Zhang Yuan's eyes lit up. "Boss Pei, please speak. I'd like to hear the details!"
Pei Qian took a sip of tea and sorted out his thoughts.
"First, we have to provide a unified standard contract for all clubs and players. At the same time, we have to strictly prohibit any double-sided contracts.
"Standard contracts allow for both short and long contracts, but only basic contents such as contract time, liquidated damages, transfer fees, and remuneration can be agreed upon. We cannot add any messy terms to restrict the players.
"In particular, we cannot allow very vague terms such as' players must unconditionally cooperate with the club to carry out commercial operations'. This must be clearly prohibited.
"It's not a problem for the club to carry out commercial operations, but they must be under our supervision. They cannot be unrestrained or exploit the players.
"Secondly, clubs and freelance players can freely contact and make promises during the transfer period every year, but they cannot sign contracts privately. Before signing the contracts, we have to arrange for the clubs to conduct a unified bidding for the freelance players.
"During the secret auction, the clubs will first express their intentions, clearly stating the contract time, liquidated damages, remuneration, and additional special treatment such as promised playing time for the players.
"Once the intentions are confirmed during the secret auction, the players will choose which team they want to join. Both parties will sign a formal contract if they agree. The clubs must abide by the promises made during the secret auction and cannot go back on them. We will be in charge of supervision.
"Finally, both parties must accept our mediation when there is a dispute. We will be the middleman and let the players and clubs take a step back and choose a plan that all three parties can accept.
"On the basis of these principles, the DGE Club will only take in freelance players. If the players are still within the contract period when they leave, they will have to pay the minimum transfer fees or liquidated damages."
Zhang Yuan was stunned. "Boss Pei, isn't this a little too idealistic? It's not very practical, right?
"What if the clubs do not accept our standard contract? Or sign a double-sided contract in private?
"What if the clubs go back on their word after confirming their intentions?
"The contracts signed between the clubs and the players have legal effects. Once there is a dispute, the clubs can bypass us and go to court with the players. We can't do anything about that.
Pei Qian smiled. "That's easy.
"We agreed with these clubs in black and white at the beginning. If they violate the rules, they will be fined or banned.
"If these clubs don't accept our supervision, they won't be qualified to enter the GOG league. We will act as a middleman to buy their GOG teams and sell them to other clubs that are interested in entering the GOG league. "
In other words, it's fine if you don't accept our unified management, but I won't bring you along.
If you want to play other esports games, go ahead. I'll buy your GOG team and sell it to others so that you won't suffer any substantial losses. However, if you don't agree to be supervised, don't even think about entering this circle.
There were three main reasons why Pei Qian wanted to set such a rule.
First of all, there was only a unified standard contract. There were no Yin and Yang contracts and various additional clauses, which allowed the clubs to play some tricks.
Many clubs offered sky-high contracts, but they were not really sky-high. There were many tricks involved.
For example, one of the most common phenomena was that the club and the broadcasting platform would each fork out a portion of the money, but in reality, there were requirements for the player's live broadcast, which overdrew the player's future commercial value.
On the surface, the players might appear to be profiting, but that might not necessarily be the case.
However, this way, the transfer fee would really be raised. At that time, the DGE Club would get more money for every player they sold. That would be too uncomfortable.
Therefore, everyone should be less scheming and more sincere. Raising the transfer fee so high sounded good, but it was actually meaningless.
In addition, the DGE Club only agreed on the minimum transfer fee. That would make the DGE Club earn as little money as possible from the transfer fee.
Second, establishing such a regulatory body would require the recruitment of a large number of people. The daily operating expenses would be a sum of money. At the same time, these various regulatory rules would definitely have the effect of dissuading some clubs.
If some clubs did not accept it and wanted to withdraw, that would be easy. Pei Qian would pay for their GOG teams and not let them suffer losses. He would make up for their investment.
However, it would not be so easy to come in again after they left.
Pei Qian could spend another sum of money to buy these clubs. That was exactly what Pei Qian wanted.
Finally, Pei Qian did have some ideas to regulate the industry and protect the rights of players.
If there was no higher-level regulation, it would never be possible to establish an equal relationship between players and clubs because the right to speak was not on the same level at all.
It was just like how ordinary workers could only vote with their feet and choose the least bad company when faced with a company. In fact, they did not have the ability to negotiate with the company.
Only a very small number of outstanding and completely irreplaceable people had the ability to negotiate.
