This call from the United States was made by Mihn Lee, the father of "Counter-Strike" who had previously worked with Lin Feng. On the phone, MihnLee told Lin Feng that because Lin Feng recommended them to develop an online game and network "Counter-Strike" during the previous cooperation, after consideration, the valve game development team has just developed "Counter-Strike Online" recently. In view of the previous happy cooperation between the two parties, I hope to negotiate with Lin Feng about his Chinese agency rights.

At the same time, MihnLee also hopes to introduce the founder of Valve, the current CEO Newell, to Lin Feng, and hopes that Lin Feng can come to the United States as soon as possible.

Hearing this news, Lin Feng's spirits were greatly lifted. He didn't expect to casually talk to MihnLee at the beginning, hoping that he could develop "Counter-Strike" into an online game, but a year later, he really developed it into an online game and was the first to contact him.

Now "Counter-Strike" is becoming a global hit, and it has officially become the official competition project of the first WCG (shijie e-sports competition) just held by South Korea's Samsung Company this year, attracting thousands of game masters to participate. Although there are no teams participating in the competition in China at this time, "Counter-Strike" is in full swing in China and is loved by everyone.

Lin Feng has also sold a total of more than 400,000 copies of the quasi-genuine version of "Counter-Strike" through Dingdang.com, and Tencent has also provided an online online game platform, with an endless stream of players. If Counter-Strike Online is launched at this time, it is bound to be a big hit, and it can take your gaming empire to the next level.

"Legend" is a role-playing online game, "Plants vs. Zombies" is a casual online game, and the upcoming "Counter-Strike Online" is a first-person shooter online game, the three online games are divided into different types of players, and they are all high-quality online games, so instead of conflicting, they can echo each other, and they are bound to make their "second shijie" climb to new heights.

At that moment, Lin Feng and Wu Zhaopu, Liu Yingying and others urgently held a small meeting to determine the maximum affordable amount of "Counter-Strike Online" and related details of the US trip, and then arranged the company's affairs, Lin Feng took several assistants to the United States alone.

This trip to the United States also made Lin Feng realize that there were too few think tanks around him, and every time he held a meeting, he had to convene Liu Yingying, the CEO of Dingdang.com, and Wu Zhaopu, the CEO of the "second shijie", to negotiate, which was not conducive to the company's development. In particular, the company under its own company is growing day by day, and if you want to develop quickly and stably, talents are indispensable, and there are a large number of talents.

Talents, talents, I hope that I can collect some talents back from this trip to the United States.

As soon as Lin Feng got off the plane, Valve CEO Newell and Mihn Lee personally greeted Lin Feng and took Lin Feng directly to the company's headquarters, so that Lin Feng didn't even appreciate the legendary Silicon Valley.

The headquarters of the Valve company, which is actually not large, is actually not large. However, in Silicon Valley, where every inch of land is at a premium, if you want to rent a floor or a building, it is by no means something that Valve, a company that has only developed a few games, can afford.

After entering the company and having a brief greeting, Newell introduced the main creative staff of the current company, and asked Jishu staff to show Lin Feng the graphics and operability of "Counter-Strike Online".

The graphics are consistent with the style of "Counter-Strike", and the light and shadow effects, picture details, music and sound effects are still not excellent, but they are enough to make the game run smoothly, and the graphics are not too demanding and directly reduce the requirements for computer configuration, which is the key to the popularity of an online game.

As for the operation, it still provides the same number of guns as "Counter-Strike", and maintains the original refreshing feeling and good feel, Lin Feng tried it, and it felt very good. The feeling of sweeping the battlefield with an AK47 in hand is still so exciting.

As for the rules of the game, a variety of modes have been added after this adaptation to the online game: competitive mode (traditional "Counter-Strike" LAN mode), decisive battle mode, grenade mode, extreme mode, biochemical mode, etc. The biggest highlight is the expansion of the faction system.

Counter-Strike Online is divided into CT camps, T camps, and zombie camps. In the CT camp, there are elite units from various countries, such as France's armed operations team, Russia's snowy special operations team, Taiwan's Thunder team, Japan's warning department guards, the United States' Navy SEALs, etc., and of course, the most important Chinese Yanlong tactical team.

Lin Feng could imagine that once he was represented in the future, there would be countless players who would choose the Chinese Yanlong tactical squad.

As for the T camp, there are the Blue Legion (mercenary troops) of the United States, the reckless guerrillas of the Middle East, the Japanese Sunset Legion, etc., to Lin Feng's surprise, in the T camp setting, Japan actually has three troops selected, I am afraid that once the network is operated in the future, whoever chooses the Japanese team of the T camp will be flattened.

