519 [Essence and Liars]
If Song Weiyang said that he wanted to do something big and wanted to make the most exquisite online game in the world, then the people in Xishanju would probably run more than half of them and would directly respond to Boss Song's call without caring about anything.
When the domestic online game industry was booming, programmers from major studios were poached wildly, and many of them were poached, and even the first project leader of "Sword Net 1" resigned halfway. So don't expect the loyalty of these employees. Except for some who value love and loyalty and ideals, everyone else can use money to dig it. If you can't dig it up, it only means that the money you give is not enough.
However, Song Weiyang made it clear that he wanted to make a rough and simple copycat online game, with empty and garbage content and absolutely profitable.
This sentence made many programmers retreat. In the end, one-third of the R&D team of the "Divine War Chronicle" project team came, and two-thirds of the core operation team came, and a total of 18 people were willing to follow Song Weiyang to do whatever he wanted. For this reason, Song Weiyang gave Kingsoft a compensation of 300,000 yuan, which was equivalent to the transfer fee of these people.
Just as these 18 people were completing the resignation procedures, Song Weiyang flew directly to the capital and met with Chi Yufeng, the boss of Hongen Education Group.
Chi Yufeng has just won the title of "Top Ten Outstanding Youths in China's Software Industry". He is only 30 years old this year and graduated from the Tsinghua Department of Chemistry. Who knows how he went to build educational software, and he also devoted himself to the game industry early.
Zulong Studio was founded by Chi Yufeng. In the future, he will also create Perfect Time and Space. His works include "Perfect World", "Wulin Waijie", "Zhu Xian", etc., and even the movie "33 Days of Love Break" have investments.
Song Weiyang didn't know Chi Yufeng and Perfect Time and Space. The reason why he went this trip was because Zulong Studio was very awesome. It launched China's first 3D real-time strategy game "Freedom and Glory" two years ago, which is also the second (and possibly the third) 3D real-time strategy game in the world.
In the field of 3D games, Zulong Studio is recognized as the first in China and has long had its own 3D game engine.
Song Weiyang asked Lei Jun which company in China is the most awesome in 3D games, and Rebs directly recommended Zulong Studio.
Song Weiyang plans to walk on two legs, while letting Jinshan’s team copy "Legend" and acquire Zulong Studio to develop large-scale 3D online games to see if he can compete in "World of Warcraft" in a few years.
Hongen Education Group, General Manager's Office.
Three days ago, Chi Yufeng received a visit invitation from Song Weiyang and felt very surprised and surprised. He turned down all social engagements today and sat in the company waiting for Song Weiyang to visit. When the secretary knocked in, Chi Yufeng immediately stood up and quickly walked over to shake hands and said, "Mr. Song is here, making the humble house shine!"
"Where, Mr. Chi is too polite." Song Weiyang smiled and shook hands.
Chi Yufeng said sideways: "Mr. Song, please sit down."
The two sat down next to the sofa, and Song Weiyang said: "Mr. Chi's business has been very prosperous recently. Now that computers are becoming more and more popular, educational software has broad prospects."
"It's not comparable to Mr. Song," Chi Yufeng said modestly.
Song Weiyang said: "I am particularly optimistic about the education software industry. If I didn't have that much energy, I would definitely invest."
"Fortunately, Mr. Song didn't get involved, otherwise we would have snatched all our business." Chi Yufeng said the scene, but he was a little puzzled. Does Song Weiyang want to invest in Hongen Education Group?
Song Weiyang didn't explain the purpose of his visit, and just talked nonsense with Chi Yufeng there.
After chatting for more than 20 minutes, Chi Yufeng finally couldn't help it and asked, "I wonder what Mr. Song has to ask me today?"
Song Weiyang said: "Oh, I almost forgot, I want to acquire Zulong Studio."
Chi Yufeng almost fell to the ground after hearing this. Damn it was a long time to talk about the educational software and it was actually here to acquire the game studio. He immediately expressed his attitude: "Zulong Studio is a non-sale product, not sold!"
"1 million!" Song Weiyang said.
"I really won't sell it." Chi Yufeng said.
Song Weiyang said: "2 million."
Chi Yufeng smacked his lips: "I invested in Zulong Studio, first to support my juniors in starting a business, second to me, I love games myself..."
"3 million!" Song Weiyang said.
Chi Yufeng suddenly changed his words: "Let me consider it again."
Song Wei raised his head and said, "5 million, this is the highest price. If not, I will leave."
"Wait a minute," Chi Yufeng quickly stopped him, "I explained in advance that I only have 70% of the studio's shares."
"That's enough." Song Weiyang smiled.
Chi Yufeng only invested 200,000 yuan at the beginning. After more than three years, although Zulong Studio's games were well received, they were actually not very profitable, and the profits were taken away by pirated merchants. Taking advantage of various expenses, Zulong Studio's net profit was less than 100,000 yuan, and it is rare to be able to maintain the loss without losing money.
Now that Song Weiyang suddenly acquired it for 5 million yuan, Chi Yufeng should be very happy, after all, it will have a super high return of 25 times.
The problem is that Song Weiyang came to discuss business in person, which made Chi Yufeng have other thoughts. He asked tentatively: "Don't Mr. Song have Jinshan? Jinshan's Xishanju Studio is the best game studio in mainland China. Why are you still interested in Zulong?"
Song Weiyang smiled and said, "I have different opinions from Kingsoft's management."
"Disagreement?" Chi Yufeng was stunned, "Are you the major shareholder?"
