Giant of the times

The next day, Ma Huateng returned to Shenzhen with excitement and desire to serve as President of Tencent Games.

“Oh my God, Tencent has established a gaming division!!”

The news spread like wildfire and caused a sensation on the Chinese Internet.

Previously, because Flamingo Company was Li Zetian's property, Tencent had not entered the game market. Shanda, The9, NetEase, and Giant Network did not pay much attention to Tencent. But now, they have to pay attention to Tencent and regard it as their formidable enemy.

Tencent's development in China is even better than in Europe and the United States. European and American netizens have many social software, such as America Online ICQ, Microsoft MSN, etc., and the competition is fierce. In addition, foreign emails are still the mainstream, and Americans like to send text messages and make phone calls directly, so the demand for instant messaging (IM) software is not as strong as that of the Chinese. It is not difficult to understand why companies like Tencent did not appear outside China in previous lives.

At this time, Tencent QQ has almost formed a monopoly in China, with nearly 100 million registered Chinese users. Although there are many accounts registered repeatedly, it is enough to prove that Tencent QQ has many users. With a little guidance, these users can be converted into game users, which is why other game manufacturers are afraid.

As the largest gaming company in China, Shanda Group will face tremendous pressure.

Chen Tianqiao received a call from Sun Zhengyi, and the two talked for more than half an hour about Tencent's involvement in the Chinese game industry.

Masayoshi Son said with a heavy tone: "With the arrival of Tencent, the Chinese game market has become more complicated. Shanda Group has to face two attacks from Flamingo and Tencent! The scary thing is that Tencent has a huge number of users. It is extremely detrimental to Shanda Group!"

Chen Tianqiao frowned and said: "Yes, Mr. Sun, Tencent has great advantages relying on its huge number of users. Unless we defeat Tencent qq, we will never be able to completely defeat Tencent..."

When Sun Zhengyi heard this, he couldn't help but rolled his eyes. How could Tencent QQ be so easy to defeat? Tencent QQ has built a very strong social relationship chain in China and even around the world. It is difficult to break this relationship chain.

Son Zhengyi asked casually: "Mr. Chen, tell me, how can we defeat Tencent?"

Chen Tianqiao's frown deepened and he thought, if I knew how to defeat Tencent, would I still have to worry about it?

After all, the person on the other end of the phone is a money man and cannot be offended.

Chen Tianqiao analyzed it and said: "I think Shanda Group can actually develop instant messaging software. Our "Legend" is very popular and has a huge number of players, so we can develop a game IM specifically for player communication... …In real life, people have to communicate with all kinds of people every day, and this is even more obvious in online games, and the demand for interactivity is the strongest!!!”

Chen Tianqiao became more and more excited as he talked. As he thought, since Tencent can convert QQ users into game users, Shanda Group can also convert game users into IM (instant messaging) users.

Game IM? ? ?

When Son Zhengyi heard this, his eyes lit up, "Oh, yes, this idea!"

In fact, Masayoshi Son has always been very envious of Tencent's market position in China...Tencent has so many users that it can almost dominate the Chinese Internet. No matter what software it develops, it has huge user traffic to support it.

At this time, Chen Tianqiao was so excited that he couldn't stop thinking. He continued: "Online games build a virtual small society. All actions of players in the game are naturally inseparable from communication. When players are in When they encounter problems in the game, act together with the guild groups in the game, or need to engage in virtual economic activities such as business transactions, they must use the network communication system. Throughout the history of the development of online games, the communication between players has always been There are almost two forms - within the online game, instant communication is provided through the public chat channel, guild-specific channel, private chat window between players, note transmission, etc.; while outside the online game, through instant messaging IM tool for communication.”

When he said this, Chen Tianqiao paused, and then continued with a coldness and murderous intent: "Before, players used the IM tool qq, but from now on, all game players of Shanda Group will no longer Use Tencent qq instead of Shanda IM. We should replace it!!!"

Sun Zhengyi was also ignored by Chen Tianqiao, and he nodded repeatedly and said: "Well, this is a good idea. You can try it. If it succeeds, this will undoubtedly be a major turning point for Shanda Group and open up a glorious new era for the company." Chapter!!”

At the moment, Sun Zhengyi and Chen Tianqiao chatted excitedly about the development of IM software.

Chen Tianqiao also gave the IM software to be developed by Shanda Group a simple and straightforward name - Shanda IM.

After ending the call, Chen Tianqiao was full of ambition and ready to do something big. He immediately ordered his secretary to notify the company's senior executives to come to the conference room for a meeting, and then announced the Shanda IM development plan at the meeting, and told everyone that the Shanda IM plan had received the full support of SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son.

When everyone heard this, their blood boiled.

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At this moment, Ma Huateng is working hard to develop Tencent Games.

On the one hand, Tencent has established its own game development team to independently develop game software and build the "Tencent Games" platform. Tencent, on the other hand, represents games from other game manufacturers.

As far as the current situation is concerned, independent research and development will take some time, so acting as an agent for games from other companies is the first step in Tencent's rapid rise.

PS: Five updates today.