Becoming Rich with Daily Scavenging APP-Chapter 663: World Expo Voting Begins

But even though ea has fallen to such a state.

Chen Yiyang's eyes lit up when he heard that Saudi Arabia was planning to buy ea.

Because ea's downfall is purely man-made, caused by an entire management team devoid of normal human qualities.

Yet ea holds so many classic IPs.

Over the years, ea has acquired countless classic IPs and holds a large number of copyrights.

Other companies, when struggling, might consider selling off their IPs and copyrights or attempting to develop sequels.

But ea's current management has no such plans; they'd rather let these IPs rot in their hands than try to develop them.

If Saudi Arabia can buy ea, then Chen Yiyang thinks he can use his relationship with Saudi Arabia to get the agency rights for ea domestically, bringing some ea games into the country to create national versions.

Just like NetEase and Blizzard.

At the same time, he can also buy the authorization of some of the IPs in ea's hands to produce sequels.

These single-player games with classic IPs can be used for newcomers to practice, helping Chen Yiyang cultivate a batch of single-player game development talents.

However, ea is a very large entity, and buying ea will require quite a bit of money.

Curious, Chen Yiyang asked, "How much money is Saudi Arabia preparing to buy ea?"

"Around 55 billion US Dollars," Kasim said, "this number is within the range we can accept."

Still ridiculously rich.

Chen Yiyang couldn't imagine spending over 400 billion to buy a gaming company.

"But ea is a North American company, so a direct purchase might face obstacles over there, right?"

"We've involved two other companies in our acquisition partnership. One is a long-established international finance company, the other is a burgeoning company, but their boss is the son-in-law of the current Great Commander of North America."

Kasim's preparations were quite thorough.

It seemed like it was just a step away from officially proposing the acquisition.

However, this acquisition amount is so large, probably even the Crown Prince is unsure whether acquiring ea will revive it and generate profits.

"I suggest you go ahead with the acquisition," Chen Yiyang said sincerely to Kasim, "the essence of ea is their channels and the IP copyrights they hold.

If ea focuses on being an investor and distributor, survival shouldn't be too difficult.

Moreover, ea's influence is considerable, acquiring ea will also enhance the influence of Saudi capital."

"Then we can discuss cooperation matters in advance," Kasim said, "after acquiring ea, we need a partner in Huaxia to enhance ea's influence."

"I can certainly be the partner, but provided that ea updates their ridiculously bad launcher."

Chen Yiyang made a joke.

After sending off Kasim.

Chen Yiyang checked ea's current market value, around 40 billion US Dollars.

This extinguished his idea of buying stocks for profit through the acquisition.

The market value increase is not substantial, and making money requires investing a massive amount.

But such large capital entering the stock market, even a fool could trace back to whoever's behind it.

Chen Yiyang couldn't be bothered to invite trouble over such money.

Meanwhile, Schaefer was already calling his stock manager to buy some ea shares.

The next day at noon.

Chen Yiyang and Schaefer used passes given by Kasim to blend into the voting venue for the host city of the World Expo held in Paris.

Schaefer also saw quite a few Koreans he previously cooperated with.

But these Koreans acted like Schaefer didn't exist.

After all, Schaefer had fled Korea without returning a dime of the owed rewards.

As long as he doesn't go back to South Korea, the Koreans are helpless against him.

"Some Korean groups rented nearby venues to celebrate Busan's victory in the World Expo election today.

Honestly, I can't fathom how they're so confident?"

Schaefer quietly grumbled a few words to Chen Yiyang.

Not only Schaefer was bewildered, actually most people at the venue couldn't understand either.

Because before voting, each city had to play its election promotion video.

On this point, other cities were very careful.

Riyadh's city promotional video was shot by a domestic team introduced by Chen Yiyang, showcasing Riyadh as a sufficiently bustling, continually progressing major city.

Even Rome, which had given up on competing for this World Expo hosting, made a video combining history with modernity, highlighting Rome as an ancient city.

However, when it was Korea's Busan's turn, the tone was somewhat different.

Busan's promotional team introduced themselves as a country with ten thousand years of culture, then played the promo video, the same one given to Schaefer.

It featured numerous Korean actors, singers, pop stars doing suggestive dances in the video, saying 'there's only one choice'.

And the video's music was actually the long-obsolete Jiangnanstyle.

Chen Yiyang wanted to gripe upon hearing this song.

Although it was popular among teenage groups years ago.

But such songs usually fade away after their peak, hearing it again, those teenage groups probably would only regard it as a bit of an embarrassing dark past.

Using such a song as the national essence to compete for the World Expo? 𝒇𝙧𝙚𝓮𝔀𝓮𝒃𝙣𝓸𝒗𝒆𝒍.𝙘𝒐𝒎

Playing some ethnic music wouldn't meet any objections.

And in the promo video, the actual footage about Busan only lasted nine seconds, the rest was all various celebrities.

So, after Busan's election promotional video finished playing.

The venue was surprisingly quiet for a moment.

Most people were pondering what the Koreans intended to do.

But soon the voting began.

Representatives from each country's exhibition areas came forward to vote.

Underneath, Schaefer made a bet with Chen Yiyang, "How many votes do you think Busan will get?"

"About forty votes." Chen Yiyang guessed a number.

The number guessed was already quite low. In truth, Chen Yiyang estimated Busan could get around fifty votes.

Because Korea has been working hard for the hosting rights since 2014.

And just in the two years before voting, Korea spent over five trillion Korean won.

With this much money, it should be able to buy some votes."

"I think they'll only get thirty votes." Schaefer gave his judgment.

"Maybe some country delegates who originally planned to vote for Busan changed their minds after seeing Korea's promo video."

For such votes, usually, delegates from various countries have made their minds long ago.

So the voting process goes fairly quickly.

The host soon took the stage to announce the number of votes received by each city.

Right now it's the first round of voting, if any city secures more than two-thirds of the votes in the first round, it wins outright, and that city gets to host the next World Expo.

If not, there will be subsequent rounds of voting, where countries with close vote counts can take the opportunity to promise benefits and garner votes.