Top of the Great Era

Chapter 2239 The Brilliance of Bidding

That's how it was planned.

But something went wrong.

The latest news, EA's general meeting of shareholders will be held next Wednesday, only 5 days left.

In such a short period of time, the "FIFA" trademark case cannot be concluded.

It may not be feasible to cut John Riccitilo's life-saving straw through this incident, let him be collectively crusaded at EA's shareholders meeting, and then step down.

Fortunately, Zheng Mengzhun's relationship is strong enough.

Has a very strong strength in FIFA... You know, the previous president Havelange, who was called the emperor in FIFA, was killed by him, and this is how the current president Blatter came into being. on stage.

Zhou Buqi wanted to settle this matter through internal relations, and he already had everything in his hands.

EA doesn't stand a chance.

FIFA is not a market-driven institution.

However, it is not Boss Zhou's style to play some very low-end methods, and it is impossible for him to pin such unpredictable risks on Zheng Mengzhun.

It must be safe.

Even if someone finds out, it can still be placed in the sun openly, and it must be upright.

It is actually very difficult to do this.

Looking at the whole world, that is to say, the domestic game is the best.

It is the routine of "bidding".

It is said that a large state-owned enterprise wanted to invite bids for a project, and there were 10 companies participating in the bidding at the same time, one of which was a broken company with a related household, and the other 1 were good companies with great strength in the market.

Ask, how can we let this related household win the bid in an upright manner?
At first glance, it seems almost impossible.

When foreigners encounter this kind of thing, they are all confused, and the commercial imagination of the Chinese people is brought into play.

Any company has advantages and disadvantages.

Good companies have their flaws, and bad companies have their strengths.

This is the entry point.

A number of non-discriminatory and restrictive terms can be listed for bidding companies.

For example, if a good company is headquartered in Spring City and a bad company is headquartered in the capital, it can be stated that the company is required to be headquartered in the capital to promote the economic development of the capital.

For example, if a good company has 100 employees and a bad company has 200 employees, you can declare that the bidding company must have sufficient strength and the number of employees must exceed 200.

For example, the technical experts in a good company are all non-governmental and have no titles, but a bad company invites academicians as consultants. You can declare that bidding companies must have top scientists certified by the state.

All the conditions were written clearly in the bidding document without any cover-up.

As long as the conditions are met, any company can come to bid!
Absolutely fair and just.

But after looking at all the bidding conditions, basically all the powerful companies in the market have been screened out, leaving only this related company.

From the process point of view, I can't find a single fault.

This kind of top-level bidding operation, at the level of FIFA, must be incomprehensible, and Zheng Mengzhun is not enough. Zhou Buqi asked He Yang and Guo Dan to give an outline, and then through the hands of Ren Yuxin, I also made my own edits and sent them to Zheng Mengzhun.

FIFA just goes to the market for public bidding according to this requirement!
Don't play that kind of insidious trick!
Our boss Zhou has always done business in an upright manner.

In the bidding document, there are mainly eight restrictive conditions.

First, the bidder must support the development of football. The annual sponsorship for the football industry is no less than 2500 million U.S. dollars, and the sponsorship for the football youth training system is no less than 500 million U.S. dollars.

Only this one condition can basically make EA vomit blood.

EA just wants to make football games and has no interest in supporting the football industry!

For Changyou, there are no such constraints.

Zhou Buqi has Manchester United, as well as several teams all over the world, who give some sponsorship fees and donations to youth training...they can't escape the truth that the fat and water don't flow to outsiders.

The second condition requires the bidder to have the ability to organize football e-sports and conduct football competitions in the field of e-sports.

For EA, it is another clause that vomits blood.

They have no interest in esports.

Changyou is different.

This is an important strategy for Changyou in the next few years. Now that the global competition of "DOTA2" has been organized, it is already the most influential e-sports competition in the world.

This is just the beginning.

More and more projects will be involved in the future.

The third condition is that the bidding party should have the responsibility to better support the development of the global football industry and the promotion of football matches... This is a tailor-made clause.

Fourth, in view of the current prosperity of the football industry in Europe and South America, Asia is the next emerging football market. After the tenderee obtains the "FIFA" trademark, it should have stronger strength to cultivate in the Asian market.

Ok!

Tailor-made again!

In the football game market in Japan, only "Pro Evolution Football" can exist.In the domestic football game market... not to mention, this is the base camp of Changyou.

fifth……

In short, Zheng Mengzhun was stunned after these eight restrictions were revealed.

It's the first time I've seen a business like this.

Don't think about negotiating conditions with Party A to reduce Party A's requirements, but take the initiative to increase several conditions to create greater value for Party A...

He is indeed the richest man in the world!

