Rebirth of the Internet: Starting from Games

Chapter 179 Acquisition of Foxmail?no way!

After reading the email, Chen Hao fell into deep thought.

So far, Foxmail is the only email software that can compete with Microsoft OutLook.

And in the past two months, with the efforts of Zhang Xiaolong's team, Foxmail has launched a series of enterprise-level services. A series of business and higher-end user groups such as China Telecom, China Railway Telecom, China Netcom and Guangdong Information Center are using Foxmail Enterprise Edition.

Data shows that Foxmail has as many as 500 million users, most of whom are in China, and some of whom are located in more than 20 countries and regions around the world.

After iteration, Foxmail is faster, more stable, and more concise, and maintains its previous powerful anti-spam functions.

The enterprise version of Foxmail has gradually begun to make profits, and we have just seen the money back.

Of course, Chen Hao doesn't like this small amount of money. He doesn't point to Foxmail to make money, but takes a longer-term view. With such a large user group, as the software continues to improve and provides better services, user stickiness will also increase accordingly. This is a good traffic entrance.

If Foxmail is sold, it will have a great impact on the morale of the Century Interactive Entertainment Research Center.

Chen Hao temporarily asked the Public Opinion Supervision Department to collect current information about Tencent.

At the same time, two periodic tasks were issued to the Public Opinion Supervision Department. The first is to provide a list of domestic competing companies and make a summary report every month; the second is to summarize all domestic content on the Korean market every month. Test and public beta online games are output in the form of reports, and both are submitted together at the end of each month.

The Public Opinion Supervision Office was very efficient. In less than an hour, Tencent's various information reports had been sent to Chen Hao's Foxmail mailbox.

Although Foxmail is not for sale, Chen Hao still takes this opportunity to pay close attention to this opponent. After all, he is very aware of Tencent's terrifying future development potential.

Looking at the data, this year the total number of Tencent QQ registrations has exceeded 1 million, and the number of people online at the same time has exceeded the 300 million mark.

With the help of the virtual Q coins launched last year, we launched QQ Show and QQ Game Hall modeled after Lianzhong Games at the beginning of the year, which achieved success in one fell swoop.

Although Tencent still relies on SP mobile and telecommunications value-added services as its main profit points, these two new businesses have given Tencent a new profit growth point.

There is joy and sorrow. A few months ago, I spent US$30 to represent the first "Triumph" from South Korea. As a result, after the public beta in September, this online game, which ranked fifth in the Korean market, did not bring any benefits to Tencent. "Triumph" declined after the open beta, becoming a victim of the struggle between Legend 9 and Legend World. Tencent's overseas game agency strategy collapsed halfway, and the overseas game division was directly abolished. Long-term planning is now under way.

At present, in terms of instant messaging software on the market, QQ is not the only one, but it is competing with Microsoft's MSN. Behind it, there are nearly 30 similar products on the market such as Sina's UC Chat, NetEase Bubble, etc. It seems that Behind the glamor there are also thorns.There is a saying at this time that QQ is used for chatting in life and MSN is used for work. Therefore, most QQ users are students, and MSN is more suitable for office workers.

From this point of view, Tencent currently wants to get rid of its dependence on SP (the direct provider of mobile Internet service content and application services), and seek new business directions. At the same time, it is laying out the social portal field. They are doing the chat software themselves, and the rest is Email.

Now Tencent's QQ mailbox is very bloated and difficult to use, and it is outclassed by foxmail and NetEase mailboxes.

I have to say that Pony or Tencent are still very forward-looking. Although the SP business has made Tencent a lot of money, they don't want to hang themselves on a tree. Chen Hao remembers that in the past few years, there seemed to be some policies from the top. The SP business has been slashed across the board, just like Diablo IV. In order to prevent players from being too powerful and having too much fun, the SP business was severely weakened across the board.

What Chen Hao can see now, and I believe he can also see with Xiao Ma's ability, is that he wants to improve his own QQ mailbox by acquiring foxmail's technology and team, thereby gaining a user base for the mailbox.

After all, he who gets traffic wins the world.

Chen Hao called Xu Pengkun directly and gave him face-to-face instructions. He told him not to refuse rashly but to use dragging tactics, dragging the other party for as long as he could, and then rejecting him if he couldn't.

