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v2 Chapter 198: let's move

At this time, Henry handed a document to Simon Hodge, saying: "This is an acquisition list, which lists in detail the information about the companies we want to acquire! The professional car magazine RoadTrack is just one of them, and we still Need to acquire the game development team!!!"

Simon Hodge took it, looked through it, and read in a low voice: "; Henry explained: "This is a British sports game company. The company is still small, but the potential is good. I think it can be acquired! Our FIFa1994 and FIFa football managers can hand in this team to join and start together! ! ! "

The Fm football manager produced by this company in the future can be said to beat the FIFa football manager of ea company, and the game development ability is very good!

But obviously, the game called "FIFa Football Manager" was launched in the 1994 FIFA World Cup, which is highly recognized and more popular! ! ! FIFa refers to FIFA, which is responsible for organizing various football matches around the world! For fans, FIFa stands for football!

The production team of Need for Speed ​​has not yet been established, and Henry cannot find them. One can only recruit game developers and open it yourself! Need for Speed ​​requires a unique game engine, including graphics, aI, sound effects, and physical effects that must perform very well! Therefore, since the original team of Need for Speed ​​has not been found, Henry intends to give the new team that is about to be formed enough time to let them develop a good engine! ! !

Sharpen a sword in three years.

By then, as soon as the speeding car is out, who will compete!

In the football category, the sportsInteractive company, together with the team recruited by the Firefly Game Company, should be enough to produce excellent works!

Henry didn't urge, let them drive slowly, anyway, in 1993, they wanted to make the game!

There are at least more than two years, more than two years. Doing two football games is definitely based on high-quality games! ! !

But before the game starts, there is still a lot of work to be done.

Before Need for Speed ​​drives, take down the car magazine; before FIFa1994 and FIFa Football Manager drive. To win the official authorization of the event, players and FIFa!

Firefly Games has relied on the works of other game companies over the years and has accumulated hundreds of millions of dollars in funds over the years. At present, Henry does not need to inject capital into the company!

After Henry left the Firefly Game Company, Simon Hodge followed Henry's instructions. Start a big expansion strategy. Advertising on TV, newspapers, and the Internet, recruiting a large number of programmers, game developers, the number of recruits reached more than a thousand.

And this move immediately scared ea company!

Suddenly overnight, one's own competitor is actually hiring thousands of new employees. Is it because there is no big move?

ea held an emergency meeting. Then discuss how to deal with it.

At the same time, ea company sent more than n people to find out what happened!

However, Simon Hodge and Henry Henry knew about this.

The matter of opening the firefly game platform is confidential, and will not be disclosed to the outside world for the time being! The programmers who had just arrived immediately signed a confidentiality agreement and arranged to conduct secret research on the platform in a remote office building! ! !

As soon as the Blizzard game comes out, the platform will officially debut! By then, it will definitely blind everyone’s eyes

At the same time, Firefly Games also formally submitted an acquisition request to RoadTrack Automotive Magazine. The market value of RoadTrack car magazine is only a few million dollars, and the magazine is not profitable. So under the strong check offensive of the Firefly Game Company, it will surrender!

In the end, it spent five million US dollars on a wholly-owned acquisition; this move made ea see some signs of it.

"Firefly Game Company is going to open a racing game?!!!" ea company was puzzled.

At this time, Simon Hodge had sent someone to Britain. Subsequently, the acquisition of the sportsInteractive company began. SportsInteractive is still a small company. Facing the acquisition of a world-class Firefly game company, it quickly agreed!

However, as a new company, SportsInteractive, the founder of the company still wants to retain shares and have some autonomy in the company's game development. And the reason for this request. It is because the Firefly Game Show has become the second game giant in the United States. Its business model is already well known. Its subsidiaries are equivalent to independent companies. You can play any game you want. The parent company will generally not interfere. , Unless it is said that the subsidiary will cause significant losses

The sportsInteractive company also took a fancy to this point and was naturally very happy to join it.

Leaning against the big tree is good for enjoying the cold, and there is a backstage cover, how is it better than going alone and going out alone! ! !

So, soon, Firefly Games completed the acquisition of SportsInteractive, taking 75% of the shares, and leaving the remaining 25% to the founders and game developers. The acquisition of sportsInteractive did not attract any attention because it is a small company

However, the next action was shocking! ! !

Firefly Game Company conducted public relations with FIFa and spent 100 million US dollars to win all the events, players and FIFa's official game authorizations to be held by FIFa in the future! ! !

As soon as the news came out, it immediately caused a global sensation! ! !

The ea company was stunned. They had this plan originally, but they have not been implemented yet, but Firefly Games is the first to list it! ! ! What is even more surprising is that the Firefly Game Company is so courageous, spending 100 million U.S. dollars to win the official authorization! ! !

Fans all over the world are cheering for joy. The Firefly Game Company is so awesome. Since they are willing to spend 100 million US dollars to get the authorization, they will definitely invest a lot of money in the game. Presumably, the football game produced must be very fun! ! !

For a time, fans and players are looking forward to the upcoming football game of Firefly Game Company! ! !

Simon Hodge was not very difficult in communicating with FIFa. FIFa FIFA is naturally very pleased to see that there are companies that will play football games, because in this way, the influence of football can be expanded! ! !

When Simon Hodge offered to get official authorization, FIFa considered it for a while, and finally looked at the face of money, and agreed in a while. Moreover, it is the official exclusive authorization within four years, and it is obligated to promote the Firefly Game Company at the 1994 World Cup!

In every event, a short section of Firefly Game’s football game will be played on the silver screen advertisement! ! !

The big action of the Firefly Game Company made ea feel an unprecedented sense of crisis!

The CEO and founder of ea, Trip Hawkins, personally sits in the company and presides over the company's game development. In particular, Firefly Game Company wants to use football as a breakthrough point to enter sports games, ea company will not tolerate it, and it must be attacked outside! Therefore, ea's next game football! ! ! ! ! ! !

Subsequently, ea company held a press conference and declared to the public: "ea company decided to spend huge sums of money to play football games!!!"

After the news conference ~lightnovelpub.net~, it was lively.

The two major game companies in the United States will compete in football games! ! !

Will the ea company, which is good at making sports games, win, or the sudden emergence of Firefly Games?

Countless people are speculating, but most of the media and players voted for ea to win. The technical industry has specialization. After all, ea is a professional sports game developer, and Firefly Games currently only sells games from other companies and has not produced it itself. Everyone doesn't know how powerful a game is! ! !

The suspense will be announced in 1994! ! !

At this time, several gaming companies in Las Vegas and the United Kingdom announced that they would officially open the odds at the end of 1993, and the game of which bet is more popular! ! ! But at present, his company, therefore, the betting company claims that if the odds are opened now, the ea company will have an odds of 1:3 against the Firefly Game Company! ! !

(To be continued.)

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