"Hi, hello, I am Cao Qingyu, assistant to the vice president of Penguin Game Division. Are you Shi Tiandong, the producer of Happy Farm, Mr. Shi?"
A slightly pleasant female voice came from the receiver of the mobile phone. As expected, a call from Penguin.com came.
"Yes, hello, Miss Cao, what can I do?"
"Mr. Shi, it's like this. Penguin.com intends to buy out the game Happy Farm you developed. The purpose of making this call is to formally invite you. I hope Mr. Shi can find time to come to Penguin.com headquarters in the near future to discuss.
The round-trip air tickets, meals and accommodation will be provided by Penguin.com. I wonder when Mr. Shi will be free recently?"
Li Jie silently complained after hearing this, "As expected of Penguin, it's really straightforward, but he originally planned to package Happy Farm and sell it to Penguin. As long as he could sell it at a good price, everything else didn't matter."
It is completely impossible to win the respect of a giant like Penguin with just one game. If nothing else, Penguin can completely abandon itself and change its skin to develop a farm game again.
The domestic Internet is now in a stage of wild growth, and the relevant laws and regulations are not very complete. If Penguin really does this, Li Jie really has no particularly good way to deal with it. It would be very difficult to appeal and file a lawsuit for two or three years.
Normal things.
Generally speaking, game plagiarism can be classified into three major categories: code plagiarism, art resource plagiarism, and gameplay plagiarism. The first type of code plagiarism is relatively easy to define. You only need to grab the core code from the background for comparison.
That’s it.
Plagiarism in the other two fields is a bit difficult to define. For example, you drew a tiger, and I also drew a tiger, but your tiger is yellow and mine is white. Yours is stronger and mine is thinner.
One point, although the two are very similar at first glance, they do not constitute infringement in law. The 2006 case of Paopaotang suing qqtang is such a classic case. In the end, the court ruled that qqtang did not constitute plagiarism, and Paopaotang lost the case.
end.
As for gameplay plagiarism, it is almost impossible to win this kind of prosecution case, because there is an important principle in judging plagiarism cases, which is to protect expression but not ideas. Game gameplay belongs to ideas, and basically no one will sue for gameplay plagiarism, such as the main world.
After the popularity of chicken-eating mobile games, major game companies launched their own "chicken-eating" mobile games one after another, but they didn't even sue because they couldn't win the lawsuit.
Therefore, it is not impossible to understand the attitude of the other party. They are not afraid of you suing at all. Even if the court decides that you win in the end, so what. The golden period of the game has passed. Pay some money and settle the matter. Then you can leave.
On Yangguan Road, I take my single-plank bridge.
Of course, it would be a bit ugly to look like this, but Penguin would not sacrifice its game reputation for a little money.
Li Jie pondered for a moment and said, "Let's make an appointment this Saturday, okay?"
Working overtime is commonplace for game workers, and Cao Qingyu has long been accustomed to the 996 work system.
"No problem. Please ask Mr. Shi to send your ID card number via text message later, and I will book a flight ticket and hotel for you."
"OK."
"Okay, Mr. Nashi, see you on Saturday. I will send the ticket information and address to your mailbox via email later, please check it!"
After hanging up the phone, Li Jie rubbed his eyebrows. The next battle was going to be hard to fight. It was not easy to get an advantage from Penguin.com. His small stature was not enough for others.
His only chance is to seize the opportunity to steal the chicken while the other party has not yet seen the cash-out ability of the farm game. The reason why Li Jie has been reluctant to launch paid items is because of the subsequent negotiations.
After all, in the eyes of most people, no matter how popular a web-based casual game is, no matter how popular it is, it is estimated that even Five Minutes did not expect that Penguin.com could earn 50 million a month with this game.
The Five Minutes Company in the main world was eager to launch paid props. On the first day, it earned nearly 10,000 yuan just by selling high-grade fertilizers. This prematurely exposed the game’s cash-out ability, which led to subsequent negotiations with Penguin.com.
He fell into a disadvantage and only spent millions on a one-time buyout. The subsequent income has nothing to do with Five Minutes Company.
With this lesson in mind, Li Jie will naturally not repeat the same mistakes. His bottom line is a 10% share. As for cash, there is no need to force it. The monthly income of QQ Farm back then was in the tens of millions, and the follow-up share alone was enough for Li Jie.
Make a lot of money.
Li Jie went to the study and took out two game plans from the drawer, namely Happy Ranch and Grab a Parking Space. These two games were also very popular at the time. However, fundamentally, these two games are not essentially the same as Happy Ranch.
difference.
Therefore, even if these two games were given to Penguin for free, Li Jie would not feel distressed at all. Even if he did not say it, Penguin would develop them internally sooner or later. He was just generosity to others. As long as these two games
If the game can make Penguin people relax, then they will make money.
Time flew by and it was Saturday. After getting off the plane, Li Jie hailed a taxi and went straight to the Penguin headquarters.
After receiving Li Jie's call, Cao Qingyu came to the lobby on the first floor. When she saw the person coming, she opened her mouth slightly and looked very surprised. He was really too young. He was so young that she couldn't believe it. Even though Li Jie deliberately said
The clothes are a little more mature, but the childishness on the face still cannot be concealed.
Until Li Jie walked up to her and raised the phone in his hand: "Miss Cao?"
When Cao Qingyu heard this familiar voice, she was convinced that she had recognized the wrong person, and showed a standard workplace smile to cover up her embarrassment just now.
"Mr. Shi, I didn't expect you to be so young. You are really young and promising. I would like to ask you, where are you now?"
Li Jie smiled slightly: "Yes, it's exactly what you thought. I'm a college student now."
After registering at the visitor center, Cao Qingyu took Li Jie into the elevator, and the elevator finally stopped on the seventeenth floor.
"Mr. Shi, please come with me."
Cao Qingyu took Li Jie to a small conference room, and then slowly retreated. After a while, the door of the conference room was opened, and a middle-aged man in work clothes walked in and saw Li Jie
He didn't look very surprised at that time, obviously Cao Qingyu had reminded him just now.
The middle-aged man said with a smile on his face: "Welcome, welcome, hello Mr. Shi, I am Liu Qiming, the vice president of the game division."
The two chatted for a while, and then Liu Qiming got straight to the point.
"Mr. Shi, I am a straightforward person. Don't mind me. I'll get straight to the point. We are very interested in the game Happy Farm and intend to buy it out. I wonder if Mr. Shi has this intention?"