The Strongest Hacker

Perhaps these companies acquired by Star Group are not the most advanced in the industry, but their integrated strength is no worse than other companies, especially when these products form a complete industrial chain, its hardware performance will be greatly improved. Perfect performance, although I can't say it reaches 100%, but at least 90% or more is certain.

For example, hard disks, most of the current hard disks are parallel-port hard disks, and high-speed serial-port disks have just begun to develop, but if Xingkong Group launches a complete computer, there is no need for this at all. Mention the operating efficiency of the computer, and the utilization rate, and it will cost less than other companies do.

For example, a graphics card can be made into an onboard graphics card, and the onboard graphics card does not have the same structure. In order to achieve the purpose of increasing the efficiency of video memory usage, etc., maybe this is not the best, but it can show one thing, that is, Star Group has formed an industrial chain, and there is no need to look at any other company.

After communicating with Blizzard's World of Warcraft creation team, Mo Lei and Mo Xin stayed here. Right now, there is no better environment for the Starry Sky Group, but it is not as good as Blizzard's side. However, Zhang Yang will be responsible for writing the lucky software. Wu Bo and others have been transferred to Blizzard for cooperation and development.

In fact, it is not difficult to modify the situation of World of Warcraft. The main characters and map art resources can be directly generated by Nebula software, which saves a lot of art. You must know that when World of Warcraft was created, the most important effort was spent on art. up. But now other data are ready-made and can be used, and the artist has Nebula software, so the progress should be quite fast.

When the Blizzard side was settled, in the morning of the same day in Europe, the Vivendi Group suddenly and unilaterally announced the termination of the contract with the General Motors Group, and took back the sale of Universal. Negotiation of majority stake. When the news came, Zhang Yang immediately understood why the Vivendi Group wanted Li Keqing to announce a capital injection of 50 billion US dollars.

At this moment, the Vivendi Group is in debt. If it does not sell most of its shares, the Vivendi Group may face the danger of bankruptcy. That's why it was forced to sell most of Universal's shares to General Motors in the previous life. But what surprised Zhang Yang was that if his memory is correct, it seems that Vivendi sold Universal to GM in 2004, right? Why was it still in the hands of Vivendi in 2005?

Is this also your own influence? But I didn't have any intersection with Vivendi, except for signing a contract with Blizzard, I didn't have any intersection with Vivendi Group itself. Even if I have the butterfly effect, it is impossible to affect this place.

Zhang Yang couldn't figure it out, so he didn't think about it. Anyway, he couldn't go back to his previous life to check whether the Vivendi Group sold Universal in 2005.

But now it seems that Vivendi Group may not be able to sell Universal. But Zhang Yang still can't figure out that the Star Group is not really trying to raise funds for the Vivendi Group, the two parties are just an agreement. The place turns out money.

However, the Vivendi Group soon explained to Zhang Yang. Less than an hour before the time agreed by the two parties, the Vivendi Group suddenly sent a message to BNP Paribas, one of the four major banks in the world. Put forward a new loan financing application, and further increase the loan amount, and submit a new investment plan to BNP Paribas.

When the news came out, everyone was stunned. Is the Vivendi Group crazy? Vivendi Group has applied for loans to Bank of Paris many times before but was rejected by the other party. Although Paris Yin Yang is quite interested in Vivendi Group's new investment plan, it requires Vivendi Group to return to the second bank. The second installment of the loan can be issued only after the first installment of the loan.

But now the Vivendi Group not only proposed a higher loan amount, but also applied again? How confident are they that BNP Paribas will approve their loan application? Just when everyone was in a daze, a new news came out from the Star Group. Ms. Li Keqing, the chairman of the Star Group, had reached a preliminary agreement with the French Vivendi Group. The most preliminary agreement was to invest 50 billion U.S. dollars in the Vivendi Group.

When the news spread, everyone suddenly realized that no wonder the Vivendi Group dared to apply to the Bank of Paris. It turned out that there was a rich man standing behind him with 50 billion US dollars, and he was able to buy half of the Vivendi Group. It is bound to be affected by this news.

After Zhang Yang saw the news, he immediately understood what Zifortu was up to. This guy had a lot of fun with this financial method.

The previous debt of the Vivendi Group was about 10 billion U.S. dollars, and now they have submitted a loan application of 15 billion U.S. dollars to BNP Paribas. If the loan application of BNP Paribas is approved, then the Vivendi Group can not only After repaying the first batch of 10 billion U.S. dollars in loans, you can also get 5 billion U.S. dollars in liquidity, plus the 1.5 billion U.S. dollars paid by Star Group to purchase Blizzard Entertainment, Vivendi Group has nearly 70 billion U.S. dollars in its hands. Billion dollars of liquidity.

No matter what the new investment plan of the Vivendi Group is, this amount of money is enough to support the Vivendi Group for the next year, and after one year, the income of the Vivendi Group can keep their capital chain from falling. It was broken, but they kept the money-making machine of Universal in their hands.

With the advancement and development of science and technology, the living standards of various countries are getting higher and higher, and the consumption of movies has also begun to expand on a large scale in various countries. With Universal, the Vivendi Group can guarantee billions of dollars in revenue every year. Such a large A sum of money, plus other companies in the Vivendi Group, at least this crisis is over.

Selling a Blizzard is nothing, after all, Blizzard is a game company, and the annual profit of various games is only hundreds of millions of dollars. If Universal makes a good movie, I am afraid that the money will be recovered. . And don't tell me, Universal currently has a very competitive film, and that is the large-scale game adaptation film produced by Star Group for Blizzard Entertainment's StarCraft I.

