My capital is quite large.

Chapter 208 The Awakening of the Penguin's Bloodline

Inside the headquarters building of Haofeng Group in Xianlin Science and Technology City, Jinling.

The employees in the mobile game division and the overseas business division have been working non-stop for almost a whole month.

Because a landmark deal that shook the global gaming industry has finally come to a close!

In the top-floor conference room, Li Feng signed his name on the last document, which was entirely in English.

The first-generation casual mobile game matrix of Haofeng, led by Angry Birds, Fruit Ninja, Fishing Joy, Temple Run, Cut the Rope, and Subway Surfers, has officially changed hands!

"Mr. Li, I have accomplished my mission." Zhou Ci, the director of the overseas business department, wiped the sweat from his forehead.

For more than a month, he has been engaged in a tug-of-war with top venture capitalists on Wall Street and several overseas gaming giants such as EA, Microsoft, and Gameloft, which has left him exhausted.

"The final package price we negotiated is $75 billion, to be paid in three installments. The first installment of $25 billion will be deposited into the group's offshore account tonight."

According to Zhou Cihui's report, "None of these giants could swallow such a massive matrix on their own, so they could only form an alliance to 'dismember' and divide these IPs among themselves. Although it's a little short of your initial bottom line of $80 billion, this is already the maximum premium that can be squeezed out in the international market at present."

Li Feng put down his pen, a faint smile on his face.

"75 billion US dollars, that's acceptable."

"Don't go too far in anything; always leave some room for others to make a living."

In Li Feng's mind, this price was already a huge profit.

The gameplay potential of these games has been fully explored. With the iteration of smartphone hardware, the mobile game market will soon usher in a new revolution led by hardcore mobile games.

They used these soon-to-be-outdated tears of the times to exchange for more than 40 billion RMB in real money!

This money not only filled the huge cash shortfall from the previous acquisition of ATL Battery, but also gave Haofeng Group enough confidence to cope with the upcoming semiconductor war!

The official announcement of this groundbreaking deal has caused a stir in the domestic gaming and financial circles.

But unlike the previous lamentations that Li Feng was "foolish and rich," this time, the industry's sentiment has subtly shifted.

On the same day that Haofeng announced the sale of Yuanxun's mobile game matrix, Haofeng's mobile game division immediately launched a new mobile game called "Let Go of That Three Kingdoms".

However, when major gaming media outlets and industry peers clicked on the game to conduct reviews, they all showed surprised expressions.

"That's it? A chibi-style turn-based card game? Not only is it completely unoriginal, but the character art and combat feel are also incredibly cheap and cheaply made!"

"Has Haofeng Mobile Games Department run out of ideas? Where has that pinnacle of creativity that led the world in operational logic gone?"

Not only "Let Go of That Three Kingdoms", but also "Red Tide", a mobile game that previously released a teaser CG on Weibo and focused on interstellar science fiction real-time strategy, was not well received by the industry after several small-scale closed beta tests. The industry believed that its audience was too small and the operation threshold was too high.

Immediately, rumors about "Haofeng abandoning the mobile game business" spread like wildfire across various gaming forums.

"Do you get it now? Boss Li has sold off all his mobile game assets and is planning to exit the mobile game market!"

"That's understandable. Look at the PC version now! How popular is League of Legends? Eight out of ten computers in internet cafes are playing LOL! Internet cafe tournaments and city tournaments are in full swing!"

"LOL is so damn profitable! The revenue from selling just one skin every day is astronomical. If it were me, I would also put all my energy and resources into PC esports! PC games are the real market, mobile games are just kids playing house."

The industry has suddenly realized that Li Feng is making a rational strategic contraction, concentrating core resources on the lucrative e-sports ecosystem, and the mobile game division is about to be marginalized.

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at the same time.

Fiyta Building, Nanshan District, Shenzhen.

In this sweltering September, the atmosphere in the strategic conference room at Penguin headquarters was as cold as an ice cave.

With League of Legends establishing its absolute dominance in internet cafes across China, Tencent's once-proud gaming base is now feeling an unprecedented sense of suffocation.

On the big screen, the online player curves for "Dream of the Three Kingdoms" and "Qifan" have plummeted to an appalling degree.

Faced with these two half-dead alternatives, Haofeng's LOL completely crushed Penguin's defenses in the MOBA arena!

"No! We can't keep taking this beating passively!" Pony's eyes flashed with ruthlessness.

He set his sights on the senior vice president in charge of overseas investment and agency business.

"How's the progress of DOTA 2?! Why hasn't there been an effective counterattack yet?!"

Faced with the boss's fury, the vice president was so frightened that he quickly stood up and reported to his superior:

"Mr. Ma... the Chinese version of DOTA 2 has just launched its full open beta. But..."

"But what?! Tell me!"

"However, just last month in August, Valve held the third DOTA2 International Invitational Tournament, also known as TI3."

The vice president swallowed hard, his tone bitter: "In this competition that domestic Dota players had high hopes for... our Chinese teams suffered a crushing defeat."

"The finals were between Sweden's Alliance and Ukraine's Navi. All Chinese teams were eliminated, failing to even reach the finals. This caused a significant drop in morale among Dota players in China, and greatly impacted the popularity of the Chinese server's open beta..."

Upon hearing this explanation, Pony was so angry that she almost smashed the water glass in her hand!

"No championship means no buzz?! Hao Feng's League of Legends S2 All-Star tournament was thrashed by the Koreans, but instead of faking it, they used nationalistic sentiment to generate huge buzz!"

"What are you guys in operations all good for?! Can't you create hype?! Can't you manipulate and retain your fanbase?!"

Pony Ma roared angrily, pointing his finger at the group of executives and cursing:

"Hey, tell me! How's the setup for the domestic Dota 2 professional league going?!"

The director in charge of esports events stood up with a forced smile: "Mr. Ma... we've only just started the public beta, and the league framework is still in the planning stages. After all, the underlying club ecosystem still needs time to attract sponsors and build up..."

"It needs time?! Did Haofeng give us any time?!"

Pony grabbed the report on Haofeng's "City Heroes Championship" from the table and slammed it in the director's face!

"You bunch of idiots! Haofeng has already prepared the assignments for the internet cafe tournament, the city tournament, and the LPL professional league, and laid them all out in front of you! And you're still telling me you need time to prepare?!"

"Have you all forgotten the penguins' signature skill?!"

"What we excel at is replication! It's surpassing!"

"If you can't do it, then go copy it!"

"Just do the same thing you did with the internet cafe tournament that Haofeng did! Build a DPL just like they did the LPL!"

"If there's no club, then throw money at it! Use Tencent's traffic across all its channels to support them!"

"Bring out our penguin's signature skills! Go and copy their every move pixel-perfectly!"