Chapter 1085 Casual Games Platform

MM, that is, Parkson acquired Zhonglian World.

This news instantly surpassed the popularity of anti-addiction and became the most popular on major portal websites.

You must know that Zhonglian Vision is not a small game company. It started from a small game platform and in the past two years, it has transformed into large-scale online games and its performance has been rising.

It is said that after the previous financing news was released, a venture capital directly gave Zhonglian World, which was originally valued at tens of millions, but has increased dozens of times in less than three years, a valuation of 1 billion.

Zhonglian Vision did not agree, but directly asked for 1.5 billion. But this has not deterred venture capital investors. It is said that the two parties are still negotiating, and a financing amount that will shock the industry is about to be born in the near future.

Who would have thought that the sky-high financing expected by various experts and scholars did not appear, and such explosive news was dropped directly.

"How did Bao Yueshan and Jianyang agree to sell Zhonglian World?" Qiu Bosong and others sat across from Yang Dongxu in the Xuri Technology office.

The acquisition of Zhonglian Vision by Parkson shocked not only the industry. Even Yang Dongxu was almost shocked, because no matter from which perspective, there was no possibility of selling Zhonglian World.

The domestic gaming industry is so hot that everyone wants to get in. How could anyone give up and leave?

And although your capital is pouring into the game market like crazy, there is only one top game company in the country. One is Rising Sun Technology alone, followed by Zhonglian Vision and The9, and then NetEase and other game companies whose transformation has gradually improved.

Zhonglian World is firmly in the top three game companies, and the game revenue it represents has made many game companies very envious. If the company is booming, it is very likely that it will be able to ring the bell in Snardak in the next two years. No one in their right mind would sell a chicken that is still laying golden eggs.

"It is said that there is a partial share swap, and Parkson is very optimistic about the game market. And although it has tasted the benefits of the development of the avatar show, its focus is still on large-scale online games. It is said that Bao Yueshan has also developed a chat software similar to MAN before. But in the end I don’t know why it was settled,” Qiu Bosong said.

"Is this the case where a widow meets a bachelor and they have sex?" Yang Dongxu leaned on the chair speechlessly.

This news was so sudden that I had not received any news before. By the time there was news, the two companies had already held a signing press conference.

"It is said that there is Microsoft standing behind Parkson." Chang Hao couldn't help but said.

‘Microsoft’ is a giant that must be feared as long as it is engaged in the Internet industry. It is currently the best Internet technology company in the world.

"The rumors may not be credible." Yang Dongxu waved his hand: "But the predecessor of MM is Microsoft's MSN. If Parkson can really show some tricks, maybe it can really get involved with Microsoft."

Parkson took the technology of Microsoft's chat system and paid a lot of patent fees, so it was naturally close to Microsoft.

However, although Microsoft is a giant, it is purely in the chat software industry. MM is actually much better than MSN. In short, although Microsoft developed MSN very early. However, it has not been carried forward for a long time.

Even though there are a lot of user complaints and complaints, Microsoft just refuses to change. The main focus is still on its own core industrial systems and CPUs.

It was not until the rise of Tencent and other companies that produced timely content that they finally opened their eyes and took a look at this industry.

But I just took a glance at it, and although I felt it was a pity that I had already set foot in the instant messaging industry but did not go into it in depth. But it's just a pity. As the best Internet technology company, it has always been a giant and will not be jealous of other companies.

However, this aspect seems to need to be rewritten in this life. After all, MM, which Parkson upgraded based on the original Microsoft MSN, can now be said to monopolize half of the domestic market, and its users are increasing rapidly every day.

Although it has never found a way to make money, there is a CC seat competitor in China, but it cannot be like Microsoft and others have to pay for using its MSN.

The valuation given by the outside world is not very high, but Yang Dongxu knows that the current difficulties in chat software are only temporary. In the future, an empire will be born in this industry.

And since the other party has now found the avatar show as a profit model, they have focused their attention on the game again. The rise of MM, which has a huge number of users, is actually only a matter of time.

The three of them were in a meeting when Yang Dongxu's phone rang.

"Hello? You said, oh, okay, I got it."

After answering the phone, Yang Dongxu said something that stunned Qiu Bosong and Chang Hao: "Jian Yang and Bao Yueshan separated. Bao Yueshan joined Parkson with Zhonglian World's game channel and agent "The King of Kings", and Jianyang I received a portion of the money and the Zhonglian Mini Game Platform, which was the original work of Zhonglian World.”

Qiu Bosong and Chang Hao looked at their boss, asking whether the news was wrong.

