In his previous life, Mei Fang did not actually have any particularly outstanding business talent. He just had a certain understanding of the basic development laws of the gaming industry, so he spent so much money to maintain Station C in this world when he discovered that Station B did not exist.
In fact, many people think that if they just want to develop the game industry, they can just create a game-related platform, such as benchmarking TABTAB and STEAM to make a name for themselves. Why bother to make a troublesome C station
In fact that's almost meaningless.
Building a platform was not something that capital realized 10 years later. Before that, all the platforms that everyone could build had already been monopolized.
As we all know, the reason why Penguin was able to eventually defeat the once-popular domestic giant Shengda Games was not only due to the strategic decision-making errors of Shengda’s boss Chen Tianqiao himself, but also because even if Shengda introduced more outstanding games from abroad, its cost of buying traffic was very high and could not be compared with Penguin QQ, a huge traffic platform.
Relying on the QQ platform, Penguin can always easily harvest a large number of potential users, whether it is developing games or publishing games, and the advantages brought by this are almost immeasurable.
At the beginning of the century, the gaming industry grew wildly, with each company represented by its own signature game, and gaming platforms were almost limited to chess and card game halls and various pirated gaming websites. Later, with the promotion of smart phones, different mobile phone brands became a new generation of platform channel providers, providing their own application platforms to load games.
Only during this period did some truly original game platforms emerge, or game platforms based on mobile phone emulators, but most of them did not last long. They were either acquired by channel vendors or became niche, becoming a paradise for nostalgic and cracked games.
Tabtab, which has truly achieved success and produced something, actually did not rely on its own strength, but relied on the financial backer behind it, which is actually its parent company, Qindong Games. Valve itself has many world-renowned masterpieces. Qindong also made a lot of money in the era of web games and online games relying on the foresight of its boss Huang Ermeng.
Just like STEAM to Valve and TABTAB to Qindong, if you want to build a good gaming platform, it is meaningless if you don’t have a well-received first-party game.
Mei Fang is still too young and he does not have such conditions, so he has to find another way and use the huge traffic port of Station C as a starting point.
In fact, Station C is still relying on Mei Fang's game revenue for its survival. At present, due to the increase in bandwidth and the formal establishment of the company, the company's investment has increased, and now it has begun to show signs of losses every month.
Although Mei Fang has tens of millions of dollars in assets as a backup and BAKCoin, the invincible trump card of the reborn, as he emphasized before, there is no need to reveal his cards too early.
If you have an open card in your hand, play it first. What's more, the effect of the open card in Mei Fang's hand is exaggerated in itself.
Mei Fang named these three cards Xi Fang Yuan, representing the three main career lines planned by Mei Fang.
The first is the Xi brand, which is the C station brand representing Linxi Technology.
The Xi brand is the basis of everything, and has nothing to do with whether Lin Youxi reveals his identity.
As a platform, Station C is an incubator for all IP and cultural development. Even if it costs a lot of money, it must be firmly controlled in its hands.
The second card Mei Fang played was the fate card, which is the music card.
Xia Yuan's music career has the help of Mei Fang's plagiarism, and can quickly become popular with the traffic of Station C.
The songs that Xia Yuan plagiarized are not of a purely two-dimensional style, so they can also drive traffic to Station C and bring in a group of new users.
However, Mei Fang did not relax the difficulty of becoming a formal member just because of the surge in user visits. He even optimized several versions to keep up with the times.
Mei Fang does not need his C Station to be as popular as B Station. He just needs the scale of C Station to be large enough to cover his game users.
As for promoting culture as a vanguard or something like that, let Station A take on this responsibility in this life. He doesn't have big ambitions, he just wants to leave a piece of pure land for the two-dimensional people.
The Yuan card is not only a music card for Mei Fang, but also a poster girl card.
Station C will never deteriorate, and Yuanyuan will never enter the entertainment industry. This also means that various endorsements, packaging, and agency affairs have nothing to do with her, and Mei Fang does not need Yuanyuan to do these.
Under these circumstances, it is not easy to cash in on this card of fate. It can only rely on concerts and albums to replenish the blood a little. Xia Yuan's popularity will move forward with Station C.
The third card Mei Fang played was a square card, which was the Sago game card.
Mei Fang's capital chain is currently maintained entirely by Fangpai's supply. C Station's powerful traffic-generating ability can also reversely feed Mei Fang's games to gain more potential users. Now Yuanpai is also temporarily serving this function.
The effect even exceeded expectations.
At present, "Cloud Journey" has only developed a PC version, which is sold on C Station and STEAM respectively. The promotional video released by Mei Fang attracted a wave of Steam players, but the number of copies sold was very small. The game priced at 36 has been on sale for a week so far, and the total sales volume is less than 1,000 copies. After all, smartphones and Zhifubao are still in the popularization stage, which is understandable.
C Station and Ximilu have limited influence overseas, so if Mei Fang wants to make big money on Steam, he can only wait.
However, the first week sales of C Station were far more impressive than those of STEAM, because C Station allows users to recharge C coins for payment, which makes the operation much more convenient. It sold 20,000 copies of the work in just one week.
You have to know that this was in 2012 in China. In the past, the first year of domestic independent games had to wait until the birth of the official independent games "Aisie" and "The Treasures of the Lost City" in 2016. At this point in time, Mei Fang had become a pioneer in the ancient times and a landmark domestic independent light.
People have a high tolerance for games made by high school students. Everyone thought that Mei Fang would make another simple and fun game, but what they ended up playing was a work with unique features in terms of music, narrative, and art. How could this not excite game makers
In addition to using the title of "The Light of Domestic Independence" to praise the ingenious conception of "Cloud Journey", Mei Fang was even nicknamed "Son of Light" and was highly anticipated by everyone.
Those young people, especially the boys, who were originally arguing over whether Fang Bao was worthy of Yuan Bao, suddenly became Mei Fang's supporters after playing the game made by Mei Fang. It seemed that no girl, no matter how cute, could compare to Fang Bao, and they all followed Mei Fang's account.
At present, Mei Fang’s own account [逆天小方方] has 30,000 followers on Station C. Although there is still a big gap compared with Xia Yuan’s 300,000 followers in 2012, she can be regarded as an Internet celebrity to some extent.
To sum up, Mei Fang played all three bright cards at this point not out of casual arrangement, but for the future consideration of Xi card, the trump card.
Because this weekend, he will officially represent Linxi Technology to negotiate with Penguin's most mysterious strategic investment department - CVC (Penguin Industry Win-Win Fund) regarding C Station's Series A financing.
Sorry for the late chapter and the transition chapter! After all, I've been watching sci-fi movies and my teeth are so sweet. It's not bad to follow me to review what Mei Fang has done in the past ten years. The next chapter will start the daily narrative. That's it.
(End of this chapter)