sbdcsierra Chapter 111 High Return Investment
Chapter 111 High Return Investment
At noon, Qin Luo and the person in charge of "Black Myth Wukong" made an appointment at an ordinary Chinese restaurant.
After confirming Qin Luo's willingness to invest, the person in charge put forward their plan with a neither humble nor overbearing attitude: "I believe you must be a very discerning investor to be able to take a fancy to our game. I don't know if you plan to How did you invest?"
Qin Luo said bluntly: "I need to understand your company structure and equity allocation first."
"Of course, I have already brought the relevant documents, please have a look," the other party took out a stack of documents and put them on the table.
After Qin Luo took it, he looked at it and pondered it in his heart.
The game "Black Myth Wukong" was developed by Game Science Studio, which was born out of Penguin Group, a national game manufacturer, and its strength is beyond doubt.
At present, there are three main persons in charge of Game Science, and the one who came to meet Qin Luo this time is one of them, and it can be seen that they are very sincere from the fact that the other party brought these materials on their own initiative.
In other words, they are very short of money.
Because the development of stand-alone games is expensive to some extent, and this game is positioned as a 3A masterpiece. In terms of modeling, special effects, screen rendering, light and shadow effects, etc., we must strive to achieve the best .
If this game can be successfully released, it will definitely cause a sensation in the game industry.
But the only problem is that this game is still in the early stages of development. Due to the shortage of funds, the game continues to encounter various problems during the development process, and even the manpower is very insufficient, because the game science cannot afford high salaries. Recruit talent.
In terms of the potential of this game itself, investing in it will definitely yield high returns, but Qin Luo's desire to invest in this game is even worse than "Playing Blue Moon".
The reason is simple, the return cycle is too long, and the amount of investment is relatively huge.
The first investment is stuffed in, and it may be exhausted at any time, which is very expensive.
As far as the current development progress of this game is concerned, it will take at least another year until the game is ready for release.
Although Qin Luo is not a person who is eager for success, considering the many capitals and means he currently possesses, such a long-term investment plan is not in line with his wishes
Having said that, the potential of the game itself is undeniable.
Therefore, after reading the information handed over by the person in charge, Qin Luo pondered for a few seconds and said, "How much investment do you accept?"
The person in charge's eyes lit up: "Of course, the more the better, after all, only with more money can the final quality of the game be guaranteed to be higher, and as long as we don't worry about money, we can recruit more talents to join us, Let the game go to market early."
Qin Luo nodded and said, "My plan is to invest 20 million in the early stage to buy out the shares held by you and another person in charge, a total of 36%. I wonder what your opinion is?"
Hearing this, the face of the person in charge changed slightly, and he bluntly refused: "This is impossible!"
Qin Luo's face remained unchanged, looking at him quietly.
"Sorry, I lost my temper," the person in charge bowed his head slightly, and explained: "Game Science was built by the three of us. We have made an agreement with each other since the establishment, and we will never accept other people's shares. .”
"The reason is very simple, because our original intention of building game science is to create our own high-quality games, but today's business environment is too impetuous, and everyone will use any bad tricks in order to make money earlier."
"I once had a friend who established a studio independently like us. It took him five years to create a game, but in the end he accepted the investor's share because of insufficient funds."
"After the investor became a shareholder, they interfered with the production of the game. In order to make the game available as soon as possible and get rewards, they continued to compress the production time of the game without a bottom line, which seriously affected the final quality of the game."
"In the end, that game was far from meeting my friend's final expectations, but the investor's investment has been rewarded to a certain extent, but my friend was completely disappointed because of this, and has since stopped working in the game industry."
While talking, the person in charge was silent for a while, and added: "I said this not because I thought you would be that kind of investor, but there are so many lessons learned before us, we have to guard against it."
"For us, the game "Black Myth Wukong" is equivalent to our child, and we will never allow this child to be affected in any way before it is fully conceived."
"Because of this, we can accept investment dividends, but we will definitely not accept shares!"