Song Weiyang said: "It's just that I disagree with the game, so I've drawn a group of people from Xishanju and planned to recruit another group of people to form a brand new game company. Don't think about those messy things. I like playing games very much. Establishing a game company is purely a hobby. I won't acquire Zulong for more than 5 million yuan. You should be very clear that 70% of Zulong Studio's shares are not worth 5 million yuan at all. I've already acquired it at a very high premium!"
Chi Yufeng asked: "The advantage of Zulong is 3D technology. Mr. Song wants to make 3D games?"
"I have this idea," said Song Weiyang. "If you don't want to sell it, then I'll find other studios. Anyway, 3D technology can be developed slowly."
Chi Yufeng always felt something was wrong and said, "2 million yuan, I will sell you 50% of Zulong's shares."
"Hahaha," Song Weiyang was amused, "Mr. Chi, do you think I have something big, so you want to take the opportunity to take a ride?"
Chi Yufeng was exposed and felt embarrassed, and then smiled and said, "Who doesn't know that Mr. Song has always been in trouble in business, and has never lost money in recent years."
They are all human spirits!
When this person was studying at Tsinghua University, he started to go to newspapers and sell newspapers in his sophomore year. If that were the case, he would at most be a newspaper boy, and he would not make much money even if he worked so hard. So he joined forces with many classmates to do it, and all the processes were scaled. Not only was it easy, but each partner's monthly income actually reached 300 yuan, which was 1990.
When he was in his junior year, Chi Yufeng was also known as the "first student stockholder" in Beijing. He used the money he earned from selling newspapers to trade stocks and quickly accumulated tens of thousands of yuan in net worth. But he soon encountered a big bear market and lost all his money in less than half a year. When he was in his senior year, he collaborated with someone to raise more than 10,000 yuan for color spray painting. He was cheated and owed foreign debts when he graduated.
Like Song Weiyang in his previous life, this person is the kind of person who can't rest. He doesn't look back even if he hits the south wall.
After graduation, he joined Procter & Gamble as a technician. He was promoted to assistant general manager in half a year and sent him to the United States for training. This was equivalent to being trained by multinational companies. But Chi Yufeng resigned and went to resell computer accessories, stood at the counter, slept on the floor, and became the largest computer hardware supplier in Shenzhen.
In this case, Chi Yufeng felt that selling hardware had no future and was always subject to others. He changed his career to make education software, and his independently developed English learning software has long dominated the sales list of domestic education software.
This kind of old fried dough stick is not easy to fool.
Song Weiyang actually doesn't care about cooperating with others. He frowned and said, "To be honest, the game company I established has more than one studio. Even if you retain part of the equity of Zulong Studio, you can only get a small part of the profit. Moreover, Zulong Studio is planned to slowly maintain it, and will continue to invest a large amount of money to develop, and will only launch real works in at least five years. Even if you keep 30% of the shares, after several capital injections, it may be diluted to only 1%.
"Then should I invest more?" Chi Yufeng asked.
Song Weiyang smiled and said, "You are so confident in me?"
Chi Yufeng said silly: "Follow Boss Song to eat meat."
Song Weiyang said: "Then I won't hide it. I plan to ask Zulong Studio to develop a large 3D online game. The R&D cycle is about four years, with a R&D fund of 50 million to 100 million. If you are willing to invest in this game, I welcome you to cooperate with you."
"50 million to 100 million R&D funds?" Chi Yufeng finally couldn't keep calm because this was beyond his imagination.
Although Kingsoft's "The Legend of Gods and Demons" is so popular, the promotion cost is also high. Due to the lack of Internet speed, the number of online users has not increased much. It was not until January this year that Kingsoft barely recovered various early costs. The net profit is still less than 2.5 million yuan. If you die this year, you can earn 8 million, provided that you have maintained enough online users.
This is already the most profitable online game in China, and other companies have not made so much money.
So Chi Yufeng could not imagine what the concept of a game's R&D fund of tens of millions of yuan was that his total personal assets could barely exceed 100 million yuan.
Chi Yufeng swallowed and said, "Although I don't understand Mr. Song's operations very much, I'm sure you have your own ideas, and I also believe in your business vision. I will sell you 30% of the shares of Zulong Studio for 1 million yuan, and you will leave me 40%. Even if it is diluted to 1% in the future, I will accept it, and at least I can take a ride."
"Okay, just be happy, but I don't guarantee that I will definitely make money." Song Weiyang said.
Chi Yufeng said: "It doesn't matter. Anyway, I only invested 200,000 yuan in Zulong, and now I have made a profit."
Half a month later, Hu Geng, who was working as a moderator of a children's community on a children's website, suddenly received an email: "Hello Mr. Hu, I am Song Weiyang. I saw the novel you wrote on the Internet, and I am very interested in it. I plan to use the content of this novel as a model to create a large 3D online game and hire you as the game master planner. If you agree, please reply to me as soon as possible."
"Are scammers so rampant now? I'm still Bill Gates." Hu Geng deleted the email hilariously, thinking about whether he should adapt the game planning into a novel.
Nowadays, all Amama and Agou want to make games. Hu Geng’s children’s website also launched a project to make games last year, and he even asked him to be the main game planner.
Hu Geng has read through the "Shan Hai Jing", set up various camps and characters, and even wrote a complete story outline, hoping to create a Magic Card Game based on the Internet based on the Magic Card type.
But not long ago, the website suddenly announced that it would give up the game project, and Hu Geng's efforts over half a year were in vain.
In addition to his heartache, Hu Geng wrote some stories in the game planning case into a novel and published it online under the pseudonym of "Wild Fox Under the Tree". These stories were so popular, so Hu Geng had a new idea and wanted to create a "The Lord of the Ring" that belongs to the Chinese!
Chapter completed!