Rebirth 98, the rise started from ripping off Microsoft

Chapter 462 The Bloody Legend
Although Lu Yiming's words were very blunt, they actually hit the nail on the head, and there was no falsehood, so that Jiang Rongfa wanted to refute, but he didn't know where to start, so he could only stare blankly.

The so-called host game can be understood as a stand-alone game.

Almost all of the console games in this era can be disconnected from the Internet and played casually on the computer by oneself.

And the profit method of this kind of game is to sell cards or discs. If users like your product, they will pay for it and use it at home.

So whether console games are popular or not, you can intuitively know how many copies have been sold in total.

For example, the Mario series, which dominated the entire game industry in the era of red and white machines, sold an astonishing 4000 million copies. This number will probably never be surpassed by newcomers.

But the times have changed. The advent of the Internet has announced that the industrial revolution of games is about to begin.

What's more, wouldn't it be a long life to engage in console games in a place where piracy is rampant in Xiaguo?

So Lu Yiming looked at Jiang Rongfa and teased him, "You claim to be making online games, but you end up making money by selling CDs. This is not the Internet at all."

Jiang Rongfa got a little impatient at being teased, and asked, "Is there any problem with me selling discs? Don't all my peers in the game industry make money like this?"

"The problem is big."

Lu Yiming sighed silently in his heart. This is the so-called limitation of the times. Jiang Rongfa's thoughts are still stuck in the past, but what Lu Yiming sees is the future.

"Let me ask you, are there more genuine CDs or pirated CDs on the street? How much do you plan to sell this game for? Can the price be lower than pirated CDs? Or do you have special anti-piracy skills? ?”

"Ah this..."

Jiang Rongfa was speechless.

Undoubtedly, what Lu Yiming said had never occurred to him.

He has always naively believed that as long as his game is made, with the quality and playability of the game, players will inevitably flock to it, and then he will make a lot of money.

Seeing Jiang Rongfa being bullied to nothing, Ni Cong couldn't stand it any longer. After all, it was his cousin who was bullied.

So I stood up and said a few words: "Lu Yiming, you may be right, but those investors may not pay attention to these things, right?"

Lu Yiming smiled softly, and then turned to look at Ni Cong: "They must pay more attention to it than I do. I didn't pay a penny, so I'm just talking about it here. They really want to pay. You What do you think they will think?"

Ni Cong hesitated to speak, and finally sighed helplessly, with a slumped expression: "Yes."

But after all, they are cousins. Ni Cong didn't want Jiang Rongfa to become a "millionaire" all of a sudden, and immediately asked, "Then you talk so lively, doesn't it mean that my cousin's company is completely hopeless?"

Lu Yiming smiled and said: "That's not true. After all, the shelf is set up. If you find a noble person who knows the goods to help, you can still save it."

Hearing that there was still a chance to save his career, Jiang Rongfa's eyes lit up, and he asked, "Help me, sir? Who can save me?"

Lu Yiming pointed to himself: "Me."

"you?"

Jiang Rongfa thought that what Lu Yiming was saying was that he could persuade investors to invest in the company, and immediately said: "Even if you really have a good idea, if you can't convince investors, it's still useless. We only have a few dollars left in the company's account now." Yes, far away water can’t quench near thirst.”

"Money has never been an issue for me."

Facing everyone's surprised gazes, Lu Yiming said this indifferently.

Then he said to Jiang Rongfa: "I can buy your company with money. Since you founded the company, I will leave 5.00% for you. After that, you can make a game according to my requirements, and I guarantee that the company will Live and get well."

Lu Yiming had never told his roommates about his wealth, and they were a little caught off guard when they heard him speak so loudly.

Jiang Rongfa naturally thought that Lu Yiming was making fun of him, so he immediately said, "Okay, no problem, how much do you plan to pay?"

Lu Yiming thought about it silently, and finally gave Jiang Rong a valuation that he couldn't refuse: "The most valuable thing in your broken company is a polished game production team, so you get them back for me as soon as possible, and I'll give you Given your valuation of 500 million, 95% of the shares are 470 million, I believe no one can bid higher than me."

Jiang Rongfa, with a smile on his lips, was stunned after hearing this.

You know, when he started his business in the sea, he only had 20 cash in his pocket, and he borrowed all his relatives and friends to make up the money.

Although the company is now much larger than when it first started, it is definitely not worth 500 million!
At this moment, in Jiang Rongfa's mind, Lu Yiming's image suddenly became taller.

He straightened his back, looked straight at Lu Yiming, and asked solemnly, "Are you serious? Are you kidding me?"

Lu Yiming also said seriously: "Of course it is serious. As long as you nod your head, the money will arrive immediately."

Jiang Rongfa hesitated for a moment, but finally had to bow his head to reality, and ran to draft the contract without saying a word.

The most ideal valuation of the investors he was looking for was in the early 200 million. Lu Yiming directly doubled the valuation, and a fool would refuse!

