Chapter 310 Even foreign adults’ knees can bend
“It’s been almost a week. Isn’t there a company that has come to consult?”
“Yes, a Neon Game Company asked about it, but because they are not large, the price of 89.2 million may be a bit high for them…”
“Then what? No more follow-up calls?”
“There was a follow-up call, but after two follow-up calls, the other party stopped answering the phone…”
“Bring me a girl! A studio that created billions in just four years now only sells 89.2 million! Are they all blind?”
“Uh this…”
Friday.
Office of the Vice President of Yunwei Group.
Pétain’s brows furrowed into a knot, anxious and angry.
It seems that nearly a week has passed since Ubsoft was put up for sale!
The only manufacturer that was interested in consulting about acquisition matters was a little-known neon company!
This undoubtedly made Pétain, who was mainly responsible for this matter, very anxious.
You need to know!
Due to the collapse-level failure of "High Energy Pioneer", Vivendi is now very dissatisfied with their Yunwei team!
Now, they urgently need to cut expenses and find ways to make up for the big hole of $660 million!
Among the many methods, selling Ubsoft is an important one.
Otherwise, Cornick would not have given this task directly to one of his vice presidents.
The problem is, judging from the current situation, Ubsoft's move is not going well, and it can even be said that the future is bleak.
UB’s reputation is so bad!
And the price of $89.2 million is really embarrassing.
You may say that the price is expensive, but it is not expensive. For major companies, it is definitely a good deal to acquire a well-established game studio with a history of nearly 20 years for less than 100 million.
But the premise is that this manufacturer has good potential, at least, it should not be a mess.
Obviously UB does not meet this requirement, so major manufacturers can afford it, but are not willing to buy it.
But you say this is cheap, and it is indeed a bit expensive. For some small and medium-sized manufacturers, the price of nearly 100 million dollars, although it can be obtained by a company with rich game production experience and more than four years of development experience in a large manufacturer. studio.
But the price is really high and cannot be afforded by small and medium-sized game companies. Moreover, the products are not good.
To put it bluntly, the current UB is just like the 3070 mining card in Gu Sheng’s previous life in the 40s.
The big guys who can afford it all go to 4090.
Common people who cannot afford it would rather let their 1060 fight for another two years than spend money to buy a mining card.
Very embarrassing.
Pétain was almost dying of anxiety.
After all, if no more companies come to acquire it, they will have no choice but to take UB apart and sell it.
In this way, although the sales price of personnel will be higher.
but!
Overall, it is far less than 89.2 million U.S. dollars.
After all, their current investment of more than 89 million dollars is equivalent to a combination of personnel + copyright.
If you separate the people and sell them individually, the price of the person will certainly go up, but how will you sell the copyright?
Don’t think that the copyright in UB’s hands is a piece of cake.
If you separate out the junk copyrights that have never appeared in the game market and have not been verified by sales, the difficulty of sales will be further increased.
So what Pétain is looking forward to most now is that someone is willing to pack up this piece of garbage and take it away collectively at a price of 89.2 million, so that it will never appear in front of him again.
But the problem is...
Who will buy it?
“…Someone came to discuss the acquisition! Vice President Petain!”
I am worried!
With the knock on the door, another intern secretary of Pétain knocked on the door and brought good news.
"real?!"
Hear the words.
Pétain suddenly stood up, his eyes shining with gleaming eyes!
"real!"
The secretary nodded repeatedly, his face beaming with joy:
“Two distinguished guests are waiting in the VIP room downstairs of the company, do you think?”
"Go, go, go...go, go, go..."
Pétain had no time to say anything more, so he grabbed his suit jacket and walked hurriedly towards the elevator. As he walked, he asked:
“What company is here? Which country is it from? What’s its name?”
The sound of high-heeled shoes clicking followed Petain:
“According to the front desk receptionist, these are two VIPs from China. They did not disclose their names and company names, but they said that you must know them.”
“China?”
Hearing this, Pétain was slightly startled, then entered the elevator and smacked his lips secretly.
To be honest, Pétain was a little surprised.
You must know that today's Chinese gaming circle is quite hostile to Yunwei.
Not only are comprehensive game manufacturers such as Yiyou and Xunteng taking advantage of their cloud power and chaos to crazily grab international market share.
