At present, ICQ has basically stabilized. There is no real competitor yet, and its technology and patents are far ahead of its competitors.

What we have to do is to take advantage of our advantages to raise capital and go public. It’s hard to say what will happen in the future, but within the past two years, icq has basically had no rivals.

If the ppt is done well, ICQ may not be able to be as popular as Yahoo and AOL. After all, when the craze came, the market value of several Internet companies such as Lycos and Excite exceeded tens of billions of dollars.

When icq goes on the market, Song Yang will definitely have to harvest a crop of leeks. This may be the last crop of leeks within the next ten years. After the Internet bubble bursts, within ten years, there will be no more leeks to harvest the Internet.

The manager in charge of the icq community and nft avatar business also reported to Song Yang the revenue from these two businesses. icq, nft avatars, games and portals are the main revenue businesses prepared by icq, which are used to make money.

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The icq community space has now become a new Internet platform, attracting a group of stars and celebrities to settle in. They publish their daily life, crew photos, etc. in the icq community. Of course, sometimes they also publish advertisements, etc.

Relying on the celebrity effect, the icq community has also attracted countless young users. Now the users of the icq community are quite active.

"The current advertising revenue of the icq community is not ideal yet. It mainly relies on the share of advertising posted by icq users. Advertising investors are still hesitant about this advertising model!"

The person in charge of the icq space community said that the current advertising model of icq is basically the Penguin Space plus meager model. The icq community space itself places some ads, and then celebrities and others, part of the money earned from advertising in the icq community must be given to icq

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Places such as space communities and forums can only promote soft advertisements. It is impossible to directly place advertisements on web pages and slap them on users' faces like search and portal websites. This would greatly affect the experience.

The revenue of the icq space community is actually constantly increasing. Now it has even reached tens of millions per month. The more it can be spent, the more profit icq will receive thanks to it.

The NFT avatar business has now begun to stabilize. In addition to the NFT avatar auctions at regular intervals, the rest is the activation of paid avatars. That is, users spend ten dollars a month and can use NFT for one or two months.

The avatar is just like Penguin’s various diamonds.

Song Yang nodded. Overall, icq is pretty good. The key is that it has no rivals. It's not the time to fight fiercely these days. Except for Netscape's bad luck, other Internet companies are living a pretty good life.

good.

After reports from other ICQ departments, Ken Williams and his wife also began to report to Song Yang on behalf of Xueleshan.

After being acquired by icq, and after Xueleshan was merged into icq, it can be said that people are asking people to give money to others. I would rather icq headquarters be hungry than Xueleshan's game department, and just hope that Xueleshan can support it.

icq's half the sky.

Ken Williams and Roberta, who have returned to Sierra Mountain as president, are now both excited and a little worried. A few years ago, if Sierra Mountain had an owner like icq, how could it not be possible?

The worry is that if Xueleshan fails to meet the requirements of ICQ, then we don’t know what kind of shock it will cause. After all, the Williams couple have experienced a Wall Street-style change of face. Today, Song Yang, Irene, etc.

People are very supportive of Xueleshan, but no one knows whether they will fall out if they can’t produce cubs or lay eggs in the future.

"The Snow Mountain online platform is under development and is expected to be launched before the end of this year when Blizzard releases "Diablo"!"

Ken Williams said that the Sierra Online platform basically relies on "Diablo" to promote and allow users to download Sierra Online on their computers.

Looking at Song Yang, Ken Williams said, "Currently, Xueleshan is acquiring some game copyrights, but Song, once the Xueleshan platform is launched, it may affect the relationship with Sony, Nintendo and other game console platforms, as well as other

I’m afraid game retail channel dealers will also have opinions!”

Nowadays, a new game is released mainly through two channels, one is sold on game consoles such as Nintendo, and the other is sold on the store shelves of channel providers such as Game Station.

Now, once Xueleshan Online is launched, it will be the third game sales channel. There is no need for a store or a game console. As long as you log in to Xueleshan Online on your computer, you can download the game!

This will definitely be an impact on the game industry. Whether it is the game console platform or game retail stores, I am afraid that they will not be so satisfied. I am afraid that they will also have opinions on Xueleshan.

Ken Williams is reminding Song Yang that once Snow Mountain Online is launched, he is afraid that it will become the target of public criticism in the game industry.

Song Yang had no expression on his face when he heard this, "Xueleshan Online is definitely going to be online, and this must never change."

"Xueleshan's games can give game channel distributors a larger share of the revenue, allowing them to continue selling Xueleshan's games!"