When it came to the end, the person in charge looked at Qin Luo with a firm face, and his tone was full of no doubts, obviously there was no room for negotiation on the matter of investing in shares.
For business negotiations, such a strong attitude is very inappropriate.
After all, there is a saying that people often say that there is no benevolence and righteousness in buying and selling. His behavior can easily cause the originally harmonious cooperation to collapse directly.
The person in charge is also a middle-aged man in his thirties. It is impossible for him not to understand these basic things, but he still acts so tough, which shows how much they value their own game.
However, Qin Luo was not angry because of this, but appreciated the attitude of the person in charge.
Indeed, the high development of society has led to the exaggerated business environment today, and only pure people like them can truly create good games that make people applaud.
It's just that appreciation is appreciation, and business is business.
In any case, Qin Luo's investment is for making money, not for welfare.
So he continued to fight: "I can promise to only invest in shares, and never interfere with the development of the game in principle. These words can also be written in the contract."
The person in charge shook his head: "Sorry, any other investment method is fine, but we will never accept investment as a share!"
So Qin Luo sighed and said: "Well, this matter will be put on hold for now, but I still hope that you can think about it after you go back.
"As for your game, I myself like it very much, and I look forward to the day when it comes out successfully, but you and I both know that to make a high-quality 3A masterpiece, the consumption of money is huge ."
"You are short of money, but I happen to be rich, and I have no intention of interfering with game development. This in itself is a very good cooperation. Of course, I can understand why you don't want to accept investment."
"Today we will have dinner first. If there is a chance later, we can sit down and discuss cooperation."
Hearing this, the person in charge sighed silently.
He knew that Qin Luo had no plans to invest.
In other words, Qin Luo's attitude is also very clear, he only thinks about buying shares, and doesn't care about the dividends.
What he values is not just the potential of this game, but the potential of their entire studio.
However, not accepting shares is a concept they have set up since the establishment of Game Science, and it cannot be violated.
Even though the person in charge was ready to talk about collapse before he said those words, after hearing that Qin Luo had no plans to invest again for the time being, he still had some hope in his heart.
After all, they are really short of money.
At night, Qin Luo and the person in charge of "Yuan Shen" met at a high-end restaurant.
This person in charge is different from the two people Qin Luo met during the day. The most obvious feature is that this time they are younger than the previous two, and they look less than thirty years old.
He didn't seem to have seen much of the world. Although he pretended to be calm after entering the restaurant, he couldn't help but use the corner of his eye to look at the various facilities in the restaurant.
After all kinds of high-end meals came up, I subconsciously swallowed my saliva, and couldn't help but want to pick up the chopsticks to taste the taste of these delicacies.
However, he also knew that he should not show timidity when negotiating with partners, so he still tried his best to control his desire to eat.
Qin Luo has been paying attention to this person's performance in all aspects since he came in. Judging from the current situation, this person looks like a technical geek who has just graduated from university for a few years
Emotional intelligence is not particularly high, and he doesn't talk about skills, and his mind seems to be relatively simple.
Compared with the few people I met before, this person lacked practical experience in society at first glance, but Qin Luo had the best impression of him.
The two sat opposite each other in the private room, and Qin Luo introduced himself with a smile: "Hello, my name is Qin Luo."
"Mr. Qin, hello, hello, I'm Liu Dawei, you can call me Xiaowei," Liu Dawei hurriedly got up and shook hands with Qin Luo, his words seemed a little stiff and respectful.
Qin Luo shook hands with him, and asked curiously: "You look quite young, have you just graduated from university?"
"It's true that I just graduated a few years ago," Liu Dawei nodded, then looked at Qin Luo suspiciously, and said hesitantly, "But compared to me, I think Mr. College students studying."
"I'm still in college, my third year at the University of Finance and Economics," Qin Luo said.
Liu Dawei was surprised for a moment, and then sighed with emotion.
They are also young people in their twenties, and their ages are not much different, but their situations are very different.
Qin Luo is young and talented. Now he has a lot of money and wants to invest everywhere.
