The next day, Ming Pao Newspaper Office.

"Gu Biao wants to buy all my game adaptation rights? What is his recent origin? Why did he suddenly come to Xiangjiang to develop again? Martial arts can still change the game?"

When Mr. Zha first heard that Gu Biao asked people to take him, he was still quite surprised, and there was more than one slot.

"I heard that he was coming back from the United States and was going to the mainland to host an international conference. The purpose of coming to Xiangjiang was to visit Huo Ye, and I don't know what I talked about. Looking for you is just in passing. The female secretary explained carefully.

Find Huo Ye first, and then find Mr. Cha, this is also a small move by Gu Biao to reflect his identity and subtly change the negotiating position of the two parties, and it is not a matter of benefit - brother didn't come to you specifically, you just came by the way.

Mr. Cha's status in the cultural circle of Xiangjiang is still very high, after all, he not only holds a large number of big IPs, but also has powerful newspapers and magazines, and there are so many companies in the media field.

Therefore, those who know a little bit about the media industry in Hong Kong know that Mr. Zha should not be regarded as a mere writer, but as a cultural giant second only to Sir Shao.

However, after all, Mr. Cha is old and does not understand new media channels or video games. He had to ask his secretaries and assistants to give him literacy and understand Gu Ao's status in the specific industry.

"What is the strength of this Gu Biao in the game console industry? I have heard that in the past two years, there have been several 'game halls' in Hong Kong that have opened up and the business is good, and those clubs are vying for territory, which is more powerful than the nightclubs in the early years and the discos in previous years?

At the beginning of 83, Xiangjiang was basically no one using the machine, so everyone had never seen it. That thing has grown from scratch in Europe and the United States, and has gradually become popular for 5 years, and it has not yet entered the Asian market except for the Japanese market.

So Mr. Zha subconsciously imagined Gu Biao as those black D bosses......

In his impression, the game hall in Xiangjiang has appeared for less than two years, and it has become an important place for gangs to snatch protection rights and collect protection fees, second only to some relatively large chess and card stores, and more than other entertainment venues that are not involved in pornography.

The female secretary could only patiently explain to him: "Sir, this is not the case. Gu Sheng is at the top of the industry's supply chain, and he did sell cabinet machines in game halls a few years ago, and he is also the top five companies in the world in this field and strives to be the top three.

However, since last year, Tiankun Entertainment has a PLAY-BOX handheld game console in the U.S. market, which has sold very hot, and so far the U.S. market has sold 2 million units, and it has become the second highest game console in the U.S. market in one year.

And the most important thing is that after the launch of PLAY-BOX last year, Tiankun Entertainment began to develop home desktops again, and the target was Atari 2600. At present, there is probably no one who can snatch the inheritance of Atari's market position with Gu Biao, at most there are one or two top companies that can drink some soup. ”

"I see...... I know what to do. Mr. Cha nodded, signaled the assistant to prepare for the reception, and took out the best Tieguanyin.

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A few hours later, Gu Biao arrived at Ming Pao with the driver's bodyguards and began his harvest.

The level of courtesy was beyond his expectations.

"Mr. Zha is too polite, although we talk about business today, but it is more for the sake of the century-old plan of Chinese cultural export. Mr. Zha is a senior master, how dare Gu support him. ”

Gu Biao was very modest, pulled Mr. Cha, and in the consideration of respecting the elderly, let the other party go half a position first.

Mr. Zha said without leaking: "It should be, it should be, the old man often wants to let martial arts go out of East Asia, and money is secondary." Gu Sheng has this idea, and we are also mutually beneficial. ”

"So, you fully understand what I mean. ”

As the two spoke, they were already welcomed into the reception room, and the guests and hosts were seated and refreshed.

After saying a little tentative words, Mr. Zha offered his price: "Gu Sheng, you and I are both people who pioneered the era, so we don't care." If you want to use it, no matter how many martial arts you want to be involved, I will charge you 10,000 Hong Kong dollars to change one of them, just don't scandalize the original work, and don't care about the rest. ”

For Mr. Zha and Gu Biao, there is actually no difference between 10,000 Hong Kong dollars and one dollar Hong Kong dollar.

He just didn't want to act too explicitly, and made it as purely symbolic as the CCTV adaptation in later generations, so he said 10,000.

And Gu Biao also got there immediately, and the other party actually regarded him as CCTV's industry status, and used low prices to attract pioneers into the pit.

However, Gu Biao is obviously not satisfied with this kind of talk.

He keenly pointed out: "Mr. Cha, 10,000 yuan to change one, this is really cost-effective, I almost didn't give money." I just don't know. In the future, if I want to change the tense again, will I only be charged 10,000 Hong Kong dollars forever?"

Mr. Cha's old face is a little untouchable. But he thought about it, and still made a decision: "If Gu Sheng does well, I promise today, in the future, all Tiankun Entertainment will use it for its own use, and it will always be 10,000 Hong Kong dollars per part every time!"