Tencent itself started as a social networking company and has gradually extended its tentacles into the gaming field.

Century Interactive Entertainment already accounts for most of the game scale, and Chen Hao also plans to focus on the social side.

He had a premonition that this would be a protracted offensive and defensive battle.

Now PP has been fully popularized and used within the company, and there have been no major problems after trials in recent months.

Especially in 1-to-1 and small-scale 1-to-many chats, good results have been achieved, and we can start to enter the next stage, which is to embed the game.

<divclass="contentadv">It is not the kind of century series online games with built-in voice modules for communication, so there is no concept of a platform.

He wants to build PP into an entrance to a game social platform, embed game modules on PP, and use games as the entry point to allow players to communicate conveniently on it.

Introduce friends, mentors, apprentices, and lovers in the game to increase user stickiness.

First, stabilize the basic base of players like Century Interactive Entertainment, and then expand to other games, using games as the entry point to conquer the social field.

After all, communication in online games now relies on keyboard typing. Due to the rapid development of Internet cafes, the number of Internet users has increased dramatically, but the threshold for keyboard typing is still relatively high, especially the Wubi input method. In addition, the keyboard fingering is also somewhat particular, so now most of them Most netizens still use the two-finger method of poking and poking. Although practice makes perfect and the typing speed is quite fast, it is very inconvenient and cannot be as smooth as voice.

You will need to use chat in various scenarios such as group play, hacking, and companionship. This will be an important part of the next few years and is indispensable.

Of course, in addition to software social networking, online social networking can also be slowly explored, such as on-campus, everyone, stealing food, grabbing parking spaces, etc.

This is Chen Hao's offensive line. The game is making steady progress and socializing is waiting for opportunities.

Everything is focused on games, and all software serves games. When the time is right, we will provide feedback to break the circle.

Chen Hao opened a mysterious notebook that he had not used for a long time and wrote down his thoughts.

Then he called South Korea's Nexon Company to inquire about the development progress of the next racing car project. He didn't ask whether it was okay or not, but just asked if it would be completed in 2005. The public beta could not be released until 06.

After hanging up the phone, Chen Hao added something in his notebook.

Chen Hao is adding the major events in the next two to three years:

2004,

Established Century Pictures and invested in movies - Century Investment

The time is unknown, Tencent is listed in Hong Kong (can be purchased at the bottom) - Century Investment

In the second half of the year, LeTV was established (investable, withdrawn 16 years ago) - Century Investment

Martial Arts World OL open beta (as much as possible) - Tianxuan Studio

Talking about agency for World of Warcraft (intervene in advance, must grab it) - Tianji Studio will be established to take charge

2005,

The time is unknown, Jiuyou is the agent of Audition (can be agent) - Century Interactive Entertainment

May and June, World of Warcraft open beta

In the second half of the year, the school network will be established (invest or do it yourself) - to be determined

In the second half of the year, pay attention to Kart Racing - Century Interactive Entertainment

After finishing all this, after reading the content, Chen Hao felt that he had nothing to do except games and investments?Prepare the funds to represent World of Warcraft first, and then use the remaining funds to test the waters and try to get involved in other industries, such as portals, film and television, mobile phones, big data, etc.

However, he had to sort out the things at hand before the end of the year, keep up with the internal management of the company, and create a virtuous cycle automatically, so that he could have the energy to attack externally.

Running a company is very similar to playing Three Kingdoms OL. You must first manage the territory well before you can expand.

Before going to Guangzhou, there is only one more important thing left for the work here, which is to solve the last piece of the game puzzle, which is the cornerstone and foundation of a game company - the game engine.

At present, the game engine team has many people, including the Jinshan Department, the Original Century Interactive Entertainment Department, the Heluo Department, and oh, we have to add the Turtles who have just returned. The top technical talents here have to be unified.

This was because Xu Changlong had called him before and wanted his boss to encourage them, so Chen Hao arranged it for tomorrow.

Hold a mobilization meeting to stand up for Lao Xu.

Chen Hao tidied up and went home from get off work.

The time has reached 10:30 pm,

Hey, the boss is also busy these days.

After all, it was his own business, so he worked hard.