Please make money.

If you look for it now, there is a high probability that you have found it - that is the code to wealth.

In four years, the number of paying users exceeded 10 million. At its peak, there were over 100 million accounts worldwide and over 500 million characters.

In comparison, Eve Online and EVE Online seem much less popular in China.

It is a PC online game developed by Iceland's CCP company. Judging from the time, the opponent appeared quite early.

It was published by Simon & Schuster Interactive in May 2003 and introduced into China in 5.

In terms of the game's world background, EVE is relatively grand, with space, hardcore science fiction, and a free sandbox universe.

Alia is not interested in making money, but is very interested in participating in the operation of these two games.

Especially Glass Shard, who in another world, was the king of the world twenty years ago, but has now become a rat crossing the street that everyone wants to kill.

"Also, check for me a man named Bob Kotick and see if he is still working in the industry."

"Who is that?"

"He's a very talented person who knows how to make money, but he's also an idiot who can't make games. I'm going to take care of him!"

Alia is very willful, especially when it comes to fishing like this.

Back then, Kotick was able to acquire Activision with $440,000. Don’t I, Alia, have that much money?

His 440,000 turned into 69 billion US dollars, and my 440,000 turned into at least 200 billion!

In 91, at the age of 25, Bobby Cortick made his first fortune with TDC.

At the same time, Activision, a large gaming company, faced bankruptcy due to huge debts incurred due to poor management.

Kotick seized this opportunity and, like a savior, saved Activision from bankruptcy.

He first persuaded Philips, Activision's largest creditor, to convert bonds into equity to stabilize the situation.

Then he used up all his personal assets and scraped together $44 to buy one-third of Activision's shares.

It has to be said that in the early days of entering the gaming industry, Kodick was quite ambitious.

In 02, he poached 22 FPS game talents from EA and established IW Studio, and "Call of Duty" was born.

In 08, when World of Warcraft was at its peak, he set his sights on it.

Initially, Activision wanted to acquire World of Warcraft from Vivendi, but Blizzard's market value at the time prevented Activision from acquiring it directly.

So they began to arrange a merger consisting of Activision and Vivendi's gaming divisions.

Vivendi's condition at the time was that Kotick handed over full control of Activision and only received a small number of shares after the merger.

Vivendi owns 52% of Activision Blizzard, which ensures it has controlling stake.

Subsequently, Kotick was elected as the new CEO of Activision Blizzard, and Mike Morhaime remained the president of Blizzard Entertainment.

As a result, a new company called Activision Blizzard was officially established.

But the problem is that when it comes to capital, those who make games naturally cannot beat those who specialize in playing with money.

Later, Kotick and an investment group conducted a hostile takeover and directly acquired more than 50% of Activision Blizzard's shares.

This allowed Kotick to circumvent previous restrictions and ultimately gain complete control of the company.

By 13, Kotick and his investment group had bought back the last remaining shares of Activision Blizzard from Vivendi, and Activision Blizzard was completely under his control.

Activision Blizzard then acquired King and established Activision Blizzard King, or ABK, which is the parent company of these three companies.

When Activision and Blizzard merged, the company promised not to interfere in Blizzard's game development.

But after achieving absolute control in 13 years, this promise gradually became a piece of waste paper.

After Activision redeemed itself, it began to slowly erode Blizzard, which also turned Blizzard upside down and started to decline.

Before Arya traveled through time, Blizzard was basically just a studio with absolutely no decision-making power or say.

Activision's excessive involvement became more and more exaggerated in those years, and almost all the old employees of Blizzard were forced to leave.

Activision executives asked World of Warcraft to speed up the release of version updates, and even versions that were not fully developed had to be released on time.

Therefore, when a version full of bugs came out, players even doubted whether Blizzard's designers really played the game.

The TBC nostalgic server was originally planned to last 18 months, but it ended after 14 months.

At the root of it all, all of this is for capital operations, without taking into account the game's life cycle and the player's gaming experience.

But this is not a problem for Kotick, because in his eyes, money is the first priority.

The remastered games will not be given high budgets, and all unprofitable projects will be cut.

Therefore, players can only see the Warcraft 3 remastered version, which was a terrible release, and StarCraft 2 and Heroes of the Storm, which were directly crushed.

The reason why he can still sit firmly on the CEO throne despite his bad reputation is that he has made enough money for the investment group behind him.

The capital group therefore has great trust in him. After all, he is a capitalist who is committed to turning games into fast-moving consumer goods.

Alia is different. Alia is a traitor, a complete traitor to capital.

From the moment she was born, rebellious blood flowed from head to toe. She was a capitalist bully.

Her only purpose of making money is to do what she likes and to kill off her competitors.

Perhaps the pace of life in the future will lead to the gradual demise of games like World of Warcraft and EVE.

But what does that have to do with me wanting to roll up my sleeves now?

Although the Internet companies in this world are already very competitive...

The development of games in this world is so distorted that the Internet companies that started out with games are having a harder time in this world.

