Rebirth of the internet boss

Chapter 147
Mohan was already ready for a fierce battle, but he didn't expect Li Feng to agree so quickly. It's just that he only mentioned two conditions at the end. Mohan also wanted to hear Li Feng's final conditions. After all, Li Feng could do it. Although Li Feng said that such a big concession was just two small conditions, Mohan would not believe these, so he listened very carefully.

Seeing that Mohan was so serious, Li Feng also smiled and said: "Don't worry, Mr. Mohan, I won't ask too much. The first condition is very simple. The agency time you give is only 5 years, and there are almost 1 year is a vacuum period,
I hope it can be extended for another 2 years. Of course, we will not lose agency fees and share. Just now, the total of 5 years was 7410 million U.S. dollars. We calculated it at 7500 million U.S. dollars, which is 1500 million U.S. dollars a year. The agency fee is 3000 million US dollars. Of course, the share is still 20% of the previous one.

How about it, Mr. Mohan, this condition is not too much. After all, we are the ones to promote in the early stage, and we believe in our promotion ability. Mohan, you should be clear that the most popular "Miracle MU" is currently operated by us.
And we also have "Bat Network Management" Internet cafe management software, MY123 navigation homepage, 17173 game first portal, 5173 game trading platform and other promotional products closely related to games. "

Mohan thought for a while and said: "Adding two more years will be 7 years. The game life cycle of "World of Warcraft" is almost at the end. It will be bad if "World of Warcraft" finds an agent again. Therefore, we It can only be extended for 1 year, 1500 million US dollars, plus a 20% share, and we can guarantee that under the same conditions, Fengrui has the priority to renew the contract.”

Li Feng was ecstatic in his heart, but there was no change on his face, and said: "Well, we Fengrui also don't want to embarrass our friends."

Li Feng didn't expect Mohan to agree to two years. Just one year is enough to make money for himself. The reason for his ecstasy is that the six-year operation right from 2004 to 2010 is the game "World of Warcraft". In the most glorious period, everything is in his own hands.

These six years are enough for him to extract the maximum benefit from the game "World of Warcraft". At that time, he can completely wave his sleeves and leave.

And the extended year, 2010, can be regarded as the last glorious year of "World of Warcraft". The expansion film "Wrath of the Lich King" that pushed the game to its peak will also fall in this year. The curtain brought the entire game to a successful conclusion. From then on, "World of Warcraft" began to decline slowly from its peak, from its peak to its peak.

And when the time comes, "jealous" companies like NetEase will inevitably wave a lot of dollar bills and want to take "World of Warcraft" into their pockets. NetEase even offered an agency fee of 5000 million US dollars and a profit close to 50% into.

Such a condition, even if "World of Warcraft" made more money, Li Feng would not agree to it. This kind of small profit is meaningless to him, and he also remembers that more than ten years later, in NetEase's profit report, The contributions of World of Warcraft have become less and less.

As far as he is concerned, these six years are the most profitable time for Warcraft. After these six years, the value of this game will drop rapidly, while the agency fee and profit sharing will continue to rise, which is not worth it.

Moreover, in the previous life, apart from the consideration of economic interests, Netease was interested in the status of the game "World of Warcraft" on the one hand, and on the other hand, it was to defeat Ninetowns and increase the proportion of the game market, which could promote the growth of their stock price. rise.

Six years is very short for the real economy, but it is a long time for an Internet company. Such a long time is enough for Li Feng and Fengrui.

Of course, if Blizzard's conditions are not so outrageous at that time, Li Feng is still willing to accept, after all, the game status of "World of Warcraft" is there.

After finishing talking, after the postponement, Mohan asked curiously: "Mr. Li, what is your second condition?"

Li Feng still said very calmly: "Mr. Mohan, to be honest, I have never played online games, and I prefer competitive games. Therefore, in comparison, I personally like Blizzard's "Warcraft" very much. Competitive games.

And I also know that Blizzard has a different attitude towards games from other game companies. Other game companies only require employees to be able to develop games; while Blizzard requires employees to be fanatical players, and they have a passion for each game. Do it well.

