Chapter 711 Hongmeng North America 2004
Headquarters of Hongmeng US subsidiary in Menlo Park.
After acquiring Universal Entertainment and integrating Hongmeng Games’ US business, Hongmeng’s development in the United States suddenly accelerated.
The original office area is not enough.
In the middle of this year, I bought an office building in Menlo Park covering an area of 87 acres and a construction area of 54,000 square meters.
"BOSS."
Alan Adhan, president of the North American subsidiary, greeted him respectfully.
Since Lu Xiaobo was fired by Xu Liang for cheating, Alan Adhan took over the position of president of Hongmeng North America subsidiary due to his outstanding performance at Blizzard.
"Alan, you have been the president of North America for almost a year, right?"
"Yes."
"The North American company has developed well during this period, and you have contributed a lot to it."
Xu Liang nodded slightly, "Is the company's third quarter financial report ready?"
"Follow Facebook and Twitter After the special cooperation, has the user registration situation of imusic changed?" Xu Liang asked.
Xuanming Studio mainly develops games under the original "Xueleshan".
Xu Liang took it and looked at it carefully.
The faster Facebook and Twitter develop, the better they will be at attracting traffic to imusic.
Shebishi Studio has inherited Universal’s game business and currently has two game development groups.
Similarly, there is Hongmeng South America Company, which is responsible for the entire Spanish market.
Both sides complement each other.
There are currently four major studios.
Even so, Hongmeng North America’s online music revenue in the third quarter still exceeded US$290 million.
Hongmeng Brazil Company is responsible for the entire Portuguese-speaking market.
The only business that is developing vigorously in the US market is Hongmeng’s pan-entertainment business.
Currently developing "Diablo 3", "Hell's Gate", "Homeworld 2" and "Universe Legends".
An increase of 45% compared with the same period last year.
Hongmeng Germany is responsible for the German-speaking market.
Hongmeng Middle East Company is responsible for the global Arabic market.
“It’s all here.”
After the integration was completed, Apple’s iTunes was completely suppressed.
Just like QQ and QQ Music.
Therefore, Hongmeng’s business in North America is not small.
In particular, Hongmeng Music Network (imusic) has integrated the online websites of Universal Music.
Hongmeng North America subsidiary is different from others.
Alan said happily: "Thank you for your praise, I will work harder in the future."
Alan said excitedly.
That’s twice as much as Apple’s iTunes.
Hongmeng French Company is responsible for the entire French market.
“There has been a big change. The user registration rate has increased by 11% year-on-year, and the growth rate has been higher as time goes by.”
Houtu Studio used Northern Blizzard as its backbone to conduct Certain expansion.
Hurry and hand over the prepared documents.
Hongmeng’s North American gaming business has merged with Universal Games and integrated Hongmeng Games.
Net profit exceeded US$46 million.
However, dragged down by the Chinese market and some markets in developing countries, 45% of users have not generated much value.
Xu Liang nodded slightly.
Hongmeng Music Network has 37 million registered users in the global English market, and 280 million registered users worldwide.
Qiangliang Studio inherited Blizzard's legacy and developed "Warcraft", "StarCraft", "Lost Vikings 3" and "Rock and Roll Racing".
It is the well-deserved No. 1 online music network.
Half-Life, Counter-Strike, King's Quest 9, Caesar III and The Witcher 4.
Although businesses such as Bing and Kingsoft have English content, they have never made efforts in the English market.
Although Hongmeng North America has the word "North America" in its name, it is actually responsible for all English-speaking markets around the world.
Universal Music Network’s online business is a well-deserved tonic.
What needs to be emphasized is.
The first group developed "Crash Bandicoot".
The second group develops "Sparrow the Dragon".
Most games have predecessors, so as long as you don’t mess around, you can generally make a profit.
In the third quarter of 2004, Hongmeng Games North America generated revenue of US$860 million, the highest among all Hongmeng subsidiaries.
The net profit was as high as US$210 million.
"When will "World of Warcraft" be launched online?"
"It is currently undergoing the final round of public beta testing. If there are no problems, it will be officially released globally on November 23 this year."
Xu Liang nodded slightly.
"I only care about quality, don't ruin the company's brand."
"Don't worry, "World of Warcraft" is definitely the best online game in the world."
Alan looked confident.
As the former president of Hongmeng Games North America and the president of Blizzard, he directed the research and development of World of Warcraft. No one knows the quality of his games better than him.
"As long as you have confidence, I'll wait to see your results."
"You will definitely not be disappointed."
Compared to games and music, Hongmeng North American Literature Network is much worse.
As the earliest website under Hongmeng to enter the English market, ibook has 33 million registered users, making it the largest online literature website in the English market.
In addition to attracting local writers from the English-speaking market, there is also a professional translation team to translate Hongmeng Literature Huaxia's books.
The popular novels of Hongmeng Literature Huaxia Company, such as "The Legend of Xiaobing", "Zhu Xian", "Tan of the Demon God", etc., basically have professional English versions.
In the third quarter of 2004, Hongmeng North American Literature Network's online subscription and offline physical books generated a total revenue of US$67 million and a net profit of US$18.3 million. Hongmeng Comics website and Hongmeng Literature entered the Five Eyes Alliance a year late.
