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"I don't care, what's wrong?"

Zhou Buqi noticed that the beautiful waiter was staring at him, so he winked at her, then raised a finger to his mouth, hoping that she would keep it secret.

Yan Xinlei looked serious, "Changyou has serious internal problems. If you don't take care of it, this company... I think it will be destroyed!"

"ah?"

Zhou Buqi was slightly startled, a little funny.

I think this guy is a bit alarmist.

Traveling in this life is different from the previous life.

Changyou is a separate subsidiary from Sohu, and Ziweixing participated in the investment, and the two parties launched in-depth cooperation. Among them, Sohu holds 55% of the shares and Ziweixing holds 35%.

In addition to Changyou's inherent 17373 mini-games and the well-known online game "Tian Long Ba Bu", Zhou Buqi also has a great design for Changyou's business structure.

At present, there are four major achievements.

One, took over the agency rights of "World of Warcraft" from Ninetowns;

Second, Helo-related card and chess game halls are also in charge of Changyou, which is the business that Yan Xinlei is now responsible for in Changyou;

Third, we cooperated with Blizzard and Ice Frog to obtain the copyright of DOTA, the map of "Warcraft", and launched the independently operated multiplayer online competitive game "Dota 2", which has surpassed CS to become the most popular game ever on Steam. The most popular game with the largest online audience;

Fourth, we obtained the copyright of "League of Legends" and further developed our efforts in the field of multiplayer competition.

In addition, Zhou Buqi also suggested that Changyou acquired three British game studios and one German game studio, all based on the layout of mobile games.

Changyou is very powerful now, not only powerful now, but also powerful in the future!

After Changyou goes public and gets enough money, it will continue to expand its global presence in the game industry, especially in the mobile game market...

In Zhou Buqi's vision, Changyou's opponents are not domestic companies such as Penguin, Shanda, Ninetowns, and Giants, but world-class game giants such as Blizzard, EA, and Ubisoft!

This guy actually said that Changyou could no longer survive and was going to die, which was somewhat baffling.

Yan Xinlei didn't look like he was joking at all, and sighed, "It seems you don't know anything about Changyou's internal affairs."

This is true. Zhou Buqi nodded, "Is there any internal problem? How could I pay so much attention? It's just that Changyou's report is very beautiful. I think last year's net profit will probably reach 500 million US dollars."

Yan Xinlei said angrily: "Financial reports are financial reports, that stuff is useless! You don't understand Changyou at all! Not only you, but also Zhang Chaoyang, ignore Changyou day by day. If this continues, Changyou will be finished!"

Seeing that his tone was wrong, Zhou Buqi stopped his smile and warned, "What's going on? There's a big problem with the internal management?"

Yan Xinlei said: "It's just a normal minor problem. Now it's...how should I put it? The guiding ideology is wrong and it's nonsense."

"ah?"

"Our boss Wang is cultivating immortality."

"What? Cultivation to immortality?" Zhou Buqi was amused, "Is he obsessed with novels about cultivating immortality?"

Yan Xinlei shook his head and said seriously: "Mr. Wang is obsessed with a spiritual practice."

"ah?"

Zhou Buqi was shocked and speechless.

How could such a thing happen!

He had also heard before that Jobs was a decadent young man who went to seek spiritual practice to satisfy his pursuit of the spiritual world. He even gave up on things like white noodles, which were impossible for ordinary people to give up.

Different people have different pursuits, this is normal.

But when Yan Xinlei said this, there was something wrong with Wang Fang, the current CEO of Changyou, and it was too much.

If the truth is as he said, then the nature of this is too serious.

It can indeed be a matter of life and death for Changyou.

Zhou Buqi was deeply shocked and couldn't believe it, "How could this happen? Where is Lao Zhang? How could he let such a person be the CEO?"

Wang Fang is just the CEO of Changyou.

The chairman is actually Zhang Chaoyang.

"Mr. Zhang?" Yan Xinlei shook his head, helpless, "I have never seen him in the company. He has never been in charge of Changyou's business. He is probably similar to you."

Zhou Buqi said angrily: "This Lao Zhang!"

Impressed!

It is estimated that the upper beam is not straight and the lower beam is crooked.

Lao Zhang is usually like this. He becomes famous and earns more money than he can spend in a lifetime. Then he begins to look for various spiritual practices, from Buddhism to psychology. He also does yoga every day to pursue the health-preserving methods of ancient India. .

This Wang Fang probably developed along the lines of Lao Zhang.

In fact, it’s not just Wang Fang, but also Wang Xiaochuan.

