Chapter 103: Deadlocked Negotiations
Shanghai police's monitoring equipment, malicious wounding case two days ago?
Liu Yun looked at Ye Taolang's back, and linked several pieces of information together in his mind, this guy is a player of "Miracle MU", and he was banned by Jiucheng. Two days ago, a group of players demonstrated and protested in front of Jiucheng Company, and at that time, Ye Taolang was also nowhere to be seen.
"It can't be such a coincidence, could it be that the stone that hit the vice president of Blizzard was thrown by Ye Taolang?" Liu Yun was no longer paying attention to what the high math teacher said, and his mind was full of the sudden incident just now.
Li Hao also looked shocked, looked at Liu Yun and asked, "What's the situation?" Although he and Ye Taolang have a mediocre relationship, they are roommates in the same dormitory after all. Now that this roommate has been taken away by the police, he will naturally be a little more worried.
Liu Yun leaned back in his chair, squinted his eyes slightly, and replied without raising his head: "Since the police have found it, it is definitely not a good thing, as for what it is, sooner or later it will be known." ”
Although he had a clue in his heart, he also knew that now was not the time to reveal the truth.
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Shanghai, Jiucheng Company.
Mr. Kaplan, Blizzard's vice president, leaned back in a sofa chair with thick gauze wrapped around his forehead. Although he had a lot of blood in his head at the time of the incident that day, after a careful diagnosis by the hospital, it was only some skin trauma. Now the injury on his head has been controlled, except for the occasional burning pain from his scalp.
He looked at Bei Haiguang, the vice president of Jiucheng, who nodded and smiled beside him, and kept apologizing, and shouted with some dissatisfaction: "You people from developing countries are really barbaric, and your quality is not high. ”
As he spoke, he took a pot of hot tea from the staff, took a sip gently, and couldn't help but praise: "But this Huaxia tea tastes really good." ”
If Kaplan's words were put in public, he might be labeled as racist and chased to apologize. But this is a private occasion, and the other party's Jiucheng company still has a request for them, so they have a lot less scruples.
Bei Haiguang is also a veteran of shopping malls for a long time, and he also understands that the person in front of him has a grievance in his heart, and he does not vomit or be unhappy. Jiucheng even had a request from Blizzard, and he said with a smile on his face that he was thinking about the agency of "World of Warcraft": "That's natural, the quality of people in our developing countries is naturally not as good as that of developed countries like the United States." ”
He couldn't help but secretly think in his heart: Your United States has not been a three-day protest, and the smashing of shops has also happened from time to time, and shooting cases have broken out at every turn. Bei Haiguang can be said to have brought his acting skills to the extreme with a smile on his lips and an MMP in his heart.
At this time, Bei Haiguang's mobile phone rang, and after he answered the phone, he talked for a while, his face showed a happy face, and he kept thanking the other end of the phone.
After hanging up the phone, Bei Haiguang smiled brightly at Kaplan and said, "Mr. Kaplan, to tell you the good news, the call came from the police station just now, and the guy who injured you with a stone has been arrested." ”
"Very well, such a mob deserves to be punished by law. Kaplan nodded in satisfaction, "I don't know what kind of punishment that criminal will receive." ”
Bei Haiguang lowered his head and pondered for a while and said, "Mr. Kaplan, you were slightly injured, and according to our Huaxia law, you should not be sentenced, at most it is just public security detention." ”
Kaplan's face changed slightly, revealing a look of dissatisfaction: "The laws of developing countries treat criminals too lightly, but I can't interfere with the justice of Huaxia. At this, he shrugged his shoulders a little helplessly.
"The police said that they would try to give us a suitable answer within the framework of the law. Bei Haiguang answered the police truthfully.
The two chatted for a while, and the staff sent a message that the conference room had been officially set up, and the executives of Nine Cities and Blizzard had officially negotiated the representation of World of Warcraft.
Before Blizzard's top management came to Huaxia, there had been a preliminary meeting between the two.
Blizzard's standard for agency fees is very high, with a 5-year agency fee of $75 million, and a whopping 30% game profit share.
The cost of Jiucheng's agency for "Miracle MU" is only 2 million US dollars, and there is no profit sharing. "World of Warcraft" can really make more money than "Miracle MU"? At this time, no one in the Nine Cities Company dared to pack tickets.
Because of the attack on Blizzard's top management two days ago, there is already a crack between the two companies, and because of this crack, it has invisibly aggravated the difficulty of this negotiation. The agency fee has also increased from $12 million a year to $15 million.
3 million US dollars, for Zhu Jun, I don't know how many more point cards to sell to get back the cost, he slapped the table with some annoyance, took out a cigarette and smoked. The two high-level executives of Blizzard sat in their chairs expressionlessly, glanced at each other, and did not show the slightest willingness to reduce prices.
Zhu Jun mentally calculated the agency fee of 15 million US dollars and 30% of the game profit share, which requires almost 22 million US dollars of net profit a year to maintain the balance of income and expenditure, plus huge advertising costs, labor wages, and the cost of purchasing servers, it is almost necessary to earn 35 million US dollars a year.
This kind of game agency fee is the highest in the world, and it is unparalleled. "Damn, these Yankees know that I've made a lot of money in Miracle MU and really treat me like a lamb to the slaughter. He cursed silently in his heart.
The negotiation of the game's agency rights was already a tug-of-war, and the two companies were at an impasse in terms of price.
People are such strange creatures, Zhu Jun, the boss of Jiucheng, can press all his net worth of 2 million US dollars to win the agency of "Miracle MU" when his net worth is weak, and he won this time with a big gamble.
Now that his wealth has exceeded 100 million, his mentality is different, and his status is different, if he wants to gamble on all his net worth again, he will naturally have a little more hesitation in his heart.
The highest price in his mind is $10 million a year, while Blizzard's offer is $15 million, which is a huge chasm.
Robert, the marketing director, said lightly: "The game companies that are interested in Huaxia are not only you Jiucheng, but also Shanda and NetEase. So the premium of agency fees is quite normal. ”
Zhu Jun frowned slightly, he knew too well this trick of pulling other families to raise his chips.
He's tempted to say that even those two companies won't agree to such a condition for you. But these words did not come out after all.
"Well, we need to do a cost accounting, and then the board of directors will discuss it. Zhu Jun thought for a while and said.
He hated the players of Miracle MU to death, and if it weren't for this accident, the negotiations with Blizzard would not have been so difficult.
But what can I do, "Miracle MU" is its own cash cow, and the bitter fruit can only be swallowed by itself.