If the official did not act and maintained absolute neutrality when the strength of both sides was not equal, it would actually be equivalent to being biased.
It was like a fight between a boxing champion and an ordinary person. Under the premise that both sides were not clearly at fault, a third party would be absolutely neutral and let the ordinary person die.
Therefore, Pei Qian's regulatory body would objectively protect the rights of players, but it would not exploit the clubs. It would only prevent the clubs from being insatiably greedy and overly squeezing players.
The clubs would receive the transfer fees and liquidated damages that they should receive. The commercial contracts, popularity, and influence would not be lacking at all. However, they could not take advantage of loopholes and do whatever they wanted.
Of course, Pei Qian recognized the spirit of the contract, but there were two prerequisites: first, the contract itself must be fair. It could not be an overbearing clause or a slave contract. It could not be based on one party exploiting the other. Second, the spirit of the contract did not mean that the contract could not be violated. It meant that one was willing to bear the corresponding consequences if one violated it.
All in all, such regulations would allow the DGE club to earn less transfer fees and dissuade some of the club's capital. After these clubs withdrew, they could buy their entire GOG teams and spend a sum of money. Wouldn't that be perfect?
Moreover, the daily operation of this new regulatory body also required money. It would be good to hire more people to support it and pay more wages.
Zhang Yuan had already taken two pieces of paper and quickly recorded what Boss Pei had said before.
However, he felt a little uncertain when he read these terms carefully.
Could it work?
None of the major leagues in the world seemed to do this.
The reason was also very simple. They did not dare or were unwilling to fall out with the big clubs.
The big clubs brought fans, popularity, and funds to the league. To be fair, the popularity of a certain competition must be the result of the joint efforts of the organizers, sponsors, clubs, professional players, and the audience. Problems would arise if any link was missing.
Therefore, many times, even if the organizers had the ability to do so, they would not be willing to offend these big clubs. Even if one of the clubs actually squeezed the players, as long as it did not cause too much anger, most of the time, they would hit each other fifty times and keep the peace.
After all, in most cases, a player could be replaced and sacrificed. The losses caused by the departure of a big club were very difficult to make up for.
However, the rules that Boss Pei had set were really not very friendly to the clubs. There would definitely be clubs who would not be happy.
The outcome of being unhappy could only be parting ways and breaking up. That was because Boss Pei had never been a person who would compromise.
One could vaguely guess from Boss Pei's attitude that he did not seem to care about the resources that these clubs had!
Zhang Yuan was silent for a moment and said, "Boss Pei, from an emotional point of view, I support the supervision of the league. After all, nothing can be accomplished without rules. Only when the league is standardized can healthy competition be formed.
"However, if we take such strict control measures, we will definitely dissuade many clubs. Comparing the losses and benefits … is it worth it?
"If we dissuade the clubs, the funds, popularity, and attention of the entire league might be affected. If more than half of those veteran clubs leave, what should we do if our losses far exceed our benefits?"
Pei Qian laughed. "Of course, it's worth it."
Zhang Yuan was silent for a moment and nodded. "Alright."
Since Boss Pei was so sure, he must have seen more long-term things. Thus, Zhang Yuan did not ask further.
"Boss Pei, what should this new regulatory department be called?" Zhang Yuan asked.
Pei Qian thought for a moment. "Let's call it the E-Sports Department. We can also take this opportunity to set up GOG's professional league, GPL.
"The current few clubs can obtain priority access, but the premise is that they have to accept our conditions and accept supervision.
"As for the specific schedule, we'll think about it after the new department is established."
Zhang Yuan nodded. "Alright, Boss Pei."
After sending Boss Pei off, Zhang Yuan returned to the conference room and read the contents from beginning to end, trying to guess the deeper meaning of Boss Pei's actions.
Now, Zhang Yuan's biggest confusion was Boss Pei's' of course, it's worth it '.
For the current E-Sports industry, the first priority must be to expand the market.
GOG's international invitational tournament had achieved good popularity, but anyone with a discerning eye could see that there was obviously a lot of room for improvement.
There was still a lot of room for improvement in the future.
Boss Pei had also said that he wanted to set up GOG's professional league, GPL, obviously to expand the market for E-Sports.
However, the problem was that using such strict regulatory conditions to restrain the clubs was obviously going against this goal to a certain extent.
How exactly did Boss Pei choose?
Zhang Yuan began to seriously analyze every request that Boss Pei made.
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