"Counter-Strike OL" in Suzhou has made a good start, and in Beijing, Xiangshan Network Technology Company, which is responsible for the operation of "StarCraft", has also achieved quite good initial results.
Basically it was expected.
First of all, given the quality of the two games, they are both popular in the global market. Even if the preferences of players in different regions are different, there will not be much difference after all.
Secondly, even though material conditions are gradually improving, mainland China is still in an era of lack of entertainment. Just like the phenomenal "Huanzhugege", as long as something new and interesting appears, everyone will inevitably flock to it.
Finally, there is the channel advantage of the Westeros system itself in China.
Even though Simon has not been too optimistic about the development of Yigrit China in the past few years, Yigrit China is still the largest Internet company in China, far surpassing Yahoo in the Internet 1.0 era due to its foundation that far exceeds its peers. In China, it can be said that the entire Internet standard in mainland China comes from Yigrit.
Of course, the global standards are the same.
Relying on such channel advantages, the promotion of the two games "Counter-Strike OL" and "StarCraft", even if it is limited to online due to the current environment of the electronic game industry, can still be pushed to almost all Chinese netizens in the shortest time.
There are not only hard advertisements, but also various soft articles on the Internet, such as "Counter-Strike OL, a game masterpiece with global revenue of more than 1 billion US dollars, enters China." Just looking at this title, most people will inevitably want to try it. Ichiban.
Chen Qing and Mo Yiling learned about the operating conditions of "Counter-Strike OL" together. Mo Yiling left early because of work. Chen Qingbian was left to discuss the company's operations with Jiangnan Interactive's president Han Wu and other senior executives. Other business.
It is mainly the search engine business received from the split Igret China.
Of course, Chen Qing fought for this based on the judgment of her boss. For this reason, she also took the initiative to give up the portal website department that she was initially interested in and currently has the largest traffic.
However, the portal website was easily copied here, and the name is 'Jiangnan Interactive'. Unfortunately, it is only similar in spirit. For the search engine business, it mainly received the technical team and a large amount of data that previously belonged to Yigrit China. Currently, it is still It's just built into the Jiangnan interactive portal homepage.
Next comes a separate peel.
After discussions in advance, we failed to obtain name authorization from Google. Apparently our boss wanted to make a more thorough distinction, so the name became a problem.
Chen Qing also asked her boss in her last email.
Simon thought of one for the first time, but after thinking about it again, it was so unsatisfactory that it made people angry, so he just forgot about it and just threw it here.
Since my boss didn't say anything, I quickly approved one based on Google's naming logic that sounded catchy and similar to modal particles.
Search.
The English name is SouA.
The key to choosing this name is that, on the one hand, the domain name soua.com has not yet been registered, and trademarks around the world are easy to obtain, and they have been easily obtained here in the near future.
Secondly, and equally important, it is simple and easy to remember.
This is a principle that Simon has repeatedly emphasized.
The harder it is to remember the names of a series of private military teams in the Westeros system, the better. For companies, especially products or services that are directly close to users, the easier it is to remember the names, the better.
Search, just say it once, probably not many people can remember it. Similarly, soua.com can be typed easily without memorizing it.
With the successful release of "Counter-Strike OL", a separate 'Souah' search engine will be launched soon. In addition to the core web search, it will also include "mailbox", "pictures", "music", "information", "maps" and other major categories. Some services such as "maps" will still be provided by Yigrit.
After understanding the preparation status of the search engine business, Chen Qing finally conveyed her boss's operational ideas for each company.
Use lucrative games as a source of funds to diversify and expand other businesses. Not only the search engine that has been predetermined, but also other Internet businesses that can be thought of.
It's not without limitations.
For example, e-commerce, another network service currently promoted by the Westeros system in China, cannot be touched here for the time being. Because e-commerce consumes too many resources and requires concentration, it is difficult to achieve success in a small way.
However, if Jiangnan Interactive Entertainment develops into a giant in the future and has too much money to spend, Simon will have no objection if he wants to try it again.
After a day's work, Chen Qing went home to live in the evening.
Watch a show by the way.
There has been a lot of excitement at home recently about Chen Qing’s brother Chen Liang.
