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Now that Zhou Buqi has become famous, he increasingly begins to pursue some personal pride. The most typical one is the choice between career success and self-realization.

As he said, if he wants to succeed in the game business, it is not too difficult.

The current layout of Changyou is already half successful.

As long as Wang Fang and his gang are eliminated in China and a better management team is recruited, Changyou, which owns games such as "Dota 2", "League of Legends", "Dragon" and "World of Warcraft", will be able to produce the best performance results.

Overseas business is actually not difficult to handle.

As long as you win several popular mobile games around the world, such as "Fortnite", "Angry Birds", "Temple Run", "Clash of Clans", and "PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds", you will basically achieve great success.

Rely on foresight and maintain a high degree of attention to the market. As soon as relevant games are online, they will rush to acquire them and become invincible.

But if that's all, Zhou Buqi is not satisfied.

This style of play is too "foolish". In the eyes of outsiders, they may think that Boss Zhou is miraculous, has a unique vision, a keen sense of smell, and has superior judgment on the business market.

But he knew in his heart what was going on, and he couldn't convince himself that this was really nothing to be proud of.

He needs to make some career achievements that are truly his own, and make some original products based on his own judgment and considerations. Only then will he have a greater sense of accomplishment, just like the Xiaonei.com and Friends.net created in the early days of entrepreneurship.

The same goes for games.

Zhou Buqi even became a little obsessed with this.

No matter how popular the game is, it is designed and developed by people. Others can create games that are popular all over the world, why can’t you do it yourself?

Even if it doesn’t work, at least give it a try!

Zhou Buqi hardly plays games and knows nothing about game design, so he can only learn from each other's strengths to offset his weaknesses. What he is best at is the design of modes, so why not make new breakthroughs at the level of game modes and create a game that is different from all the games in the world in the past!

The direction he grasped was the concept of "blockchain", which is to combine games and virtual currency.

In past games, in-game gold coins could only be spent in the game and were virtual currencies with no actual value. However, virtual currency under the concept of blockchain has actual value that can be intertwined with the real world.

Although the current price of Bitcoin is still very low, you can buy 10 for 1 US dollar. But as long as it shows value, it will be enough to provide a new direction and new ideas for future virtual finance.

If the two are combined, players can create real-world value when playing games to collect gold coins. In the past, players made money through games in an indirect sense, through sponsors, advertisers or platforms.

Under the new concept of "blockchain + virtual digital currency + game", players can make money directly. The gold coins collected during the game can be extracted and exchanged on a platform similar to the Bitcoin trading platform.

Like Bitcoin mining, mining software is used to continuously calculate on powerful mining machines to calculate an "answer". Even if the mining is successful, Bitcoins will be collected.

This mode is so boring.

Treat mining as hard work.

If you design a new game currency...such as Changyou Coin, if you want to mine it, you will need players to form a group to play some difficult dungeons in the game.

If the copy is downloaded successfully, even if the mining is successful, Changyou coins can be collected.

In order to make it easier to play dungeons, players have to constantly upgrade, clear monsters, and spend money to buy props to build more powerful equipment. This business model has taken off.

There are even some special props that can only be purchased with Changyou coins.

In order to obtain these special props, many players have to go to external Changyou currency trading platforms to buy them, or download dungeons to collect Changyou coins... In this way, Changyou coins have a recovery mechanism and can be recovered by the platform through some means. It will cause spam and inflation in the market.

Zhou Buqi has been thinking about this idea for more than a year.

There are definitely many immature aspects here, especially related to the possible decline in value caused by the excessive issuance of currency, whether more recycling mechanisms are needed, whether there is a need for a tax payment system, whether there is a need for other reservoir functions... just It is equivalent to creating a virtual and simple modern financial system.

This is not Zhou Buqi's profession.

Placing Changyou's overseas headquarters in New York has a great advantage in solving this problem. The most indispensable thing here is financiers and bankers. You can find real-life financial system experts to help create a virtual financial system in the game world.

Once this plan is successful.

By then, all games under Changyou can implement the "Changyou Coin" solution, and can even be connected to VR and AR hardware devices, opening up more of the real world and opening a window into the metaverse.

I don’t know if Zhuang Zhou dreams of butterflies or butterflies dreaming of Zhuang Zhou.

The way this world operates, the way people live on earth may completely change. You can travel around the world without leaving home... or even travel around the virtual world, and everyone in the virtual world is also the same person in the real world. One corresponding.

