The diva and I cross each other

Chapter 213 Penguin’s Purpose

This time Penguin sent Chen Dongyang, an executive of the CDG business group.

But Chen Dongyang obviously didn't come by himself. He was accompanied by a woman of about 30 years old.

The woman's height should be less than 1 meters, and she is half a head taller than Rong Mu when wearing high heels, but her aura is at least two meters, and she looks like she is in a high position among Penguins.

"Mr. Luo, Mr. Rong, let me introduce to you. This is Mr. Yan Jiaqing, the deputy general manager of IEG Game Group Timi Studio.

Mr. Yan, these two are the persons in charge of Shaoguang Games. This is Mr. Luo Mingluo, and this is Mr. Rongmu Rong. "

"Mr. Luo, Mr. Rong, hello!" Yan Jiaqing nodded to the two of them.

"Hello, Mr. Yan." Rong Mu greeted with a smile.

After the two parties got to know each other, Rong Mu invited people to Zhuo Guang's conference room.

The front desk brought tea to the two Penguin executives, and Rong Mu waved his hand to signal her to go out first.

And this project is very attractive to our superiors. We would like to use your company's innovative capabilities to help us improve the game's values ​​and gameplay so that the game can be launched in a more perfect manner. "

"Why do you want to cooperate with us? Is it because your studio's production capacity is insufficient?" Rong Mu asked curiously.

"Honor of Kings" is such a terrifying existence in the mobile game circle.

"Me too." Yan Jiaqing agreed.

Yan Jiaqing said "hmm", cleared his throat and said: "Ahem! Mr. Luo, Mr. Rong is like this. Our studio wants to cooperate with your company to produce a game."

"It turns out you two don't like drinking tea either! What a coincidence, neither Luo Ming nor I like it."

Rong Mu started with tea and soon started talking to Yan Jiaqing.

If it is really "Glory of the King", what is the difference between this and pie in the sky?

Luo Ming, who has always been calm, found it difficult to stay calm when facing "Honor of Kings".

Thinking of this, Luo Ming couldn't help but ask: "Mr. Yan, are the mobile games you are talking about moba-like?"

Hearing Yan Jiaqing's words, a surprising idea suddenly popped into Luo Ming's mind: "The game Yan Jiaqing was talking about couldn't be "Honor of Kings", right?"

Luo Ming on the side had to sigh, Rong Mu's communication skills are really too strong, even he can't keep up with him!

"Haha! Mr. Rong, you are too polite. To be honest, I don't usually drink tea in the company."

This is a giant that has been ranked first on the mobile game charts all year round.

In the novel about cultivating immortals, "Glory of the King" is a unique and aloof immortal in the whole world. The immortal overlooks the mortal world and is invincible in the world.

After the front desk left, Rong Mu said with a smile: "Mr. Chen, Mr. Yan, my place is not as big as the Penguin family, and the tea is just mediocre. Don't be surprised."

After the two looked at each other, Chen Dongyang nodded and said: "There is indeed something, but it's not my matter but Mr. Yan. To be precise, Mr. Yan's Timi Studio has a project that he wants to cooperate with you. Yan Boss, you can explain the rest yourself!"

As soon as Luo Ming said these words, Yan Jiaqing's expression changed drastically.

Rong Mu pulled into the relationship between the two parties and exchanged pleasantries for a while before changing the topic and asked: "Mr. Chen, Mr. Yan suddenly came to our company to discuss something important, right?"

Yan Jiaqing shook his head and said: "It's not a problem of production capacity, it's that we need your company's innovation capabilities. The games your company is currently launching are all excellent games with novel gameplay and mature game mechanisms. In this regard, our studio considers itself to be better than Not with your company.

Yan Jiaqing was stunned for a moment and then looked at Luo Ming with a surprised look on his face: "Mr. Luo, I shouldn't have said what type of game we need your company's help for. Why do you know?"

Luo Ming sighed after hearing this and said, "I just asked casually, because our company is also planning a similar game."

Rong Mu was stunned for a moment, and then pretended to be so.

Chen Dongyang also didn't expect that the Zhuoguang they came for had a plan similar to theirs. In that case, was Zhuoguang their competitor?

After Yan Jiaqing was silent for more than ten seconds, he asked Luo Ming: "Mr. Luo, can I see your company's game plan?"

