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The reason Ma Huateng put Chen Zhou in charge of WEGAME was...

There are two points.

Firstly, Chen Zhou was parachuted in from overseas and had no factions in the local area, so he was able to manage WEGAME while also improving the team's atmosphere.

In fact.

The WEGAME team actually had no internal problems. Wang Guang was anxious, but he wasn't actually greedy.

But the problem lies with Yu Zhong.

This made Ma Huateng begin to have doubts about the domestic team, so Chen Zhou's overseas arrival was not a disadvantage, but a plus.

Secondly, there's Chen Zhou's personality.

Chapter 421 Chen Zhou Takes Office

Secondly, there's Chen Zhou's personality.

As a senior executive at Tencent, Chen Zhou's biggest hobby outside of work is Texas Hold'em.

This hobby also makes his style of doing things lean towards seizing opportunities.

Several times, Penguin's acquisitions were made thanks to his keen sense of opportunity, seizing the moment and going all in to successfully acquire the company.

For Ma Huateng

What WEGAME's overseas market needs right now is this kind of drive.

Even though Chen Zhou had some minor flaws during the meeting, Ma Huateng believed that a young person's shortcomings didn't mean anything; what mattered more was their ability.

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Chen Zhou and Wang Gang walked into the WEGAME office area.

On his first day in office, Wang Gang was all smiles, but Chen Zhou's face was expressionless.

Chen Zhou wasn't as happy as others when he received the job offer.

to him.

I even felt a little wronged.

It’s so frustrating.

A high-ranking overseas executive, upon returning, was constantly instructed by Ma Huateng like a primary school student. This is understandable, since when a leader talks to you, the main reason is to emphasize work.

But why bother with informants? Why bring in a market analyst as a scout?

Yes.

Spark does have some influence overseas.

But this places too much emphasis on the spark.

be honest.

Chen Zhou felt that Ma Huateng had gone too far.

In addition, although the position of head of WEGAME is indeed a promotion for Chen Zhou.

But he doesn't really think much of the gaming industry.

He never mentioned this to anyone.

But deep down, he did feel that compared to the gaming industry...

Finance, capital, using games to acquire larger companies, mergers and acquisitions, negotiating, and having hundreds of millions of dollars flowing through his hands – these are what he wants, and what he believes he is good at.

but..

To make waves in the financial markets by leveraging Tencent, one needs power, but he lacks power.

Therefore, Chen Zhou is very ambitious.

He displayed amazing acting skills when given this opportunity.

Through intensive study, he convinced Ma Huateng that he was a knowledgeable overseas executive at Tencent.

At the same time, he leveraged his status as an overseas executive to portray himself as having a more global mindset, which ultimately secured him the opportunity.

After working hard to get the position of head of WEGAMA.

Chen Zhou had already accomplished half of his goal.

I should have been very happy.

As a result, upon returning to China, he was publicly ridiculed twice by Lin Li during a meeting with officials.

After the meeting.

Ma Huateng discussed the proposal with him repeatedly.

The end is coming.

We also need to give him a deputy.

"Alright, let's spend six months getting Xinghuo sorted out, then we'll talk to Boss Ma. Then we'll get a promotion, a transfer out of this awful place, and access to more resources..."

"Let's have a meeting first!"

Day 1 at WEGAME.

At the conference, Chen Zhou shouted his slogan for taking charge of WEGAME.

“ALL IN THE WORLD”

A somewhat inexplicable slogan.

So at this meeting, Chen Zhou explained his slogan in detail.

In his theory, the reason why WEGAME is so useless under Wang Guang's management is because its resources are too scattered.

As a Penguin executive.

Although Chen Zhou wasn't entirely clear on the operating logic of the gaming industry, he was well aware of the power wielded by Tencent.

"We have so many chips in our hands, why should we wait for the opponent to develop their cards? We should just bet all our chips, and the opponent won't even have a chance to flop."

“Wang Guang doesn’t understand the advantages of our penguins at all, but I do.”

"Our globalization power is stronger than we imagined."

"In Texas Hold'em, going all in is an art, and at this point, the spark has only just begun to ignite."

"If everyone follows my strategy, we will definitely be able to defeat Xinghuo."

In his ALL IN theory, the core is actually somewhat similar to Kazuo Hirai's Sony.

The idea is to leverage the resources of Tencent to launch a game that will establish a foothold in the global market.

These theories left WEGAME's operations manager completely bewildered.

Goodness, Wang Guang is just a bit arrogant, but at least he understands the market situation.

You come in without knowing anything and go all in?

The operations manager didn't know what others thought, but that afternoon he reported to HR and directly resigned; he was going to Xinghuo.

The departure of this operations manager did not cause any ripples at WEGAME.

Chen Zhou directly appointed Wang Gang as the new operations manager.

Professional matters should be handled by professionals.

Chen Zhou does have this kind of vision.

Of course, giving Wang Gang this position is also in the hope that he will be more honest and work diligently.

The newcomer, Chen Zhou, was even more anxious than Wang Guang.

After a quick glance at the current situation.

He immediately found a point where he could go all in.

While WEGMA's global night did have many problems, Girls' Frontline International and Crossing Void did receive some positive feedback.

While Girls' Frontline International Edition underwent a major overhaul, Crossing Void did not.

Moreover, compared to Girls' Frontline.

The first round of global promotion for "Crossing Void" has garnered some attention.

Especially in Japan.

It's a bit of a misunderstanding.

Many Japanese gamers believe that Crossing Void, which was also promoted around the same time as the Spark Carnival, is also a Spark game.

This attracted a lot of attention.

Later, I found out it wasn't a Spark game, but I still added some pre-registrations.

These are the underwear.

This also makes it seem like the penguins didn't lose as badly as they thought.

Furthermore, Crossing Void is already in the late stages of development, with all its content complete and ready to use.

In this situation.

Chen Zhou began to place his bets on the project "Zero Crossing".

By mid-November.

Tencent announced a special version of WEGAME for overseas markets, while the international version of WEGAME is open for registration to domestic manufacturers.

The commission rates are exactly the same as those for regular games (10%) and full-stack services (20%).

But here.

Penguins played a little trick.

That means the manufacturers registered for the international version, and if they want to enter the domestic market in the future, the commission rate will be different. This is the result of Tencent's internal research.

After all, given Tencent's ability to drive traffic, a 10% commission would be considered charity, and the people at Tencent wouldn't do something so unprofitable.

The emergence of the international version of WEGAME still attracted considerable attention in China.

But everyone is just observing.

Chen Zhou didn't care about this wait-and-see attitude and went all in.

"Zero Realm Crossing" received unprecedented attention, and Chen Zhou proposed the "Three ONE" strategy during his first public interview.

The goal is to leverage the power of the WEGAME platform to propel a game to the top of the world rankings within a year.

This is his goal.

To be honest, many manufacturers couldn't help but laugh when they saw this slogan.

Even if you're a penguin, you can't brag like that.

Then they inquired and found out, oh, it turns out he's another layman, which makes sense.

Chapter 422 The Power of ALL IN

But soon.

People then witnessed the power of going all in.

With the first closed beta test of Crossing Void scheduled for June, the game is enjoying benefits that many of Tencent's flagship titles haven't even had at launch.

First, it appeared directly on the Times Square screen.

At the same time, Tencent announced that the first 100 players who download WEGAME and reach the corresponding level during the Crossing Void test will receive a $5 no-minimum-spend coupon.

This $5 no-minimum-spend coupon can be directly used to top up any game on WEGAME, including League of Legends!

In addition, Chen Zhou did something very impressive.

He found a shill.

That is, the development team behind Final Crown.