Chapter 103: The Penguins Are Coming
While "Happy Farm" is frantically attracting users on the school intranet, Penguin is also discussing this phenomenal game internally.
Penguin's optimism about the game is undeniable, but there are some different voices about how to move it to their own platform.
Some people advocate negotiating with Korn Glory Games as soon as possible, because there is information about the development company under the game, so the companies that pay attention know that "Happy Farm" is a product developed by Korn Glory, but this product is currently used on the school intranet. Buy the game or get the license as soon as possible.
Some people advocate directly imitating one, this kind of browser game is not difficult, with the current power of Penguin, if you concentrate the strength of the whole company to do it, you can produce a first version of a similar game in a week.
It is also suggested that it should cooperate with Radiant Games to develop a penguin-specific farm game, and at the same time, follow-up cooperation can be considered, after all, the glorious game of "Happy Farm" can be developed, and its follow-up games are still worth looking forward to.
Although there are various different opinions, but in the long run, Boss Ma thinks that it is better to talk to Radiance Games first, and it is best to negotiate, and there is really no way to choose imitation. After all, Penguin is no longer a small company, and such a blatant imitation would hurt the company's reputation.
Penguin arranged to go to the imperial capital to negotiate with Manager Gao, the person in charge of Penguin Games, and Manager Xu of the legal department, and after they got the company's authorization, they contacted Jiang Hui, the legal person of Guanghui Games, and agreed on a time and place to meet.
Whether it is the school intranet or Guanghui Games, there is no official office space of its own at present, so Jiang Hui agreed to meet at a café near the school.
Considering that this negotiation may involve contracts and other related content, Jiang Hui asked Xiang Weiwei to go with him, and he can be regarded as the head of the legal department of Glorious Games for the time being.
The senior manager of Penguin seems to be a technical man, and he values the product itself more seriously. Manager Xu is a shrewd and capable strong woman, and her speech is full of oppression, of course, this may be a negotiation method for her.
"Mr. Jiang is really young and promising, he has already founded two companies in his freshman year, and he has made such a big name. When I was a freshman, I was still a good student who went to bed early and woke up early every day, and I only knew how to study," said Manager Gao.
"Yes, when I just learned about Mr. Jiang's information, I couldn't believe it, I didn't expect that there were such outstanding college students in China," said Manager Xu.
It seems that Jiang Hui is the general manager of the school intranet, and at the same time the general manager of Guanghui Games, Penguin is very clear. That's right, at the scale of penguins, it's not that difficult to investigate and understand something in the industry. Besides, with the current popularity of the game of stealing vegetables and the importance that penguins now attach to "Happy Farm", if Manager Gao and Manager Xu don't know anything about Jiang Hui, it will be too unqualified.
"Manager Gao, Manager Xu has won the award. I just happened to launch a website and game that everyone likes," Jiang Hui said modestly.
"How many people want to have a meeting like Mr. Jiang but can't get it, and Mr. Jiang came two as soon as he made a move. Is there anything else behind Mr. Jiang that will happen at the right time?", Manager Xu said.
"I really have a few ideas, and when the time comes, I will ask the two of you to correct them," Jiang Hui said.
"Does Jiang always have to continue to develop new games?", says Gao.
"Korn Ferry Games is now working on Happy Farm, and we definitely need to develop other games, in fact, we already have a new game in development, and it won't be long before we meet you," Jiang Hui said.
"I'm looking forward to seeing if Mr. Jiang's new game is still as popular as it is now," said Mr. Gao.
"The style is a little different, but I'm confident that players will love it," Jiang said.
"All the current users of the school intranet are still college students, right?" said Manager Xu.
"Yes, it's positioned as a group of college students," Mr. Jiang said.
"A good game like Happy Farm can only be played by college students, doesn't Mr. Jiang feel pity?", said Manager Xu.
"There's no shame that the current customers of the intranet are college students, and it is a success to be able to make them have fun," Jiang Hui said.
"Mr. Jiang must have guessed the general purpose of our visit, I wonder if you have ever thought about allowing more people to play the games you developed?" said Manager Xu.
"Of course, it would be better to have more people to play, in fact, other companies have come to me to discuss this matter", Jiang Hui said casually. Anyway, the negotiation process in the mall is all about you fooling me, and I fooling you, as long as the information finally implemented in the contract is true and reliable.
"We at Penguin are a great platform, with over 200 million registrations at the moment, which is much higher than the intranet in the school. If you put "Happy Farm" on penguins, with the help of penguins, more people will inevitably like it," said Manager Gao.
"What you said is true, but what good is it for the school intranet and the glorious game? In business, I don't think the two of you will do anything that is not beneficial," Jiang Hui said.
"Mr. Jiang is right, we are here to send you benefits," said Manager Xu.
"I'd like to hear about it," Jiang Hui said.
"We have several plans, the first of which is to acquire all the copyrights and subsequent development rights of Happy Farm for 2 million," said Mr. Xu.
"Needless to say, I won't sell all the copyrights, and I want to continue to use it in the school intranet," Jiang Hui said.
"We'll talk about that later. Our second plan is for Penguin and Korn Ferry Games to jointly develop a game similar to Happy Farm and use it on the Penguin platform," said Mr. Xu.
"You continue, I'll wait for you to finish before I express my opinion," Jiang Hui said.
"The third plan is to buy Korn Games and all employees, although Mr. Jiang is still a student, but we Penguin still welcome you to join us, we can talk about the treatment in detail," said Manager Xu.
"Is that all? I'll share my thoughts with you as well. First of all, selling the company is something that I don't think about at all, and I don't want to sell it now. As for co-development, I'm not afraid of your jokes, "Happy Farm" is a game that I developed alone, and now I'm the only developer of Radiance Games, and I can't even be busy with the follow-up games, so I don't have time to co-develop other games. As for your company's desire to buy Happy Farm, this is negotiable, but it is definitely not a whole purchase," Jiang Hui said.