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The market environment is growing, which is naturally a good thing.

Based on this report alone, Penguin's stock price could rise by a few points.

Unfortunately, CCTV News made a special mention of it at the end of the report.

The rapid rise of emerging Chinese companies, primarily through games like Spark, is one of the reasons for the high growth of China's overseas markets.

This is a bit annoying.

"What do you mean by 'focusing on Spark'?! Haven't I, the penguin, done anything?"

"Is Xinghuo the only entity in all of China that's doing anything?"

"Why does an industry report have to name names? That's really bad luck."

He slammed the report together and onto the large desk with a thud.

Ma Xiao felt increasingly uneasy the more she thought about it.

One’s own failure is terrible, but the enemy’s success is even more worrying.

Tencent has been undergoing internal restructuring recently.

Especially in Tencent Games, Ma Huateng's anti-corruption efforts, while indeed uncovering some corrupt officials, have also brought this to light.

But everything has two sides.

The anti-corruption campaign has naturally caused turmoil within Tencent Games.

Especially the WEGAME system.

It was almost a complete restructuring, and there was a hidden danger after the restructuring was completed.

That is, even now, WEGAME still hasn't found a person in charge, and the responsibility is still hanging on Ma Xiao.

Besides WEGAME, Tencent's anime-style game studio is also undergoing restructuring.

Although Yao Xiaodong managed to avoid the Tencent-Spark battle in November by going to Japan, he still had to come back to clean up the mess as the year drew to a close.

At the end of the year, each department of Tencent Games gave a summary and report, and each studio had its own explanation. Although they did not win against Spark, everyone was still making money.

Although none of the newly released games have become hits, they are still considered the best among the worst, so they are still acceptable.

The only exception was the anime/manga game studio, which didn't have a single profitable project last year and suffered pure losses.

Yao Xiaodong will have to put in some effort to get through this.

"Just because he has to put in effort doesn't mean I don't?"

Ma Xiao also had a lot of headaches regarding the anime-style game studio. Yao Xiaodong had to report to him, and he also had to report to the board of directors. In the end, the failure of the anime-style game would be a major headache.

He will also be held accountable.

"If only there weren't so many problems during the November Crazy Fun Festival."

Faced with this current mess.

Ma Xiao was also deeply moved.

He had already gradually mastered Penguin Games by November.

As a result, when it collided with Xinghuo in November, not only did it consume a lot of energy, but Xinghuo was not destroyed, while Xinghuo itself was broken apart.

It's making it hard to write a year-end summary.

We need to figure out something else before the end of the year to make the report look better.

How about we get Honor of Kings to release some more skins or something, or maybe we could just acquire an overseas game company or studio?

Ma Xiao comes from an investment background.

I have my own ideas about the problem-solving approach.

Just as Ma Xiao was letting her thoughts wander, there was a knock on the door of her office.

"Mr. Xiao, the profit reports for each department last year have been compiled. Here is the paper file."

Ma Xiao nodded and pointed to the table.

That means you can just leave it there.

The person who knocked placed a thick stack of reports on the table, then bowed and left.

to be frank.

Ma Xiao wasn't really interested in this profit report.

He's still thinking about the acquisition.

However, after thinking for a long time, I still couldn't come up with any ideas, so I picked up the report at the top.

Logically, the one placed at the top should be Tencent Games' most profitable project this year.

Reporting on work, those who know, know.

"Could it be Honor of Kings? Or League of Legends? Hmm, I guess it's Honor of Kings."

Ma Xiao muttered to himself, then picked up the report.

"Aha, it really is Honor of Kings."

Open the report.

First and foremost is the data report that leaders love to see.

"As of December 28th, Honor of Kings' global annual revenue reached 141 billion RMB, a year-on-year increase of over 20%, with overseas revenue reaching 7.05 million RMB, a record high..."

"Tsk tsk tsk, it has to be Honor of Kings, with a monthly revenue of 11 billion."

Seeing this data suddenly improved Ma Xiao's mood considerably, and he hummed a song he really liked.

"How lonely it is to be invincible."

No matter how powerful your Spark is, or how many dimensional wars you stage, you can't shake my foundation.

Social games are indeed the ultimate solution.

