Reborn: Billionaire in College

Chapter 177 Those Years, Chen Pingjiang's Rivals

On the return flight the next day, Chen Pingjiang yawned repeatedly and looked listless.

Shen Nanpeng, who was sitting in the first-class seat next to him, smiled and joked: "Young people should still be more restrained."

Chen Pingjiang stopped yawning and explained calmly, "I just attended a celebration party hosted by Neople last night and came back a little late. It's not what you thought."

Shen Nanpeng smiled ambiguously: "I understand, I understand."

When the plane was speeding at an altitude of 30,000 feet.

South Korea's Neople company unilaterally issued an announcement: "Our company's 2D fighting online game "Dungeon & Courage" has been successfully represented by China Renmin Group."

At Chen Pingjiang's request, the two parties did not hold any fancy signing ceremony.

This simple sentence caused an uproar among the people of both countries.

Major financial news outlets relayed the announcement and raised big questions.

"The huge success in Korea has led to fierce competition for DNF agents in mainland China. The four most powerful Internet companies in mainland China fought to the end for the agency rights, but in the end the agency rights fell into the hands of Renren.com, which was really surprising. It is rumored that Shanda, The 9, Tencent and NetEase all wanted to get the agency rights of DNF, and fought to the last stage."

"Neople evaluated these four companies based on four factors: company strength, products being represented, hardware quality, and operation plan. Among them, Shanda has the strongest overall strength, followed by The9..."

"But no one expected that Renren would come from behind and quietly take the high ground."

An executive of Shanda said: "I strongly doubt the professionalism of Neople in the selection of proxy rights. I don't think Renren can be compared with Shanda in any dimension."

A senior executive of NetEase said: "It's a waste of our feelings. It's a naked black-box deal. Neople's operation is very opaque."

A senior executive of Tencent said: "I got the news from some channels that Renren.com is using Samsung's connections. This kind of competition is very unfair."

Neople responded by saying: "Renren is the most sincere among the many companies participating in the proxy competition, and the finalization of the cooperation represents the unanimous consensus of the company's entire management."

"..."

Renren was no pushover either. Chen Pingjiang had prepared a publicity campaign before boarding the plane, releasing dazzling news in multiple financial media outlets.

"The game evaluation department at Shanda believed that DNF was a 2D game, and an arcade game at that, and was not optimistic about the future of DNF. This directly led to Shanda lowering the agency conditions in subsequent negotiations, which made the Korean side very dissatisfied."

"The9 has the best hardware, but unfortunately it is like a philandering scumbag. It is trying to get the agency rights for 11 games at the same time and cannot devote itself to the operation of DNF."

"There is a big debate within NetEase about whether to compete for the DNF agency rights, which makes them very hesitant. They are very dissatisfied with the proposed profit-sharing model. NetEase proposed to operate first and then share the profits based on the operating results. This means that if the operation is not good, the Koreans will not get a penny."

For a while, all kinds of true and false news were flying around, and netizens were enjoying the news.

Soon after, Shanda, 9you and NetEase all shut down their statements and reportedly went back to investigate the traitor.

Because the information released by Renren is damn accurate!
No matter what the news is flying online, many enthusiastic fans only care about the DNF game itself.

"The graphics of this game don't look that good. Nowadays, 3D games are popular, but I didn't expect DNF to be 2D."

"I've seen the video and the combat and PVP system are pretty good. If you haven't played it, don't judge me."

"If you have any friends who want to play together, you can join the QQ group: XXXXX."

"Does anyone know if this game can be used to make bricks?"

"Renren has never made any games, would it be good for us to be its agent?"

"..."

When Chen Pingjiang got off the plane and returned to the company, various news reports were becoming more and more intense, and the online discussion on the DNF topic was also becoming more and more heated.

Chen Pingjiang did a very good job of keeping the secret, and even many senior executives within Renren.com only got the news at the last minute, and that was through posts on its own forum.

When he saw his boss grinning and saying that he wanted to add more burden to him, Miao Bingwei had no expression on his face. He was already numb.

I don’t know whether it is a good thing or a bad thing to have such a troublesome boss.

It hasn’t been long since we held a meeting to launch a group buying project for everyone, and wow, there’s another big move.

"Hey, Lao Miao, aren't you happy at all? Why are you acting like this?"

"Don't worry, this matter is not very troublesome. It is just to build a data center and set up an online game operation department. You only need to be responsible for checking, and you don't need to take the lead."

Miao Bingwei was even more numb. Oh my god, we still have to build an IDC!

