Chapter 519 Prisoner's Dilemma and Behemoth
Hearing Hawkins' words.
Frank was silent for a long time, and finally just replied: "There is an old saying in the East, that is, to respond to all changes with constancy."
"Shit!! You are not going to betray me again, are you? Have you contacted Linmu Studio? Do you want to negotiate with them!?"
Hawkins heard this and instantly became furious. He approached step by step and questioned directly.
"Don't spit blood, you are too sensitive."
Frank heard him say this, and immediately stood up and denied loudly.
In fact, both of them knew it well.
Both of them were a little discouraged...
There was no way.
A "Call of Duty" directly interrupted the development momentum of Game player, and at the same time laid an absolute advantage for the Vaporwave game platform.
Such a game, plus the advantages laid by the first operation of the Vaporwave game platform, plus factors such as the community and creative workshop, players almost voted with their feet.
Game player is now giving away games, and players will accept them, and there are many players playing.
But in the end, players will still flow back to the Vaporwave game platform...
This is a very tiring process.
But this is not the last straw that broke the camel's back.
If they are willing to continue to burn money and slowly cultivate players, it is indeed possible to share the world with the Vaporwave game platform.
Investors are also confident.
After all, the successful example of the Vaporwave game platform is there.
However, a carnival directly destroyed the confidence of investors and the two helmsmen.
Linmu Studio still has many games.
Many excellent games.
They can also use an event to make the entire game circle fall into a carnival.
What to do?
After this problem surfaced.
What followed was a feeling of frustration and the idea of retreating.
Otherwise... let's go back to the Vaporwave game platform.
This is also good, isn't it?
Each game can sell two or three million more copies.
This is also money.
Once this idea came up, it was out of control.
This is also the reason why Dreamland and Gibbs contacted Linmu Studio to discuss the division again.
In fact, although the two companies talked secretly.
But Frank and Hawkins were sure that the other party should have done the same thing!
So at this time, both of them exploded.
"How dare you say you didn't contact Linmu Studio!"
Hawkins also let go and stared at Frank.
"No!"
Frank frowned and said, "And what we are discussing now is what Game Player is going to do after the release of Diablo! Not to attack each other!"
"Then what do you say? Sit back and wait?" Hawkins raised his voice.
"What do you mean by sit back and wait for change! It's better to stay the same in the face of change! Why are you so nervous? Diablo hasn't been released yet! Who knows what will happen? Besides, a game can't affect too many things, let alone a game with dual login."
Frank explained, "What if? What if their game is average? You know, Monster Hunter didn't sell well in Europe and the United States..."
"Enough!"
Hawkins interrupted him directly, almost vomiting blood: "You say this every time! You think so every time! You think the other party's game is average every time! But every time you are crushed by the other party! When did you predict it right? FUCK!"
After that,
he turned around and left angrily.
Frank was left alone in embarrassment.
Then.
Wait until Hawkins left.
Frank slowly reacted, with an angry look on his face.
The two of them parted ways unhappily.
Game player also walked to the edge of the cliff in a true sense.
That day.
Linmu Studio received another call from two companies.
Although it was not from people of the level of Frank and Hawkins, the meaning was the same as last time.
You reduce the share, and I will come back...
It's just more obvious than last time.
But after Mu Wanqing reported this to Lin Yao.
Lin Yao directly replied, "Don't pay attention."
Then she went to do her own thing.
Lin Xi and Zhang Youjie are really reliable. The mobile phone factory they acquired was originally thought to be an ordinary company that was about to go bankrupt, but after Lin Yao received the due diligence report, she found... There was an unexpected surprise.
So for now, she can't take care of Game player.
Talk about it later!
...
"The other party still refused it outright? There was no room for negotiation?"
Frank heard the report from his subordinates.
He was slightly stunned.
After all, Gibbs is a large developer and publisher at the same level as Linmu Studio, let's not talk about anything else.