You must know that Jianyang and Qiu Bosong jointly founded Zhonglian World although they were partners. But Jianyang is not from a technical background, so the companies and people he has been managing belong to the general manager of Zhonglian World, while Bao Yueshan is a shareholder and an engineer in technology research and development.

Under normal circumstances, it should be the general manager of the management company who hopes to have a large amount of capital coming in for the sake of the company's development, or if the things in his hands are valuable, he doesn't mind not being able to sell them.

And the technical engineer treats the product he developed as his own son. How can a father sell his son?

So when everyone suddenly heard that Jian Yang and Qiu Bosong had separated, the first reaction of everyone must be that Jian Yang wanted to make money, and Bao Yueshan didn't want to sell his child, so the two went their separate ways.

But now it is Bao Yueshan who sold his son, and the one he sold was the youngest son who could make the most money at present. The eldest son, who had been well cared for and had never made any progress, was thrown to Jian Yang.

But the younger son was an agent, and the older son was his own son. It is also unknown what kind of increase Parkson offered to make Bao Yueshan abandon the small game platform he built and join Parkson with the King of Kings to make him make such a choice.

"Jian Yang signed a confidentiality agreement before, so the news was released now. However, Jian Yang did not seem to have much confidence in the small game platform. The reason for releasing the news was to see if anyone would bid." Yang Dongxu continued to speak.

Yang Dongxu was not very concerned about what happened between Jian Yang and Bao Yueshan. What he was concerned about now was the small game platform in Jian Yang's hands.

Parkson's sudden acquisition of Zhonglian World gave him a big shock. But the other party kicked out the seemingly accumulated small game platform, which was undoubtedly a surprise.

Now, whether it is capital or game companies, their eyes are on large-scale online games, and they disdain this kind of small leisure platform. Because at first glance, this thing can't squeeze out a few taels of oil.

As a domestic leisure small game platform, Zhonglian World has made a small leisure platform like this in the eyes of many people.

But Zhonglian World's previous profit model was to ask for dividends from telecom. At that time, it was dial-up Internet access. Using telecom's network cable is like going to an Internet cafe to surf the Internet, and you have to pay every hour.

Therefore, Zhonglian World can ask telecom for dividends based on the number of online users and time of the small game platform. But now the Internet fee has been reduced again and again, and it is not charged by the hour, but by month and year.

If you go to telecom to ask for dividends from the Internet market at this time, do you think they will slap you in the face?

And without the telecom dividend, which is the big source of money, how can the small game platform make a profit?

This is probably the fundamental reason why Parkson acquired Zhonglian World but kicked away the casual game platform. Parkson must have lost a lot of money this time after taking over the thriving Zhonglian World. How could it let the other party bring a burden?

"Is this casual game platform promising?" After Yang Dongxu's voice fell, Qiu Bosong and Chang Hao looked at each other and asked.

"How is our YY research going?" Yang Dongxu did not answer Qiu Bosong's question but asked back.

"Starting to do the inside."

"What do you think of integrating the casual game platform into YY? I think it is a very good content enrichment." Yang Dongxu said.

Qiu Bosong did not answer immediately, but imagined in his mind that the Xiuxian game platform was added to the YY chat software, and then he said: "It is indeed a very good content supplement. But isn't the operating cost a bit high?"

The operating cost is a bit high is actually Qiu Bosong's euphemism. What he really wants to say is that although the addition of this casual game platform to the chat software can greatly enrich the content of YY.

But it is not profitable and seems to be very accumulated. After all, if you want to do a good job in a casual game platform, the most important thing is that it must be free. For example, for casual games like chess, if you charge users even one cent for a game, users will leave in a minute and no one will stay.

But if it is operated for free, it will undoubtedly follow the old path of CC and MM. That is, users are very happy to use their own products, but they just can't create profit points.

Otherwise, Parkson would not be willing to bleed heavily to swallow Zhonglian World in one bite.

And if it is just simply afraid that CC and MM will block YY in the early stage. If this small game platform is just to pour users into the chat software.

There is no need for this. The three trump card games in the hands of Rising Sun Technology have been preparing for this from the beginning. Now 361's web games and even Tieba can pour in several times more users than the casual game platform. There is no need to spend money on this useless chicken rib.

"Looking further ahead, even the chat software is free, and it is also necessary to invest some money to enrich the content and make our chat software more competitive.

Compared with CC and MM, we actually have more ways to monetize users. Therefore, there is no problem in maintaining a casual game platform.

Besides, who told you that casual game platforms are not profitable?" Yang Dongxu blinked at Qiu Bosong, with a slightly mysterious expression on his face.