Chapter 319 Negotiation Failed

You already know it.

You have seen it, haven't you?

This familiar language sounds more and more strange.

Know what? See what?

Naughty Cat's new game?

This "Detroit: Become Human"?

Once you know this information, look at the distance in the game.

The cat that just stepped on the advertisement in the game has not gone far, and it is all black, looking like a nightmare.

Just like the cat in the opening logo of Naughty Cat's previous games, it is naughty and dressed in different looks.

So this DLC is really made by Naughty Cat? Why would Naughty Cat make a DLC comparable to 3A games for this kind of game? !

But what are you trying to do!

Arnold felt a breath stuck in his chest, and he wanted to vomit, but he couldn't vomit no matter what.

It was extremely uncomfortable.

Look at the others again.

Well, it's not much better.

Pavard opened his mouth wide and didn't close it for a long time, as if it was dislocated.

Both eyeballs were about to fall out of their sockets.

The old man Spencer covered his chest with a pale face, looking like he was dying. It was a bit worrying that he would die in the office.

It was not until he took out a pill and took it that his face looked much better.

Then, the three of them made the same move almost at the same time.

Take out your phone!

At this time, the players in the social network and game community had not yet reacted.

The surprise and happiness came too suddenly.

On many social media, players were still immersed in the shock brought by "Finished! I'm Surrounded by Bionics", a conscientious DLC that can be recorded in history.

They were still actively posting to share their discoveries and discuss game details.

[Brothers, I found another point. In the same neighborhood where the protagonist lives, there is a domestic bionic person named Kara who suffered serious domestic violence and was even sent for repair many times. I am studying whether I can capture it! ]

[Brothers, a party dispute game without a Shura plot is not a good game! Now I have found several ways to make bionic girls jealous of each other]

[Fuck! I just treated them a little worse. The two android girls eloped and left me behind.]

[I am dying of laughter. It is really an interactive movie game. It can be so interactive. It would be better if it was made into an independent game. This is a bit of a waste of talent.]

Further down, there are posts discussing the latest discoveries.

[What the hell? !!! I said, how can that boring and non-exposing original game have such a good DLC! It turned out that Naughty Cat made it?]

[Brothers, this news is true. "Finished! I am surrounded by beauties" and Naughty Cat official forwarded and liked each other's tweets.]

[Why? ! How many game companies in the world can have Naughty Cat make DLC?]

[Let me explain. This is an international student from China. The investor and producer of "Finished! I am surrounded by beauties" is a friend of Naughty Cat boss Lin Mo who knew him when he was still a UP master.]

Seeing the last tweet, the three of them were silent.

No one could speak.

Arnold's hair stood up on his back, and he understood many things instantly.

If that's the case, then it makes sense.

What poor little company accidentally influenced the trend, what genius designer suddenly had a flash of inspiration and led the trend in the game industry.

All bullshit!

There is only one genius designer in the world who can lead the trend in the game industry, but he is definitely not poor.

On the contrary, it is one of the richest game companies in the world.

There is someone behind this trend of interactive film and games!

Or, there is a cat helping.

A very naughty cat who likes to see the surprised expressions of his peers and players, a cat with bad taste.

Lin Mo knew it a long time ago, he had guessed it a long time ago!

Is this also part of your play?

When everyone was surprised that interactive film and games suddenly had such a huge market, you let your own DLC come out surprisingly.

Then let all the peers who were considering whether to follow suit be surprised.

What kind of hobby is this!

Arnold had no idea that his crazy imagination made Lin Mo on the other side of the earth sneeze crazily.

At this time, he still thought that he had fallen into a trap.

In the office, the eyes next to him were cold.

"Arnold, you didn't find out about this?! Damn it, are you going to kill us? You are the leader of one of the largest game companies in the world!" Spencer scratched his hair like crazy, his face was extremely ugly, "This DLC has been announced a long time ago. In other words, we took the initiative to run into Naughty Cat? Damn it! What a good thing you two did!"

Arnold was scolded.

But he couldn't refute it.

Because he also wanted to slap himself a few times, the kind without mercy.

