The source of this news has to start with a circle of friends posted by an employee of Magic Box Culture.
To be more precise, it should be a former employee.
Because just when the news spread, this employee saw his post on Moments being screenshotted and spread online. Worried about being held accountable by the company, he simply ran away without even writing a resignation letter.
In fact, there is really no need to write it. After all, it is only a security job worth 3,000 to 4,000 yuan, and it is a third-party labor dispatch. It is not even a regular employee, and even the termination process is omitted.
The only one who was cheated was the labor service company that signed a contract with him.
Although the leaked information is not a trade secret, at most it is an early disclosure of information that has not yet been made public, but for the labor service company that signed a contract with Magic Box Culture, things are not that simple.
The dispatched employee leaked the news in advance, which already involved a breach of contract.
Regardless of whether Magic Box Culture has any plans to claim compensation from the labor dispatch company, in short, the news that the overseas version of Clash of Clans is about to be launched has become completely popular in the player circle.
The most heated discussion is still on the Game Island forum.
In the forum about Clash of Clans, the hot discussion among players almost brought the forum server to a standstill.
"???"
"Fuck, Clash of Clans is going to have an overseas version?"
"Which country's overseas version? North America? Or Europe?"
"I estimate that 80% of it is in North America. In emerging markets, it is more comfortable to make money in North America."
"Niubi! It's time to go to sea to cut leeks!"
"What are you talking about? Mr. Hao is a serious person. He doesn't play games just to make money! (Funny)"
"You are making a false accusation! Mr. Hao is just a designer. This game is produced by Magic Box Culture, and it is not his Yunmeng Group. How can it be regarded as him making money? (Funny) (Funny)"
"Mr. Hao: Money has been tight recently. You would rather hang up and pay the electricity bill than make money, so I have no choice but to find a foreigner."
"I only care about whether the overseas server and the Chinese server can connect? Can I match friends overseas?"
"It should be an independent server! But maybe there will be a server linkage?"
The news was not only spread on the Game Island forum, but there were also many discussions on other open social platforms.
Although the overseas version of Clash of Clans has no direct interest in the vast majority of players, for those true fans of Yunmeng Games, seeing their favorite companies becoming more and more influential and developing better and better, they feel a sense of joy in their hearts. Still quite gratified.
Game companies that have always been able to make money overseas are without exception not big players in the industry.
Now that Yunmeng Group has finally taken this step, even the games owned by its subsidiaries are quite memorable.
“Isn’t this hot search so popular?”
In the office of Yunmeng Building, Lin Jun was filled with emotion as he looked at the entries that were on the edge of the hot search list.
He was among the first people to know about the gossip about the overseas version.
When Wu Junxian asked him if he needed an official statement and official instructions on how to write it, Lin Jun just shook his head and threw him a sentence.
"Nothing travels faster than rumors. Sometimes we can take advantage of this. Anyway, what is being spread now is just insignificant gossip. It is not a bad thing to occasionally satisfy the players' desire for exploration and curiosity."
After pondering this sentence over and over again, although Wu Junxian did not fully understand what Lin Jun wanted to say, he still carried out the order from the parent company unconditionally.
It is precisely because of this that, apart from denying some outrageous rumors, Magic Box Culture has not mentioned a word about the overseas version so far, and has no plans to respond to the photo in the screenshot.
“It would be great if there was a way to monetize this traffic.”
Tapping his index finger on the desk, Lin Jun's eyebrows were knitted tightly, as if he was deep in thought.
Although the traffic brought by topic popularity to the game itself is a kind of monetization, this conversion has marginal utility after all. After all, a person who has downloaded the game cannot download the same game twice, nor can it be because the game has become popular. Search and spend an extra dollar.
At this moment, there was a knock on the door outside the office.
Lin Jun raised his head and said "come in", and saw his secretary walking in with an exquisite packaging box.
"Mr. Lin, these are the peripheral samples sent from Magic Box Culture. I brought them to you."
Peripheral samples
With a trace of curiosity, Mr. Lin opened this exquisite gift box.
Inside the gift box, there were eight exquisite small boxes, some of which, when opened, revealed a small yellow-haired key pendant, a plastic holy water bottle, and a Valkyrie figure.
After unpacking all these boxes and placing them on the table, Jun Lin rubbed his chin with his index finger, and a hint of interest appeared in his eyes.
Seems interesting...
It’s not the figures that are interesting, but the process of unboxing them.
Carefully savoring the fun that lingered in his mind, Lin Jun, who was deep in thought, suddenly spoke.
"I thought there was a bomber in there."
The secretary was stunned for a moment, then said with a smile.
"Are you talking about the self-destructing skeleton soldier? In fact, there is indeed that in the peripherals, but it is in a gift box and is mainly used to give away, so it is mainly composed of keychains and some better-looking models."
Lin Jun nodded and continued.
"Has this peripheral product been put on sale?"
"Not yet. According to Magic Box Culture, they are still negotiating with distributors on the unit price and profit ratio. In addition, Mr. Wu also wants to ask for your opinion."
"My opinion is that there is no need to find any distributors. Such a good IP has no worries about sales. Whether it is opening an online store or directly listing it for pre-sale on the official website, there will definitely be people willing to pay."
Lin Jun gently placed the packaging box in his hand on the desk. He picked up a small yellow keychain and threw it into the packaging box. He looked at the secretary and said with a smile.
"Guess what's inside?"
The secretary was stunned for a moment and said with a smile.
"Mr. Lin, you are kidding again. Of course there is a keychain inside."
"That's right," Mr. Lin nodded and continued, "The reason you know it's a keychain is because you watched me put it in."
The secretary looked confused, not knowing what Mr. Lin wanted to express.
"what do you mean… "
"What I mean is, if I put a bunch of boxes in front of you and tell you that the explosion rate of the little yellow hair is 80%, the explosion rate of the Queen of Bows and Arrows is 0.8%, in addition to various other There are all kinds of peripherals... and their uniform price is 59 yuan each."
"59 yuan for a keychain?!" the secretary said in surprise with a look of disbelief on his face, "This is too unbelievable."
In fact, what she wanted to say more was, would anyone really spend 59 yuan to buy this kind of thing
"But it is also possible that a figure worth 5999 will be released," Lin Jun smiled slightly and continued, "As long as the first prize is rare enough, its price on the second-hand market can be increased infinitely. If necessary, we can buy it back ourselves. OK."
"On one side is a keychain that you can buy directly for 20 yuan with free shipping. On the other side is a box worth 59 yuan but with the possibility of giving away a prize of 5,999 yuan. If it were you, which one would you choose?"
This time, the secretary hesitated.
Because this time she thought about the issue seriously.
"I... would probably choose the latter."
This is an honest answer.
Not surprised at all by this answer, Lin Jun continued with a slight smile.
"When you say this, congratulations, you will not only choose the latter, but also have a high probability of buying more than one. With only a 2.5 times premium, you can bet on a hundred times the expectation, or even There is no need for any leverage. And even if things go wrong and the bet fails, there will still be real-valued commodities as a guarantee.”
The secretary hesitated and said: "... But, is this gambling?"
"It depends on how you define this kind of gameplay," Lin Jun shook his head and said in a slow voice, "For example, I prefer to call it blind box."