Wu Jianhua's intuition was very accurate. Wang Fa was indeed unlucky.
But he couldn't figure out where Xu Qianshi's news came from.
The day after Mr. Xu talked with Wang Fa, the head of the product department was replaced by the previous second in command.
At the same time, the head of ALX Studio, Luo Xingtao, was taken away by the economic investigation, and the studio itself was split and reorganized, merging with another newly acquired studio that was also engaged in FPS game development, and became the current AX Work room.
After listening to players' suggestions, the newly established AX restarted the abandoned plans in the "Counter-Terrorist Operation: Siege" project, and promised players that those systems that had been cut off would be added back in subsequent updates.
Although it is too late to say this now, a series of personnel changes within DaMi Entertainment still give hope to many players who have not given up.
There is no precedent for similar situations in the gaming industry.
Those semi-finished products that relied on selling paintings to make money were scolded by players, and after years of unremitting updates, they finally changed their appearance, turning from excrement works with mostly negative reviews into classics with rave reviews.
However, whether this ill-fated FPS game really has a chance to wait until that day can only be left to time to witness.
"I fired the product manager."
On a video call.
Xu Qianshi said to Hao Yun in an apologetic voice.
Hearing this confusing opening statement, Hao Yun's face was slightly surprised at first, but he soon realized what was going on.
In order to keep the conversation going, he asked knowingly.
"Oh why?"
Xu Qianshi continued.
"The 3C Alliance was his own idea. On behalf of DaMi Entertainment, I apologize to you for making Chenghai 3C an independent game without your consent."
Hearing these words, Hao Yun smiled in his heart.
He didn't think that Xu Qianshi was kept in the dark from beginning to end.
Even if you haven't seen the planning plan of the "3C Alliance", this project can be approved internally by Da Mi Entertainment and get sufficient budget. Without his signature, it is impossible.
Maybe the product manager did make arbitrary claims or concealed details, but more likely he would still be blamed.
Since the entire project was not halted out of moral concerns at the time, the sudden punishment of the "relevant responsible persons" must not be due to conscience.
The so-called apology is probably superficial.
However, Hao Yun did not intend to challenge him on this matter.
There is no point in doing so and it won't do you any good.
So what if I don't accept the apology
Will Xu Qianshi lay off himself? As one of the giants in the electronics industry, would DaMi Group punish the CEO of a subsidiary for such a trivial matter
Not to mention, Xu Qianshi, who comes from a "direct lineage", is no ordinary CEO.
It is obviously too exaggerated to use capital to describe the behavior of a single company, but if the board of directors of the Rice Group is compared to a community of interests, Xu Qianshi is at least a member of this community of interests.
Unless the core interests are touched, he cannot be abandoned.
In contrast, a dispensable product manager and a game that is destined not to become a hit are things that can be abandoned at any time.
As he spoke, Xu Qianshi paused for a moment and spoke in a sincere tone.
"To show our sincerity, we plan to remove 3C Alliance from the Dianqu platform."
After hearing this, Hao Yun asked without hesitation.
“Why is it being removed from the shelves?”
Xu Qianshi was slightly startled, his heart sank quickly, and he asked in a sincere tone.
"Are you unhappy with how we handled this?"
"You misunderstood, I'm not that narrow-minded," Hao Yun smiled, shook his head, and continued, "It's just that you've also seen the chat record, and your employee actually used five hundred thousand to humiliate me... I Are your ideas that cheap?”
Xu Qianshi looked embarrassed and coughed dryly.
"…I apologize to you."
"It doesn't matter whether you apologize or not," Hao Yun shook his head and continued, "Since your game has been made and sold to some players, even if it is taken off the shelves, it will not make up for my losses. The only ones who are injured are those who have already Players who paid for the game and have expired the refund time limit.”
"Then what do you want to do."
Vaguely guessing what Hao Yun meant, Xu Qianshi said expressionlessly. What he didn't expect was that Hao Yun's answer was so simple and direct.
"It's simple, add money."
Add, add money
Xu Qianshi was stunned for a moment and blurted out subconsciously.
"How many?"
"At least add a zero. Of course, this is just the licensing fee and the out-of-court settlement fee, and does not include me helping you with publicity," Hao Yun smiled and continued, "What do you think?"
Xu Qianshi only thought for ten seconds before giving the answer.
"make a deal."
five million.
From a stop-loss perspective, this price is not unacceptable.
Moreover, even if DOTA is currently popular, Chenghai 3C does not have no player base at all.
Previously, due to copyright disputes, we couldn't promote it in a big way, but now that we spent five million to buy the license, we can finally promote it legitimately under the name of Chenghai 3C...
