Chapter 98 Avatar and QQ Show
Bedroom on the second floor of the duplex Royal City Apartment in Cheongdam-dong.
The big bed trembled rhythmically.
I don’t know how long it took before I calmed down.
Xu Liang took a breath of satisfaction and shook his head when he looked at Sun Mingzhen, who was covered in sweat and her face was already pale.
It’s too much to fight.
Turn around and get out of bed, fill the bathtub with warm water, then pick up the beauty and walk in.
The warm water wraps around the whole body, and all fatigue seems to disappear.
Sun Mingzhen let out a sigh of contentment, letting the man behind her hold her, feeling the gentleness of him carefully washing away the sweat on her body, and a rich joy lingered in her heart.
Although she is actively giving and is not in love, as a woman she also hopes to be loved by a man.
"How is the company doing recently?"
""Millennium" has ended its open beta and is currently undergoing final adjustments. It will be launched and operational in November."
""Legend 2 Legend World" It is currently in internal testing. If there are no problems, it will be launched into public testing next month. It is estimated that it will have to wait until next year if it wants to be launched. "
"Naver currently occupies 37% of the search market, and the portal website is second only to Yahoo. The fourth largest portal among , DAUM and Lycos, with a market share of 13.4%. Recently, Li Haizhen has been expanding the server, which has consumed all the liquidity in Naver's account.
Now it is necessary to acquire Hangame. With your support behind his back, his ambitions are getting bigger and bigger.”
Hearing the dissatisfaction in her words, Xu Liang smiled lightly.
"As a company boss, I like ambitious subordinates. Especially the acquisition targets he chooses do have great development potential."
Paused.
"Apart from "Millennium" and "Legend 2", what actions does Park Guan-ho have?"
"I only know that he has been investigating the South Korean game market recently, and he probably plans to expand through acquisitions. Scale. But we haven’t chosen a target yet.”
Park Guanhao and Li Haizhen are both vice presidents of Hongmeng South Korea.
As long as they are not stupid, they should understand that each other is their own competitor.
If you want to rise to the top and become the president of Hongmeng South Korea, you must show real results.
Now Park Guanhao is undoubtedly the leader. The explosion of "Legend 1 Overlord" in China will bring at least 20 billion won in revenue.
However, one success is not guaranteed. Only continuous success can truly prove one's ability.
Therefore, Xu Liang hopes that Park Guanhao can come up with a second big hit game similar to "Legend", or even slightly worse, and he will also consider letting him be in charge of Hongmeng South Korea.
In contrast, Li Haizhen had a much harder time.
Search engines are not yet profitable, and the portal website is only the fourth in South Korea.
To completely defeat Park Gwan-ho, it is not enough for Naver to turn a profit.
Search engines or portals must have a dominant position in the entire South Korean market.
"President, recently I discovered that Park Guanhao is a little dishonest."
Xu Liang was moved, "You said it is using power for personal gain?"
"The research and development of "Legend 2" and "Millennium" Expenses suddenly increased by 10%. Although he explained that the increase in expenses was due to the increase in R&D personnel,
but there were only five more people in the two game development teams since the acquisition. So much money.
Not only that, Hongmeng Games’ operating expenses are also 700,000 won more than last month. Although it is not a lot, some expenses are completely unnecessary, and the price is higher than the market price.”
"Can it form evidence?"
"Park Guanhao was very careful, but I still found some." Sun Mingzhen said with a hint of pride.
"Leave it to me tomorrow."
"Yeah."
He didn't completely believe Sun Mingzhen, but compared to Park Guanhao, he was still more willing to believe her Sun Mingzhen, who is close to her.
At least now her interests are consistent with his own.
While Xu Liang was deep in thought, snoring suddenly came from his ears.
Looking down, Sun Mingzhen was already asleep.
"It looks like he is really exhausted."
Through this blending of body and mind, Xu Liang had a deep understanding of his second brother's abilities.
"The reborn golden finger is very good."
Woke Sun Mingzhen up, wiped off the water on his body, and dried his hair before they went to bed and slept with their necks crossed.
The next day, Hongmeng South Korea office on the ninth floor of Yucheng Building.
With the addition of Naver, the office area has been expanded to 1,300 square meters.
The number of personnel has also reached two hundred.
In the conference room, Xu Liang looked at the investigation report on Hangame on the table with a strange look on his face.
"What's Avatar? Isn't this the QQ Show?"
The 'Avatar' game developed by Hangame Company cannot be said to be exactly the same as the QQ Show launched by Tencent in 2003 in his impression. I can say there is no difference.
With Fat Penguin’s ability to copy, which was hated by countless Internet companies in the country, Xu Liang vaguely guessed something.
In fact, he was right.
If nothing changes, Fat Penguin, who received tens of millions of dollars in financing from South African MIH in August 2002 and made a lot of money through Monternet, is no longer short of money.
We are recruiting more people.
Xu Liang, who graduated from Wuhan University and worked for two years, successfully applied for the position of 'National Internet Cafe Promotion Manager' at Fat Penguin. As a result, he lost his mobile phone and reported for two weeks late, and the position was replaced by another one. A new person took his place.
