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Chapter 455 Get rid of Vivendi

"Well, I don't really understand these things, but as long as it's not a mecha type, there's no problem at all."

Listening to what Chuhe said, Charles spread his hands, then moved his position and said.

Charles is not particularly clear about the game, but as long as he knows that the game Chuhe wants to make next will not conflict with EA, then there will be no problem at all.

"If mechanical creatures are not considered mechs, then there is no big problem, but don't worry, what I want to do next is not an FPS game. To be precise, it should be more like a monster hunter. " Chuhe looked at Charles and said with a smile.

"Action type? Is it the multiplayer mode?" Charles asked after hearing Chuhe's words.

Monster Hunter can be said to be a monument in action games. As one of Capcom's classic series of IPs, it has been underestimated and brilliant.

Among them, the online hunting in the multiplayer mode is almost a small landmark. Team hunting with friends can be said to be one of the characteristics of Monster Hunter.

Of course, there is no effect if you don't form a team, but in the case of not forming a team and forming a team, land reclamation is completely two different game experiences.

And with the development of the series itself, although Capcom did not officially say, the blood volume of dragons and the accumulation of materials are basically more focused on the online game experience.

If you want to talk about PVE games that can be online, some people may say Diablo, Borderlands, and Left [-] Dead.

But if there is any action PVE that can be online, then it must not escape the game Monster Hunter.

Hearing what Charles said, Chu He shook his head: "No decision yet, let's talk about it first after signing the contract. In addition, in the studio of Dead Space, the employees below must be retained. I don't want to just take over an empty shell."

Regarding too many details, Chuhe is not ready to say for the time being, but said to Charles with a smile.

"Of course, this was agreed in advance, but the top management needs a meeting to discuss before they can make a decision." Charles said to Chuhe.

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Staying in Redwood City for the time being, Chuhe and EA have initially reached a cooperation intention. As for the follow-up, it depends on the team of Tianhe Network to negotiate with EA.

Basically, Chuhe will not interfere too much in this aspect, give a psychological bottom line and let a special team negotiate.

During this period, Chuhe took a trip to Los Angeles, the main purpose was to visit and assess a professional motion capture team.

There were two studios built by the Jinling headquarters in the United States earlier, but now they are a little too small. Facing 3A-level masterpieces such as Red Dead Redemption and The Last Survivor, they can no longer meet the requirements of the team.

The main purpose is to supplement the scale. As for the technology, although the Tianhe Network Motion Capture Studio is not at the top level in the world, but under the premise of spending money to build it, it can be regarded as the bottom of the first line.

After the investigation, the team under him submitted the report, and the resulting plan, Chuhe directly acquired two small-scale studios.

After reading the acquisition report, Chuhe didn't pay much attention to this matter, but another phone call made Chuhe a little interested.

There is usually such a ridicule in the game industry 'Why is EA the most garbage game company in the United States?Because Ubisoft is in France! ','Why is Ubisoft the most rubbish game company in France?Because EA is in the United States'.

Unlike the game studio killer, EA of American Penguin, Ubisoft from France gives players the cognitive label of "potato" and "BUG". However, compared with EA, it is obvious that domestic players have a deeper affection for Ubisoft. One point, because the early overseas masterpieces in China were basically introduced by Ubisoft.

And at that time, Ubisoft was also the first major overseas company to enter the domestic market, although the effect was not very satisfactory.

The early domestic distribution channel Ubisoft was the largest one. At that time, Ubisoft was the only one with a first-class game production team and training system in China.

Even now, many bigwigs in the domestic game industry have worked in Shanghai Ubisoft.

So this is why the joke 'Ubisoft will always be my big brother' was born.

But Ubisoft is not doing well now, except that its game projects have fallen into a bottleneck, the Assassin's Creed series is a bit unsupported, Tom Clancy's death has brought the Tom Clancy series into decline, except for a budding Far Cry, there is only one blockade that has had mixed reviews and reputations a while ago.

Of course, this is not the most deadly. What makes Ubisoft the most uncomfortable is that they were targeted by the notorious Vivendi in the industry.

Already in the Xuele Mountain in heaven, Activision and Blizzard were once misfortune by Vivendi, but now his goal has shifted to Ubisoft.

Although Ubisoft has not yet fully fallen into the clutches of Vivendi, its subsidiary Gameloft, which focuses on the field of mobile games and has created many high-quality goods, has already fallen into the hands of Vivendi.

And just like Vivendi’s old routine, Gameloft’s original board members resigned collectively, the game development accelerated, and they tried their best to squeeze out all the profits. Today’s Gameloft’s quality reputation has completely collapsed. It can be said that Gameloft is almost completely finished. up.

Facing the acquisition of Vivendi in recent years, Ubisoft can be said to be shouting and sending away everywhere, hoping to have a white knight to lead Ubisoft to resist the menacing Vivendi.

However, Vivendi already owns 27.3% of Ubisoft's holdings today, and it is only 2.7% away from compulsory acquisition.

And this time it was Ubisoft's current CEO Yves who contacted Chuhe.

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Three days later in Rennes, France, in the Ubisoft headquarters.

"Do you want Tianhe Network to participate in the battle to acquire Ubisoft?" Chu He looked curiously at the current Ubisoft CEO Yves and the five Guillemot brothers who are the founders of Ubisoft.

Now Ubisoft can be said to be very dangerous. Except for the five founder brothers who have 15% of the voting rights, and Blackrock Investment and Fidelity Investment, which are firmly standing with them, they only have 30% of the voting rights, and the remaining 15% The right to vote stands with them only temporarily.

So what Ubisoft wants to do most now is to find new investors, inject capital into Ubisoft, and use the newly added voting rights to support the current owner's control of the company and get rid of Vivendi.

"We have found the Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan to inject capital into us, and Guillemot and the others will also inject capital into Ubisoft from their personal accounts." Yves said towards Chuhe.

"You have no shortage of funds, at least enough for you to resist Vivendi." Chu He looked at Yves and the others strangely and said.

"It's only temporary. We don't want to be stared at by such hungry wolves. In fact, Penguin also has capital injection intentions for us, but we want Tianhe Network to invest in us and hold Ubisoft shares." Ive Said very seriously.

And this is also an idea that Ubisoft's top management came up with after several discussions.

(End of this chapter)