"Boss Chen, this is the contract you signed with Actoz."
"Wang Chang, thank you for your hard work."
"It's nothing. It's just that …"
Back in the country, Wang Chang brought the contract back to the company.
"What's wrong? Just say what you want to say."
Chen Yu asked when he saw Wang Chang's hesitation.
"Boss Chen, I don't understand why we're spending so much money just for the adaptation rights."
"Hehe, I knew you'd ask."
Chen Yu asked Wang Chang to sit down and made her a cup of tea. "Here, have some tea."
"Five million for the adaptation rights of Legend of Mir is a little expensive, but it's a good deal. Listen to me slowly. First, Legend of Mir is so popular now. Everyone will mention Legend of Mir when it comes to games. Legend of Mir is even synonymous with games. "If we develop a game similar to Legend of Mir, we can save a lot of money on marketing. Moreover, we can take advantage of Legend of Mir's popularity to attract some users."
"That's true, but it doesn't mean that our game will be popular just by adapting Legend of Mir."
"It doesn't mean that. I can guarantee that our first game will definitely be popular."
"Uh …"
Wang Chang's face was covered in tears.
It was her first time seeing such an unreasonable Chen Yu.
"Boss Chen, you're too overbearing."
"It's not overbearing. We have the ability."
Chen Yu answered confidently, "Of course, we wouldn't have spent five million if that's all. In the future, we can use the adaptation rights of Legend of Mir to adapt the web version and mobile version. "
"Web version? We can play the game through the web?"
"That's right."
"That's impossible."
"With the current technology and internet speed, of course it's impossible, but it might be possible in the future. You're a technologist. If cloud service technology appears in the future, we can also play large-scale client games through the web. "
Wang Chang was stunned.
If that was the case, it was theoretically possible.
She felt a little awkward. She graduated from the Computer Science Department in Wuhan University, but she could not compare to Boss Chen in this aspect.
"What's the mobile version?"
"It's the mobile game Legend of Mir."
"You can play online games on your phone?"
"The answer is yes. In the future, our Internet era will be replaced by mobile phones."
Thinking about the playful Blue Moon that was endorsed by 999 One Cut, Zha Zha Hui and a bunch of other celebrities in the future, that was really scary.
Although these games were very bad, the playful Blue Moon had earned billions by relying on these legendary games.
Five million for a market worth billions, no matter how one looked at it, it was worth it.
Even if he didn't do that playful Blue Moon, he could still get a return of tens or hundreds of times if he sold it to others.
Of course, it wasn't just this.
There was another huge benefit to obtaining the rights to adapt the Legend of Mir 2. That was, Actoz would not have to take a cut of the profits from the game. This was also what Chen Yu had told Wang Chang before. Even if he had to raise the agency fee, he had to reduce the share. No matter how expensive the agency fee and copyright fee were, it was just a one-time deal. Once they paid, there would be no more money. If he had to pay a fee every month, even if it was just 10%, Chen Yu would feel the pinch.
"Boss Chen, you're exaggerating."
The Internet will be replaced by mobile phones?
Wang Chang shook her head. How could that be possible?
Unless this world changed and was no longer Earth, the Internet would only become more and more popular.
Knowing that Wang Chang couldn't understand, Chen Yu didn't say much.
This future smartphone era, let alone Wang Chang, even Steve Jobs probably couldn't imagine it now.
"Okay, let's not talk about this. We've already bought back the rights. Actoz won't refund us the money. What we need to consider now is to develop an online game with the Legend of Mir as the background. "
"Boss Chen, if we develop it, we'll be back to how it was before. The company's development capabilities are limited. It would take at least two years to develop a game and officially launch it. "
This was also Wang Chang indirectly expressing that this trip to Korea didn't achieve their goal.
However, Chen Yu laughed and said, "Who said it would take two years?"
With a phone call, Chen Yu called Zhang Jianming and Li Nan over.
"Wang Chang, you're back."
Seeing Wang Chang, Li Nan and Zhang Jianming both asked, "How did it go? Did it go smoothly?"
"Ask Boss Chen."
Wang Chang didn't know what Chen Yu was thinking. She just sat there drinking tea and didn't say anything.
"Li Nan, Wang Chang blames me for spending too much money. I spent five million just to buy the rights to the Legend of Mir adaptation."
"Five million for the rights to the Legend of Mir adaptation. Wang Chang doesn't blame you. I blame you."
Zhang Jianming was also heartbroken. "Boss Chen, the fees for a game agent now are around five million. Even the more popular games are around ten million."
"That's true, but you have to give them a cut of the fees. Are you willing to do that?"
In the current domestic environment, the seller's market was still the main market.
It couldn't be helped. Anyone with a bit of foresight knew that online games could make money.
Even if the game wasn't popular, as long as 10,000 people were online at the same time, it was still a profitable business.
Everyone wanted to be the agent of a game, but there were only a few games available.
For the buyer, there wasn't much room for negotiation.
"But if we don't act as the agent, we don't have the ability to develop an online game for now."
"That's not necessarily true."
Chen Yu looked at Li Nan. "Li Nan, you're in charge of the technology. Let me ask you, if we develop an online game like the Legend of Mir, how long do you think it will take?"
"At least two years."
"Li Nan, no wonder you said that you're not familiar with the technology of online games. I mean, we can develop an online game exactly like the Legend of Mir."
"Exactly the same?"
"Yes."
"The same combat skills and professions?"
"The same."
"The same map?"
"The same."
"The same equipment?"
"The same."
"Oh my god, this is plagiarism."
Li Nan shook her head and said.
"Who said that? We have the rights to the adaptation."
Chen Yu patted the contract on the table. "However, although we're not plagiarizing, it's inevitable that we'll be criticized. How about this? We'll change the graphics style to our China style."
"I understand."
Hearing this, Li Nan finally understood.
If Li Nan still didn't understand, then he would be an idiot.
The reason why Boss Chen bought the rights to the adaptation of the Legend of Mir was that he wanted to develop a game exactly like the Legend of Mir.
Apart from the graphics, everything about the game was the same as the Legend of Mir.
Although it wasn't very authentic, it was all legal.
"If that's the case, we can develop this game in three months, no, two months."
"What did I say? Isn't this a game?"
With a clap, Chen Yu was very satisfied.
This solved the problem of the difficulty of development and also solved the problem of sharing the agency fees.
It also solved the problem of the new version of the Legend of Mir.
With only five million yuan, it was killing three birds with one stone. This deal was really worth it.
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