When he entered the company, he was assigned a casual position as a product manager.
This guy used to study economics and didn’t know what a product manager was, but he had no other job. As a result, he became the first idler in Tencent’s history (official appraisal version).
Idle people generally love to chat, so I heard that the South Korean company Hangame has developed an "Avatar" game. Users can change the appearance of the virtual character according to their own preferences, such as hairstyle, expressions, clothing and scenes, etc.
These virtual ‘goods’ need to be purchased for a fee. According to Xu Liang's investigation, in December 2000, there were 60,000 paying users who purchased virtual props on Hangame.
One year later, the number of users increased to 1.5 million. The average monthly expenditure per user was equivalent to 4.94 Chinese yuan, and the profit was considerable.
Realizing the opportunity, he persuaded Zhang Zhidong and formed a development team to develop QQ Show. As a result, in just half a year, 5 million people purchased this service, generating revenue of 25 million Huaxia coins.
The success of QQ Show also gave Fat Penguin the key to value-added services and got rid of the dilemma of relying only on Monternet.
Xu Liang doesn’t know Hangame Company or the future of the ‘Avatar’ game.
But he knew how popular the QQ show was when he was in college. There were about 20 girls in the class all playing it, which shows how big the market is.
“Are you sure you can buy it for $500,000?”
Xu Liang asked.
Li Haizhen nodded affirmatively.
“How long?”
“No more than two weeks at most.”
Xu Liang gave a brief explanation.
"Legend 1" has been officially operational for one and a half months now on July 18, generating revenue of 25 million Huaxia coins. According to the agreement, Hongmeng South Korea can receive 20% of the net profit.
This condition is much cheaper than Shanda’s US$300,000 copyright fee and 27% share.
The 25 million Chinese dollars deducts labor, material and other expenses, as well as 25% corporate income tax and 6% entertainment industry value-added tax.
There are probably about 14 million left.
In other words, Hongmeng South Korea can get a copyright revenue share of 2.8 million.
Because of the tax deduction, this part of the money does not need to pay South Korean tax.
According to Hongmeng South Korea’s internal regulations, half of the income of its subsidiaries is handed over to the head office.
In other words, the funds that Xu Liang could use to support Li Haizhen's acquisition of Hangame were only 1.4 million Huaxia coins. No, I should say only 1 million.
Because Hongmeng head office also has its own office staff, although there are not many, it still costs money.
One million Chinese coins, according to the current exchange rate, is 120,000 US dollars, which is far from Li Haizhen's request.
“It seems we can only invest more money.”
Thinking of this, Xu Liang said: "I can continue to invest, but your equity will be diluted."
Li Haizhen frowned.
He does not want his equity to be diluted, after all, there is not much left.
“Boss, can I invest in the form of a loan?”
“What do you think?” Xu Liang said calmly.
Li Haizhen also knew that her request was a bit excessive, so she thought about it briefly.
"Boss, the company's game business is now very profitable, so we can seek bank loans."
Xu Liang did not object to the loan, but Park Guanhao was not willing.
It’s okay for you to use the money I earned for development. After all, it is the proper intention of the head office to support weaker businesses, but it is too much for you to use me to guarantee the funds for your own development.
"Boss, I am not opposed to using Hongmeng Games as collateral for loans, but if the loan successfully acquires Hangame, I hope that the 'Avatar' casual game they develop can be handed over to us for operation."
Xu Liang nodded and turned his eyes.
"Old Li, what do you think?"
The unique title made Li Haizhen frown slightly. He was still not used to it.
“Yes, no problem.”
He doesn’t know much about games. The reason why he acquired Hangame was because of its abundant traffic.
In particular, Hangame has a large number of active users. After acquiring it to divert traffic to Naver, he is confident that Naver will become the number one search engine in terms of market share, with the portal ranking surpassing Lycos.
Xu Liang looked at Park Guanhao.
"I have no problem either."
The latter said quickly.
Xu Liang nodded and said, "Director Sun, I will leave the loan to you."
Sun Mingzhen, the head office director of the head office, nodded quickly.
"Okay, today's meeting ends here. Lao Pu, come to my office."
Pu Guanhao responded and followed Xu Liang to his president's office.
“Sit.”
The two sat down and Xu Liang poured him a glass of water.
"I heard that you have been investigating the South Korean game market recently?"
"Yes."
"How is it, what have you found?"
Park Guanhao's face showed A hint of bitterness, "When you discover something, you have discovered something. Basically, you can't afford it if you like it, and you can't afford it if you can afford it."
"Which game are you interested in?"
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"NCSoft's "Paradise"."
Xu Liang smiled, "You know how to watch it."
"Paradise" can be said to be the hottest online game on the market in South Korea. , the number of people online at the same time reached 60,000, with 3.5 million registered players around the world, and the number of people online at the same time reached 300,000.
It can be called a money printing machine.
Before the outbreak of "Legend 2", everyone was drooling after watching it.
(End of this chapter)