Among the three Internet Ma's mentioned above, Ma Lin, who is good friends with Mr. Tang, is most likely the little brother Ma that Ailia is familiar with.

In this world, the previous development of the peers was supported by the monetization of the advertising business of social applications.

In other words, the dark history of women's chatting services still exists. While enduring the Internet winter, they rely on advertising revenue to support business expansion.

Today, the bulk of Ma Lin’s social networking business revenue still comes from advertising, but it is very likely to enter the gaming industry in the future.

Ailia talked about this with An and Yumiko, and An and Yumiko knew something about the industry situation.

"The Jiang Group has recently established a gaming division called Tianqiao Gaming Company, and is preparing to introduce games from the Peninsula."

Importing Korean online games? Tianqiao? Is this Tianqiao or Tianqiao?

Alia took the file that An and Yumiko pulled out curiously: "Why did you pay attention to this matter?"

"Because the other party had approached us before and wanted to ask if we were willing to set up a joint venture subsidiary."

"Who? Boss Jiang?"

"No, NC Interactive Entertainment."

Alia looked at the name of the game on the document and her eyes narrowed.

"It's getting more and more interesting..."

The name of the game on the file is Lineage.

And translated it means - heaven!

……

……

“It must be taken down.”

Jiang Tianyi sat in the conference room, looking at the investment director of the gaming company.

"They can set the price, I want absolute agency rights."

"That's the problem, Boss." The investment director of the gaming department is a career elite who looks like a strong woman.

She pushed up her glasses and said, "The other party is unwilling to give up the absolute agency rights and requires a joint venture to establish a subsidiary company, in which they will be responsible for management, maintenance and operation."

"So what's our role?"

“A stepping stone, that’s all.”

In fact, if there were no threshold for domestic introduction, people would not even bother to find a stepping stone.

Jiang Tianyi pursed his lips, and his eyes suddenly became dangerous.

You know, apart from Arya, very few people dare to disrespect her like this.

But the data on the whiteboard made her hesitate again - the other party's revenue data was too good.

Last year, the other party launched its first game in the peninsula area, which is the game called "Paradise".

Due to the spread of information, this game did not become popular all over the world all at once, but now it is very popular in the peninsula region.

Jiang Tianyi didn’t pay attention to these games before because she thought they were childish.

But after being caught by Alia, she keenly discovered the business opportunity of this thing.

Compared to Alia's nature of liking to tell fairy tales to adults, Boss Jiang is naturally more accustomed to intrigue and deception.

PVE? Let's do some PVP!

After searching around, I found that online games are very suitable, and very suitable...

The game "Lineage" not only has outstanding graphics and an excellent RPG system in the current gaming industry, but also has siege warfare gameplay.

The main theme is to play with people's hearts and engage in intrigue and deception. Boss Jiang is very familiar with this.

She dared to conclude that there was a market for this thing, and a huge one!

Since there is a market, we naturally have to take it into our hands. However, after sending people to contact them twice, we found that the other party was not interested.

Although she had spent 2 billion to obtain the agency rights for Alia's game, that was just the beginning.

Her plan is to do both things well.

While continuing to represent Alia's games, which are PVE stand-alone games with stronger gameplay, it also sells those handheld games and console games well.

On the other hand, when it comes to online games, PVP will definitely be a major selling point in the future!

But asking her to play games is absolutely impossible.

She established the gaming company with only one purpose, which was to become an agent and make money.

Others ship goods to me and I sell them. If they can be listed, I can make money from the leeks. Why should I work so hard to make games?

"I originally turned my heart to the bright moon, but the bright moon only shines on the ditch..."

Boss Jiang snorted and changed his sitting position: "Specifically, who disagrees?"

“Founder of NC Interactive Entertainment and their chief game designer.”

"Deal with their board of directors and shareholders and let them put pressure on them internally. You can use whatever method you want. I just want the contract."

Boss Jiang threw down the pen in his hand and said, "There is no one who won't betray. It's just a matter of the price. Is there a game to find another equal replacement?"

“There is no game of comparable quality, but there is one game with a very similar style.”

"What is your name?"

"Legend of Blood."

"What's the difference?"

“…the quality of the game is relatively rough?”

"You know that's not what I asked."

"Ahem - the price they want is very low."

"It's fine if it's very low, take it down."

"But the other side has conditions."

"What conditions?"

"It's similar to NC Interactive Entertainment, they only provide agents, and the commission is very high. But compared to Paradise, at least they are willing to talk."

In this world, it's as if an invisible goddess of fate has randomly moved the hands of time, pushing the history of the Internet back to around the year 2000.

During this period, the domestic gaming industry was almost barren, while overseas, the Famicom, Super Nintendo, Saturn and other game consoles dominated.

There was almost no online game industry, but Peninsula at that time already had its own unique ideas in the field of online games.

The most obvious thing is that they have produced a group of visionary industry leaders who do not intend to sell out the golden goose all at once.