What's even more disgusting is Golden Wind. This medium-sized manufacturer that overestimates its capabilities secretly played dirty tricks and deliberately set up a trap for them and gave them a fake project, cheating them out of more than 600 million!
At this moment of tense relations between the two parties, there are actually Chinese manufacturers who are willing to break through the "blockade" of the Chinese Game Manufacturers Alliance, contact them, and buy Ubsoft, this troublesome burden.
It’s really incredible.
Ding!
Thinking about it, the elevator also reached the first floor.
Outside, the receptionist is already waiting:
“President Petain, the VIPs are in the lounge, please come with me.”
Pétain nodded and followed the **** girl's footsteps to the door of the VIP lounge.
Taking a deep breath, he straightened his brows, put on a friendly smile, knocked on the door, and then pushed the door open and entered:
“Welcome to the United States Yunwei, my friend from China who came from afar...”
The words are not finished yet!
Pétain's voice was stuck in his throat.
The accompanying secretary next to him suddenly changed his face and his eyes widened!
See you!
On the large VIP sofa, a young man and woman, more than twenty-four or five years old, were sitting.
The girl was wearing a cream-white coat, lined with a high-collar cashmere sweater, with a round face and big eyes, long, shiny black hair hanging over her shoulders, and a lollipop in her mouth.
The young man is wearing a black tunic suit, short hair, and a handsome face with sharp edges. He is half leaning on the sofa, his legs are stacked, and he holds a cigarette with rising smoke in his hand. He looks like a yuppie. Show all.
In a sense, the two people in front of him are indeed Pétain’s ‘old friends’—
ˆBecause they are the chairman and CEO of Golden Wind!
Shen Miaomiao! Gu Sheng!
Pétain’s head buzzed!
The eyebrows trembled, and the eyes were full of complex expressions!
This expression contains anger, fear, surprise, and even more incredible!
Chinese manufacturers who want to acquire Ubsoft...
It turned out to be the golden wind? !
——
Seeing that Petain was stunned on the spot, Gu Sheng slowly exhaled a puff of smoke and pointed it directly at Petain's face without any hesitation:
“Mr. Pétain, have you not finished what you just said?” Pétain’s face turned green!
Get out!
Get out of here now!
but!
“Pétain, putting Ubsoft up for sale is not my order, but Vivendi’s arrangement. If we don’t do this well, both of us will have to live with it!” ’
Cornick’s voice echoed in his mind.
Half a while!
Pétain held back a breath of suffocation, grinned, and showed a smile that was uglier than crying:
"Welcome... you two... to Yunwei to discuss cooperation... please... please upstairs?"
“Mr. Petain doesn’t look very well,”
Hearing this, Shen Miaomiao stood up:
“Don’t worry, we are not here to discuss cooperation, but to discuss acquisitions. Please show us around first.”
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Pétain almost spat out a mouthful of blood!
His words that were arrogant in the golden wind were like a big slap, but now they turned around and slapped him in the face again!
Snap!
It’s crisp and loud!
The most important thing was that he could only endure this big talker, instead of turning around and walking away like Shen Miaomiao did with a 'shameless' attitude. !
Pétain’s face turned livid:
"Uh... that's it... Director Shen, what we're here to discuss this time is Ubsoft. I don't think it's necessary to inspect the whole company, right?"
Hear the words.
Shen Miaomiao stopped and looked at Lao Gu next to her:
“Yes, too?”
"Um…"
Gu Sheng thought for a moment and nodded:
“It’s really not necessary.”
“Then let’s go.”
As he said that, Shen Miaomiao waved his hand!
The two of them walked towards the door of Yunwei Building!
“Hey! Hey! Two, two, two! Two…”
Pétain saw that the situation was not good and hurriedly took two steps like a rabbit to catch up with Shen and Gu!
How dare he let the two of them leave like this!
You need to know!
These two people flew thousands of miles from China to the United States!
No matter how idle they are, they can't come all the way to Yunwei just to slap him in the face!
Since the golden wind is coming, it must be coming with the intention of acquisition!
If the VIP is taken away just because of a few words, what will be waiting for him then will not only be the rage of his immediate boss, Cornick, but also the sanctions of Vivendi!
