Chapter Twenty-Four: Signing a Contract Is Not a Dinner Invitation
Business negotiation has always been a difficult task. The formulation of commercial contracts is even more rigorous and complicated, but it does not tolerate the slightest ambiguity.
But fortunately, the legal consultation fee of 5,200 yuan per hour was not spent in vain, and the professional skills of this lawyer Lu Caiwei are very good. I worked with seven backbones of the legal department of Penguin until more than 8 o'clock in the evening, and confirmed the general terms of the contract. The rest is all about the details, and we will talk about it slowly later.
This time, it was the game agency contract that Li Ang had previously proposed.
There are many kinds of game agency contracts, one is the agency buyout, how much money is given in one year or how much money is paid in three years, etc., after the buyout, how much money the game makes has nothing to do with those development companies. The second type of buyout plus share not only needs to spend money to buy agency rights, but also needs to distribute a certain amount of profit to the game development company every year according to the revenue.
Of course, the best games from the top game development companies are the ones that can reach this kind of contract. For example, "Touching the World of Hands" back then. At that time, in order to snatch its agency rights from Jiucheng Company, the pig farm not only took out more than 200 million meters of buyout money at once to buy out the agency rights of "Touching the World of Hands" for three years, but also shared a large amount of game profits with the developer of "Touching the World", Millican Explosive Blood Company every year.
With the decline of multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPGs), so did the situation in Touch the Hands World, and the pig farm actually didn't make much profit on the project. However, due to the good relationship with the Millican Explosive Blood Company, he still made a lot of money on other cooperative game projects.
The agency contract signed by Li Ang's Tianang Game Company and Penguin Company belongs to the third type, which is a pure division of agency contracts. The net profit obtained from the game is divided quarterly at a rate of 64 open.
Of course, it's Penguin Company Six, and Tianang Company Four.
In the gaming world now, channels are king!
Take mobile games as an example, the most famous fruit mobile phone, a mobile game wants to be listed on the app store of fruit mobile phone for fruit mobile phone users to download and consume. All the consumption amount, whether it is paid download fees or in-game recharge fees, Milican Fruit Company will take a 30% of the amount.
In a sense, the fruit company makes no less money from various paid software and in-game purchases than they make from selling mobile phones.
Of course, the same is true for other smartphone platforms in China, such as the rice mobile phone software platform, the Lu mobile phone software platform, and the Xia mobile phone software platform, all kinds of software or games downloaded above also have to be paid to the owners of these game platforms, and those mobile phone business money, which is the legendary channel fee, is about 30%.
The so-called channel is to sell platform users, the fruit software store sells the users of the fruit mobile phone, and the rice software platform sells the users of the rice mobile phone, the more users you have, the more valuable and profitable your platform is.
The so-called channel fee is to buy users' money, buy users of these platforms, buy which part of these users see their own games, download their own games, play their own games, and charge money into their own games!
Some software platforms not only sell users and collect channel fees, but also sell recommended positions and rankings on the software platform, and can also earn an advertising fee.
The computer side is similar.,In the case of G Fat Family's Stimm.,Now you have to pay 699 meters of gold to put a game on the shelves.,After that, you have to be charged 30% of the channel fee.。 Therefore, just by virtue of the world's largest game platform, even if you don't do anything next, G Fat can eat a lot of brains.
In China, the largest channel provider is Penguin. It has hundreds of millions of deduct users, as well as tens of millions of Penguin game platform users. In China, in the Chinese game circle, Penguin is the undoubted top spot! The leader in the industry!
Such a super channel with a huge number of users is naturally coveted by countless large and small game companies. But getting into the Penguin game platform is not an easy task. At present, the Penguin game platform focuses on the high-quality operation policy, not only deleting some of the original low-quality games, but also other games that do not meet certain quality requirements, which are impossible to release on the platform.
But how difficult is it to achieve this quality requirement? Small companies have little capital and low technology, so they naturally can't meet the requirements. Large companies have their own channels, and they don't need to cooperate with penguins and be exploited by penguins. And those companies that are not big or small, and their hearts are higher than the sky, and they want to absorb capital, become bigger and stronger, and build their own channels.
And for those companies that rarely cooperate with games in the past, Penguin is very greedy, taking advantage of the channel advantage, and often charging 50% or even higher channel fees. After a long time, of course, not many companies are willing to come and cooperate again. Therefore, most of the games on the Penguin game platform are represented games, games developed by Penguin, or works of game development studios that have been acquired by Penguin.
Of course, due to the excellent quality of the game, Penguin has made concessions on the channel fee, which is the same as the current industry standard, charging only 30%.
But this time it's not just a matter of channel fees, Penguin is an agent operation, and it also needs to invest in game servers, arrange game operation personnel, maintain personnel, provide publicity resources, and even hold profit-making activities, of course, these things are not free, they all need Penguin to invest money, and continue to invest money.
Therefore, the 64 account is already very generous for Tianang Company.
In addition to the agency contract of 64 Split Account, Li Ang also signed an additional contract with Penguin.
The content of the contract is very simple, Penguin will advance 5 million yuan to Li Ang within three days after the contract is signed, and the amount will be deducted in three installments in the subsequent game profit dividends.
Out of optimism about the future prospects of the game "Mountain and Sea Battle", Minister Sun still agreed to this request and signed this additional contract with Li Ang.
The reason why Li Ang asked for the 5 million is very simple, because he is about to run out of money, just like today's lawyer's fees, from nine o'clock in the morning to half past eight in the evening, 11 and a half hours, calculated at 5,200 yuan per hour, is almost 60,000 yuan. In the next few days, there are still a lot of contract details to be dealt with, and more attorney fees will have to be paid at that time. And Li Ang only has 500,000, but he can't last long.
Moreover, the house of the youth apartment will expire at the end of the month, and Li Ang has to rent a new house to live in. And the company, no matter what, you have to live in an office space first, and put up the company's frame.
In case the people of Penguin Company want to visit Tianang Company on a whim in the future, do you want to take them to their own homes in the youth apartment?
It was late at night, and lawyer Li Ang and lawyer Lu Caiwei left the Penguin Building and walked home.
"Lawyer Lu, I've really worked hard for you today, why don't I invite you to dinner." With a sincere face, Li Ang pointed to a restaurant next to him that looked quite high-end.
He is really very sincere, if there is no lawyer Lu and the people from the Penguin Legal Department today, forcing them to revise the terms of the contract, then the traps hidden in the subtle terms will not be able to kill Li Ang, and he will not know if he will be sold at that time.
Lawyer Lu looked Li Ang up and down, his face was still serious and serious: "I usually eat with people, and I charge or don't charge for it. ”
"And I am?" Leon was puzzled.
"You're the kind of person who charges, you belong to the client, and you charge a legal consultation fee." Lawyer Lu said bluntly: "In this case, are you still willing to invite me to dinner?" ”
"Uh......" Hearing her words, Leon fell silent for a moment.
After a long time, Li Angcai said: "Our consultation service today is 11 and a half hours, right?" ”
"Yes." Lawyer Lu confirmed.
"That's it." Li Ang said slowly: "Today's consulting service time is 13 hours!" One of the hours is your meal time, and the other half hour counts as the meal price. Well...... I'm not going. Good bye! ”
With that, Leon quickened his pace and walked to the subway station not far away.