Initially, Ziweixing acquired the search business Sogou from Sohu and then reorganized it into Weidian Search. At that time, Zhou Buqi was very strange. He felt that the person in charge of the business, Wang Xiaochuan, was very smart and had a high technical level, but he was a bit arrogant. He wanted to combine traditional Chinese medicine with science and come up with a new theory. Thoughts come.

Fortunately, after being influenced by a series of values ​​​​from Ziweixing, Wang Xiaochuan "changed his evil ways and returned to the right path."

Unexpectedly, the "big king" came out of the quagmire, but the "little king" fell deeper and deeper.

They were all led astray by Lao Zhang!

What's even more irritating is that Lao Zhang doesn't do his job properly and doesn't care about Changyou's business. How can this chairman be such a jerk?

Zhou Buqi is a little angry. If it doesn't work, he can become the chairman of Changyou himself. Even if it doesn't work, he can send people like Zhang Yiming, He Yang, Ji Zian, and Meng Houkun to concurrently serve as the chairman of Changyou.

With the development path designed by Zhou Buqi for Changyou, as long as there are no internal problems, Changyou will be able to find a path to success and step by step become a world-class game giant at the level of Blizzard and EA.

But now the problem has really come, there is something wrong internally!

Yan Xinlei said: "During this period, I checked some things and asked some people. It seems that Mr. Zhang can't be blamed. He promised back then that Wang Fang would be fully responsible for the game. Changyou's understanding should be It is a game company founded by Wang Fang with resources provided by Sohu, and Wang Fang is the founder."

"Oh?" Zhou Buqi raised his eyebrows, "What's going on?"

If Wang Fang is the founder of Changyou, then it makes sense for Zhang Chaoyang to significantly delegate power to Changyou. As an employer, as long as the reports look good, it doesn't matter how the company is managed internally or what abnormal values ​​are promoted.

Yan Xinlei said: "Back then, Shanda introduced "Legend" from South Korea and it was a great success. The three major portals discovered the opportunity and started making games one after another. Sohu successively represented two games, "Knight" and "Sword" from South Korea. , all suffered failures. At this time, Mr. Zhang will seek changes and find someone who truly understands games to be in charge of Sohu’s game business department.”

"The person found is Wang Fang?"

"Yes, that's Mr. Wang. He used to make red and white consoles, like the Little Overlord cassette. Later, he felt that there was no future in this industry, so he started making stand-alone game software. Have you played "Three Kingdoms"? He was the one who made it. of!"

""Proud of the Three Kingdoms"?" Zhou Buqi was somewhat impressed, "Did you play this game in your dormitory when you were in school?"

Yan Xinlei was very happy. Unexpectedly, he still remembered, "Yes, that's that game. It can be called the best Three Kingdoms game designed in China, no worse than Japan's Three Kingdoms game. However, domestic piracy is too serious. , there was no big development in the software and game industry, so Wang Fang changed jobs again and started working on online games.”

Zhou Buqi hugged his shoulders and felt heavy. He knew that this was a major matter that must be handled with caution and seriousness, so he kept a listening attitude.

Yan Xinlei continued: "Later, Wang Fang focused on an online game in the United States called "Magic Sword". It is actually similar to "World of Warcraft". There are also a lot of half-elves, dwarves, half-giants, shadow tribes and so on." Race. He is responsible for the game, to localize, port and maintain it."

"This game failed?"

Zhou Buqi had never heard of this game, so there was only one possibility: the game had not been made.

Yan Xinlei sighed, "This game has not developed, not because it failed, but on the contrary, because it was too successful. This is a world-class game. There is a large Asian server, which is a group of Korean players and a group of Japanese players. Guys, and then there is a group of Chinese players with CN logos, which is like a national war. During the closed beta, it was unprecedentedly popular. Whether it was word-of-mouth or fame, it was much better than "Legend". Because of the confrontation between countries Relatedly, there have been many touching plots, such as compatriots from mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan joining forces to defend the territory against foreign forces. Anyway, it was very popular. Then something happened."

Zhou Buqi understood now, "It was too popular, so it failed."

Yan Xinlei said: "Yes, the agent for this game at that time was a small company. It was too weak and could not afford too many servers. As a result, during the public beta, if we let it go a little bit, the server would crash. Not to mention making money, even It’s difficult to maintain the basic operations of this game.”

Zhou Buqi blinked with a strange expression.

What a familiar feeling!

It smells a bit like Suning.com.

Yan Xinlei said: "Later, Mr. Wang became discouraged and decided to join a big company. Without him, the small company would not be able to continue the game. Wang Fang joined Sina, but was placed in charge by Sina Board and card games. After working for a while, he really didn’t like it and felt that it would limit his performance. Just at this time, Sohu was anxious to find a real game expert to lead the game business back to life. Wang Fang appeared, and he and Mr. Zhang hit it off right away.”