In contrast, Liu Dawei's situation is very uncomfortable.
In order to make this game that has been planned in their minds for many years, Liu Dawei and two other friends started planning during college. After graduating from college, the game finally had a prototype, but encountered difficulties repeatedly due to insufficient funds.
Now he is running around to solicit investment, but after everyone heard Liu Dawei say that this is a "next-generation online game", they all lost interest.
Anyone who is engaged in the game industry knows, which game is the most profitable now?
mobile games!
Among all game types, mobile games are definitely the ones with the lowest R&D cost, the fastest payback, and the easiest way to make money.
If you want to make a money-making mobile game, you don't even need to think about it. You just need to study a few popular mobile games that are easy to copy on the market today, and put them on the shelves directly.
And it's such an operation with no technical content, so it's hard to make a lot of money.
After a long time, the game circle will inevitably become a mess.
Players are disappointed with major game manufacturers, and are less and less interested in new games, and game manufacturers have long given up making games with their brains, and all they think about is how to make the most money with the lowest cost.
Also in such a sick environment, Liu Dawei proposed a "next-generation online game", how could it be attractive to them?
Not to mention that this is an online game, just because Liu Dawei wants to give an online game the quality of a stand-alone game, the investors are screaming.
Liu Dawei said that he is feeling, struggling, and looking forward to the development of an outstanding online game.
And what investors hear is, spend money, spend money, spend money!
In their view, it is quite a challenge to develop such a game.
In a bottomless pit.
They think that Liu Dawei is simply mentally ill. Although they do not deny that "Yuan Shen" is a high-quality game, it may really cause a sensation after it is successfully launched, but everyone
They are all in business, and they all like low investment and high return.
Because of this, this "Original God", which is incompatible with the modern game environment, has become a hot potato in their eyes. Whoever wants to touch it will touch it, anyway, they are not interested.
Isn’t it good for everyone to spend a little money to make some skin-changing mobile games to make money? Why do you have to spend money and effort to make a game that doesn’t know how long it will take to pay back?
As for this situation, Liu Dawei can actually understand it very well, but this game is the dream of him and two other roommates for many years.
Now that this dream has begun to take shape, they really don't want to let it die like this.
Therefore, in today's desperate situation, Qin Luo's initiative to contact them can be said to be a friendship like a timely help.
——Of course, the premise is that the cooperation can be negotiated.
Liu Dawei didn't underestimate Qin Luo because he was too young. Instead, he felt that everyone was young at the same time, so they could have more common topics when chatting.
So he first talked about his current predicament, and finally expressed his eagerness to attract investment. For this reason, he can also give up the company's shares, even to a certain extent.
It is also possible to interfere with game planning to a certain extent.
In other words, you can invest in shares, and you can also give opinions on the production of the game [Shi Liu Dawei and the others just want enough money to make this game.
Qin Luo listened quietly while eating, maintaining a calm expression on his face, but the corners of his mouth were slightly raised several times involuntarily.
It's true that Liu Dawei doesn't have a lot of money and scheming. It's really not a good decision for his other two people to ask him to attract investment.
This cooperation has only just started, and this guy almost exposed his underpants, as if he was afraid that he hadn't explained enough details.
Of course, Qin Luo can also understand his current mood, nothing more than wanting to express enough sincerity in this way in exchange for Qin Luo's trust.
But there is one thing to say, any qualified businessman would want to gnaw off a piece of meat from him if he changed his way.
Qin Luo is different from those businessmen, he also wants to eat this piece of meat.
But his heart is better, even if he wants to eat meat, he will put a layer of plaster on their wounds after eating meat.
At the table, Liu Dawei talked more and more vigorously, and slowly began to talk about information related to the game.
He said that this game was an idea he had when he was in high school, and when he went to university, he got along very well with the other two roommates, so he told the two roommates about his idea
friend.
The three hit it off and decided to make this game, so that they devoted all their energy in the four years of university, and spent the time of the emperor to perfect the game settings. and content etc.
