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Chapter 440: The Birth of Blizzard

Some people may find it strange that why founders such as Mike Mohuaimi sold 100% of Blizzard's shares so easily is it a bit exaggerated and unrealistic.

The fact is that this is not an exaggeration, because in history, in January 1994, after the release of Warcraft 1, the channel dealer responsible for the release of World of Warcraft saw the Warcraft 1 product again, which was shocking.

So he spent $6.4 million to buy 100% of the shares of the entire Blizzard.

Later, the dealer itself was acquired by a French entertainment group, and later the entertainment group was acquired by Vidivin. In the end, Blizzard was sold to Activision by Vidivin, and its name changed to Activision Blizzard.

So Blizzard can be said to have been in the stage of being sold, while Blizzard's two founders have always served as president and vice president, and have basically not changed.

The same situation is also the future Riot Company. Many people may not know that Riot Company is actually a Chinese company, because 99% of Riot's shares were bought by Tencent.

When Tencent acquired Riot, it also promised that unless the founder ignored it, the control of the company would be given to these two founders forever, and Tencent was only responsible for investment.

This is also one of the characteristics of American business behavior, that is, even if American businessmen acquire the entire company, they generally do not touch the founder of the company. Instead, they will keep the founder as much as possible, because basically the founder is the best controller of the company.

After completing the acquisition, the favorite thing a Chinese company likes to do is to kick out the founder.

For example, Ele.me, Didi, etc. Anyway, many familiar companies have basically been kicked out. Among all the big capitals in China, Alibaba is the one who likes to do such things the most.

Because Alibaba's desire to control itself in its bones must firmly control all the acquired companies, those founders who have great prestige within the company, are disobedient and have their own ideas will naturally be kicked away.

Well, but then again, Boss Jia is actually a person with a strong desire to control. If he hadn't known in advance that the two founders of Blizzard were born with a natural disagreement and just focused on game development, Boss Jia would not dare to decisively hand over the game's R&D rights to these two founders so decisively.

Okay, let's get back to the point. Boss Jia thought that he could leave after signing the contract, but Mike Mo Huaimi kept trying to keep Jia Yapeng, and then asked Jia Yapeng to give him some advice and see what else needs to be modified in World of Warcraft 1.

The reason why Mike Mohuaimi was so eager to ask Boss Jia to give her opinions is because Boss Jia is the founder of Pokemon, and Mike Mohuaimi is now impressed by Pokemon Games. In his eyes, Boss Jia is one of the most awesome gamers in the world.

In fact, this is the case. After all, Boss Jia has played all the games in the next 30 years, and has proposed some shortcomings and improvement plans, which is not as simple as playing.

However, Boss Jia will not make too many suggestions for changes, otherwise there will be a lot of things that are not in line with the times, which will be bad at that time.

So after playing it carefully several times, Boss Jia put forward some modification suggestions, such as the operation method.

Because the operation method of Warcraft 1 was learned from Shanqiu, it is really anti-human, which is completely different from the operation method of Warcraft in later generations, so Boss Jia gave out all the basic operation methods of the later generations.

At first, Mike Mohuaimi was a little suspicious of this operation method, but after getting started, Mike Mohuaimi was surprised to find that it was more than several times easier to get started. Even players with broken hands could operate very smoothly. They recorded all the operation methods on the spot and modified them.

In addition to the operation method, there are also changes to the fog of war.

The original Warcraft fog of Warcraft 1 was the same as the War fog of Red Alert 2. Although it was also black at the beginning, as long as the map was discovered, the map would be lit and you could clearly see all the battles on the map.

As Boss Jia suggested, the fog of war has changed to the future, which means that the map was black at the beginning. After seeing the map, you can see the specific terrain of the map, but each unit has a line of sight. Once the unit leaves, the map will become dark again.

These changes are very small, but in Mike Mo Huaimi's eyes, they were simply epoch-making changes. Mike Mo Huaimi's eyes when she looked at Jia Yapeng later, just like the eyes of her lover, which made Boss Jia creepy.

"By the way, there is one last thing!" Boss Jia suddenly thought of something and said, "Mike, do you think the name of the company's current silicon and nerve bond should be modified?"

"That's right, boss, I've wanted to change this name long ago!" When Mike Mohuaimi heard it, she couldn't help laughing. "All employees say that our name is terrible, because 99% of people can't pronounce the correct pronunciation of the word "Neural Key"!"

"Then what name are you going to change to?" Boss Jia asked. In fact, it doesn't take Mike Mohuaimi to say that Boss Jia also knows that the new name in Mike Mohuaimi's mind must be called Blizzard.

"Well, I've already thought of the new name. I decided to change the company to "Chaos Studio!" Mike Mohuaimi said loudly, while Boss Jia almost choked in his throat with a sip of water.

"What did you say? Chaotic Studio?" Boss Jia couldn't help but ask again?

"Yes, boss, are you not satisfied with this name?" Mike Mo Huaimi looked at Boss Jia with some concern. This was a new name he thought about for several months before he came up with. He was personally very satisfied. If Boss Jia disagreed, it would be troublesome.

"It's okay! I have no objection!" Boss Jia shook his head, and sighed in his heart that he flapped the butterfly wings again, which made even the name Blizzard disappear.

At the same time, Boss Jia was still a little worried about whether many classic games in the future would be scattered by his butterfly wings.

But it doesn't matter. If the future is really gone, then Boss Jia himself ordered Blizzard to create one. It's no big deal.

However, a few days later, Boss Jia, who had returned to New York, suddenly received a call from Mike Mohuaimi. Mike Mohuaimi told Boss Jia very sadly that when they applied to register the trademark Chaos, they actually found that they had been registered by other game companies and they could not use the new name Chaos.

So Mike Mohuaimi said that it would be better to ask the chairman to name the new company in person.

"That's called Blizzard!" Boss Jia said with a smile.

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