The Rebirth of the Male God Starts From Playing Games

  Chapter 193 191. Conspiracy? Yangmou? !

  The next day, Bomi and a group of people waited to arrive as scheduled, and held an interview about the purchase intention in the Epic meeting room.

  Epic's founder, Tim Sweeney (Tim Sweeney), is a handsome middle-aged man with gold-rimmed glasses and a high hairline.

  His image is very kind, reminding Cao Yang of Mr. Liu Guangran, Bomi’s top technical engineer.

  Tim himself is also a world-class programmer. Epic is a company dedicated to the development of game engines. The games they make are generally used to show how useful the engine is.

In the previous life, most of the game companies in the world used Epic’s engine. Even if you don’t know the name of the game company or who Tim Sweeney is, you must have heard of the games they made. engine--

  Unreal Engine!

Especially since the third generation of Unreal Engine, it has established the dominant position of the Epic engine. The good performance of the Unreal 4 engine, especially the processing of material rendering, has reached a very high level. Plus the engine is free, many companies will In order to save the time of developing game engines, Unreal Engine is used directly as a development tool.

  It is no exaggeration to say that Epic relied on Unreal Engine to change the world.

The core members of EpicGames include the aforementioned chief programmer and founder Tim Sweeney, and game planner Cliff, as well as Jerry O’Neill, who was appointed as the company’s artistic director in 2003, and Laurent Delany, the top programmer at EpicGames Cary headquarters.

  Previous Penguin acquired 48.4% of the issued share capital of EpicGames for US$330 million in July 2012 and became its major shareholder.

  So the current Epic is just a small boat that just set sail for Yang Fan.

  In the industry, it only relies on the game engine to open up a corner.

  The company's income is not very high. According to Cao Yang's estimation, Epic's current valuation is probably less than 20 million U.S. dollars.

  Maybe even lower.

  Even if the premium is 50%, 30 million can be taken down.

  Penguin can talk about success in the previous life. This time, as the owner of Penguin, Cao Yang is confident that he can talk about it.

  What's more, this is Epic in 2003, and it's just a small company that is not worthy of people.

  ……

  After the meeting began, everyone made some simple blending of the ideas of both parties, and then detailed the details of each item.

  This negotiation is obviously much easier and more enjoyable than before with Vivendi.

  The main reason is that this time it is a reversal of the situation. Bomi is the strong one and Epic is weak.

  They had heard of the company Bomi long before Bomi contacted Epic.

  Mainly because of the previous acquisition of Vivendi’s game division by Bomi, which was so eloquent and fascinating.

   There are even rumors recently that Bomi is the driving force behind the collective resignation of Blizzard North.

  It is said that they will set up a company independently in the future, and the big boss behind it is Bomi.

So when Bomi sent a letter of intent to acquire Bomi a month ago, several leaders of Epic were very concerned about Bomi. They also carefully investigated Bomi’s information, and later learned that the company’s monthly income was stable and capable. When there were 20 million dollars, they were stunned.

  Be aware that Epic has not even earned half of this since its inception.

  If you think about it, you can know that before Penguin acquired the company, Epic basically didn't make much money, otherwise it would not sell 48.4% of its shares for $330 million.

  You must know that in 2007, Blizzard’s valuation had exceeded $10 billion.

  So after investigating the background of Bomi, everyone at Epic is actually very happy and excited. This shows that in the future there will be a big game manufacturer to rely on, and China is the largest market in the world.

  The game market is now constantly expanding. According to the upper limit of China's population, the future can be expected.

  ……

The meeting lasted for more than an hour. Bomi also gave a detailed introduction of his company’s situation, and talked about the company’s technology, as well as the company’s many game products, the market share it occupies, and the annual year. income……

  These things made Tim and the others feel dumbfounded.

  Epic's people looked at each other, and it seemed hard to believe that a Chinese company could do this.

  From the perspective of revenue, Bomi is equivalent to at least 10 Blizzards.

