"But Chairman, this is not a long-term solution. We cannot continue to subsidize them, or the entire Microsoft will be implicated!" Tony added.
"I know!" Bill Gates nodded.
Even an idiot knows burning money to get the market share will not last. Burning money is only temporary, and it is only to open up the market in the early stages. After getting the market share, Feng Yu must stop burning money. If not, the investors will kill Bill Gates.
But to Bill Gates, this is not a big deal. He only needs to stop the subsidies in the future, and the profits will continue to increase. He will be able to recoup the subsidies slowly.
Don't you see that the steam gaming store earns Da Qian tens of billions of USD in net profit every year?
As long as the box game store could defeat the steam game store, they would be able to earn back the billions of dollars in subsidies in no time.
Feng Yu's priority now is to get the market share.
At this moment, Feng Yu's secretary knocked on the door and entered. He whispered to Bill Gates. "Daqian sent us a message. The 600 million USD we had lent them is almost used up. The Chairman of Daqian, Mr. Iwata Satoru, asked us if we can lend them 1 billion USD. They still want to continue this subsidy campaign for one month!"
"No problem!" Bill Gates readily agreed. The results of the box games were very impressive, and they were all obtained through subsidies. However, the steam game stores had not been defeated yet. They still had tens of thousands of franchises all over the world. If they stopped subsidizing and burning money at this time, wouldn't everything be back to square one?
That's why Bill Gates did not hesitate to ask Microsoft to lend 1 billion USD to Daqian at a low interest rate. This will allow Daqian to continue this promotion campaign!
Players all over the world cheered when they heard this promotion campaign will continue for one month. But Daqian's franchises frowned.
They had managed to survive for one month, and they were hoping that the promotion campaign will end for them to start making profits again. But now, they will have to wait for another month!
These franchisees could only look for Daqian Games again and request Daqian Games to launch a similar type of event.
But this time, the Daqian Game's attitude didn't change. Even if Minoru Arakawa came out to appease these irritable franchisees, it was useless.
Finally, some of the franchisees couldn't take it anymore. They took the initiative to go to the box game store and expressed their desire to change their store from a steam store to a box game store.
Naturally, everyone was ecstatic about this. Bill Gates even personally met with some of the franchisees and expressed that the Game Box store was very welcoming and would fully support the actions of these franchisees.
Therefore, in a short span of five days, more than 100 franchisees announced that they would leave the steam game store and join the box game store.
Moreover, for these franchisees, a makeover was a very simple matter. They didn't even need to change the interior of the store. They only needed to change the signboard. It was so easy.
After seeing this, the steam gaming store became anxious. However, the steam gaming store didn't try to appease its own franchisees. Instead, it directly issued a notice to all franchisees.
If the franchisees give up on joining the store, they will have to follow the contract they signed. If they leave before the end of the contract, Daqian Games will not take back all the game discs they bought.
In other words, the franchisees must spend their own money to buy the discs.
Normally, a steam game store has tens of thousands of game discs in stock. Some larger stores even have more than 30,000. After all, steam game stores are famous for their number of games. According to Daqian Games, they must have at least 100 discs in stock to ensure sales. They must have at least 10,000 discs in stock.
Originally, because Daqian Games will take back all the stock that can't be sold, although the franchisees will put some money in stock, they will definitely not lose money.
But this time, Daqian directly announced that they refuse to take back the stock. The reason is very good. After all, all franchisees have to sign at least a three-year contract. Most of the franchisees still have more than a year before the end of the contract. It's very difficult to wait until the end of the contract.
That's not all. Daqian also pointed out another clause in the contract. That is, the franchisee is not allowed to join other industries after leaving the franchise. Otherwise, they will have to pay compensation equivalent to a year's share.
These two clauses, the former is calculated as 10,000 discs, which is a loss of at least 500,000 USD.
In fact, most of the franchisees' stock is more than 1 million USD.
The latter is similar. Many franchisees' annual turnover is more than 3 million USD, and the franchisees can get 20% of the profit.
So the compensation is 600,000 USD.
If these two conditions are added together, then a franchisee who leaves the steam game store will have to pay at least 1.5 million USD in compensation.
As soon as the threat of the Great Thousand Games appeared, all the franchisees were shocked awake. Their thoughts of making a move were instantly shut down.
Well, in this case, no matter how much you explain, it's useless. Huge economic losses are the best way to make these franchisees obedient!
Of course, in this way, many of the franchisees in the steam game store instantly hated Daqian, but they really have no other way.
However, some of the franchisees still didn't give up their plan. They actually joined forces and found the game box, hoping that the game box can help them share the cost!
In response to this situation, the game box immediately held a board meeting. Because this meeting is very important, the two big bosses, Bill Gates and Iwata Satoru, directly participated in the meeting.
"I think we can … no, we must agree to these franchisees' request!" Iwata Satoru was the first to express his opinion. "Everyone, this is the best opportunity that God has given us. Da Qian has completely become enemies with all the franchisees under their banner just for some laughable economic benefits."
"According to my research, many franchisees now hate the Daqian to the core. They dream of joining our game box, but the only thing stopping them is the damn penalty and storage fees!"
"If we can find a way to help these franchisees, then they will all switch sides. The Daqian currently has more than 20,000 steam game stores, and about 80% of them will become our game box stores. Then, Da Qian's so-called market dominance will collapse in an instant, and the gaming empire that belongs to us, Microsoft and Nintendo, will return to this world!! "
Arakawa is trembling with excitement. He can already see the Daqian Games getting beaten up by Nintendo, and Nintendo regaining control of the gaming world!
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