Chapter 82: This game is hide and seek (please read it)
With 15% of the royalties in hand, Zhang Wei has finally achieved the purpose of his trip.
Top writers can get 15% of the royalties. You are a newbie, I will give you 15% of the royalties, and you also need a bicycle!
To put it another way, Zhang Wei took out all eight "Dead Ghost Blows Out the Lamp" at once, giving the publishing house room to operate and allowing the publishing house to obtain higher profits from it. Otherwise, the publishing house would Zhang Wei will not be given 15% of the royalties.
Of course Zhang Wei can continue to publish at his own expense and get 50% of the royalties.
But the core of cooperation is the distribution of profits. If you don’t give people enough profit margins, why should they work hard to help you sell books?
The publishing house may control the sales channels, and they will definitely give priority to recommending books published by themselves. If you self-publish, it seems that you can get a higher percentage, but if people block you in the channels, you will earn less.
Excellent cooperation is not a zero-sum game where you make more and I make less. It is about making the pie bigger so that everyone can get more benefits.
And what Zhang Wei really values is not the royalties, but the income that the IP of "Dead Man Blows Out the Lamp" can bring. Compared with the entire IP income, 15% royalties are really nothing.
A set of eight volumes of "Dead Man Blows Out the Lamp" is still quite expensive when sold online at 168 with free shipping, and only costs 25 yuan at 15% off. In fact, some other expenses have to be factored out before it can actually be in the hands of the author. It’s only a dozen yuan, and the net income is not as good as online writing.
Readers spend 4 cents to subscribe to a chapter of online articles, and the author can still earn 2 cents!
The income from IP is much higher. Take the production of movies and TV series as an example. The Harry Potter series of movies brought more than 2 billion US dollars in profits to Warner Bros., 600 million of which were distributed to the authors. JK Rowling.
In addition, licensing of movie merchandise is also a huge source of income.
When you go to Universal Studios in Beijing, every Hogwarts magic robe, every magic wand you buy, and even every sip of Butterbeer you drink, you have to give JK Rowling a share.
To earn IP income, the work must at least be popular enough. To achieve this, it is definitely not enough to rely on the quality of the work alone, but also need to rely on the operation of various channels.
After all, it was still 2004, and there was no giant company operating IP like China Literature Group. Even if there is a good IP, it can only be developed after more than ten years.
The best choice is to leave it to a publishing house with superior channel capabilities and strive to get out of the industry as soon as possible.
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After returning to the capital, Zhang Wei only rested for one day and then went to the competition site of the WCG Beijing Division without stopping.
WCG stands for World Electronic Sports Competition, which is equivalent to the Olympic Games of electronic sports.
The competition process of WCG is also very similar to that of the Olympic Games. Players also compete on a national basis. At the opening ceremony, there is an entrance ceremony for players from various countries holding national flags. At the end of the game, there is an award ceremony, and gold, silver and bronze medals will also be distributed.
Speaking of WCG, we have to start with the Asian financial crisis in 1997. At that time, the Korean economy was severely impacted, and it planned to support new industries, including the e-sports industry.
It happened that Blizzard’s StarCraft was popular all over the world, so South Korea took StarCraft as a key promotion object, held various competitions, and broadcast them live on TV, making all young Koreans of that generation, both men and women, Play interstellar.
Thankfully modern society has such a thing as intellectual property, otherwise the Koreans would apply for StarCraft to be a World Heritage Site, and Jim Raynor and Kerrigan would become Koreans!
However, given the urinary nature of Koreans, as long as they have some special skills, even if they cannot apply for World Heritage, they have to find a way to make them known to the whole universe.
So the Korean e-sports marketing company at that time attracted sponsorship from Samsung and organized this WCG competition.
At that time, Samsung was willing to pay money in order to sell monitors.
Since it is an e-sports competition, StarCraft alone is definitely not enough, so the Koreans added Quake 3, CS, Age of Empires 2, FIFA 2001 and other games, mainly popular games in Europe and the United States. .
In the early 21st century, there were indeed no decent competitions in e-sports. As a result, WCG became an instant hit and became an event recognized by computer game players around the world.
This event has been popular for more than ten years. It was not until 2013 that the sponsor Samsung was unwilling to pay, and it was finally discontinued.
2013 has gradually entered the era of smartphones, and Samsung’s product focus has also become smartphones. Naturally, it is not willing to spend money to hold computer game competitions.
