Rebirth of the big era of online games

Chapter 454 "China's Good Songs"

(It may not be possible to update in the next 2 or 3 days. Everyone should have a general understanding of the situation at home. If there are occasional interruptions in the future for 1 or 2 days, it must be because I am busy with family affairs. I will not explain additionally. I hope everyone understands.)
At this moment, the concept of "One Belt, One Road" has not been proposed at the national level, but Fang Jie thinks that the previous country's proposal of this concept is really very wise.

Since the "One Belt, One Road" can be achieved economically, it can also be "One Belt, One Road" culturally!

So Fang Jie borrowed this concept, and first came up with the "Belt and Road" in folk culture.

This is not a conspiracy. Fang Jie's cultural "One Belt, One Road" is to help other countries, especially those developing countries, to build their own culture and build their own national and cultural self-confidence.

Once this kind of self-confidence is established and the national consciousness rises, not to mention that the people will widely have a good impression of China, even if they only hold an objective and neutral attitude, it will not be easy for the West to interfere in social ideology and public opinion. It is a strategic victory.

Therefore, the so-called solitary music is not as good as all the music, and the well-produced Chinese phenomenal variety show "The Great Master of Dancing Forest" should also be shared with the people of other countries for free.

If people in other countries can’t understand it due to different cultures, it doesn’t matter, then we will help you create your own country’s “The Great Master of Dance”. interested.

In addition, the planning proposal is directly available to you for free, and the relevant experience routines are given to you for free guidance. You don’t have stage equipment and technical personnel.

If you are worried about not being able to support the scene, it doesn't matter, we can send our own choreographers and dance troupes to perform on stage as guests of the show, to hold the stage for you and ensure that your "The Greatest Dancer" can be upscale.

We can even promise that if the show doesn't make money, we won't take any money, and if it makes money, we don't ask too much, just show some kindness and don't make us lose money.

In short, we provide all-round support to ensure that you, the organizer, hardly have to worry about it, and you don’t have any worries, and you can just lie down and make money!

Faced with these favorable conditions offered by Boiling Entertainment, it is impossible for other countries to be indifferent to entertainment capital with a little ambition. Even if they may know in their hearts that this is a kind of cultural export, does it matter?
Capitalists don't consider these things at all. As long as they can make money, they will not refuse. If the risk is still small, they will rush to it. This law applies everywhere.

So after Boiling Entertainment released the cooperation news, entertainment capitals from various countries in Southeast Asia entered the pit first, followed by Africa and Latin America, and then Ark Entertainment came forward and represented Citigroup and Empire on which the Sun Never Sets.

In order to warm up the promotion of "The Greatest Dancer" in their own country, the TV stations of various countries also broadcast a round of "The Greatest Dancer" from Huaguo.

Anyway, in their view, the copyright of this program is free, and if it is aired to earn ratings, the advertising fee in exchange is money for nothing.

Of course, due to cultural differences, after Huaguo's "The Great Master of Dance" was broadcast on TV stations in various countries, the public's response was mixed.

Most Western people bluntly say that although it is very novel, amazed and shocking, they still do not understand it, especially Huaguo classical dance. I understand, but it doesn't prevent them from coming out to pretend to be aggressive, and self-righteously interpreting dances in various exaggerated ways.

The people in Southeast Asia can really understand it, so they love this show very much, especially the Korean wave idol group in it, which is their favorite.

During the period, many Korean stars and idols and the general public were very supportive, promoting how good this show was everywhere, and even wanted to point their noses to announce to the world that this is a variety show hosted by their country.

This is actually true.

Although the Korean side is obviously at a disadvantage in the show, and the Korean people are a little unhappy about it, but after all, this show is indeed a variety show jointly organized by the entertainment companies of the two countries, and there are many wonderful Korean traditional and modern dance performances in it.

To praise this show is to praise oneself. In this regard, the Korean people and the Chinese people finally reached a consensus and began to speak out unanimously.

Now Fang Jie can stand up and speak plausibly: Look, this is a model of folk culture exchanges between the two countries. It successfully resolved the misunderstanding between the two parties and enhanced mutual trust and love.

But, the variety show "Good Songs from Huaguo" can't take you guys to play. After all, the language barrier, the planning proposal can't be given to you for the time being. I have to wait until the show is out of the circle.

But, we are not unreasonable people. Since the two parties have cooperated happily before and Boiling Entertainment is the major shareholder of JYP Entertainment, I have planned another music reality show variety show for you: "The King of Masked Singer".

Well, you just need to continue cultivating tool circle fans honestly to make money, don't follow us to join in the fun.

