Chapter 427: Expanding International Influence
"Is that necessary? If I call them again and lower the conditions for the meeting, they will immediately come to them with tears in their eyes. Camacho didn't seem worried when Henry said that.
After the dinner, Camacho asked his assistant to call Shan Yao, the person in charge of Blizzard, and said that he had asked the person in charge of the exhibition party to give due consideration to lowering the threshold for Blizzard to participate in the Longke Game Show, and that the speech when accepting the award could also be appropriately adjusted, and Blizzard was welcome to bring new games to the Longke Game Show and accept the award on stage.
Shan Yao politely said that he would ask Boss Wang and then give a reply.
The next day, Shan Yao still didn't reply to the phone, so Camacho's assistant had to take the initiative to call and contact Shan Yao again.
"I'm sorry, Boss Wang said that because of Mr. Camacho's attitude, Blizzard will never go to the Longke Game Show, nor will it receive any awards at the Longke Game Show. Shan Yao replied to Camacho's assistant in a cold tone, sounding unusually resolute.
After hearing the assistant's report, Camacho was a little stupid, the Longke Game Show has a history of more than 20 years, and in the past 20 years, the international influence of the Longke Game Show is getting bigger and bigger, tens of thousands of large and small game companies around the world, only a few dozen companies are eligible to get tickets for the Longke Game Show every year, and the games produced will be demonstrated at the Longke Game Show.
As long as it can win the award, even if it is a small award, the previously unknown small game may become popular overnight, and obtain great sales and profits, in the past ten years, several large game companies that are now very well-known are small game companies like small workshops, and the game is indeed very creative, but it has not been able to get the attention of the public, but because it won several small awards at the Longke Game Show and became famous overnight, attracting many investments and growing rapidly into a giant in the game industry。
In addition to some games and game companies with particularly excellent annual performance, many game companies that want to enter the Longke Game Show are hard to find tickets for the game show, and it is even more difficult to get awards.
Like Blizzard's "Grand Theft Auto", it is becoming more and more rare for Longke Game Show to take the initiative to give booths and even promise awards, and on this basis, it is also appropriate to charge a relatively expensive entrance fee to Blizzard, which has made a lot of money, and in Camacho's opinion, Blizzard will willingly pay this money in order to promote itself.
Even if Wang Qian refused, Camacho thought that the other party just wanted to negotiate terms, and sooner or later he would still cry and beg to come to him.
In the more than 20 years of history, no company has ever given up this opportunity, and the award of the current Longke Game Show is as great an honor for the game industry as the Nobel Prize was for scientists. Each game company is extremely excited to enter the Longke Game Show and win the corresponding awards, and even permanently hangs the winning screen on the homepage of their website to promote their company and games.
However, now, the Longke Game Show took the initiative to invite Blizzard and give them awards, but they were actually rejected!
This is also the first company in history to refuse the Longke Game Show and refuse to accept the award!
After Camacho answered Henry's call, he had to take his assistant Margaret to Blizzard in person, but he was thrown in the reception room and no one received him, and he only got a reply from Shan Yao's assistant when he contacted Shan Yao, saying that Mr. Camacho should not waste any more time in China, and Blizzard would definitely not participate in the Longke Game Show and would not receive any awards.
"What should I do now?" Camacho was completely panicked, you must know that the position of the representative of the Longke Game Show is very hot in the Western world, and being able to be a representative means that there are game companies at home to send a lot of money and even beautiful women over, and there are free luxury hotels and full escorts provided by game companies when you go out, and you can wave as much as you want.
But now, Camacho is going to be removed from his position as the exhibition representative because he did not succeed in inviting Blizzard to participate in the exhibition!
It was a very good task to complete, if Camacho didn't deliberately artificially set so many thresholds for Blizzard, or just had an equal attitude towards Wang Qian, and didn't need to be too humble, Wang Qian wouldn't embarrass him, and wouldn't let go of this good opportunity to promote Blizzard and the new game, and he Camacho could continue to be his exhibition representative, and he could wave as much as he wanted in the future.
But because Camacho's attitude was too arrogant, it completely angered Wang Qian and messed things up, and he Camacho couldn't wave it anymore.