This means exchanging dollars for the market, giving those game retail channels a larger share of the revenue share, so that they can continue to sell games to Xueleshan.

This method is simple, crude and direct. The three major game platforms, such as Sony, Nintendo and Sega, will probably not tolerate the emergence of Snow Mountain Online. However, other game retailers, probably for the sake of cost, will not block Snow Mountain Online!

"The first TGA awards ceremony has been confirmed and will be officially held next year. The first batch of Global Game Hall of Fame members will also be announced at the TGA awards ceremony!"

Compared to other businesses such as Sierra Online, Ken Williams and his wife put more thought into the TGA Awards Ceremony and the Game Hall of Fame. Since these two news came out, the game industry has, in order to win awards and enter the Hall of Fame,

And there are countless people who have found the two of them.

The Williams couple, who have returned to Sierra Mountain, have now truly experienced the feeling of returning to power in the gaming industry. Even those "masters" in the gaming industry in the past are still somewhat polite when they meet these two!

"Blizzard will launch Diablo and StarCraft two games this year and next. V Company is also developing "Half-Life", which is expected to be released within two years. R-Star Studio is developing the "Grand Theft Auto" game, and id Games

"Quake 2" is expected to be launched next year!"

Nowadays, several major game companies have been working hard for several years. In order to prove themselves to the new owners, whether it is Blizzard, V Club, or R Star, they are all working hard to develop games, just because they are afraid that the new owners will tear them down.

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Xueleshan basically divided the game research and development department among the four major game studios: Blizzard, V Club, Rockstar and ID. They mainly started running and publishing games, and also held TGA, Game Hall of Fame, etc.

Among them, Blizzard and id Game Studio have proven themselves, and they are the ones that icq and Snow Mountain are most looking forward to. They are expected to turn the tide and help icq expand its game business.

The two studios, V Club and Rockstar, are purely newcomers, mainly because Song Yang is optimistic about them, but in comparison, Blizzard and id Games are the ones that currently represent the facade of Snow Leshan.

When Song Yang heard about the game "StarCraft", he couldn't help but think of e-sports, which would only become popular in the next decade or so. StarCraft was the originator of e-sports.

"After StarCraft is launched, Snow Mountain Online can launch a game battle platform to allow players to match each other and even hold game events to attract users to participate with bonuses!"

Hearing the concept of "e-sports" proposed by Song Yang, the Williams couple, as well as people from the gaming department who attended the meeting on the phone, couldn't help but be stunned. This is a prototype of the concept of e-sports, but for games

As far as the industry is concerned, this is unprecedented.

In the past, games were all stand-alone, with only players facing the game, but Song Yang proposed a brand new concept, allowing two players to compete in a game?!

People from Blizzard, R-Star and V who attended this meeting couldn't help but start to think about the feasibility of this matter. If it is feasible, it may be a huge change for the game industry.

Song Yang just mentioned it to Ken Williams. Currently, e-sports basically makes no money. In a few decades, it will be difficult to make money from that stuff. In fact, it is still to promote the game for the sake of popularity.

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But wait for a while, wait for more e-sports games, wait until Half-Life is developed, and the TGA Game Awards Ceremony can become the Oscars of the gaming industry, then it is impossible to say that there will really be an e-sports event to make StarCraft a success.

, Red Alert, Half-Life, etc. became the first batch of e-sports games.

"Currently, the Game Lab is developing a suitable game engine for V Club's "Half-Life". I am also developing a universal version of the game engine!"

The voice of John Carmack came over the phone. He left id Games and entered the game laboratory established by icq. John Carmack, who is regarded as the top technical expert in the game industry, seems to be living a good life.

Without the discord at id Games, the current Sierra Game Lab is basically under the control of John Carmack. With sufficient budget and no one to interfere with his experiments, John Carmack is able to come up with it.

He has introduced a lot of new technologies, especially in terms of game engines. Not only has he improved the game engines for V Club and Blizzard, John Carmack has also come up with more than a dozen new game technologies, which have improved the speed and image quality of the game.

Quality improvement.

After listening to everyone's reports, Song Yang clapped his hands and expressed his recognition for everything that icq, Xueleshan, John Carmack and others have done, and then said, "Not only on the PC, icq and Xueleshan need to do more

More."

"Alcatel Mobile is developing a new generation of mobile phones. I need icq and Xueleshan to develop products and games suitable for Alcatel mobile phones!"
Chapter completed!