3. Pick a target
"In addition, I need to explain to you in advance that our lawyers charge according to the time, as long as you consult, you need to charge a fee, and my fee is fifty dollars per hour." After Horace finished speaking, he looked at Li Hua and them.
After listening to this, Huo Ya couldn't help but show a trace of flesh pain, just consulting is fifty dollars an hour, too much!
This is still the most junior lawyer, slightly more advanced, and the consultation fee is higher.
Li Hua nodded, indicating that he understood.
Seeing this, Horace was a little relieved, and it seemed that he was going to have an income today.
"So let's get started now?" Horace asked.
Li Hua nodded again, and then began to say, "I want you to draw up an agreement." ”
Horace said, "What kind of agreement?" What about the specifics? ”
Li Hua said: "Similar to a VAM agreement, to put it simply, I am going to sell ideas to a company, and I need to charge them a certain fee. ”
Hearing Li Hua's words, Horace couldn't help but pause, he wasn't surprised by Li Hua's thoughts, on the contrary, this was actually not unusual at all, especially at Li Hua's age.
Point companies appeared very early on, and there are similar companies now.
Especially young people like Li Hua have the idea that they have unique ideas and will definitely be able to make a lot of money.
Horace hesitated for a moment, looked at Li Hua's age and clothing, and finally reminded: "Sir, it is very likely that such a similar business will not have much profit, and even many people who have the same idea as you can't even enter the door of some companies." ”
Although he wanted to make money, Horace couldn't help but remind him.
It's really Li Hua that they don't look like children of wealthy families, and the consulting fee and the money for drafting the contract alone may be a lot of money for them.
Li Hua naturally understood what he meant, and a smile appeared on his face, "I naturally know this, and I also believe that my idea will definitely be accepted by the company." ”
Horace saw that his reminder was useless, so he didn't say anything more and did his job honestly.
In this way, for almost an hour, Li Hua talked about all the needs on his side.
Although Holham is only a rookie in the legal world, he still has no problem facing such a thing.
At the end, Horace added, "If I go out, I'm paid eighty dollars an hour." ”
Li Hua nodded, indicating that he knew, and after paying the money that should be paid, Li Hua and the others walked out.
Huo Ya looked at Li Hua and said, "What are we doing now?" ”
Li Hua stretched his waist, although he didn't sleep last night, he was still full of energy, and he could only sigh in his heart that being young is good.
"Now we need to pick the right target companies." Li Huadao.
There is no internet yet, and all the information needs to be found in the newspaper, so they are busy next.
After buying a lot of newspapers, Li Hua and Huo Ya began to look for a suitable game company in it.
In about two days, the two found three suitable target companies.
They are all cross-border games, have sufficient funds, and will not choose companies that run away for this money.
The current American game market is dominated by a company called Atari, and it can even be said that it has been monopolized by Atari Inc.
The Atari 2600 home game console, released by Atari Inc., accounts for 90 percent of the market share in the United States.
Some people may not have heard of Atari, but Steve Jobs, who founded Apple, used to make games at the company.
By the end of the year, the Atari 2600 had reached the point where one in every third American household purchased the Atari 2600.
It can be seen that Atari dominates the game market at this time, and even Atari's market valuation has reached an astonishing $20 billion this year! This has left a lot of people jaw-dropping with numbers!
With the hot sale of the Atari 2600, countless third-party game developers have set their sights on this piece of fat.
But how could Atari allow others to touch their piece of the pie, they already have all the game market as their own plate.
So they used countless means to crack down on these third-party game developers.
But it's worth saying that Atari's business strategy has changed dramatically since Atari's founder, Bushnell, was ousted.
There was no focus on the content of the game at all, and Atari's status as a game designer plummeted, causing many people to leave Atari.
Four of them founded the famous Activision company, which specializes in developing games.
However, Atari's own game content has not made much progress, and it has been eating its old book, so the market share in this area has begun to be stolen by other third-party game developers.
Eventually, Atari sued Activision, but the court rejected Atari's claim based on its dominant market position for the purpose of eliminating and restricting competition in violation of the relevant provisions of antitrust law.
As soon as this verdict came out, all third-party game developers were boiling, and countless games began to be launched frantically.
As a result, the quality of the games on the market began to deteriorate rapidly.
At the same time, many companies and capitals in other industries have also moved their minds when they see such a large piece of fat.
Let's put it this way, now you can make a lot of money by designing a game that works successfully on the Atari 2600, no matter what it looks like.
Therefore, countless capital has entered, and major companies, whether they have game development experience or not, want to participate in this carnival feast and gnaw a piece of fat in it.
A typical example is Quaker Oats, a food company that still has a certain reputation even in later generations.
They also participated in this carnival feast, and designed a total of 14 games, each of which was so rotten that they didn't put even a little effort into the game.
But even so, they still make a lot of money.
In such an environment, it is natural that there will be no good games, which also lays the groundwork for the next 'Atari Crash' incident, and everyone is already disappointed in the game market!
And Li Hua just wants to sell an idea and make some money in such a market environment.
And he didn't want to take out those classic games in later generations, even if he took them out, it is estimated that it is useless now, no one has the heart to make games anymore, they are all about making money.
On the contrary, he was going to make a super bad game, but this game, in history, sold 80,000 copies!
Since the current game market is basically occupied by Atari, the sales of 80,000 sets are already very good, especially when most of the games are shoddy.