Racing games were games after all, and they had little connection with reality. The driving experience was vastly different, and it could even be said that they had completely different rules.
Not to mention that many racing games had a modification system that allowed players to modify the car according to their preferences. After the modification, the various values of the car would be maxed out, and the difference between the cars would be even smaller.
Racing games couldn't be blamed for this. After all, the ultimate goal of all racing games was for players to pursue the fastest speed possible. There were very few like Safe and Civilized Driving, where the driving speed in the game was exactly the same as in reality, and players weren't allowed to crash into other cars at will.
This was because of the difference in gameplay, and not because of the level of design or production.
However, it did give players a completely different feeling when they played the game.
In a nutshell, when players played Safe and Civilized Driving, they were far more sensitive to the driving and safety of a certain type of car than other racing games. They were also slightly more sensitive than other driving simulation games.
It couldn't be helped, it was all forced out by the harsh game mechanism.
This feeling didn't entirely come from the game engine and game rules of Safe and Civilized Driving. A large part of it was due to psychological factors.
Since the players experienced a driving experience that was closer to reality in Safe and Civilized Driving, they would naturally be more interested in and willing to discuss the safety and maneuverability of various car models than in other games.
Coupled with the huge popularity of Safe and Civilized Driving on the internet, because of the interaction with the IIAS and the impact of the collision with the Pasht, several domestic cars received unprecedented attention.
In fact, with the rapid development of the domestic manufacturing industry, domestic cars had also achieved rapid development.
Although there was still a certain gap between the accumulation of technology, technical foundation, and some high-end technology compared to the first-class foreign brands, "domestic" was no longer synonymous with "shoddy".
The gap had to be faced, but there was no need to belittle oneself.
Moreover, how could one explain the phenomenon of joint venture cars being reduced in China time and time again?
Was it because the domestic companies that had joint ventures with foreign companies were dirty?
Of course not.
At the end of the day, this kind of thing was decided by the foreign companies. It was the foreign companies that did not respect the domestic consumers. They treated the domestic consumers as second-class people and leeks. They did not serve them with the attitude that they should have. Instead, they had a magical sense of arrogance and superiority.
This was a problem left over from history. In the past, the domestic industrial industry was underdeveloped. Coupled with the fact that some unscrupulous companies cheated subsidies and did not pay attention to quality, the domestic consumers developed an inertial mindset that "foreign products are of good quality, advanced, and high class."
It could only be said that this was a problem of history. It should be reversed, but it was not something that could be accomplished overnight.
They needed a batch of down-to-earth enterprises and high-quality products to reverse this inertia.
The cell phone industry was like this. From the dominance of foreign brands to the rise of domestic brands, it had gone through such a process.
Even if the domestic mobile phone brands were competing fiercely in the internal market and tearing each other apart, it had to be admitted that the domestic mobile phone industry was already able to compete with the first-class foreign brands. In the foreseeable future, domestic brands would continue to improve until they completely surpassed them.
The domestic car manufacturing industry would also go through such a process. The arrival of the new energy era would definitely accelerate this process, allowing some outstanding domestic car manufacturers to overtake others.
And now, the problem that troubled those outstanding car manufacturers the most was reputation, marketing, and trust!
After all, a car was different from a cell phone. It was not a small toy that cost a few thousand. It could easily cost two to three hundred thousand, and it was directly related to the safety of people.
Many people would buy a cool new product out of curiosity to play with a cell phone that cost a few thousand. As long as it did not explode, it was not a big problem even if the performance was a little weak or the system was a little worse. At most, they would just go online and scold it.
But very few people would buy a car that cost three to four hundred thousand out of curiosity.
The poor would definitely choose carefully when buying a car, while the rich would buy a car for fun and would usually buy a well-known luxury car.
If domestic alternative energy vehicles wanted to attract customers, the only way was to sell them at a low price.
At this time, for those domestic car manufacturers who were more confident in their products, how to prove to the consumers that their products were reliable and trustworthy was the biggest problem.
Marketing themselves?
Some people would say that the car manufacturer focused on marketing and ignored quality, and that the car manufacturer spent all their money on advertising, and that it was self-promotion and not trustworthy.
Hire someone else to evaluate the car manufacturer?
Some people would say that the car manufacturer bribed the reviewer, and that it was not trustworthy.
It took a long time for the consumers to build up their recognition of a brand. It could not be built up in a short period of six months or a year.
If the car manufacturer happened to have a few negative reports in the past, it would be even worse.
Getting the IIAS to do a crash test was one solution, but only car enthusiasts would pay attention to it. On the other hand, a crash test could only prove the car's safety and nothing else.
This was not enough to meet the requirements of marketing.
Therefore, the best way for these car manufacturers was to work with brands that the consumers trusted!
This was equivalent to using these outstanding brands to endorse their own quality. Consumers trusted a certain brand, and naturally, they would have a good impression of the model they cooperated with. They might not support it mindlessly, but at least they would be interested in it. They would want to understand it and test drive it. That was enough.