Because the interactive film and game version of "Future World" has now signed an agreement with Baofeng Entertainment.

The release date is fixed!

There is no way to change it!

Unless the contract with Baofeng Entertainment is torn up.

But in this way, he will face a sky-high compensation.

It's self-defeating again!

The last time he paid so much money in the agreement with the Hot Sauce, it was embarrassing enough.

If they pay compensation again this time, it won't be a shame.

They may be investigated.

But if they follow the contract and don't change the game release time, you can imagine what the outcome will be.

If you face similar competing products from other companies, don’t worry.

But for the interactive video game version of "Future World", I can't gain any confidence at all!

The opponent is simply too powerful.

If the entire game were made according to the quality of the current DLC, there would be no chance of winning.

That is, the toy car hit the armored vehicle head-on.

You can all imagine how miserable it would be to be hit.

Then, the position of CEO will really be lost!

It’s over, it’s a dead knot.

I felt a little desperate inside.

Pawar, on the other hand, was the one who agreed to cooperate with Baofeng Entertainment at the beginning. At this time, he is relatively calm among the three.

After thinking for a moment, he slowly said: "The situation is like this now, and it can't be changed. If nothing else, this is Lin Mo's experiment. He asked his friends to try the interactive video game type, and found that the effect was good. Naughty Cat headquarters immediately produced a high-quality product and produced DLC for the game "It's Over! I'm Surrounded by Beauties" and used it as an advertisement for "Detroit: Become Human", taking advantage of its popularity on the short video platform. Advertising. The question now is how to reduce losses.”

Spencer nodded and asked, "What do you think?"

"How about letting Baofeng Entertainment coordinate with Naughty Cat?" Pawar suggested, "If Baofeng Entertainment wants to earn distribution fees from third-party game login platforms, it should focus more on the performance of logging into platform games every day."

As soon as these words came out, Arnold's eyes lit up.

It seems that there is something going on?

Baofeng Entertainment is also one of the behemoths in the gaming industry.

Since it is said to be a giant, its reputation will naturally not be much better.

However, its IP is really strong, and it has built a wide and deep moat with strong first-party games. It is also one of the few manufacturers like Naughty Cat, with each game selling tens of millions of copies.

For example, the leading IP "War Zone" series is one of the most famous and popular shooting games in Lighthouse Country and even in Western countries.

In order to ensure production capacity, there are even four production teams developing sequels to ensure competition with each other and the release of new series of games every year.

In the industry, I still have a lot of voice and face.

By default, before and after the release of "War Zone" every year, it is also a restricted area for the release of shooting games.

In shooting games from other manufacturers, whoever gets hit will die.

Not only that, but there are also MMORPGs such as "Cosmic Rift" that have been in operation for many years.

"For such a large company, even Naughty Cat has to give in, right?" Pawar said with a smile, "Naughty Cat's production capacity is so high anyway, he doesn't mind whether the game is released a few days earlier or later. That's it. Even if things don’t work out, the naughty cat will have another enemy.”

Arnold's spirit returned to his body that was about to dry up. He nodded and said, "Leave this matter to me. I'll go to Baofeng Entertainment to communicate."

A few days later.

"The commission is lower than that of the Origin platform, and they are also giving away games. This Baofeng Entertainment is coming with a lot of force." Lin Mo looked at the news on the computer and nodded, "So, Lao Wang, are you here to be a lobbyist again? This time Whose face is it?"

At this time, in front of you.

Wang Zhicheng was holding a small orange cat in his arms, and the cat purred comfortably in his arms.

After moving to a new building, space is no longer in short supply, and some rooms have been specially set aside to raise cats.

The company name Naughty Cat is finally no longer just a clickbait.

Hearing this, he touched his nose in embarrassment, coughed slightly and said, "Mr. Lin, as you know, it was difficult for me to attract investment at that time, so I owed a lot of favors."

Lin Mo sighed helplessly and said: "You said you don't take good care of yourself in old age, and if you don't find a boyfriend for your daughter as soon as possible, why are you still messing around in the gaming industry? I know what you are going to say, shut up! Wang Yi is just the designer of my company.”

