause spam and inflation in the market.

Zhou Buqi has been thinking about this idea for more than a year.

There are definitely many immature places in this, especially the value drop that may be caused by the excessive issuance of currency, whether more recycling mechanisms are needed, whether there is a tax system, and whether other reservoir functions are needed...just It is equivalent to creating a virtual and simple modern financial system.

This is not a weekly specialty.

Putting Changyou's overseas headquarters in New York has a great advantage to solve this problem.The most indispensable thing here is financiers and bankers. You can find financial system experts on the real level to help create a virtual financial system in the game world.

Once the program is successful.

At that time, all games under Changyou will be able to implement the "Changyou Coin" solution, and even be connected to VR and AR hardware devices to open up more real worlds and open a window to the Metaverse.

I don't know whether Zhuang Zhou dreamed of a butterfly or a butterfly dreaming of Zhuang Zhou.

The way this world operates, the way of life of people on earth may be completely changed, and people can travel around the world without leaving home...even virtual worlds, and everyone in the virtual world is the same in the real world. one corresponding.

If it is realized, then this will be comparable to Musk's "immigration to Mars" plan. One is to dig deep inward, and the other is to explore outer space. This is comparable to Bill Gates, Jobs and the others. Traditional tech leaders are far more powerful.

This is a huge, long-term and sci-fi industrial idea.

It is also the biggest motivation for Zhou Buqi to become the chairman of Changyou. It is no longer a challenge for him to surpass Bill Gates, Bezos, and Musk in terms of wealth.

Next, he will work hard on fame and technological revolution for all mankind, and change the direction of the world.

The probability of failure is extremely high.

This set of ideas is too sci-fi, and it may not be done in a lifetime.The virtual digital currency alone will not become popular in seven or eight years.

Don't worry, there is always a goal.

Next, just develop little by little. First, let’s start with Changyou’s main business. First, we’ll use our foresight to acquire a batch of world-class games. First, we’ll build Changyou into the world’s largest game empire!

Lao Zhang's pattern is a little bit worse.

How can he understand Zhou Buqi’s pursuit of competing with technological giants such as Edison, HP, Gates, Jobs, Zuckerberg, and Musk?

It is really embarrassing for him to arrange some tasks for him to run Changyou's new business.

It's better to go on it yourself!
……

Came to the UK, ready to watch the League Cup final.

First went to Ziweixing Digital Media and participated in a board of directors.

In the past year, Ziweixing Digital Media’s revenue reached 3.6 million pounds. The income is quite a lot, and the expenses are even more. The research and development funds alone have spent 7500 million pounds.

Calculated, the net loss last year was 1.4 million pounds.

The biggest source of income is the official website agency business of European clubs, with a total account of up to 2.7 million pounds.The largest spending business mainly comes from its core product - Goal.

In the past year, this product has spent 1.8 million pounds on promotional expenses alone. The largest expenditure is not the chest advertising sponsorship of 3000 million pounds per year for Barcelona jerseys, but the Champions League and Europa League signed with UEFA. The sponsorship deal has reached £4500 million per season.

However, the market responded well.

Goal has undoubtedly become the largest football community in the world today, with 1.2 million registered users, including 8000 million users in Europe, and more than 3200 million daily active users.

This is a very remarkable achievement.

Regardless of the serious losses of this product, it is the most valuable product under Ziweixing Digital Media.You know, Twitter currently has only 1.5 million global users.In just two years, Goal's scale is no worse than Twitter's.

It is conservatively estimated that the valuation of the Goal product alone can reach 30 billion pounds.

On the board of directors, Zhou Buqi made a deployment. In the next year, Goal will mainly develop two directions, develop the mobile business more deeply, get more football information, and make efforts in the Asian market at the same time.

However, it's not a problem to lose so much all the time.

The last time Ziweixing Digital Media raised 7 million US dollars, but in the past year or so, in order to achieve faster development, Goal has successively invested, controlled, and acquired more than 30 football-related media and football websites in Europe, thus To get their football news rights and users, it cost a total of 1.3 million US dollars.

He also launched several acquisitions for the technological transformation of football, and spent another 5000 million US dollars.

Now, Ziweixing Digital Media only has 3.3 million US dollars of funds available on its books.

This year, it is expected to continue to lose about 1.5 million US dollars.

Finances are a little tight.

The listing plan is about to start!

This matter has been discussed for half a year. At this board meeting, a resolution was passed and it was decided to start operations now.It is planned that Ziweixing Digital Media will be listed on the London Stock Exchange in September next year!

After the meeting, Zhou Buqi called Senior Sister Zhenyu and Sister Baoshan, and asked them to continue to pay attention to the listing process of Ziweixing Digital Media.This time I came to London temporarily, and there was only Ning Yaxian by my side, and this time there was no maid, so I felt so lonely.

No way, the Spring Festival is the most important festival for Chinese people.

During the Spring Festival, the women surrounded Zhou Buqi and celebrated the New Year at Zhou's house.After celebrating the new year at Zhou's house, I still have to set aside some time to go back to my mother's house for reunion.Even Sun Guanran and Ning Lu stayed in the country.

Fortunately, Ning Yaxian was very understanding and told him with a smile, "Your goddaughters are here."

"Where? London?"

Zhou Buqi's face brightened, and he felt that there was room to combine work and rest again.

Ning Yaxian said softly: "It's in Milan, but I've already informed them to come to London. It's Jiang Bingjie and Li Xinwan. It's just after the Chinese New Year, and the two of them have come to Europe for vacation together, and their parents are with them?"

Zhou Buqi laughed and said, "The two families together?"

"Ah."

"It seems that I also did a good thing and established a deep friendship between the two families. Well, when will you come?"

"It will be here in the afternoon."

"Arrange it, I will invite their two families to dinner tonight!"

(End of this chapter)