They have a lot of well-known IPs and more than 25 games under development. They are almost the leading companies in the fields of guns, cars and balls, and cars and balls.
The only company that can compete with them in these two fields is Dreamland.
Don't even talk about it?
Just reject it directly?
Isn't that too arrogant?
Are our games so unimportant?
"Yes." The subordinate didn't say anything more and gave a definite answer directly.
"FUCK, forget it! Let them keep talking! Just issue a notice saying that Gibber's games will never be available on the Vaporwave game platform in the future! All the games released at the carnival are consoles! "Diablo" hasn't even appeared yet! Do you think you are invincible?"
Frank also got angry.
Besides, it is also a European and American hegemon.
How could he have suffered such humiliation.
Although the sales volume is much less if it is not available on the Vaporwave game platform, it is not impossible to sell. In the two fields of cars and balls, players still have to go to Game Player if they want to play!
Can they play on the Vaporwave game platform instead of Game Player?
Unless the game of Dreamland is available on the Vaporwave game platform...
Wait.
Dreamland!
"Okay."
On the other side.
The subordinate heard the order, turned around and left, swiftly and decisively.
"Stop right there."
But the next second.
Frank stopped him suddenly: "Don't post the announcement yet, go and ask Dreamland first, and then don't mention the game of Gibbs, post it in the name of Game player. In addition, even if you post the announcement, continue to contact Linmu Studio."
Subordinates: "?"
Very confused, with question marks all over his head.
However.
He didn't ask much, anyway, he was just a part-time worker.
In the end, he just nodded and turned to leave the office.
That day.
Dreamland agreed to Frank's suggestion very straightforwardly.
Then, Game player issued an announcement without stopping.
The general idea is... players don't have to worry, all games under Game player will never be available on the Vaporwave game platform!
The wording of this announcement is very intense, but it is actually quite nonsensical to the players.
Why did you suddenly issue this announcement?
Linmu Studio didn't say anything...
However.
Many players who like car and ball games are indeed relieved after seeing this announcement.
With the rise of the Vaporwave game platform, game accounts with multiple games have also become virtual property and become important.
As for general players, most of them buy games on Vaporwave game platform because of its strong performance, unless the game they are interested in is not available.
But some people mainly buy games on Game player. Seeing that Vaporwave game platform is getting stronger and stronger, they are really afraid that the former will suddenly stop operating one day.
They really don’t know where to cry.
Now that this announcement has been issued, they feel relieved.
However,
what they don’t know is that
within ten minutes after the announcement was issued,
the phone calls from Gibber Company and Dreamland reached Linmu Studio...
which made the staff of Linmu Studio very confused.
No,
didn’t you say that the game will never be available on Vaporwave game platform?
I have written the report to Lin Yao, and you are contacting me again now?
What a psychopath!
But complaints are complaints.
They also responded to them seriously according to the reply given by Lin Yao.
In short, the commission of Vaporwave game platform games will not be changed for the time being, and it has nothing to do with you.
I thought that it was over after replying to this extent.
But the staff didn't expect that the other party would not give up. Instead of continuing to hint at the profit sharing, they began to ask indirectly whether Dreamland/Gibber had reached an agreement with Linmu Studio...
Linmu Studio staff: "???"
...
The gaming circle was very lively.
Especially after Game Player released the announcement.
Most players thought that the two gaming platforms were going to fight again...
And privately, the game between Dreamland and Gibber in the prisoner's dilemma also added a lot of topics to the internal conversation of Linmu Studio.
But these have nothing to do with Lin Yao.
The release date of "Diablo" is set in stone, and there is no big problem for the time being.
She temporarily put aside the game.
Taking advantage of the time before the game was released, she went to the acquired mobile phone factory.
Although the acquisition has not been officially completed, it has been settled.
After all, this technology limited liability company named Youmei, which focuses on mobile phones and hardware, really can't survive. As soon as
Lin Xi and Zhang Youjie talked about the acquisition.
