Chapter 342: Plants vs. Zombies
The first round of the Open Beta continues.
On the eighteenth, the negotiations with the Five Minutes Company finally ended.
Fifteen million, the acquisition of the entire Five Minutes Games company, including its gamers fifty-six and the current rights to all games.
The most valuable people in the whole company may be these professionals, and if you want to talk about those game copyrights, to be honest, they are not worth a few dollars.
On the nineteenth, Zhang Bin met with the two main leaders of the five-minute game company.
Zhang Hua and Zhao Congming, both of whom are young people of twenty-five or sixteen years old.
For them, the company was acquired, and it seemed somewhat helpless.
At the beginning of their establishment of the company, they also had lofty ambitions, and once threatened to become the largest game development company in China, and even to launch games overseas.
However, reality often crushes dreams mercilessly.
Funding problems, agency problems.
Over the course of two years, they've barely made a single product that has been well received, and almost no one has been willing to resell these games.
In the face of reality, no one will have too many illusions, so Zhang Bin's acquisition is such a natural result.
Zhang Bin sat opposite the two of them, looking at the company's basic information.
At present, the company is developing a total of two games, one of which is "Happy Farm".
Putting down the materials, Zhang Bin looked at the two.
"What are you going to do with this acquisition fund?" Zhang Bin smiled and asked, "Of course, I'm just pure curiosity."
"Pay back a sum of arrears, and then pay back everyone's wages in the past few years, and everyone will not have much to share the rest of", Zhang Hua answered Zhang Bin's question while wearing a pair of heavy glasses.
"Have you ever thought of a reason for your failure?" Zhang Bin asked.
"I thought about it, but I didn't understand it", Zhang Hua nodded honestly.
"I guess it's because the market test is not enough", Zhao Congming added next to him, "Our technology has certain flaws, but it's not that none of the games are excellent, I think there are not enough agents."
Zhang Bin glanced at Zhao Congming and said with a smile: "What do you think is the focus of casual games?" ”
Zhao Congming thought for a while and said: "Leisure, entertainment, the picture is humorous and funny."
Zhang Bin nodded and said: "These all need to be had, but don't forget one thing, competition, as long as it is a game, can not escape a center, that is, to move forward in competition, if a game lacks enough motivation to move forward, then this game has no meaning to play."
"But isn't there a contradiction between leisure and competition?" Zhao Congming asked.
"Do you think the so-called five-minute game is really casual? Entertainment is certain, but as long as it is a game, there is no real casual, too casual, it can only mean that your game is not attractive enough, the fun of any game is to get happiness in the competition, to get a sense of achievement in the growth step by step, in the leisure and entertainment at the same time, how to let everyone experience the joy of competition and progress", Zhang Bin said.
Seeing the two nodding, he continued: "I think your "Happy Farm" is very good, continue to do it, and put the other one on hold for the time being."
The two of them were happy when they heard this, and the two of them also had high hopes for "Happy Farm", and when they saw Zhang Bin's affirmation, it showed that it was very promising, at least Zhang Bin did not deny it completely.
"Thank you, Mr. Zhang", both of them said gratefully.
Zhang Bin continued: "The company will not be called for five minutes in the future, but I will not break up for you, all of them will be merged into the game development division, the previous ones I call one, you are two, I will take out a few games for you to make, whoever does well, who will get more investment and resources in the future."
Hearing Zhang Bin say that they would keep the entire company's personnel, Zhang Hua and Zhao Congming felt that they had really made the right decision, and it was absolutely right to follow such a boss.
On the 20th, all the employees of the original five-minute game company came to the game development department, and everyone is there today.
Seeing so many people coming, the original employees all felt a little pressure.
Zhang Bin's stores, with an area of 380 square meters, can barely maintain a 100-person office after the decoration, which is a little crowded.
However, there were only more than 30 people in the past, and now there are 58 people, a total of 96, which is okay.
Qian Xiaoyang already knew Zhang Hua and Zhao Congming, and Zhang Bin introduced Jiang Bo, Bei Zihao and Bei Zile.
"Next, you are colleagues, you must work hard, develop together, and contribute your strength to the development of the group", Zhang Bin cheered everyone up.
Then Zhang Hua and Zhao Congming took the company's people into the room and began to arrange the position.
At the same time, Zhang Bin and Qian Xiaoyang officially announced that from today, the game development division will be divided into one and two parts, and both sides will participate in the development of each game at the same time, and determine the funds and resources to be obtained from the headquarters in the future according to their respective games.
At this moment, everyone immediately felt the pressure, especially the original employees, who were opposite a complete game company, and they were more experienced than them, and it was obvious that they were a little behind.
However, Bei Zihao's eyes lit up, and he obviously found his passion, and seemed to have decided to do a big job.
Since there is going to be competition, Zhang Bin of course still hopes that the two sides will be on a similar basis.
He came to Qian Xiaoyang's office and handed him the primary version of Plants vs. Zombies.
"This is a game copyright that I bought, and it's still just a preliminary script, and if you let people improve it, I think it should be very marketable," Zhang Bin said.
Qian Xiaoyang took it and flipped it over, it was for leisure and entertainment.
"One of the two games currently in development is Happy Farm, and you should know that I asked them to continue developing," Zhang said.
"The chairman is very optimistic about this game?" Qian Xiaoyang asked.
"It's all the same, but in the end, how the market reacts depends on your own performance," Zhang said.
Qian Xiaoyang nodded, he felt that the styles of these two games were somewhat similar, both belonged to the five-minute type, there was competition, but there were also their own markets.
Zhang Bin came to the second department, and the whole store was divided into two parts, the left and right, and the area was the same, so it would be relatively crowded here.
Zhang Bin made some suggestions for some parts of "Happy Farm", of course, he hopes that the two games will be made into a series, but some details still need to be properly handled.
For example, the act of stealing vegetables, which is not worth advocating, even on the Internet, needs to add some props to increase the danger of stealing vegetables.
Zhang Bin has played, so he also has some opinions of his own, of course, he is not a professional, so he just provides a reference.
After explaining the matter here, Zhang Bin's next focus will be shifted to the work of Weibo online.
But before he can do that, there is one more thing he needs to solve.