Humming and humming.

Suddenly, Ma Xiao had a flash of inspiration. He slammed his hand on the table, and in his excitement, the papers hit the table with a loud thud.

"Yup!"

"We should bring the enemy to our own battlefield!"

Chapter 143 King of Glory Strikes!

Ma Xiao slammed the table and exclaimed, "That's right!"

Acts of being easily startled.

The assistant who followed the sound in was a little confused.

"Ms. Xiao? Do you need any help?"

Ma Xiao glanced at his assistant. He usually didn't think much of this assistant, but today he thought the kid seemed quite clever.

"Go and call the people from the operations department over here."

The assistant was puzzled as to why Ma Xiao, who had been frowning one second, suddenly looked so happy the next, and wondered if it was related to the report he had just submitted.

He quickly agreed.

~~~

That night.

A news story appeared prominently on the front page of major media outlets.

"How lonely it is to be invincible! Honor of Kings' annual revenue hits a new record high."

"Number one in the world, Honor of Kings' annual revenue exceeds 140 billion!"

"It can still grow! The revenue of Honor of Kings has increased by 20% compared to last year. This game is still booming!"

"The world's highest-grossing game! How was Honor of Kings created?"

"Is this the charm of the Rift? Tencent's financial report reveals that Zhao Yun's skin generates 1.5 million yuan in revenue per day!"

"Honor of Kings! China's No. 1 mobile game, truly deserving of the title!"

A whole bunch of news stories appeared at once.

It instantly extinguished the spark mentioned in the previous CCTV news report.

One second the media was marveling at how amazing Xinghuo was, and CCTV News even gave a special mention of Xinghuo in its industry report—and you have to understand, this is industry news.

Just this one sentence: "A new force in China, led by Xinghuo Games, is rapidly rising."

Behind this is official recognition, which is why many media outlets are using this statement as a clue to dig out more information.

However, this is only the beginning of digging into these news stories.

The penguin's transaction report will then appear.

Immediately following were a deluge of reports, with countless Chinese media outlets marveling at how incredibly profitable Tencent was.

Some gaming media outlets have also started to jump on the bandwagon.

I pulled out my previous analysis of Honor of Kings, added a progress report, and it became a new article.

Of course, many media outlets did their homework.

For example, a GamerSky article listed various problems that arose in Honor of Kings in the second half of this year, and discussed in detail the impact of the Spark Dimensional War on it.

However, the article ends with a sense of reflection.

Despite having so many problems, Honor of Kings is still making so much money. It seems that players are both complaining and spending money on the game.

~~~

Why do people like to use numbers when writing reports?

That's because numbers are something that can truly make people feel certain details at a glance.

Everyone says that Honor of Kings is a money-making game.

How much money can you make?

Revenue has exceeded 140 billion, which is equivalent to more than 10 billion per month.

Even media outlets that weren't particularly fond of penguins before.

Faced with this number, one can only marvel at how incredibly profitable Tencent is.

However, when this information is transmitted to the players...

Players' attitudes toward these news items have undergone some subtle changes.

On the one hand, people feel that penguins do make money.

On the other hand, many players are remarking that 2018 was a year of great diversity in Chinese games, with Honor of Kings being the most profitable.

"If they can make this much money with just Honor of Kings, what else can you expect Tencent to innovate? What new things can those investors come up with?"

"It's so tough being a game company in China. You want to find a top company to inspire you, but all you see is something like Honor of Kings..."

"I don't know if the world has gone mad or we have gone mad that Honor of Kings can make so much money."

Because this matter caused a great uproar.

Many media outlets also called to ask Xinghuo for its opinion on the matter.

Lin Li's first reaction was actually that it was strange.

In his memory, FGO's revenue report exceeded that of Honor of Kings, and Tencent should have no trouble obtaining that data.

But now, Tencent is using the fact that Honor of Kings has become number one in the world to promote itself.

This surprised Lin Li.

Either Tencent simply didn't look at the external changes, got its own data, and saw that it had increased even more than last year, and since it was number one last year, it will definitely be number one this year.

They announced it right away.

Either the data released by Tencent is fake, a bait to get Spark to release FGO data, and then Tencent will turn the tables on them.