519 [Human Spirits and Liars]
If Song Weiyang said that he wanted to do a big job and wanted to be the most elite tour in the world, then it is estimated that the people in Xishanju would run more than half of it, and they would directly respond to Boss Song's call regardless of anything.
When the domestic online game industry was booming, the programmers of major studios were frantically poached, and Xishanju was also poached a lot, and even the first project leader of "Sword Network 1" resigned halfway. So don't expect the loyalty of these employees, except for a few who value love and righteousness and have ideals, everyone else can be dug up with money, and if you can't dig it, it only means that the money you give is not enough.
However, Song Weiyang made it very clear that he wanted to make a rough and simple copycat online game with empty and garbage content and absolutely profitable.
This sentence made many programmers retreat, and in the end, one-third of the R&D team of the "Gods and Demons" project team came, and two-thirds of the core operation team came, and a total of 18 people were willing to follow Song Weiyang to mess around. For this reason, Song Weiyang gave Jinshan 300,000 yuan in compensation, which is equivalent to the transfer fee of these people.
Just when these 18 people went through the resignation procedures, Song Weiyang flew straight to Beijing and made an appointment to meet Chi Yufeng, the boss of Hongen Education Group.
Chi Yufeng has just won the title of "Top Ten Outstanding Young Persons in China's Software Industry", he is only 30 years old this year, graduated from the Department of Chemistry of Tsinghua University, and he knows how he went to engage in educational software, and he also devoted himself to the game industry early.
Zulong Studio, which was invested and founded by Chi Yufeng, will also create Perfect Time and Space in the future, and its works include "Perfect World", "Wulin Gaiden", "Zhu Xian" and so on, and even the movie "33 Days of Broken Love" has his investment.
Song Weiyang didn't know much about Chi Yufeng and Perfect Time and Space, and the reason why he ran this trip was because Zulong Studio was particularly awesome, and two years ago launched China's first 3D real-time strategy game "Freedom and Glory", which is also the world's second (and possibly the third) 3D real-time strategy game.
In the field of 3D games, Zulong Studio is recognized as the first in China, and has long had its own 3D game engine.
Song Weiyang asked Lei Jun which company in China made the best 3D games, and Rebus directly recommended Zulong Studio.
Song Weiyang plans to walk on two legs, while letting Jinshanlai's team copy "Legend", and at the same time acquiring Zulong Studio, allowing it to develop large-scale 3D online games, and see if it can harden "World of Warcraft" in a few years.
Hongen Education Group, General Manager's Office.
Three days ago, Chi Yufeng received an invitation from Song Weiyang to visit, and he felt very surprised and pleasantly surprised. He put down all entertainment today, and sat in the company waiting for Song Weiyang to visit. When the secretary knocked on the door and entered, Chi Yufeng immediately got up, walked over quickly and shook hands and said, "Mr. Song is here, making the humble house shine!"
"Where, Mr. Chi is too polite. Song Weiyang smiled and shook hands.
Chi Yufeng turned sideways and said, "Mr. Song, please take a seat." ”
The two sat down next to each other on the sofa, and Song Weiyang said: "Mr. Chi's business has been booming recently, and now computers are becoming more and more popular, and educational software has broad prospects. ”
"Small fights, can't be compared with Mr. Song. Chi Yufeng said modestly.
Song Weiyang said: "I am particularly optimistic about the educational software industry, if I don't have so much energy, I will definitely come to make investments." ”
"Fortunately, Mr. Song didn't get involved, otherwise he would have robbed our business. Chi Yufeng said the scene, but he was a little puzzled in his heart, could it be that Song Weiyang wanted to invest in Hongen Education Group?
Song Weiyang didn't explain his intentions, so he was talking nonsense to Chi Yufeng there.
After chatting for more than 20 minutes, Chi Yufeng finally couldn't help it and asked, "I wonder if Mr. Song has something to do with me today?"
Song Weiyang said: "Oh, I almost forgot, I want to buy Zulong Studio." ”
Chi Yufeng almost fell to the ground when he heard this, and Nima chatted for a long time about educational software, and he actually came to acquire a game studio. He immediately expressed his attitude: "Zulong Studio is not for sale, not for sale!"
"1 million!" Song Weiyang said.
"It's really not for sale. Chi Yufeng said.
Song Weiyang said: "2 million." ”
Chi Yufeng smacked his lips: "I invested in Zulong Studio, firstly, to support the younger students to start their own businesses, and secondly, because I love games......"
"3 million!" Song Weiyang said.
Chi Yufeng suddenly changed his words: "Let me think about it again." ”
Song Weiyang got up and said, "5 million, this is the highest price, if it doesn't work, I'll leave." ”
"Wait a minute," Chi Yufeng hurriedly stopped, "Explain in advance, I only have 70% of the shares of the studio." ”
"That's enough. Song Weiyang said with a smile.
Chi Yufeng only invested 200,000 yuan at the beginning, and after more than three years, although Zulong Studio's games were well received, they were actually not very profitable, and the profits were taken away by pirates. Excluding various expenditures, the net profit of Zulong Studio is less than 100,000 yuan, and it is very rare to maintain it without losing money.
Now that Song Weiyang suddenly acquired it for 5 million yuan, Chi Yufeng should be very happy, after all, there is a 25 times super high return.
The problem is that Song Weiyang personally came to talk about business, which made Chi Yufeng have other thoughts, and he tentatively asked: "Doesn't Mr. Song have Jinshan?" Jinshan's Xishanju Studio is the best game studio in Chinese mainland, why are you still interested in Zulong?"
Song Weiyang smiled: "I disagree with the management of Jinshan. ”
"Disagreement?" Chi Yufeng was stunned, "You're a major shareholder, right?"
