Reborn on the Internet: Starting with Games

Chapter 379: Fighting and fighting, where is the rightful owner?

At the headquarters of Haojia Company in Shanghai, Century Giant Lin Lang came to visit in person, with a smile on his face, "Do you want a server? I guarantee that it will use the same top-level configuration as Century Interactive Entertainment. Free door-to-door installation and training, no need to bully anyone! Server It’s at the door now, sign the contract, and it will be installed for you today!”

With Century Giant's style of exploiting every opportunity, of course, not only the Magic City Haojia, but also other companies such as Jiuyou and Game Orange are facing similar scenarios.

Modu Haojia and Game Orange only negotiated for one hour before signing contracts one after another.

The efficiency of Century Giant Hardware is outstanding. It was said that on the same day, the server was moved, installed, debugged and online in just 4 hours. Such a professional and efficient technical team really opened the eyes of the bosses of these game companies. I'm almost crying, they want it too!
The next day, "Challenge OL" and "EverQuest 2" started to work hard after eating and drinking, and they caught up and were able to compete with Shanda's new games.

The promised trinity turned out to be the shameless two of you who ran away first. After regretting it for Jiuyou, you quickly made up for it and contacted Century Hardware to install an additional server.

After hearing the report from his subordinates, Lin Lang smiled playfully and said, "Tell the other party that you need to pay more!"

Two days later, Lin Lang couldn't close his mouth when he looked at the amount on his account, and he couldn't even drink water.

This transaction was a success, nine in and thirteen out. They just took some of their own backlog of servers, debugged and optimized it a little, and then sold it as old as new, 3% higher than the purchase price, and that's it. People even begged grandpa and grandma to get it.

In just a few days, I cleaned up the inventory and placed a purchase order for a batch of new servers, and earned nearly million. As for the cost, apart from the server purchase fee half a year ago, I only paid a few million in transportation and labor costs.

In fact, when he heard Haozi's thoughts some time ago, he was a little worried. Wasn't this a conspiracy?
But Chen Hao's next words completely dispelled his worries.

"Oh, don't look at those games that are making a fuss now, they are all rubbish. If it's quick, you'll know by the end of the month, if not, you'll know by the beginning of next month. Maybe you're lucky. In a few months, you can get a % discount and sell them before you buy them. I go to a server that everyone can only dream of.”

Lin Lang never doubted Chen Hao's understanding and knowledge of the game, which was as deep-rooted as the New Year's Eve holiday.

Time flies by like a man over thirty, becoming less and less lasting.

In the blink of an eye, it was late August, and the online game market was in full swing. After a period of familiarity with the game, players already had their own choices.

Except for World of Miracles, which is still strong, the number of online players in other games has dropped to varying degrees.

The overall structure has not changed much. Tencent is still the leader, Shanda is the second, the others are in the middle, and Century Interactive Entertainment ends at the end.

Century Interactive Entertainment has never been willing to take action. This abnormal phenomenon has made the media and other business owners uncomfortable. What is Chen Hao doing?Just looking at him dryly is not in line with his past style.

As a result, I searched the official website of Century Zongheng and found no clues.

Some highly sensitive reporters were talking to each other, where did Chen Hao go?

Later, they discovered Chen Hao's figure in other reports.
On August 8, Alibaba Group announced a financing of US$22 billion. Yahoo teamed up with Century Investments and IDG Capital to exchange 10% of Alibaba Group's common shares and obtain 40% of the voting rights. Yahoo invested US$35 million and accounted for 5% of the shares. %, Century Investment and IDG Capital each invested US$20 million, accounting for 2.5% of the shares.

There was a group photo in the report, showing Lao Ma, Yang Zhiyuan, Xiong Xiaoge, and Chen Hao shaking hands with each other at the signing site.

After returning to China, Chen Hao focused his main energy on researching and handling matters related to investing in Alibaba with Xu Pengkun.

20 billion yuan!This is already the largest amount of money that Century Zongheng can put out, and it is not a small amount for the current Century Zongheng.

Because the scale was too small and he was afraid of being completely invaded by Yahoo, Chen Hao made a bitter speech and boasted about how awesome Alibaba will be in the future. Fortunately, he is also very successful now, beating eBay to the ground and losing ground, and then he attracted his ally Xiong Xiaoge.Century Investment teamed up with IDG to fight Alibaba first and then Yahoo. There are all kinds of twists and turns, and the combination is much more difficult than making a game.

Previously, Century Zongheng continued to buy Tencent shares at the bottom of the market after its listing, and already owned 7.4% of Tencent's shares, plus this time 10% of Alibaba shares.

At present, neither Alibaba nor Tencent have fully emerged, and getting on the bus now is a hugely profitable deal.

However, with Century Zongheng, the development of these two companies in future generations may not necessarily be the same as before.

Chen Hao breathed a sigh of relief that his investment business was temporarily settled. He could rest on his laurels for several lifetimes even if he did nothing now.

Of course, the current environment is so good, we can't just lie down. If we want to lie down, we have to wait for more than ten years to stabilize and get better.

After making the investment, Chen Hao planned to rest his mind and exercise his body, and return to the remote mountainous area of ​​his hometown with Lin Xiaoran. Because the first Hope Primary School of Century Ji'an Charity has been completed, he went to attend the unveiling ceremony.

On August 8, the latest online game rankings finally released the latest data after much anticipation.

"World of Martial Arts" is still far ahead, followed by "Three Kingdoms Online". These two online games are like the cornerstones of a river embankment, remaining unmoved despite the erosion of the river.

"World of Warcraft" relied on limited free activities to increase the number of players and broke into the top three for the first time.

The fourth is NetEase’s flagship work “Fantasy Westward Journey”.

This month, "World of Miracles", the new game that leads the list, broke into the top five of the list. Except for "Happy Journey to the West", other new games ranked in the top ten. Century Interactive Entertainment's new game "Kart Runner" became the goalkeeper. .

As soon as the list came out, some were happy and some were sad. The owners of these online game companies both loved and hated Chen Hao.

Chen Hao may have no rules when it comes to running a business, but no one questions his understanding of current online games and his vision for game selection.

This list is the best proof.

Looking at the past, "Kart Racing" is the one with the worst performance among Century Interactive Entertainment's new games.

Is Century Interactive Entertainment really on the decline?

The media then searched for various information about Chen Hao, because as usual, the other party would always make a comeback in the end, and they did not believe that Century Interactive Entertainment had no back-ups.

Sure enough, they discovered Chen Hao's latest actions and checked Chen Hao's latest news on the official website of Century Ji'an Charity.

Instead of investing, do you do charity?This shocked many media people who paid attention to Chen Hao's news.

"On August 8, the unveiling ceremony of Jian Hope Primary School in Beihong Village, Mohe City, Heilongjiang Province was successfully held. Chairman of the Heilongjiang Provincial Youth Development Foundation, relevant personnel of the Mohe Municipal Committee of the Communist Youth League, Beihong Village, and Chairman of Century Zongheng Group Chen Hao and several executives attended the event.

At the unveiling ceremony, the Youth Development Foundation issued honorary plaques to the donors to thank Century Zongheng Group for its charitable deeds.Chairman Chen Hao donated more than 1000 gift sets such as watercolor pens and books to all teachers and students
In his speech, Chairman Chen Hao said that this is the first step of the Century Ji'an Charity Foundation's "Ji'an Hundred Hope Primary Schools Plan". Heilongjiang Province is my hometown, and hope schools are currently being built in other poor counties in Heilongjiang Province. There are still 9 primary schools, and in the future it is planned to build hope primary schools in poor counties and cities in various provinces across the country.”

(End of this chapter)