Chapter 81 Borrowing money to invest
In the middle of the night, Lin Yancai and Moder generally discussed the specific investment plan.
Christmas night in California, the lights are bright, and the singing and dancing are leveling.
During the negotiations, except for John Kishimoto, who called Hayashi and made sure that he was still safe. Moder's wife also returned home with a few children, and seeing how happy they were, it was supposed to be a Christmas shopping spree, which made them very abundant.
After talking, Lin Yan shook hands with Modell, and then was sent back to the hotel by Moder. He looked at the clock in the room in a daze, calculated the time difference with Japan, determined that it was already daytime in Japan, and decided to call Yuki Chiba.
He made this call because he had no money. The dividends he received from the video game league have been drawn in the previous investment. And the share of Chiba Games, it is not time yet, and he can actually count a penny in his pocket now.
"Hello? Can you hear me? Lin Yan said in the first sentence after dialing the phone.
"Hear, what's wrong with you? Missed me? Yuki Chiba replied.
Compared to fairy tales in Japan, fairy tales that can only be realized through submarine cables are not only expensive and have high latency, but the most important problem is that they are seriously distorted.
At least, Lin Yan can't tell whether the voice of Yuki Chiba on the phone is a male voice or a girl.
On top of that, it also seems a little erratic. However, this is not a problem, and it is already a good thing to be able to hear clearly.
"Can you lend me some money?" Lin Yan asked.
"How do you want to borrow money? Merry and happy in the United States, spending too much money and can't afford to be detained? Chiba Yuki laughed in an insincere voice. Well, let's talk about it. How much money you're borrowing. ”
"One hundred thousand dollars." Lin Yan said. This is the amount of investment he decided on after talking to Moder for a long time. 100,000 dollars, 49 percent of the shares. Although Lin Yan decided to invest in this way, he still felt that there were some small expenses.
However, expensive is expensive, and he thinks this investment is not bad. It's like buying a more expensive catfish to enliven up the Japanese video game industry.
"Account for me." Chiba Yuki didn't talk nonsense, and directly asked Lin Yan's account was more.
Chiba Yuki didn't say anything. Lin Yan couldn't help but mention it. He first said what he was going to do with the money, and then he said how to repay it. He and Chiba Yuki agreed that the money he borrowed would be collateralized by his company's dividends in Chiba Games, and the interest would be as good as the interest on the bank's loan.
Actually, Lin Yan also knew that Chiba Youxi was not bad for this little money. Still, he thinks it's better to make it clear now. Disagreements over property. It is the easiest to break out of the deadlock. If she ends up falling out with Chiba Yuki and even the Chiba Group behind her because of money, it will be almost impossible for Hayashi to find a large partner in Japan.
If. He wanted to make a fuss. Even if he didn't cooperate with anyone at the beginning, he can now live a chic life. However, that small, high-profit model. Not his pursuit. His goal is to make video games a culture. Whereas, man is a social animal. I want to make something a culture. It's bound to make it popular. Let it be mass-fought, not a toy in a small circle.
That's where you need to work with big publishers. Traditional home appliance manufacturers. Being able to accomplish this function, and a retail giant like the Chiba Group can naturally accomplish such a function.
The power of the channel is very large, far beyond what normal people can imagine.
The so-called wine aroma is not afraid of deep alleys, in fact, it is the kind of small workshop with high profits that Lin Yan said. And if you want to be truly accepted by everyone, you need advertising, and you need to advertise it widely. Let people experience it before they like it.
What Chiba Yuki said was very bold, but she also understood the need to talk clearly. There is no very impatient decision Lin Yan This is not trusting himself, the relationship with himself is not good enough, or how.
After Lin Yan finished the call, he wiped the sweat on his head. Go to the next room and say to John Kishimoto that tomorrow's action will be canceled. The night's negotiation had consumed a lot of his energy, and he needed to get a good night's sleep to make up for it.
When I woke up the next day, it was already noon. The winter sun slanted in through the window, and it looked a little hazy. However, the hotel rooms are quite clean, and you can't see the dust dancing in the sun, which is more or less lacking in charm.
When I woke up today, when Lin Yan was nibbling on bread, he suddenly remembered that Moder had mentioned his partner Med yesterday. The name seemed to have some impression in his mind. It stands to reason that the direction of his original research was generally the direction of Japanese games. I don't know much about European and American game producers.
He can name the names of all the well-known producers of Hell and Persimmon Family, as well as Ka Ordinary and Namun Palace. But I can't remember who Blizzard's famous game producers were, and what kind of games they made.
In this way, Lin Yan can remember the name Med, even if it is a vague impression, it can prove that Med, the person, has an important place in the history of video games in the United States. In other words, he has released very good works. This acclaim even influenced the development of that game genre.
If you want to design a successful game, Lin Yan will generally consider three points:
First, the gameplay of the game should be good and the game should be interesting.
Second, the picture should be unique enough. Or fine, or pursue a special style. For example, card ventilation, gothic style.
Third, it must be able to fill the gap in the market. That is, to become a new type.
The game that Moder showed to Lin Yan basically accounted for all three points. At least, for video games in Japan. Despite the fact that Katsukuro Yano has a simulated racing car, there is still no simulated flight. Compared with the racing simulation, which is quite expensive and requires a combination of software and hardware, Moder's flight simulation is much simpler, just a cassette.
In this way, this game basically fills a gap in this field. This may also be the reason why Lin Yan, who has a high vision, was attracted by this game and decided to invest in Moder.
On second thought, perhaps this is one of the reasons why he doesn't like the Japanese gaming scene. The games he reviewed lacked a new game model that was truly viable and innovative. Most of them can only be regarded as poor imitations, and more reliable producers, such as Toshiyuki Takahashi, have only made exquisite imitations. (To be continued......)