After Yu Bi's new policy was announced, there was a commotion within the CQ and Lianzhong departments. When Cheng Ran heard about it, although not everyone was as surprised as everyone else in the company, he still felt surprised.
In fact, the union between Yu Bi and Pu Zheng Company behind Open Sesame happened in the previous life, but that was a few years after this point. Now it has happened ahead of schedule. In addition to the factor of him, the butterfly flapping its wings, the two parties eventually united, which also indirectly shows that history is actually the embodiment of the laws of objective things.
What kind of software company is Zhima Kaimen? In an era of widespread piracy, Zhima Kaimen can shout "Ten yuan to buy genuine products", with a low price almost the same as pirated products and more stable quality than pirated products. It is a unique brand in the software boxes of various mobile CD-ROM sales points and small stalls.
Not only is it extremely resilient, but its channel penetration is so strong that ordinary software vendors are simply unable to catch up. Its presence can be found everywhere, from the software counters of Xinhua Bookstores in cities to computer repair shops in counties and towns.
As a result, it once became the uncrowned king of Chinese home software distribution companies, and even advertised on CCTV, Dragon TV and other TV media, and was very well-known. Later, it even filed a lawsuit against Mr. Ma over the ownership of Alibaba's trademark.
At the beginning, some game manufacturers did license some of their games to Puzheng Company for distribution and sale, but in fact, there is no shortage of unauthorized latest game software with their trademarks on the market, or software that is still sold after the license expires, and no one can prove that the pirated version of Open Sesame is the real one when piracy is prevalent. Therefore, this software company can also be called the "fake genuine" that looks most like the genuine one.
Its founder Yao Zengqi was known as a "child prodigy". He was admitted to the University of Science and Technology of China at the age of 15, and became one of the first batch of doctors at the Institute of Automation of the Chinese Academy of Sciences at the age of 25. Later, he went into business and was once regarded as a representative of Shanxi merchants. However, in later generations, the smuggling case in Xiamen involved tax evasion, but this tax evasion was meaningful. In order to evade 800,000 taxes, he spent 6 million to bribe national tax officials. The truth was revealed and the company disappeared.
YuBi is the leader in genuine distribution channels, and Zhimakaimen is the uncrowned king of "pseudo-genuine" distribution channels, and the latter has a larger network than the former.
Of course, in the future cooperation between YuBi and OpenSesame, if it were not for the fact that the increasingly developed Internet in China has squeezed the space for YuBi to publish games, YuBi would not have stooped to such a low position and resorted to such a desperate measure, selling off many backlog games in order to maintain operations.
The reason why Yubi is now willing to cooperate with the "pseudo-genuine" OpenSesame is that because of the shock adjustments made by Yubi's top management this time, and seeing the popularity of their CQ Spirit Realm game, the top management of Yubi China changed its strategy.
Cheng Ran thought about it and thought that this might mean... Yu Bi wanted to make an online game.
This is really, coming here to interfere.
They may produce an online game themselves, or become the agent of a popular game in Europe and North America, thereby obtaining larger domestic channels at a lower cost. So what could be easier than announcing a partnership with OpenSesame to obtain channels
When Cheng Ran arrived at the CQ building, he was faced with a group of CQ senior executives with solemn faces. Even Cheng Qi and Ren Qi came over after hearing the news. When asked about it, Cheng Qi said that it was Li Mingshi who called him to come over to discuss the matter.
Cheng Ran knew that on the one hand, CQ's virtual community relied on the power of Lianzhong, and on the other hand, Lianzhong was also actively pursuing a profit route and wanted to see whether the CQ point card route could work. Then, Lianzhong might be able to launch similar games in the future.
Li Mingshi, Zhao Qing, Lin Xiaosong, Xu Zhen, Chen Yuzhong, Cheng Qi, Ren Qi. Everyone gathered together and began to deal with this news as the first opponent CQ faced.
"Let's start." Cheng Ran nodded to everyone.
Li Mingshi began to explain the situation. "The person who came to Yubi is a big shot in the distribution department, named Lu Ying, the assistant of the French CEO. This time, their French CEO took charge of the production department, so Yubi made an internal adjustment and poached Liu Bo. So now Yubi knows more about our situation... She knows that games are our biggest source of income, and even the only source at present..."
Li Mingshi had a very unhappy expression on his face. Someone in the game production team had actually poached someone for Yu Bi.
Lin Xiaosong had been placing his fingers on the tabletop from the beginning, his thumbs scratching each other. He spoke solemnly at this moment, "The problem is on my side, because the recent matter with Teacher Zhang has been at Huazhang, so it's my fault here at CQ. I recruited that girl named Zhang Rong, and she has been here for less than three months. I originally only arranged for her to be the receptionist and handle the company's paperwork. The Lingyu side needed people to go online, so I thought of training her, so I transferred her to the connection with the Yubi channel... I didn't expect that she would act as a matchmaker and push Liu Bo from Project 2 out. Now she's gone, it's my fault, I neglected the work here."
Xu Zhen and Chen Yuzhong both smiled bitterly. Xu Zhen, who was more straightforward, said, "Old Lin, you can't blame you for this... You should blame me for being so frivolous and asking you to hire a pretty receptionist to boost the morale of a bunch of bachelors... But Liu Bo, that kid, damn it, don't let me see him again, or I'll teach him a lesson!"
