Chapter 214: Running the Train with a Full Mouth (Asking for a Monthly Pass)
Regarding Shen Hao's proposal, Hu Baoqiang really considered it seriously.
He has been in the game industry for many years, and he knows that this industry is getting harder and harder.
It's not that games don't make money, on the contrary, the revenue of some popular games has exploded in the past two years!
But......
Tianyu Interactive has never made a popular game.
Moreover, with the efforts of large factories such as Goose Factory, Pig Factory, and Lilith, it is becoming more and more difficult for small game manufacturers to survive.
It can be said that most gamers are attracted to the games of those big manufacturers.
And small and medium-sized game companies, that is less and less profitable.
In the past, you can also fool some players' money through the trust, krypton gold system, etc.
But players have played too many games in recent years, and they have become more and more savvy.
These days, it's not easy to cheat Krypton.
It can be seen from the encounter with the company's newly launched "Eternal Song" that it was put aside two years ago, and millions of publicity expenses were invested, at least it was no problem to make the game a little popular in a short period of time, and it was no problem to open forty or fifty new districts.
But now, just after opening ten districts, it is showing a weak state.
And the players who flickered around, the recharge amount was barely the same as the publicity cost invested, and they didn't make any money at all!
If the company can be sold at a good price, then Hu Baoqiang is actually quite happy.
However, he still has a deep affection for Tianyu Interactive.
This company, from scratch, is Hu Baoqiang's hard work for more than ten years.
Suddenly sold, he was a little emotionally uncomfortable.
What's more, he is only in his early forties this year, and he is still early to retire.
He didn't just run this company to make money.
So Hu Baoqiang was a little embarrassed.
After thinking about it for a long time, he asked hesitantly: "Then how much does Mr. Shen plan to pay for Tianyu Interactive?"
He planned to listen to Shen Hao's offer first, if he really gave too much, it was not impossible to sell.
If the price is lower than you expected, forget it.
has its own company, and it has a certain scale, so don't care how much you earn, others will shout "Mr. Hu" when they see themselves!
And having so many employees under his command can also bring a sense of accomplishment to himself.
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Seeing that Hu Baoqiang was a little hesitant, Shen Hao also guessed his thoughts.
He smiled and stretched out three fingers: "Thirty million!"
This price is not nonsense, Shen Hao has worked in Tianyu Interactive for a year, and he knows this company well.
The company's situation in the past two years has not been very good, and after a year, the revenue flow is only 30 million.
Excluding all kinds of expenses, it would be good to have a net profit of two million.
It is reasonable to open 30 million by yourself, which is equal to the company's net income for 15 years.
Of course, this is just what Shen Hao thinks is reasonable.
From Hu Baoqiang's side, he felt unreasonable.
When Hu Baoqiang heard this price, he shook his head again and again, "It's too little! Tianyu Interactive is definitely more than this price, a few years ago, the company made tens of millions of net profits a year!"
Shen Hao smiled and said: "Mr. Hu, you also said, that was a few years ago, how much can the company earn in a year now?"
In fact, this involves a judgment on the future development of the company.
If Hu Baoqiang thinks that Tianyu Interactive can develop in the future and regain its glory, then it will be an absolute loss to sell 30 million.
But Shen Hao's judgment is that this company is like this, the technical team is mediocre, and it is impossible to make any popular games. The company does not have much financial resources to invest in R&D, and it is not willing to spend money on marketing.
The reason why he bought Tianyu Interactive is not really counting on how much money this company will make for him.
In order to give himself a share in the business, and then let his "legal but unreasonable" huge source of funds have a source......
Although the funds rewarded by the system every day are legitimate, there will be no relevant departments to trouble them.
But people who are familiar with Shen Hao will always feel that something is wrong, a person who is idle all day long, but suddenly takes out tens of millions or even hundreds of millions, which is not explained to his relatives and friends.
So it's a decent company, and it's a game industry with a lot of money.
So that no one will doubt the source of his funds.
As he just said, it is nothing more than because he is more familiar with Tianyu Interactive, this company has a complete structure, rich experience, and ready-made games in operation.
After the acquisition, Shen Hao's new company will be in place in one step, and there will be no need to toss large-scale recruitment of employees, find game agents everywhere or something.
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After thinking about it for a long time, Hu Baoqiang was still reluctant to sell the company.
However, on a whim, he thought of a better way, so he said: "Why don't I sell you the project "Eternal Song"! Then you can pick some employees from several departments of the company, so that you don't have to buy the whole company, and you have your own projects and mature employees!"
Shen Hao was stunned for a moment, feeling that Hu Baoqiang's idea was quite good!
In fact, even if he acquires Tianyu Interactive as a whole, he will definitely lay off some people.
Because the new company doesn't need so many employees at all, especially many employees of Tianyu Interactive, he can't look down on it.
Now Lao Hu's idea really kills two birds with one stone and solves all the problems perfectly.
However, Shen Hao's face was silent, and he smiled: "This can also be considered, but it is just a game project, and it is a project with not very good operation results." Plus some employees, it's not worth much. ”
When it comes to the issue of price, Hu Baoqiang has come to the spirit.