After graduating from university, the three jointly established a game studio, named "Mihayou", and recruited some employees.
However, running a studio is not the same as being singles. In the case of frequent expenditures but no return, the three of them, whose families are not considered wealthy, encountered Waterloo.
The research and development of the game encountered a bottleneck. They were extremely short of money, even if they subsidized the wages they earned from part-time jobs every month, it was simply a drop in the bucket. To no avail, they had to resign
Retired other employees.
But even so, they still never thought of giving up, and insisted on making this game.
Even for the three of them, it doesn't matter whether this game can make a lot of money, they just want to make this game come out.
As for whether it can cause a series of reactions after it comes out, that is not within their consideration for the time being.
"Mr. Qin, being able to choose our game proves that you are really discerning, and I think we are all young people, and you must understand our understanding of this game better."
The expectations and confidence given!"
"In our setting, the background of this game takes place in a place called Tivat Continent, that world is ruled by seven gods, and they respectively control different
Different elemental powers are developing their own kingdoms. "
"However, in addition to the seven gods, there are also some special talents who also have special powers. Relying on something called 'God's Eye', these people can also
Using the power of the elements, it is even possible to become a new god in the end.
"And on the vast Tivat road, there are many races different from humans, such as Qiuqiu people with no IQ, and slimes with different element attributes.
The crowd of fools making waves in the family, the giant robots left over from ancient times...
The more Liu Dawei talked, the more excited he became, especially when talking about things related to games, he couldn't help but temporarily forget about other things.
He introduced the unique charm of the game to Qin Luo with eloquence, his face turned red when he was excited, and even the exquisite meals on the table lost their appeal to him
Qin Luo nodded from time to time while listening.
He himself is quite interested in this game, but today he is here to explore investment after all, he is not a professional game designer, listening to him say these are useless, why not wait
Experience it after the game is made.
Seeing that Liu Dawei was talking more and more, and didn't intend to stop there, Qin Luo had no choice but to interrupt: "Okay, Mr. He, I know this is a very good game.
But we are here today to talk about cooperation, so let’s talk about things related to games later. "
Hearing this, Liu Dawei looked a little embarrassed, and said with a sneer: "`||I get excited when I talk about this game, I'm really embarrassed."
"It's nothing." Qin Luo waved his hand and said, "I'll just say it straight. I'm very optimistic about you, so I plan to invest in shares. I don't know what you think?"
"No problem!" Liu Dawei chose to accept without hesitation, and Qin Luo was a little surprised by his decisive and cheerful attitude.
But soon he added: "But this is just my personal opinion. For me, as long as the game can be made, everything else is fine, but my two roommates are not the same.
deal.
"They don't want investors to buy shares?" Qin Luo asked.
Liu Dawei hesitated and said, "I'm not sure either. I'm not in a position to give you an answer to this right now, but if you really intend to invest in shares, I'll ask them for their opinions when I go back."
"For us, money is the thing we are most short of at present. For this reason, we have laid off all employees, and even the development of games has been interrupted for a long time, so we
Desperately need money to restart. "
"I also know that your investment is for return. If it's me personally, as long as you don't interfere too much with game production, whether it's investment dividends or investment in shares,
I have no opinion. "
"But after all, this is the joint effort of the three of us, so I have to ask their opinions. I hope you can understand this."
Qin Luo nodded and said: "Understanding Wu, you can contact me after asking their opinions later."
"Of course, I will tell you when I go back tonight, and I will give you an answer earlier," Liu Dawei said, paused, and asked again: "Well, let me ask a question, Mr. Qin intends to buy
How many shares?"
Qin Luo said casually: "The more the better, if you all are willing to sell the shares, I can buy them all."
Liu Dawei was stunned for a while: "Uh...Mr. Qin, it's not that I don't have confidence in you, it's just that our studio has not generated any income since its establishment, but we have invested in it.
A lot of money, if you want to buy it with full rights, I am afraid that the money will not be too small. "
Qin Luo smiled: "You don't have to worry about this, let's eat first, and then you can tell me what the other two mean."