  No wonder they are so emboldened and dared to go to Vivendi for negotiations.

   Cao Yang also gave a detailed explanation on the intention to acquire Epic and future plans.

  However, Cao Yang has not disclosed a word about the X engine developed by the company itself.

   Cao Yang has been thinking about this for a long time. The X engine developed by Bomi actually has a lot of future Unreal 4 design elements in it. After all, Cao Yang used Unreal 4 the most.

Although the current hardware is still very backward, and the X engine is far from the height of Unreal 4, many basic functions are already quite complete. It is no exaggeration to say that it can at least lead all engines in the world by at least 3 Time of year.

   means that the X engine is better than Epic's Unreal Engine.

  If the X engine is displayed at the meeting, it may be able to play a certain role in reducing the price of the other party.

For example: You see that our company has such a great number of engines. We want to buy you not the engine you are most proud of, but a game company in the United States. That's it, in order to Our game has increased the number of game publishers in the United States, so we acquired your company.

  This can be done, to a large extent, it will have the opposite effect.

  If our company only has the value of issuance to you, then this will hurt your self-esteem too much, and it may not be able to sell it to you.

   Therefore, Cao Yang must first affirm the value of Epic, that is, the value of people.

  At the meeting, he also praised Epic's technology as much as possible, and the ability of the relevant personnel also gave a high degree of recognition.

  In terms of procedural ape technology, Epic’s people are definitely second to none. Although they are not necessarily better than Liu Guangran and Deng Peiqiang, the reason why the X engine is leading so far is mainly dependent on Cao Yang’s advanced design.

  If this company is acquired, and the design given by Cao Yang will be upheld in the future, the things made by the people at Epic may not be worse than Deng Peiqiang and the others.

  According to Cao Yang's idea, since the company has the X engine, it is better to concentrate on the development and research of X, and the future Unreal series can be discarded first.

  Otherwise, competing with each other is actually not worth the gain.

  Cao Yang praised them, and the Americans looked very happy, their cheeks flushed.

  Both sides have very good impressions of each other.

  The atmosphere in the conference room is good.

After   , everyone has a sufficient understanding of each other and enters the core topic of this interview——

  About how much money Bomi used and how much equity to acquire Epic.

  Since Cao Yang has done his homework, he is naturally unambiguous, and directly offers a price:

  15 million US dollars, 70% equity.

  Based on the valuation of them at 20 million, a little premium is actually a good start.

  The initial price will generally be retracted in the end, so try to reach the maximum value within the scope of the evaluation as much as possible, so that there is room for recovery and negotiation.

  Tim discussed with others and felt that this offer was a bit unacceptable, "We have to guarantee our own autonomy, so 70% is definitely unacceptable...

  We can sell 30%, 10 million yuan, I wonder if you can accept it? "

  Cao Yang smiled slightly.

30% is definitely not enough, at least 50% or more, and according to Cao Yang’s idea, he wants Epic to be more than just a shell company. In the future, Unreal Engine and X Engine will conflict with each other, so they have to get rid of it anyway. This will work.

  This will ensure the dominance of the X engine in the world.

  In fact, money is not very important. The main contention between the two sides lies in how much equity they can get...

  So the common tug-of-war was entered next.

  The little secretary next to her watched the two people lash out at each other, time was lost every minute, and she couldn't help but feel uncomfortable again in her heart.

  It's over, Zhuang Yurou thought to herself, this time it was a long time, and it might not be possible to finally reach a unified intention.

  About another half an hour later, Cao Yang's phone rang.

  He picked it up and took a look, and said to the Epic staff, "Sorry, I have an emergency call, otherwise everyone will take a few minutes to rest?"

  It happened that everyone felt a little tired, so everyone agreed with Cao Yang's [Temporary Truce] proposal.

  ……

  Tim and Cliff go to the balcony to smoke.

  It happened that Cao Yang was calling from a distance.

