Reborn: Billionaire in College

Chapter 174 Target: Acting as DNF
The volcanic gray Panamera was speeding along the beltway.

Chen Pingjiang, who was firmly sitting in the boss's position, frowned and carefully recalled all the information about Neople Company.

Guan Yifeng carefully watched his nose with his eyes and his heart with his nose.

During this trip to South Korea, Chen Pingjiang set his sights on the game "Dungeon & Fighter", or DNF.

Chen Pingjiang only remembers that in early 2008, Tencent negotiated the agency rights in mainland China.

The reason why he remembered it so clearly was mainly because he used to like watching Xu Xu Baby’s live broadcast, but he had never actually played the game, and he didn’t even understand why a 2D game could be so popular, and even remained popular for so many years.

As one of Tencent's "Four Great Masterpieces", DNF once achieved a terrifying record of 500 million online users, breaking the highest online record for fighting online games.

Speaking of DNF, many netizens born in the 90s may not be unfamiliar with it, because DNF was extremely popular in the world of post-90s at that time. There was a popular saying at that time: Nine out of ten Internet cafes are dungeons!
How profitable is it?

It is said that as of 23 years, DNF has made a profit of 220 billion US dollars.

In terms of nominal total revenue excluding inflation, DNF is the highest-grossing video game in the world ever.

For such a profitable game, the profit sharing ratio between the two parties is Tencent 7 Neople 3. It was not until DNF became popular in China that the two parties re-signed the contract and increased the agency fee.

Chen Pingjiang faced many difficulties on this trip.

First of all, DNF itself is very successful in South Korea and is known as the "national game". So far, more than 30 domestic online game companies have participated in the competition for agency rights.

Even Tencent had a hard time back then, let alone Chen Pingjiang who has never been involved in the online game industry.

There were various versions of "Tencent takes over DNF" on the market:

"No one wanted the horizontal version of DNF 2, so Tencent just took advantage of it."

"The major manufacturers (Shanda, 9you) put pressure on the Korean company and made unfair demands, which led to DNF falling into the hands of Tencent."

"Or maybe Tencent impressed the other party with its sincerity..."

In fact, these are all wrong. Just think about it and you will know that the first few richest people in the country all started out by acting as game agents.

"Legend", "Audition", "World of Warcraft".

That was the era when Shanda and 9you were making a ton of money as game agents. Could they not afford the millions in agency fees?
I don’t know how all the rumors about the DNF agency rights dispute spread back then.

At least according to Tencent itself, it took a lot of effort.

Didn’t it take a lot of effort?
Tencent is still a small player in front of Shanda and The2007. In the fourth quarter of 2.817, Tencent's game business revenue was only 6.026 million yuan, while Shanda Games' revenue was million yuan. Other companies with higher revenues than Tencent include NetEase, Giant, The and many others.

Shanda became the largest game company in China with the help of "Legend of Mir 2", while 9you was also doing well with "World of Warcraft".

Tencent is in a worse situation. The games it represented before were not very popular. In the eyes of the client, its strength was limited and its performance was not reliable enough.

Tencent is "not reliable enough", so you can imagine what Chen Pingjiang is like in the eyes of the other party?
When they arrived at the airport VIP lounge, the relevant staff from the accounting firm and law firm hired by Chen Pingjiang stood up and greeted Chen Pingjiang respectfully.

This was the first time that everyone had seen such a young big boss.

This team of business elites looked smart, capable, cool and sassy, ​​and soon attracted onlookers from other waiting crowds in the VIP room.

The one who attracted the most attention was Chen Pingjiang.

After a while, a beautiful service staff came over and said softly, "Hello, everyone. You can board the plane now."

"Shh!"

"Shh!"

Everyone stood up and stared at Chen Pingjiang.

Chen Pingjiang walked at the front of the team under everyone's attention.

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The plane arrived at Incheon International Airport at 7pm.

Neople also did its homework and knew Chen Pingjiang's identity, so it sent a vice president to pick him up at the airport.

After picking up Chen Pingjiang, we went directly to the Park Hyatt Seoul Hotel located in the Gangnam Financial District. This hotel is famous for its cold and atmospheric style and high-altitude mansions.

"Mr. Chen, please have a good rest today. We will meet at Neople at 10 o'clock tomorrow morning." Neople's vice president Jin Taiheng said with a smile.

Chen Pingjiang nodded, said goodbye to the other party, and then held a meeting with his negotiation team.

"This is Manager Liu from the business consulting company. Nice to meet you all." In the conference room, Chen Pingjiang first introduced Liu Weimin to everyone.

He is a top business consulting company that Chen Pingjiang specifically found in Shanghai. It mainly provides Chen Pingjiang's team with information related to this agency and matters related to collaborative business operations.

Although Liu Weimin is in his forties, he has a well-maintained figure and looks very gentlemanly.

