Super Game Empire

Distinctive Software, a company located in Burnaby, Canada, was founded in 1983. It is famous for its racing games. The simulation of racing models and various external environment effects in their games are particularly good. This is also an important reason why many large game companies take a fancy to it.

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After Yang Yun left Moscow, he came here non-stop. He really couldn't worry about the distinct negotiations. If Yang Zhan's acquisition plan failed, he would have to face EA, a powerful opponent, and have to find ways to acquire other jobs.

room, had to redesign a racing game that could compete with "Need for Speed".

That would be a very difficult thing, extremely difficult.

After being reborn for more than two years, now that it involves PC games, Yang Yun can no longer use the same methods as before for TV games.

In the past, Honor Company made Romance of the Three Kingdoms, and Namco and Longteng also made Romance of the Three Kingdoms. Because the game was not complicated, Yang Yun did not need to make a big splash to acquire Honor.

He could organize a group of programmers to develop it himself, use Namco's framework, or even create a set of official timelines of the Three Kingdoms himself, and just fill in the content into the game bit by bit.

PC games are not simply about building a framework and filling in the content. Racing games are a very typical example.

Many people should have played Need for Speed, at least some versions of it.

Its content is actually very simple. You can choose to speed alone and avoid the police, or you can choose to compete online with friends to see who can run faster.

The selling point of Need for Speed ​​is not how rich and tortuous the content is, but the variety of handsome and stylish sports cars. Players can experience the furious speed, see exquisite and realistic graphics, and enjoy the sense of perfect detail.

The game's explosive music, exquisite models, drifting skills of various vehicles, and the thrill of dodging obstacles at high speeds all deeply attract racing fans. If you can't afford various super sports cars, then go play Need for Speed.

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Precisely because Need for Speed ​​has particularly high requirements for various models and game fluency, many people agree that it is a graphics card killer, a memory killer, and has high CPU requirements. Computer players with high configurations will have high enjoyment. And low configurations can even run

Don't move the game.

When Yang Yun came across this kind of game, his rebirth experience was blinding, because he was only familiar with the game content, but was completely ignorant of the game engine technology.

If Distinctive is snatched away by EA this time, in order to fight against Need for Speed, Yang Yun can only continue to acquire other racing game production companies. Otherwise, if he starts from scratch and asks the company's internal personnel to study the racing game engine from scratch, it will not take two years.

It will definitely work. The price is too high!

In Moscow, Yang Yun strongly suppressed Ubisoft and 1c Company. In the end, 1c Company spun off its game production department and jointly occupied 40% of the new company's shares with Ubisoft. Yang Yun's Longteng occupied 55%, and Chenkov was responsible for the Eastern European market.

sales, accounting for 5%.

After getting the game department of 1c Company that he wanted, Yang Yun didn't care whether Ubisoft would continue to cooperate with 1c in educational software and commercial software. He directly informed Zhao Yongping to send a group of R&D teams from China to take over. He was in a hurry.

Rushed to Canada and met Yang Zhan in Burnaby, who had arrived a week ago.

This is a four-star hotel in Burnaby. It is the most upscale hotel that Yang Zhan could find.

This is basically how Longteng conducts business negotiations. They stay in the best local hotels and rent the highest-end conference rooms for negotiations. This can demonstrate the strength and sincerity of Longteng.

The first sentence after meeting, Yang Yun asked: "Report on the progress of the negotiations!"

Yang Zhan said: "I have contacted the two founders of the company and they have expressed interest in our acquisition offer, but they need time to consider it."

Yang Yun frowned: "What are you considering? They will definitely sell the company, there is no doubt about it. How much do you offer?"

"Two million US dollars!" Yang Zhan opened a memo and introduced: "The company currently has 4 racing games and 5 sports games. In addition to developing four games for our Sega platform, it also helped Konami develop

After "Castlevania", "Metal Gear Solid" and "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" on PC..."

$2 million, Konami!

Hearing only these two keywords, Yang Yun didn't know what to say.

Are you still hesitating? Konami is a die-hard loyalist in the Nintendo camp, and Teng Teng will never let go of any opportunity that may hurt Nintendo!

Not to mention Castlevania, Metal Gear Solid and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Yang Yun doesn’t want to get the copyrights to these three games, but at least he wants to get the source code. Then he can change his face and make some other games. Disgusting, disgusting, Konami and

Nintendo is great too!

Also, the price of 2 million is a price that only Yang Zhan can offer. Is this buying Chinese cabbage?