The concept of 'Blizzard's product must be a boutique' is not only Blizzard's philosophy, but also the outside world's view of Blizzard. "

"Thousands of wear and wear, only flattery doesn't wear it." Mohan said happily after hearing this: "Thank you, Mr. Li, thank you for your recognition of Blizzard. Then what is your second condition?"

Li Feng said calmly: "As a fan of competitive games, my second condition is also very simple. I just want the right to adapt Blizzard's World of Warcraft and Warcraft IP."

Mohan asked subconsciously: "Then what do you want to do? Are you Fengrui also planning to develop large-scale online games like "World of Warcraft" MMORPG?"

Li Feng smiled and said: "Mr. Mohan, as I said just now, I am a sports enthusiast. As a loyal fan of Blizzard's "Warcraft", I just want to develop a derivative game based on Blizzard's "Warcraft" series." Competitive online games."

Mohan asked curiously: "Online competition? Can you tell me more about it?"

People nowadays don't know that online games will become competitive in the future, and competition will also become online games.

Li Feng thought for a while and said, "How should I put it? Actually, it's just an idea of ​​mine at the moment. I can only say that I want to make an online game based on the background of the 'Warcraft' series of games and mainly focus on online competitions." ,
This game should be counted as an online competitive game, rather than a stand-alone competitive game like "Warcraft". If possible, I even want to have the right to adapt "StarCraft" and "Diablo". "

Then, Li Feng emphasized again: "This is just my personal idea. I just want to combine Blizzard's classic games together. Of course, I also know Blizzard's concept of 'boutique', so before the official promotion, I will Let Blizzard review it, and we will officially release it after Blizzard has passed the official review.

And if the official promotion in the future is profitable, I only need the distribution rights and related profits in the Asian region; as for the European and American markets such as Europe and the Americas, I will hand them over to Blizzard. After all, the European and American regions are still our home field for Blizzard. Next, I will also give Blizzard a 20% profit share according to the above profit share. "

As a reborn, if you are only satisfied with "fighting and robbing in the nest" and only earn money from Chinese players, it seems a bit too low.
Although Li Feng is not a cynical youth, if he can earn some money from foreign players, the world is big after all, and if he earns some dollars, Li Feng is still very willing to do it.
Moreover, it is time for Fengrui to open up a road of "original" games. In terms of games, Li Feng's hope for Fengrui is not only to be a super platform company, but also to be a game agent; original boutique games,
Of course, Li Feng is going to take the high-quality route even if it’s the agency. More than a dozen junk online games can’t keep up with one high-quality online game, and the agency of junk online games is easy to hurt the hearts of players. Although the high-quality route is difficult, the final achievement is definitely great. , just look at Blizzard, and all players are looking forward to it.

Mohan also thought it was just Li Feng's hobby, and he didn't care about the 20% profit sharing, so he thought about it, and finally agreed, saying: "Since Mr. Li has such an idea, then we Blizzard is fine. I just hope that the signature of the final game is Fengrui, not us Blizzard, we are just a licensee."

Li Feng was ecstatic in his heart again, and said calmly: "We, Fengrui, will have no problem. If this is the case, then we have a happy cooperation! Mr. Mohan."

After speaking, Li Feng stood up and extended his hand to Mohan.

Mohan also stood up and stretched out his hand, shook hands with Li Feng, and said, "It's a pleasant cooperation."

Although this kind of agreement involving hundreds of millions of dollars cannot be concluded in a short while, since the bosses of the two companies have reached an agreement on key issues, the rest will be easy to handle, so five days later, in September 5 On the 2003th, Fengrui and Blizzard officially reached a cooperation agreement.

1、《魔兽世界》游戏代理权是六年，从2004年1月1日到2010年12月31日，暴雪也给了3个月准备期。

Moreover, Li Feng also assured Blizzard that before the end of December 2004 next year, the official public beta of "World of Warcraft" in China will be guaranteed.

2. The agency fee is a total of 8910 million US dollars, and 2280 million US dollars must be paid in advance, and the rest can be paid on a quarterly basis.But Li Feng chose to pay all the money within two years, which Li Feng voluntarily agreed to.

