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After three days, the latest news from the gaming industry again, another game company was acquired by Luo Sheng.

Wong Gabe Newell held a media conference that day and announced that Valve was incorporated into Bluestar Technology and became a subsidiary.

Luo Sheng's acquisition of Valve was completed by way of investment. It took 78.5% of the company's equity with a financing amount of 165 million US dollars. For the current operation and asset scale of Valve, it is equivalent to Blue Star Technology. Acquired at a premium of 30%.

After completing the acquisition of Valve, Luo Sheng's North American trip can basically come to an end, and the result is quite satisfactory to him.

With the acquisition of Valve, Luo Sheng did not end his pace of buying and buying in the game industry. He thought that several major entertainment giants in Hollywood would come to talk to him, but they did not.

Luo Luosheng also did not take the initiative to talk to Hollywood movie companies or entertainment companies, and waited for the scale of its online streaming video business to further develop and grow, the right to speak was even greater.

Whoever comes to the door to talk about who has the disadvantage is that at present both sides are very patient.

Finished with the Valve company, Luo Sheng flew directly from North America to Europe, to Eastern Europe.

It's not natural to travel and travel, but to buy CD-Projekt-Red-Ltd, a young video game development studio. The acquisition went very smoothly, and it was finalized in two days.

This company later gave the nickname "Poland Stupid Donkey" to the people, and was established in Poland in 2002. It produced the first game Demo, but it was not re-developed by the publishing company, so it was re-developed due to financial difficulties. The studio moves to Warsaw headquarters.

-CD-Projekt company released Demo at last year's E3 game show, and it has been well received, but until now, this game has not been released.

As for the current CD-Projekt company, compared with those big third-party developers, it is really a small workshop.

However, Luo Sheng knew that this company would soon rise up. The "Witcher" series and "Cyberpunk 2077" are both masterpieces. The great success of the "Witcher" series laid the "Poland Donkey" in the game industry in one fell swoop. The status of top developers.

一次 This time Luo Sheng's acquisition of this developer was too smooth. Marcin Ivansky, one of the founders, has particularly enjoyed playing games since he was a child. His dream was to work in the game industry, so this company was founded.

Nowadays, for CD-Projekt's funding shortage, and Luo Sheng came at this time, saying "I invest in your ninth artistic dream", saying that Ivansky and others were impressed on the spot.

After being ridiculed by the player as a "Poland stupid donkey", you can see that this team really loves the game and does not care about the gain or loss of money, so when Luo Sheng said that he would "invest in their dreams", he decided on the spot The company was packaged and sold to Bluestar Technology for $ 8 million, and they only had one condition.

That is to keep the team in CD-Projekt and continue to make games, that is, to transfer the entire equity of the company, but the parent company cannot interfere with the team's operations.

Luo Luosheng certainly cannot drive the founder away. The most valuable thing for CD-Projekt is this team.

Ivansky and other founders asked for $ 8 million, but Luo Sheng made a decision that surprised them and was extremely pleasant. First, Luo Sheng bought 100% of CD-Projekt's shares for $ 8 million and became a company A wholly-owned subsidiary, and then decided to inject US $ 15 million and set aside 20% of CD-Projekt's option pool for talent acquisition.

For such a decision as Ivansky and others, I can't believe it. I can meet such a conscientious investor. Perhaps this is an angel investor. If Luo Sheng's dream of investing in them was polite, then after the real money was thrown out, they no longer doubt it.

CD-Projekt does not see any signs of success now. Since its establishment, they have yet to come up with a masterpiece, and the company currently has only dozens of people.

What is this investment dream?

So the founder team has no doubts about Luo Sheng's words.

Luo won the "Poland Stupid Donkey" Luo Sheng before ending this trip abroad, and officially embarked on the road to return home.

Uh ...

On a returning plane under the bag, Qin Weimu and Luo Sheng sat facing each other in a cabin. She thoughtfully said, "Before that, I was as confused as the outside world, but I After seeing an article in the gaming industry yesterday, I suddenly understood your intention to invest in CD-Projekt. "

Luo Luosheng laughed and said, "How do you say?"

Qin Weimu thought for a moment, then stared at each other, saying: "When we first entered the game industry, most of the industry people were more resistant, thinking that we are hot money disrupting the market, not really want to really promote this The development of the industry. But the industry's reputation is now quietly changing, especially after the acquisition of CD-Projekt, some people have already said that you are an angel investor in the gaming industry, but the investment community people are very unhappy about your acquisitions Understand. Some even laughed. "

Luo Luosheng's investments are not optimistic in the VC world. They acknowledge that Luo Sheng has a set of skills in the Internet industry, but playing investment is really a novice player, far less than his accomplishments in the Internet industry.

Luo Wenyan said, Luo Sheng shrugged: "Smile when you laugh, and laugh now, after a few years, you must praise the strategic vision and investment vision so powerfully ..."

Qin Weimu said: "In fact, I am not very optimistic about your acquisitions ~ www.wuxiaspot.com ~ nor can I say that I am optimistic or not optimistic, just do not understand."

Luo Luosheng said lightly: "If you don't understand, it's right. If everyone understands, how can I still have my share?"

In this way, Qin Weimu really couldn't find a good reason to refute him for a while. There was nothing wrong with the logic, but Luo Sheng's self-confidence made her wonder where it originated from. CD-Projekt, Valve What are the highlights of these game developers that are worth his huge sums of money?

Wu Qin Weimu shifted the topic and said, "Are you planning to start cracking down on domestic game piracy?"

Luo Sheng shook his head again and again and denied: "No, no, this is a difficult task. I have never even thought about changing the status quo. 3A games do not have any living soil in the domestic market. Do n’t think about it in the next ten years. The next twenty Years may not even have the survival soil for 3A games. "

Qi Qin Weimu wondered: "Twenty years? Could it be too exaggerated?"

Luo Sheng affirmed: "It's not an exaggeration at all. There is really no way to live a stand-alone game in China. Let me talk to you, why do you say that? Two conditions, one is that the public income conditions are not allowed, the other is the market environment Conditions are not allowed. "

"Let's talk about the income conditions first. The unit price of a genuine 3A-level game is usually $ 60, which is nearly 500 yuan, which is almost equal to the monthly salary of a bottom-level worker. Let's talk about the market environment. And domestic The stand-alone market is empty and there is no market. Players are used to the free game mode. Although free games sometimes cost more, players are used to this game mode and enjoy it, but this is the status quo. "

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