"Pony, are we really going to do tabletop games?"
"Of course."
"But tabletop games can't make much money for the time being. If we want to make money, we should do online games."
"No, it's not that we can't do online games, but definitely not now."
Ma Huateng shook his head: "Our tabletop games are not for making money, but to occupy the market."
In fact, tabletop games can make money.
For example, in the current United World, they rely on tabletop games to make 100 million a year.
But for the time being, Ma Huateng didn't seem to think that QQ games could make money like tabletop games.
He just wanted to use QQ tabletop games to build a more solid QQ platform.
"Pony, we already occupy more than 70% of the market. We should be over the crisis for the time being."
"You're underestimating Huanyu Technologies."
"Pony, we're not underestimating Huanyu Technologies. What I mean is that we must do online games to make money. Otherwise, we'll run out of money and need financing. You know, we don't have many shares left. "
Although everyone agreed with Ma Huateng's insistence on building a platform around QQ, there was a slight disagreement on the specific operation.
Ma Huateng's idea was that no matter what the outside world did, they should always focus on QQ unless they monopolized the market.
Ceng Liqing's idea was that if they wanted to defeat their opponents, it wasn't enough to just build a QQ platform. They must have their own cash flow. Once the company didn't have money, it would be difficult to do anything in the future.
Just like Huanyu Technologies, their YY didn't make money.
But it didn't matter if their YY didn't make money, they had online games to support them.
This also guaranteed their ability to fight for a long time.
On the other hand, if Penguin went down the dark path, it would be full of danger.
It should be said that both sides made sense.
"Pony, I think we should also participate in online games."
Zhang Zhidong, who had always thought the same way as Ma Huateng, said: "Of course, when I say enter the online game field, I'm not giving up on QQ, nor am I focusing on online games. In fact, doing online games is to better serve QQ. The Internet is a capital market. Only with money in hand can this battle last for a long time. "
"I know what you mean. I'm afraid that if we get distracted, we're likely to be robbed of the market by Huanyu Technologies."
Ma Huateng said worriedly.
"Pony, don't underestimate Huanyu Technologies and our capabilities. Recently, we've been paying attention to YY, and we've done a lot of research on YY. YY's path looks the same as ours, but it's completely different. They paid more attention to entertainment and neglected communication. On the other hand, we value communication and downplay entertainment. From the looks of it now, it might just be a difference in base numbers. As time passed, their fantasies would only become entertainment tools. Our QQ, on the other hand, is the real instant communication. It's like a phone call. The more time passes, the more they won't be able to leave us. "
"Everyone knows that. It's not like Huanyu Technologies doesn't know that. It's not that they don't want to do real instant messaging, but because we're one step ahead of them, they have to make different tools to compete for the market. If we make any mistakes, they can change their strategy at any time. "
"Pony, if that's the case, we might need to raise more funds in the future."
This financing was for survival.
The two rounds of financing were for development.
If the company was not listed after three rounds of financing, it would be unacceptable for the founding team.
Penguin had already raised two rounds of financing since its inception.
In theory, they could raise another round of financing. With Penguin's current scale, their valuation had doubled from last year. But in fact, if they accepted a third round of financing, it would be quite awkward.
Because in the first round of financing, Penguin already sold 40% of its shares.
In addition, in the second round of financing, Penguin gave up 13.5% of its shares.
In other words, 53% of Penguin's shares were in the hands of capitalists.
Although Ma Huateng insisted on not selling his shares during the second round of financing, his shares remained the same. However, the shares of the other founders were diluted to a mess. If there was a third round of financing, other than Ma Huateng, it was unknown if the other founders would be able to keep their shares.
"I know everyone's concerns. This time, I insist on QQ games. Once our QQ games are listed, I'll agree to online games."
After thinking for a while, Ma Huateng finally made a concession.
He had to make concessions.
There were two ways for an internet company to survive.
One was to raise funds.
It didn't matter if you made money or not, if you could get other people's money, it was also a kind of ability.
The second way was to make money if you didn't raise funds.
The first way was that Penguin didn't want to raise funds anymore. They gave up too many shares.
If they didn't raise funds, they could only make games and make money by themselves.
Impossible. If you didn't want to raise funds and didn't want to make money by yourself … Wasn't that asking for death?
…
"Boss Chen, isn't our promotional video too simple?"
"No, I think it's quite good."
"But it's only a few seconds, and the advertising message isn't that good."
"Who said it's not that good?"
Chen Yu asked, "What about Brain Platinum's advertising message?"
"Uh …"
Everyone vomited blood.
What else could they say?
Brain Platinum's advertising slogan, "Don't accept gifts this year, only Brain Platinum will accept gifts", was also ridiculed by countless people.
However, it became popular all over the country.
Even now, it was regarded as a classic textbook advertisement.
"Hello everyone, I'm Chen Xiaochun …"
The more Chen Yu watched the promotional video, the more satisfied he was.
After all, it was shot by him. It seemed that he had a talent for directing.
When would he go and shoot a movie? Maybe it would become popular too.
The only imperfection was Chen Xiaochun. It was a little too simple. He might have to invite Zha Zha Hui in the future.
Then, they could play the real legend together.
"You don't have to worry about the promotional video. Is the open beta ready?"
"Boss Chen, servers, advertising, checkout, client, customer service, operations, network … Everything is ready. We're just waiting for the open beta tomorrow night."
For this open beta, Huanyu Technologies used up all its resources.
Not only had Chen Yu increased the number of servers by several dozen, but he had also rented corresponding servers in various regions in the country to give players a better gaming experience. In other words, the servers weren't all concentrated in Gan City. In order to better respond to players' commands, the best way was to set up servers in the shortest distance from players.
As such, Huanyu Technology had set up five server clusters in North China, East China, South China, Central China, and West China, in addition to maintaining servers in their headquarters in Gan City. They provided the best network environment for users through a decentralized service model.
Of course, this kind of decentralization was still a challenge to data security.
Huanyu Technologies also hired data experts from Jinshan to protect Huanyu Technologies' data.
Everything was ready.
Then, let's start the aggressive advertising.
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