After dinner, Lin Chen received a call from Zhang Yiming, so he went back to his room to answer it.
Zhang Yiming told him that Tencent had already approved a game that copied "Genshin Impact: The Prequel - Gods and Demons War" and named it "Honor of Kings"!
Lin Chen thought to himself, it can't really be considered copying us. To be precise, it was his past life's TX that he copied.
Alas, when will this cycle of vengeance end?
How is their development progressing?
"We don't know yet. Tencent is taking this game very seriously, and there's very little information available. But there's something else that's strange."
"What's up?"
"I heard that Tencent is acquiring anime copyrights on a large scale."
"Um?"
Acquiring anime rights? Shouldn't you be focusing on making games? How come you have time to watch anime?
Lin Chen was also completely baffled.
"Forget about anime for now. Since Tencent has started developing new games, the subsidies from Lashou.com will definitely decrease. Keep a close eye on Lashou.com's subsidy dynamics. As soon as their subsidies decrease, we'll immediately increase our subsidies."
"Yes, Mr. Lin, it's all ready."
"By the way, this has to be kept a secret. Don't let Jack Ma find out."
After hanging up the phone, Lin Chen was still muttering about the comic when An Rou happened to come in and overhear him.
"Comics? What comics?"
"Oh, Zhang Yiming just said that Tencent has been frantically acquiring comic book copyrights lately. I don't understand why they would acquire comic book copyrights at such a critical moment."
An Rou thought for a moment and said, "Could it be for game character modeling?"
"Um?"
An Rou's reminder suddenly sparked a flash of inspiration in Lin Chen's mind!
"Yes, that must be it. Anrou, you're so smart."
After saying that, he hugged An Rou and kissed her.
An Rou shyly patted him: "What are you doing? We're at home."
"Hehe, I couldn't help it, I couldn't help it."
Lin Chen took out his phone again and called Zhang Yiming.
"Mr. Lin, is there anything else?"
"I've got it. TX acquired the comic book rights for character modeling in their new game. They don't have time to design every single character, so choosing characters from the existing comic book characters that meet their expectations is the quickest way, and they might even gain a wave of comic book fans."
"You've got a dead body! That's a really clever move."
"Here's what we're going to do, Mr. Zhang. You can secretly leak this information and let those comic studios take the opportunity to make a quick buck off them. Hehe, we can call this robbing the rich to help the poor."
"Haha, great, I'm going right now."
During the New Year's Day holiday, several well-known bloggers on Weibo simultaneously revealed that Tencent (TX) was acquiring comic book copyrights in large quantities in order to create character models for its new game.
Upon hearing this news, Pony Ma frowned. "Damn it! Who's so shameless as to spread this kind of news? What's wrong with acquiring comic book copyrights? Can't it be because I, Pony Ma, like reading comics?"
This is terrible! If this news gets out, those comic book studios aren't stupid; they'll definitely take the opportunity to raise prices!
Sure enough, when Yao Xiaoguang's team went to acquire the copyrights again, the prices were all at least double what they had previously estimated.
Even those who had been in contact before have all changed their minds this time.
Yao Xiaoguang could understand; when it comes to making money, there's no need to be ashamed.
However, they had only acquired the rights to 6 anime, which included 6 usable characters. They could make do with that, and at most, they could have 10.
There are still at least 6 less impacts than the 16 impacts planned for the first phase of the game.
Yao Xiaoguang called Wu Manni and told her about the matter.
Wu Manni immediately made the decision: "Manager Yao, don't worry about the price. Buy the ones you like right away, and be quick. It would be best to negotiate with the remaining companies at the same time and sign contracts together, so that we don't end up paying for one only to have them raise the price again."
"Okay, I understand."
Since Wu Manni said so, and he doesn't have to take the blame anymore, he might as well go ahead and do it. After all, this game design is the culmination of his many years of hard work.
After investigation, Yao Xiaoguang's team finally identified four animation studios as the final acquisition targets.
The troops were divided into four groups and launched a simultaneous attack!
After a series of bargaining negotiations, the entire acquisition was finally completed at a price twice the market price.
Yao Xiaoguang breathed a sigh of relief when he heard from the last group of colleagues that the contracts had been signed.
He checked the selected game character information one last time, then got up and walked towards Wu Manni's office.
"Mr. Wu, I have successfully completed the task."
"Great, that's wonderful. I'll have the modeling team start creating the game character models right away. Manager Yao, thank you for your hard work."
"This is what I should do."
"Come with me to the modeling team, let's make some arrangements."
"OK."
The two arrived at the game department's modeling team, where Yao Xiaoguang provided all the information on the game characters, as well as the original drawings of the anime characters.
The modeling team was overjoyed.
"Great, with these, the rest of the work will only take a little time to complete."
Wu Manni clapped her hands.
"Everyone, from now on, please work hard and put in some extra hours. Ideally, we should be able to complete the modeling of the first batch of 16 characters within a week."
"Damn it, Manager Wu, you're killing us! Even though it's supposed to take some time to complete, if we have to model 16 characters in a week, we could practically live in the office."
"After completion, I will apply to Mr. Ma for a bonus based on the workload."
"Ah... For the company, for Mr. Ma, I definitely have to work overtime. It has nothing to do with bonuses."
Actually, the game department hasn't had a normal rest since the last meeting called by Little Ma. They've been working 996 for the past few days. But according to Wu Manni, 996 isn't enough, they need to work 007!
Of course, it's impossible for everyone to go without sleep for seven consecutive days; otherwise, several people would probably die suddenly.
Rather, it means that for these seven days, everyone ate and slept at the company. When they were hungry, they ate; when they were sleepy, they slept for an hour or two; and the rest of the time they worked.
New Year's Day is over, and the 007 workday in the game modeling team has begun. As long as the bonus is high, what is 007? Working 24 hours a day is the limit of the Earth's rotation, not my limit!
Lin Chen also returned to Shanghai.
"President Lin, I heard that Tencent has started putting the game department staff on 007 (working overtime) to finish the game as soon as possible so they can compete with us in PvP."
"Wow, that's impressive? It's already 007. What about Lashou.com?"
"I was just about to tell you that Lashou.com has introduced a new subsidy policy. The subsidy is based on the transaction volume. Popular stores with higher transaction volumes receive higher subsidies, while stores with lower transaction volumes receive very little or no subsidies."
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