"I think the source of this matter is in their boss Wang, these poor Chinese people have a strong sense of self-esteem, I inquired about the situation is that Boss Wang thinks our attitude is too arrogant so abandon the exhibition, or we find a way to contact Boss Wang, you can put down your body and say a few good words to him, you should be able to coax over. Camacho's assistant Margaret persuaded Camacho a few words, she is Camacho's little lover, Camacho has no status as an exhibition representative, which means that she will not be able to go out with him around the world in the future, at this time, of course, she must help think of a way.
"Well, you have a point, the more the people of such backward countries have, the more they have extremely pathetic self-esteem, as long as our noble whites put down their bodies and say a few kind words to them, there is nothing that cannot be done. Camacho couldn't help but feel relieved when he thought about it.
"If you can't do it, you can put pressure on him through the local government, and the Chinese are most afraid of their government departments. Margaret added.
"yes, what else do I have to worry about?" Camacho nodded.
In Camacho's original plan, he wanted to put some private goods in the threshold of the exhibition and the acceptance speech, so that the Chinese people knew that the invitation to the Longke Game Show was to lower their status, give Blizzard a lot of face, and take the opportunity to get some personal benefits from Blizzard. As a result, I didn't expect Wang Qian to refuse to participate in the exhibition without saying a word, and Camacho was passive.
Henry has a point, a game that accounts for two-thirds of this year's total game sales, a game that has sold more than 30 million copies so far, and whose sales momentum is still growing violently, will not be at the Longke Game Show, and it will hurt their game show, not this game. Blizzard, which has produced a great game like Grand Theft Auto, which has never been seen before or since, and is about to release a dozen new games, didn't come to Longke Games, and it was the same game show that was damaged, not this game.
This year's situation is very different from previous years, no other game company has ever made a game as influential as Grand Theft Auto, which accounts for more than half of the world's total game sales, and there is no company that is about to release a game that Blizzard is about to release that has such a big appeal to players.
It can be said that if Blizzard did not participate in this year's Longke Game Show and did not participate in the award ceremony of the game show, then this year's Longke Game Show would undoubtedly be a failure, and the award ceremony would also lose its credibility in the player community.
Before coming, Camacho felt that he could bully the ignorant Huaguo Company, and deliberately raised the bar so that he could maximize his personal interests from Blizzard, but things have developed to this point, and the result of the stalemate between the two sides is something they can't afford at all!
Blizzard must participate in the exhibition and must receive the award, otherwise the Longke International Game Show will become a joke.
Just like when Messi and Ronaldo were at their peak in the previous life, if the Ballon d'Or was awarded to other players, FIFA would have become a joke.
In Camacho's view, the result of such a confrontation between Blizzard and Longke Game Show will definitely be Blizzard's loss in the end.
There are so many game companies in the world, booms and busts and mergers happen every day, and every game company can't guarantee that the next game will not be on the street, but Longke Game Exhibition is always there as a platform, and the more time passes, the more credibility it has, and the more valuable the booth and awards.
Blizzard has become a smash hit this year because of "Grand Theft Auto", but who can guarantee that the games it will launch in the future will sell so well? Just endure it this year! Give him enough face to coax him to participate in this year's game show and award ceremony, and wait for next year, or the year after that, when Blizzard goes downhill, when he comes to him on his knees and cries, all new and old accounts must be settled together with him Wang Qian!
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A conference room in a luxury hotel.
"Boss Wang, do you really want to refuse to participate in the Longke Game Show?" At the enterprise development research meeting of a government department, a staff member asked Wang Qian.
There are many bigwigs participating in this kind of research meeting, and Wang Qian was also invited to open the company in Huaguo, and he had to give face to the government department no matter what, so Wang Qian also came to participate in the research meeting.
"Camacho and the exhibition party look down on the Chinese people, why do we want to belittle ourselves?" Wang Qian shook his head.
"Then there is no need to give up the exhibition and give up the award! What a good opportunity to win glory for the country! Even if you spend a little more money, it is nothing; you see, if other countries can invest 200 million or 300 million yuan in the construction of the Olympic Games, it is still highly questioned by the people; it doesn't matter if our country spends tens of billions of dollars, how long it is in the international community! Blizzard has made so much money, and it is time to consider taking a small part of it to expand its international influence and win glory for the country. The staff enlightened Wang Qian a few words.