Chapter 327 The fiery war on Halloween
"The company's name is Baokai Game Company, which is affiliated to Jinshuguang Entertainment Group and has become a subsidiary of it."
"No need to be responsible to others, as long as we are responsible to me and the Group CECO Victor, and will be directly and vertically led by the Group Corporation."
“The company’s location is tentatively set to be Seattle.”
"Of course, after my technology industry park is hammered, I will reserve a very good place for Baokai Game Company."
"Baokai Games Company invested a total of US$5 million, and the first batch of project funds of US$2 million will be in place in three days; the subsequent US$300 will be distributed in batches within 6 months."
Zhu Ke introduced it carefully.
The first $2 million payment was strictly used to acquire a game company. After all, it would be time-consuming to build a new company from scratch.
Isn't it just money?
Is Zhuke the one who lacks money?!
Not to mention the profitability of various subsidiaries of Jinshuguang Entertainment Group, just the billions of dollars of cash lying on personal accounts, it is enough to be considered rich.
Obviously, it is more efficient to directly acquire a game company.
"Dave Roberts, uh, I'll call you Dave right away." Zucker smiled.
"Boss, please speak." Dave Roberts said seriously.
Zhu Ke smiled and said, "Don't be nervous. The development direction I set for Baokai Company. In the early stage, I thought that social software companies such as msn and icq should provide puzzle and casual games. I hope to see your report within two weeks."
"Boss, I can do it in one week."
Dave Roberts' answer was very powerful, and he was completely suffocated at this moment.
You should know that although he was a middle-level manager of Microsoft and had extremely rich management experience, he had been on the bench for a long time due to serious internal strife in Microsoft. He doesn't want to think about anything else now, he just wants to do a big deal quickly.
"Don't be anxious, haste will not be achieved."
Zucker looked at Dave and smiled, "Of course, if you submit your hunger report to me a week later and satisfy me, I would consider an additional $1 million investment."
500100=6 million US dollars!
"Make sure to complete the task." Dave promised loudly.
John and the other two immediately looked at Dave with Qixi's eyes. After all, it was $1 million more!
In 1999, $1 million was a very huge number. Of course, even in 2020, there may not be many people who can take out $1 million in cash at one time.
A few hours later, the meeting ended.
Dave, John and others left happily one after another.
"Boss, I'm a little confused and want to ask you?" Alexander suddenly spoke.
"Uh? You are trying to ask, with our huge capital, why don't we play the popular large-scale computer games nowadays, but choose puzzle and casual games, right?" Zucker smiled.
"Yes."
Upon hearing this, Alexander nodded immediately and said, "Looking at the global game market, whether it is Electronic Arts in the United States, Vivendi in France, Ubisoft, or Sony, Capcom, and Nintendo in Japan, have increased their money in large-scale computer game projects in recent years. After all, the market in this area is hundreds, thousands, or even tens of thousands of times that of puzzle and casual games."
Do large computer games make money?
Of course it's very profitable!
"Need for Speed" series, "Warcraft" series, "Resident Evil" series, "Half-Life" series, "Command and Conquer" series...
Which one is not a big profit?
Zhu Ke was very envious, but he was too determined but not enough!
As a time traveler, Zhu Ke, even though he was not good at playing games in his previous life, he knew a lot. He now has many game designs in his mind, but... they need someone to complete them!
"I lack people, talent!"
Zhuke spread his hands and said helplessly: "Electronics, Blizzard, Ubisoft, Capcom and other game giants under Vivendi are all in short supply now, let alone us? There is no talent in the market!"
Puzzle and casual mini-games are just a helpless choice now!
Of course, Zhu Ke is also waiting for the Internet bubble to break out, and a large number of Internet companies will go bankrupt. At the same time, game companies will be widely affected, and many game talents will be forced to enter the market.
"Are you still afraid of lacking talents after a few months?" Zhu Ke thought to himself.
In fact, Zucker was not very anxious either.
Puzzle and casual games are actually very profitable!
For example, Tencent Group's qq software relies on platform games. The money earned from small games every year is definitely not a small amount, but rather a very large amount.
But the premise is that this platform must belong to its own company.
Otherwise, the money you earn with a game production company is at most the remaining soup of the platform.
“Skype (Internet phone) It’s my trump card!”
"As long as skype is developed successfully, I can quickly build a new instant messaging platform. By then, I will definitely make considerable money by bundling game companies."
For a moment, Zhuk was full of thoughts.
.........
In a blink of an eye, more than 20 days have passed.
The annual Halloween schedule is not far away.
All major film companies in Hollywood, as long as they shoot horror/thriller films, will be released during this period, competing for the audience for the Halloween period.
Especially for medium and small film companies, they do not invest much in blockbusters and high-cost movies, so they can only focus on horror/thriller-themed movies.
There are many film companies that rely on low-cost horror movies to sell money every year and wait for rice to be put into the pot.
You said, can they not pay attention to it?
...
Warner Bros. Pictures.
"It's really a coincidence that I'll make a book!"
"Who can imagine that during the Halloween period, we will run into Wald Pictures again!"
"God! What time is this year?"
"Third times, man!"
When a group of Warner Bros. Pictures executives, looking at the list of movies released during the Halloween period, they couldn't help but complain when they discovered the "Death is Coming" produced by Wald Pictures.
"Are we really enemies with Wald Pictures?" An executive supported his forehead.
Valentine's Day schedule: "My Grand Greek Wedding" vs "Letter in the Bottle";
April schedule: "Spartan 300 Warriors" vs "The Matrix";
The current Halloween schedule: "The God of Death" vs "The Haunted House";
At this moment, even the Warner executives who have experienced many battles are very reluctant to meet Wald Pictures. After all, their current record of fighting is one loss and one draw.
"It's not that good if you win, we will still lose a lot of box office."
An executive complained: "Damn Wald Pictures, why don't they die~"
That's right, during this year's Halloween schedule, Wald Pictures' "The Death is Coming" movie will be released on October 29 with Warner's "Hazed House".
"Okay, gentlemen, please be quiet."
The new president Barry Meyer looked at everyone and said loudly: "It's pointless to argue about these things now. All we have to do is win this Halloween battle!"
"The new film that defeated Wald Pictures~"
.........
Paramount Pictures.
“Haha~”
The boss Lei Shidong looked at the report in his hand and couldn't help but smile: "I didn't expect that I had just negotiated cooperation with that guy Zhuke, but now I'm going to usher in competition again? It's really interesting."
Shortly after Wald Pictures' new film "Death is Coming", Paramount Pictures' new work "The Dead" will also be released on November 9.
At that time, there will be many battles between dragons and tigers.
......
Wald Pictures.
Zhu Ke smiled and said, "I still have to fight for the change. If I am afraid, I might as well surrender."
Bill McNick echoed: "This year is pretty good. After all, the sequels of "Moonlight and Panic" and "The Opposite Sex" were not released on Halloween this year, otherwise it would be a fight."
“Hahaha~”
Zhuke laughed and said, "Old Bill, watch it. This year's Halloween schedule will be a mess!"
The second update of "" is given.
Chapter completed!