Although it is not comparable to the two giants Marvel and DC, with its low registration threshold, it has more than 5,000 works in three years.
Except some of them are adaptations of excellent comics from China, Japan, South Korea and other countries.
Local comics account for more than half.
It needs to be emphasized that the high-quality novels of Hongmeng Literature provide a large amount of material for Hongmeng Comics.
The linkage between the two has greatly increased each other's market share.
After more than three years of hard work, Hongmeng Comics North America has 17 million registered users and is the largest online comic website within the Five Eyes Alliance.
In the third quarter of 2004, Hongmeng Comics North America generated a total revenue of US$89 million from online subscriptions, offline physical books, and peripheral product development, with a net profit of US$21.3 million.
Yes, comics companies have higher revenue.
Because comics have peripherals.
The appeal of pictures is always more popular than pure text.
Hongmeng North America Animation Company was originally the animation department of Universal Entertainment.
I have never developed any big production.
So after Hongmeng acquired Universal, it took over the animation department.
"Has the animation of "Legend of Little Soldiers" been completed?"
"The first season has been produced and we are contacting TV stations to broadcast it. If the ratings are good, we will start the production of the second season."< br>
Xu Liang nodded, "Legend of the Little Soldier" is a rare science fiction theme that can be accepted by both China and North America.
Of course some details still need to be changed.
“Are there any plans for a second part?”
"We are preparing to produce two. One is a novel "Chris Witch" by a British writer. It currently has 21.4 million subscriptions on Hongmeng North American Literature Network and is very popular.
The other is a novel by an American female writer Stephanie "Twilight" written by Mel has more than 40 million subscriptions since its release in 2003. Many producers and 20th Century Fox wanted to buy the rights
But I refused. "< br>
“Twilight?”
Xu Liang always felt that it sounded familiar.
"Have you read the content?"
"I have read some, but not all."
"Tell me briefly."
Alan is a little curious about the reason for the big BOSS Would you be interested in this?
But he still said quickly.
"The work tells the romantic love story between two middle school students, Bella and Edward.
But what is different from ordinary youth novels is that this is a strange love story between a person and a vampire.
The work uses a vaguely Gothic style as the background, through a poignant love story, mixed with supernatural elements, and an ups and downs of the plot..."
The more Xu Liang listened, the more familiar it became, and suddenly something came to his mind. There was a flash of light.
“Isn’t this Twilight?!”
In his previous life, he was dragged to the cinema by his girlfriend to watch this series of movies.
My girlfriend was so moved after reading it, was he...?
There is a cross talk that describes it very well.
Today he loves her, tomorrow he loves him, the day after tomorrow he doesn’t love her but he loves her, and he falls in love with her again.
He and her, he and him, he is not with her, he is not with him, he is with her again, he is with him again, he and her former him, the child born looks like him ….
It was so cruel that he wanted to vomit.
After interrupting Allen who was still talking.
"It seems that you like this novel very much. Do you remember it clearly?"
Alan smiled bitterly: "It's mainly because my daughter likes it. In order to communicate with her, I read a lot So I remember it clearly."
"I remember your daughter just entered the eighth grade, right?"
"Yes. Now is the time to be rebellious. If Marina hadn't been reluctant to let go, I really wanted to send her to a missionary school."
"Haha, kid, this is the time to be rebellious. Go over there. That's good."
Alan nodded and suddenly asked curiously: "BOSS, are you in a rebellious period?"
"No? Impossible.”
"Nothing is impossible. China is different from the United States. Here you don't have to take the high school entrance exam. But China is different. From ninth grade onwards, you must pass strict exams.
If you fail the exam, then you need to take the exam The tuition fee is equivalent to 50,000 US dollars to enter high school.
If you can’t afford it, you have to give up.
Almost 90% of my classmates did not enter high school.” >
When he was in junior high school, there were seven classes in the first grade, with about sixty students in each class. By the end of the semester in the third grade of junior high school, more than 400 students were divided into three groups.
The top ten in each class are gathered together to form a key class.
Gather repeat students and art students, 11 to 25 students from seven classes, to form two ordinary classes.
These three classes are all focused on high school entrance exams.
The rest were all given up.
Because apart from taking money, it is impossible for these people to enter high school.
Except for a small number who entered technical schools and a very small number who joined the army, the rest left to fend for themselves.
The key class is okay, most of the two ordinary classes cannot pass the high school entrance examination.
Although he doesn't know the specific data, there is a high probability that the number of people who will pay more to pass the exam will not exceed fifty, or even less.
Why are you so sure?
Around 2000, junior high school entrance examinations and high school entrance examinations were basically based on admissions based on separate admissions.
Unless you can get into the top 100 in the city, or have good connections, you can only go to the nearest high school.
When he was in high school, there were seven classes in the first year of high school, with 60 people in the class. Among the classmates, there was only one classmate from the same junior high school.
It can be said that the transition from junior high school to high school is more cruel than college!
It was not until 10 years later that the situation improved as the number of students became increasingly scarce.
Even high schools that were not full of students were merged, including his alma mater in a rural town.
(End of this chapter)