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Hearing Zheng Fangcheng say this, Lin Shu understood what he meant.

What Zheng Fangcheng means is that the appreciation of mainstream readers does not lie in the quality of the work, because many people simply cannot distinguish the superiority and disadvantage of the work, nor do they feel a sense of disobedience in some overly exaggerated or distorted details. They don't mind if a CEO looks idiotic and mentally retarded, because they don't understand what the so-called "president" or the leader of a large enterprise should be.

There is no zài impression, so it doesn't matter whether the characterization is distorted or not.

After a while, Lin Shucai said: "But if such a plot is adapted and put on our platform, my heart is always a little complicated." In general, I still expect the quality of the official games to be slightly higher. ”

Zheng Fangcheng said: "I don't want you to do this. Then he was silent for a long time and continued, "The one who treats the reader as a fool is the real fool." Now in the online text, there are many people who do not pay attention to writing, logic, innovation, and thought, and only follow the fixed red text routine, and readers also eat this set. But will they be happy to watch such a routine for a lifetime? Children will grow up, reading experience will grow, and the level of the entire industry will also grow. If the creator can't compete for the first, there will only be the result of falling behind. ”

"A person may not be the president of a large company in his life, and there are always a few who can be the president. But they can't never meet the 'president' for the rest of their lives, and even if they can't see each other, they will see more realistic and charming characters from other better works. And once one comes into contact with higher-level works, one's reading taste will be raised higher and higher, and more and more critical. At this time, only really good works can retain fans. Time is a process of big waves, the current market has just not been cultivated, and there will only be more and more excellent works in the future. ”

As a result, halfway through, a voice suddenly interjected and interrupted Zheng Fangcheng's remarks: "Although I don't hate your prediction, after all, everyone wants to see more good works." But Manager Zheng, I don't know if you know that a famous writer who writes online articles has said such a sentence, called 'Those who win the white will win the world'? Did you know that, according to the survey, what are the main groups of readers who pay for reading? ”

Bai Miao's sudden appearance and interjection surprised Lin Shu a little.

But I heard Zheng Fangcheng say: "I've heard of it." This one really relied on a lot of updates and made a lot of money, which I don't deny. To be honest, in the decade when online literature was just emerging, this was indeed the real biggest winner. can make a final year income of more than 20 million, except for him, there is no one else. But Bai Miao, let me ask, how is he now? Let's just say that in Qihang Chinese Network, does he still occupy the leading position now? ”

Bai Miao gasped.

That's a sharp question.

This writer, who has been constantly updating the content of his works for several years as a selling point, has actually been going downhill in recent years. At present, even the website where he debuted, there are already other people.

Zheng Fangcheng didn't care whether she answered or not, and continued: "Then what do you think of the level of the leading authors of the literary websites under the name of Kuaishu Group who have replaced him in the past few years?" Then he paused and asked, "You know who I'm talking about, right?" ”

Of course Bai Miao knew who it was. What Zheng Fangcheng said is that after Kuaishu Group integrated various websites, several authors who have occupied the top of various lists.

And these authors, compared with the red cards in the early years, are much stronger in terms of pen power and plot, and even take different routes. Bai Shuang is almost insulated from them, even if he still takes the Su Shuang route, but these people are more inclined to character building, biased to promote goodness, blood, friendship and great love, and the logic and novelty of the whole story have also been enhanced a lot.

Even the villain began to vividly have his own face and demeanor.

Bai Miao said: "...... Of course I do. It's all my male god. ”

Zheng Fangcheng said: "In fact, he not only said 'the one who wins the little white wins the world', he also said that it doesn't matter if the old bird doesn't read it slowly, anyway, there will always be new people who step into this field every year, and there will always be newcomers who start to contact online literature, I just need to pay attention to this part of the readers." But in fact, there is a misunderstanding here: what he is narrating is the assumption made when newcomers did not have an article that is 'easy to understand but has novel and exciting stories' when online literature was just emerging. You say that if you put the works of these people together with the works of that person, whose stories would readers prefer to read? ”

…… Of course, it is the work of several male gods now. Bai Miao knew it almost without thinking. There are so many different levels.

