Back To 1995

  Chapter 963 Hollowing out

   Meeks didn't stay here for long, and left in a hurry. Song Yang looked at Meeks' leaving figure, and his eyes moved a few times.

With the support of Adrian, the Texas municipality, Houston, Meeks, and the Federal Foreign Affairs Commission, plus the Kenneth family, using the connections and relationships left by Kenneth, the Bruno family took over the Enron Group. The chances are quite high.

   I dare not say that it is sure, but at least, compared to other people who want to take a big bite out of Enron's legacy, the Bruno family is the one that has the most advantage!

   Meeks left, leaving only Song Yang, Greg, Marcus and Ken Williams in the villa.

"Next year, Xuele Mountain will release Blizzard Studio's Diablo 2, Warcraft 3, V Studio's Half-Life 2, as well as the game CS newly developed by Half-Life MOD, and Rockstar's Grand Theft Auto 2. , Quake 3 from Id Games Studio!

In addition, the game companies invested and represented by Xueleshan will also release "The Elder Scrolls 2" including Black Island Games, as well as "Legend of Blood", "Running Kart", "Los Angeles" and other companies such as stick game manufacturers Nexon, Ncsoft, and Actoz. Odd" game and more! "

  Next year will be the year when Xueleshan’s games will explode. In addition to its four major game studios, Blizzard, Rockstar, V Club, and Id Games, a number of game manufacturers invested by Xueleshan will also start producing products.

  It is expected that next year will be a year when Sierra games will move sideways in the global game market. From America to Europe, and then to Asia, there will be Sierra games released.

  Adding Sega's game consoles, Xueleshan online game platform, mobile games, etc., the pockets of gamers will probably be emptied next year!

Ken Williams looked at Song Yang. Song Yang was the big sponsor of Xueleshan games. Ken Williams could not refute Song Yang’s decision, but Xueleshan did not have ICQ, and the small life would never be bad up.

   Regarding Ken Williams, Song Yang had nothing to hide, and said directly, "ICQ needs Xueleshan games to improve performance!"

Needless to say this year, ICQ's performance is not expected at all, and Song Yang has no intention of tossing about it. He is really pulling his hips. Of course, not only ICQ, but the rest of Yahoo, AOL, etc. are not much different, and there is no big four. Lycos, one of the portal sites, is about to sell itself.

   But next year, Song Yang must increase ICQ's performance, not only for Song Yang's reputation, but if ICQ wants to continue cutting leeks, it must increase its performance!

In the Internet industry, the most profitable are nothing more than advertising, e-commerce and games. Now the first two cannot be counted on at all, and we can only rely on the latter. If ICQ’s performance does not increase, then the Internet’s status as a leader will be lost. It will be handed over, and it will not be so easy to cut leeks.

   "Xue Leshan games also need ICQ's social interaction and users, and games and social networking are the two most suitable industries. Even if Xueleshan games don't need it now, they will definitely need it in the future!"

  Song Yang looked at Ken Williams and confessed to him that the matter of letting ICQ acquire Xueleshan could no longer be changed.

  After hearing this, Ken Williams sighed slightly in his heart. After all, he would rather be the head of a chicken than the tail of a phoenix. Everyone understood, but Ken Williams showed nothing unusual on his face.

  He didn't think that he was qualified to challenge Song Yang now. If Song Yang hadn't called Ken Williams and his wife back to Sierra Mountain, they would have gone home long ago.

   "Of course, it is impossible for ICQ to take away the Xueleshan game for nothing. ICQ will provide Xueleshan with a sufficiently generous offer!"

Song Yang said with a smile, and Greg, Marcus, and Ken Williams couldn't help but smile when they heard the words. Although they were left-handed and right-handed, with the opportunity of ICQ's acquisition of Xueleshan Games, Song Yang expected to be able to cash out hundreds of dollars again. With a cash of 100 million US dollars, it is definitely impossible for ICQ to get the Xueleshan game for nothing...

"According to industry sources, Xueleshan Games officially split the Japanese Benzene business, which is expected to prepare for the acquisition of ICQ. In the future, Sammy Sega will take over all the business of the Japanese Benzene Xueleshan Company. Xueleshan Games executives declared that this time The adjustment will not have an impact on Sierra Gaming."

   The IGN game forum was the first to release the news, but this news did not attract much attention in the game industry. Instead, many people in Wall Street and Silicon Valley cared.

What makes America and global gamers care about is the news from the IGN forum. , all began to boil.

Rumors that "made by Xueleshan must be a high-quality product" have already spread in the world, and a large number of games will be released next year, which is enough for players to look forward to for a whole year. I can't stand it.

Excitement is not limited to players. Scalpers and pirates have begun to open champagne in advance. Every time Xueleshan releases a new game, it is when they make a lot of money, and even many gangs start to reach out. After entering this line of business and starting to buy and sell, one can imagine how much he earned.

   "It is expected that ICQ's performance next year will increase between 50% and 86%!"

ICQ has not yet acquired Sierra, and many analysts on Wall Street have begun to estimate ICQ’s revenue in advance. Conservative analysts estimate that with the Sierra game, ICQ’s performance can increase by more than 50%. The analyst, the lion opened his mouth, and gave an estimate of doubling or even tripling the performance, which is even more optimistic about this transaction than ICQ.

  But the forecast is not entirely based on bragging. After all, ICQ split America Telecom, Universal Pictures, etc. this year.

And next year, the Internet industry, not to mention recovery, at least it is impossible to fall again, Internet advertising will recover more or less, Internet advertising plus game revenue, ICQ's performance, no matter what, it will also rise sharply , It's already gone down, no matter what happens next year, it's impossible to be worse than this year.

  On the night before Christmas, ICNC Financial Channel suddenly announced the news, "ICQ acquired Xueleshan, with a total transaction value of more than 27.4 billion US dollars!"

  ICQ's acquisition of Sierra for more than 27 billion dollars still shocked the entire Silicon Valley and Wall Street.

This transaction is also a bit tricky. ICQ completed the acquisition through equity exchange and cash. The actual cash was around tens of billions of dollars. The largest merger ever!

   "I believe this deal is necessary for both ICQ and Xueleshan Games. This is a belated deal, and everything is the best arrangement!"

  In the TV camera, Ken Williams appeared, and he accepted the exclusive interview of ICNC TV with a smile on his face.

   On the other side, Irene's figure also appeared in front of the camera, with a label on her body, and she has become the CEO of ICQ. This is the first time that Irene appeared in public after returning to ICQ.

"All users of Xueleshan games don't need to worry. ICQ will not interfere with the development of Xueleshan's game studios. In fact, I am also one of Xueleshan's witnesses. I will not allow anyone to destroy Xueleshan. game!"

   "Will the game price be adjusted?

  Sorry, I haven't received the report from the marketing department, but our wish is to allow more players to play more high-quality games! "

Facing the camera, Irene also made a swearing declaration, and then used a question to easily divert the players' attention from Xueleshan's replacement of the big benefactor, turning into whether the price of Xueleshan games will increase, another momentum A huge war of words broke out.

  In the Houston villa, there was a lot of noise at this time. All members of the Bruno family gathered here, including the old Bruno couple who also came here from the farm in the suburbs, and Zhou Bailin from the Song family who was studying in America also came here.

   All the people in the villa gathered in front of the TV in the lobby. The sports channel of ICNC on the TV was a game specially broadcast today.

  The camera is shown on a huge grass field, and then the camera slowly increases, and you can see the huge stadium that can accommodate 65,000 people. At this time, it is already full of seats.

   “Welcome to the Rome Caesar Stadium…”

  (end of this chapter)