  Anyway, what Cao Yang said was Chinese, and they couldn't understand it, and the ventilation was in a place as big as the balcony, so the two people chatted around the ashtray.

  Epic’s own translator also came out, and the three people smoked and chatted outside together, breathing fresh air.

  After a while, Cao Yang’s voice grew louder and louder:

   "What? Vivendi invites us to negotiate this Friday?"

  "Don’t they want to sell the game division?"

   "You tell them that I happen to have an American game company to talk to, and I don’t need Blizzard anymore."

   "Huh? They agreed to lower the price? How much is it now?"

  ……

  Hearing this, the only American translator on the court who could understand Cao Yang's Mandarin was a little embarrassed.

  He was going to leave to avoid suspicion, but when he heard Cao Yang said that he was going to buy Blizzard, he suddenly stopped.

  The translator approached Tim and lowered his voice, "This Chinese said just now that Vivendi was willing to sell Blizzard to him at a lower price. I don’t know the specific price."

"Um?"

  Even if the translator did not say it, the word Vivendi repeatedly mentioned in Cao Yang's phone call attracted their attention.

  Tim froze for a moment and waved his hand quickly, "Let’s go back, it’s not good to eavesdrop on other people’s conversations."

"Um."

  The translator blushed and nodded.

  The three people put out their cigarette butts and then return to the meeting room.

  Only along the way, Tim and Cliff's expressions have slightly changed.

  ……

  Returning to the negotiating table, Tim's face was a little red and hot.

  He was thinking about one thing all over his head--

  Vivendi said he would sell Blizzard to Bomi.

  Is this news true?

  Judging from the news of the collective resignation of Blizzard North some time ago, this is indeed something that Vivendi can do.

  They always like to squeeze the acquired game companies clean, and then abandon them like nothing. Now that Blizzard North has collectively resigned, Blizzard has lost half of the country.

  Then the remaining Blizzard, the value is not so great.

  And such a big thing happened in the company, can Southern Blizzard’s personnel really sit still?

  In order to cope with the personnel crisis, will Vivendi cut the price and sell it to Bomi?

  It’s really hard to say.

   Judging from the previous information, Bomi’s first intention is to acquire Blizzard, and Epic should be the candidate after Cao’s boss returns to China.

  So if Bomi can acquire Blizzard, is it necessary to acquire Epic?

  Although Tim is very confident in Epic, after all, although everyone is playing games, they have different advantages.

  However, the specifics still depend on the value positioning of Boss Cao here, which company is more worthwhile for them.

   "Mr. Tim?"

   Cao Yang's cry drew him back from his thoughts.

  Tim smiled and said, "Sorry."

  He hesitated, "I'm sorry, Mr. Cao Yang, can you wait a moment and give us half an hour to discuss before proceeding?"

  Cao Yang looked at the current time. At 11:10 in the morning, there was still a little distance from lunch time.

   "Yes, then let's go for a walk first, and then come back in half an hour."

  Cao Yang smiled and stood up, and then left the meeting room with Bomi’s people.

  After they left, Epic's staff had an intense discussion.

  ……

  At the same time, Cao Yang took the little secretary and them for a walk downstairs in Epic's company.

  Zhuang Yurou recalled what happened in the conference room today, and asked with some doubts:

  "Boss, why do you always say good things about them in the meeting? Wouldn't this cause others to raise the price intentionally?"

  In the eyes of the little secretary, it was the boss who was too kind, causing others to deliberately lower the price, so there was no agreement.

  Everyone can't agree, so the next few days will be personal work.

  Maybe it was just like the last time Vivendi did, and in the end it ended up without a problem.

   Cao Yang curled his lips, "Otherwise? Sometimes speaking good words actually means lowering the price."

  Zhuang Yurou frowned, "I don't understand."

   "Think about it, are you willing to do business with people who praise you and praise you for liking you, or do you do business with people who like to degrade you and bury you?"

