Chapter 748 Prosperous Technology

Author: Linjiangxian

When Ning Xuehua heard that the person had left, she glared at Lu Yiming and said, "Then why are you still standing here? Why don't you hurry up and walk the cat?"

Lu Yiming: "..."

Well, Mother has her destiny, and Lu Yiming didn't dare to disobey, so he had no choice but to take Pang Hu downstairs for a walk.

The community is not big and has a certain age. There are a few big trees in the community, but the sense of age is too obvious and cannot be compared with the current new community.

But Lu Yiming asked Ning Xuehua and the others to go to Bihai Longting, but they refused to go, saying that they were surrounded by old neighbors who had been there for decades and were familiar with each other. It would be very troublesome to have to re-establish neighborly relations when changing places.

In fact, they also gave Lu Yiming and Shi Qingxue a separate space. After all, both of them have graduated from college and can talk about marriage.

Fat Tiger was having fun in the community, and Lu Yiming followed behind and exercised for a while.

After returning home out of breath, Lu Yiming helped Fat Hu untie the rope and went to take a shower.

After coming out of the shower and just preparing to eat, Lu Yiming suddenly received a call from Li Quanwang.

"Hey, Wangzi, where are you? Come over for dinner."

Li Quanwang said unhappily: "I'm still in the beautiful country. I just finished talking to Blizzard."

After Tongxin Internet Cafe was sold, Li Quanwang wanted to start a profitable business, so Lu Yiming jointly established Xingwang Technology Co., Ltd. with him. The first move was to negotiate a cooperation with Activision Blizzard.

Lu Yiming also attaches great importance to this company. After all, he has personally experienced how huge the game market of Xia Kingdom is in later generations and how profitable it is to make games. Moreover, games can not only make money, but also influence technology.

It is very magical that it can influence policies and the economy. Now that we are in the pioneering era of online games, Lu Yiming certainly did not hesitate to take advantage of it.

"How did the conversation go?"

Hearing Lu Yiming ask this, Li Quanwang got angry just thinking about the scene at that time, and immediately complained: "Forget it, these foreigners looked at me directly with their noses, and the terms they negotiated were even more harsh. The people they sent to negotiate

They asked me to prepare a separate telecommunications computer room, and the server in the computer room can only run "World of Warcraft". I asked someone to help me figure it out, and it cost me just to prepare these basic conditions as they said.

The funds are tens of millions of dollars. If this game doesn’t become popular in China, I will die on the spot.”

Speaking of this, Li Quanwang's tone was also helpless. If Lu Yiming hadn't strongly recommended him to represent the game "World of Warcraft", and he himself liked playing "Warcraft", otherwise he would have thrown away his sleeves and left. Who would have the money?

Can people stand this kind of birdiness?

To put it bluntly, by proposing such a condition, Activision Blizzard is transferring the risk to our game company. As long as Li Quanwang agrees to this condition, even if the game fails in the market, Activision Blizzard will not lose anything.

However, Lu Yiming knows how popular this game will be in the end. Although Activision Blizzard's attitude is very arrogant, who can't live with money?

He persuaded Li Quanwang: "This cooperation is possible, I am still very optimistic about "World of Warcraft". But their attitude is so arrogant, even if they want to cooperate, we cannot suffer losses. In this way, you ask to increase our game company's revenue share

Than, five points more than before. Then sign a fifty-year agency contract. If they want to change to Xia Guo's agent within fifty years, they will be asked to pay a sky-high price."

Li Quanwang was shocked by Lu Yiming's words, especially the last agency term of fifty years, which was simply outrageous.

"The life cycle of an online game, if it lasts for ten years, is enough to be recorded in the history of games, what's the point of signing a fifty-year contract?"

Lu Yiming couldn't help but sigh when he thought about how this game has been making money in China for more than 20 years. He said to Li Quanwang: "After all, the game cycle is only ten years, so if you sign for fifty years, you won't lose money, right? Blizzard

I think so too, so if you say you sign for fifty years, they will only think it’s funny and won’t object.”

Fifty years later, it’s hard to say whether Blizzard will still be here or not.

Compared with this puzzling request, Li Quanwang feels that the extra 5% of revenue is more realistic.

"Okay, then I'll talk to them like this. Can they really agree to their request?"

Li Quanwang was still a little hesitant. After all, with an initial investment of tens of millions of dollars, it was too difficult for him, a poor guy who didn't even dare to order meat dishes five years ago, to make a decision.

Lu Yiming smiled and said: "I think it is possible. If we win the agent of this game, we can make a lot of money. Believe me, my hunch has never been any problem. By the way, after cooperation, the game must pass Wegame

The client is started, and only the QQ number can be used to log in, and the Alipay system is used for transactions."

"Okay, I'll listen to you."

Li Quanwang has unconditional trust in Lu Yiming. Since Lu Yiming said that this cooperation is possible, he will not have any hesitation.

Just as Lu Yiming was about to hang up the phone, Li Quanwang continued: "Actually, I was planning to sign a contract with Blizzard, but someone made trouble at the critical moment, causing these foreigners to start raising the price again."

Lu Yiming asked curiously: "Who is it?"

Lu Yiming thought about the agent list of "World of Warcraft" in his previous life and asked: "Is it Zhu Jun from The Ninth City?"

In the original timeline, in July 2002, The9 obtained the exclusive rights to represent "Miracle MU" in mainland China, becoming the only company in the industry that could compete with Shanda, which represented "Legend".