Ni Cong was taken aback when he heard it, and it took him a long time to come back to his senses: "Lu Yiming, are you sure you're not joking? Are you really going to buy my cousin's company?"

Lu Yiming's expression was relaxed, as if he just bought a pancake fruit casually: "Anyway, it doesn't cost much, so I bought it for fun. I also want to make a game, so I don't bother to set up a company myself."

Wang Dazhuang was speechless after hearing this: "How much money will it cost? That's 500 million yuan, not 500 yuan."

Ni Cong glanced at him sideways, and said in a sour tone, "That's right, we Dazhuang don't even have 500 yuan!"

Wang Dazhuang's face turned dark immediately.

His living expenses are still paid by his parents on a monthly basis, which is only 500 yuan a month, and he really doesn't have such a "huge sum" of [-] yuan!

Afterwards, he turned to Lu Yiming, with a very complicated mood: "You are so low-key, we didn't realize that you are actually a rich second generation!"

Lu Yiming didn't know whether to laugh or cry, and said, "I'm not a rich second generation, I was forced out. If I don't work harder, I will become a second generation negative, a debtor."

Before rebirth, Dingyuan Mold Factory suffered heavy losses and struggled constantly. Lu Yiming never enjoyed the life of a rich man for a few days. On the contrary, he lived in pain and despair most of the time in his short life.

"I believe you ghost, you are a very bad old man."

After a while, Jiang Rong initiated the drafting of the contract and came back.

"This is the contract, take a look and sign it if there is no problem."

Regarding the contract, Lu Yiming is very serious. He said: "I need to fax this contract to my lawyer."

"can."

Lu Yiming called Li Qiu, and then faxed the contract to Li Qiu for review. After Li Qiu confirmed that there was no problem, Lu Yiming signed the contract decisively, then called Li Yiwen, and asked Li Yiwen to call money.

After Li Yiwen received the call from Lu Yiming, his whole mind was buzzing: "500 million? Buy a game company? Even if your money comes from a strong wind, you can't make it like this."

At present, the game market in Xia Kingdom cannot be called a desert, but it can definitely be called a bird's shit.

Among them, the most successful operation is Xishanju, a game company under Jinshan, and Mr. Lei's own son.

But even Xishanju basically depends on Mr. Lei of Jinshan to pay for his life, and he is still a thousand miles away from making money.

This can be clearly seen from the game sales alone. With works such as "Apocalypse in Zhongguancun", "Swordsman Love", "Decisive Battle in North Korea", Xishanju has successfully become popular in the domestic game circle this year. In 20, relying on the sales of [-] sets of "Swordsman Love II", it created a miracle in the sales of domestic games at that time.

And what about the island country console game "The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time" at the same time?

It sold 140 million copies in the island country alone!

Overseas sales reached an astronomical 620 million copies!
The sales volume of domestic games is not even a fraction of others.

This is the cruel reality. The water in the pool is too shallow to raise real dragons.

Lu Yiming smiled and explained to his cousin: "Am I that stupid? I understand better than you that console games in China are a dead end, but making games is really profitable, so you have to plan ahead."

Li Yiwen frowned: "I'm confused by what you said. You said that console games don't make money, and you say that making games is very profitable. Playing schizophrenia with me, right?"

In desperation, Lu Yiming had no choice but to further analyze the ecology of the game industry for Li Yiwen: "Domestic games are not easy to sell, and the main problem is piracy. We can't change this environment, so we just don't make stand-alone games."

Li Yiwen never played games, so he didn't know what Lu Yiming was talking about.

"What do you mean?"

Having personally experienced the era when online games and mobile games were extremely popular in the later generations, Lu Yiming is naturally very optimistic about the prospects of the game industry: "We will make Internet games, and users will have to pay by time if they want to play our games. We don't sell the game itself, we sell point cards."

After hearing this, Li Yiwen became even more confused: "Sell some cards?"

The domestic online game that really started the time charging model is "Stone Age", which is familiar to many players born in the [-]s.

In January [-], Beijing Huayi acted as an agent for the island country online game "Stone Age", and adopted a brand new game billing method, the WGS system, also known as the point-based charging system.

This system is the point card billing mode that many players are familiar with later.

Lu Yiming is now planning to enable this system in advance on the game "Legend of Hot Blood".

The reason why console games are easy to pirate is that the cost and technical content of making pirated copies is so low that it is negligible. Just buy a genuine copy and copy it. Anyone who can copy and paste can do it.

But online games, they can't copy them, everything is stored in the game server.The user gets an installation file - which can be understood as a desktop shortcut to access the game server.

Selling pirated copies of this kind of game is equivalent to being tap water for the game company, helping the company promote the game.

After listening to Lu Yiming's explanation, Li Yiwen complained: "Others sell games in one go, but you charge by the minute? Those who don't know think you are a telecom operator. Is it really good to make money so frantically? And if you do this, will anyone be willing to pay for it?"

