Miss Secretary looked at Ye Shenxi, who was sitting quietly in the hall, although her eyes were open, she couldn't tell if she was asleep, she also had her own work to do, so she couldn't keep staring at whether people were blinking.

He sat there straight, motionless, like a bell, for a long time.

She has never heard a song that says: Don't sit like a bell if you don't understand, walk with a gust of wind".

The black tea in front of the man surnamed Ye has not been drunk in a sip, and it should have been cold, although in this season, the indoor heating is turned on very much.

"Mr. Ye, do you need to change the glass?" Miss Secretary asked.

"No thanks."

Sure enough, I didn't fall asleep.

……

After waiting for about forty minutes, Richard's meeting ended, and the secretary took Ye Shenxi to the senior vice president's office.

There is no situation in some movies where you wait until you get off work and don't see anyone, and then the important person has left the company and says that you can make another appointment next week.

"I'm sorry, Mr. Ye, I've kept you waiting, the meeting is a little more complicated than I expected." Richard said in a businesslike tone, and stretched out his right hand to Ye Shenxi.

"Hello, Mr. Richard, don't take it personally." Ye Shenxi also stretched out his hand.

"You may be seated." Richard gestured to the office and gestured please.

As for what meeting made the other party wait for so long, there was no intention of explaining it again.

Of course, Ye Shenxi didn't care, he was really busy, or he deliberately gave himself one.

And Richard doesn't seem to care if the other party cares......

"I looked at your platforms, FG, Fisoa Game, and with all due respect, you're the third person I've come into contact with who wants to be a PC game publishing platform. I mean, the team that came to us and wanted to license our game, one of them now has more than 20 million active users, and the other is in the middle of a subprime mortgage crisis and is almost going out of business. ”

Ye Shenxi nodded and waited for the following. He knew which two Richard was talking about, the booming steem and the frustrated gog, the former had just launched their steem cloud service, which can save players' game saves and related settings files to their platform's servers, and this feature herring's FG platform was made before them.

steem's service is gradually iterated and upgraded in years of operation, and Ye Shenxi's FG platform has been running towards the ultimate form of the platform in his mind from the beginning, and there is no comparison in terms of functions and services, the only problem is that FG was born 5 years later than steem.

As for the latter, CD Projekt is now on the verge of bankruptcy with the money earned from its own R&D projects to make up for the losses of its distribution business.

Richard continued: "Of course, it's also very risky to be a platform, especially figuring out why players would choose to buy games on this platform. ”

"The biggest advantage of digital distribution is price, and there is no doubt that this will slowly become mainstream, but it should be a few years away. Now that there is more than one platform in the world, why don't players choose the more basic steem and choose FG? Richard asked, right to the point, there was enough time to delay today.

Ye Shenxi put the notebook he brought on the coffee table, and replied without hesitation: "First, because of the exclusive release of the game. ”

Richard smiled and pointed to Ye Shenxi's notebook: "It's this game, right?" "The smile is noncommittal.

"Yes, it's one of them, and the PC digital distribution will only appear on the FG platform."

"I don't think a game has the effect of driving a platform." Richard kept a smile.

"But steem came back to life because of "Half Dead 2"." Ye Shen Creek Road.

Richard didn't speak, the implication is that how your game compares with a historical masterpiece like "Half Dead 2" is also more obvious.

Ye Shenxi didn't care, and said, "Mr. Richard, how many users do you think the FG platform will be now?" All within China. ”

"We just investigated the data of the FG platform, but it is not very accurate, it should be around 400, am I right?"

"That's right, 4.53 million. It's not about the number of players who log in to the game Eternal War through the platform, it's the number of accounts Curry has with at least one game. ”

Richard nodded, it was indeed about the same as the data they knew.

Ye Shenxi added: "The number of monthly active accounts, Mr. Richard. Have you logged in to your FG account at least once a month? There are 4.53 million. ”

"As far as I know, your platform has only been online for 5 months?" Richard's damn smile was finally put away.

"To be exact, it is 3 months, counting from the launch of the platform store function, and the platform store function was officially launched in mid-August, and the sales of digital games began."

"And all this...... Well, it's probably an exaggeration to say that everything is mostly brought about by the game "Survival". ”

"I've heard that this game does perform well, but ......," Richard shook his head, "it's always just a free-to-play game, a slightly better quality game, and it's free, and players are always flocking to it, like ...... Smugglers after a hole in the steel fence on the U.S.-Mexico border. ”

Richard also heard people in the company talk about "Survival" and gave it high praise, but he didn't think so. In his opinion, a small game of this magnitude does not fit the positioning of EA as a company.