  Cao Yang gave her a white glance, "Sister, please, we are here to talk about mergers and acquisitions. This is similar to the target. In the future, everyone will eat and live in a pot and make money. What do you think?

  Are you willing to marry your husband in the future because you bought you cheaply? "

   "Hmm..." Zhuang Yurou frowned, not knowing how to refute it.

  I don’t know why, but the boss is making sense, but it turns out that the little secretary himself has suffered 10,000 points of harm.

  Cao Yang didn't speak, but just strolled back and forth. The activities and activities caused some stiffness in the body due to long meetings.

  After a while, Cao Yang smiled and asked, "Do you know why I went out to make a call just now?"

  Zhuang Yurou shook her head, "I don't know, and I don't want to know."

  It’s my shit.

  It is estimated that Miss Mine is a teacher again, so I called him.

   Pei Siqing fights every day.

   "I sent a text message to Guangran yesterday," Cao Yang said with a smile, "Let him call at 10:30 today."

"Um?"

  Zhuang Yurou frowned slightly, not understanding what the operation was, “Boss, your brain is broken, why let Liu Guangran call over during our meeting, don’t you know that we have an appointment with Epic today?”

   "Of course I know," Cao Yang grinned, "That's why this call is important. I asked Liu Guangran to call, pretending that Vivendi agreed to lower the price and sell Blizzard to us."

   "Huh?!" The little secretary was sitting next to the flower bed and rubbing her aching calf, when she heard this, she jumped up.

   "Speak down," Cao Yang quickly put a finger on his lips.

   "I don't understand, why do you want to do this kind of thing?" Zhuang Yurou really didn't understand.

  It makes sense to let oneself pretend that Vivendi cuts the price and sell Blizzard?

  Fake is fake, and you can't really get it at a reduced price.

  It’s fun to deceive yourself and others?

but……

  Why does Boss Cao choose to do this during the meeting time?

  Confused.

"You don't understand," Cao Yang showed a sly smile on his face, "I did this deliberately to let them hear, especially the American translator that Epic found himself, so that they would know that we are going to acquire Blizzard. NS."

  "The news of the acquisition of Blizzard...?" Zhuang Yurou's brain was spinning rapidly, trying to keep up with Cao Yang's rhythm.

   "If you are the boss of Epic, what do you think?"

   "What do I think?" Zhuang Yurou frowned, "If Bomi wants to acquire Blizzard, does it mean that today's intention to acquire Epic is lowered?

  After all, Blizzard is much more valuable than Epic, and we are still a small company. "

  Fuck!

  The pupils of the little secretary suddenly dilated, and the whole person looked up in surprise.

   "Boss, you are too bad, right?"

  Cao Yang smiled, “This is the right way to lower prices, introduce a competitor worthy of fear, and let them know that Bomi has only one intention to cooperate in the United States.

  Will Epic change the original asking price strategy and eager to reach cooperation with Bomi? "

  Even if not, then at least psychologically, the other party has a certain amount of room for concession.

  "Boss, you are really amazing! This is all right?" Zhuang Yurou thought silently, "No wonder they went to a meeting in an emergency, it turned out to be shocked."

   Cao Yang smiled, did not speak, these were basically what he expected.

   "But..." The little secretary frowned, "I don't understand one question very well. How can you know that the other party's interpreter will overhear your conversation and tell them."

  Cao Yang sat on the park bench and gently dusted the trouser legs with his hands.

  "How could I know that it is just a possibility, even if it is not heard, or the translator did not tell them, it doesn’t matter,"

  Cao Yang raised his eyebrows, “Because I decided to acquire Epic from the beginning, but it cost more.”

  One is conspiracy and the other is conspiracy.

  The conspiracy does not work, and naturally it is to rely on the sun to win.

  This is called two-handed preparation.

  Fortunately, now that the conspiracy has worked, the subsequent negotiations should be one-sided.

  ……

  (End of this chapter)