In the previous life, "The King of Masked Singer" was a phenomenon-level variety show in Korea, and many aspects of the show were very innovative. At that time, even Fang Jie, an old driver who had watched countless variety shows, saw this show. into the pit.

However, after this program was knocked off and brought to China, many highlights were changed beyond recognition.

It's not that changes are not allowed. It would be better if there were innovative improvements, but the problem is that the copycat version of "The King of Masked Singer" has almost lost the essence of the show, and it has become a variety show with four different characters.

The reason why "The King of Masked Singer" is called "The King of Masked Singer" is that the core gimmick is "masked mask", followed by "the king of singer", that is, to hide the identity, status and fame of the singer, and put aside the inherent preferences of the audience Influenced by concepts, the singers will decide the winner based on their singing skills in a relatively fair environment.

At the same time, this mechanism can also bring a sense of unknown and suspense to the audience, and create various gimmicks to make people look forward to it.

In order to hide the identities of the participating singers, the Korean entertainment company did everything possible, and they really hid everyone.

However, the domestic counterfeit version has a group of inexplicable guests in the guessing and commenting session. It is a large-scale embarrassing chat show that is more foolish than anyone else. Later, they may feel that doing so is too insulting to the IQ of the audience, and some guests simply stopped pretending. , bluntly said that he knew the identity of the singer, but it was not convenient to say.

Since you all know the singer's identity, why don't you just "guess and guess" the fart, and just name it "Singer Contest", isn't it insulting the IQ of the audience and treating them like monkeys?
Of course, the name "Singer Contest" is not dared to be used, nor is "Masked Singer", only "Masked Singer".

Why?

A bunch of big-name singers on the stage refused to agree, you won, I can admit that you are a "singer", but I will never admit that you are a "king of singers", otherwise where will I put my face?

Those second-rate and third-rate singers also refused.

Why do you have to "mask" to hide your identity?We are afraid that we are not famous enough!

Our singing skills are not very good, and the voice recognition is not high. Even if we sing with the original voice, the audience can't recognize it, so we can cover our faces on the show, but outside the show, we will show our fans through major entertainment media It is necessary for them to reveal their whereabouts openly and secretly, and to check the popularity of this show by the way.

As a result, "The King of Masked Singer" has become a tasteless variety show that pretends to be ignorant, rather than a phenomenon-level variety show on Huaguo's side.

You say this show is not good, but it is actually okay. Although the guessing group is fooling the audience, and even the singers are highlighting their identities, at least some singers really sing well, proving that they are not in vain.

But if you want to say how good-looking it is, it’s not enough. Without the unknown and novelty of the guessing part, and even a little more embarrassment, this kind of music variety show has lost its own characteristics, and it is far from other music variety shows. nice.

In the previous life, "The King of Masked Singer" in South Korea was premiered on MBC TV in 2015, and it was only a few months later in China, and it also premiered in 2015. After all, domestic variety shows had copied their experiences and copied their efficiency at that time, just like 2002 It's the same as Korean online games around [-]. Regardless of whether it will become popular or not, hurry up and go back to China as an agent, anyway, it's not that bad.

The present Fang Jie brought the program over and did not use it himself, but decided to "return it to its original owner". This is not because he has no confidence to make this program well in China, but because such programs are not conducive to supporting content creation and innovation. It is not beneficial, but it will intensify the popularity of tool people in the domestic fan circle.

Of course, Fang Jie didn’t mean to exclude tool people, but just said that cultural strategy pays more attention to content creators.

Like "The Great Master of Dancing Forest", he didn't kill the tool people at once. While supporting the choreographer, he also made the tool people such as dancers and dance troupes famous and gained a lot of benefits. No choreographer is more famous and the benefits are more.

The same is true for the upcoming "Songs of Huaguo" that will be released in the new year.

Compared with the previous life, the "Good Songs of Huaguo" planned by Fang Jie in this life has a little improvement, that is, the performers on stage are famous singers, not necessarily songwriters.

Of course, whether it's behind-the-scenes footage, on-site interviews, or appraisal objects, the protagonists are still songwriters and their works.

That is to say, after songwriters create their own songs, they have the right to choose to perform on stage themselves, or they can choose singers who they think can express their works more perfectly.

After all, even if songwriters can sing, their singing skills are generally not as good as professional singers. Maybe a song sung by themselves and a professional singer will have completely different effects.

Especially for those famous singers, if a piece of work is entrusted to them to sing, it may become popular, and the songwriter who sings it himself, unless he is a genius like Jay Chou, may disappear from the public, let alone Jay Chou's debut. It also experienced some setbacks at the beginning.