Take the first step to break the ice first, and the rest would be easier.
Therefore, it was not strange at all that these car manufacturers wanted to work with Tengda.
On one hand, Tengda was the brand that domestic players and consumers trusted the most. In fact, it could be said that there was no one else like it.
In the Sloth Apartments project, Tengda worked with various furniture factories to establish a supervision and random inspection mechanism. This proved that Tengda's cooperation with other companies was responsible and trustworthy.
Tengda's success in crossing multiple fields made many people believe in Tengda without a doubt. There was no problem of 'forceful crossing'.
On the other hand, Safe and Civilized Driving had a unique advantage. It provided players with a relatively simple but infinitely low test drive platform.
There were differences between the game and reality. Cars that were easy to drive in the game might not be easy to drive in reality. The game could not show comfort, interior texture, and other elements.
However, cars that were difficult to drive in the game would probably be difficult to drive in reality as well …
Players would naturally develop a good impression of a car if they drove it many times in the game. Perhaps they would consider it more when they bought a car in reality.
There was also no need to worry about the game being too misleading. In any case, consumers would definitely return to the physical store to test drive before they decided to buy a car.
'Consider it more' was the effect that these car manufacturers spent a lot of effort and money to achieve.
All in all, many car manufacturers realized that as long as the quality was good, wouldn't it be better to work with Safe and Civilized Driving? It was a win-win situation!
Therefore, many car manufacturers that had rejected the game because of the serious damage to their cars now extended an olive branch to Ye Zhizhou. Even some car manufacturers that Ye Zhizhou had not approached before expressed their desire to work with him.
Pei Qian was dumbfounded.
How could this be?
He had not intended for Safe and Civilized Driving to have many real-life car brand authorizations. That was because everyone knew that the more real-life car brand authorizations a racing game had, the more popular the game would be!
Although the licensing fees could cost money, they were nothing compared to the income of the game. He would be able to earn them back very soon.
No, he could not accept this!
If Safe and Civilized Driving had more real-life car brand authorizations and the game became more popular, it would definitely earn more money!
Pei Qian's expression was serious. "We can't authorize them if we don't want to, and we can authorize them if we want to? How can there be such a good deal?!
"Change the rules! Not only will we not give them a single cent in licensing fees, but the car manufacturers will also have to pay us platform fees!
"We'll charge them according to the licensing fees we discussed previously. However, we won't be paying them; they'll be paying us.
"On top of that, the car manufacturers will have to give us sample cars to complete crash tests, structural disassembly, and research. What if the IIAS results are inaccurate in the future? What if the data isn't rich enough?
"What's more, we'll have to fork out money to buy cars from the market for testing to prevent them from sending us samples that are fishy.
"On top of that, we refuse to accept any suggestions or interference. If the car manufacturers are not satisfied with the performance and safety of the cars in the game, they can hold it in! We won't give them a refund even if they're not satisfied!
"If they can accept all of our conditions, that's fine. If they don't, we'll break up."
Pei Qian's attitude was very firm.
He pondered for a while. He couldn't possibly allow any more idiotic car manufacturers to come over and ask for cooperation, right?
In fact, he had said so much to tactfully dissuade these car manufacturers: Just sell your cars and earn money. Don't keep thinking about me.
I'm already in a mess, and you're still coming over to add to my mess. Is that appropriate? That's not appropriate.
We should live our own lives and treat each other well.
Ye Zhizhou was stunned. "Ah, this …"
Indeed, Tengda had been rejected by the other party when they discussed licensing. However, now that the other party had taken the initiative to look for them, Tengda had rejected them and even asked for money. No matter how one looked at it, it looked like a child throwing a tantrum …
What's more, this was not just a simple increase in price. He had even made some unreasonable requests to the outside world.
As an employee of Tengda, Ye Zhizhou naturally trusted his own company and Boss Pei unconditionally. However, it was hard to say what other companies would think of this matter.
He was too embarrassed to say it directly. Boss Pei's stance was a little like asking for an exorbitant price!
However, as the person in charge of Tengda, he quickly began to correct his point of view.
"Boss Pei is definitely not a person who acts on impulse. He is also not a person who only cares about immediate benefits and ignores long-term benefits.
"In other words, Boss Pei's request must have a deeper meaning. I have to study it carefully before I can come to a conclusion …"
Ye Zhizhou could not immediately understand the deeper meaning, but he immediately nodded. "Alright, Boss Pei, let's do that."
Pei Qian nodded, very satisfied with the obedience and execution of the people in charge of Tengda.
"Alright, let's do that for now."
Pei Qian felt bored looking at the situation in the warehouse.
He came all the way here only to see the safe and civilized driving simulator selling like hotcakes?
How unlucky!
Pei Qian gave Ye Zhizhou a few more instructions and then turned to leave.
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