Top of the Great Era

Chapter 2190
Arrived in Tokyo.

I saw Ren Yuxin who was busy in the world.

I didn't go home during the Spring Festival, I was really busy.Of course, Boss Zhou is also very busy. On the flight, he never has time to spare. Everyone is struggling with a spirit of searching up and down.

If nothing else happens, this meeting with Konami will be the last time the two parties will negotiate on the copyright of "Pro Evolution Football", and the situation of all parties has been negotiated almost.

Especially for Konami, they are more anxious than Changyou.

The two parties met in the VIP room downstairs of the Hilton Hotel. Ren Yuxin briefly explained the situation and said with a smile: "The big boss of Konami, Yue Jingzheng, had a difficult time last year. Verbal criticism from the media."

"Because of management style?"

When Zhou Buqi met Shangyue Jingzheng at Sun Zhengyi's house before, he felt the old man's stubbornness, conceit, and superciliousness.

Ren Yuxin said: "Yes, it's the management style. In the past few days during the Spring Festival, two well-known game producers of Konami have left, and they can't stand Yue Jingzheng's way. It's only been a few days, Konami’s stock price has fallen by 10%.”

Zhou Buqi smiled and said, "So they are eager to reach a strategic cooperation with Changyou to cater to the capital market?"

"I'm afraid that's not enough."

"what?"

"There will be job changes."

"No way?" Zhou Buqi was a little disbelieving, "A change in position? It's impossible for Yue Jingzheng to step down last year, right? If he had that kind of awareness, he wouldn't have controlled Konami for such a long time. The management rights have already been handed over."

Ren Yuxin coughed and explained: "It's true, he may really want to resign. He is now the chairman and CEO of Konami, and he will resign as CEO."

"Exit!"

Zhou Buqi was very surprised. It seems that public opinion supervision is still very effective. Last month, Konami stepped down, and Konami will have a chance to recover in the future.

Unexpectedly, Ren Yuxin's next sentence exposed Shangyue Jingzheng's true nature, and said with a smile: "The one who will succeed him as CEO is his son, Shangyue Takuya."

Zhou Buqi couldn't help laughing.

interesting!

Interesting!
I really looked up to the old man Yue Jingzheng.

It is not impossible for the family business model to inherit the father's business, but companies of this model are usually traditional enterprises, which is not popular in the technology industry.

The advantage of a family business is stability, but the disadvantage is rigidity.

The technology industry needs to continuously innovate, and the most feared thing is stability and rigidity. If the advantages and disadvantages of family businesses are placed in the technology industry, they will all become disadvantages.

Ren Yuxin said: "This old guy may also know that pushing his son up will cause controversy, and will make Konami's producers feel that the future is even more bleak, so he wants to use this opportunity to cooperate with Changyou to let them See hope."

Zhou Buqi nodded, "Give over the credit for the strategic cooperation with Changyou to his son. Then his son will have a certain foundation as the CEO."

Ren Yuxin said: "Yes, that's what it means. So I want to finalize an agreement with Changyou as soon as possible, and then let his son take the credit and take advantage of the situation."

Zhou Buqi said: "No matter how they mess around, it's always a good thing for Changyou. How is the discussion on other forms of copyright going? Has there been any progress?"

Ren Yuxin smiled and said: "It's okay, I gave them two options to choose from. Other forms of copyright... just like the VR games you said may appear in the future, they are developed by Changyou, and Konami doesn't need them." Pay a penny. After the game is developed, Konami can share 20% of the global revenue, or enjoy all the revenue in the Japanese market.”

"How did you choose?"

"guess?"

Ren Yuxin sat across from him with a faint smile.

Zhou Buqi was slightly taken aback, then laughed, "It must be the latter, they want to enjoy all the benefits of the Japanese market."

Ren Yuxin said: "Yes, they replied to me on the same day. They still attach the most importance to the local market. In addition, there is an additional condition. If the two parties jointly develop, they will return to the same starting line. Konami takes With the copyright of "Pro Evolution Soccer", Changyou exchanged the intellectual property rights in the football market, developed together, and shared the proceeds [-]-[-]."

Because Changyou wants to make this copyright cooperation of "Pro Evolution Football" into a model case.

In the future, Changyou will use the copyright cooperation model of "Pro Evolution Soccer" as a model when it negotiates game copyright cooperation with other Japanese game companies, so it is very important to deliberate more details.

Zhou Buqi is a bit out of reach.

What kind of game form will there be in the future?
Not sure.

Anyway, it is of great significance to win the computer, tablet and mobile phone copyright of "Pro Evolution Soccer", and it can make a lot of money.

Next, both parties went to Konami together.

Just like what Ren Yuxin said.

There are all kinds of contract clauses, which are very detailed, with a total of more than 300 clauses.

However, Zhou Buqi temporarily made another suggestion.

Under the curious eyes of Jingzheng and Takuya last month, Zhou Buqi said: ""Pro Evolution Soccer" will be renamed, it can't be called 'PES', the perception of this name is too bad."

The English version of "Pro Evolution Soccer" is called "PES", which is an abbreviation, and S refers to Soccer.

This is against the sky.

You know, in the English-speaking world, football has two names.

One is the popular name, football is Football, which is called in Europe.There is another kind of football called Soccer, which is the name of American English.

Because in the United States, Football refers to rugby, and football can only be called Soccer.

If you call football Soccer to European fans, especially British fans, they will be very angry and feel that you are desecrating their football.

Americans know shit about football?

It is said that EA is an American game company. The earliest version of "EA Football" was called Soccer. Fortunately, it was quickly revised and changed to Football.

But Konami has been indifferent, knowing that Europe is the largest consumer market for football games, and using the word Soccer to stimulate them.

In the previous life, Konami had to wait many years later, when "Pro Evolution Soccer" was on the verge of being eliminated in the market, and finally realized it!

Then I quickly changed the name and changed "PES" to "eFootball", but it was too late and it had no effect.

Zhou Buqi is going to take over the game of "Pro Evolution Soccer". As the owner of Manchester United, he will definitely not be so unprofessional to use Soccer to call football.

Last month Jing was silent.

Some dissatisfaction.

Now that the contract was about to be signed, the other party suddenly made such an unreasonable request, it was too much!

Seeing that Konami has serious internal troubles and is on the cusp of public opinion, it wants to take advantage of it and profit from it.

His son Takuya last month saw that he was about to take over. Afraid of any accidents in the negotiations, he said cautiously: "Mr. Zhou, there may be some problems with the name 'PES', but we have been in business for many years and have formed a brand. gone."

"That's a reason."

Even Ren Yuxin also believes that changing the name at this stage is not a correct decision.

Zhou Buqi also noticed that the atmosphere on the negotiating table was a bit serious, and said with a smile: "It's okay, this doesn't need to be included in the contract, the two parties can communicate slowly in the future, Changyou has made a big move recently, and is launching a take- Two's acquisition. The name 'PES' can be used for the time being, but in the long run, the name must be changed."

Shangyue Jingzheng and Shangyue Takuya, father and son, were at a loss.

Ren Yuxin immediately understood Boss Zhou's plan.

I go!

This is trying to borrow chickens to lay eggs!
(End of this chapter)