It would have been fine if this problem had not been raised. Once it was raised, many game developers immediately understood that this was actually the biggest obstacle to online game stores.
In fact, the idea of online game stores was not difficult to think of. It was estimated that when the Internet was born, people in later generations had thought of setting up standalone game stores on the Internet. However, until the emergence of the Steam platform, no online game store had been able to grow.
The first and most important reason was, of course, the problem of cooperating with game developers all over the world. If you let the game developers be willing to put the game on your platform and let you take 30% of the profits, the development chamber of commerce would definitely agree.
However, this was not the main reason. After all, as long as a company like Tencent took out a traffic port like QQ, not to mention 30% of the profits, even if it was 50% of the profits, a lot of game companies would desperately cooperate with it.
In fact, the real reason was the limitations of the Internet.
It was only after 2010 that the world was able to achieve large-scale Internet coverage. Before 2010, 70% of Hua Xia's computers were still not connected to broadband.
It was not until 2008, with the opportunity of the Olympic Games, that the broadband network across the country was sped up and reduced. This caused the Internet to really collapse all over the country.
It was about the same all over the world. Therefore, it was not until 2010 that the Steam platform, which was born in 2002, truly began to become world-famous and monopolized almost all standalone game distribution platforms.
For the Steam game stores, this obstacle was much smaller because the Steam game stores started off as offline game stores. Therefore, they could naturally make up for the shortcomings of online sales and gain the trust of all game developers.
However, the problem was that the Steam game stores were now badly beaten by the box game stores. There were only 3,000 franchises left. How could they cover the global market?!
"Everyone, in fact, I have thought about this problem a long time ago!" Boss Jia said with a smile, "These are the addresses of our remaining 2,821 franchises!"
As soon as Boss Jia's voice fell, a world map appeared on the projection screen behind him. Then, it was filled with all kinds of small red dots. Most of the small red dots were evenly distributed in the United States, Europe, Fusang, and other large game markets.
"From this map, you can see that all the major cities in the world have steam game stores. All the cities in the United States, Europe, and Fusang have at least one steam game store."
"In addition, I plan to open 242 franchised stores in the official way. This way, we can ensure that all cities with a population of more than 100,000 have at least one steam game store!" Boss Jia said.
"But one is still too little for a large city!" Someone retorted.
"First of all, online sales can share a large portion of the sales needs of those large cities. This is because the larger the city, the denser the network distribution is. They can all use the network to buy games."
Boss Jia narrowed his eyes and said, "However, we also know that for some cities, this might be a drop in the bucket. Therefore, we plan to increase our offline and online sales. We plan to increase two middlemen, namely telemarketing and express delivery!"
"Telemarketing and express delivery?" Everyone was dumbfounded by the new terms that came out of Boss Jia's mouth. Boss Jia continued to explain, "Telemarketing means that we can buy all the games through the phone. You just need to call our customer service center and you can buy the physical disc of any game."
"That's why the Internet can't spread all over the world, but the telemarketing has spread all over the world!"
"Then, we'll add express delivery sales. This is a sales method that belongs to our steam game store!" Boss Jia smiled and said, "I believe that everyone must have heard of the two online companies, Amazon and Taobao!"
"Yes!" Everyone nodded. Indeed, Amazon and Taobao were very popular online companies recently.
Among them, Amazon sold all kinds of books, small goods, second-hand goods, flea markets, and other services. It was now growing bigger and bigger. Before the dotcom bubble, it even had a volume of 40 billion USD.
Although it had now been adjusted back to 18 billion USD, one had to admit that buying things on Amazon was now a very trendy thing to do.
As for Taobao, many ordinary people might not know much about it, but for some companies, Taobao was very well-known. Almost 95% of the world's various raw materials, semi-finished products, processing services, and so on could all be found on Taobao.
Moreover, the prices were shockingly cheap. For example, a universal bearing was at least 150 USD in the United States. However, on Taobao, it was at most 20 USD. It was 7.5 times cheaper than the price in the United States.
Moreover, this was the price of a single item. If one bought in bulk, they could get a great discount. The maximum discount could even be reduced to 15 USD per piece. It was ten times cheaper.
At the same time, Taobao had a very strict quality assurance system. Once there was any quality problem, Taobao would be directly responsible for compensation. Moreover, one only needed to pay the transportation fee. Taobao could send it to any warehouse in any country!
Right, now Taobao had also launched a Hua Xia – United States free shipping service. If it was only shipped to one or two fixed ports in the United States, Taobao could even waive the postage. It was simply shockingly cheap.
Unfortunately, this service was limited to some port cities in the United States. It was really enviable!
Now, countless United States companies had been addicted to shopping on Taobao. If it weren't for the restrictions in logistics and customs, Taobao would probably be responsible for more than 20% of the United States' import and export business.
"This time, our steam gaming platform will have a strategic cooperation with Taobao and Amazon. On computers that can't be used to shop online, as long as you find a computer with Internet access and enter your address, then within five days, the game disc will be automatically delivered to your door. It's like eating takeout!" Boss Jia said loudly.
"Delivery from all over the world? Are you kidding us? "Someone mocked.
"Of course not!" Boss Jia's face was serious. "Do you still remember that I said that we will guarantee at least one steam gaming store in cities with more than 100,000 people in the world?"
"Actually, such a store also has the requirement of a transit warehouse. We will stock up a large number of game discs in this store. Once a player nearby orders a product, our exclusive delivery man will deliver the game to your door at the first possible moment!"
"The five days I said before was just a conservative estimate. We are confident that we can deliver 80% of the orders to your door within two days!"
"Of course. The door-to-door delivery service requires a little takeout fee. This fee is not for us, but for our hardworking takeout brothers!" Boss Jia said with a sincere look.
None of the problems were difficult for our Boss Jia. He was fully prepared!
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