Minerva Building, Eksan-dong, Gangnam-gu, Seoul, South Korea, at Nexon's corporate headquarters. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

In the spacious president's office, a middle-aged man in his early forties frowns and looks at the demo video on the monitor.

"It's an MMORPG that focuses on realism......" He turned his head and said to the young man on the sofa, "Director Zhao, this is not the style of the game that our company is good at. ”

Naxon's game products are deeply influenced by Japanese games, mostly casual and well-known, such as "Bubble Hall", "Kart Run" developed by Lodumani Studio, and the recently launched "Bubble Warrior", and "MapleIsland" developed by Wizen (a subsidiary of Naxon).

In addition to casual games, there are also many action games, such as "Dungeons & Warriors" developed by Neople, which was acquired the year before, and "Rocky Heroes" by Hellcat Studios, which was in open beta at the beginning of this year, are action-oriented actRPGs.

"Casual games and action games are not mainstream in the Celestial Empire's game market. Zhao Cangting said quietly, "President Jin, you must also know very well that the game habits of players in the Celestial Empire are still more inclined to MMORPG. ”

In order to meet with President Kim Jong-joo, Zhao Cangting did a lot of homework in advance.

"Having said that, when it comes to MMORPG development, we don't have a clear advantage over the game development companies of Celestial Empire, right? Isn't abandoning these two specialties to make a realistic MMORPG equivalent to standing on the same starting line as the game companies of the Celestial Empire?" President Kim shook his head slowly, euphemistically expressing his refusal, "Besides, NCSsoft has been working hard in the direction of MMORPG, and they have always had a good relationship with us, if we rashly intervene in this field, it will easily cause their dissatisfaction, right?"

NCSOFT's sales performance is slightly inferior to that of Naxon, but it is still more evaluated in the industry than Naxon in terms of R&D technology, and is known as the most representative Korean game company, represented by "Lineage", "Lineage 2", "Aion", etc. ("Sword and Soul" is still under development at this time).

"Even if NCSsoft is an important partner of our Naxon, there is no reason why we must give up the MMORPG cake completely, right? I think the other President Kim will understand this as well. Zhao Cangting said with a smile.

The president of NCSot is called Kim Taek-jin, who has the same surname as Kim Jung-joo, so Cho Cang-jeong is talking about another president Kim here.

Kim Jong-joo's expression looked quite hesitant, he knew that the young man in front of him was right, but he knew better that many people on the board of directors were not optimistic about this young man. If you support his idea, will it lower the opinion of some shareholders about themselves?

Now that he is president of Naxon, he has ambitions to make big moves, including investing in real estate and acquiring great game companies. The acquisition of Ndoors (the representative king of the world) and Gameh (the representative raid) in May this year was the result of the big deal of the president Kim Jung-joo.

"Isn't Ndoors' World of Kings an MMORPG? We don't have to develop it ourselves, and we can acquire a few companies that are good at MMORPG when the time is right. Kim Jong-joo was still a little unimpressed.

"The key to game development is people, and acquiring companies alone can't solve the fundamental problem. Have you forgotten about Minister Li Shengcan?" Zhao Cangting retorted unhurriedly, "If it weren't for the fact that the revenue of "Charge Island" did not meet expectations, even if he bought Symmetricspace, he would not have returned to Naxon, right?"

Li Shengcan is the veteran of Naxon, and in 97 years, he planned the casual masterpiece "Bubble Hall" in Naxon. He left Naxon to found Wizet, which led to the critically acclaimed MapleStory release. When Naxon acquired Wizet, he created a new company, Symmetricspace, and launched a new work in the same style as MapleStory Island, "Stormtrooper Island", but unfortunately the game did not perform well, which became his regret, and when Naxon acquired SymmetricSpace again, Lee Sung-chan returned to Naxon to take up the head office of Wizent.

Kim Zhengzhou was silent, and Zhao Cangting saw that he was a little moved, so he persuaded while the iron was hot: "I know that I was ridiculous in the past, so now I want to do something to reverse everyone's impression of me." If you agree with me to set up this studio, and you have a proposal for acquisition or investment in the future, I will support you at the Board of Directors. ”

Zhao Cangting holds 14 percent of the shares of Naxon transferred by his father, which is more than Kim Jong-joo's, and is also one of the major shareholders.

"What is the amount of investment in this studio?" Kim Jong-joo finally relented.

"It's just 200 million won, plus an office and the corresponding hardware. Zhao Cangting said with a smile.

It's really just "200 million", which is really a small number compared to the largest acquisition in the history of Korean online games two years ago (it spent 385.2 billion won to acquire Neople).

Kim Jong-joo nodded slightly, albeit with a small amplitude.

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On the day of the Mid-Autumn Festival, Liu Kewei and Che Guang spent time in Yanling City, while Duan Shanshan and others waited for news in their apartment in the magic capital Zhangjiang.

Zhao Cangting was very efficient, and on September 26, he asked his assistants to go to the magic capital, ask them to get copies of their ID cards, photos, and other materials that they had prepared, and then found a labor-management intermediary company to go through the formal procedures, and got his passport and work visa on 30 September.

