Top of the Great Era

Chapter 2033 Harvey is an industry liar

When we arrived in the capital, we parted ways.

Yan Qiqi went to the company, while Zhou Buqi went to Changyou.

Lao Zhang has been waiting there for a long time.

He was sitting in the office of the newly joined "Vice President" Ren Yuxin.

Although it is a vice president, the location of the office can explain everything.Before that, this office was the office of the chief executive officer, but later changed its sign and became the office of the vice president.

Nobody is stupid and knows what that means.

Coupled with the platforms of Boss Zhou and Boss Zhang during this period of time, Ren Yuxin has quickly obtained the power of Changyou, and all executives above the vice president must report to him.

Many people are worried that they will be Ren Yuxin's first blow after taking office.

Boss Zhou just promised not to lay off workers on a large scale, not not to lay off staff. Whether each executive can continue to keep their jobs depends on whether they can adapt to Ren Yuxin.

Unexpectedly, after taking office, Ren Yuxin's methods are very gentle, he treats the old employees with spring breeze, and at the same time, he has the courage to take responsibility.

This is a major project that Changyou has exhausted all the company's resources in the past few years, and announced that it has spent 8000 million US dollars in research funding, and that CEO Wang Fang is personally leading the project.

It is considered to be another big self-developed domestic online game promoted by Sohu after "Tian Long Ba Bu"!

After going online, it collapsed directly.

"The Deer and Ding Tale", which has been skipped for several years because of the high expectations of the players, after playing it, I realized that this is a "skin-changing game". The various gameplay and models are exactly the same as "Tian Long Ba Bu", which is amazing disappointment.

This is also the direct reason why Wang stepped down.

"The Deer and Ding Tale" fell into his hands directly, and became the most difficult and complicated project in Changyou, and no one was willing to take over it.Ren Yuxin stepped up to the challenge, took the initiative to take over the case, and appointed Ma Xiaotiao, who had been working with Penguin Games for many years, as the game director of "The Deer and Ding Tale", intending to completely reform the game.

When Zhou Buqi passed, Ren Yuxin was talking about the new plan for this game.

Ren Yuxin said: ""The Deer and Ding Tale" did not perform well in the domestic market. The previous solution was to relieve the pressure through export. I have already mediated urgently. Many games cannot be produced in China, so I want to go overseas. The market made a lot of money. Many companies did make money because of this. However, Changyou is not a small company and cannot do things that damage long-term value.”

"Game export, will it damage long-term value?"

Zhou Buqi glanced at Lao Zhang and found that he was also ambiguous.

Ren Yuxin sighed, "Many domestic colleagues are too short-sighted. They only want to make quick money. If they can make a fortune, they don't think about the country, the industry, or even their own future. Focus on the immediate interests."

Zhou Buqi was very concerned about this, "What's going on?"

Ren Yuxin said: "I just told Charles about this matter. Perfect's overseas business can't be done. The big reason is that it was cheated by those domestic game manufacturers. Perfect wanted to provide its own channels and resources to Domestic game peers help their game export, but those domestic game peers don’t think so, they are full of interests.”

Zhou Buqi said: "They are all small companies, right?"

Ren Yuxin nodded, "Yes, mainly small companies. Large companies are better in this regard, and their business methods are more disciplined. Many small companies use the buyout model for exporting games, that is, agents You don’t even need to provide 20%-30% of the share, and you can get the agency rights for several years by paying a buyout fee of hundreds of thousands of dollars. Many small companies earn this kind of buyout fee. "

Zhou Buqi understood it as soon as he heard it, "After they get the buyout fee, they don't care about their future life?"

"Yes, many game studios are pure scam companies." Ren Yuxin was heartbroken by this, but he was helpless, "I stole some internal materials from some big companies in China, and then spent a small amount of money to develop a game. A simple demo comes out. Then, borrow the perfect resources and connect it to foreign agents. Foreign game agents have seen the demo and think the game is very good. When they heard the quotation... it is really low, hundreds of thousands of dollars can It has been bought out for several years. Then the contract was signed. After the money arrives, the domestic game company will be empty and disappear. Change the location, change the trademark, and repeat this pattern.”

Zhou Buqi was also very angry about this, "For that little money, this is ruining the future reputation of all domestic counterparts!"

No way, all walks of life are like this.

As a result, the domestic market has no credibility in front of foreign countries and is full of cheating and deceit, so that foreign companies can only formulate some special policies to treat them differently.

For example, the mobile phones of Apple and Samsung used to enjoy the policy of "only exchange, no refund" at home and abroad. Later, it was discovered that many people used fake phones to exchange for new mobile phones to cheat money, causing losses of up to tens of dollars every year. Billion dollars, the only thing we can do is change the policy.

The same goes for the film and television industry.

When Zhou Buqi was in Hollywood, he was even questioned by Harvey Weinstein, which made him very embarrassed.