On the same day.
Youmei held a special meeting of directors.
The acquisition plan was quickly passed.
Although the bargaining lasted for two days, the speed was really fast, as if the other party couldn't wait to get rid of the hot potato in their hands.
When Lin Yao went to this Youmei Technology Co., Ltd.,
although the acquisition had not been officially completed, the boss of this company was still very polite, even a little too polite.
It seemed that he was afraid that Lin Yao would not acquire it.
After learning that Lin Yao was coming,
he ran to the door to greet her in person.
"Welcome to you!"
The boss of Youmei is a wealthy man in his early fifties, with a beer belly, a square face, and a kind smile on his face. His name is Li Qianxi.
"Actually, there is no need to do this. I just take a look."
Lin Yao looked at Li Qianxi and was quite surprised by this.
Although according to the information, Youmei has undergone three mergers, there are many internal factions, and several sub-brands are fighting each other. The grassroots staff can't say that they have any sense of identity with the company.
But for Li Qianxi, the chairman of the board, who built Youmei single-handedly, he must have some feelings.
This eagerness to complete the acquisition immediately... is indeed a bit strange.
"No, this is what I should do." Li Qianxi shook her head, still smiling.
Next to her.
Mu Wanqing heard what the other party said and knew that Lin Yao didn't like such a scene.
So she took the initiative to step forward. She
started to greet the other party.
Then, they started to brag about each other's business.
No.
It should be Li Qianxi who praised Lin Mu Studio.
And Mu Wanqing was finding faults, finding faults with Youmei...
In short.
Thousands of words can be summed up in one sentence - I feel that Youmei is not worth 700 million, and it looks like she wants to talk again.
As Mu Wanqing spoke more and more.
The smile on Li Qianxi's face slowly stiffened. Looking at the queen in front of him who was about the same age as his daughter, he realized that he had met an opponent.
However.
Mu Wanqing just didn't want Lin Yao to be disturbed, but she didn't continue to pursue the victory. After Li Qianxi said that the acquisition plan had been confirmed, she gave up.
"...I'll let my secretary take you on a tour. If you have any questions, you can ask him."
Sure enough.
Perhaps Li Qianxi was frightened by Mu Wanqing's aura of wanting to renegotiate, and finally did not insist on accompanying Lin Yao to visit, but let the secretary go.
Then, the secretary standing behind Li Qianxi took the initiative to step forward and began to lead Lin Yao, Mu Wanqing and two other staff members into Youmei.
Li Qianxi saw that Mu Wanqing did not insist on negotiating the price.
He breathed a sigh of relief.
He finally met a sucker, and he was really afraid that the other party would run away...
"Boss, there is no need to be so humble."
Beside.
Li Qianxi's nephew, Li Jian, who is also the deputy general manager of Youmei, looked at Mu Wanqing's back and felt a little unhappy.
After all, Mu Wanqing just devalued Youmei to nothing!
"You go find another company willing to take over Youmei and let me take the money and leave, so I don't have to be so humble."
Li Qianxi glanced at his nephew and said coldly: "As long as it is not lower than the purchase price given by Linmu Studio, I can be humble to you."
"..."
Li Jian immediately felt a little embarrassed.
The mobile phone market share of Youmei is only 1%.
With this pitiful market share, it has four sub-brands.
The brand has no great value, and the internal situation is like a quagmire.
In addition, there are no mainstream patents to show off.
A large amount of money has been invested in researching a new operating system, but it failed miserably.
The value is really low...
even lower than the hammer in Lin Yao's previous life.
The only thing that is worth a little money is probably the self-built assembly plant.
Li Jian, a senior executive, and his colleagues in Youmei know this better than anyone else, so let alone 700 million, it is a problem whether they can find a buyer.
"So if
you don't have the ability, don't talk so much nonsense!" Li Qianxi glared at his nephew: "It's not easy to meet a fool... noble man! Don't talk so much, and let your people be smart and brag about our research lab! Settle the matter as soon as possible, otherwise the other party will regret it again!"
