Rebirth of the Internet Overlord

/*Watching rng last night, I felt even worse when Xiaohu was captured by three people... Hey, it was really a death group. I hope ig will be safe and sound tonight, otherwise I can only watch Xiaohu

Phoenix.

In addition, I stayed up all night watching the game, and I have only finished writing this chapter today. Without further ado, I will drink two more bottles of Red Bull and continue with tomorrow’s update.*/

{Time: August 15, 2004}

{Location: United States-California}

2004 is the fourth year after the Internet winter. It can be said that Internet people during this period have gradually passed through the winter and are preparing to usher in a new era.

Apple is gradually starting to refine their iPhones,

Google wants to capture a larger share of the search market,

For Ning Zimo himself, after wegame went online with the momentum of World of Warcraft, it was time to start the Ranch Jinshan Project.

Speaking of the ranch plan, it was an important development path decided for the future by Ning Zimo after he tried hard to recall the memory data of his previous life in the days after his rebirth. A considerable part of this important development path was based on reference

The development paths of Apple and Google in their previous lives.

When it comes to Apple and Google, many people know that they are mobile phone and search giants respectively, but few people understand the profit model behind them. In fact, in detail, in addition to their corresponding main businesses, their main profit model

In addition to advertising and advertising, the largest part of peripheral income comes from the distribution of games.

For example, in 2017 in the previous life, Apple's app store and Google Play's share of game apps alone was as high as 38.5 billion US dollars and 20.1 billion US dollars. Their total revenue in 2017 reached 58.6 billion US dollars, compared with 43.5 billion in 2016.

The U.S. dollar is up about 35%.

You must know that this part of the money is not the income from Apple and Google's direct game production, but the revenue share paid by the game manufacturers simply by opening the app store and Google Play platform to game manufacturers after creating the corresponding ecological chain.

At the same time, Hua Wei, led by Ren Zhengfei, only achieved revenue of 96.2 billion U.S. dollars in 2017, with actual profits of about 7 billion U.S. dollars. In comparison, Apple and Google did not invest much actual expenses in games, but they made them out of thin air.

It has revenue of US$50 billion higher than that of Flower Power.

If we compare the horizontal comparison data of other companies in the past, Ning Zimo can definitely aim at some of the future directions.

Tencent's game revenue in 2017 was 18.6 billion US dollars, while Activision Blizzard + ea + Ubisoft + Star Wars only had 16 billion US dollars. If we put these data into the entire industry, the global game market share in 2017 was as high as 116 billion US dollars.

In other words, the game market is worth 116 billion U.S. dollars. The four major game companies have only taken 16 billion U.S. dollars, and Steam, which focuses on game distribution, has only taken 4.3 billion U.S. dollars. Apple, Google and Tencent, which are not doing business, the three companies combined have already

Occupying 66% of the gaming market.

What does this mean?

It illustrates the importance of cross-border in the Internet era!

The global integration of the Internet era has made cross-border development an inevitable trend for large enterprises. In the Internet era, any giant company must break industry barriers unless it has absolutely insurmountable technical or professional advantages in the industry.

Only through cross-border integration can we find more ways to make money.

However, the Internet and mobile Internet have always been an era of taking advantage of the first-mover advantage to gain territory. If we wait until others have taken the first-mover advantage as we did in the previous life before competing, the cost of capturing 1% of the market share will be much higher than what the leader initially paid.

The value invested in occupying that 1% must be at least dozens or hundreds of times greater!

Anyone can make a simple calculation on this account, let alone rely on the money earned from the game industry to subsidize other companies!

Therefore, the Ranch Golden Mountain Plan is Ning Zimo’s plan to target the golden mountain of the gaming industry.

wegame is just the beginning,

Blizzard is just one part of it.

As the only businessman with a golden finger in the world, the reborn must have more plans!

…

"The four of them came earlier, nearly half an hour early, so Frank took them all around the company before you came." Michael spread his hands to Ning Zimo, "If you hadn't specially told me to let them go,

We focus on map developers, maybe they won’t have the opportunity to come here.”

On the way through the conference room, Ning Zimo's mind went through various data about the game market in 2017 in his previous life.

When I came to my senses, I was almost walking to the door of the conference room.

Before entering, Ning Zimo patted Michael on the shoulder and said, "Guys, I know that "World of Warcraft" is currently a big project, and its continued updates will bring us great benefits. So this time I came to see them,

Just to avoid possible regrets.”

Pity?

What's the meaning?

Michael didn't quite understand what Ning Zimo said, but before he could ask in detail, he saw him pushing open the door of the conference room first.

There were exactly four people in the room that Michael mentioned. They were four "young people" with different looks who could not be called young. Probably because it was the first time they met, the four people's expressions were a little reserved. Seeing this situation, Ning Zi remained silent.

After Michael and Frank were introduced, they walked forward and stretched out their hands:

"Hello everyone, I am Ning Zimo, the founder of wegame."

Since wegame was officially launched with World of Warcraft in June, it has easily won 5.5 million users in just 2 and a half months relying on its novel network channel distribution model and unique online battle modes for various games. There is no comparable platform to this value, but

It’s definitely much more than Steam which only had 500,000 users in January.