This pattern is really unusual!
With these eight major clauses, Zheng Mengzhun feels that he does not need to operate in secret, because everyone knows that these clauses are very beneficial to FIFA, and are very beneficial to the development of the global football industry and football market.

……

When it comes to football, Zhou Buqi got a bad news.

Manchester United were eliminated by Real Madrid in the second leg of the Champions League semi-final.

Zhou Buqi watched the game on TV, and the process was ups and downs.Real Madrid sat at home and took the lead in scoring a goal. Ronaldo scored a goal with a header.

Then, Manchester United staged a Jedi counterattack.

Belteng rides the clouds and fog, and staged the return of the great sage.

In the 24th minute, the midfielder counterattacked with a counterattack and scored a goal; in the 47th minute, he scored a free kick; in the 48th minute, after receiving a cross from Van Persie, he shot and scored from the small penalty area.

He scored a hat-trick at the Bernabeu!

This is not enough.

In the 79th minute of the game, taking advantage of a corner kick, Real Madrid's penalty area was in chaos, and Bell grabbed the point!

Big Four!
In the first round of the game, Manchester United lost 1:4 at home. In the second round at the Bernabeu, Manchester United returned the opponent 4:1!

In the ensuing overtime, neither side achieved anything.

In the penalty shootout, Carrick missed a penalty. Manchester United regretfully lost and failed to enter the Champions League final this season.

The whole game was soul-stirring, and it was a classic battle that can be recorded in history.

Manchester United is a glorious defeat.

This gave Zhou Buqi a bad premonition, Bale shines at the Bernabeu... Real Madrid's offer is estimated to come soon.

The live broadcast of the game was over, Zhou Buqi sat in front of the TV, sent a text message to Klopp, and sent a group text message to all the players of Manchester United's first team to praise their wonderful performance in this game.

At this time, Ning Lu went downstairs, walked over lightly, and said with a smile, "Have you finished the game?"

"Ah."

"Did you win?"

"I lost."

"Oh..." Ning Lu was very helpless, "That's over, I have a bad news to tell you."

Zhou Buqi said with a smile: "It's just a loss, it's normal, it's not bad news."

Ning Lu said: "The news of the EA shareholders meeting is a bit annoying."

Zhou Buqi became interested, "How is it?"

Ning Lu said: "The shareholders' meeting is over. At the meeting, EA made it clear that the rumors from the outside world are all false. John Richtillo will continue to be the CEO of EA. You can see for yourself..."

Here's a typed report from the New York Times' business column.

EA said——

"There are currently no plans for anyone else to be CEO and we have considerable confidence in John and the entire management team..."

"The Board has great confidence in John and the management team..."

"EA launched Origin, which will be the next form of PC games. It is the next key development project of EA. John has done a great job..."

"The management team have delivered on their operating plan fairly well over the past two financial years. We believe the current strategy is focused on moving forward and we believe they will be able to execute that strategy very well."

The article also revealed that EA will announce its financial report for the first quarter of this fiscal year next week, and they are likely to discuss the company's prospects in more depth at that time...

Zhou Buqi asked: "What is this Origin?"

Ning Lu said: "A gaming platform is just like Ziweixing International's Steam."

"Huh?" Zhou Buqi opened his eyes wide, "What else?"

Ning Lu said: "It seems that it has just been released. It is now a beta version. It has all the games of EA on it. It has also attracted many game manufacturers. Recently, it is working on the Japanese game market."

Zhou Buqi was amused, "Japanese market?"

"It seems to be." Ning Lu was also a little confused, "Ask a professional, I don't know the details."

Zhou Buqi decisively called Ren Yuxin, "EA has launched a platform called Origin, do you know?"

Ren Yuxin smiled and said, "I know, it's become an industry joke."

"A joke?" Zhou Buqi was puzzled, "Why?"

Ren Yuxin said: "EA's reputation is bad. It's a game smasher. European and American game manufacturers are unwilling to put their own games on Origin. It seems that the first big client they signed is Time Warner."

Time Warner is a giant company.

It has many businesses, including several game studios.

However, how valuable can Warner's games be?
Zhou Buqi said: "I heard that they are going to develop the Japanese market, this is following our footsteps!"

Ren Yuxin said: "That's different. We are actively developing the Japanese market, and they are passive. Those game manufacturers in Europe and the United States do not cooperate with them. Steam is the most popular PC game platform at the moment. They have no choice. We can only find Japanese game companies to cooperate with.”

Zhou Buqi said: "Speak to Capcom, Nintendo, Konami, Bandai, Sega, etc., and suggest that they should not cooperate with Origin."

"Suggest?"

"Well, the suggestion is enough."

(End of this chapter)