If it comes true, then this will be comparable to Musk's "Immigration to Mars" plan. One is to dig deep inward, and the other is to explore outer space. This is comparable to Bill Gates, Steve Jobs and others. Traditional technology leaders are much better.

This is a very large, long-term and science fiction industrial concept.

This is also the biggest motivation for Zhou Buqi to become the chairman of Changyou. It is no longer a challenge for him to surpass Bill Gates, Bezos, and Musk in terms of wealth.

Next, he will work hard in the direction of fame, technological revolution for all mankind, and changing the world.

The probability of failure is extremely high.

This idea is so sci-fi that I may never be able to do it in my lifetime. Virtual digital currency alone will not become popular in seven or eight years.

Don't worry, you have a goal after all.

Next, just develop it bit by bit. First, start Changyou's main business, first use your foresight to develop a batch of world-class games, and first build Changyou into the largest gaming empire in the world!

Lao Zhang's pattern is a little worse.

He is not even ranked in the country. How can he understand Zhou Buqi's pursuit of competing with technology giants such as Edison, HP, Gates, Jobs, Zuckerberg, and Musk?

It was really difficult for him to arrange some tasks for him to run Changyou's new business.

It's better to do it yourself!

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Came to the UK to watch the League Cup final.

First I went to Ziweixing Digital Media and participated in a board of directors.

In the past year, Ziweixing Digital Media's revenue reached 360 million pounds, which is a lot of revenue and even more expenses. It spent 75 million pounds on research and development alone.

Calculated, the net loss last year was 140 million pounds.

The largest source of income is the official website agency business for European clubs, with a total revenue of up to 270 million pounds. The largest expenditure business mainly comes from its core product-Goal.

In the past year, this product has spent 180 million pounds on promotion costs alone. The largest expenditure is not the annual 30 million pound chest advertising sponsorship of Barcelona jerseys, but the Champions League and UEFA Champions League contracts signed with UEFA. The sponsorship agreement amounts to £45 million per season.

However, the market response has been good.

Goal has undoubtedly become the largest football community in the world today, with 120 million registered users, including 80 million users in Europe, and more than 32 million daily active users.

This is a very remarkable achievement.

Despite the serious losses of this product, it is the highest valued product under Ziweixing Digital Media. You know, Twitter currently has only 150 million global users. In just two years, Goal has become as big as Twitter.

Conservative estimates suggest that the valuation of Goal alone can reach 3 billion pounds.

At the board meeting, Zhou Buqi made arrangements. In the next year, Goal will mainly develop in two directions, develop its mobile business more deeply, open up more football information, and at the same time make efforts to the Asian market.

However, it is not a problem to always lose money like this.

Last time Ziweixing Digital Media raised US$700 million, but in the past year or so, in order to develop more quickly, Goal has invested, controlled, and acquired more than 30 football-related media and football websites in Europe. It cost a total of US$130 million to acquire their football news rights and users.

It also launched several acquisitions to revolutionize football technology, spending another $50 million.

Now, Ziweixing Digital Media only has US$330 million in available funds on its books.

This year it is expected to continue to lose about US$150 million.

Things are a bit tight financially.

The listing plan is about to start!

This matter has been discussed for half a year. At this board meeting, a resolution was passed and it was decided to start operations now. It is planned that Ziweixing Digital Media will be listed on the London Stock Exchange in September next year!

After the meeting, Zhou Buqi called Senior Sister Zhenyu and Sister Baoshan and asked them to continue to pay attention to the listing process of Ziweixing Digital Media. This time I came to London temporarily, and Ning Yaxian was the only one around me. This time, I didn’t even have a maid. I felt so lonely.

There is no way, the Spring Festival is the most important festival for Chinese people.

During the Spring Festival, women all surround Zhou Buqi and celebrate the New Year at Zhou's house. After celebrating the New Year at Zhou's house, we still have to set aside some time to go back to our parents' house for reunion. Even Sun Wanran and Ning Lu stayed in the country.

Fortunately, Ning Yaxian was very considerate and told him with a smile, "Your goddaughters are here."

"Where? London?"

Zhou Buqi's face lit up, feeling that there was room for him to combine work and rest again.

Ning Yaxian said softly: "They are in Milan, but I have already informed them to come to London. It's Jiang Bingjie and Li Xinwan. Isn't it just after the New Year? The two of them went to Europe together for vacation, and their parents are also following them?"

Zhou Buqi smiled and said, "Both families together?"

"Um."

"It seems that I have also done a good thing and established a deep friendship between the two families. Well, when will you come?"

"We'll be there in the afternoon."

"Let's make arrangements. I'll treat the two families to dinner tonight!"