Zheng Fangcheng said: "That person's fame is inevitable and accidental. We have an old saying that 'when there is no hero, make the shaft famous'. Of course, I think his diligence is worthy of recognition, but Bai Miao, he will not become a benchmark in the online literature industry. After a few years, when people talk about this person, they will only say, 'Has this guy ever been popular?' Even if they read his work, they won't understand why he was a smash hit. ”

"These novels too." He leaned back in his chair, looked at the romance messages that appeared on the web page on the screen, and said, "I don't recommend making these novels into game mods. The cost performance is too low, at most it will be eliminated in a few years, and no one will remember what is written. ”

Lin Shu thought for a while and said, "But since it can be popular, it must still have some advantages." ”

Then, after a while, Bai Miao spoke: "Let me tell you - the best part of this kind of article is the rhythm control. As for the character design and bloody plot, although Manager Zheng, you may think that it is too white, but many people really like this kind of whiteness. President-type male protagonist, Cinderella heroine, this is basically the most classic setting. You say it's a mess, I'll admit it. You say it's going to be outdated, and I strongly disagree. It's been a classic for thousands of years, and I'm sure it will continue to be so in the future. Even if the current mode is not popular in a few years, the core setting will not change, and at most it will be restarted with a different mode. ”

Zheng Fangcheng listened, thought for a while, and said: "If it's just this core, it will indeed not be outdated, I agree with that." But this core doesn't have to follow their routine, we can design and write the plot by ourselves, we can write more smoothly and reasonably while maintaining the original Su coolness, and we can also expand the content to make it more healthy and uplifting, and integrate some feelings, there is no need to buy some shoddy defective products. ”

After the entire conference room was silent for a few seconds, Bai Miao suddenly said, "This is a good idea, why didn't I think of it." The routine of the president is quite limited, we can write our own character design, and we can save money and do it more refined. And you can stuff all kinds of favorite plots into it...... Heck, the more I think about it, the more I think it's a good idea! ”

Her reaction completely exceeded the expectations of the other two, making Lin Shu a little unsure whether this guy was actually speaking for the works of the emperor and the green clothes before, or if he was actually damaging them.

Bai Miao's mind turned for a while, and suddenly said, "Boss, right?" Let's classify several classic character designs, and then make a personality template, so that users can load the template by themselves, select the character map, and establish the role of the strategy object. When the time comes, they will call the target of the raider the fish pond master, whether it is the four masters, they are all casual. Anyway, if you want the president personality, you will have the president's personality, and if you want a loyal dog personality, you will be loyal to the dog personality, and all kinds of handsome guys can be chosen - do you think this is good? ”

When Lin Shu heard this, he thought that this idea was very good, but he hesitated: "But what if the plot is not well written?" ”

Bai Miao immediately waved his hand and said, "It's okay. No matter how bad it is, can you catch up with tens of thousands of words one day, and the quality of the plot is not good? I used to work as a novel cover art agency, and I was familiar with all of them. Not only are you familiar with the painter, but also with the writer. When they write novels, they all have a standard template, and all kinds of plots are arranged step by step...... I'll use it for your reference later. Hiring a few professional writers with better writing and letting them spend more time pondering is definitely better than most buyouts. ”

Lin Shu: "......"

Zheng Fangcheng: "......"

I always feel like I've been degraded by someone.

However, there was no other better way, so Lin Shu still put this arrangement on the agenda and communicated with Du Sitong.

Despite this, in the end, they still bought the copyright of several novels in both the emperor and the green clothes. These novels are not the most popular works of the two sites, and it can only be said that the popularity is not weak. The price of the two stations of the popular works was too high, and Lin Shu ruled them out with just one glance.

Anyway, many of the plots of other works are not much different, as long as they are rearranged and re-combed.

The last trouble is the still water academy. Among the three websites of the emperor, green clothes, and still water, still water should be regarded as the leader of Kuaishu Group, and it is higher than the other two sites in terms of resources, treatment and evaluation.

Although the mainstream works and reader types are not much different from the first two, unlike the first two, she still has a lot of excellent works with novel content, wonderful stories, and outstanding pen power.

Therefore, the list of books that Du Sitong handed over to ask for a quotation was also very long.

As a result, when the quotation form was returned, Lin Shu and Du Sitong saw the long string of zeros behind each of the above titles, but they were silent for a while.

Regardless of the quality of the works above, the price of each work is a sky-high price that far exceeds the original value of the work.

054：

Kuaishu Group has a lot of money, and Jingshui Academy is also full of confidence, so their offer is very high, and it is completely in the range that Lin Shu can't afford.

Lin Shu felt very congested.

One of the great features of the library of Jingshui Academy is that the polarization of the works is extremely strict, the top ones are extremely good, and most of the rest are obscure.

