Chapter 488

"Huizhong buys 51% of valve!"

When this news was announced, the global game industry was in an uproar!

Although, when steam China launched the original game developer conference two years ago and Huizhong cloud launched the game cloud solution, the world thought that Huizhong would become a well deserved overlord in the global game industry, no one expected that Huizhong's pace should be so fast!

In the past, although Huizhong's mobile game business and page game business spread all over the world, as the Pearl of the game industry, Huizhong's achievements in this field came from and were limited to steam China. 1.3 billion Chinese people have cultivated the world's largest single game market, cultivated more than 50 million steam Chinese users, and created the brilliant achievements of steam China and Huizhong!

The reason why global game manufacturers recommend and recognize Huizhong as the overlord of the global game industry is that they covet and cannot ignore the huge Chinese market. Only a huge Chinese market has cultivated several global top game companies such as Huizhong, Tencent and NetEase.

In previous lives, Tencent, which also limited most of its game business to the domestic market, was also the most profitable game company in the world by virtue of the domestic market alone. However, in this life, Huizhong's ambition is more than that!

As zhe said to Newell, the founder of valve two months ago, "Huizhong's determination to globalization is beyond doubt!"

This firm determination has not only given Huizhong the belief of indomitable progress, but also shocked and panicked the global game manufacturers!

Huizhong's holding of valve company is equivalent to controlling steam world. If steam world becomes like steam China, doesn't it mean that global game manufacturers can only become game production machines on Huizhong and steam platforms?

All game manufacturers have no doubt about this. Just like when steam China was born, no one would expect that it has dominated most Chinese game players and the whole Chinese game market today.

After several years of development, steam China has shown a great siphon effect. In addition to blizzard, a top game manufacturer, which can distribute games in China through cooperation with Netease and other large companies, most game manufacturers have to use steam China to distribute games in the Chinese market, because there are too many game players in steam China, As many as almost represent the Chinese game player group, and as many as the Games independently distributed by manufacturers or small and medium-sized agents, not many players pay attention at all.

More and more good games have converged to steam China, attracting more and more players to steam China. Until now, steam China has almost become the same existence as apple Appstore. Players find steam China first, and then find games.

If this situation in steam China spreads to the world, the consequences may be as terrible as when players only knew Nintendo FC and did not know who the developer behind each game was, because this means that developers can only become employees of the platform and can not establish their own reputation and brand. Each game starts from scratch!

This is also one of the main reasons why EA, Ubisoft, Blizzard and other game manufacturers are unwilling to cooperate with steam. Instead, they have established their own game platforms or distributed games independently.

In the past, except for steam China, the global operation of steam was dominated by valve company. These big factories are not very worried, because the strength of valve is not much different from that of other game companies, but now the situation is different when valve and steam join the world.

Manufacturers will not forget that more than a year ago, wechat, the mobile social software that dominates the world under Huizhong, scanned a QR code with your mobile phone after opening up your account with steam China, which eliminates all steam registration processes and opens the flower chant function in wechat payment. You can buy the game first and then pay in installments. If you feel that this game is not fun, You can get a full refund within 30 days and exchange any game at the same price for free within 90 days.

Hatefully, Chinese game players who have always loved to exploit loopholes and take advantage of pirated games are even served by the rich huizhongzhi. It is said that players with wechat credit of more than 800 can play any game in steam China for free!

With the support of Huizhong's huge financial resources and various operating means, steam China is no longer limited to an ordinary game platform, but integrated into the whole pan entertainment system of Huizhong.

If Huizhong uses these means and tricks to steam global and global game players, how can Huizhong be defeated by game manufacturers who always only know how to play games at ease?

Down, down, down!

After Huizhong announced the news of holding valve, the share prices of game manufacturers around the world have experienced different declines. The share prices of Ubisoft, EA and other companies that have also established game platforms overseas, as well as Tencent, Huizhong's largest enemy in China, have fallen by more than 10%!

At the beginning, even Fang zhe was puzzled that Huizhong's control of valve was just a signal of further internationalization, and the share price of overseas game manufacturers fell. Why did Tencent's share price fall so hard?

You know, Tencent's so-called TGP platform against steam China has long been reduced to a game box of Tencent's own games because there are no third-party games. It can be said that TGP has been suppressed by steam China to the point that there is no room for decline, so Fang zhe was a little confused when he just learned this news.

After some investigation and research, Li Wencai told Fang Zhe that it turned out that a so-called "Huizhong panic disorder" had spread in the stock market. If Huizhong had any big money, its opponents would suffer. Naturally, the shareholders also sold the shares of these rival companies one after another, and Tencent, as the largest enemy of Huizhong in China, naturally became the most unlucky selling object!

In this regard, Fang zhe really can't cry or laugh. Let alone, the experience summarized by investors is quite accurate, because even if Tencent's share price doesn't fall now, its share price will fall over time.

Just now, Huang Siyi, who is responsible for Huizhong's investment business, sent back the news that sina has negotiated and agreed to Huizhong's stake in Weibo!

Isn't Ma always taking Tencent Weibo as Tencent's life-saving straw? Well, I'll break your life-saving straw!