Liu Dawei nodded again and again: "Okay, yes, of course."
After the exchange, the two stopped talking about business seriously, but chatted about games during the meal.
Liu Dawei talked about "Original God" again, and told Qin Luo a lot of his ideas and settings that have not yet been added to the game.
He said that if this game can be successfully launched, it will definitely become a phenomenon-level game that is popular all over the country and even lives in other worlds.
Qin Luo is noncommittal about this, but he has to admit that he is really looking forward to this game, including the "Black Myth Wukong" he has known before, and he also
want to play.
As for "Playing Blue Moon"...compared with these two games, it is simply a beast.
To put it bluntly, it is just a tool used by capitalists to collect money. Of course, if Qin Luo invests, he can easily make money, and the return period may not be too long, but this is not the case.
It doesn't prevent Qin Luo from despising it in his heart.
After the meal, the waiter came to pay with the bill.
Both Qin Luo and Liu Dawei drank some wine, although it was only plum wine with low alcohol content, but because they drank many bottles, Liu Dawei's mood was relatively high.
He grabbed the bill and said, "I'll do it."
Qin Luo didn't treat him (Li Wang's) politely either. Anyway, a meal doesn't cost much, so he can let him do the math if he wants.
However, when Liu Dawei took the bill and was about to pay, his expression became awkward.
His face changed several times in a few seconds, but he still didn't settle the score.
Facing the stares of the waiter and Qin Luo, his face flushed slightly, and he gritted his teeth for the last time, and said, "I'm sorry, Mr. Qin, my mobile phone... the battery is dead.
"It's okay, I'll do it," Qin Luo took the bill casually and glanced at the numbers on it.
1988... The quality of this Japanese restaurant is not bad. He also ordered some more delicate dishes before, so it is no problem to meet this price.
But the interesting thing is that Liu Dawei, who was going to settle the account, found an excuse not to settle the account after seeing the price.
This can only explain one problem, not that he is reluctant to part with the money, but that his financial situation may really not allow it.
Poor guy, he keeps saying that he wants to make a game that will go abroad, but now he is so embarrassed because of a meal of 2,000 yuan, it is really dumbfounding.
But this also shows from the side that he is really short of money now.
Qin Luo took out his mobile phone to scan the code to pay, and then left with Liu Dawei.
In the process of walking out of the private room, Liu Dawei kept apologizing, and said in an apologetic voice: "I'm really sorry, Mr. Qin, this time I did something wrong, please give me another
Opportunity, I will invite you next time, you can choose the location you want!"
When he spoke, his attitude was a little trembling, as if he was afraid that Qin Luo would not invest because of this small detail.
So Qin Luo patted him on the shoulder and comforted him: "You don't have to panic, it's just a meal, it's nothing compared to our business."
"Since I am optimistic about you, I will not change my mind just because of such a trivial matter. What's more, I can see your potential. The current downfall is only temporary, and I will wait for you in the future."
After the game is made, what is a mere two thousand yuan for meals?”
Hearing this, Liu Dawei almost excitedly held Qin Luo's hand, he was obviously moved by Qin Luo's words
If it is still on the table now, he might not be able to dry a bottle of wine in one breath.
He talked to Qin Luo with excitement and apology, but when he went down to the first floor, Qin Luo saw two familiar figures.
There seemed to be arguing about something at the front desk, which attracted some people to watch, while the waiter was mediating.
Qin Luo glanced over there, and then asked Liu Dawei, "Did Mr. He come here by car?"
Liu Dawei scratched his head and said embarrassedly, "I came here by subway."
Qin Luo glanced at the time: "The subway is still running at this point, and I have some things to deal with here, so I won't send you off. I also ask Mr. He to reach an agreement with the other two as soon as possible after returning."
Consensus, our cooperation should be put on the agenda as soon as possible. "
"Should be, should be," Liu Dawei nodded again and again, and left directly after greeting Qin Luo.
Very much looking forward to and happy.
But Qin Luo didn't leave the store, but walked to the front desk. .