Chapter 175: The Dust Settles
Under the eyes of Tiensiti Company with varying degrees of attention, Xu Min, the representative director of Naxon, finally arrived in Shencheng. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
In fact, in addition to the Tiensiti Company, most of the people in Naxon's headquarters, as well as the various game operation companies in the Celestial Empire that participated in this closed beta, also had different thoughts and moods, looking forward to the mystery he would reveal three days later.
Among them, of course, the developers of this game are also included, and the mood of the people in the threesome studio can be said to be the most anxious among so many people, after all, the answer given by Xu Minsuo will directly announce the preliminary results of this project that they have invested a lot of time and effort in.
However, after Representative Xu came to Shencheng, he only went back and forth between a large conference room specially assigned to him by the Tiensiti Company as a temporary office and a luxurious business suite in the hotel. This reaction makes all those who are concerned about the issue of agency ownership uncertain, what kind of medicine is sold in the gourd of this young and promising representative Xu.
Although he stayed in the same hotel as Xu Min, Liu Kewei did not dare to ask for a meeting without permission.
After all, the alliance between Representative Xu and Director Zhao is not a secret to the top management of Naxon.
Director Zhao's request for Representative Xu to come over and take charge of the bidding for agency rights was put forward openly.
The more times like this, the more we must know how to avoid them, so as not to spread any black box operation.
Liu Kewei has met the heads of various operating companies in the mainland who participated in the closed beta, and at this point in time, he went to have a private meeting with Representative Xu, which can trigger too many associations.
Judging from the long-term and close relationship between Tiensiti and Naxon and the hotel, it is basically impossible to say that there is no eyeliner in the hotel that will ventilate others.
Representative Xu lives in a luxury suite with the highest specifications, which is not on the same floor as Liu Kewei's superior room, and there are waiters on duty 24 hours a day in the corridor, they are not blind.
Besides, even if there is no waiter on duty, the monitoring probe in the corridor cannot be a decoration.
Therefore, Liu Kewei could only hold back his anxious mood and silently wait for the results revealed by Representative Xu three days later.
Although Xu is a leader of the foreign faction, he is a lonely person in the management and decision-making level of the Naxen head office, but as a representative director of the Naxen company who is above 10,000 people, it is naturally impossible for him to come to Shencheng alone, and the entourage such as translators, consultants, and assistants are all complete.
In particular, the translation of more than a dozen documents, including the agency contract, is a large amount of work in three days, including Chinese documents, which is a lot of work, so there are as many as six full-time translators.
Representative Xu had already brought all the printouts of the bids back to the hotel, and at this moment the six interpreters were sitting on the carpet in the living room—although there were three sets of loveseat sofas around the coffee table in the living room, there were no six laptops and six bids on the small coffee table. So they sat on the floor and used the sofa as a table.
The few bids that have been translated are carefully read by several consultants. Their posture is much freer than that of the interpreters, some of them sit on the floor like the interpreters, some of them sit on the chairs or armchairs that they have taken out of the bedroom, and some of them simply stand against the wall......
It is said that working in the conference room provided by Tiensiti is much more comfortable than in the hotel's business suite, although the facilities are not as luxurious and exquisite as here, but at least one back chair and corresponding desk space per person can still be guaranteed.
Naturally, Xu Min couldn't lead his subordinates to work in his suite just for the sake of pursuing luxury and enjoyment. The reason is that before coming to Shencheng, Zhao Cangting had already told him privately that there were people on Tienxiti's side who had a close relationship with the company's headquarters, and he deliberately set up a stumbling block for "Six Tribulations" in the server allocation.
Since he knew that there was such a thing, it was not a good choice to take these people to work in Tienxiti, after all, there were so many translators and consultants, and Xu Min himself could not guarantee that these people would be loyal to him, and he couldn't keep an eye on them all the time when he got there, in case something happened again, it would be troublesome.
Xu Minke is also looking forward to taking another step forward in Naxon.
Although the status of the representative director in the company is quite high, how can a person who is used to being the president be willing to be subservient?
Who will be the president, the board of directors will decide.
What criteria does the board of directors use to judge who can be president? Naturally, they can only speak by their own performance.
Whoever can lead the company to make more money for the directors will be the next president.
And with his amazing performance in Neople before, there are not many fewer people who are optimistic about him on the board of directors of Naxon than Kim Jung-joo, the current president.
In this case, he must handle the things assigned to him by Naxon's company, and he must do it properly and beautifully, so that no one can find fault with it.