See you now!
The veins on Pétain's neck popped out, and his neck was red from holding it in, but he could only lower his head and give the two people a sneer:
“It’s...that’s the case...”
“Because things in the company have been quite busy recently, I was afraid that I wouldn’t be able to show you the positive side of our company, so...”
"But since you two are willing to visit, please come with me. I will give you a detailed... introduction."
Pettain’s teeth were almost broken.
Humiliation.
Absolute humiliation!
Looking at Pedant's 'noble' Angsa man's head, lowered under the domineering gazes of himself and little Nezha, Gu Sheng raised his eyebrows slightly.
It seems that the ‘foreign master’s’ knees are not very good at bending.
Pause for a moment!
Shen Miaomiao nodded slightly, seemingly agreeing to Petain's invitation, but she did not move forward in a hurry, but slowly said:
"Mr. Pétain, I am not a person who likes to push back and forth. Now that I am able to stand here, I think I have made something clear. I hope your company will not waste the time of both of us."
“Hmm—okay—”
Hear the words!
It was as if Pétain was constipated, with veins popping up on his forehead, and his whole face turned purple from suffocation. It was obvious that he was extremely angry, but he had to forcefully swallow the breath!
Shen Miaomiao's words were too harsh!
Although the language is considered civilized, it is only civilized!
Not even polite!
The domineering words are full of noble nobility and unquestionable authority——
I'm here to talk about acquisitions, and I know very well that your Ubsoft can't be sold, so now, I am your God, and you'd better take a closer look and don't be shameless.
From now on.
My rules are rules! !
In the subsequent acquisition negotiations, this point was also thoroughly implemented by Shen Miaomiao!
The whole journey!
Gu Sheng almost didn't open his mouth, it was Xiao Nezha who was completely leading the battlefield alone!
“…8920 is too high and does not meet our expectations…”
“Of course you don’t have to accept it, but you also need to consider who else will solve this hot potato for you if we don’t make the acquisition...”
“You don’t need to tell me how much profit UB made in the first four years or how good the financial report was. I only look at it now...”
“…The copyright for a series of novels that has never been market-proven, and the scrapped project that hasn’t even been completed?”
“Unlimited potential should be something you say later, not now…”
“It’s a pity that Mr. Pétain, the ‘Neon Company’ you mentioned also asked for us, otherwise how would we know about UB’s copyright situation…”
“…Yes, from the beginning to the end, we are the only ones in the global game market who are slightly interested in UB…”
“Eight thousand and five? We can’t accept...seven thousand and five..."
“Seven thousand eight…”
“Seven thousand and nine…”
Haggling with words and bargaining.
Although it seems that the two parties sitting at the negotiation table are no different from the aunts, aunts and small traders haggling in the vegetable market at this moment.
But in fact, the so-called price negotiation is nothing more than that simple and plain.
Even negotiations like theirs, which use "ten thousand dollars" as the basic unit, are already considered very high in price negotiations.
Shen Miaomiao once participated in a pharmaceutical price bidding meeting with Lao Shen. It is no exaggeration to say that it was really a wet market in suits and ties, and the bargaining space between the two parties was even accurate to a dime!
That's the real comparison of money and money!
Now, Shen Miaomiao, who is sitting at the negotiation table, has inherited the excellent genes of old Comrade Shen and shows the heroic spirit of a plutocratic princess at the negotiation table.
Relying on the fact that it is a buyer's market, it overwhelmed Pétain and his team across from them so much that they couldn't even lift their heads!
For a moment, Gu Sheng actually saw the shadow of Shen Wanlin in Xiao Nezha.
There was a strange feeling that Shen Miaomiao's substitute was her father.
Finally!
The two parties reached a consensus at a price of 81.29 million U.S. dollars.
And this is already the lowest price that Yunwei can accept.
Once the price was finalized, everything after that was smooth sailing and fell into place.
“...Our person in charge will take over the following matters, and we hope that your company will actively cooperate with us.”
Standing at the door of the Yunwei Group building, Gu Sheng smiled and nodded to Petain, who had a bruised face.
The first step in a reverse takeover—take over the old employer!
Achieved! !
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