After the family became rich, the last time he was tricked into gambling and he lost money, his father Chen Tiejun gave him a severe beating and took away his financial power, so Chen Liang became honest. However, he is probably not afraid of thieves but worried about them. After all, he is a rich man who owns a big supermarket. The country is definitely a wealthy class at the moment. In addition, from the second half of last year to the beginning of this year, Chen Qing's sister-in-law Wei Heye has been pregnant with With Chen Liang's third child, certain things must not be done.
Chen Liang is young and powerful again.
So, to put it simply, Chen Liang cheated on her with a salesperson in the supermarket who had just turned twenty.
This is not yet a problem.
The key is that Chen Liang made the girl pregnant, and the girl was obviously thinking about it. She waited until she was four months pregnant before coming directly to the door, hoping that the Chen family would take responsibility.
As a result, the 33-year-old Chen Liang was beaten again by his father without mercy. It is said that his shirt was completely torn by the belt.
The problem still needs to be solved.
Actually, Chen Qing came back from South Korea in a hurry this time just to watch the excitement.
Growing up, her father only beat her, and the eldest brother never got beaten a few times. It was completely inconsistent with the law that other children are the youngest and favored. Now, it is finally normal.
As a result, he fell into a trap.
The girl only came to visit her when she was four months pregnant, thinking that the child was already too big to be aborted.
Chen Qing didn't think so. Da Lielie and her father suggested that as long as the old man spoke, let her abort after eight months, not just four months.
Then he was beaten.
The reason is that he has a vicious mind.
Father Chen and Mother Chen are both very kind-hearted people. Even if you are pregnant for one or two months, let alone four months, it is still a life in their eyes. How can you just abort an abortion? What's more, this is the blood of the Chen family. .
Moreover, if anyone else said this, Chen's father would at most get scolded. If his daughter, who has been worried about going astray since she was a child, said it, her anger level would triple out of thin air. This time, Chen Qing yelled that her clothes were more expensive. Chen's father didn't spare him, the only difference was that he used a feather duster.
It's definitely not okay to whip my daughter with a belt.
But it was definitely not a false attack, it hurt Chen Qing all night long.
Early the next morning, my mother called her up again and asked her to help solve the problem. The general idea was that the Chen family wanted the child, but the woman definitely couldn't have it. This was not the ancient time, where you could have a concubine or something.
Her mother shed tears as she spoke, so of course Chen Qing could only agree.
After agreeing, Chen's mother continued to talk for a while, and the topic skillfully turned to Chen Qing's life events. She mentioned that Xiao Lin had not appeared for a long time. The two of them should break up. Women and women certainly can't live together for the rest of their lives. Then, he When my father was young, he had a nephew who worked in the provincial government. He was very promising and was already a deputy director at a young age. He is 31 years old this year. Mainly because he has a good vision, but he is also a good match for his daughter. Can he find time to meet
Chen Qing ran out without eating breakfast.
Continue to stay in Suzhou for one day, and then go to Hangzhou the next day to harass Lin Su and Xiaodan Dan, mother and son. By the way, the main thing is work.
It’s still about Internet companies.
The Internet company team here in Hangzhou is called Paradise Online. Unlike Jiangnan Interactive Entertainment and Xiangshan Technology, which released their first game last week, Paradise Online has only booked a Korean online game project "Kingdom of Wind II" for the time being. , which Lin Su once again used as a threat to file a complaint to get it from Chen Qing.
However, the game is not expected to be launched until September at the earliest.
In addition, when it is officially launched in China, there is definitely no need to indicate the name of "Kingdom of Wind II". Just like when the country got "Legend II" but it was just named "Legend", this time it is just "Kingdom of Wind" in China. country".
Before this game was launched, Paradise Online's main business was instant messaging software, which was naturally the business obtained from the split of Yigrit China.
This time the name was chosen by Simon himself.
Overseas ICQ was still being stripped away, and Simon couldn't pick up the one he was once most famous for. He had to leave some way for others to survive, so he chose 'AO'.
Chinese pronunciation.
Uh-oh.
It's quite cute, and it also allows the Paradise Online team to make a notification sound, eliminating the need for coughing and the like. The pronunciation of 'ah oh' is so interesting.
However, apart from his name, Simon once again showed a free-spirited attitude.
Because the attitude of his boss was average, ICQ was far less popular abroad than portals, search engines, etc. It could only be regarded as an auxiliary in Yigrit's huge business matrix. Chen Qing did not compete for it, and even deliberately added fuel to the flames. , he took all the good things and gave Lin Su a marginalized instant message.
After all, the potential competition between the two women has not changed at all.
