Chapter 53 Let’s unite!
Faced with Bank's arrogant words, Qin Shaoyan immediately realized that this negotiation was going to be bad.
However, in this era, China's economic strength was still very weak, and it was accustomed to being discriminated against internationally.
Many people still think that China, like Africa, is a barbaric and barren land.
Not to mention the old white man's consistent arrogance and prejudice. Looking at Chinese people through colored glasses is considered preferential treatment.
In Bank's view, it is a miracle that there is still game development in a place like China, and it even comes to him for distribution.
The stinky Chinese are coming to North America to beg for food.
George saw that Bank's tone was wrong and said quickly: "Mr. Bank, my colleagues and I have tried it. This game is indeed great."
Bank interrupted directly. He said, "You can't represent the players. In my opinion, this game can only be considered qualified."
"There is a huge commercial risk in publishing this game. I am a businessman. Business is business." Bank said unceremoniously, "You can't guarantee that this game will make money after it is launched on the market, right?"
George was speechless for a moment. Who can guarantee this kind of thing?
Even games produced by game giants such as Rockstar, Blizzard, and EA, with the strongest production teams, cannot guarantee that all of them will make money.
Qin Shaoyan smiled slightly, "If that's the case, I'm very sorry and I look forward to our next cooperation."
Damn it, if you don't want to cooperate, just say so. It's a waste of my time with so much nonsense.
Qin Shaoyan stood up, preparing to shake hands politely and say goodbye.
But unexpectedly, Bank didn't even move. Instead, he pondered for a moment, "But since you are the customers introduced by V Agency, I can take the risk and give it a try for their sake."
Huh?
Is the other party trying to lower the price?
Qin Shaoyan instinctively felt that something was wrong. Before he could think about it carefully, Bank continued talking to himself.
"Now I have two plans. Plan A is for me to pay a sum of money to buy out the game." Bank thought for a while and gestured, "One million dollars."
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The so-called buyout means that Bank pays a sum of money to package and acquire the entire game. After that, the game copyright, distribution income, derivative peripherals and subsequent sequels have nothing to do with the original author.
Qin Shaoyan was so angry that he wanted to buy out this classic game for just one million dollars?
This classic game became popular all over the world when it was released and became one of the most popular stand-alone games.
A total of 40 million copies were sold despite widespread piracy.
This is only the data on the PC side, and has since been ported to other platforms.
In 2011, Baokai sold this classic IP to EA for US$750 million.
You want to buy it out now for one million dollars. You are really a toad pretending to be a little frog, an ugly flower.
"One and a half million dollars, this is my bottom line." Seeing that Qin Shaoyan was still indifferent, Bank sneered, "It seems you are not interested in a buyout, so what about plan B, we will enter into a share-sharing agreement Okay."
"But in order to ensure the company's interests, we have to account for 95%."
"This part must include follow-up works and derivative peripherals."
Qin Shaoyan barely maintained the most basic courtesy and said with a cold face: "I'm sorry, I hope to cooperate next time."
This time Qin Shaoyan didn't even stretch out his hand, just looked at Bank.
Bank didn't care about this. He stood up lazily, took out a business card and threw it on the table.
"Whenever you have thought about it, you are welcome to call me at any time." George was a little anxious and wanted to say something more, but Qin Shaoyan stopped him.
Until Bank walked out of the reception room, Zhang Pingyi, who was sitting next to him, was confused the whole time. It took him a long time to react.
"This...is the negotiation broken down?" Zhang Pingyi asked hesitantly.
Qin Shaoyan sneered, "Since he doesn't want to be decent, then I will help him look decent."
After saying that, Qin Shaoyan turned to look at George, "Is Gabour still in the office?"
"Ah, yes." George nodded, "He will be at the company all day long and will rarely go out. Hey, John, wait...I will contact another one for you."
Qin Shaoyan walked away quickly and said without looking back, "No need."
Qin Shaoyan walked straight to the door of Fatty G's office, pushed the door open without knocking, and said with a serious face, " Gabr, we have to talk!"
G Fat looked at Qin Shaoyan in shock, and was stunned for two seconds before he reacted, "Oh, okay, wait for me, I have something to deal with. "
Qin Shaoyan ignored Fat G, closed the door behind his back, and stood directly opposite Fat G's table, with his hands on the table.
"Gabre, we are in trouble!" Qin Shaoyan said with a solemn face and a very serious tone.
G Fat raised his head with confusion, "Are we in trouble? What trouble? John, how are your discussions with the publisher going?"
"Those are not important." Qin Shaoyan interrupted G Fat with a wave of his hand. asked, "Now V Club is facing a crucial decision. It is not only related to the life and death of V Club, but will also affect the history of the game industry!"
"Huh?!" G was confused. He didn't expect what Qin Shaoyan was going to say was so serious. He quickly straightened his sitting posture and put on a serious expression, "John, continue."
"I think you have realized a big problem The problem is that game publishers are a group of shameless, despicable and dirty worms,” Qin Shaoyan said impassionedly, “They are crazy about blood-sucking between game developers and players. They rely on monopolizing distribution channels to squeeze developers and exploit players. Group. "
"These publishers not only concealed game sales, forged false data, deliberately increased bad debts, delayed payment, and even refused to pay the balance, the most despicable thing was to illegally distribute game copies!"
Fatty G was deeply touched by these words. He has been dealing with publishers for so many years, and he knows the virtues of publishers very well.
He has encountered all of the examples Qin Shaoyan cited. Publishers monopolize distribution channels and stores bully customers.
G Fat encountered such a bad thing in 2002. Valve's publisher Xueleshan illegally distributed copies of Valve's games, and was then sued by Valve in court. The two companies have been fighting lawsuits.
Why do big game companies have to set up their own publishing departments? It’s because the water in publishing is too deep and it’s really a scam.
"They are a group of vampires, a huge cancer that hinders the development of the game industry." Qin Shaoyan said angrily, "We can't continue like this. We have to take action and let all game developers unite to completely break these Vampire’s Monopoly!”
"Wow!" Fatty G couldn't help but applaud, "That's great, John, I very much agree with your point of view."
"But, what are we going to do?" Fatty G frowned. Brows, "We developers are still very weak. Even if we unite, we can't fight against those publishers. We also have the strength to establish promotion and distribution channels."
"No, Gabour, you are wrong." Qin Shaoyan He retorted harshly, "We are not weak, on the contrary, we are strong."
"And establishing a distribution channel is not as difficult as you think."
"Gabour, your hand He is now holding a powerful weapon that can crush the publisher's super weapon, but you just didn't notice it."
"Super weapon?" Fatty G looked confused.
How come I didn’t know I was so stupid?
The profits shared by game developers from the sale of game discs are very low, no more than 10%. A $60 disc will only get about $7 in the end
(End of this chapter)