Lu Yiming laughed, and said disapprovingly: "People need entertainment when they are alive, especially young people who like to learn new things. And social interaction is also one of the main needs of people. We make stand-alone games into a networked mode, which solves entertainment at once. and social networking, are you afraid that no one will pay for it by then?”

Li Yiwen was really like this when he heard it. The game is already very fun, and if you can play with a group of people, wouldn't that be double the happiness?

Is it reasonable not to spend money on such a happy thing?

In the end, Li Yiwen failed to convince Lu Yiming, he was persuaded by Lu Yiming instead.

"Okay, I'm going to make money now."

After winning the company, Lu Yiming asked Jiang Rongfa: "Have you played Diablo?"

"Diablo 1" was released in [-] and is an action role-playing game released by Blizzard.

And recently, the news that "Diablo 2" will be released in [-] has also spread a lot.

As a hardcore player of the game, Jiang Rongfa has of course played the game before, and is even more familiar with the plot and characters in it.

"Are you asking me to imitate Diablo? Diablo 2 is about to be released, and if you make another game of the same kind, how can the pirated version beat the genuine one?"

However, Lu Yiming showed a meaningful smile: "There is an old saying, those who learn from me live, and those who resemble me die. I just gave you an example to let you understand what an Internet game is. Who told you to copy it?"

"What about you, just use this game as a blueprint, and then change the plot and story style to an oriental fantasy background for me to make a brand-new Internet monster-fighting and upgrading game. The game mechanism should be simple and direct, even elementary school students can get started directly The kind of operation. At the same time, the picture of the game can’t be too good, at least most of the computers in Internet cafes must be able to run smoothly.”

Jiang Rongfa felt that he was an aspiring game producer, so after listening to Lu Yiming's demands, he quit immediately, and even said sarcastically: "The game made according to your requirements is completely rubbish. Will anyone want to play the game?"

Lu Yiming was not angry, but expressed his analysis: "Xia Guo has just reformed and opened up, and the vast majority of people have never been exposed to video games, so no matter how bad our games are, they can meet their basic entertainment needs. As for The small number of users who like to play high-quality console games, the base is too small, and they are also difficult to serve, this money is too troublesome to earn, it is better to just give up."

Although these words were not pleasant to hear, they hit the soul directly, and Jiang Rongfa felt a sense of enlightenment, as if he could see clearly many difficult problems that he had been unable to solve before.

He started his own business at that time, and the reason why he chose to start a game company was mainly because he liked playing games and saw that foreign game companies were making a lot of money.

But in fact, he doesn't understand the analysis of the market and users at all. Now after listening to Lu Yiming's analysis, he suddenly realized: "I said why I couldn't make any money in the past. I dare not go in the right direction."

Lu Yiming saw that his brain had finally opened up, so he showed a gratified look: "Yes, you don't even understand who you want to make money from. It's strange that you can make money from this."

"As for the so-called hardcore players, they are all hard-pressed, hard to serve, and stingy, and they are not willing to spend money at all. It is completely thankless to meet their needs. You have to win over and unite Yes, it should be the broad masses of the people.”

"Especially those young people who have never been online before, and those nouveau riche who have suddenly become rich but have never seen the world. As long as your online shop is large enough and the player base is large enough, even if it is only one percent or even One-thousandth of paying users, that is blood money."

Jiang Rongfa, who was suddenly enlightened, suddenly became full of energy.

Although Lu Yiming's request is weird, but with money, the company can survive, and he can continue to engage in game development, and he will always find an opportunity to make a good game in his mind in the future.

"You make a lot of sense, then let's start right away, a new game project!"

"So, what's the name of this game?"

Lu Yiming said without hesitation: ""Legend of Hot Blood". I will write you a plan for the basic structure of the game. You just follow my plan and find someone to realize it. You recruit the team yourself."

"no problem!"

Most of the troubles in this world are caused by lack of money. Now that we have money, these problems are naturally not a problem.

Jiang Rongfa seemed to be a retaliatory consumption upstart, gritted his teeth and said, "I'm going to change to a big studio, set up [-] jobs, and recruit [-] top game developers!"

More than 400 million, isn't it just made casually?
Lu Yiming had no objection to Jiang Rongfa's "boldness".

"It's up to you, but my request is to be quick. I'll give you three months at most. If the game doesn't come out on New Year's Day, I won't invest in it later."

Lu Yiming came up with the settings and structure himself, and Jiang Rongfa was only responsible for building a team to realize the content. If it couldn't be done in three months, it basically meant that there was no value for cooperation—because the original Legend of Blood was released in [-]. It's going to be listed.

Although the time given by Lu Yiming was not long, Jiang Rongfa gritted his teeth and said, "No problem, I will make a game even if I don't sleep for a hundred days."

(End of this chapter)