Chapter 8 Game peripherals are the most profitable
After selling 150,000 copies, William didn't produce any more game discs, and he now knew that £6 was cheap, and that many of the guys at the school had sold more than £10 each, which was not too much.
In this way, William will make hundreds of thousands of pounds less, but he can't help it, his main thing now is to make the game famous, if he sells more than 10 pounds, he can now sell 50,000 copies, thank God.
The sales and praise of the game in London have made big game companies, game agencies and supermarkets like EA and Ubisoft, and even Blockbuster, which specializes in DVDs and computer games in the United States, come in, and the hundreds of thousands of pounds that are earned these days should be used as the salary of the hundreds of alumni at the University of London who sell games to him, and the advertising money to attract these big companies.
A few days ago, William received an inquiry from these companies, saying that he wanted to negotiate representation or wanted to buy the game, and then went to the top law firms in London.
Anthony, a senior partner at Linklaters, William hired this guy for £1,000 an hour, and this kind of negotiation is not expected to be negotiated in a few days or ten days.
Then I don't have to pay Anthony tens of thousands of pounds, but fortunately, William and Linklaters signed a contract for hourly fees, and if it is a share contract, I don't know how much money I will pay Linklaters.
William booked a conference room at the London Hilton Hotel, and at 8 a.m. he met Anthony of Linklaters.
After meeting, William shook hands with Anthony and asked with a smile: "Good morning Mr. Anthony, it's eight o'clock, is it going to be billed?"
Anthony knew William was joking, "Good morning, Mr. Devon Hill, if you think you'll be happier to start billing in ten minutes, then we'll start billing at 8:10, I don't mind."
"Haha, Anthony, you're humorous, I like you, okay let's get down to business, I need you to help me with all the legal issues, it's not a big deal"
"Of course, Mr. Devon Hill, that's what we're doing, and I promise that there will be no problems with the contracts handled by our law firm, which is our confidence and commitment," Anthony said to William.
William nodded in agreement, which is why he asked Yueshida's lawyer, "OK, I still trust you Yueshida very much, as one of the three major law firms in England, there is no need to question your strength and credibility, so Anthony, let's start, it should be very busy today." ”
William shook hands with four of Anthony's team members. 1,000 pounds an hour can hire the best lawyer and his team in London, William doesn't think it's expensive at all, if there is a problem because the lawyer is not professional enough, William has no chance to cry.
Of course, only barristers can make a lot of money as a lawyer, and it is only a few thousand pounds a month to work for a barrister.
At 9 o'clock, several large companies such as EA, Ubisoft, Baishida, Jiarefu and some other game companies arrived on time.
After everyone found a good position and did a good job, William was not polite, everything depends on the quality and sales of the game and the interests of the game, no matter how good the other things are, these game companies and agents will not be interested.
William took the microphone and walked up to the platform of the conference room and said: "Welcome, gentlemen, my name is William Devon Hill, I am the producer, designer and owner of the game Plants vs. Zombies, your time is precious, I will not delay everyone's time, many people and companies have come to me these days, which makes me know that everyone is either to buy out the game copyright, or to act as an agent for the game sales rights, I am right."
After William finished speaking, the negotiators of this company nodded and didn't say much, these companies here have sent people to find William these days, but William has not shown any tone, although they are optimistic about this game, they don't want to be wronged by William, listen to what William wants to say first.
William continued: "Then gentlemen, let me first say the bottom line that I can accept, if there is too much gap with what you can accept, if you are not satisfied, please be quiet first, listen to me is okay?"
Everyone looked at each other, all the people present were competitors, the game had only been famous for a few days, and the companies that could come to this conference were very optimistic about Plants vs. Zombies, and now no one wanted to be this bird, and William's request was not too much, so they all nodded again.
William was happy in his heart, and thought to himself, "It seems that these guys are still very optimistic about Plants vs. Zombies, especially those game agents, they don't make games, they only represent games, and when they encounter good games, of course they don't want to let go." ”
Seeing that no one objected, William nodded and thanked him: " Thank you, let's talk about the agency first, the agency price I can accept is 8 pounds per game disc, 8 pounds is almost 13 dollars, I think Plants vs. Zombies should have no problem selling 20 dollars in the United States, everyone knows that the purchase price of EPS games in the late 80s is 25 dollars, you are all experts in the game industry, you know that what I said is right, and you also know that the price of 8 pounds is reasonable, so can you accept 8 pounds, then we will continue to talk.
EA and Ubisoft didn't think about the agency, but they were afraid that the remaining companies would speculate on the agency price, and when the time came, William would not sell the game, then they would come in vain, and nodded busily in response: "8 pounds is acceptable,"
The agents thought about it, they are all specialized in game agents, and they know that William is right, there is no game less than $20 in the United States, but when the game company agreed, they secretly hated 'these guys should go to hell, their own company's games are sold so expensive, and now they are grabbing agents with us'
The people of Baishida and Jia Refu also nodded and accepted the price.
"Very good, everyone can accept the price of 8 pounds, then we have the conditions to continue talking, I have this information on the sale of 150,000 game discs in London a month, I will not send it to you, you must know, this is also the reason why we can all sit together, you may not know this second copy, but I think Heating Fu should know. ”
William stopped to look at the person in charge of Jia Refu, and he nodded with a smile, because it had something to do with their Jia Refu.
20 days ago, I signed a license contract with Jia Refu for daily necessities such as T-shirts and hats, and now I think about it, I still signed it early, but it doesn't matter, I still have to thank Jia Refu Company, this contract is authorized to Jia Refu in 5 counties around London, about the cartoon image production authorization of Plants vs. Zombies, the first 15 days of sales in 120 homes around London are 430,000 pieces, an average of 3,600 pieces sold in 15 days, 240 pieces per day, turnover is 6.45 million pounds, an average of 15 pounds per piece.
Hearing the data that William said, it was the first time that anyone else in the conference room knew about it, except for the people who were in the house.
Hearing that it sold 6.45 million pounds in 15 days in London in the surrounding 5 counties, how much money can the game sell in the world after the fire, these guys were immediately excited.
The periphery of Plants vs. Zombies is the main source of money, and Europe and the United States are very strict in checking copyrights, and this kind of lawsuit with clear copyright is one and the same.
So Jia Refu is very happy now, they came because they wanted to sell the game peripherals, but after today's game peripherals are sold, Jia Refu just wants to pick up the cheap.
William knew that tomorrow would be more than just the companies here today.
After everyone was quiet, William continued: "So if any of you want the full copyright of Plants vs. Zombies, what price should I pay, the game sells 1 million copies in the continental continent, I don't think it's much at all, and even I don't think it's difficult to sell more than 3 million copies in a few years." ”
The faces of the people in the agency company are difficult to look at now, and there are not many estimates in their hearts, and a few of them are expected to be more than this, but there are only hundreds of thousands more.
It's only 2000 years now, although there are a lot of good games, but there is no game like Plants vs. Zombies, whether the elderly, children or adults will be interested in this game. To know that in 13 years Plants vs. Zombies has more than 25 million downloads
William continued: "In the United States of America, it will not be a problem to sell 2 million copies, and the other countries can add up to about 2 million copies, gentlemen, please think about how much wealth a game can create for you if it sells more than 7 million copies."
"FUCK, it's about creating wealth for you." Everyone scolded in their hearts.