The person in charge of the still water itself obviously understands this very well, so the quotation for the book list is also extremely accurate, and the best batch of works are all quoted at sky-high prices. For the rest of the works, the price is much more mediocre.

However, even if it is a lower price, it is still more than a cut higher than the similar works of the emperor and the green clothes. Du Sitong negotiated with the other party several times, but they all returned in vain.

Although she tried her best to express her willingness to cooperate with the person in charge of the still water side to achieve a win-win situation, the other party had no choice but to uphold the consistent style of friendship based on interests on commercial websites and did not accept Du Sitong's set.

Several negotiations were deadlocked, and then Du Sitong got an original reply.

The other party's quotation table is much more reasonable than still water. Although the price of some popular works is still higher than the budget of future games, at least the other party did not really quote according to the price of the mobile game adaptation rights, but only added some restrictions on the use of the contract.

Du Sitong really did as promised, for the price below her pre-set boundaries of the character or work, or selected the character or choose the full text, in short, a part of the work was set coolly. As for the works with a more delicate price range, she also chose a few items with higher cost performance as appropriate.

In addition, she also put her heart and soul into checking two works whose quotations exceeded the upper limit, namely "Flowers on Ink" and "Chengwen Ji". These two are relatively distinctive works, the former was once popular, extremely popular, and the entry point is also very novel. The latter is a very good worldview setting, and the idea is very high, and it alludes to reality, which is a work that is extremely incendiary on a large scene.

There is another novel, although Du Sitong likes it very much, but the official offer is too high, and the novel itself is the most popular work on the website in a certain period, and the price can't be discussed, so Du Sitong can only regret giving up.

Because of this reply, the negotiation between Du Sitong and Jingshui is not so urgent. Around the end of June, Lin Shu, who was in Yanjing, authorized Liang Yuehua as a representative to sign a contract at the headquarters.

During this period of time, the juniors of the Liang family did not care for the time being, and several elders had already known what Lin Shu had done from Liang Yuehua's mouth. At first, they thought Liang Yuehua was joking, but after finding out that the whole thing was true, Lin Shu's uncle almost wanted to meddle in the future game.

In fact, he may not want to occupy Lin Shu's industry, after all, for the Liang family, the so-called "career" of Lin Shu and Ju Mingfeng at this time can actually be regarded as a small fight at most. He just felt that Lin Shu was too young and felt that he might not know how to run the company, so he wanted to intervene in the future game and use his own ability to help Lin Shu seize the opportunity and stabilize the current development.

Helplessly, Lin Shu didn't appreciate it, and the two sides almost broke up unhappily. In the process, Lin Shu was forced to be helpless, and even gave full play to the emotional advantages of the child's crying, making trouble and hanging himself, which finally made his uncle helpless and embarrassed. In the end, Liang Yuehua came out to play a round, asked Lin Shu to ask his uncle more if he didn't understand, and smiled and asked his brother to teach his son more, and also helped Lin Shu's company to pull connections, so that the whole thing was vague.

But being a child has such benefits, even if you bear hard the night before, but as an elder, you can't and can't deal with you. There are solutions that you would never be able to use as an adult, but they are stress-free to use at this time.

At the same time as the purchase of the rights, Future Games also started a second recruitment. This time, the recruitment is mainly for technical customer service and copywriting. Technical customer service is recruited from some information technology majors, although they are currently working as technical customer service, but after working for a period of time, Lin Shu plans to transfer them to other positions or departments at the appropriate time. The copywriting was poached by Bai Miao one by one.

The first batch of recruits had four copywriters, and there were also four technical customer service people. Most of the former are female writers who are originally skilled in business, and the latter are rookie siege lions who have just entered the industry.

Then comes the busy work. At present, the workflow in the future technology company is as follows: Lin Shu planned the process of launching the module every week, and Du Sitong cooperated with the arrangement of the plot module to be adapted and launched every week, and then assigned the specific work to several copywriters. The copywriters are responsible for correcting, retouching and sorting out the plot, and entering the lines, options and triggers into the engine program one by one according to the flowchart created by Jing He's mod creation. During this process, Bai Miao contacted the painter and predetermined the sketch and background picture. After the whole module is completed, the technical customer service will conduct testing and bug checking when there is no customer service call, and finally upload it to the platform.

All the work is carried out in an orderly manner.

Until this day, Du Sitong suddenly received a phone call, the official said that the work that could not be negotiated for copyright fees before, and the author himself expressed his intention to authorize the adaptation, hoping to conduct another three-way negotiation.

