Chapter 99: Too Much Time on Your Hands
Although plans to acquire Blizzard Entertainment's World of Warcraft had entered the positioning and fundraising stage, Su Can knew he was still a long way from truly bringing this beast under his control. First, he had to raise that enormous sum of money. Until everything was finalized, countless variables could still arise.
Vivendi was a conglomerate, and Blizzard Entertainment, too, was a company whose foundations were inevitably profit and making money. Although Su Can had loved the company in his previous life, his position and identity were different in this life. He now considered things more from a strategic perspective.
Zhu Jun of The9 had pursued Warcraft, yet had failed to acquire a stake in World of Warcraft for twenty-five million dollars in these years. Who knew how he would feel in the future, faced with World of Warcraft's ever-climbing global market share and profits? In any case, Su Can felt that, in his place, he probably would have been unable to sleep for a long time. Perhaps he would face the media cameras and imitate that classic line from the 1995 film A Chinese Odyssey: "Once, an excellent project lay before me, but I failed to treasure it. By the time its profits shot straight up, it was already too late."
And now, Su Can finally had a chance to get his hands on this giant.
Yet when he thought about it, Su Can felt nothing particularly special. It was like telling someone one day that they owned shares in World of Warcraft. A seasoned stock trader might think it was nothing remarkable: "When Sinopec wasn't delivering, I bought shares in Warcraft's operator too. Just a little short-term trading."
But if you were told that you owned thirty percent of "World