The entire film is no shorter than The Lord of the Rings at all, with a three-hour run time and that's just the first step. Because Blizzard was still a company under the Vivendi Group at that time, the entire StarCraft 1 movie was divided into three parts, and the copyrights were all in the hands of the Vivendi Group, which means they were all in the hands of Universal. It's just a 20% sales share of the film.

However, except for the use of the portrait rights of some Hollywood stars, the whole movie did not use any live-action shooting at all. The whole movie was produced by CG animation. This is also the first CG animation movie completed by Nebula Software alone. [Japan] Final Fantasy special effects are even better.

Moreover, if Zhang Yang remembers correctly, the first StarCraft movie appeared to be released in North America during the National Day of [China], but what makes people speechless is that there is another movie released at the same time , that's Paramount's Superman Returns. Originally, Superman Returns was not owned by Paramount, but Zhang Yang didn't know why it went to Paramount.

But in any case, the two special effects movies produced by Star Group will start to fight against each other. No matter what the idea of ​​the Vivendi Group is, it has nothing to do with Zhang Yang, anyway, it's OK if he gets the Blizzard he wants. I just don’t know if BNP Paribas can pass the Vivendi Group’s investment application.

However, Zhang Yang has seen the StarCraft movie that was produced. The scene is absolutely grand, because it is a CG special effect, and there is no production cost problem at all, so the whole story is that kind of unusually grand war scene! Compared with this movie, Starship Troopers is like a graffiti work. Although the whole movie can be seen by those who know the inside story carefully, it is not a real person, but Zhang Yang can guarantee that the effect of Nebula can definitely be faked. The point is that the audience can't tell the difference.

After the trailer of StarCraft was released in Europe and America, it has been the first place in the movie expectation list. However, its production cost has not been disclosed to the public. Vivendi and Universal do not know what to say. It is impossible for Zhang Yang to tell them that the entire production cost of the film is the wear and tear depreciation cost of the supercomputer and the salaries of the employees. something like that? There is no salary for the actors, only their portrait rights are used. Of course, if this film can compete for the best film in Hollywood, those leading actors and actresses will still have to appear.

After boarding in the United States for a few days, Wu Bo and the others, who were transferred from China, arranged for Zhang Yang to return to China by special plane. GOD followed Mo Lei and the others to stay in Blizzard. By the time Zhang Yang came back, Bai Su had almost recruited people, at least able to maintain the basic operations, including the application for the establishment of clubs in various countries, and the e-sports of Star Group from various governments. League invitations and more.

After returning to China, Zhang Yang quickly asked Bai Su to hold a press conference, announcing the news about the World of Warcraft battlefield and professional joining the Star Cup, as well as other news about joining the Star Cup game. With the announcement of the Star Group, the most excited people in the world are the World of Warcraft players. After all, with such an announcement, only those who often play World of Warcraft can become members of the professional team.

Didn't Star Group say that? Although the competitive version of World of Warcraft is a remade art resource, etc., the damage data of the game, the skills, attributes, and talents of the game characters are all directly pulled from the data of World of Warcraft, and will not be reset. Although the special effects of skills It will be reset, but the function, effect, etc. of the skill will not be reset.

In this way, only the veteran players of World of Warcraft, such as the method of adding points to the talent of World of Warcraft, and the method of using skills, can understand these skills, and their starting point is naturally higher than others. So these people are very likely to hit the first batch of team competitions and the one million dollar prize money in individual competitions.

The prize money provided by the Star Group is for all games. The champion is divided into one million dollars or so for each game. However, the prize money is not the main factor that stimulates the development of the industry. In fact, the most important factor is the advertisements that the clubs find. This is one of the keys to the prosperity of the entire industry.

And now the games of the Star Cup not only include the most fun stand-alone games in the world, but now also include the online games with the highest number of registrations in the world. How big of a population does this cover? I'm afraid there are at least hundreds of millions of players, and these people are the targets of major advertisers.

Although the Star Cup began to recruit advertisers, what Zhang Yang didn't expect was that the first advertiser to invest was not any advertiser that Zhang Yang had made before, but Pepsi! Pepsi was the first to come to the door, and bought the advertisement of the Star Cup in a key position around the world at a price of 500 million U.S. dollars.

Zhang Yang was shocked when he got the news. Zhang Yang doesn't know how much Pepsi spends on advertising every year, but the 500 million US dollars is quite a terrifying amount, and Zhang Yang also explained in advance that if there is an advertisement If the advertiser is found, the first advertiser will give a discount.

500 million US dollars, is this still a discounted price? Zhang Yang was a little speechless, but Zhang Yang also understood that Pepsi's loss of 500 million US dollars was not wronged at all. In fact, let alone the world, even the loss of 500 million Pepsi in [China] was not wronged at all. Knowing that Star Group How huge and terrifying is the current influence among young people in [China]?

As the first advertiser to support Star Group, Star Group held a press conference specially for Pepsi, and future sponsors will not have this treatment. Although Pepsi is betting,

I made the first one to eat crabs, and no one can say how well it works. However, the president and directors of Pepsi were happy on the third day of the press conference, because judging from the approximate statistics just obtained, on the second day after the press conference was held, Pepsi's sales increased by at least 100% year-on-year Three hundred, although this is the data of a sample survey in [China], but if this data can be maintained in the next year, even if this data is maintained in [China], Pepsi will make money! ! ! ! \u003c/p\u003e;

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