Vol 2 Chapter 125: Second cooperation

Chapter 125 The Second Cooperation

This call from the United States was made by Mihnlee, the father of ter-strike, who worked with Lin Feng before. During the phone call, Mihnlee told Lin Feng that Lin Feng recommended that they develop online games and networked ter-strike during the previous cooperation. After consideration, the valve game development team has just recently developed counter-strike online. In view of the pleasant cooperation between the two parties before, I hope to discuss with Lin Feng about his Chinese agency rights.

At the same time, mihnlee also hopes to introduce the founder of valve. The current CEO Newell will get to know Lin Feng and hope that Lin Feng can come to the United States as soon as possible.

Hearing this news, Lin Feng's spirit was lifted. He didn't expect to talk to Mihnlee casually, hoping that he could develop ter-strike as an online game. Unexpectedly, one year later, he really developed it as an online game and was the first to contact himself.

Nowadays, ter-strike is becoming popular all over the world, and it has officially become the first official competition event of the first wcg (World Electronic Sports Competition) held by South Korea's Samsung company just this year, attracting thousands of game masters to participate. Although there is no team participating in the competition in China at this time, ter-strike is in full swing in China and is deeply loved by everyone.

Lin Feng also sold more than 400,000 quasi-genuine ter-strikes through Dingdang.com, and Tencent also provided an online online game platform, with an endless stream of players. If counter-strike online is launched at this time, it is bound to be a big hit, and it will bring your game empire to a higher level.

Legend is a role-playing online game, Plants vs. Zombies is a casual online game, and this upcoming Counter-Strike online is a first-person shooter online game. The three online games are divided into different types of players, and all It is a high-quality online game, so instead of conflicting, it can echo each other, and it is bound to allow one's "second world" to reach new heights.

At the moment, Lin Feng and Wu Zhaopu, Liu Yingying and others convened an urgent small meeting to determine the maximum allowable amount of the counter-strike online agent in the United States and related details. After that, after arranging the company's affairs, Lin Feng took a few An assistant went to the United States alone.

This trip to the United States also made Lin Feng realize that there are too few think tanks around him. Every meeting has to convene Dingdang CEO Liu Yingying and "Second World" CEO Wu Zhaopu and others to negotiate, which is not good for the company's development. . In particular, the company under its own is growing stronger and stronger, and talents are indispensable for rapid and stable development, and a large number of talents.

Talents, talents, I hope I can search for some talents from this trip to the United States.

Americans and Japanese work in different ways and attitudes. Just after Lin Feng got off the plane, Valve’s CEO Newell and Mihnlee greeted Lin Feng personally and took Lin Feng directly to the company headquarters, making Lin Feng not even the legendary Silicon Valley. Enjoy it.

The headquarters of valve company, said the headquarters is actually not big. However, if you want to rent a floor or a building in Silicon Valley, a place where you have a lot of money, it is definitely not something that Valve, a company that only develops a few games, can afford.

After entering the company, after a simple greeting, Newell introduced the main creative staff of the company today, and asked the technicians to show Lin Feng the screen and operability of Counter-Strike online.

The screen inherits the consistent style of ter-strike. The lighting effects, screen details, music and sound effects are still not excellent, but it is enough to make the game run smoothly, and the excessive demand on the screen directly reduces the requirements for computer configuration. This is the key to the popularity of an online game.

As for the operation, it still provides as many guns as ter-strike, and maintains the original refreshing feeling and good feel. Lin Feng tried it and it felt very good. The feeling of sweeping the battlefield with an ak47 in hand is still so exciting.

As for the rules of the game, multiple modes have been added after the adaptation to an online game: competitive mode (traditional ter-strike LAN mode), decisive battle mode, grenade mode, extreme mode, biochemical mode, etc. The biggest highlight is the expansion of the faction system.

Counter-Strike o camp, t camp and zombie camp. In the ct camp, elite troops of various countries have appeared, such as the French armed operations group, the Russian snow-covered task force, the Taiwanese Thunder group, the Japanese warning agency, the US SEAL, etc., of course, the most important Chinese Yanlong Tactical Team.

auzw.com Lin Feng can imagine that once he becomes an agent in the future, there will be countless players who choose the Chinese Yanlong tactical team.

As for the t camp, there are the Blue Army (mercenary) in the United States, the reckless guerrillas in the Middle East, and the sunset army in Japan. What surprised Lin Feng was that in the t camp, Japan actually had three troops selected. I am afraid In the future, once the network is operated, whoever chooses the Japanese team in the t camp will be smashed.