Xu Zhen was a good person in every way, except for his mouth. He often swore in the company, which made him an outlier in CQ. At this time, he probably couldn't get over it anymore, so he cursed a lot. Everyone present wanted to interrupt him.
Everyone is sharing the responsibility. Although the person in charge of channel communication was shaken by YuBi and a technician was poached from everyone, it still has an impact on the morale of CQ.
Cheng Ran, however, did not seem to care about these things and said to Li Mingshi, "That's what the people from Yubi told you."
"They are very interested in the technology engine used by our Spirit Realm, but Liu Bo has not been exposed to such a high level, otherwise she would not have talked to me. The overall intention is to hijack us with channels. They are even willing to give away the channels for free and want to own 30% of CQ. They want to have the right to participate in the decision-making and production of Spirit Realm games."
In fact, when the representatives of YuBi came to talk to him, they were polite and had an attitude of win-win cooperation, but in fact they were scheming. From the beginning to the end, they were holding CQ's only funding entrance, or even the only channel.
By transferring channels, and because sales are made through channels first and then revenue sharing is done, YuBi can completely cut off this portion of revenue sharing in the future, and can even pay back CQ on a monthly basis in order to acquire CQ's shares.
Li Mingshi asked one more question at that time. Yubi thought that Li Mingshi felt it was not enough. So he added that he could also invest in the acquisition. The specific details can be discussed later, but if the investment is made, it must follow the investment rules, and the founder of CQ must give up many corresponding rights.
Li Mingshi asked what if they felt that these plans were not feasible. Yu Bi's assistant smiled and said that the company has its own rules and asked Mr. Li not to make things difficult for me.
"In fact, it is implying that if we do not agree to these plans and do not agree to accept control, then this matter will most likely fall apart. If we do not want to fall apart, then we will have to passively accept higher channel costs. And this cost is as high as 70%. I calculated that in this way, a large part of the income from the Spirit Realm game will be lost. Fortunately, Liu Bo has not been in the company for a long time and has only started with the Spirit Realm project. This makes Yu Bi unaware that although we are under great pressure to increase the server, we do not necessarily have to wait for the rice to cook. We have backing behind us."
Li Mingshi looked at Cheng Ran.
At this moment, the bottom of my heart was as depressed as if I had been punched. The poaching of the technicians of the Lingyu project gave Yu Bi the initiative in the negotiation. He even knew all about their situation, but in fact, this was indeed a weakness for CQ. Liu Bo was recruited by him to develop games. His original ambition was to develop games and participate in the production of large-scale games. In this regard, Yu Bi has a natural attraction and advantage, but what is CQ? To put it bluntly, developing the game business is a bit unprofessional. In the eyes of serious game practitioners, of course Yu Bi is more attractive, so he offered a price that people could not refuse, and of course he pulled people away with the prestige of a well-known company in the industry.
Competition between companies sometimes also lies in their attractiveness for talent.
This is a profound lesson that Li Mingshi felt. Yu Bi can be said to have left a deep impression on him.
On the other hand, Li Mingshi also felt deeply ashamed. As the "Master Li" in the technical community, Li Mingshi was also a god-level existence. The Spirit Realm game had made him even more famous recently. Cheng Ran had always been supporting the operation of CQ, which made Li Mingshi feel indebted. Now that he finally had a profitable business, he was being strangled by someone like this. This made Li Mingshi feel a rare sense of shame and anger.
The feeling of having someone pinching your neck is really uncomfortable.
Cheng Ran seemed to see the darkness in Li Mingshi's eyes at this moment. He reached out his hand, patted Li Mingshi's shoulder who was sitting next to him, and said, "Remember this feeling, and remember what happened. It won't be smooth sailing. We will experience many such situations, such as being poached, being betrayed, and even the tide we thought would come back to torment us... But it doesn't matter. I have always felt that, just like when I was doing the test, getting the wrong question is not a terrible thing. The most important thing is to see your own shortcomings and find out what you haven't done well. So wrong questions can help us find ways to make up for it."
"It would be good if we could make timely adjustments and compensate for it."
Lin Xiaosong nodded and said, "For internal management in the future, I will formulate some detailed rules to ensure that such things will not happen again."
Xu Zhen scratched his head, "So what do we say next? No revenge, or what about you, Mr. Cheng? I won't feel good if I don't bring people to beat Liu Bo up!"
He looked like he was in a hurry and said, "Just give the order and I'll go get the person immediately."
Of course, we couldn't take Xu Zhen's words seriously, and we certainly wouldn't let him move like that if we held him down. However, he did say something that was right.
What should we do next
Cheng Ran said, "It's impossible to give them shares, even if the channel is free and we pay them. Maybe we can talk it out, but it's uncomfortable to kick someone when they're down. Then let's do as they say, the channel fee is higher..."
Everyone was stunned and speechless.
I wondered if Cheng Ran had no idea or what. The first sentence made sense, like a general defending his territory, but how could the second sentence be considered selling out his country for personal gain
We worked so hard to create this architecture, tested it countless times without sleep, constantly fixed bugs based on user feedback, and endured all kinds of user abuse. And the results we produced are just handed over to others to take advantage of
I’m sorry for the sleepless nights you’ve had and the scoldings you’ve endured.
When everyone's faces looked solemn, Cheng Ran paused.
"We won't play with them anymore."