Du Sitong listened and quickly agreed with the other party on the appointment time. So not long after, Du Sitong entered a conference call room with Luo Ying and the original author.

The title of this novel that Du Sitong likes very much is called "A Thousand Homes in the Dark Rain", which is a very distinctive ancient crossing of the dynasty in terms of characters and main line. There aren't too many girls writing this kind of theme.,It's not too much to write well in proportion.,But the author of this novel wants to drink but has been playing quite well on this kind of theme.,This "Smoke and Rain Dark Thousand Homes" is the top-notch storage zài among many works.,During the serialization period, the website has been in the limelight.,The portrayal of the times and the sketches of the characters are very vivid.。

But unlike the clean and crisp style, the author's personality is very soft and cute. After introducing each other at the beginning, the female voice said more gently and shyly: "I have played your game, it is very fun." When I played it, I thought your system was perfect for a game like my Smoke and Rain. ”

Du Sitong immediately replied: "I think so too." To be honest, every time I play "Three Kingdoms Ideal", I feel that this system will definitely be very flavorful if it is used to make "Smoke and Rain". Because many of the settings in it are particularly suitable for the plot of "Smoke and Rain", such as the skill of 'strong debate', which is especially used as the heroine's main attack skill. ”

"That's true," he said. ”

It's much easier to open up the topic. Next, the two sides entered a state of communication in harmony and amination.

Du Sitong asked: "So you want to drink and you want to license the Zuò stand-alone game, right?" But the licensing fee you're proposing is a bit ......."

"I choose the second licensing method, but I hope to change to a commercial fee-sharing model. ”

Du Sitong was stunned for a moment, only to understand that she was talking about the free license provided at the beginning, and the same license model that was not used for commercial purposes.

But if you want to drink, you want to change to the fee sharing model, Du Sitong asked: "The fee sharing model means that the copyright royalty should be paid according to the sharing model after the fee?" ”

"That's what it means." In fact, it's like the kind of self-uploaded game on your website. The sub-achievements are divided according to the normal original game ratio...... I remember the same, 40%, right? However, the good game must be tried for me before it can be put on the shelves, and if I think the quality is not up to par, I have the right to request changes. In addition, I have some ideas for the specific details of the game, and I hope you will try to achieve them in the process of making zuò. ”

Du Sitong listened, but quickly understood the meaning of wanting to drink. She said: "How to make the game, we naturally have our own considerations. Of course, as a production company, we definitely want to make the game as good as possible. If you have any ideas for drinking, you can put them forward when the time comes, and we will use them as a reference, but if you want to do it well, it is impossible. After all, we are professional game makers, and we will consider which settings can be achieved and which settings are suitable for addition...... If you are forcibly interfered, you will probably end up making a four-way difference, which is not good for you and me. ”

After listening patiently, he said, "Well, I won't make a very difficult request, and if it's an unachievable setting, you can refuse it then." We can put this clause in the contract. But other than that, there are some ideas, I hope you have listened to my ideas and then discuss whether they can be realized, can you? ”

Du Sitong thought about it, smiled slightly, and said, "Of course it's okay." Then she said, "But if you want to follow the sharing method of players' original games on the platform, the production fee on our side must be charged separately - most of the original games uploaded on the platform are made by players, and if we want to make "Smoke and Rain", how to calculate the production cost on our side?" ”

Speaking of this, it was Luo Ying's turn to appear. She said: "Regarding this, I am a popular author, and "Smoke and Rain" is also a popular work. If her work is released in the future game, the popularity that comes with it ......"

Du Sitong said: "There are so many readers, we have bought the adaptation rights of so many works or characters, and there must be many readers who ......overlap with "Smoke and Rain".

The two argued for a long time, each arguing for the interests of the company on their own behalf, and finally compromised with each other, each took a step back, and established the details of the entire contract.

Du Sitong knocked on the back of his shoulder and felt that the whole person was stiff. Then she suddenly realized that she had been arguing with Luo Ying for so long, and she didn't have stage fright in the process, and she didn't feel embarrassed.

She burst into laughter—she must have been trained. In the past few months, it is clear that Du Sitong has only been working for a short time, but he has been honed to do many things that he would never be able to do. Lin Shu pushed her into this position, she didn't think she could do a good job at first, but in fact, maybe it was her ass that decided the head, or maybe it was her position that made her embarrassed to continue to be shy, and unconsciously, Du Sitong found that she had changed.

She thought: It's incredible.