The zombie camp is divided into five types of zombies: ordinary zombies, host zombies, shadow Barbie, abomination butchers, witchcraft corpses and other five types of zombies, although zombies cannot use guns, but they have special skills that the human camp cannot match.

The three factions have advantages and disadvantages to each other, which also greatly enriches the playability of the game.

After some trying, Lin Feng is extremely satisfied with the quality of the game "Counter-Strike Online" developed in this year, and if it is once an agent, it will definitely become popular on the Internet.

Seeing that Lin Feng was satisfied, Newell, CEO of valve, and Mihn Lee, the father of CS, also had smiles on their faces. This time, they chose Lin Feng, the first agency partner of the newly developed "Counter-Strike Online", in addition to the previous experience of successful cooperation between the two parties, more importantly, Valve is working with the previous company Xue Leshan, because the previous game copyright issue is in a lawsuit, and the relationship between the two companies has also deteriorated extremely. Therefore, Newell, who originally planned to recruit agents in the North American market first, simply set his sights on other markets.

According to their market research, although the online game market in Europe started earlier, the number of games is not large. Football is the number one sport and football games are number one. Although Shijie's most well-known CS team is also in Europe, Valve CEO Newell is not optimistic about the prospects of Counter-Strike Online in Europe, at least in the short term, the return will definitely not meet Newell's current requirements.

Now the lawsuit between Valve and Xueleshan is deadlocked, and no matter who wins the lawsuit, the two companies will not be able to cooperate again. For Valve, which had run out of money for the development of Counter-Strike Online and Halflive2, the first agency had to be successful and could bring them a huge amount of money for subsequent development.

Europe can't do it, Africa doesn't have to think about it, Oceania has too few people, it's not as good as Europe, and in the end Newell set his sights on Asia. At first, Mihn Lee proposed to cooperate with Lin Feng, but Newell believed that the strength of a company to sell quasi-genuine copies was limited, and although the two sides had worked happily together, it could not bring the desired large amount of money to Valve, so he rejected Lin Feng at the beginning.

However, after some careful investigation, Newell found that the hottest online game market in Asia today is not Japan, let alone South Korea, but China. And China's most popular online game company, it can also be said that the well-deserved overlord is the "second shijie", and when he investigated again, he found that the president of the "second shijie" was actually Lin Feng, who was vetoed by him before, Newell was dumbfounded on the spot.

Especially when he heard that Lin Feng's "Second Shijie" developed "Legend", the monthly profit was tens of millions of dollars, Newell was even more shocked and speechless. Their development of "Halflive", which was highly acclaimed in the market, only brought in $15 million in revenue for valve, while "Legend" developed by Lin Feng had about this number every month, which made Newell shocked and immediately made up his mind to cooperate with Lin Feng.

At that moment, he asked MihnLee, who had been in contact with Lin Feng before, to call Lin Feng, and Lin Feng's trip to the United States was born.

Both sides are sincere in their cooperation and have experience in cooperating with each other, so the negotiations have naturally gone smoothly. Newell demanded a $10 million agency fee in Chinese mainland and a 30% profit share.

For this kind of negotiation, Lin Feng has long been familiar with it. Don't look at Newell's development of a series of shijie's well-known masterpieces, but Newell, who was born as a Jishu R&D personnel in negotiations, is not as good as Lin Feng, otherwise there would not have been a game copyright dispute with Xuele Mountain, which he had previously cooperated.

After some bargaining, Newell clung to the $8 million agency fee, but the profit share was reduced to 20%, and even the Asian agency rights could be given to Lin Feng, but the initial $8 million agency fee could not be less.

It's not that Newell is stupid, but that Valve is now in trouble, and the lawsuit with Xuele Mountain is not only protracted, costing a lot of energy from the company's top management, but also making many venture capitalists hesitate, making Newell unable to obtain new financing. Now Valve must secure at least $8 million in liquidity, or the next series of developments will be stranded or even terminated. Therefore, Newell did not hesitate to reduce the profit share, and even gave Lin Feng the agency of the whole of Asia, in order to obtain a huge amount of liquidity.

Lin Feng knew that this was already Newell's lowest offer. Of course, Newell's limits weren't reached. However, you can't do things absolutely, cooperating with Valve is just the beginning, you don't have to make the relationship between each other so stiff for a little benefit, Lin Feng doesn't want to become the second Xuele Mountain, and then fight a lawsuit with Valve in the future.

However, Lin Feng did not agree to Newell's agency contract, because a jihua suddenly appeared in his heart.