Song Weiyang said: "It's just that there is a disagreement on the game, so I drew a group of people from Xishanju and prepared to recruit another group of people to form a brand new game company." Don't think about the mess, I'm a person who likes to play games very much, and forming a game company is purely a hobby, and I won't buy Zulong if it's more than 5 million. You should know very well that 70% of Zulong Studio's shares are not worth 5 million yuan at all, and I have already acquired it at a super high premium!"
Chi Yufeng asked: "Zulong's advantage is 3D technology, and Mr. Song wants to make 3D games?"
"If you don't want to sell, then I'll find another studio, and the 3D technology can be developed slowly." ”
Chi Yufeng always felt that something was wrong, and said: "For 2 million yuan, I will sell you 50% of Zulong's shares." ”
"Hahaha," Song Weiyang was amused, "Mr. Chi, do you think I have made some big moves, so you want to take the opportunity to take a ride?"
Chi Yufeng's mind of being exposed was not embarrassed, and he smiled and said: "Who doesn't know that Mr. Song is invincible in business, and he has never lost money over the years." ”
It's all human spirits!
When he was a student at Tsinghua University, he began to sell newspapers in his sophomore year. If that's all he wants, he'll be a newsboy at best, and he won't be able to make a lot of money from his hard work. So he worked with many classmates, and all the processes were scaled up, not only easily, but the monthly income of each partner actually reached 300 yuan - that was in 1990.
In his junior year, Chi Yufeng was also known as the "first student shareholder" in Beijing, and he used the money he earned from selling newspapers to speculate in stocks, and quickly accumulated a net worth of tens of thousands of yuan. But he soon encountered a big bear market, lost all his money in less than half a year, and waited until his senior year to partner with others to raise more than 10,000 yuan to engage in color spray painting, but he was deceived by someone, and he still owed foreign debts when he graduated.
This person, like Song Weiyang in his previous life, belongs to the kind of person who can't be idle, even if he hits the south wall, he won't look back.
After graduating, he joined Procter & Gamble as a technician, and in half a year, he was promoted to assistant general manager, and he was sent to the United States for training, which is equivalent to being trained by multinational companies. But Chi Yufeng resigned, went to resell computer accessories, stood at the counter, slept on the floor to survive, and once became the largest computer hardware supplier in Shenzhen.
In this case, Chi Yufeng felt that selling hardware had no future and was always controlled by others. He also switched to educational software, and his self-developed English learning software has long dominated the sales list of domestic educational software.
This kind of old fritter is not easy to fool.
Song Weiyang didn't really care about cooperating with people, he frowned and said: "To be honest, the game company I established has more than one studio. Even if you retain part of the equity of Zulong Studio, you can only get a small part of the profits. Moreover, I plan to raise Zulong Studio slowly, and I will continue to invest a lot of money to develop, and it will be at least five years before I launch real works. Even if you keep 30% of the shares, it may be diluted to just 1% after several capital injections. ”
"Then what about me investing more?" asked Chi Yufeng.
Song Weiyang smiled: "You are so confident in me?"
Chi Yufeng said with a dead face: "Follow Boss Song to eat meat." ”
Song Weiyang said: "Then I won't hide it." I plan to let Zulong Studio develop a large-scale 3D online game, the research and development cycle is about four years, and the research and development funds are 50 million to 100 million. If you're willing to invest in this game, I'd love to hear from you. ”
"50 million to 100 million R&D funds?" Chi Yufeng finally couldn't keep calm, because this was beyond his imagination.
Don't look at Jinshan's "War of Gods and Demons" is so popular, but the promotion cost is also high, because the network speed cannot go up, the number of online people is not much up. Until January this year, Jinshan barely recovered various upfront costs, and now the net profit is less than 2.5 million yuan, and it can earn 8 million yuan this year, provided that it has maintained a sufficient number of online people.
This is already the most profitable online game in China, and other companies have not made so much.
So Chi Yufeng can't imagine what the concept of a game's R&D funds is tens of millions, and his total personal assets are barely exceeding 100 million.
Chi Yufeng swallowed his saliva and said, "Although I don't know Mr. Song's operation very well, I'm sure you have your own ideas, and I also believe in your business vision." 1 million yuan, I sold you 30% of the shares of Zulong Studio, and you left me 40%. Even if it is diluted to 1% in the future, then I will admit it, at least I can take a ride. ”
"Okay, it's good if you're happy, but I don't promise to make money. Song Weiyang said.
Chi Yufeng said: "It doesn't matter, anyway, I only invested 200,000 in Zulong at the beginning, and now I have earned it." ”
Half a month later, Hu Geng, who was working as a moderator for a children's community on a children's website, suddenly received an email: "Hello Mr. Hu, I'm Song Weiyang, I saw your essay on the Internet, and I'm very interested in it." I plan to make a large-scale 3D online game based on the content of this one, and I will hire you as the main planner of the game. If you agree, please reply to me as soon as possible. ”
"Are scammers so rampant these days? I'm still Bill Gates. Hu Geng hilariously deleted the email, considering whether the game plan should be adapted.
This year, cats and dogs all want to make games, and Hu Geng's children's website also set up a project to make games last year, and let him serve as the main planner of the game.
Hu Geng rummaged through the Classic of Mountains and Seas, set up various factions and characters, and even wrote a complete story outline to create a web-based Magic: The Gathering card game based on Western fantasy and Pokemon.
But not long ago, the website suddenly announced that it would abandon the game project, and Hu Geng's efforts for more than half a year were all in vain.
In addition to being heartbroken, Hu Geng used the pen name "Wild Fox Under the Tree" to write some of the stories in the game planning case and publish them on the Internet. These essays were so popular that Hu Geng had a new idea, he wanted to create a "Lord of the Rings" that belonged to the Chinese!
Before I officially started writing, the scammer actually came to the door.