…
The copyright dispute between Rice Entertainment and Yunmeng Games has come to an end as the two parties reached a settlement out of court. Although the melon-eating crowd did not see the scene that they were happy to see, DaMi Entertainment actually chose to bow its head, which was beyond the expectations of many people.
This is not the first time these Internet giants have done something similar to creative robbery. Now that I choose to lower my head, I think I will be kicked onto the steel plate.
Although this incident caused quite a stir in the industry, it did not cause a big stir in the player circle.
As for the reason, on the one hand, the public relations department of DaMi Entertainment deliberately treated the matter coldly, and on the other hand, it was because something more worthy of people's attention has happened in the gaming industry recently.
On the last weekend of August, the final vote count for the Creative Workshop's selection of the ten best original works of the year was finally completed.
As expected, the ten selected works are basically Warcraft maps.
And the one that ranks at the top of the list is DOTA, which has been in the limelight recently!
Many players are more enthusiastic about this map than the game itself.
Even before this selection competition, many players appealed to the official, hoping that Yunmeng Games could make this map an independent game to save them time in entering the game.
In addition to DOTA, the shortlisted works also include a series of works such as sea battles similar to the Chenghai gameplay, and "Farmers and Demons" based on the cat and mouse gameplay.
In these shortlisted works, Hao Yun even saw many familiar shadows.
As for Chenghai 3C, Human Race Invincible, and Guardian Athena, three popular maps that have long been in the top ten of the popularity list, Mr. Hao did not participate in the voting because he did not apply to participate in the event.
The main reason why he did this was to give other map makers some game experience.
After all, with his own fame and the popularity of the map itself, if he really clicked the button to participate in the voting, the selection would be meaningless and it would completely become his personal exhibition.
Of course, Hao Yun doesn't want to see this kind of situation...
"I still don't understand why you want to sell the license of Chenghai 3C," Lin Jun said with regret while standing in front of Hao Yun's desk, "Even if you don't plan to make it into an independent game, use There’s nothing wrong with cutting off a wave of leeks from this IP, right?”
Regarding Lin Jun's question, Hao Yunyan gave a concise and comprehensive answer.
"It's very simple, because this IP won't be popular. As for cutting off players' leeks as you mentioned, you don't have to say whether it can be done. Even if it is done, it will definitely not be because of the IP of this game."
"...What else could it be because of?"
"Because of my name," Hao Yun said with a sigh, "it's better to leave the immoral things to others. Let's just do something where we can make money standing up."
Lin Jun: "..."
Because my name is okay…
Although it makes sense to say this, to be able to say such narcissistic words without changing his face, in a sense, it can only be said that he is worthy of Mr. Hao.
Seeing that Mr. Lin did not continue speaking, Hao Yun changed the topic and continued.
"Let's not talk about Chenghai. I want to ask you something. How is the business at Magic Box Culture? And Yunmeng Villa. It has been more than half a year now. Is there any new progress?"
"There hasn't been much progress at Yunmeng Villa yet. Feng Tiancai just promised me that it can be completed before the end of the year. As for the Magic Box Culture... I can't believe it when I say it. Just last month, we The revenue from the blind box business has exceeded the game revenue. If this trend continues, maybe by this time next year, we will be able to spin off the blind box business and go public."
"Listed?" Hao Yun looked at Lin Jun blankly and said, "Blind box... is it so profitable?"
"It's not just about making money, I really can't understand today's young people more and more."
Lin Jun sighed, the expression on his face was full of complexity.
Just like he didn't expect the surge in pork prices, this ever-changing world is full of surprises. When he started the blind box business, he just wanted to sell game peripherals and make a little money to make Magic Box Culture's financial report look better. Unexpectedly, not only Clash of Clans players were buying blind boxes, but also some who had never played this game. People also ran to buy it.
After discovering this, he simply asked Magic Box Culture to remove the label of Clash of Clans from the blind box business and set up a subsidiary controlled by Magic Box Culture to do this business alone.
As a result, in just a few months, the side business has almost caught up with the income from the main business...
Sometimes Lin Jun is not even sure whether he has reached this point because of his strength or luck.
Is there really a difference between the two
Purely in terms of results, it’s really hard to define…
"Do you still remember our cooperation with Xia Lin Group?"
After hearing this, Hao Yun simply recalled for a few seconds, and then quickly recalled what happened a few months ago.
"You mean... that blind box vending machine?"
How much money can you make from just that thing? ?
Lin Jun nodded and continued with mixed feelings.
"You might not believe it."
"In just the past two months, we have opened 67 branches across the country... "