In the 2003 Forbes Xia Guo Rich List, 37-year-old Zhu Jun, chairman of The9, ranked 66th, with a net worth of US$150 million, becoming the second Xia Guo Games to rank among the billionaires after Shanda Chairman Chen Tianjiao.

Industry people.

In April 2004, The9 acquired the exclusive rights to distribute "World of Warcraft" developed by Blizzard Company in Xia Kingdom for US$13 million, once again becoming the center of player attention.

In the same month, The9 acquired a 20% stake in Target Software for US$4 million, and obtained the right of first refusal to operate the online games developed by Target Software in Xia Guo within the next two years. The online games currently being developed by Target Software include "Tianjiao II"

and "Ao Shi Online".

On December 15, 2004, The9 was officially listed on Nasdaq, becoming the ninth and last Xia Guo company to be listed on Nasdaq in 2004.

However, starting in May 2009, The9 took Blizzard to court for four reasons: property damage compensation, commercial defamation, computer software copyright infringement, and computer software copyright licensing contract disputes. The service of "World of Warcraft" was also suspended.

.Not long after, The9 issued an announcement announcing the termination of its cooperation with Activision Blizzard.

At that time, the suspension of "World of Warcraft" was even on the CCTV news.

This is why Lu Yiming first thought of The Ninth City when he heard Li Quanwang said there was competition.

However, the answer given by Li Quanwang was beyond Lu Yiming's expectation.

"Who is Zhu Jun? I don't know him. It's not the Ninth City who is causing trouble, but Brother Ma."

"Ma Teng?"

Lu Yiming thought about it in his mind and understood it immediately.

In the previous world, The9 City relied on the agency of "Miracle MU" to rise, and then it had the capital to win the agency rights of "World of Warcraft".

But in today's world, Xiao Ma, who was originally engaged in social activities, was cut off by Lu Yiming, and was forced to become a game agent. He happened to cut off "Miracle MU", so The9 City's life is actually quite miserable now, and there is no competition at all.

qualifications.

However, Ma Teng, who has obtained the agency rights of "Miracle MU", is not much better. "Miracle MU" has now been destroyed by Lu Yiming using plug-ins.

Logically speaking, Xiao Ma was intercepted twice by Lu Yiming, and his situation was not much better than that of The9. But who allowed him to have an awesome father?

Therefore, Ma Teng, who comes from an ordinary family, took action again this time, hoping to win the agency rights for "World of Warcraft".

I have to say that Brother Ma is definitely very discerning. Everyone complains that Brother Ma only knows how to plagiarize and cannot create original works, but in fact the threshold for plagiarism is also very high - at least you have to know what will be popular.

You have to plagiarize, otherwise the original work will be sold on the street, and you will be lonely if you plagiarize?

Although he cut off Xiao Ma several times, Lu Yiming did not dare to underestimate this cheating guy. What if he really let Xiao Ma represent "World of Warcraft"?

Therefore, to cut off the beard, the beard must be cut off!

"I didn't expect that fate would make us meet again. Since I can cut him off once or twice, I can naturally cut him off a third time."

Lu Yiming smiled slightly and said: "If you go to talk to them again, no matter what price Brother Ma asks, you will pay two million dollars more than Brother Ma, and you will win the agency of "World of Warcraft" no matter what."

Li Quanwang was frightened and exclaimed: "It's just an online game, what's that? The agency fee has now risen to eight million US dollars. If we add another two million US dollars, wouldn't it be 10 million US dollars?"

You know, this is just the agency fee, not counting the revenue share after the game is operated, as well as the initial investment costs such as servers.

Li Quanwang felt like his heart was in his throat.

To Lu Yiming, several hundred million may be just a drop in the bucket, but this money is Li Quanwang's entire wealth, so he has no choice but to be careless. With such a large investment, if the project cannot be completed, then he must lose the bitter tea seeds.

Lu Yiming said to Li Quanwang: "There are few battles in life. Do you want to be satisfied with the life of being rich and comfortable now?"

Li Quanwang smiled bitterly: "With my assets of several hundred million, how can I be considered a small fortune? Don't treat money as money, okay? But you are right, there are rare chances in life. I believe you, this is a gamble!"

Anyway, I am already a poor person, and the worst I can do is become poor again."

If Li Quanwang stops now, his wealth will allow his parents, himself, his wife, and even his children and grandchildren to live a good life. But Lu Yiming, his best friend, is really too dazzling. After all, Li Quanwang is also a passionate young man.

, it is impossible to say that there is no idea in his heart. Therefore, after being taken away by Lu Yiming, he was still not satisfied and wanted to go further.

At the critical moment, Li Quanwang had nothing to gamble on.

When he first opened an Internet cafe, he even risked going to jail to get 1% of the shares. Now that he has money, has he become a coward?

Impossible!

Beautiful country.

After several days of negotiations, Ma Teng and Zhang Zhidong came to Activision Blizzard's Xiaguo branch with their latest agency plan and walked into the office of General Manager Bob Ives.

"Thank you, Mr.

Bob Ives looked up and said enthusiastically: "Mr. Ma, Mr. Zhang, you are here, please take a seat."

Ma Teng came up with his own plan and said impatiently: "Mr. Xie, we are here today to continue talking about the agency of "World of Warcraft". This is our latest plan. Look..."

Before Ma Teng finished speaking, Bob Ives said: "Mr. Ma, Mr. Li of Xingwang Technology has increased the agency fee to 14 million US dollars. If you can't come up with more than this,

If the offer is high, there is no need for us to continue the negotiation.”

"Fourteen million?"
To be continued...