"I know, I have arranged it before." Li Jian replied in a low voice.
Li Qianxi stopped talking and breathed a sigh of relief again.
Finally, someone took over.
In fact, he himself did not think that Youmei was worth 700 million now. If it was four or five years ago, he would have dared to negotiate for 7 billion, but now... he really could not see any hope.
Taking the money now and leaving to make a comeback would be the best outcome.
Fortunately, he met a young and ignorant sucker.
Wish you good luck.
Li Qianxi looked at Lin Yao's back and finally couldn't help laughing.
Young people are so easy to deceive.
On the other side.
"You are quite mean, Miss Mu."
Lin Yao turned around and looked at Mu Wanqing, feeling a little funny.
Mu Wanqing's words just now almost made Li Qianxi sweat.
"What I said just now is really what I thought, Lin Yao. This company, except that the self-built assembly plant has some value, the entire company has no advantages compared with other peers."
Mu Wanqing shook her head gently: "It feels like it's too much."
"Not much. They definitely won't be willing to pay any less. If Lin Xi and Uncle Zhang's reports are not adulterated, they might make a lot of money."
Hearing this, Lin Yao smiled gently and showed a strange expression.
"Boss Lin, Boss Mu, shall I take you to visit the Kaishan Research Laboratory first?"
The secretary walking in front also had a strange expression when he heard Lin Yao's words.
But he didn't say much.
Instead, he spoke directly and wanted to take Lin Yao to visit the 'Kaishan Research Laboratory'.
"Okay."
Lin Yao put her hands behind her back and smiled very innocently, looking very happy.
This Kaishan Research Laboratory.
It is the confidence of Youmei to ask for 700 million.
As for what the Kaishan Research Laboratory is researching.
It's quite funny.
System.
Yes.
A brand new system that is said to be compatible with all touch screen mobile phones.
Youmei is not a company. During its development, it merged twice.
This led to a sudden increase in their brands, which were mixed and had no unified standards.
The troubles brought by the merger are far more than this. The merger also brought factional disputes.
The top executives of Youmei and the two merged companies were fighting fiercely, and no one was willing to give in. Then Li Qianxi listened to the advice of an engineer and thought that touch screen phones were the future seven years ago, so he wanted to start with the phone system and unite the entire company.
They spent a lot of money to develop an operating system based on Youmei's best-selling mobile phone based on existing open source resources.
They wanted to end the problem of no unified standards internally.
However, they obviously underestimated the complexity of the system development project and the degree of time, manpower and material resources consumed.
They couldn't do it.
After seven years of investment, they only made a semi-finished product.
This semi-finished product was eventually launched on the market.
And the result is imaginable.
First of all, the ecology is completely incompatible, resulting in very few third parties willing to adapt.
This directly led to the fact that their mobile phones equipped with the new system were basically bricks... and only 20,000 units were sold.
However, the future of touch screen mobile phones that Li Qianxi imagined has not come yet, and they have no way to promote the system, let the market accept it, and establish an ecology.
Finally, as the internal struggle of Youmei gradually escalated, the company as a whole began to go downhill and was defeated in the competition.
This mobile phone manufacturer, which could have been ranked in the top ten in China, has reached a new low in market share and its revenue has also begun to fall off a cliff.
In this case,
it is a pipe dream to continue to develop any operating system. It is
even rumored that Li Qianxi said in person that this was the stupidest decision he had ever made in his life.
As Youmei fell to the bottom, the investment in the system was also suspended, and the person in charge resigned, and the system development that required long-term investment was stillborn.
However,
probably because they felt that the cost of investing in this thing was too high, they were unwilling to give up just like that, so they still retained a team of more than 50 people and maintained basic updates.
Li Qianxi's idea was also very simple, that is, he planned to use this as a selling point to sell Youmei at a good price.