Harvey Weinstein is a Jew and the most authoritative figure in the field of Hollywood independent films.

Back then, Lao Mouzi made "Hero".

However, there is a lack of channels to enter the US market, and it is through the relationship of Harvey Weinstein.The two parties cooperated wholeheartedly and achieved great success. It is the Chinese-language film second only to "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" in the box office of the North American market in the past and in the next few decades.

Made a ton of money.

This made Harvey Weinstein very satisfied. During his interactions with Lao Mouzi's team, he also felt the professionalism and business level of Chinese filmmakers, so he was very happy and appreciated it.

He just wanted to strengthen cooperation with the domestic film industry and make use of the lack of international channels for domestic filmmakers to earn a distribution fee.

Then, he set his sights on Brother Kai, another big director in China.

Director Ke Ge was unequivocal and carefully crafted. He made a demo of "The Promise" and showed it to Harvey Weinstein.When Harvey saw it, he was shocked, and suddenly found that this was a movie that was even greater than "Hero". It was so shocking!

Out of trust, the two parties reached an agreement.

Harvey paid a lot of money.

It's the same as the game export routine that Ren Yuxin said just now.

Let’s take a sample first and show foreigners how it looks.

Foreigners think it is very good and like it very much.

At this time, the domestic side said that there is not enough funds, and there is a shortage of money now. If foreigners are willing to pay a sum of money, we are willing to sign a contract now and transfer the overseas agency rights to you at a low price.

Many people deal with these people in China for the first time, and they feel that it is profitable, so they are fooled.

"The Promise" is.

Harvey gave the money, full of anticipation.After the filming was finished and Harvey watched it, he was immediately dumbfounded and broke down. He didn't pay any buyout fee for the subsequent release, and the money given earlier was just like feeding the dog.

With this surprise, coupled with the success of the Japanese market, the movie "The Promise" really made a lot of money, so much so that the director of the triumphant song has the capital to spend more than 1 million yuan to make the literary film "Mei Lanfang " up.

Later, another domestic director, Feng Da, wanted to make a similar costume martial arts film called "The Banquet". He still made a wonderful short film and found Harvey Weinstein.

Now, Harvey has experience.

If you want to sign a contract, it is impossible; if you want to pay first, it is impossible.

Just gave a pretty verbal promise.

Such a Hollywood bigwig can't lie to others, can he?

Hua Yi believed it, and happily paid out of his own pocket, increased the filming expenses, and shot the blockbuster film according to Harvey's request.

Then, with all the joy of trying to get at least $1000 million in representation from Harvey.

After watching the whole film, Harvey was very disappointed and immediately regretted it.

Previous promises are all invalid.

Not a penny.

This caused "Night Banquet" to fall into a huge loss.

Director Feng was so angry that he cursed in public several times, saying that Harvey Weinstad was an industry liar, and he urged his domestic counterparts to be careful and vigilant.

Later, when excellent domestic films wanted to export to the U.S. market to make a lot of money, it was very difficult and even more difficult, almost impossible.

It is still in the initial stage of domestic game export, so many foreign game agency companies do not know much about the situation, and they still treat many professional cheaters in China with the international practice.

Foreign agency companies lost money, and the domestic game industry lost credibility.

Ren Yuxin said: "In the past few years, domestic game exports have soared, and the increase is mainly from small and medium-sized game studios. In these small companies, there are many scammers, and Perfect has been implicated. Perfect has invested so much money overseas. Only after opening up the channel and market relationship, and then helping many small companies to export their games, did they suffer.”

Zhou Buqi also had a headache about this, no wonder the perfect President Chi kept silent.

This thing is really fucked up.

His personal ability is too limited, and he really can't solve this kind of problem. He said helplessly: "So when foreign agency companies understand the situation, it will become more and more difficult for domestic small and medium-sized game studios to export in the future. .”

Ren Yuxin agreed, "Yes, these current industry scammers have blocked the way for the new batch of young game creators who have ideals and pursuits in the future. The export industry of games can only rely on a few A big and reputable company will maintain it, unless it is a particularly good and amazing game.”

Zhang Chaoyang nodded and said with a sigh: "This is a factor that I have not considered before. All Changyou's global distribution and operation system must be developed slowly and calmly, and we cannot follow the old perfect path."

"At least for the time being, we can't send "The Deer and Ding Tale" abroad. Such a martial arts-style game has received rave reviews in China, and it still wants to export overseas to make money? I think it is because of the previous "Tian Long Ba Bu" successful accumulation reputation, go to the old customers to cheat money?"

Zhou Buqi finally understood the reason why Ren Yuxin stopped the export of "The Deer and Ding Tale", and then became even more dissatisfied with Wang Fang.

Changyou is a big company.

Credibility is more important than anything else!

I would rather not make money than cheat people.

(End of this chapter)