Wang Zhicheng's face immediately looked a little disappointed, and he hesitated to speak. He looked at Lin Mo with his eyes. It didn't look like he was talking to his previous boss at all, but like he was recruiting a son-in-law for his daughter.

"Hey, okay, okay, I know Mr. Lin is ambitious and doesn't want his children to be together, but my daughter is really pretty, but she's a bit older."

"Let's get down to business!"

"Okay, okay." Wang Zhicheng's face became more serious, "The president of Baofeng Entertainment's China branch asked me to be a lobbyist. You also know what Baofeng Entertainment does. It wants to attract third-party game developers and developers through various policies. Players, so I hope to talk to you about whether the release of "Detroit: Become Human" can be postponed so that the results of "Future World" can be justified."

Lin Mo nodded when he heard this and said neatly: "Impossible."

As soon as these words came out, the office was quiet for two seconds.

Just when I was thinking about whether it was too rude, I realized that Lao Wang was older after all. He was also an employee of Naughty Cat and an important member of "Two People Go Together".

Unexpectedly, Wang Zhicheng laughed loudly and said: "Hey, it failed, as expected. There are really not many people who can make Mr. Lin take a step back."

"If the project has not announced a release date, we can still discuss it, but now that the release date has been announced, there is no room for tact."

"Oh? Why is this?" Wang Zhicheng asked curiously, "Because of financial losses or company image?"

"No." Lin Mo shook his head, "Because I am also a game player, I really hate the behavior of delaying the release of the game I am looking forward to, it's that simple. Randomly delaying the release is disrespectful to the players, and it also announces to all game players how poor the company's project management ability is."

Wang Zhicheng was stunned with a look of surprise.

I thought of countless possibilities and considered a lot from all angles.

I had already prepared for the rejection.

But I didn't expect the reason to be this.

If other game developers said this, they might feel that the other party was pretending.

Which company can avoid delaying the release?

The games he made when he was young were also frequent delays!

But when I heard Lin Mo say this, I didn't feel that the other party was pretending.

On the contrary, I felt that it was a matter of course.

As for why, it may be a game with more quantity but no price increase, it may be 90% free DLC with large quantity, it may be the honesty of never making false propaganda, it may be the humanitarian spirit of permanently donating the proceeds of a game to the victims of a certain incident.

"Well, I'm not surprised. I said before I came that I couldn't guarantee that this would work." Wang Zhicheng smiled carefreely, "But Baofeng Entertainment has some grudges against you before, so you have to pay attention."

At the E4 exhibition, because the promotion method of "Resident Evil: Village" was too unique and the process was too short, it could not be the last to appear.

So the organizing committee reluctantly put it in the second to last.

But this made a mistake.

The shock brought to the players by "Resident Evil: Village" was so strong that many players thought it was the last project and left.

As a result, Baofeng Entertainment, which appeared last, was extremely ugly on the scene, facing a half-empty venue and many players who didn't even look back.

This matter must put pressure on the E4 organizing committee, but at the same time, it also expressed its dissatisfaction in public many times.

Targeting Naughty Cat.

Lin Mo heard helplessly and spread his hands.

"That was arranged by the organizing committee. I can understand Baofeng Entertainment's dissatisfaction, but it's not my fault. And if you say that, people who don't know would think that I have offended someone in some dangerous industry."

"Hey, Baofeng Entertainment will definitely not do anything to you. It's just that Naughty Cat's shooting games may be targeted in the future."

Naughty Cat actually has quite a few shooting games.

Except for "Titanfall", all of them are competitive games.

And the "Warzone" series, which is a single-player story plus a fun-to-shoot game, is not a competitor.

There have been cases where the release time is similar, but the impact on each other is not great.

Hearing this, Lin Mo said indifferently: "I really don't plan to target Baofeng Entertainment, but if there are games that become competitors in the future, let's fight with strength."

Wang Zhicheng listened to a sigh and was extremely envious.

What kind of confidence does this have in his own work?

Let's go back and tell the truth.

This matter is beyond the scope of ability to solve. (End of this chapter)