"According to the information obtained through our company's special channels, a number of domestic companies such as Shanda, NetEase, 9you, 9you, Tencent, and Giant have already made preliminary contacts with Neople. Our competitors include several of the largest online game companies in China, and we are at a great disadvantage compared to them." "Although the well-known online game companies have great confidence in the game DNF, they are far from the conditions proposed by Neople in terms of agency amount, profit sharing ratio, modification rights, number of servers, and promotion efforts. This is because the Korean market is too small, and Neople attaches great importance to the mainland market. After all, the "Legend" and "Audition" that were previously represented by Korean manufacturers were very popular, making the parent company of the game profitable. So they hope that the partners will show enough sincerity and ensure that the most resources are used to promote the game DNF."

"But Shanda has "Legend", NetEase has "Westward Journey Online" and "Fantasy Westward Journey", 9you has "Audition", Giant has "Zhengtu", and 9you has "World of Warcraft". They are all making money without doing anything, so we couldn't reach an agreement on some terms. As Tencent doesn't have a good game to prove its operating ability, Neople doesn't really want to cooperate with them."

"The above is the news I got in Seoul during this period."

Everyone present frowned. This battle would not be easy to fight.

It can't even be said that it's difficult to fight, it's just that it's completely unfightable.

The opponent has guns, artillery, and soldiers with combat experience, while our own...

But even if you get the money, you still have to do the work.

Chen Pingjiang saw the embarrassed faces of the crowd, but smiled easily: "I won't deny that it must be very difficult to become an agent, otherwise I wouldn't spend a high price to hire you elites in your profession. Of course, you don't need to have any psychological burden, just do your best, and I will still be the main negotiator."

Liu Weimin said with a heavy face: "In fact, there is no need to be so pessimistic. We do not have any advantages compared to other companies, but as long as we are sincere, we can still talk." After saying that, he looked at Chen Pingjiang, wanting to see Chen Pingjiang's reaction.

Chen Pingjiang knew immediately that this was a test of his sincerity.

If we are not willing to give up, the morale of the army will immediately be weakened.

After all, there are no guns, no cannons, and not even enough people, so what's the point of fighting?

"My sincerity is very strong. Otherwise, I wouldn't have taken such a long flight to humiliate myself. You can rest assured about this."

Everyone was visibly relieved.

If you are sincere, there is still room for negotiation.

"In fact, the situation is very clear now. Neople is like a beautiful woman pursued by many handsome men. Some are tall and strong, some are second-generation rich, and some have good family backgrounds. But we only have money. Of course, this is not very accurate. It should be said that we are the most willing to give money."

After the meeting, Chen Pingjiang paced back and forth in his room, found Shen Nanpeng's number and called him.

"Old Shen, it's me, Chen Pingjiang."

"Yeah, I know, what's up?"

"I need your help here. Please take the earliest flight to Seoul tomorrow."

"..." Shen Nanpeng on the other end of the phone was dumbfounded. "Why?"

Chen Pingjiang smiled and said, "I am discussing a big project and I need your help. We will discuss the details when we meet tomorrow."

When Shen Nanpeng was still about to continue asking, Chen Pingjiang on the other end of the phone had already hung up.

There was a beeping sound from the microphone, and Shen Nanpeng frowned and called Feng Tailin, the director sent by Sequoia Capital to Renren.

Not surprisingly, Feng Tailin was also not clear about it.

Although he is listed as a director of Renren.com, it does not mean that Feng Tailin will stay in Dongjiang to work for a long time. He will only rush to Dongjiang to attend the board meetings when he is notified one week before the meetings.

Generally speaking, a company's board of directors only meets a few times a year.

As the most promising seed player under Sequoia China, Shen Nanpeng naturally attaches great importance to Renren, which is related to the interests of Sequoia China.

Early the next morning, Chen Pingjiang got up and went to the gym to jog for half an hour, then went back to his room to take a shower to make himself look more energetic.

The negotiation team left the hotel and drove towards Neople.

This is Chen Pingjiang's first visit to South Korea.

"The infrastructure in Korea is not that good either. The roads are narrow and look shabby." Guan Yifeng looked around and complained.

"It's not uncommon for a small country to have cabbage in its kimchi. They have to rely on domestic supply, otherwise they wouldn't have it. Fruits, vegetables and food are all imported. Koreans especially like to eat watermelon, but most people are reluctant to buy it because it's too expensive."

To some extent, a country's menu recipes represent the cultural heritage of that country.

Just look at the white people's meals to see this.

Especially the UK, it is a food desert, and international students almost cry when they go there.

Another country that will make international students cry is South Korea, where the food in school cafeterias is not as good as the food served to dogs in ordinary families in China.

The national and ethnic self-esteem is particularly strong, and everything belongs to them.

Often consider themselves a developed country.

Chen Pingjiang's impression of South Korea also includes "curly hair", a love for iced American coffee, a country that doesn't even seem to need sleep, a "master of face-changing", chaebols in power, and rampant feminism.

"Well, it's not unreasonable that people in this country want to emigrate."

(End of this chapter)