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   Chapter 678 Open your eyes and talk nonsense

  Although the grass stage team's game is still being broadcast, the atmosphere at the scene is very hot. Whenever the players have wonderful operations, the nearly 1,000 spectators in the small gym suddenly burst into violent cheers.

  Not only at the scene, but Gallo in front of the TV was shouting and shouting, raising his drink from time to time to take a few sips.

  No matter what kind of competition it is, as long as it is competitive, it can naturally mobilize people's emotions. Those actions and things that ordinary people can't do at all, when they are done, can naturally cause exclamations and even add a sense of substitution.

For those who like games, seeing that games can be seen on TV as a competitive competition and seen by mainstream audiences is a huge change in itself, just like animation and the second dimension, from a niche hobby to mainstream culture of the same.

The launch of the ICNC game e-sports channel is actually a process of being recognized, whether it is for all gamers who like games or work engineers who make games, they can speak up about their occupations and hobbies. No need to be looked at in the same way!

The viewership rating of the new TV channel is definitely not high. ICNC TV station did not call Song Yang. Obviously, the viewership rating of this program has not reached a million or more, otherwise Song Yang would have been credited. .

  On the Internet, Yahoo Game Channel, MSN, AOL's game section, IGN and many other game forums, ICNC Game Channel's popularity, the discussion is quite high!

   Even ICNC's Internet online TV station, the number of visits from overseas has begun to soar, and all of them are overseas game users who are watching the game through ICNC Internet TV station.

   Gallo watched the game broadcast on TV. The dazzling operation made Gallo doubt whether they were playing the same game.

   "Song, how about I start a team too?"

Looking at the game team on the field, Gallo suddenly asked Song Yang, of course he didn't do it for the millions of dollars in bonuses. Gallo's current worth is already close to a small goal. Double-click and ICQ's option rewards, Blackwater has the equity, and if it all adds up, Gallo is definitely worth a lot of money, and it is more than enough to support a team.

  Song Yang glanced at Gallo, knowing that he played with the team, I am afraid he was having fun, by the way, there is a sparring partner when playing.

   "Now is an opportunity. When the TGA e-sports league has a fixed seat, you can sell the seat!"

Song Yang touched his chin and said to Gallo, now it's not a problem to build an e-sports club to play, it will definitely lose money at first, but after the league seats are fixed, selling the team will basically be able to recover blood. Maybe you can still make a fortune. As for keeping the team up, after a few years, e-sports competitions will start to become regular, and that will be a real gold swallowing beast.

   Now even the TGA e-sports league is a grass-roots team, let alone a team club. There are no training bases, coaches, analysts, etc. at all, and even the player transfer system has not been launched.

There is no professional training, and the competition depends entirely on talent. Such a game team can't spend a lot of money. Of course, the player's worth is not too high. Just like the grassroots teams participating in the TGA competition now, there is no salary at all. Counting on winning the game to get the prize money, hanging on with a breath of immortality...

   For a game team like this, it's a big deal, spending hundreds of thousands of dollars a year, or even tens of thousands of dollars.

But when Xue Leshan has established various rules and systems of the TGA league, fixed club seats, introduced sponsors, billboards, established a transfer system, and provided players' salary packages, the team's club expenses will start to increase. , Small game clubs will gradually be eliminated, acquired by major groups, bought game teams to promote and advertise for themselves.

   The next day, major American media, and even mainstream media, such as the Washington Post, New York Post, and America Today, reported on the sales of "Half-Life".

"Xue Leshan's new game, the "Half-Life" game set a new game record. Yesterday, "Half-Life" drove the entire game industry chain, with revenue exceeding 1.1 billion US dollars. The single-day revenue of Xue Leshan and Sega game consoles is nearly One hundred million dollars!"

"America Today" commented that "Half-Life" is a phenomenon-level product. A game directly drives the entire game industry chain, making game discs, consoles, game retail stores, game peripheral products, etc., all make crazy money. Generated more than a billion dollars in revenue.

After the opening of the market today, as long as the stocks related to the game are rushing, the voice of making a 3A game masterpiece has almost permeated the entire game and Internet industry. Major Internet companies, including Microsoft and Yahoo. Announcement, will launch its own 3A game masterpiece.

Nasdaq, which was already in a frenzy, was stimulated by game concept stocks, and it rose sharply. What news is now good for Nasdaq, not to mention the way to make money like games. Don't you see so many technology companies, all of whom are interested in the game industry, are you afraid of poor performance in the future? !

  When someone eats meat, someone gets beaten up. The stock prices of companies such as Yahoo and AOL, which have nothing to do with Xueleshan, are soaring. Half a year ago, the stock price of ICQ, which was wearing a pair of pants with Xueleshan, crashed at the opening.

After Christmas, the stock prices of major Internet companies began to skyrocket again. Stimulated by Internet concept stocks last year, those who bought Yahoo, ICQ and other stocks doubled their worth. These "success stories" were overwhelmingly publicized. Let the countless leeks in America start to enter the Nasdaq one after another.

Not only the leeks in America, but also the major overseas investment institutions couldn’t sit still and began to invest their money in Nasdaq. The hot money from all over the world poured into Nasdaq almost at a speed visible to the naked eye. .

No one thinks that the Nasdaq will collapse. Numerous analysts on Wall Street have vowed to recommend stocks that can double tenfold next year to the world's leeks. This makes star stocks including ICQ all It went up a lot.

But today, after the market opened, ICQ, whose market value has exceeded US$44 billion, has dropped from US$127 to around US$110. There are rumors about ICQ. .

   The conspiracy theory report of the "Wall Street Telegraph" is even more clamorous, questioning the insider trading between ICQ and Xue Leshan, and the news that ICQ will be subject to a class action lawsuit is all over the place.

   "The split of the Snow Mountain gaming division was approved by the ICQ board of directors and approved by the Nasdaq Securities Commission. There is no insider trading. Losing Snow Mountain will not have any impact on ICQ!"

Irene still maintains her attitude as a professional woman, and insists on "Wall Street Telecom" and other media. She split up Xue Leshan in order to make ICQ go public as soon as possible, otherwise it may drag ICQ down. Everyone knew this at the beginning. of.

   In the end, Irene, although she didn't say it clearly, still insisted that the loss of Xue Leshan is nothing to ICQ. ICQ will have a new plan. Is it possible that without the butcher Wang, there is no more meat to eat?

   There was an uproar in the outside world about Irene's response, and they were not sure whether Irene was being fearless, or was she pretending to be a mystery, and then find a company that was more profitable than Xue Leshan. They didn't know where Irene was going to get it.

   Just as the outside world was talking about it, ICQ's stock price suddenly rose sharply, regaining lost ground in an instant, and the stock price rushed towards the sky-high price of $130.

Goldman Sachs suddenly released an analysis report on ICQ, announcing that ICQ's stocks were rated as "buy", and the market value of ICQ was estimated to be an astonishing $60 billion. , If you don't buy it, you won't be able to buy it!

"ICQ has the largest Internet user group in the world. The split of Xue Leshan will not affect ICQ's revenue, and ICQ has increased advertising and traffic costs, allowing more companies to cooperate with ICQ. ICQ's future It will be a traffic provider for the Internet industry!"

On the ability to open their eyes and talk nonsense, these Wall Street analysts, but they are really experts, obviously lost the hen that lays golden eggs. When it came to the analysts of Goldman Sachs, it became ICQ to break up Xue Leshan. In order to maintain neutrality, more third-party companies can cooperate with ICQ with peace of mind, and they will earn more dollars.

   (end of this chapter)