Of course, you still have to pay attention to the surface, so I made this trip specially.
After only staying in Hangzhou for one day, Chen Qing flew to the capital again.
On June 25, Clinton visited China.
Chen Qing was invited to participate in some activities and basically had to follow the entire process.
While China is entertaining Clinton, in North America, Simon is still paying more attention to the summer season.
The box office week from June 19th to June 25th went by in a blink of an eye.
With the revival of the popularity of the entire Conjuring series brought by last year's "The Conjuring 3", "The Haunting of the Morgue 3", which opened on June 19, was still favored by a large number of viewers even though its comprehensive media score of 7.2 was far inferior to "The Conjuring 3". Support.
In its first week, with 3,192 screens, "The Haunting of Morgue 3" grossed US$51.34 million at the box office in the first seven days, overturning "Jurassic Park 3" in its third week of release and taking the top spot on the weekly box office list. Championship throne.
Regarding the results of "The Haunting of Morgue 3", Hollywood has very complicated thoughts.
Being able to knock "Jurassic Park 3" to the ground first made everyone breathe a sigh of relief, indicating that the momentum of "Jurassic Park 3" has obviously slowed down, and then our other films will not suffer the same fate again. Too much of a threat.
However, it was the movie produced by Daenerys Entertainment that overturned "Jurassic Park 3", which inevitably made everyone depressed.
From "L.A. Confidential" to "Rush Hour 2" to "Jurassic Park 3" to "The Haunting of Morgue 3", it's really one after another, leaving no room for other studios to play.
And this slander happened to be mixed with the gossip that Sony Pictures has begun formal negotiations with Westinghouse to sell its film business. Even though neither party has publicly expressed an opinion on this, as more and more evidence becomes available, this matter is basically a fact.
The problem is that Sony can't hold on any longer and the Japanese are leaving. So, who is next
Back to the box office.
"Jurassic Park 3", which ranked second, saw its decline slightly expand to 51% in its third week from 46% the following week, and its single-week revenue shrank sharply again to US$42.95 million.
Although it was knocked to the ground by a horror film and although it lost the championship, in three weeks, the cumulative box office of "Jurassic Park 3" has quickly reached 292.96 million US dollars, only one step away from the 300 million threshold. .
Not only that, based on the current single-week box office base of US$42.95 million, "Jurassic Park 3" will subsequently earn a cumulative box office of US$100 million, which is not a big problem. Therefore, the total box office in North America is basically certain to be more than US$400 million. The total investment in the production and promotion of this movie is 220 million US dollars, and the domestic box office exceeds 400 million US dollars. Based on the strong Daenerys Entertainment can get more than 60% of the share from theaters, it will directly recover all the investment and gained profit.
The most important point is that the "Jurassic Park" series is different from "Rush Hour" or "The Conjuring Universe". In addition to theaters and other channels, the sales of peripheral products for this series are also a larger part of the profit margin than theatrical distribution.
This is also the key to "Jurassic Park 3" being able to spend a total production and promotion budget of US$220 million.
The list continues down.
Last week, "The Legend of Zorro", which was released at the same time as "The Haunting of the Morgue", was co-produced by Paramount and DreamWorks, with a budget of US$70 million. The box office in its first week ended up being US$37.63 million, ranking third on the list.
Because the film's reputation is very good, although the starting point is less than 40 million, there is still hope for the local box office to exceed 100 million.
If it is not compared with the top two, as long as the follow-up curve can be more stable, the domestic box office threshold exceeds 100 million yuan, plus overseas, this series can be regarded as a success.
The problem is comparison.
Can't compare.
Then, the fourth place was taken over by "Rush Hour 2" again. However, the single-week box office of this kung fu comedy fell directly to less than 10 million US dollars, only 9.93 million US dollars.
From 37.63 million to 9.93 million, there was almost a gap.
This is mainly due to the fact that other films have not lived up to expectations. For example, Sony's $75 million "2013" had a box office of only $2.56 million in its fourth week of release, which was lower than "Los Angeles" in its sixth week of release. "Secret City" is not as good, let alone other films.
Basically, after the top three on the list, the media and the public no longer pay much attention.
Everyone's attention has turned to the new week.
On June 26, there were still four new films released, many of which were blockbusters with a production value of more than 50 million US dollars. However, Simon was most concerned about a small film, "High School Musical" starring Christina Aguilera. .