However,
no one was interested.
Because the current mobile phone operating system field.
Although there are many different.
But the father is the same.
That is the operating system called Jiaming.
The developer of this operating system is a joint venture platform company, which is composed of two overseas and two domestic mobile phone leaders.
The Jiaming operating system is basically compatible with all mainstream mobile phone models.
All manufacturers using the system form an alliance.
This is the famous Jiaming Alliance.
This is a giant.
Who is going to buy a new operating system? Can you beat Jiaming?
So.
No one has been interested in Youmei.
However.
Lin Yao is interested.
Not in Youmei, but mainly in their operating system. Their
operating system certainly has many problems, a lot of problems, and many functions that Lin Yao was accustomed to in her previous life are not even a shadow. It
is not an exaggeration to say that it is a semi-finished product. Otherwise, it would not
be sold for 700 million.
But... it has the taste of Android, yes, Android.
And this situation, it is really hard not to remind her of Symbian and Android, which were in their heyday at the time.
So she planned to try, let the switch team join in, and then invest money to see if it can be revitalized. If not, she will turn around and join the Jiaming Alliance! Bow down!
But if it can.
That would be fun.
After all, this is not Lin Yao's previous life.
Android and IOS share the world.
The Jiaming system currently used by the Jiaming Alliance... Lin Yao dared to guarantee that if mobile phones developed like in the past life, they would definitely not be able to keep up with the times.
After all, to install a software, one must check the supported mobile phone models one by one. Who can bear it?
When the old and the new are replaced,
people are always needed to break the old rules.
Linmu Studio now has a healthy cash flow and a good relationship with Reflecta. What if it is she who breaks the old rules?
Lin Yao is actually betting on the future.
After all, the worst result of Linmu Studio's entry into the mobile phone market is to make a mobile phone specifically for playing Linmu Studio games.
She can still bear this consequence.
Of course.
It depends on the operating system developed by Youmei.
If it does not meet expectations.
For Linmu Studio's first mobile phone, Lin Yao would rather bet on system rewards or join the Jiaming Alliance.
At most, it can be optimized on the basis of Jiaming system to make it more suitable for full screen.
Soon.
Under the leadership of Secretary Li Qianxi, Lin Yao and Mu Wanqing came to the most valuable "Kaishan Research Laboratory" department of Youmei.
The person in charge had been waiting at the door for a long time, and seemed to have received the news. The person in charge
is Li Qi, who looks about 45 or 46 years old. It is said that he has been in Kaishan Research Laboratory for ten years. He led the development of the entire system.
He saw Lin Yao and was very enthusiastic.
After all, Lin Yao will be the new boss next. Whether he can get funds or be laid off depends on this boss.
Unlike Li Qianxi, he still believes that self-developed systems have great potential!
But a good cook cannot cook without rice.
Now seeing someone with rice, he is very excited.
"I didn't expect that President Lin is so young and beautiful, just like..."
"Stop."
Lin Yao suddenly shuddered and interrupted him.
It's really corny for a science and engineering student to praise someone.
And use metaphors, so stiff...
"You don't have to say it, please let me try the mobile phone system you developed." Lin Yao said directly.
"Okay."
Li Qi was not good at praising people either. He smiled awkwardly when he heard Lin Yao get straight to the point.
He took Lin Yao to the conference room directly and handed a prototype to Lin Yao.
At the same time, he put another prototype on the table.
"President Lin, the mobile phone in your hand is the latest mobile phone equipped with our Kaishan system, but because of President Li's request, most of the functions in it are imitating Jiaming... If you want to experience the original Kaishan system, I recommend using this mobile phone."
"Oh?"
Lin Yao showed an interested expression, immediately put down the prototype in his hand, turned around and picked up another one.
Li Qi was slightly surprised when he saw this scene.
Are you not interested in imitating Jiaming?
Isn't the foreshadowing chapter boring...
(End of this chapter)
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