Top of the Great Era

The next afternoon, Zhou Buqi was leaving New York for Manchester.

Go to a game.

By the way, look at Dad.

On New Year's Day, my dad didn't come over to celebrate the holiday together, saying that he had finally made a new discovery and was about to finalize the purchase of the private island.Dad spends, son pays.

At noon, Zhang Chaoyang invited him to dinner.

It's a noodle shop in Upper Manhattan.

Chinese entrepreneurs in New York generally choose to open a Chinese restaurant, or set up a stall on the street, frying fried dough sticks, selling soy milk and so on.

However, the status of the Chinese in New York is not bad at all.

Not only is it the best among Asians, it can even be said to be better than immigrants from most countries.It can be seen from the geographical location that New York's Chinatown is in Manhattan.

This is where every inch is worth every penny.

Other people of color can only live in Brooklyn and Queens, because Manhattan is the "high society" in the purest sense of the United States, and most of the people working here are white people.

The Chinese can have a place here, even though they are only opening restaurants, they are still doing a lot.

The noodle shop that Lao Zhang brought him here is really extraordinary.

The proprietress is the grand-niece of Chairman Jiang, and there is a big photo hanging in the noodle shop, which is a family photo of the elderly Jiang holding the proprietress when he was a child.

Not only that, there are a lot of celebrities on the photo wall.

Such as the famous comedian Jerry Seinfeld, such as the former New York mayor Giuliani, such as Hollywood director Martin Scorsese, such as the world's richest man Bill Gates.

Zhou Buqi chatted with the proprietress for a few words, and she wanted to take a group photo with her.

This was very embarrassing, Zhang Chaoyang took the initiative to stand up, smiled and helped to smooth things over, saying that it was not convenient for Mr. Zhou to take pictures, and he could replace him.

The proprietress was a little dazed.

Take a photo with you?

Who are you?
Fortunately, besides his secretary Ning Lu, Zhou Buqi also has the domestic star Yang Mi, who is quite well-known.So I sent Yang Mi out and took a group photo with the proprietress.

Even so many foreigners are willing to take photos together to help promote this noodle shop, Zhou Buqi feels that he can help.

Then, the proprietress enthusiastically waived the order.

Their signature dish is General Tso's Chicken, and at $19.99 a plate, it's not cheap at all.It tasted weird, and Zhou Buqi felt that if he cooks by himself, making chicken stewed with mushrooms would taste better than this.

Zhang Chaoyang ate with gusto, probably because he had studied in the United States and was used to the taste of American Chinese food, "By the way, have you read the latest news from Zynga?"

Zhou Buqi didn't care, "I don't care."

Zhang Chaoyang said: "It's related to cloud computing, why didn't you pay attention?"

"Cloud computing?" Zhou Buqi was really interested, "What's wrong?"

Zhang Chaoyang said with a smile: "Zynga's first move after the New Year's Day holiday is to launch its own cloud computing platform. They used to cooperate with Amazon Cloud, and it seems that the effect is not very good."

"Bullshit!" Zhou Buqi thought this was absurd, "It's just a lie to laymen. It's true to make a PPT concept and use the hot concept of cloud computing to boost the stock price. It's just a capital routine."

Zynga to do cloud computing?
What will they do?

However, just at the beginning of the new year, Zynga threw out such a big concept, and they did not hesitate to sacrifice their long-term reputation to obtain short-term speculation benefits. It can be seen that they are under a lot of pressure.

Zynga's stock price continues to slump, but not only are the shareholders dissatisfied and the board of directors unhappy, but the entire game industry is very angry with them and is putting pressure on them.

Just like in May last year, when Changyou's stock price began to plummet, it was also under pressure from domestic game companies.

As soon as Changyou fell, it began to lead the decline.

Share prices of domestic peers will fall.

Zhang Chaoyang shook his head, "It doesn't matter if you want to catch the heat or speculate on the concept. But there are business opportunities here. Their cooperation with Amazon Cloud is not very happy. Amazon Cloud is not inclined to games at the technical level. Ziwei Cloud has done a good job in this regard Well, at least it’s good for cloud applications of lightweight games.”

"Really." Zhou Buqi smiled and turned to look at Ning Lu, "Send Kurian an email and ask him to pay attention to Zynga. Maybe we can really win over."

Zhang Chaoyang said: "The current game market is mainly divided into four directions. First, the traditional direction, such as video games, handheld games, and computer stand-alone games; second, computer online games, such as "World of Warcraft" and "Dragon Babu". three, social games represented by Zynga; four, mobile games represented by Changyou.”

Zhou Buqi laughed, "Old Zhang, you really... feel itchy to let go of power, right? Then you should go directly south to Boston to meet Wang Shi and see how he is the boss, how powerful he is?"

Zhang Chaoyang snorted, "Let's talk about the facts!"

Zhou Buqi felt that this side was unpalatable, and the dishes were also unpalatable, so he should have gone to eat steak with Sun Guanran, Jiang Bingjie, Di Lireya and the others. Steak is the authentic one here.

He simply put down his chopsticks, and asked Ning Lu to inform Sun Guanran to pack a few more copies and take them to the plane.

"Okay, you can continue."

"Traditional games and online games are no longer favored by the market. Social games and mobile games are the next direction. Now that Ziweiyun has Changyou, if it wins Zynga, it is tantamount to embracing the future direction of games. "

"You care about cloud computing?"