3. If the game generates profits, it will be divided into 20%, paid quarterly.

4. Fengrui must ensure that "World of Warcraft" uses the most advanced server, protect user data, and store it as a separate backup. If there are bugs and cheats, they need to be modified by Blizzard technicians.

Here, Li Feng asked to add a supplementary clause, Blizzard must ensure that the revision is completed within 24 hours, if the specified time is exceeded, and the number of times exceeds 3, Fengrui personnel can directly intervene.

5. Fengrui is responsible for the online and offline promotion of the game, and bears all related expenses. Blizzard is responsible for providing a special technical team as technical assistance.

There is also the most critical item that Li Feng values, item 6.

6. Fengrui owns the adaptation rights of Blizzard's "World of Warcraft", "Warcraft", "StarCraft" and "Diablo" and other related games, and can only make related online competitive games, and cannot be used for other purposes.

The next day, Fengrui and Blizzard officially held a press conference, announcing that Blizzard's "World of Warcraft" has Fengrui's agent, and Liu Zhiping was the one to come forward at the press conference.
But this time Li Feng asked Liu Zhiping to bring Long Xiaotian with him. This was a kind of reward from Li Feng to Long Xiaotian, and it could be regarded as a kind of exercise. Li Feng also hoped that every sharp person can be independent.

Although this is Fengrui's second online game "World of Warcraft" after "Miracle MU".However, many online game companies in China have paid a lot of attention to this, but they didn't pay much attention to it.

Some think that Fengrui is courageous and dare to spend so much money to represent such a super 3A epic masterpiece; some think that Fengrui takes it for granted and overestimates "World of Warcraft", and European and American online games are not popular in China , and may even fail completely;
Of course, many of them are still spectators. Anyway, in the end, they are all Fengrui, Shengda, and NetEase, which have nothing to do with me. In fact, many companies still want to report the thighs of the three.

But who did not expect that this is definitely good news for many Chinese players. After all, after playing so many junk online games, everyone also wants to witness what a real top online game is, and Blizzard's "Warcraft" " has also cultivated many Warcraft fans in China. Everyone is still full of expectations for Fengrui's agent. After all, Fengrui's "Miracle MU" is very well operated.

In the face of many fans of Blizzard and Warcraft, Fengrui also announced the official public beta date for the first time, which is December 2004, the last day of 12. All players are full of expectations for this.

When Netease found out that Fengrui was still acting as the agent for World of Warcraft, it didn't react much. After all, the online games "A Chinese Journey to the West 2" and "Fantasy Westward Journey" they launched were good.

In particular, the newly launched "Fantasy Westward Journey" seems to have the ability to challenge "Miracle MU", and its big boss has also ascended the throne of China's richest man. NetEase feels that it should be right to take the road of independent research and development.

On the contrary, Sheng Tianqiao from Shengda sighed and said to Cheng Danian after learning about it: "At that time, you said that Li Feng said he would not represent other online games for two years.
Now he has chosen "World of Warcraft". I don't know what Li Feng thinks. Could it be that "World of Warcraft" really has the potential to become a big hit, and we haven't seen it. "

Cheng Danian also sighed and said: "This Li Feng is indeed a character. He seems to be able to see the future. Feng Rui's development is almost a geometric leap forward. Now I regret that I didn't insist on acquiring him back then. At least give it a try. , that's fine too."

Sheng Tianqiao was very open at the time, and said: "Don't worry about this, even if "World of Warcraft" is really popular and it is the second "Miracle MU", then we will still use the current strategy to make up for quality with quantity. Sharp confrontation. By the way, Da Nian, how is the operation of "Miracle World" now?"

Cheng Danian said: "The public beta on September 9st has more than 1 people, and it has the potential to be a big hit. After all, we are also promoting "Miracle MU 30" to the outside world, and many "Miracle MU" players have also poured into "Miracle World". ", if there are no other circumstances, I estimate it can be millions."

Finally, Sheng Tianqiao said: "At that time, you should pay more attention, and Haofang, don't delay our box plan."

But for Li Feng, after formally signing the agreement with Blizzard, Li Feng was indeed very happy. This means that Fengrui has found the next cash cow, which is still a super cow. Li Feng also breathed a sigh of relief. During this period of time, Li Feng had really received some good news.

(End of this chapter)