Just like the "Origin of Everything" brought by Ye Shenxi today, in the email, he has already read the relevant introduction of the game, gameplay instructions, screenshots, and a trial video.

It's very innovative, he can only say, but he really wants to complain, just such a small game, how can He De afford such a domineering and exposed name.

Ye Shenxi was keenly aware that the American man in front of him did not pay attention to "Survival" and "The Origin of Everything".

He smiled and said, "There has to be some compromise in the accumulation phase. ”

"I know it's the difference between our Eastern and Western gaming cultures, and you guys like the CSP (come-stay-pay) model, where as long as users can stay, there's always a way to get them to spend money...... Chinese gamers seem to like this one very much, right? ”

Ye Shenxi said with a smile: "Mr. Richard has learned about the Chinese game market? ”

"Of course, China is a very important part of the global game market, especially online games, although we don't publish many online games, but there are still some, FIFA online2 is also represented in China to your company, Shicheng, next month will be internal testing, they have experience in successfully operating Warcraft, I hope to achieve good results."

"Stone City is indeed a very trustworthy partner." Ye Shenxi also opened his mouth: "For the CSP model, the difference in user attributes does exist, but it is not entirely because of this, to a certain extent, it is actually the difference between online games and stand-alone games, online games are essentially social products, just like Twitter and Facebook, and players will not be required to pay before they can use it." “

It's kind of almost impossible to make up.

"Social products? It's an interesting interpretation. Richard thought for a while and laughed: "In the process of cooperation with Stone City, they also put forward a lot of suggestions to us on game modifications, which are not the core gameplay content for Chinese players, but there are some that make us feel that they can really make the game more friendly, which is very helpful in how to retain players and maintain their stickiness, which makes us admire them very much." Indeed, as you said, it is like polishing a social product. ”

Richard's words are not completely complimentary, since last year's "Fairy Road", the word user experience has really been put on the table of this industry, and more and more developers and operators are also paying more and more attention to this, and practicing it in the actual content creation process, with good results.

China is the world of online games, not to mention the pursuit of gameplay, the core gameplay of these content, in terms of user experience, Chinese game peers really have a global leading trend.

Of course, there is also a lot of over-design to cater to the player, which turns into destruction of the game itself.

For example, if you don't think it's troublesome to run away, then there is an automatic wayfinding.

Troublesome wayfinding? Let's teleport.

You don't think the operation of fighting monsters is complicated, we can automatically fight monsters, you don't want to use plug-ins, we develop our own plug-ins for you to use well, there is no blood, automatic drugs, the package is full of automatic stalls, more money automatically go back to the city to save in the bank, you can hang where you sleep.

Even if it depends on the needs of the player itself, it cannot be blindly catered to, and the specific needs depend on the situation of the game itself.

"And what about the second point?"

You can still come back, Ye Shenxi complained silently, and then said in a straight voice: "The second is that Qingyu Network can provide the best service." ”

Richard slapped his palm: "I very much agree with this, without reservation." ”

"Thank you." Ye Shenxi, in the face of such praise, he was not surprised, if he couldn't crush his counterparts from all over the world at this time in terms of platform experience, then why did he come.

"Really, even with such high latency with China, it sometimes takes me more than 10 seconds to load a store interface, but I still think so. In many places, it is even better than steem, not like a new product at all, but like it has been iterated for a longer time and more versions than steem. ”

"I really like the community content of your platform, such as the rating system, only people who have played for more than two hours can be rated, which can give the most realistic evaluation of the game as much as possible, and prevent players from giving ratings because of impure motives to the greatest extent. We also tested it last week and gave a score to a game that we represented by a network element company in China, but found that your rating rules are not completely based on the average score of everyone, but have your own algorithm, but we didn't try to come up with it. ”

"Indeed, the final score presented is based on the player's score, the length of the game, the default base value and the average score of all games on the platform, and the weighted score obtained through the Bayesian statistical algorithm, not a simple average score.

"I see...... Richard thinks that this Chinese's serious attitude towards this kind of detail makes him feel that it is different from the Chinese gamers he has come into contact with before.

"And the group...... It is possible to connect all the people who love the game and let them discuss it freely. There's also the friend system, where I can be the first to know what games my friends on the platform have bought, and then tell me if it's fun, and it's a little more effective than the ads we do on TV and online. ”

"As well as Sinovation Works, the game "Survival" has recently heard some employees talk about the fact that they have almost lost before, because of the renewed interest in some interesting mods on the platform, it is clear that this method is replicable, and many games can always bring players freshness in this way, the key is the convenience brought by the platform Innovation Works."