Gu Biao raised his hand slightly: "No subcontracting, which means that if other people want to buy it in the future, you can sell it at a high price." If I buy 10,000 yuan and sell it to the person who originally wanted to pay a high price, it is equivalent to a breach of contract, and in the future, you can no longer authorize 10,000 copies to me each time, but renegotiate at the market price, does that mean?"

He saw through it at a glance.

Mr. Zha no longer hid it: "What's wrong with this? I can sell it to others for a high price, it has nothing to do with Gu Sheng. ”

Gu Biao: "However, at present, there is no martial arts theme in the video game industry in the world. In the future, martial arts-themed games will become popular, and they will all be picked up by me. Mr. Cha, although you have a high status in the industry, I have to say that the plot is of little value in the game adaptation, and the most important thing in the game adaptation is the character's character image.

If you put aside the plot and only look at the character design, the order of the three should be Gu Jinliang, Gu Long's characters are more distinct than you, but the rationality of the plot is too poor. Liang Yusheng's character is less distinct because his book is more respectful of historical context. And you are just the mean, so the achievement and audience at the literary level are considered the highest.

But this advantage doesn't necessarily translate to the gaming industry. So in the future, if martial arts becomes popular in the game field, it will also be popular with me. Isn't it a miscalculation that you expect to give me an adaptation, and then sell it to others for a high price after it becomes popular? I care about someone who either doesn't buy it, or buys it out if it wants to, or I'll go to Gu Long. If it weren't for the fact that he is a compatriot from Wanwan and you are a compatriot from Xiangjiang, and your position is relatively more correct, I would have been able to find him now. ”

Gu Biao's attitude is very aggressive, but it does make sense to be aggressive.

In the game industry, it should not be counted as Gu Biao's popularity of the other party, but Gu Biao's popularity of the other party.

As soon as this logic is reversed, the situation in the negotiations will change qualitatively.

Mr. Zha was very excited at first, and completely accepted that he couldn't: "How can there be such a way of talking about literature in the world? The key to literary authorization lies in whether you infringe on the original work or whether you scandalize the original work. Just like last year, when Shaw Brothers filmed my "Dragon Babu", I almost scolded the street!

I had to make a big devil who exterminated humanity to the point that there was only a trace left, so it was changed to Murong Bo teaming up with Gu Mozhi to kill the sweeping monk, and he also learned the peerless martial arts of the sweeping monk. In the last episode, Duan Yu, Xu Zhu, and Xiao Yuanshan, who were so strong that their martial arts were in full bloom, joined forces to barely defeat Murong Bo, and they also paid the price that Xiao Yuanshan was killed by Murong Bo - is this still "Dragon Babu"?

If you buy it out, in the future, you will be like Sir Shao's gang of street screenwriters, just borrowing the characters and martial arts names in my book, and the plot is set randomly, wouldn't that hurt the interests of me and the film and television industry, how can I buy it out without censorship? This is not a question of money, but a problem of not being able to check and balance your disrespect for the original work after the buyout. ”

When Gu Biao heard this, he couldn't help but secretly want to laugh.

At this point in time at the beginning of '83, the situation was really interesting.

The 82 version of "Dragon Babu" has been released, and the 83 version of "Shooting the Condor" has not yet been filmed.

Gu Biao thought for a while and gave a compromise opinion: "I understand your concern, but I also hope that you will pay attention to my position." So, for the issue of 'disrespecting the original work', we can talk about an exemption clause - you make a price and still sell me the adaptation rights in the game industry at one time, including all video games, computer games, and adaptation rights on the new video game carrier equipment in the future. , film and television, you keep it for yourself.

From now on, if you want to make your martial arts game, you have to ask me to buy the adaptation rights. But you still have the right to respect the censorship of the original work, and if you find a work that scandalizes the original work, you can stop and rectify it, but you must not sell it again.

Think about it, only when the game adaptation rights are sold out to me, will I wholeheartedly make the cake of the martial arts game market bigger. The young people of the future will grow up playing game consoles, and they don't have so much time to read books. Film and television are still your own, maybe you will need my game to drive the traffic of film and television in turn. ”

If Gu Biao wants to buy out all the copyrights today, the other party will definitely refuse, or he will open a very high price, and deliberately does not intend to let Gu Biao take over.

However, just buying out the game and keeping the others is tantamount to letting other media businesses rub off on the popularity of games in the future.

After some bargaining, the two parties finally settled the deal for 10 million Hong Kong dollars.

This amount of money is roughly equivalent to the total cost of Shaw Brothers making two or three low-budget martial arts films today.

In the case that Mr. Zha does not know how big the video game industry will be in the future, he feels that the price is still relatively high, which is enough to satisfy him.

He only has one proviso: if Gu Biao wants to succeed in winning it for 10 million Hong Kong dollars, then he must launch a video game related to Jin Yong's martial arts theme within two years, or several, in short, he must ship a total of 1 million game cartridges.

If this is not possible, Mr. Zha has the right to ask for additional money according to the appendix of the agreement.

In addition, the "veto power to scandalize the original work" is still retained.