He glared and retorted: "You know this game, but the company invested a lot of money and spent two years to build it! The reason why the current operation is not very good is also because the company does not have enough money to promote it." Isn't that the case in the game industry, it's useless to just play games, and you have to have the ability to promote them. ”
Shen Hao didn't bother to bother with these things with him, and asked bluntly: "How much money does Mr. Hu want, let's just say it." ”
Rolling his eyes, Hu Baoqiang stretched out two fingers and said confidently: "At least 20 million! I won't sell a single cent! This is not just buying a game, there are also many key employees!"
Shen Hao got up directly and said angrily: "Then there is nothing to talk about, I will go to the finance to pay the contract fee, and the contract will end." When our company opens, I will send an invitation to Mr. Hu and say goodbye. ”
Hu Baoqiang looked at it and was a little panicked.
Hurriedly got up, pulled Shen Hao's arm, and said with a smile on his face: "Don't worry, isn't it like this to talk about business, I say my price, you quote your price, and talk slowly." ”
"I don't have that much time, the price is 10 million, I can sell it if I can, I can't sell it and pull it down. It's not that I don't know what the game "Eternal Song" looks like, to be honest, I paid five million, and I can buy a game of this quality casually, and the other five million is the compensation for taking some employees from the company. ”
Shen Hao said dryly.
The price of 10 million is really not less, it is a conscience price.
But Hu Baoqiang didn't think so, he said with a painful face: "Mr. Shen, you don't know, the development cost of this game is millions more, and the game was listed in the previous period, and I spent nearly 5 million on publicity! But these two add up to more than 10 million, and now you say 10 million to buy it in a package, I ...... I'm going to die!"
Judging from Lao Hu's side, 10 million is indeed a loss.
The publicity cost of five million, Shen Hao didn't take it into account just now, and now listening to Lao Hu's words, it seems to make some sense.
But he thought, no, why did he have to buy the game copyright!
This is not a popular game that can become popular, and I will not build any "big IP" around this game.
Wouldn't it be better to buy an agency directly!
So he said: "That's good, I won't buy all the game copyrights, only half of them, that is, our two companies jointly own the copyright of "Eternal Song". Both parties then have the right to redevelop and upgrade the original version of the game, and both parties are free to operate the game. What does Mr. Hu think of this?"
The plan given by Shen Hao is actually an upgraded and enhanced version of the contract he just started contracting servers!
It is equivalent to him paying for the permanent operation rights of "Eternal Song", and he has the right to upgrade and revise the game.
In addition, Lao Hu's company can also continue to operate this game, and the publicity and distribution costs invested in the early stage are not in vain, as for whether the game can be operated well and whether it can make money, everyone depends on their abilities.
Shen Hao is naturally true.
After he has the right to operate this game, are you still worried that he won't be able to attract traffic?
Still worried about game revenue?
To be honest, it is reasonable that there will suddenly be a god in the game who is crazy about consumption, and one person will support the revenue flow of the game......
After all, there are too many legends about Shenhao in various games!
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Hu Baoqiang's eyes lit up, and he slapped his thigh and said excitedly: "It's still Mr. Shen's smart! I think this plan is okay! Then do it according to Mr. Shen's intentions, 10 million, the game copyright is divided equally, and our two companies operate separately, and then let Mr. Shen choose some employees from here!"
Shen Hao didn't entangle with him on the price anymore, after all, Lao Hu could be regarded as a person who helped him.
He nodded and said: "No problem, but I have to pay the cost in installments, and it may take ten days for my company to complete the decoration, and then pay the first fee, three million, and pay off the rest within a year." ”
This is not a big problem, after all, this deal, Lao Hu feels that he has taken advantage of it.
So I didn't take the payment method too seriously.
Lao Hu Xing went to draw up a game copyright transfer contract, and after the two agreed on the cooperation method and payment term, there was no problem after reading it, and signed and sealed!
Cooperation!
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"That Mr. Shen...... But let me say first, the manager level of the core department, and higher, are not in the scope of selection. In addition, the employees who are favored by Mr. Shen have the right to choose freely, and if people are unwilling to go over, then we can't force them. ”
Hu Baoqiang said again.
"Of course, I won't force everyone to go to my company. That's good, Mr. Hu convened a meeting of all employees, announced our cooperation, and then let the employees who are willing to go over sign up freely first. Find a time, I asked the registered employees to visit the company, and then interviewed one by one, and selected some suitable employees to join. Shen Hao replied.
Hu Baoqiang nodded, and said uneasily: "Don't dig too many people, the total number should not exceed thirty, otherwise there will be problems here." ”
In fact, he was too concerned about this question, Shen Hao didn't plan to ask for many people.
The main thing is to select some people from the game development department, after all, this game is developed by them, and they are very familiar with it.
In the past, you can directly take over the maintenance and redevelopment of the game, which saves a lot of trouble.
As for other departments, such as logistics, administration, personnel, customer service, etc., Shen Hao will not consider the employees here.
Because the quality is not enough, he is not worthy of his company!
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In the large conference room, the employees of Tianyu Interactive walked in one after another.