During this period, Liu Kewei and the others packed their luggage, sent all the things they couldn't take home, and then disposed of the computers and other equipment left in the studio at a low price, and made all preparations.

On the day of the National Day, Liu Kewei, Che Guanglong, Duan Shanshan, Xia Ruoying, Ling Xingning and Saiwen, a total of six people, boarded an international flight from Pudong Airport to Incheon Airport.

After getting on the plane, Duan Shanshan felt a little regretful, and he quietly asked Liu Kewei: "We won't be sold abroad to work as coolies, right?"

"You're thinking too much. Liu Kewei replied angrily, "Passports, visas, and air tickets didn't cost us a dime, have you ever seen this kind of liar who sticks upside down?"

"But that Mr. Zhao didn't even say which company we were going to, right?" Duan Shanshan was still a little suspicious.

"You'll know when you get there. Liu Kewei closed his eyes and pretended to sleep, not even bothering to raise his eyelids, "There are so many Korean game companies, even if people say it, we may not know." ”

This is really wrong, as the number one game company in South Korea, he has really heard of Naxon's name, but Zhao Cangting really forgot to tell him before, and he and Cha Guanglong also forgot to ask.

After the plane landed, the six people walked out of the airport with large bags of luggage, and then began to look around. Zhao Cangting once said on the phone that someone would come to pick them up, Che Guanglong's eyes were sharp, and he saw a young man holding a sign with six men saying "Threesome Studio" from a distance, so he took the lead and walked over.

Probably because he knew that someone in the team knew Korean, so he did not specifically find a translator who understood Chinese to pick up the plane, and the young man exchanged a few words with Che Guanglong in Korean, and then led them into a Hyundai Huiyi nine-seater business car.

About an hour later, the van stopped in a busy area.

The young man said a few words to Che Guanglong.

"Let's put our luggage in the car first, and he will take us to the dormitory later, so we don't have to carry it in and out." Che Guanglong translated.

So the six of them got out of the car with travel bags containing notebooks. The young man led them to a nearby building, and Liu Kewei stared at the five English letters "nexon" on the entrance of the building, and his eyes were about to fall out.

"Dafa, it's Naxon!" he couldn't help but say in Korean.

"Is this company famous?" Duan Shanshan asked blankly, he has never loved Korean games, and he has basically not paid much attention to Korean game companies, "These five words seem a little familiar......

"Are you embarrassed to say that you make games?" Liu Kewei glanced at him and couldn't help but complain, "This is the largest game company in South Korea." ”

Next, the young man led them to an idle office on the third floor, said a few words to Che Guanglong, and left.

"This is our office, he asked us to sit casually for a while, and he went to inform Director Zhao that we were coming. Che Guanglong explained.

The room is quite large, almost 200 square meters, with about 20 desks in the room, and each of them has more than half the office space compared to when they were in Hangzhou or Pudong.

On the wall next to the door is a row of display cases with character puppets of various games and stacks of posters.

Duan Shanshan walked over and picked up one casually, looked at it and shouted as if he had discovered a new continent: "Lao Liu, isn't this your destiny?"

The poster shows nine girls in red and white blouses and short skirts, and now he can recognize who everyone is at a glance.

Liu Kewei walked over and took a look, pouted and said disdainfully: "This is the poster of "Adventure Island", I have seen it a long time ago, this game was originally endorsed by Girls' Generation." ”

He flipped through the stack of posters and said thoughtfully: "Bubble Warriors, Dungeons and Warriors, Rocky Heroes...... It's quite complete.,There are a few that I really haven't seen yet.。 ”

Duan Shanshan recalled the concert half a year ago, and couldn't help but take out a pen from his travel bag and write a few words on the heads of each girl in that poster.

Jin Title, Zheng Stepmother, Li Kongju, Huang Yansheng, Jin Panju, Kwon Hu Ji, Cui Blind, Lin Hate Marrying, Xu Puppet.

Just then, the elevator door on the third floor opened, and a group of girls and two men walked out.

"That's it, I'm really sorry, the photographer said that there was a traffic jam, and it would be about half an hour late!" The man with the nexon badge around his neck bowed deeply, "Please understand, Director Kim." ”

"Hey, how can this be!" the other man raised his wrist and looked at his watch, "It's good that today's trip is not too rushed...... Forget it, you can find an empty office for us to rest first. ”

"Okay, no problem. After saying this, the staff member raised his head, his face was already red after a few words, and beads of sweat were on his forehead.

He led the head of the room and the girls to the door of an office and said, "This room is empty, so please go in and rest for a while, and I'll wait for the photographer downstairs." ”

After saying that, he ran to the elevator, bowed to Director Jin and the girls at the door, and then turned and got into the elevator.

Director Jin shook his head, sighed, pushed open the door to the office, and was dumbfounded.

"Didn't you say the room was empty?"

P.S. forgot to mention that since this volume, it can be regarded as entering a parallel world, and many things will not be written exactly according to reality - for example, in reality, the only endorsements for "The Legend of Rocky Heroes" are Jessica, Tiffany, and Seo Hyun......