My rebirth is different

Chapter 529 Produced by Facebook, it must be a boutique

The Facebook game suing the winger game and many Internet cafe chains, which had been making a lot of noise, suddenly became silent.

When many media reporters were wondering, everyone found that the winger game had been revised again. In the new version, the battle area disappeared, and it became the same as before...

In addition, Winger Games published an apology letter in the name of the company on its official website and Hangcheng Daily.

In this statement of apology, the general manager of Winger Games sincerely admitted the infringement of Winger Games on Ogilvy Software (now Facebook Games), and felt ashamed of Winger's fault.He promised that the winger game platform will definitely abide by the law and discipline in the future, and will never do similar things again, and ask the public to supervise it...

At the same time, Facebook Games also quietly withdrew all the lawsuits from the court, including the winger games and those chain Internet cafes.

The matter was settled in this way. Many people thought that the Facebook game was a bit anticlimactic this time, but no one knew what the Facebook game had gained. It would take a while to see this.

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It is not very troublesome for Ogilvy Software to merge into Facebook. The company has two branches in the country, one in the capital and one in Shanghai.

It is said that it is a branch, but it is actually an office. Each place only rents an office and hires a few employees.

Because Ogilvy did not build its own sales channels, it sells through major channels such as Lianbang Software and Xinhua Bookstore. The daily work of the office is to communicate with sales channels and deliver goods.

It can be said that the core asset of Ogilvy & Mather, apart from the agency rights of those games, is Brian.

After all, Ogilvy wouldn't be able to get the rights to those games without him.

After being acquired this time, according to the acquisition agreement, Brian will still work in Facebook Games for three years, because there is still a final payment of 300 million to be paid in the form of salary.

In name, Effie didn't treat him badly, and gave Brian the position of vice president of the Facebook game company, mainly responsible for the introduction, acquisition, and business operation of stand-alone games.

When Brian came to work in Xinzhuang Science and Technology Park on the first day, Effie found him and asked: "Mr. Is it a company that produces masterpieces such as Warcraft and StarCraft?"

Brian smiled triumphantly. In the game industry, Blizzard back then was a god!

There is a saying that old players must know, that is "Blizzard's product must be a boutique!"

The famous Diablo, Warcraft, and StarCraft are Blizzard's products. These games can be said to have influenced the gaming circle of an era...

Of course, after being acquired by Activision, Blizzard is no longer the same Blizzard, the core personnel have almost left, and there are no more amazing high-quality games to launch.

"Of course, I have participated in the game production of Diablo and Warcraft, and I am very familiar with Blizzard's top management." He said with a smile.

"Oh? I heard that Blizzard is currently developing an online game. Is there such a thing?" Effie asked curiously.

"Huh? You also know? There is such a thing. This game is called World of Warcraft. It was born out of the stand-alone game Warcraft. I went to the Blizzard headquarters a while ago and heard them introduce this game. Originally, I planned to buy it. It's a pity that such an incident happened as an agent of this game, is Mr. Ai also interested in this game?" Brian said.

Many people know that when World of Warcraft was introduced to the mainland, Ninetowns was the agent company, and Ninetowns, a small company that was not well-known before, also shined because of World of Warcraft and made a lot of money.

But very few people know that this game should have been owned by Ogilvy & Mather Software.

Ogilvy and Blizzard do maintain a good relationship. Blizzard's games are released and sold in mainland China through Ogilvy.

Why didn't Ogilvy get the agency rights of World of Warcraft?

This is from Ogilvy's own death.

World of Warcraft is a large-scale online battle game, and Blizzard also has high expectations for this game, so agents around the world must have sufficient strength.Originally, Ogilvy is considered to be a little powerful, and Blizzard also agreed to hand over World of Warcraft to Ogilvy to act as an agent.

But there is one thing, Ogilvy has no experience in operating online games. Since World of Warcraft is still about a year away from the market, Ogilvy is going to represent one or two online games to practice, accumulate experience, and become an agent for World of Warcraft. The world prepares.

So, Brian flew to Korea next door and introduced three kimchi online games in one go, "Nine Dragons", "Peacock King" and "Open Sky". As a result, each of these three games was worse than the other. "It died violently during the publicity stage, and it was never introduced to the market at all.

The other two games, after the public beta, were still half dead. Not only did they not make money, but they lost a lot of money every month.

This is also one of the reasons why Brian wants to sell the company, because he has a premonition that it is impossible for him to represent World of Warcraft.

Ogilvy's deadly behavior finally achieved the glory of Ninetowns.

Before there was no agent for World of Warcraft, Ninetowns was a forum, euphemistically called a virtual community.

