Rewrite the Technological Landscape

After Michael submitted the application, he has been patiently waiting for the reply from above. After waiting for three days, the other two founders of Blizzard, Allen and Frank, seemed anxious.

"What's the matter, usually the application reply never takes more than three days." Frank paced back and forth in the office. The number of players in "Ancient Mythology" continued to explode these days, which made him unable to sit still.

At this time, Matthew, the assistant of Vivendi's new CEO Renault, who had just taken office for half a year, came to call everyone for a meeting.

When the three of Michael came to the meeting room, they saw the person in charge of Sierra and Vivendi Universal. At this time, the person in charge of Sierra looked extremely tired.

Renault was not present in person, but his assistant Matthew directly announced to everyone, "According to the company's decision, from now on, Vivendi Universal, Blizzard and Xuele Mountain will be merged into Vivendi Games, and the Blizzard business will continue to be managed by Michael, Ai. Len and Frank are in charge, and the business after Sierra Mountain will be in charge of the former Vivendi Universal's Eugenden."

Michael and the others subconsciously looked at the person in charge of Xue Le, who had an expression of relief and unwillingness.

This scene that once happened in history has reappeared again. The Xuele Mountain in the hearts of that generation will end its last life in Vivendi after experiencing trauma again and again.

After Matthew made the announcement, he left directly. His mission was to inform.

No one in the conference room spoke. Although Michael and others still have the decision-making power over Blizzard, since Renault took the position of CEO of Vivendi, there has been a rumor in the company that Renault wants to Showing a drastic reform attitude, he is going to attack several non-core industries under Vivendi, one of which is the entertainment industry.

The news of the merger and reorganization made Michael and others feel a strong sense of unease.

A few minutes later, Matthew returned to Renault's office.

"Boss, you have already been notified."

"Okay, tell the HR department, let me fire all the people from Sierra Mountain, what did that guy Messier do when he was the chairman of Vivendi, and a department like this has been left until now! "

"Boss, Sony contacted us today and asked us if we have any intention to take action against Blizzard?"

"Sony? Blizzard?" Renault stopped the pen he was writing, and thought for a while, "Sony is trying to take advantage of the fire, but Blizzard's performance in the past two years has brought Sony's people over, let's chat first."

"Okay, what about Michael's previous application?"

"Just find any reason to procrastinate. These guys only want money all day long, and they don't care about the company's current situation!"

"yes."

On January 21st, the Spring Festival in China entered, and the number of players of "Ancient Mythology" increased again.

When the application was rejected, Michael submitted a more detailed funding application again. However, after a week of waiting, on January 26, in addition to waiting for the news that the number of players in "Ancient Mythology" exceeded 3 million, Michael received another Supporting replies are not given at this time.

On the same day, the beach in Rio de Janeiro was crowded with people. Meng Qian swam happily in the sea in his swimming trunks. When he landed, He Yating came to him with a towel.

Meng Qian took the towel and wiped his hair, then he couldn't help laughing when he saw He Yating in formal attire, "Your outfit really doesn't match here at all."

"I'm here to work." He Yating replied solemnly.

"Can you swim?"

He Yating hesitated for two seconds, "Yes."

Meng Qian folded the towel after wiping his body and put it back in He Yating's hands, "Go back and change your clothes and come back to have fun. Come to my room on time for a meeting at 9 o'clock in the evening."

"Mr. Meng, I'm here to work." He Yating repeated hastily.

"Your eyes have been bright all morning." Meng Qian joked with a smile, "I'll just go to see them by myself. I called you this time because I heard that you didn't go home for the Chinese New Year this year, so I took you to rest along the way." For a moment, you didn't have any vacations last year, so it's just a make-up vacation for you."

"President Meng." He Yating didn't know how to respond for a while.

Meng Qian returned to the armchair and took out a card from his pocket to He Yating, "All expenses are recorded, your work before nine o'clock in the evening is fun, go."

After finishing speaking, Meng Qian turned and walked in another direction.

Not far away, a foreign couple got off the sailboat, "Mr. Williams, hello."

Williams, who had just walked a few steps into the sea, was a little surprised to see Meng Qian, "Boss Meng arrived so early."

"In the face of such a beautiful scenery, I really don't want to let you down, so I rented a yacht temporarily on my own initiative. I wonder if the two of you are willing to show respect?"

"my pleasure."

The person in front of Meng Qian is the founder of Sierra, Ken Williams. He left Sierra shortly after the sale of Sierra in the 1990s. Since then, he has lived a life of traveling around the world with his wife, writing blogs and doing business. Some technical support, but also three books.

