Return to 2002: Freestyle Superstar

Chapter 547 Brother Xiao Ma: We are a family!
After Chen Ran returned to his company in Shanghai, he took a rough look at this year's profits.

After deducting various miscellaneous operating expenses and taxes, the company's net profit from operating "World of Warcraft" is nearly 5 million Chinese yuan.

You say it is a huge profit, and it is indeed a huge profit.

After all, there are not many private enterprises in China that can make 5 million a year, let alone 5000 million.

However, Chen Ran did not show any ecstasy about this, but was very calm.

"World of Warcraft" currently ranks first in terms of sales, but due to its high operating costs, its net profit is far less than NetEase's "Fantasy Westward Journey" and Shanda's "Legend".

From Chen Ran's point of view, his company is doing its best to operate this game and has spent a lot of effort on marketing and promotion, regardless of cost.

Blizzard took a high agency fee and 25% of the profits.

But even so, Chen Ran's company is still just a stinky agent who runs errands in Blizzard's eyes.

No matter how enthusiastic or positive you are, the other party will just think that you are making money without doing anything.

So although the two sides appear to be harmonious on the surface, the rift is getting bigger and bigger.

"Those Americans think those profits are important to me? In fact, what I care most about is to connect with Penguin through this game, and exchange it for a large number of Penguin stocks!" Chen Ran took advantage of the popular "World of Warcraft" to not only get a certain proportion of Penguin's shares, but also a certain voice.

Of course, this is far from the end.

If we don't take into account the fact that the relationship with Penguin has not yet grown, Chen Ran would be eager to throw the hot potato of "World of Warcraft" to the other party immediately to maximize the benefits.

"It's time to add fuel to the fire!" Chen Ran knew it was time to take the next step.

Over the past period of time, the company has recruited some programmers who graduated from key universities, and now is the time to put them to use.

Originally, the company's management thought that Chen Ran was planning to form an independent team to develop his own large-scale online game and make a big splash.

As a result, the answer they got was to develop a web game.

Such web games as "Stealing Vegetables", "Plants vs. Zombies", etc.

Or the web game "Tianwan Blue Moon" with the slogan "If you are a brother, come and fight me"

The technical difficulty of these games is not high, and it is a piece of cake for programmers who graduated from key universities.

Chen Ran’s biggest advantage is the Penguin line, which has just launched QQ Space.

Isn't this a coincidence?

He was just worrying about how to promote these web games.

After all, Chen Ran currently does not have a platform like Kaixin or Renren.

If these web games are connected to QQ space, not only can they save a lot of advertising costs, but they can also attract tens of millions of netizens!
This is simply God’s help.

In fact, at this moment, there are also many Internet companies in the industry that feel that Chen Ran’s company can become a strong force in the industry with the profits obtained from the agency of "World of Warcraft", compete for the Central Plains, and dominate the world, so why should they take the initiative to be inferior to Penguin.

But Chen Ran’s idea is very simple, if I can just take a ride, why should I struggle on my own?

At his command, the company's R&D team began developing the web game.

Is this a bit of an overkill?
maybe!
But once the money is in place, everything is easy!

For those programmers, they are earning the average salary in the industry but doing the most cost-effective work, so why not do it?

Chen Ran quickly told Xiao Ma Ge his idea, who was worried about how to better promote QQ Space and use this platform to generate income for Penguin. For example, opening blue diamonds and green diamonds could give the other party some unique privileges on QQ Space.

The number of QQ users is almost over 1 million, and there must be many wealthy people among them, so even if the payment rate is only %, it is still a very scary base.

How is it possible to make your QQ space more colorful without spending any money?

When Chen Ran approached Xiao Ma Ge, they just happened to have the same idea.

Put the web game into QQ space, use the traffic of QQ space to operate it, and you can get commission without doing anything. This is perfect.

"Chen Ran, I think..."

Xiao Ma Ge, who looked very gentle, pushed his glasses seriously and said, "Our two companies are like one family. Why don't we slightly modify the names of these web games? I think the effect will be better."

"How to change it?" Chen Ran asked with a smile.

"For example, "Stealing Vegetables" can be changed to "QQ Stealing Vegetables", "Plants vs. Zombies"... this name is a bit long, so let's not change it for now." Brother Xiao Ma thought for a while and continued, "As for "Tanwan Blue Moon", let's change it to "QQ Blue Moon"!"

"..."

As expected of Mr. Ma, he really thinks far ahead.

Chen Ran nodded, indicating that he had no objection.

In this way, at least the game "QQ Farm" will not appear in the future, and "Stealing Vegetables" has become Penguin's own son.

According to Xiao Ma Ge, if you open a QQ Diamond membership, you can enjoy more benefits.

Charge up, boy!

Only by charging money can you steal your friends' food faster and steal more.

Otherwise, Mr. Ma will have to take the Shenzhen bus to and from get off work every day!

"No problem, our Kingslam Company and Penguin are one family! Mr. Ma, if those damn Americans at Blizzard didn't disagree, I would have wanted to change "World of Warcraft" to "QQ World of Warcraft"!" he said even more "shamelessly".

This made Xiao Ma Ge, who is always known for his thick skin, exclaim: You are really my half-brother.

However, Xiao Ma Ge also felt that he had not treated Chen Ran unfairly.

First of all, Chen Ran obtained a large amount of stocks and certain decision-making power from Penguin, and over the past year, Penguin's stocks in Hong Kong have also risen a lot.

More importantly, in QQ Music, which was separated from the Penguin business, Chen Ran’s say is second only to Pony Ma. Now he has successfully invested in Qianqian Jingting. The two players have occupied more than 80% of the market share of online music.

In this way, even if you rely on placing some advertisements, you can almost achieve a balanced income and expenditure, and you can sell it at a good price for future financing.

At this moment, Xiao Ma Ge firmly believed that the combination of him and Chen Ran would be a powerful collaboration, even more powerful than a tiger with wings, and invincible.

"Chen Ran, I have to say that your vision is better than Yao Ming's. We have also approached Yao Ming for cooperation before, but not only did he offer a high price, but his attitude was not very positive. He will definitely regret it!" Xiao Ma Ge said seriously.

Yao Ming’s investment vision has never been very good.

Chen Ran smiled and shrugged, saying, "He may be a little worried about the emerging Internet industry, and he can't be as resolute as I am. My principle is, either don't trust others, or trust others, then trust them to the end!"

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(End of this chapter)