Xiao Liu and his colleagues muttered as they walked inside: "What's the matter, why does Lao Hu have to hold a meeting every week recently, is the company going bankrupt?"
"Who knows, but I learned about it, it seems that the company's new game is not optimistic, and a lot of money is spent on publicity, and the result is very poor. ”
The colleague shrugged his shoulders and said helplessly.
After everyone came in and sat down, the company executives walked in with Lao Hu and a young man.
Everyone turned their heads to look, but when they saw it, many people exclaimed.
"Xiao Shen!"
"What's the situation? This is Xiao Shen, right?"
"Isn't this Xiao Shen from the original customer service department? Why did he come with Lao Hu? ”
"This person looks like Xiao Shen, but it doesn't have to be, Xiao Shen doesn't ...... This momentum. ”......
No wonder everyone was surprised, because many people in the company knew Shen Hao.
After all, there are more than 200 people in the company, and they don't see anyone who looks up and looks down every day, even if they haven't dealt with each other, they are all familiar.
Especially a few days ago, Shen Hao, a small customer service, recklessly contracted the company's new game!
Although it is only a server, it has caused a lot of repercussions within the company.
We've been talking about it for a while.
Today, I saw Shen Hao and the boss Hu Baoqiang walking in side by side, and looking like that, Hu Baoqiang was very polite to him, of course everyone was surprised.
Hu Baoqiang and Shen Hao walked to the front of the stage and turned to face everyone.
Shen Hao didn't say anything, just looked at the audience with a smile on his face, his expression was very natural.
Hu Baoqiang raised his hands and pressed down, signaling everyone to be quiet.
Then he said, "Good afternoon, colleagues!"
Everyone in the audience reflexively responded in unison: "Good! Good! Very good!"
Hu Baoqiang nodded with satisfaction.
This is also a habit of the company, when a leader speaks to say hello to everyone, the people in the audience must respond like this, and the voice must be loud enough!
As for what it does, then the devil knows......
Hu Baoqiang continued: "I announce a good news!"
Hearing this, many colleagues bowed their heads and sighed, because the last time Hu Baoqiang announced the so-called good news, it was to ask everyone to pay for the contract of game servers.
No one was fooled by him at the time......
It's not right, there are still people who are "deceived", isn't that Shen Hao!
Without the reaction of everyone in the audience, Hu Baoqiang continued to announce with a smile:
"After negotiation, the ...... between me and Mr. Shen"
Originally, he wanted to say the name of Shen Hao's company, but when the words came to his mouth, he realized that it seemed that Shen Hao did not say what his company's name was.
However, this couldn't help Hu Baoqiang, he looked through the contract in hand, and looked at the place where Shen Hao signed and sealed on the last page.
Then he continued: "We, Tianyu Interactive Company, and Mr. Shen's Lemon Interactive Entertainment Company have reached an agreement to form a strategic partnership! The two companies have joined forces to operate the game "Eternal Song"! In order to help Mr. Shen's Lemon Interactive Entertainment Company, some employees will be transferred from Tianyu Interactive to join Lemon Interactive Entertainment Company, and everyone can sign up freely. ”
After Hu Baoqiang's words were finished, the audience was in an uproar.
This is so unexpected for everyone!
What's the situation?
Shen Hao started a company by himself?
Do you want to fully cooperate with Tianyu Interactive?
In addition, do you want to poach some employees to go to Shen Hao's company?
This doesn't make sense!
Wasn't Shen Hao still a small customer service a few days ago?
Why has he become the CEO of the company now?
Shen Hao's old colleague, customer service Xiao Liu pursed his lips, and said in a small voice:
"What kind of lemon entertainment, what kind of leather bag company! Oh, I know, the office address of this lemon entertainment company is not just that small office. But it doesn't seem to fit a few people in that room, so the ghost is willing to go!"
The small office that Xiao Liu said was the room that Shen Hao asked Hu Baoqiang for, and many employees in the company knew about it.
So after Xiao Liu finished speaking, several employees next to her laughed out loud.
Obviously, no one would think that Shen Hao could make any decent company.
I guess it's a game studio.
Although Tianyu Interactive is not very prosperous here, it is also a regular game company, the treatment is okay, and the five insurances and one housing fund are also paid to everyone.
Who wants to go to a game studio.
Maybe if you can't make money, the boss will just run away.
Everyone in the audience was whispering, but obviously, no one was optimistic about Shen Hao's lemon interactive entertainment company, and no one raised their hands to sign up.
Shen Hao used to be a "good buddy", the old Wu of the technical department.
That is, Shen Hao asked him to borrow money at that time, and he asked Shen Hao to ask "if he was not" again, and then answered the "good buddy" who was "not there".
Lao Wu turned his head with a disdainful face and said to his colleagues: "Shen Hao, this kid is becoming more and more unreliable, he used to be an honest young man, why is he running the train with his mouth full of now! Fortunately, he asked me to borrow money a while ago, and I decisively refused." This kind of person, who dares to believe what he says!"
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At this time, Shen Hao spoke.
He stepped forward, smiled, and said in a small voice:
"Maybe you don't know about our lemon interactive entertainment company, so let me briefly introduce it, after listening, maybe everyone will be interested. ”