At this moment, he was standing in front of the floor-to-ceiling window, holding a translated tender in his hand, but his eyes involuntarily turned to the street scene outside the house.
This is the second time he has come to Shencheng for the sake of games.
The last time was in 2008, and two and a half years have passed in a blink of an eye.
At that time, he was the president of Neople, and the company had not yet been acquired by Naxon.
The open beta press conference of Dungeons & Warriors was held, and Kwon Kang-hyun, the president of the game development company and the executive director of Samsung Electronics, the Korean operator (unlike Naxon, Neople is a R&D company and does not have an operation department, so even if it is operated in Korea, it is represented by other companies).
And two years earlier, the battle for agency power in the Celestial Empire around Dungeons & Warriors began. The scale and grade of that competition are far from being comparable to the current "Six Tribulations".
Prosperous Network, Penguin Games, Gregarious World, Gangyi Games, Jiushi Technology...... All kinds of Celestial Empire game predators participated in this competition, and after a series of battles in front of and behind the scenes, "Dungeons & Warriors" finally fell to Penguin and caused a huge impact on several other operating companies.
The director of the bustling network in charge of game evaluation,A returnee female doctor was directly forced to resign,This is just an anecdote in the game operation circle;There is also a bigger movement,That is, Gangyi Games because of the lack of competition for the agency rights of several games in successive phases,Simply started the idea of "grabbing the agent",A certain American online game masterpiece originally operated by Jiushi Technology,Suddenly and inexplicably changed the Celestial Empire operating company。
Even later, because Jiushi Technology did not get the agency of "Dungeons and Warriors" and lost the American masterpiece, it quickly collapsed.
Of course, "Dungeons and Warriors" and "Six Tribulations" are still different and cannot be judged on the same standard.
Before entering the Celestial Empire game market, Dungeons & Warriors had already achieved great success in South Korea, ranking among the top three in the share of Internet cafes all year round, and was known as a masterpiece of "national online games".
It has been recognized by another game market with a relatively close cultural tradition, and "Dungeons & Warriors" was naturally the focus of attention when it entered the Celestial Empire.
In other words, each game operating company has certain confidence in the success of this game in the Celestial Empire game market, and the key question is just how popular it will be.
Penguin Games offered a sky-high price and took away the agency rights of "Dungeons and Warriors", which is actually a direct reason why Naxon Company was red-eyed and would later spend 385.2 billion won to acquire Neople.
Unlike Dungeons & Warriors, Six Tribulations hasn't been directly tested by any game market!
Even if everyone is optimistic about this game during the closed beta process, there are many examples of unsatisfactory performance after the actual launch. So judging by everything you saw during the closed beta, no one really dares to guarantee that this game will be popular, and how popular it can be.
Even Liu Kewei himself, who is full of confidence in "Six Tribulations", does not dare to say similar things easily.
If the psychology of the player is so easy to grasp, there will not be a saying that "out of a hundred developed games, only five will survive in the end".
"It seems that the prosperous network still has a deep grudge against not getting the agency of "Dungeons and Warriors"!"
Xu Min gently shook the print of the tender in his hand, and a hint of uncertainty appeared on the corner of his mouth.
It's a pity that what he didn't know was that for this sealing test and bidding, the person in charge of the business department and the operation department of the prosperous network did not dare to take charge of it personally, but pushed the matter to Long Jiao, the R&D director who had just joined the company and was ignorant of the fact that the original director of the operation department was forced to resign due to the operation competition of "Dungeons and Warriors".
Otherwise, his expression would have been a little more interesting.
Although all the bids have not yet been translated, it is not difficult to select the ones with relatively superior conditions for priority translation evaluation.
At this moment, in Xu Min's hands is the one with the most favorable conditions in all the bids.
There are two kinds of dividend plans given, one is that after deducting the operating costs, Naxon and the Prosperous Network will be divided in half, and the other is that the revenue will be directly divided, with Nexon taking 30% and the Prosperous Network taking 70% - the operating costs are the responsibility of the Prosperous Network.
The so-called revenue flow is the sum of the actual revenue of a game in a certain period of time, and the common time units for comparison are naturally months, quarters, and years, while the operating costs are the expenses for operating the game, mainly including the cost of publicity and promotion.
As for the signing fee, it is the same in both plans.
Xu Min finally took his gaze back from the window, threw it at the document in his hand, and slowly read it out word by word.
"RMB, 15 million yuan ......"
(End of Volume 3 "Going to the Country")