capitalist in famous detective

Chapter 172
The death of diplomat Isao Ikemura is like a stone thrown into a calm lake, causing countless waves.

Mrs. Ikemura was arrested and imprisoned as a murderer. The only son of the family, Takayama Ikemura, was a playboy who was neither good at literature nor martial arts. It was probably impossible for him to inherit his father's business and take over his father's job.

Although Mr. Ikemura has experienced a series of blows, although he has many connections, his time is running out after all. The once-prominent Ikemura family will most likely disappear from the public.

In addition, the sudden death of Isao Ikemura, who "worked" for multiple companies, groups and consortiums at the same time, also implicated many people who had interacted with him in shopping malls or official circles.

Naito Electronics Co., Ltd. is naturally one of them.

"President, do we really have to suspend all publicity?"

Asuka Nishizaki felt a little unwilling to accept it. She grasped that Hara Jiaming had worked for Naidu Electronics and had similar gameplay and style of painting in "Journey" and "Legend". During this time, she could be said to have been playing all over the world.

If it weren't for the Tokiwa Group's repeated missteps, she would have completely ruined the entire "Journey" project.

If you choose to give in at this time, wouldn't it be equivalent to letting Cao Cao go on Huarong Road?
"You must have felt it. In the past two days, in addition to a few newspapers that have in-depth cooperation with us, they have continued to raise their flags. Even the daily television stations have become particularly cautious and no longer easily send out news that is detrimental to Mantiantian."

Baichuan naturally understood that giving up suppression at this time would extremely damage morale internally and allow his opponents to grow bigger and stronger externally, which was completely thankless behavior. However, business matters could never be decided simply in the mall.

Without a visible backer, Naido Electronics is now inferior to others.

Asuka Nishizaki nodded silently. She also understood very well that the death of diplomat Isao Ikemura meant that the company's dock in the political world was gone.

Without the support of the officialdom, it is not a big problem for Naido Electronics to be a gangster in the gaming field, but it would be a bit of a dream to participate in the power struggle of TV stations and the construction of a new town in Nishitama City.

"You should understand that the top priority is to find another supporter in the officialdom. As for other issues, you can put them aside for now."

It is not difficult to find a backer. With Shirakawa's identity, he can follow the Suzuki Consortium's path, and with Caballo's identity, he can follow the Karasuma Consortium's path.

But in this way, Naido Electronics will inevitably be labeled as a certain consortium, which is obviously unacceptable to Shirakawa.

Therefore, he must find a politician who does not belong to the major financial groups, and the level cannot be too low.

Does such a person exist?
At this time, Shirakawa was extremely glad that he spent a day boarding the Queen Celissa White to watch the excitement of Kaitou Kidd. Although he could not really control the heirs of any big conglomerates that day, he happened to meet a few Suzuki Consortium who wanted to Co-opted politicians.

Now these people are of great use.

It's just that he still needs a reasonable reason to get these politicians involved with the company, which will probably take him three to five days to lay out.

In these three to five days, we can only let Mantiantang and Tokiwa Group be arrogant.

"However, if we retreat like this, Mantiantian is likely to take advantage of the situation and release the game directly."

Asuka Nishizaki frowned. From the news she had gathered in the past few days, she knew that the internal testing of the game "Zhengtu" that Jiaming Hara took away had been completed and could be put on the shelves at any time.

If the public opinion wasn't really unfriendly to them, this game would have been released long ago.

"Since it can't be destroyed, let's start by changing ourselves." After counting the time, it seemed that there was really no good way to prevent the sale of Zhengtu. Baichuan simply changed his mind, "What kind of charging model do you think Yuan Jiaming will adopt?"

"Charging model? It should be a model of buying out the game itself and charging points, right?" Asuka Nishizaki was a little confused. Her understanding of the game was not very deep. Fortunately, she had experienced a lot in the past few days, and she was influenced by it. I also have some understanding.

"That's right." Bai Chuan nodded and agreed with her, "Yuan Jiaming himself is not a person who knows how to adapt. He will definitely maintain the legendary sales model and will not make any changes.

Then we will naturally make him suffer. "

Asuka Nishizaki looked like she was all ears.

"I decided to make this game free-to-play."

"Free???" Nishizaki opened her mouth in surprise. The look in her eyes at Shirakawa changed again and again, as if she was doubting the mental state of her president.

"Not only that, I will also designate a novice area in the game. There is no need to pay for card service when playing in the novice area." Shirakawa did not stop speaking because of Asuka Nishizaki's shock and continued to talk about his plan.

In fact, these are the old routines from "Fantasy Westward Journey" in the previous life, but he just moved them over first.

"President!" Nishizaki's voice rose a bit, "We can't let ourselves bear so much pressure just because of anger! If you do this, how can we recover the cost of the game?"

"Recover the cost? Of course it will rely on in-app purchases." Bai Chuan's voice was faint. It was time to release this real gold-swallowing behemoth in the gaming industry!
Knowing that Asuka Nishizaki, a non-game industry professional, definitely did not understand the true meaning of in-app purchases, Shirakawa continued to explain:
"For example, after clearing the designated dungeon in the game, you will have the opportunity to make a star contract. You can sign a contract with your favorite civil servants and generals. The contract object is completely random. There must be players who did not draw the character they like. Not happy, you said that there is a re-selection coupon in the mall at this time, priced at 5 yen, will anyone buy it? "

Asuka Nishizaki's eyes lit up. Although she doesn't know much about game production, she knows how to do marketing!
This way of selling services is quite rare, but it definitely attracts a lot of people!

After all, one of the selling points of their game is the various generals from the Three Kingdoms.

As long as you are a fan of the Three Kingdoms, how can you refuse to have Zhao Yun or Zhuge Liang behind you?
Especially when others are followed by third-rate people such as Zhou Cang, Cheng Zhiyuan, Jiang Qian, etc., this kind of thinking reaches a peak!
And the price of 5 yen is not expensive, it can even be called cheap.

But there is still an unresolved problem, that is, how to collect this money from players.

Baichuan was naturally prepared for this problem:
"Collecting payment is actually not difficult. We just need to change the billing model of the point card service. For example, the cheapest point card can provide 10 hours of game time and sells for 300 yen. We can use this point card After recharging, it will be shown as 300 coupons.

Players will be deducted 30 coupons for every hour of playing, and the re-selection coupon mentioned just now is priced at 5 coupons. "

"In other words, players can use play time to deduct in-game props?" Asuka Nishizaki replied thoughtfully.

Bai Chuan nodded happily, children can be taught.

"Free plus in-app purchases will definitely attract a large number of players in the early stages of the game's release. Even if only one-fifth of these people stay, then we can completely crush Mantiantian!"

With the new idea, Asuka Nishizaki was extremely excited, as if she had already seen the day when she would avenge her shame.

"Don't worry." Shirakawa's eyes flickered, "If Mantendo and Tokiwa Group completely follow the framework of "Journey", there will be many 'surprises' waiting for them ahead!"

(End of this chapter)