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It's important to understand that this is at this particular point in time.

PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds (PUBG) hasn't become a free-to-play game overseas; you have to spend real money to play it.

Currently, the Chinese server is offering a free trial for one week, and like Fortnite, it also gives away full-version skins.

Players are unaware that Tencent wasn't actually confident of obtaining a license for the PC version of Fortnite, so they gave away the skin for the official release.

When it will be fulfilled is unclear.

However, whatever the future holds.

present.

The penguin's crazy fun festival met expectations.

In an effort to boost sales and recover the stock price that had fallen due to the previous failure of Red Alert Online, Tencent released a set of posters shortly after the start of the Crazy Play Festival.

The numbers on the poster are quite striking.

The WeGame gaming platform has accumulated 3 million registered users.

Monthly active users reached 70 million in November.

The game has been launched a total of 300 billion times!

This data is already comparable to the level of WEGAME in the mid-19 era.

Given the competitive pressure from the Spark platform, Tencent's ability to achieve this scale in November 2018 is truly remarkable.

Of course, some of the figures are inflated.

A large number of registered users and monthly active users are those who launch and play popular PC games such as League of Legends through WeGame.

For them, WEGAME is just a launcher.

If we disregard these users and look at the details...

For a platform like WEGAME, the total number of games sold in 18 was only about 600 million.

Chapter 52 The Spark is Here Again? I haven't even popped the champagne yet!

With 3 million registered users and 7000 million monthly active users, the game only sold 600 million copies.

The difference between these two is quite telling.

of course.

Within Tencent, they generally don't mention that last statistic.

It will only report the data from the beginning.

Therefore, if we only look at the data in the first few columns, WEGAME can be said to have won big in this Crazy Play Festival.

Keep in mind that at this time, Steam only has 9000 million monthly active users.

Moreover, this is just the beginning.

Next week, there will be more than a dozen cross-platform mobile games, including "Dimension: Glory Showdown".

In addition, another major game, NBA2KOL, will also be launched.

Who knows, by the end of the month, its monthly active users might surpass Steam to become the "world's number one" gaming platform.

Surrounded by this series of good news, Chen Zhou finally breathed a sigh of relief.

He has come back to life.

Ma Xiao also breathed a sigh of relief.

Data is incredibly useful in large companies.

Those who blindly believe in capital are equally blindly believe in data.

One phrase they often say is that data doesn't lie.

The data certainly doesn't lie, but unfortunately, the people who report the data do.

Ma Huateng was very happy; WEGAME was showing signs of improvement.

Penguin's shareholders are very happy, and the stock price has gone up.

Everyone is happy.

And so, it was time for another meeting.

The meeting location for the mid-term adjustment meeting of the Crazy Fun Festival has changed.

Instead of going to Tencent, they went to a five-star hotel.

The number of people invited to the meeting has also increased.

It was less of an internal meeting and more like a business development conference, with a hint of a victory celebration.

Many manufacturers and investors in the gaming industry have received invitations from Tencent.

Ma Xiao hopes to leverage her strengths.

The "success" of WEGAME has attracted more manufacturers to sign cooperation agreements with Tencent.

As long as you sign a contract, Tencent can include your game in the Crazy Play Festival.

It doesn't have to be a new game; older games can also be included.

It's a fun festival, so there are no rules saying you have to release new games.

You can still play old games.

Otherwise, with so much cost incurred for the Crazy Fun Festival, they have to recoup some of it eventually.

The entire meeting went very smoothly.

Tencent's executives once again experienced the feeling of being surrounded by manufacturers making money.

The banquet began.

The atmosphere was even better.

In the spacious five-star buffet restaurant, Chen Zhou, holding a glass of red wine, was the object of compliments wherever he went.

However, this good atmosphere did not last long.

"Chen Zhou! I'll f*** your mother!"

With a curse

In the banquet hall, everyone's eyes turned to this direction.

Then they saw a middle-aged man being dragged away by security guards while shouting.

After a few whispers...

Only then did everyone realize that the person who had just caused trouble and cursed was Hu Bing, the owner of Red Alert Online.

This little incident scared Chen Zhou half to death.

Fortunately, the security guards arrived quickly, and Hu Bing was dragged out before he could finish swearing about Chen Zhou's dirty deeds.

It did not affect the peaceful and prosperous atmosphere.

However, this bad news was just the beginning of the evening.

Hu Bing was just taken away.

Some whispers began to circulate among the people present.

It's perfectly normal for people to chat at a buffet.

But this time it's really different.

While the manufacturers whispered among themselves, they kept glancing at Chen Zhou and Ma Xiao.

This is very strange.

Fortunately, their doubts were soon explained.

"President Xiao! Spark! There's an event on Spark!"

The assistant is very loud and boisterous.

It felt like the sky had fallen, which made Ma Xiao very unhappy.

He pulled his assistant aside.

"what activity?"

"Spark Global Game and Music Festival? In three days? Free tickets for a limited time?! Live streamed throughout?"

"Such a big event, and Xinghuo is only now announcing it?"

Ma Xiao initially thought this event was just a temporary activity by Spark to counter Penguin's Crazy Play Festival.

However, as he searched on his phone and gathered more and more information, Ma Xiao assessed the promotional materials for the Spark Global Game and Music Festival.

He quickly realized that this was indeed an event designed to sabotage the Penguin Fun Festival.

But it is by no means a temporary event.

Because the first page of the event was filled with listings of participating game companies.

Sony, Capcom, miHoYo, and Seasun Entertainment—these are all old friends of Spark Entertainment. The key point is that this event page also features logos from companies like 2K, EA, and even Rockstar Games, as well as Microsoft and Nintendo.

Just look at the logos of the three starter brands together.

This is enough to prove that the event could not have been organized temporarily.

It was definitely premeditated.

It may have been planned for a long time.

"Spark, that's too insidious!"

"Can't we just fight fair and square once?! You always have to resort to sneak attacks!"

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In fact.

Ma Xiao really made a mistake this time.

Lin Li did not launch a sneak attack intentionally, but rather because the planning of the event required time.

Going online now is already the limit.

We need to explain the origins of the Spark Global Game and Music Festival.

We need to move the timeline forward a little.

Just as Tencent released Red Alert Online.

Lin Li had already disembarked from the plane and arrived in France with his team to begin his trip to Ubisoft.

Get off the plane.

Even more excited than Borg was Grus.

By this time, Gross and his fellow Icelanders had been in China for almost two years.

From initially feeling uncomfortable, they've now started complaining to Lin Li about how expensive housing is in Shanghai and asking if the entire engine department could be transferred to Tianfu.

The reason he gave was that he had visited Tianfu during his previous vacation and found the place very pleasant, and the rooms were not tall.

In fact, to see if a foreigner wants to integrate, just look at their language.

Now, most of the people from Grude can speak everyday Chinese. Of course, Borg also deserves credit for this. Borg and a group of Spark employees have worked very well together with Grude.

For example, Li Mingxuan and Grus have a very good relationship.

Later, when Li Mingxuan took on projects on his own, Grus still communicated with him frequently.

Of course, for this reason, Li Mingxuan's project team received a lot of help from the engine department when developing Heroes of Might and Magic III Remastered.

Normally, Grus is not a very talkative person.

But today, as soon as she got off the plane, Groos seemed very excited.

Borg and I were chatting the whole time.