"I don't know the Caesar family, but we have the same investor."

Jiang Feipeng poured a glass of water and explained Liu Shuai's doubts.

"It turned out to be a different division of a company."

Liu Shuai expressed understanding.

"It's different, we're not all the way." Jiang Feipeng shook his head.

"Is there any difference?"

"You are not in a professional circle, so you don't know much about this part, professional teams are mainly divided into three types: one is the descendants of large companies, such teams have the support of the consortium behind them, they first get the capital injection of the consortium, and then create benefits for the consortium, and get dividends for themselves, such a team is the best mixed among the professional teams, and it is also the goal of many small studios.

Because there is the support of the consortium behind them, whether it is marketing or logistics, there are professionals to help them solve it, they can play the game without distraction, they only need to improve their strength, and follow the instructions of the consortium at a critical time, advertise or take on tasks, which is relatively moisturizing, although it is also very restricted, but most of the work is not restricted? ”

Jiang Feipeng began to explain the difference between professional teams for Liu Shuai.

"The second kind is the team formed spontaneously by a small studio, which can make money, called a professional team, and if you can't make a lot of money, you can barely make a living, it can only be called a brick moving studio, and many formal professional teams start from the brick moving studio and go up step by step, and my team is like this from the beginning."

"The third is to have the autonomy of the second team, but at the same time it is financially supported by investors, who can not interfere with most of your game behavior, but want to get a sufficient return on their investment, or assist the company to obtain enough benefits."

"And you belong to the first type?"

Liu Shuai asked curiously.

"My team is the third type, because of its own excellent technology and strength, so it has received a lot of financial support from investors, and it also has enough confidence to maintain autonomy."

Jiang Feipeng said, "And the Caesar family is the first kind." ”

Liu Shuai was not surprised that Jiang Feipeng belonged to the third team.

Since the blow, he and his team have decided to go their own way.

Anyway, as long as I can create benefits for you, you don't need to interfere with how to create benefits.

The Caesar family, on the other hand, is the first type, and the relationship between the two sides is more complicated.

One is the core team built by the company, and the other is the team invested by the company.

So it goes without saying which one the company is looking for.

"Because the hotel game is special, so during the open beta of this game, Skyrim increased its investment in every team under its command, and the price of the investment was almost more than 10 times that of the past game open beta, and it can continue to increase, but there is one condition, that is, the studio signed a contract to become a subordinate of Skyrim Company."

Jiang Feipeng said, "Under the powerful effect of money, Skyline Company has acquired more than a dozen studios that originally maintained autonomy at once, and our studio wants to continue to maintain autonomy, but under the huge amount of money offensive, many people have begun to waver, except for the core." ”

"How much investment did you get, well, when I didn't ask."

Liu Shuai knew that Jiang Feipeng had a strong sense of confidentiality, and he told himself about the Caesar family because there was nothing secret about this kind of thing, and he needed to cooperate with him, so he would say it.

But about investment, Jiang Feipeng will definitely not say anything.

"That's a lot anyway."

Jiang Feipeng avoided this topic, "When I talked to you about the price of equipment before, the reason why I didn't bargain was because the money was public, not my own private pocket.

"Now we are facing a problem, that is, Skyrim will continue to make additional investments, but the main investment targets must be those teams who are willing to sign contracts and directly sell their studio autonomy to Skyrim, including some of our studio's support staff, have also begun to waver."

Liu Shuai understood the relationship.

As the CEO of a company, if you want to make an investment, the priority investment object is of course your own subsidiary.

It is already polite that an object like Jiang Feipeng's team who refuses to be acquired can continue to invest in you, and it is also for the sake of your excellent strength.

But there is a limit to our patience.

"In this way, your studio wants autonomy, but if you continue to do this, then Skyrim will probably support other teams, which is equivalent to weakening you in disguise, and when your value gradually decreases, or those teams are rising, I am afraid that you will be even less valued." Liu Shuai said.

"That's it, the core of our studio is a total of 7 people, all of whom are like-minded teammates who want to maintain their autonomy, but for the operation of a studio, these few people are not enough, Skyrim can't convince us, but it can gradually buy the rest of our studio.

Now that they are already doing this kind of thing, this is a move to kill people without seeing blood, and it can be regarded as a salary draw from the bottom of the kettle, even if we know their intentions, there is no way to resist.

In the long run, if we encounter some obstacles in the development process, we may become a second-rate team, and we will act according to people's faces from now on, but even if we sign a contract to become a team of Skyrim Company, I am afraid that we still have to assist the Caesar family, and we still act according to people's faces. ”

Jiang Feipeng's tone was a little helpless.

He himself entered the professional circle because of his interest.

After all, if you don't have money, what do you do to support your interests?

However, maintaining autonomy is his bottom line.

It's just that when the studio grows bigger, many things are a little involuntary.

If there is too little investment in the early stage, their development will definitely be affected to a certain extent, and this is okay, but under this trade-off, they are likely to be reduced to a second-rate team.

They are already among the first-class, how can they be willing to fall?

"It's really complicated in professional circles, but fortunately I'm not in professional circles."

Liu Shuai sighed.

Playing games is meant to be fun, but after injecting capital, it becomes complicated.

"You haven't seen anything really complicated!"

Jiang Feipeng smiled bitterly and shook his head, "The low-level means of laxatives like Wang Lei's are not in the stream at all, saying that buying the other party's team members, releasing water at a critical time, letting his team deliberately lose the gambling periphery, and deliberately weakening the influence of the investment object to facilitate the acquisition of shares, this kind of thing abounds in professional circles." ”

After listening to Jiang Feipeng's words, Liu Shuai became even more determined to think that he was not as good as the professional circle.

If you are short of money, it's just that, anyway, you don't lack money, why do you want to enter such a bad circle?

Isn't it nice to find yourself?