Among the oldest group of netizens, there should be some people who still have a little impression of the former Ninth City, which is a so-called virtual community.Of course, the boss of Ninetowns is still very discerning. Seeing that the virtual community has no future without making money, he began to transform.

Shanda's success has made many people jealous, and the boss of Ninetowns is one of them. Everyone is in Shanghai, so how can Shanda make a lot of money? No, I want to engage in online games too!

So, in 2002, Ninetowns introduced the miracle MU.

Since then, Ninetowns began to take off. At the end of 2003, talking about World of Warcraft gave Ninetowns a pair of wings.

At its peak, Ninetowns owner Zhu Jun was worth tens of billions of RMB and bought the Shanghai Shenhua Club. Every time he played a game, the owner brought a box of cash and distributed it to the players on the spot after winning the game!
When it comes to spending money in football, fans now only know Evergrande's boss Xu, and few people remember Shenhua's boss Zhu.

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Of course, since Yu Wenfei had those strange dreams, many things have changed or are about to change.At the very least, Ninetowns should not be able to get the cash cow of World of Warcraft.

Ogilvy is now acquired by Facebook Games. With the strength of Facebook Games and the relationship between Brian and Blizzard, other people must have no hope of intervening.

Effie talked to Brian just to put this matter on the agenda.

Facebook games are definitely not just a chess and card game platform. Yu Wenfei spun off this company separately, and gave [-] million US dollars in the first round of financing. How could Effie be allowed to make small troubles here.

Chess and board game platforms, online games, online battles, and even acquire game studios in the future, develop their own games, and then build their own game sales platform!
Anything in the game industry, Facebook Games will get involved.

And the time of 2003 is also the most suitable time!Because there is basically no competition in China except for online games, even game development talents are easy to recruit, because everyone wants to make quick money and go abroad to represent games, and few companies are willing to pay for it for a year or two or even For a longer period of time, to develop games with an uncertain future.

Hearing that Effie intends to represent World of Warcraft, Brian was also invigorated. He danced and said, "Mr. Ai, this is definitely a wise decision! That game, let me tell you, is definitely better than the most popular legendary game in mainland China right now." Korean games such as Miracle are a hundred times more fun! In my opinion, the two are definitely not of the same grade. Legendary Miracle is like instant food, that is, junk food such as hamburgers, hot dogs, and instant noodles, while World of Warcraft is absolutely Michelin-starred three-star chefs carefully cook delicious food! Believe me, after the introduction of World of Warcraft, players in mainland China will definitely go crazy for it!"

Effie smiled and nodded, although she didn't think that World of Warcraft would be much better than games like Legends and Miracles. In Effie's eyes, as long as the game can make money, it is a good game. The difference between earning more and earning less!
Since Yu Wenfei specifically mentioned that this game is going to be won, then she should do whatever it takes to win it.

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On April [-]th, Tencent issued another announcement, announcing that the QQ game platform will be officially launched tomorrow, that is, at [-]:[-] am on May [-]st!
The QQ game platform is really ill-fated. It has been revised again and again and its launch has been postponed. Until now, not to mention the exhaustion of players' expectations, even Tencent's own employees have no enthusiasm.

So it was just a QQ pop-up notification, and there was no "killing serial pop-up window" like last time.

Of course, after such a long period of polishing, according to the evaluation of internal employees, the functions and quality of the platform are still quite acceptable.

In comparison, all the game platforms on the market, including the Facebook game platform and the QQ game platform, are comparable, and the others are counted as one. They are not comparable to the QQ game platform in terms of functionality, stability, and user friendliness.

But what makes Xiao Ma wonder is that the Facebook game side has been too quiet recently.

After the acquisition of Ogilvy & Mather, everyone thought that Facebook Games would launch its own battle function soon, and everyone was quite envious of this.

After all, everyone can see how popular CS is now.

It's a pity that this piece of meat now belongs to the Facebook game, and few people have the courage to "pull their teeth out of the tiger's mouth".

But the strange thing is that the Facebook game platform has not launched any new battle function, and the recent update of the platform is only about chess and card games.

People in the circle say that the developers of the Facebook game have been working overtime recently, but there is no news about what exactly they developed.

What the hell is going on with the Facebook game?
In fact, Facebook Games is indeed developing new products. The reason why it has not been launched for so long is because Effie has high requirements. For the company's products, Effie's only requirement is that Facebook products must be high-quality goods!

Yes, Effie unceremoniously took the players' compliments to Blizzard as a request for her company's products.

In her opinion, what is Blizzard? In the future, Facebook games will definitely be more famous than Blizzard, and there will be more high-quality goods!

Maybe this is what Yu Wenfei likes about her...

　Thanks to "Bainiao Chaofeng Gun" for the reward.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)