Zhou Buqi smiled slightly, but actually did not agree with Lao Zhang's point of view.

Companies such as EA, Blizzard, and take-two have a strong enough background, and after a while, they will recover, and they must be stronger than Zynga.

Zhang Chaoyang said with a serious look: "I think there is something wrong with your attitude towards Zynga. Changyou should join hands with Zynga and cooperate closely. It is not only to help Ziweiyun get a big client. Changyou can also have a good partner , you can’t fight alone, can you?”

"Ah."

Zhou Buqi nodded, which made more sense.

Zhang Chaoyang went on to say: "Sell your friend's studio to EA, and then sold off EA's stock early, is this an offence?"

Zhou Buqi smiled, "Almost, once bitten by a snake for ten years, I'm afraid of well ropes, and I'm afraid it's impossible to cooperate with EA after a good swim."

Zhang Chaoyang said: "That's right, let's just do one thing and keep doing the other thing. After selling Friends Studio, Changyou no longer has a social game business. Why don't you just cooperate with Zynga in this field, they are under so much pressure now... Don't you?" I like giving charcoal in the snow the most."

"Makes sense."

Zhou Buqi stroked his chin, feeling that Lao Zhang's suggestion was very mature and prudent.

In fact, when selling Friends Studio to EA, there was an additional clause requiring the seller not to start a similar social game company within five years, so as not to form competition with Friends Studio.

However, the seller at that time was Ziweixing International.

Nothing to do with traveling.

Changyou can still enter the social game market, and it can also cooperate with Zynga instead of avoiding the existence of EA's friend studio.

Web social gaming has no future.

However, Baokai Studio under Changyou still has many excellent intellectual property rights for casual games.If you don't develop social games yourself, you can authorize Zynga to develop them.

In addition to getting a license fee, you can also get profit dividends in the future.

It's a sure-fire deal.

And it also has a promotional effect.

Although there is no market for social games in the future, they can continue to be popular for a while in recent years. Relying on the platform of Facebook is actually a big advertisement!

Many players have had enough of similar games on the web, and then switch to their mobile phones... only to find that there are similar games, which forms the conversion of players.All rights and interests of the mobile game version will belong to Changyou.

In other words, Zynga's social game resources can be used to attract traffic for Changyou's lightweight mobile games and to do free product promotion.

There is also a higher strategic level, as Lao Zhang said, Changyou cannot go it alone in the overseas market, it is best to have a few relatively close partners.

EA is definitely dead, you can choose Zynga.

Zhang Chaoyang went on to say: "In addition to Zynga, we can also deepen cooperation with Blizzard. Isn't the domestic agency of "World of Warcraft" and Battle.net just Changyou, and the two sides can deepen cooperation."

"Well, it should be...Huh?" Zhou Buqi reacted immediately, and his expression became strange, "Waiting for me here! Changyou has reached a strategic cooperation with Zynga and Blizzard. As soon as the news is released, the stock price of Changyou It can increase by at least 10%! It will be convenient for you to cash out at that time, right?"

Zhang Chaoyang laughed, quite frankly.

Zhou Buqi said: "Or you just listen to me, don't make any Sohu videos, this stuff is useless. It's a waste of money to invest in it. How many executives at Ziweixing have suggested to me, I didn't Yes. In this business, copyright is the hard currency.”

Zhang Chaoyang stubbornly refused to accept it, and said with a smile: "It's okay, we can make our own dramas. Sohu can make some low-cost online dramas to find differentiation."

"It's just a small fight."

Zhou Buqi shook his head.

Zhang Chaoyang didn't answer the question, "By the way, the country is now calling for the development of a domestic operating system. Have you taken any action?"

"No action, I'm an honest man." Zhou Buqi stretched his waist bluntly, "Scientific research, the louder you shout, the more you are a liar. Do you think ZTE, Huawei, Ziweixing, etc., are shouting slogans? Baidu and Ali didn’t make as much fanfare as those people, and they were very guilty. Those with loud voices are either laymen who don’t understand anything, or professional liars, or academic scum.”

In the past few years, there has been such a wave in China.

A large sum of money was given, but the money was divided among the three major operators.After they got the money, they messed around, even if it was modified according to the Android system, they couldn't understand it.

It was a complete failure.

No way, we still have to rely on private enterprises.However, private enterprises can't get any support funds, and the funds for the magically modified operating system have been spent.

Ali and Baidu believe that they want to build a platform on the smartphone side, and they have rushed in in response to the call.It’s only been a few months, and the market has been severely slapped in the face. No one buys Alibaba Cloud mobile phones and Baidu Yi mobile phones.

Next, whoever wants to get relevant scientific research funding from the country can't do magic reform, it has to be a purely self-developed domestic mobile phone operating system.

Only laymen are particularly enthusiastic about tasks of this level, and only liars are excited and generous to take over.

For example, a scientific research team bravely took over this task, recruited a large number of academicians to the platform, and came up with a "independent innovation, leading the future" COS intelligent operating system with pure independent intellectual property rights (C is China, OS is the meaning of the system), there is no difference in the moment.

But it was revealed soon.

It is clear when the code is checked that this is a system developed by HTC.Even the demonstration machine is from HTC, and the HTC brand is worn out and replaced by its own.

Zhou Buqi has to stay away from these people.