my tech museum

Chapter 36 He Made a Mistake

The rise of domestic game engines has surpassed well-known overseas game engine development companies in one fell swoop.

What everyone wants to see is that domestic games can rush to the world and let those overseas gamers pay for it, instead of the end game market being almost completely occupied by overseas games as it is now.

But under such a rare opportunity, game companies such as Penguin Wangyi have come to such a single-handed operation, which is simply stimulating the nerves of the public.

how?

The co-authorship money can only be earned by you.

Others must use love to generate electricity, right? This is not typical. Only state officials are allowed to set fires, and ordinary people are not allowed to light lamps.

Faced with this situation, there is no reason not to end up spraying.

And the ones who are most angry about this are the small studios established in China because of their love for games.

In the past, due to the problem of game production funds, they could only choose some low-cost games, and their enthusiasm and talents could not be displayed, and they were suppressed by big companies everywhere.

The sudden appearance of the phantom star engine undoubtedly gave them a glimpse of the dawn.

Using it can not only realize the ambition to develop high-quality games, but also greatly reduce the key production costs.

Compared to those who only need to pay 20.00% of game sales as copyright fees, it is nothing to them.

Overall, the company's profits are definitely rising in a straight line.

More importantly, they can also compete head-on with these well-known domestic game companies.

But right now these game companies will charge an additional 5.00% service fee in terms of future technology, which will lose their interests.

So in a hurry, they didn't care about offending people, and some game studios even directly expressed their dissatisfaction with their official accounts, which caused a wave of condemnation of domestic game companies across the Internet.

"Mr. Ma, I beg you to hold your hand high and stop engaging in such showy operations, and leave something for us low-level people to eat!"

"I really can't figure it out. It was obviously a win-win thing, why it should be done like this."

"Don't guess what the capitalists think. You can't figure it out after guessing."

"The future of science and technology will be tough, so we can't let them get used to it."

"We look at it as a matter of a little copyright fee, but we must know that it will be related to tens of billions of interests in the future. Who doesn't want to earn more."

"It's the first time I've seen a penguin kick on an iron plate. I don't know why and suddenly I feel very happy."

"Could it be that these big companies really don't plan to use the Magic Star engine? I'm still waiting for the release of domestic games that can't lose to the top foreign games. It shouldn't be so cool."

"Everyone should follow anime, isn't it more delicious than games?"

"I don't know what it would be like for these companies to know that Future Technology has charged an additional 5.00% service fee. I'm just a little curious?"

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As for the comments made by everyone on the Internet, Xu Lei also asked Xingtong to summarize and organize them so that he can control the situation.

After confirming that the wind direction was on his side, he was completely relieved.

However, seeing that domestic small and medium-sized game studios suffered unwarranted disasters due to Penguin One and their actions, after careful consideration, they decided to set a threshold for the additional 5.00% service fee.

That is, the service fee will be charged only after the cumulative game sales exceed [-] million.

Although the number of employees in the main small and medium-sized studios is small, it is quite impressive in the whole country. Supporting them can increase the number of users of the Magic Star Engine.

But as the saying goes, some people are happy and some are worried.

After the release of the latest announcement of Future Technology, it can be said that the companies that joined the initiative, such as Wangyi Perfect Juren, were very angry.

Because looking at it this way, the additional 5.00% service charge is obviously aimed at them.

For this reason, temporary core meetings of the company were held one after another to discuss the next step.

On the other hand, Penguin let go of the comments on the Internet and did not make any official response.

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"Mr. Ma, Future Technology announced a 5.00% increase in service fees immediately after we released the proposal, which obviously tells us that they cannot lower the copyright fee."

"Now if we want to use the Magic Star engine to develop games, I am afraid that we will have to pay 20.00% of the game sales five."

"In addition, there is a lot of criticism on the Internet, and some game studios even threaten to let the public boycott our games. The situation is not optimistic!"

Shenzhen.

Penguin headquarters building.

Standing in the chairman's office, Zhang Tiandong did not hide the anxious look on his face at this moment.

After reporting the details to Ma Teng in concise language, he waited anxiously, hoping that Ma Teng could make up his mind and make a decision as soon as possible.

Otherwise, if it continues like this, even a penguin with a big business may not be able to hold on.

After all, there are no absolute friends in the market, only real interests.

Now Wangyimiyou Perfect Juren and other well-known domestic game companies are in the same camp as Penguin. If they choose to turn to the light and accept 20.00% of the copyright fee and 5.00% of the service fee, to use the magic star engine to develop games, I'm afraid that the domestic market share of Penguin Games will be seized soon.

At that time, even if he is still in charge of the game business, what's the point?

After seeing the eager look on Zhang Tiandong's face after experiencing the storm, Ma Teng still said calmly and unhurriedly: "Put your heart in your stomach, the situation is not that bad right now."

Hearing the sound, Zhang Tiandong seemed a little surprised.

Just as he was about to ask in detail, Ma Teng's voice came from beside his ear.

"This Xu Lei is indeed tough enough. He didn't give us any room for maneuver. He directly expressed his attitude by increasing the service fee, but he still made a mistake."

"mistake?"

"What kind of mistake?" Zhang Tiandong couldn't help asking.

Faced with this question, this time Ma Teng did not directly answer it, but took the initiative to throw out a question.

"Let me ask you, just relying on those domestic game studios that are not well-known, can they really develop popular games even if they use the Magic Star engine?"

Although Zhang Tiandong didn't know why Ma Teng asked this suddenly, as a subordinate, he still answered truthfully from his own professional perspective.

"Developing games using the Magic Star engine, although the production cost has been greatly reduced, and the game has top-notch image quality and fluency, the success of a game is also related to many factors such as plot setting and marketing, and many of them are developed by small studios. Not available."

"exactly."

Ma Teng gave Zhang Tiandong an approving look, and then said: "So it is very difficult for Future Technology to create phenomenal games through small domestic game studios, and in the end they still have to rely on us to earn high copyright fees. "

"Tell Wangyimi Youjuren and other companies that have joined the proposal that the maximum copyright fee we can accept for Penguin Games is [-]%."

(End of this chapter)