Another reason is that major game manufacturers have begun to organize their own competitions.
For example, all levels of League of Legends leagues are hosted by Riot Games itself; and CSGO and DOTA2 competitions are also organized by professional event operators authorized by Valve, and they host majors themselves. You can also sell boxes with stickers. The gaming giant Blizzard even ignored WCG.
To put it bluntly, with the development of the Internet, game companies have established their own ecological environment and no longer play with WCG!
This is like traditional sports. Basketball has the NBA, and football has the five major European leagues. They have made the cake bigger and have their own ecology. If the number of viewers and stickiness are large enough, they will not compete with the Olympics at all.
However, in the first decade of the 21st century, major game companies did not have their own ecology, and WCG was still the most valuable e-sports event. In the World of Warcraft project in the WCG Beijing Division, there are a total of 32 players, divided into 8 groups. Four people in each group play a round-robin match. The first one advances to the quarterfinals, and the other three are eliminated. This competition system is still very cruel.
The first four groups were played on the first day of the group stage, and the last four groups were played on the second day. Zhang Wei was placed in Group G, and the game was on the second day.
When he arrived at the competition site, Zhang Weicai discovered that he did not know either his opponents in the same group or the players in the other three groups. None of the famous World of Warcraft players in his memory appeared.
"Probably not in the same competition area! If we can advance to the national competition, we should be able to see SKY!" Zhang Wei thought to himself.
Then Zhang Wei looked at the three opponents in the same group. None of them had a team logo. They seemed to be amateur masters from Internet cafes.
The internet cafe master is completely worthy of the fight. He still uses his old trick, SKY, and directly takes away the opponent.
The only disadvantage of this tactic is that it has no effect on the human race, because the human race can also defend in the same way.
Fortunately, Zhang Wei's Group G only has one human race, and he is also an interstellar player. Participating in the World of Warcraft competition is all about participation. After losing to the first two players, I knew there was no hope of qualifying. When facing Zhang Wei in the third game, I gave up.
In this case, Zhang Weibai picked up three wins to qualify and successfully advanced to the quarterfinals.
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After the game ended, Zhang Wei returned to the dormitory, and it was just dinner time.
Concubine Ye was sitting at the table, tearing off a piece of seaweed gracefully, then gently putting it into her mouth, chewing it in small bites, with an expression of enjoyment on her face.
“Just a piece of seaweed will give you the feeling of British afternoon tea!” Zhang Wei complained.
“I really miss the afternoon tea at the White Swan Hotel now!” Ye Haotian said with a Versailles expression.
"White Swan Hotel? The one funded by Mr. Huo from Hong Kong? You can still go there for afternoon tea!" Zhang Wei pretended to be surprised, satisfying Concubine Ye's vanity.
Concubine Ye looked very happy, and then asked: "Have you eaten? If not, let's eat together, I'll treat you!"
"Hey! What happy event happened to you? "
"The final exam results are out, I'm in first place again, I have to celebrate!" Ye Haotian was very proud.
Versailles plus 1!
Zhang Wei then said: "Then you go to the cafeteria and bring me a meal! I still have to practice, and I have to continue the competition tomorrow."
"Is it that computer game competition? You still have to Not eliminated?”
“I wish you could do better! Do you guys really not play games?”
“It seems like I’m the only one who doesn’t play games. Look at Senior Brother Yang and the others, they can also play games when they are bored. It seems to be a shooting game with various guns and bomb defusing."
"You are a top student, but you are not a learning machine. You must know how to work hard. Yi combination! ”
"I can't play, and I find it boring."
"How can playing games be boring? That's because you haven't encountered any fun games. Come on, I'll find you a particularly interesting game that just came out this year. Yes, it took me a while to download it."
Zhang Wei said, pressing Ye Haotian to his computer, and then clicked on "Last Line 3".
"What kind of game is this? It's from Japan! It's quite three-dimensional, just like the shooting game played by Senior Brother Yang, but it's all in Japanese. Can you understand it?"
"It doesn't matter if you can't read Japanese, just know how to hide and seek." Zhang Wei added with a smirk: "You can also shoot in this game!"
Is there any gentleman who has played the "Tail Line" series? This game company specializes in this type of games, such as Tram Wolf, Beach of Desire, Artificial Girl, VR Girlfriend, etc., all made by this company. I know you guys must have never played or even heard of Pure, so I’m not interested in it at all, so I won’t link to you ^_^.
(End of this chapter)