Considering the effect of the program, the first impression of the audience is very important. It is better to directly invite famous singers to sing these original songs. After all, these singers themselves have their own traffic, and their image and temperament are more in line with the public aesthetics. The crooked songwriters can't beat it at all.

Of course, it would be even better if one or two singer-songwriters with a good image and temperament, strong singing skills, and excellent creative ability can emerge, but this really depends on luck, and you can't place your hopes on them. this.

All in all, the core idea of ​​"Good Songs of Huaguo" is to let singers play supporting roles, and take advantage of their power to praise popular songwriters and their songs. Becoming famous, or further consolidating one's popularity and status in the world, is a win-win result, but the emphasis is different.

This is different from the "Good Songs of Huaguo" in the previous life. In the previous life, "Good Songs of Huaguo" did become famous for many excellent songs, such as "Yezi", "Wukong", "Once Upon a Time", etc., but their creators They did not gain the corresponding fame and status.

Many audiences have only heard these songs and can hum a few lines, but most people may not be able to name the songwriter when it comes to who the author is.

Secondly, some songs may not be worse than these out-of-the-box songs, but were buried because the songwriters sang them themselves, lowering the audio-visual quality of the stage. Now Fang Jie has made some improvements in these aspects.

This music reality show can only be presided over by Fang Jie himself.

The reason is very simple, Liao Shunbin will return to Ark Entertainment to arrange "The Greatest Dancer" around the world, and Li Qing will also participate in the recording of "The Greatest Dancer" in several major countries as the Chinese representative and program guest.

Liao Shunbin doesn't need to explain, this is his job in the first place. If this project can be done well, it will be of great benefit to Ark Entertainment's performance, which will further strengthen his right to speak and status in Ark Entertainment.

As for Li Qing, on the one hand, due to the needs of cultural strategy, Fang Jie must send someone who is professionally representative and trusted by him to sit in charge; on the other hand, it is purely out of interest, and the latter has a greater proportion.

Compared with intriguing company management, Li Qing prefers purer dances. This time "The Greatest Dancer" is being rolled out to countries all over the world, it just gives her a good opportunity to learn and integrate various foreign folk dances, so she naturally does her part.

Another reason is that professional people do professional things.

Li Qing's major is dance. As the president of Boiling Entertainment, of course he is in charge of the dance variety show, while Fang Jie, as the number one "Qu Daddy" in China, of course has to take charge of the music variety show himself.

Well, even though "Father Qu" is a title given by people in the industry and the public, Fang Jie never admits it, but there is no way, even Li Qing never doubted that her husband can't compose lyrics at all. , let alone outsiders.

Of course, whether it is the international version of "The Great Master of Dance", or the Korean "King of Masked Singer", or the domestic "Huaguo Song", it is only in the preparation stage before and after the Chinese New Year. The specific launch time will definitely have to wait until the new year. I went later.

As for the Chinese New Year period, the entire group company knows that their boss does not work, and the office phone is turned off directly, and they spend the New Year happily at home, like this every year.

But this year's Spring Festival, Fang Jie was not very happy.

During the New Year's Eve dinner, Fang Wanxing put on a straight face, and directly issued an ultimatum to the young couple Fang Jie and Li Qing: within the year, he must have a grandson!

The so-called unfilialism has three things: having no offspring is the biggest. After the new year, Fang Jie will be thirty, and it is time to consider the issue of family succession.

In fact, Fang Jie or Li Qing cannot be blamed for this matter, the two of them did not deliberately avoid this kind of thing, everything is going with the flow.

During this period, it was not that Li Qing had never been pregnant, but three times in a row, the fetus, which was originally normal, stopped for no reason at the age of three months, and had to be aborted. Doctors and experts could not explain why. Come.

Fang Jie understands numerology, even a hidden numerology master. Things that science can’t solve can be easily explained by metaphysics. If you change your luck, there must be a backlash.

In fact, not to mention this life, it was the same in the previous life. In the previous life, he finally used various means to save one, but the result...it's hard to describe.

In this life, there have been three consecutive natural abortions in a few years, which made Fang Jie actually have no hope for the succession of the family.

People who are well versed in metaphysics take life and death lightly, let alone offspring. The so-called drinking and pecking are pre-determined, and there are reasons for it. .

But he was following fate, his wife Li Qing and father Fang Wanxing did not promise to follow fate.

Li Qing is a relatively traditional woman. Three consecutive miscarriages hurt her, not only physically, but also psychologically. She thought it was her own problem. I'm afraid it has already collapsed.

Dad Fang Wanxing is even more troublesome, because he has his own firm beliefs, and metaphysics is not easy to use in front of him.