The zombie camp is divided into five types of zombies: ordinary zombies, host zombies, shadow Barbie, hate butcher, witchcraft corpse and other five types of zombies. Although zombies cannot use guns, they have special skills that the human camp cannot match.

The three camps have their own advantages and disadvantages, and greatly enrich the game playability.

After some trials, Lin Feng was extremely satisfied with the quality of the counter-strike online game developed this year. If he acts as an agent, it will become popular on the Internet.

Seeing Lin Feng's satisfaction, valve CEO Newell and cs father mihnlee also showed smiles on their faces. This time they chose Lin Feng as the first agent partner of the counter-strike online that they just developed. In addition to the previous successful cooperation experience between the two parties, the more important point is that Valve is cooperating with the company Xueleshan before, because of the previous game. The copyright issue is being litigated, and the relationship between the two companies has deteriorated extremely. Therefore, Newell, who originally planned to call for agents in the North American market first, set his sights on other markets altogether.

And after their market research, although the European online game market started early, the number of games is not large. Football is the number one sport there, and football games are also the number one game. Although the world's most famous cs team is also in Europe, Valve CEO Newell is not optimistic about the prospects of Counter-Strike Online in Europe, at least in the short term, the return will never meet Newell's current requirements.

Now the lawsuit between Valve and Xueleshan is stalemate, no matter who wins in the end, the two companies will not be able to cooperate again. For Valve, which has run out of funds due to the development of counter-strike online and halflive2, this first agent must be successful and must be able to bring them huge funds for subsequent research and development.

Europe is not good, Africa does not need to think about it, Oceania has too few people, not as good as Europe, in the end Newell set his sights on Asia. At first, Mihnlee proposed to cooperate with Lin Feng, but Newell believed that a company that sold genuine copies had limited strength. Although the two parties had cooperated happily before, they could not bring the huge amount of funds to Valve, so Lin Feng was rejected from the beginning.

However, after careful investigation, Newell discovered that the hottest online game market in Asia today is not Japan, not South Korea, but China. And China's most popular online game company, it can be said that the well-deserved overlord is the "Second World". After further investigation, it was discovered that the president of the "Second World" was actually Lin Feng who had been vetoed by him before, and Newell was dumbfounded on the spot.

Especially when I heard that Lin Feng's "Second World" development legend, with monthly profits of tens of millions of dollars, Newell was even more shocked and speechless. The halflive they developed, which was well received by the market, only brought in 15 million US dollars in revenue for valve, while the legend developed by Lam Fung had almost this figure every month. This shocked Newell and immediately made a decision. Lin Feng's determination to cooperate.

Now he asked Mihnlee, who had been in contact with Lin Feng, to call Lin Feng, and Lin Feng's trip to the United States began.

The cooperation attitudes of both parties are sincere, and each other has cooperation experience, and the negotiation is naturally smooth. Newell asked for an agency fee of US$10 million in mainland China and enjoyed a 30% profit share.

For this type of negotiation, Lin Feng is already familiar with it. Regardless of Newell’s development of a series of world-renowned masterpieces, but in negotiations, Newell, who is a technical researcher, is not as good as Lin Feng, otherwise he would not have a game copyright dispute with Xueleshan, which he had previously cooperated with.

After some bargaining, Newell insisted on the agency fee of US$8 million, but the profit share was reduced to 20%. It was even possible to give the Asian agency rights to Lin Feng, but the initial agency fee of US$8 million could not be less. .

This is not that Newell is stupid, but that Valve is now in trouble. The lawsuit with Xueleshan has not only been protracted and consumed a lot of energy from the company's senior management, but also made many venture capitalists hesitate and prevented Newell from obtaining new financing. And now the valve must obtain at least 8 million US dollars of working capital, otherwise the following series of development plans will be stranded or even terminated. Therefore, Newell did not hesitate to reduce the profit sharing, and even gave Lin Feng the agency rights of the entire Asia, in order to obtain a huge amount of working capital.

Lam Fung knew that this was Newell's lowest price. Of course, Newell's limit is not yet reached. But doing things is indispensable. Cooperating with Valve is just the beginning. There is no need to make the relationship so rigid for a little benefit. Lin Feng doesn't want to become the second Xuele Mountain, and he will fight with Valve in the future.

However, Lin Feng did not agree to Newell's agency contract because a plan suddenly appeared in his mind.