"Improve the offer by 5 times, starting from 10 million!" Yang Yun did not hesitate, "It is a 100% purchase, and we have signed a harsh contract with the development team. We must not let EA poach the core personnel!"

Yang Zhan was startled: "Mr. Yang, is the price of 10 million US dollars too high? There are probably dozens of small game suppliers for the Sega platform like Distinctive around the world! We paid attention to Distinctive at the beginning,

It’s also because its racing game is pretty good and has investment value. If we put out 10 million at the beginning, how will our strategy department study other small companies in the future?”

Yang Yun waved his hand and explained: "The price of 2 million you proposed is to hold more than 50% of the shares. This price is already very generous for other small companies. But for special cases, for the distinct company, I require 10 million to buy all the shares.

Buying it together with a company is a special case and is not included in the calculation method of your strategy department."

Yang Zhan had no choice but to give up: "Okay, Mr. Yang, I will contact them right away and urge them to make a decision as soon as possible. If you are willing, I will notify them and arrange a time for you to talk in person."

It is necessary to talk in person, Yang Yun nodded.

Yang Zhan went to the outside room of the suite to call the other party. After a long time, he came in with an ugly face: "EA Company is in contact with them. This is what the administrator of the office building secretly told me."

"Come on, let's go meet old friends!"

Yang Yun picked up his coat and was led by Yang Zhan to the distinct company.

In corporate acquisitions, price is a very important aspect, and there are many other influencing factors. The nationality of the acquirer, the size of the enterprise, and even the race will affect the mood of the acquiree.

"The administrator has been bribed by you, okay!" Yang Yun smiled, and the atmosphere relaxed a lot.

Yang Zhan chuckled: "It's just a tip of 20 US dollars a day. This is what Europeans and Americans do. Maybe a casual move can save us a lot of money and reduce a huge trouble."

The hotel driver took the two of them to an office building on a busy street. They got off the car. At the management office at the entrance of the building, Yang Zhan greeted the building manager with a smile, walked over and whispered a few words,

Quietly thrust a bill into his hand.

"The people from ea came this morning. Don and Jeff went downstairs to greet them personally. The administrator inadvertently asked about some news while chatting with them and heard the word ea."

Yang Yun was hesitating whether to go straight to the Distinctive office. A group of people came from the direction of the elevator. Yang Yun saw an acquaintance at a glance. Who was Larry Probst, the president of EA?

In a subconscious reaction, Yang Yun quickly pulled Yang Zhan to the mailbox in the corridor of the building, turned his back to the crowd, pretended to check the mail, listened to Larry and his group chatting happily, passed behind the two of them, and walked out of the building.

"Looks like they're done talking!" Yang Zhan only knew Tang and Jeff from Distinctive. Taking advantage of the opportunity to see guests off the building, the two took the elevator and arrived in advance on the tenth floor where Distinctive was located.

This is indeed a small company. Even the company's reception desk is very small. The person who is waiting for guests is still an older white woman. Other office facilities also look a bit old. This shows that the company's economic conditions are not that good.

Very good.

Yang Zhan, who had come to negotiate many times in the past few days, seemed to be returning to his own business. He greeted the woman at the front desk with a smile and motioned for her to bring double the amount of coffee.

While the two were sitting in the waiting area enjoying the delicious food, Tang and Jeff pushed the door in while laughing and joking. When they saw Yang Yun and Yang Yun with smiles on their faces, they couldn't help but be stunned.

"Hi! Don! Jeff! This is Yang Yun, the president of our Longteng Company. He came all the way from Moscow!" Yang Zhan stood up, shook hands with the two of them, and introduced him affectionately.

Tang is a young programmer, and Jeff is a little more mature, and was very shocked by Yang Yun's personal visit.

Inviting the two of them into a small conference room, Tang shrugged and apologized: "Sorry Yang, we don't have a 500-foot conference room."

Yang Yun laughed and said: "There is a saying among Jews that the buttocks are not as big as the heart."

Everyone laughed. Everyone understood the meaning of this sentence. Yang Yun actually didn't care whether the reception was good or not. He wanted to see whether his distinctive attitude could tolerate Long Teng.

Going straight to the topic, Yang Zhan pointed outside and asked: "People from ea?"

Jeff nodded: "We don't want to hide it from you two. EA is indeed in contact with us and has also made an acquisition offer, and the price..."

Having said this, he looked at Tang, his long-time partner.

This made Yang Yun couldn't help but become nervous. He also really wanted to know how much EA was willing to pay to compete with him for this company! (To be continued, please search Piaotian Literature, the novel is better and updated faster!