Richard praised the FG platform this time, Ye Shenxi was a little unexpected, and he didn't know what he was selling.

It's just that the direction of his praise Ye Shenxi feels a little biased, in fact, in his own opinion, the function of the group is far from being played, because for players alone, their enthusiasm for a game is often not very long, so the hub of the group function to connect players should not be just a game, it can be the same type of game, players can share their own opinions, organize their own activities, and even a bridge of communication between officials and players, the announcement of important news, It's just that few manufacturers are aware of this yet.

You say herring network? Please, this kind of company's own official website traffic is large enough, even if it is platform-related, it can also be directly put on the homepage.

In his vision, the platform community is a complete ecological closed loop, from the official release of game news, player communication, ratings, strategy tips, mods, leaderboard competitions, etc., far more than Richard sees.

And how others praise you in person doesn't necessarily represent his true attitude, how do people say that you are, of course Ye Shenxi knows.

So this boast, he took the golden water, but this prophet, did not recognize, at least before Richard shook out the medicine in the gourd.

Sure enough, then Richard's topic still stayed on the platform, making a not-so-brief comparison between the FG platform and his main competitor steem, and asked Ye Shenxi some ideas about the platform, but he didn't say a word about the game he brought.

Ye Shenxi still answered one by one, picking it up and saying it, but this made him have a bad premonition.

After a long speech, Richard said: "Let's be honest, Mr. Ye, our team is very interested in your platform. The meeting was just about the FG platform. “

"Discuss us?"

"Yes, after a while of our own experience internally, we wanted to invest in Fisoa."

From the moment he entered the room, Richard's interest in the FG platform was far greater than the game he brought today, for the release of "The Origin of Everything"? They weren't interested at all.

Ye Shenxi suddenly understood the price that Qingyu Network needed to pay if he wanted EA to release this game.

"I think you've misunderstood, Mr. Richard, and I have no intention of coming over today to talk about it."

"Of course, there is no need to talk about it today, we will send a formal offer to your company later, of course, it will have to be after our accountant has made an appraisal, we also need time, today is just to show our attitude first, we are very optimistic about this platform."

"No, I mean, the Bluefish Network never intended to sell any of its stake even 1 percent."

Ye Shenxi's heart even wanted to laugh a little, EA has indeed acquired a large number of studios in the past few years waving a checkbook, and these studios have brought them many heavyweight series of products, including "The Sims", "Need for Drag Racing", "Medal of Honor", "Theme Hospital" Well, as well as the famous Westwood Studio, doing "Red Alert"; Gayare, the European and American RPG DreamWorks that has developed "Neverwinter Day", "Win the Gate", and "Dragon Generation" under development by Mass Effect...... and much more.

Many of those who were once famous have now disappeared.

During these years, these jobs were acquired by EA one by one and then ...... One by one it closed and disbanded, and EA also got the title "Studio Grinder".

Now he has hit his thoughts on his own home.

Richard didn't expect that the other party would refuse so categorically, and he didn't even want to listen to the offer.

In order to take care of the other party's emotions, he just said investment, not mergers and acquisitions, although mergers and acquisitions are also a type of investment.

"Actually, you really don't have to reply to me right away, Mr. Ye, you are not only a digital distribution platform, but also a game development company, do you know how many regions and channels EA has in the world, how many offline sales chains and retail stores have maintained a good cooperative relationship? Not just PCs, but truly full platform. By partnering with us, your game can be seen in more than 130 physical stores around the world, PS3, XBOX360, and ii, as long as you want to port. ”

"We will also provide funding to ensure that your projects in development will not die young, and even technical support, I believe that the two games of Fisoa, "Survival" and "The Origin of Everything", are not the ultimate games you imagined? You're a game designer and should understand what I'm saying. ”

"No, Mr. Richard." Ye Shenxi still said no.

Richard interrupted him: "Maybe you can discuss it with another shareholder of Fisoa first, I know she is your girlfriend, I think you can try to listen to her opinion, maybe she thinks differently than you, at least discuss it with her first, and be respectful." ”

"Don't worry, now let's take a look at this game that you are confident in, the origin of everything, I like the name, I hope it will be interesting."

"Hear me, Mr. Richard, just for a minute." Ye Shenxi was still resolute, and his expression was unquestionable.

"Stubborn Chinese." Richard was also a little helpless.

"I wish we could be as honest as possible to avoid a lot of futile work, like your accountants valuing our company, or me introducing you to the game."

"Mr. Richard, first of all, I can tell you unequivocally that my girlfriend and I are very much on the same page, if our cooperation needs to be based on investment or acquisition of the company Herring Fish Network, then I can only say that I am sorry, we will not accept any external funding."