Rebirth of the Internet: Starting from Games

Chapter 238 World of Warcraft is obtained

3 month 30 day.

A group of five people from Blizzard, led by Vice President Bill Roper, quietly arrived at the Century Interactive Entertainment headquarters building.

During this negotiation, both parties seemed to have suffered collective amnesia, and no one mentioned the terms related to player data again.

In the conference room, personnel from both sides launched a heated and difficult negotiation on the World of Warcraft agency terms and various contract details.

By the afternoon of the next day, the negotiations entered the final stage.

Blizzard and Century Interactive Entertainment were unable to reach consensus on only six issues, and the negotiations reached a deadlock.

Chen Hao suggested that it would be futile to continue like this. The two sides should take a rest first and discuss it separately. You should also communicate with your boss. In half an hour, there will be a result whether it is successful or not.

This was equivalent to an ultimatum, but the remaining issues were all very important issues of principle to both parties. For a while, the participants on both sides had no expectations for the final outcome.

Chen Hao and his group came to the nearby conference room. He said, "We must sign World of Warcraft today no matter what. We can't let these Americans run away. I will talk to them personally about these last few issues."

Half an hour later, the hero saw the same thing.

Bill Roper asked one question after another, asking Century Interactive Entertainment to confirm.

Three questions were asked in a row. Chen Hao didn't even blink and had only one answer:

"I agree!"

These three questions involve promotion, monitoring and computer room.

Promotion: In addition to committing to a publicity fee of no less than 1300 million U.S. dollars, all publicity and marketing methods will be submitted by Century Interactive Entertainment and reviewed by Blizzard before being handed over to Century Interactive Entertainment for promotion.

Monitoring: Install network camera monitoring in the World of Warcraft server room, and the system will record every command, which puts the operator in a completely passive state.

Computer room: It must ensure that there is only a World of Warcraft server, servers for other games must not be placed, and the server must have an average online load of only 70%.

The boss's cheerful agreement caught Lu Tao, Wu Hanqing and Zhou Xiao by surprise. They all winked and signaled to the boss that they seemed to have a bomb sitting under their buttocks, ready to move and could no longer sit still.

boom!Chen Hao slapped the table, which frightened the foreigners across from him.

Chen Hao frowned and glanced aside, showing his majesty, "You are the boss and I am the boss? How dignified are you!"

Seeing that the boss rarely got angry, the bombs under several people were extinguished instantly. They all sat upright and looked straight, looking more like elementary school students than elementary school students.

Chen Hao turned around and signaled to continue. After Bill Ropa asked the fourth question, Chen Hao smiled at the other party. His expression was as warm as spring, but his words were as sharp as a knife. "For the first three questions, Century Interactive Entertainment has demonstrated its sincerity. , please give in to the next three questions, if you give in, I will sign!"

Seeing the other party's resolute attitude, Bill Ropa apologized, took out his mobile phone and went out to make a call.

Five minutes later, Bill Ropa came back and said that Blizzard agreed with Century Interactive Entertainment's opinion.

Later, Century Interactive Entertainment Chairman Chen Hao and Blizzard Vice President Bill Roper jointly signed the World of Warcraft agency authorization letter and took a group photo.

After the dust settled, all that was left was the exchange of various details.

It was only then that Century Interactive Entertainment executives who participated in the meeting suddenly realized that the boss was retreating in order to advance, judging the priority of issues in advance, and gaining more critical interests while compromising.

For example, the point card system is lifted and two methods, point card and monthly subscription, are adopted.

For example, although the servers are still purchased from Blizzard, the overall price per unit has been reduced from 60 US dollars to 50 US dollars.

For example, security limits game operators to have the authority to modify the database, but they need to find explanations and apply for authorization from Blizzard at the same time. This means that if users have any related disputes or problems, the agent operators have the corresponding rights to respond quickly and be resolved.

<divclass="contentadv">After the meeting, Mason beamed with joy. He and the mobile phone guy each carried a large box and said to Chen Hao, "Return the property to its original owner."

Chen Hao laughed loudly, asked his men to take the box, and warmly invited Blizzard and his party to have dinner together, showing their friendship as a landlord.

Due to the advanced security arrangements of the century, Blizzard's trip to the capital was very secretive.

4 month 1 day.

Following NetEase, Sina, Sohu, and Tencent, Century.com, China's fifth comprehensive portal, was officially established.

Century.com is an integrated website focusing on news information and entertainment information, including sports, games, music, finance, technology, military and other columns.

Various press releases are carrying out overwhelming publicity,

In order to facilitate the access of the majority of netizens, Century Zongheng Group spent a lot of money to purchase top-level domain names.

And corresponding placement was carried out on Baidu and various navigation guidance websites.

Enter Century, and the first one is the Century.com portal, followed by various official websites of the Century series.

After Century.com was established, it made a big move and took the lead in publishing a piece of news exclusively. It was like dropping a nuclear bomb on a calm lake, setting off huge waves in the entire Internet circle, flooding the entire Internet.

"Century Interactive Entertainment and Blizzard tied the knot, and the ownership of World of Warcraft has been settled!" 》

According to reports on April 4, Blizzard Entertainment and Century Interactive Entertainment Network Technology Co., Ltd. reached an agreement yesterday. Blizzard will grant the exclusive operating rights of "World of Warcraft" to Century Interactive Entertainment in the mainland for a period of four years.

Mike Mohan, CEO and co-founder of Blizzard Entertainment, said, "We sincerely thank the Chinese players for their enthusiastic support of us over the years."

Chen Hao, chairman of Century Interactive Entertainment, said, blah blah blah

Prior to this, there had been constant rumors about the agency rights of "World of Warcraft".

At present, both Blizzard and Century Interactive Entertainment have made official announcements. This site will continue to follow up and report on "World of Warcraft" related information, so please pay attention.

One stone stirred up a thousand waves, confusing other media and the general public.

Why do we just change it? What about the 9 cities we agreed on?

After the confusion, everyone was overjoyed. After all, compared to the little-known Ninth City, everyone still hoped that Century Interactive Entertainment, which had a strong financial foundation and a strong foundation, would become the agent of "World of Warcraft". This time, they got their wish.

Countless World of Warcraft players have left messages on their respective century-series game forums, saying hurry up, hurry up, they want to play World of Warcraft right away.

I couldn’t tell for a moment which game forum this was.

Perhaps in response to the calls of players, Century Interactive Entertainment is very efficient.

In just three days, the Chinese official website and forum of World of Warcraft were launched, and the 3 information station also opened a special area and even had a separate subdomain name.

The domain names of other areas of 17173 only have suffixes added at the end, such as,,

This shows that Century Interactive Entertainment attaches great importance to World of Warcraft.

But I still underestimated the enthusiasm of countless Blizzard players. These people flocked to the game and instantly paralyzed Century Interactive Entertainment's official website of Warcraft.

After emergency expansion by Century Interactive Entertainment technical staff, the website was stabilized.