On the yacht, several waiters had prepared snacks and fine wines. Meng Qian chatted with Williams and his wife on the sea for a while and slowly got to the point.

"Mr. Williams thinks in this day and age, as a game company, how can we close the distance with players?"

Williams can be regarded as the originator of fan marketing. An important reason for the success of the earliest Sierra Mountain is that Williams has cultivated a loyal player community in his own way. By writing articles and publishing game collections, The relationship with players was shortened by means of development and sharing, so the early Xueleshan was called the most humane game company.

Williams responded to Meng Qian with a smile, "The meaning of games is to bring happiness to people. It is actually such a simple truth."

Meng Qian nodded in agreement, "There is an idiom in China called the Great Way to Simplicity. Often the simplest things are the most difficult to achieve. I have deeply understood the meaning of this sentence over the years since I founded the company. It is like game design and Development is such a case.

Mr. Williams, have you thought about getting back into the gaming industry? "

"After finally getting out, there is no need to go back and step on this muddy water. My wife and I are enjoying our life now."

"But Mr. Williams' blog is all about Sierra."

"I'm just recording it as a memory." Williams answered smoothly.

"Since it is a memory, why did Mr. Williams suddenly terminate his original travel plan when Vivendi was about to disband Sierra?"

Williams' expression became tense, "No wonder they all said that the hands of the Gale Group are very long."

"It seems that Mr. Williams is really concerned about the situation of this market, and even our company knows about it." Meng Qian responded to Williams' seriousness with a smile, "To tell the truth from Mr. Williams, we at Sierra Mountain We have been in touch for a long time, and the game development of Dafeng Group has encountered some bottlenecks in recent years, and we really want to seek a breakthrough."

Seeing that Williams was silent, Meng Qian continued calmly, "The game environment is changing rapidly, players have higher and higher requirements for games, and market competition is becoming more and more fierce. The current game industry needs to be involved and considered. Factors are getting more and more complicated, how to find a way out of this chaos, my opinion is still the idiom, the way is simple.

Find the real core of the game industry, so as to respond to all changes with the same. "

Williams, who had been observing Meng Qian's expression, asked the question for the first time, "What does Mr. Meng think is the core?"

"We create happiness for users, and users reward us with money."

"Reward?" Williams was intrigued by the statement.

"Rewards are defined in our Chinese dictionary as material rewards for those who have helped themselves. We help users obtain happiness through entertainment products. After users get happiness, they pay what they think is appropriate. I think this is the most important relationship between us and users. Good relationship."

Williams made a playful expression, "I'm curious, what exactly is Mr. Meng's vision for the future of Dafeng Group in the game industry, or the entertainment industry?"

Meng Qian was thinking about this question seriously, "Let me describe to Mr. Williams the future I imagined."

"Mr. Meng, please tell me."

"Twenty years later, a 40-year-old middle-aged man is burdened with the pressure of mortgage, car loan, education, pension, medical care and many other aspects. His face has already been squeezed by life and is as dry as a rotten log.

One morning, he was walking in a crowded subway station as usual, but this day he suddenly found that the subway station was full of advertisements for the 20th anniversary celebration of "Ancient Mythology". When he couldn't help but stop, a game doll walked by Come over and invite him to a little game.

The game is very simple. There are all the characters of "Ancient Mythology" on a wall. He is invited to choose a character he likes the most and make corresponding actions according to the character on the wall.

When a group of middle-aged people choose the role they want to imitate and make corresponding actions, the picture on the wall fades away, and what appears in front of everyone is a huge mirror.

The 40-year-old man looked at himself in the mirror. He was a bit silly, a bit silly, but the corners of his mouth were raised. It seemed that he hadn’t seen himself for many years. At least that morning, he felt that life was beautiful, he would feel Fortunately, "Ancient Mythology" appeared in his youth. "

"It's so romantic." Williams' wife sighed subconsciously.

Williams glanced at his wife and then at Meng Qian, "Mr. Meng is a man with feelings."

"But one person's feelings cannot support a great career. I need to find more people who have the same ideas, goals, and feelings as me.

Mr. Williams, I want to bring real happiness to players, and I want to make games well. That's why I came to you today. If your dreams have not been completely abandoned, I want to invite you to Gale Group. "

Looking at Meng Qian who was holding up his wine glass and waiting for an answer, Williams asked again, "People from Sierra Mountain"

"My colleagues are already contacting one by one, and not just those from the Vivendi team."

Williams finally picked up the wine glass, but left himself a leeway, "My wife and I have always wanted to travel to China. I heard that Hangzhou in China is a very beautiful city."

Meng Qian touched Williams' glass with his wine glass, "I'll arrange it."