In particular, Steam currently only has half-life games available. In addition to the short-term surge in World of Warcraft players, Wegame's convenient "Quick Join" mode in the two games Warcraft RPG and CS also quickly won over game users.

of love.

Since Wegame's reputation has been widely circulated in the gaming industry, Ning Zimo feels that in the current environment, his identity as the founder of Wegame is obviously more useful than the founder of Skype and more than the major shareholder of Blizzard.

mild.

As expected, the more handsome man of Arab descent among the four excitedly walked up to him and held his hand after hearing Ning Zimo's introduction.

"Hi, Ning, my name is Abdul Ismail, and the four of us are friends on the Internet." The man smiled excitedly but shyly, and then introduced the three people around him.

“stephen moss”

"Steve Pendragon Mescon."

“steve feak”

"Wow... I really didn't expect you all to show up here together." Ning Zimo said with a smile, letting go of Ice Frog's hand.

Then he immediately stepped forward and shook hands with Nichus, Bilong and Yang Dao.

With a simple opening statement, Ning Zimo had his first impression of the people in front of him.

Compared to Ice Frog who took the initiative to speak, the other three people, including the older Yang Dao, all seemed "shy". But Ning Zimo knew that in their previous lives, they were all able to integrate into V Club and Riot Games respectively.

A key figure, in terms of communication skills, he is just less social than Ice Frog.

Just like this, he counted the people in front of him one by one, and Ning Zimo smiled sincerely at them while shaking hands.

In 2004, the main founders of the AOS game Dota Allstars gathered together, which means that he may grab the largest share of the PC AOS game market many years later.

Perhaps to many people, the four names Abdul Ismail, Stephen Moss, Steve Pendragon Mescon, and Steve Fike belong to the unfamiliar ranks.

But for many Ning Zimo, a non-dota and lol player who has paid attention to the e-sports circle in his previous life, the four nicknames icefrog, neichus, pendragon and guinsoo are obvious.

Not too unfamiliar.

The four of them were map developers at a certain stage of the AOS game Dota, but later they parted ways due to their ideas and values.

Bingwa went to V Club to lead the development of Dota 2, and Yangdao and Penlong went to Riot Games to lead the development of LoL.

In their previous life, they had caused a dispute over the copyright of game heroes, but in this life, the four of them were still good friends when they stood together. So besides being a little excited, Ning Zimo was also a little surprised.

"I really didn't expect you to appear here together, but I finally met you guys. If I hadn't contacted you through Michael and Frank, I probably would have only seen your nicknames in the list of map editors in Dota.

"

As Ning Zimo spoke, he led a few people to sit down in the conference room, but unlike the rigorous manner when he first came to Blizzard, this time he pulled out a few stools on the side of the conference table.

Blizzard's conference room is quite large, and two rows of people can sit comfortably on one side. Ning Zimo turned his stool and sat down, and the few people following him could only form a circle around him.

Sitting together in small circles.

Ning Zimo's move was beyond everyone's expectations, but Bing Frog sat down easily. But inadvertently, he saw Yang Dao and seemed to raise the corners of his mouth. That was because that guy felt that Ning's acting style was very...

Does it suit his senses?

Bing Frog leaned on the stool calmly and looked at Ning Zimo. He was full of curiosity about the sudden appearance of the founder of Wegame and the young major shareholder of Blizzard.

Recently, because the version updates of Dota are often restricted by the Warcraft 3D engine, various problems always appear in the game. So last month, he couldn't bear it and sent an email to Blizzard, asking if Blizzard was willing to

Their Warcraft engine was upgraded.

Unexpectedly, Blizzard responded to his email within a few days and suggested that all members of their map production team come to Blizzard to visit and discuss. So 20 minutes ago, they visited under the leadership of Blizzard Chief Technology Officer Frank and were busy following

Blizzard into "World of Warcraft".

Speaking of which, he was still a little disappointed, because all the monitors they walked through at Blizzard showed that engineers were following up on the content of "World of Warcraft". Obviously, Blizzard did not have the extra energy to maintain "World of Warcraft" after "World of Warcraft" was launched.

3d engine.

World of Warcraft is so popular that Yang Dao has recently invested in the army of World of Warcraft players, which has caused problems in the update of the Dota map recently. But the more serious problem is that he sees Blizzard's current maintenance of "World of Warcraft"

, obviously not good news for dota.

so,

Ning Zimo's appearance,

The largest shareholder of Blizzard,

The founder of the wegame platform,

Can you bring them something different?

/* Regarding the name of Ice Frog, the source is dota2 wiki. The original translation is: In May 2017, a California court was discussing the ownership of dota, and they mentioned icefrog (Abdul Ismail)

name, thus confirmed by the California District Court. Additionally, they mentioned that icefrog worked with and was employed by s2 games.

In addition, there are quite a lot of various versions of Dota, and the mission time also starts from Sheep Knife - transition to Nichus - Ice Frog becomes popular - Pen Dragon is the icing on the cake. As for their so-called grievances, it is just a feud between fans.

Various versions come.

There is no need to get too hung up on the details, let’s write something different. After all, the so-called “feelings” are another part that I will talk about in this book.

Oh, by the way, any content within /**/ is a free area that exceeds 2,000 or 3,000 words and is less than 3k or 4k.

So, feel free to watch.

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