Return to 2002: Freestyle Superstar

Chapter 500 Both the stadium and the shopping mall need allies

what?
You actually want to visit the NBA Players Association with Roddick?

Chen Ran, you are really good at playing.

Isn't this stimulating the ATP gentlemen to the extreme?

It can even be said that he is riding on his face to output.

Don't they want to lose face?
But everyone also admired Chen Ran for his artistic talent and boldness.

Of course, what he did was completely within the rules.

The ATP can't just stop Chen Ran and Roddick from visiting the NBA Players Association, right?
They even have to show a positive and supportive attitude.

Every year, there are more and more ATP tour events, which also leads to an increasing risk of injuries for players.

Everyone knows this.

Therefore, starting from injury protection, this is a practical solution at the moment.

When the grassland season started, Chen Ran had already started his vacation mode.

He found that this clay court season, the competition with Nadal was really exhausting, and he was very exhausted.

After the French Open, apart from some simple recovery training, he has not performed any high-intensity exercises.

At this time, the agent came to him in a hurry.

"Chen Ran, take a look at the general plot of the tennis movie. It is still in the preliminary stage."

He handed a document to Chen Ran.

"So soon? Didn't you say that you have to wait until at least I win the seventh Grand Slam?" Chen Ran also showed a look of surprise.

"Isn't this a matter of time? So we have to start preparations in advance." The agent said confidently, "It is only in the drafting stage now. By the time the project is almost finalized, we believe that your number of Grand Slams has surpassed Agassi's. ”

"..."

They are really confident.

But after Chen Ran glanced at the contents of the manuscript, the expression on his face became extremely exciting.

Really, although I also think that this movie will most likely not be too classic, isn't your script too perfunctory?
Some aliens came to the earth, stole the skills of professional tennis players, and swept the world. In the end, Chen Ran had to step forward.

These domestic entertainment screenwriters are really lazy. They really don’t even think about using their brains and they are blatantly plagiarizing Michael Jordan’s “Space Jam”.

But you are shameless, I am shameless.

He didn't want to be laughed at by the audience.

"I don't like this script." Chen Ran couldn't help but tear up the document. "I would rather not make a movie than use this kind of script."

"This..." The agent obviously didn't expect Chen Ran's reaction to be so violent, "Okay, then I'll ask the relevant parties to prepare the script again."

He knew his employer was angry.

I really didn’t expect Chen Ran to have such high requirements for scripts.

The agent left with some anxiety.

After Chen Ran completed the restorative training, he also returned to his company in Shanghai.

"Warcraft" has been in operation for half a year, and the number of paid online users has been growing slowly, from more than 30 when the server was launched to 60 today, which is a gratifying growth rate.

This is due to the fact that all the game servers purchased by his company have always been in line with the standards of the American and European servers. This is unlike the 9C Xiaobawang server in the previous life, which has to go down and revert even if the air conditioner is blowing every day.

Coupled with Chen Ran's own celebrity effect, the game's popularity has increased day by day, and the number of online people has increased much faster than during the previous 9C operation period.

The so-called siphon effect means that although there are so many games on the market and competition is fierce, popular games have natural advantages and can continue to attract players from other games to invest in them.

The enthusiasm of Chinese players has also brought Chen Ran a steady stream of wealth, and his partners IMG and Nike have also made a lot of money from it.

Perhaps the only one who feels regret and dissatisfaction is Blizzard. The agency fee of about 1500 million US dollars a year makes Blizzard regret it.

As for taking away 4/1 of the game's profit share, they only took a small share, and the real big share was taken away by Chen Ran, a stinky agent.

At this point, Chen Ran's accumulated wealth may be second only to Jordan, Li Ning, and golfer Tiger Woods at the athlete level.

However, among the active athletes, the only two are Chen Ran and Tiger Woods.

Later generations of netizens often argue over who is richer, Li Ning or Jordan. However, with the current trend, Chen Ran is likely to join the discussion in the near future and become one of the four giants.

However, the outside world is not optimistic about this.

Tennis is far more risky than golf, for one.

Secondly, both Li Ning and Jordan have stable sources of income, while Chen Ran only represents an online game, which obviously lacks stability.

Therefore, the agency has been urging Chen Ran to take advantage of the current "Warcraft" to make money and establish an independent research and development team as soon as possible. No matter how reluctant you are, you must be prepared to represent new games. Don't hang yourself from a tree.

The contract between Chen Ran and Blizzard is five years, from 2004 to 2009.

The more your company relies on Warcraft for revenue, the more passive it will be during the next negotiation.

This is all basic common sense in business, and Nike and IMG are obviously very familiar with it.

But no matter how they tried to persuade him, Chen Ran remained unmoved and had no intention of taking any action.

"Pay close attention to Tencent's actions in the game market." This is the order Chen Ran gave to his cousin Zhu Xiaoli.

By the second half of 2005, this penguin had already shown its terrifying side.

The number of QQ users is increasing at a geometric rate every month, and Tencent is also developing various businesses around QQ.

In 2004, Tencent was officially listed in Xiangjiang, and 2005 was a year in which the company's performance improved by leaps and bounds.

Tencent's first online game to enter the public eye is "QQ Hall". Does the name sound familiar?
Penguin took advantage of the company's "excellent tradition" and directly copied the game "Bubble Hall" distributed by Shanda from South Korea, and successfully achieved the achievement of copycat overtaking the original version. It followed the path of others and left others with nowhere to go.

At this moment, the performance of "QQ Hall" has surpassed that of "Pao Pao Hall", and there is a trend of continuous expansion.

From then on, after singing a sweet song, Penguin ran all the way on the road of "learning from" and could never look back.

"In about one or two years, this company will grow into a giant." Chen Ran knew this well.

Because of this, since 2004, he has successively purchased Tencent shares, amounting to tens of millions.

So from another perspective, the interests of himself and Penguin are already bound.

The more Penguin's stock rises, the more he benefits.

At the same time, among all paid online games currently, the one with the largest number of online users is not "World of Warcraft", but NetEase's "Fantasy Westward Journey".

Chen Ran knew that from beginning to end, the number of people online in "Warcraft" had not exceeded that of "Fantasy Westward Journey". In addition, "Warcraft" had almost no other costs except point cards, while "Fantasy Westward Journey" only had point cards. , but there are still many places to spend money.

What's more, this game was developed by NetEase itself, so it didn't cost much at all.

Compared with NetEase, my company is still too small. The other party will definitely look at it and take action. I must find an alliance as soon as possible.

"You go to Mr. Ma for me and tell me that I have a cooperation proposal."

After thinking for a while, Chen Ran said slowly: "For example, if you use Q coins to recharge the Warcraft point card, you can get discounts, such as a 9% discount, etc."

"Do you want to cooperate with Tencent? Why not find a bigger company, such as Shanda or NetEase."

"Because the cooperation space between us and Tencent is large enough."

Chen Ran not only has "Warcraft" in his hands, but also has Qidian.com.

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(End of this chapter)