According to what Fang Wanxing thought, who knows if Fang Jie, a bastard, is fooling people with these babbling words. He has never heard that his son has learned metaphysics before, um... probably he is learning from the Taoist priest who is by his side all day long. Yes, paralyzed, this little Taoist priest is not a son of man and does not do good deeds!

Kaiwu expressed his injustice for this - what the hell does this have to do with me?
How the hell do I know when the boss learned metaphysics! ?

Before I met the boss, his metaphysical attainments were already superior to mine?
It's a pity that every time Kaiwu sees Fang Wanxing, the other party just casts one or two unfriendly glances from time to time, but he doesn't point it out. This makes Kaiwu even more hurt, and he doesn't even have a chance to explain, and he directly becomes a blame man .

But at the dinner table of the New Year's Eve, Fang Jie could only bite the bullet and say that if it really didn't work, he would be a test-tube baby, maybe he could use science to defeat metaphysics.

After all, metaphysics is actually a kind of humanities, statistics, and dialectics. It is not an immutable mathematical formula, but it has been mystified. Therefore, in some special cases, it is really possible to achieve "man can conquer nature".

The most typical example is "family planning". No matter how many children you have in your life according to metaphysics, in the previous 20 years, most Chinese families were only children. As for whether there will be any backlash in the future, let the benevolent see the benevolent and the wise see wisdom...

The offspring crisis was temporarily resolved. Once the new year was over, Fang Jie didn't dare to stay in his hometown anymore, even on the mainland, and went directly to Xiangjiang to sit in Ark International.

For the whole year of 2010, Fang Jie hardly inquired about the affairs of Fangzhou International. The reason has been mentioned before. After the merger and acquisition of relevant international well-known companies in 09, it will take time for internal integration and precipitation.

Although a year has passed, the internal integration has not been completely completed, and the internal management of its subsidiaries is still somewhat chaotic.

But Fang Jie didn't bother to care about such shit. As long as the basic "Ark" game remained stable, everything else would be fine. Even if one or two subsidiaries went bankrupt, it wouldn't have any serious impact on his future plans.

At present, the development momentum of the "Ark" game is quite good. By the end of 2010, the number of people online at the same time in the world has reached more than 5000 million per day.

Especially after the release of the "Ark: Voyage Century" version, the number of online users has doubled in an instant from less than 09 million in 3000.

Among these new players, in addition to many pure players who came for 3A masterpieces, most of them are due to the collective settlement of various labor-intensive enterprises and the start of commercial layout or investment in this virtual world. staff player.

Such as machinery, construction, shipbuilding, shipping, mining, military industry, etc. These labor-intensive industries are closely related to the version of "Ark: A Century of Voyage". Keep your feet on the ground.

Moreover, for the sake of their own trade security and expansion, these enterprises also had to form their own military forces.

Of course, in the version of "Ark: Century of Voyage", the military forces are basically sea forces, and they often fight with each other for the sake of maritime trade channels.

However, after a year of map updating and the 3D transformation of about one-third of the land area, the land war has gradually begun. Many forces have launched fierce competition for many unmanned mining areas that humans could not reach before, especially Petroleum resources in the Middle East.

The start of this series of wars in the game world has kept the number of casualties high every day, bringing huge resurrection income to Fangzhou International, and these profits are used by Fangzhou International to purchase a large number of servers and put them on the seabed. It is also used to accelerate the development of game maps, forming a healthy development.

At the same time, the earth's resources in the game world are also being consumed by players, which also makes the price of virtual resources in the game maintain a steady and rising trend, which in turn attracts more international speculators to get involved in this financial carnival game.

In short, everything in "Ark" is currently in good shape, which is in line with Fang Jie's expectations. There is no need to make any major moves for the time being. It is a wise choice to let the bullets fly for a while. Once the time is right, the entire "Ark: Age of Empires" can be released. 3D version.

This time Fang Jie was in Fangzhou International, of course, he didn't come here for the "Ark" game, but to cooperate with the cultural strategy and want to facilitate the acquisition of Google's YouTube by Ark Entertainment.

However, it is a pity that Google has stated that it has no intention of selling YouTube. It is not for sale. It has never thought of letting YouTube join Fangzhou International as a partnership. It rejected the acquisition proposal without even opening the price. Acquisition ideas.

Even conversely, Google expressed its willingness to purchase an 124% stake in Boiling Entertainment at a price of US$18 billion, so as to indirectly control Boiling Video and make up for the last shortcoming of YouTube in the international arena.

Fang Jie's reply was very simple, just two words: Not for sale!
Then, turning his back, he convened a shareholder meeting of Ark Entertainment and submitted a strategic business plan.

(End of this chapter)