Wan Yuqian on the other side couldn't bear to watch it anymore.

"You've made quite a fuss, and most importantly, you didn't inform us beforehand."

Chen Pingjiang smiled and said, "What if the deal doesn't work out? What's the point of telling you in advance? We will set up the new department by poaching some, recruiting some, and transferring some from Renren. We will use three approaches and try to build it up in the shortest possible time. Sequoia will introduce people to us."

"It's easy to say... the front end and operation and maintenance are simple, and we have a lot of people. We mainly do planning and operation, data analysis, and customer service."

Chen Pingjiang waved his hand and said, "That's not right. If that's the case, the company will have to set up several teams. Renren.com already has its own operation and maintenance staff, and they can be directly transferred to the data center department. The local promotion team can be handed over to Gao Songbin. Anyway, he has been organizing people to prepare for the Renren group buying project recently. It doesn't matter if we drive one sheep or two sheep."

"Tsk tsk, just thinking about it makes my scalp tingle. Without realizing it, our company has grown to this number of people. This time we are setting up a data center department and an online game department, which will have at least several hundred more people. The most terrifying thing is the local marketing team, which will have to set up offices and stationed personnel across the country."

"Maybe after these people come in, we won't have enough office space..."

Listening to Chen Pingjiang talking to himself, Miao Bingwei thought for a moment and asked, "Did we get the rights to modify the game this time?"

Chen Pingjiang nodded: "Of course I got it. This was also the focus of the negotiation between the two sides."

How important is the right to modify the game?

Let's say that.

After Chen Pingjiang got the right to modify the game, he could modify anything related to recharge, and even add some equipment and other props made by himself.

Only after obtaining the right to modify the game can you have a certain degree of initiative.

Otherwise, you will end up like NetEase, which has a gold mine called World of Warcraft but is unable to mine it.

Some of the recharges and products Blizzard has made are really too good. If NetEase were to do it, it would be a piece of cake to double or triple the revenue of "World of Warcraft".

The secret to DNF's success is that it allows wealthy players to recharge money to become stronger, and also allows 0-氪 players to continue playing by relying on randomness and hard work.

Chen Pingjiang didn't intend to eat in an ugly manner.

What about lowering the equipment explosion rate, adding a lottery system, a mall system, a server-wide speaker system, a fashion system, an equipment enhancement system...

Well, Mr. Chen does not intend to be the first to use nuclear weapons.

If our competitors all have it, then we’ll follow suit.

........................

At the same time, there was deathly silence in Tencent's conference room.

In the end, it was Liu Chih-ping, who was in charge of the agency negotiations, who came forward to defend himself: "I am personally willing to take full responsibility for the failure of this negotiation. It was indeed due to my lack of knowledge that Renren.com took advantage of me."

Seeing that Liu Chih-ping took the initiative to take the blame, others expressed their opinions: "It's not your fault, after all, no one expected them to come out on top."

"Yeah, I also think it's impossible for the other party to obtain the agency rights. I can only say that Neople is too blind."

"Chen Pingjiang's methods were also very dirty. My contacts at Samsung said that they put pressure on Samsung through American shareholders. Samsung was almost taken over by us."

Xiao Ma Ge also said at this time: "Don't take it to heart, Lao Liu. Renren has no operational experience. Neople will regret their decision today one day. Right now we have to speed up the research and development of the QQ Speed ​​project and try to block Chen Pingjiang in the market when the time comes."

Everyone present didn't know why they always felt that during this period of time, anything involving Chen Pingjiang seemed to be unsatisfactory, and they felt restricted everywhere.

First, Chen Pingjiang and Renren tearfully accused each other of "plagiarism", and then the two sides fought back and forth in court. Unexpectedly, the agency project that they had been eyeing for a long time was also snatched away.

"Let them have a go first, and we will definitely move back next time to let Renren.com and Chen Pingjiang know that online games are not something that anyone can create."

"I suggest that if you don't reciprocate, it's impolite. If you continue to negotiate with Cheng Binghao of Kaixin.com, you must severely hit Renren.com in the SNS field."

For a time, everyone in Tencent was excited and called for the killing of Chen Pingjiang.

But Chen Pingjiang probably doesn't care, since he isn't afraid of being bitten by lice if there are too many of them.

There are already enough competitors, so having another Tencent won’t matter.

If you want to do Internet business in China in this era, you will be targeted by Tencent no matter what. That is an obstacle that cannot be avoided.

(End of this chapter)