Supercell CEO:翻篇了,我们和腾讯在一起了
时间:2023-08-15 19:05 来源:网络整理 作者:墨客科技 点击:次
6月21日,一则简短的公告震动了全球游戏界,腾讯在该公告中正式宣布将以86亿美元收购芬兰著名游戏开发商Supercell,史无前例的收购价格、近年来频繁的收购布局,腾讯进一步扩大了在全球游戏市场的领先地位。不过有趣的是,对比网友对于此次收购的议论纷纷、褒贬不一,当事公司Supercell倒显得十分轻松。 在腾讯公告发布后不到半小时,Supercell公司CEO IlkkaPaananen在其官网发布了一份轻松俏皮的致玩家信,解释了收购的经过,以及选择腾讯合作的原因。他在信中很高兴地表示,“Supercell接下来仍将继续独立营运”,期待“迎接Supercell的新篇章”。
腾讯总裁刘炽平和SupercellCEOIlkkaPaananen 以下为Supercell CEO致玩家信原文中英对照: THE NEXT CHAPTER: OUR PARTNERSHIP WITH TENCENT Hey Everyone, I wanted to write a quick post to announce the world's worst kept secret :) Yes...Tencent, the world's biggest games company, has taken a lead to purchase SoftBank's investment in Supercell and will be our new strategic partner. 这里,我想对于这个世界上“最不是秘密的秘密”写一个简单的回应。 是的……全球最大的游戏公司腾讯主导收购了软银在Supercell的所有投资并且成为了我们新的战略伙伴。 There have been a lot of rumors in the media about this in the past month, so I wanted to use this opportunity to tell you what happened, why and what makes me so excited about it. 全球媒体在过去一个月已经对此事流言纷纷,所以我今天想借此机会和大家说明一下到底发生了什么,为什么会发生这件事,以及是什么让我对这次的合作充满兴奋。 Some background first. A while back, Masa (the founder of SoftBank, and our Chairman) told me that if we were able to find a new partner, he would like to sell SoftBank's shares in Supercell to finance what he called SoftBank's 2.0 transformation strategy. 先和大家交代一下背景吧。前一阵子,孙正义(软银创始人、我们之前的公司主席)和我说,如果我们能找到新的合作伙伴,他愿意出售软银手上Supecell的股份来推行他称作“软银2.0”转型战略。 This meant we at Supercell needed to think hard and do some soul-searching. What is it really that we want to accomplish with Supercell? What is it that we value in a partner? It may sound funny, but when we finally got our thoughts together, the choice was actually surprisingly easy. Let me explain why. 这意味着我们需要沉下心来认真考虑,并拷问我们自己的内心:我们Supercell到底想要达成怎样的愿景?我们想要什么样的合作伙伴?这听起来可能有点不真实,但是当我们最终收集所有人的意见的时候,我们发现原来要作这个选择,其实是如此的简单。下面我来解释一下其中的原因: For us, today is all about chasing a future for Supercell that we have always dreamed of. We founded this company to make great games that people all over the world would play for decades. We have been very lucky as over the past six years we've released four top games that are now played by over 100 million people every single day (you may have seen our little celebration here). But more than this, we dream of our current and future games becoming a part of the rich history of games, living onto the very long term. And if you take this very long-term view, you quickly realize that we are still at the beginning of what will hopefully be a very long journey. As we started to spend more time getting to know potential strategic partners, it became apparent to us that a partnership with Tencent would secure everything that has made Supercell a success, while also enabling us to take a few pretty big leaps on this journey I mentioned above. Here's why: 对我们来说,今天是为了追寻 supercell的未来,那个我们一直梦寐以求的未来。我们创立了这家公司就是为了给全世界的创造可以玩几代人的游戏。我们非常幸运,在过去六年中我们已经制作了四款顶级游戏,每天有超过一亿玩家在玩它们(你能感受到我们这里的小小自豪)。我们梦想,梦想着我们现在和未来所制作的游戏,可以成为游戏浩瀚历史的一部分,并长盛于此。而如果把眼光放得足够长远的话,您可以很快发现我们仅仅是在万里长征第一步。 所以我们一直在寻在潜在的战略合作伙伴,而显而易见与腾讯的合作可以带给Supercell成功所需要的一切,而且可以让我们在这个发展过程中取得重要的跳跃式发展,以下是我们选择腾讯的4个主要原因: (责任编辑:admin) |