"I'm afraid this is not suitable, right?"

"Mr. Luo, I am a straightforward person. If I have something to say, I will say it directly. If your company wants to make a similar mobile game, there will only be one consequence, and that is losing all your money.

Mr. Luo will tell you that we are not the only studio within Penguin that is making games in this area. Our progress is obviously much slower than that of another studio, and the quality of the games is not as good as theirs.

Our studio is looking for you to cooperate because we want to catch up with that studio's development progress and at the same time surpass them in gameplay. "

As soon as Luo Ming heard it, he knew that Yan Jiaqing was talking about Photon's "National Super God". This game, like "Honor of Kings", was launched in 2015.

This is actually a normal thing within Penguin. This method is called "raising gu", which means that internal studios compete with each other. The one that wins continues, and the one that loses stops operations and withdraws from the market.

As for why Penguin wants to make MOBA mobile games, it is obviously because LoL has become more and more popular recently, and there are also some MOBA mobile games on the market.

The gameplay of these MOBA mobile games is obviously not very perfect. Whether it is last hit or skill release, it is very awkward to play.

But there are a large number of users playing it. This allowed Penguin to see a whole new blue ocean of games.

To this end, Penguin in his previous life also approached Riot executives to discuss creating a "mobile version of League of Legends."

However, everyone disagreed with what Riot said, because at that time, Riot looked down on things like "mobile games" at all.

From the perspective of Riot Games executives, League of Legends is booming, and the popularity of S-games has surpassed that of Dota. It is no exaggeration to say that League of Legends is on the way to becoming the world’s number one mobile game.

In this case, it’s hard for Riot to take the mobile game market seriously.

Penguin has no choice. Since Riot is unwilling to help, he can only study it slowly by himself.

Therefore, in order to catch up with the progress, the goose factory, which was not short of money, started working on both sides, using the old method to raise Gu, and whichever one won would be praised.

The former was launched in August, while Honor was launched in November.

But "Glory of Kings" is actually a comeback version.

"Honor of Kings" was originally called "Legends of Heroes", and the public beta period was about the same as "Super God for All", and then it was lifted up by "Super God for All".

"Super God" topped the App Store free list for 21 days in the first month of its launch on iOS; two months after its launch, the game still ranks among the top three in the App Store.

In less than two months, the number of registered users of Quanmin Chaoshen exceeded 2500 million.

Looking back at "Legend of Heroes", the game did not make much of a splash. There were only 145 million downloads in one month after it was launched, a number that even the most amazing car taillights could not catch up with.

So "Heroes" was abandoned.

In September, National Super God further expanded its publicity. Penguin's propaganda machine began to work hard and invited many celebrities to stand up. For a time, National Super God was unparalleled in the limelight. Not only did it surpass its brothers, but it also surpassed other people who had been working hard for a long time. moba mobile games are solved one by one.

If this trend continues, it will only be a matter of time before the national super god becomes the number one player in MOBA mobile games.

But if nothing unexpected happens, something unexpected will happen.

The originally awesome "Super God" suddenly withered.

There are many reasons for the failure of "Super God". The gameplay is complicated, the data is unbalanced, and it requires a lot of time and energy to develop. The skins are too diligent and crazy to cheat people. The most disgusting thing is that you have spent a lot of time and money. I developed a character, but after only a few days of playing, it was cut down by the mastermind, and I had to start over.

This wave of operations directly destroyed a good hand of cards.

On the other hand, "Legend of Heroes" quietly completed its rebirth and was officially renamed "Honor of Kings" and restarted open beta in November.

"Glory of Kings" has undergone drastic reforms during this period.

The core is to cut out the complex and simplify, not only adjusting the gameplay to "three lines 5V5", but also canceling the physical setting and many hero development, replacing equipment with runes.

This trick obviously has a miraculous effect. In November 2015, after the public beta test of "Honor of Kings", the game was like taking stimulants. It skyrocketed and topped the top three download lists of various mobile games for a long time.

After the launch of "Honor of Kings", players who had been tortured by training and game imbalance have turned against the game. As one goes and the other goes, there is a serious loss of super players across the country, and eventually they have to give up the throne of mobile MOBA.

Of course, the rune system and skin system of "Glory of Kings" also affect attributes, but compared to the national super god, the degree of development and influence is already very light.

It may be a bit exaggerated to say it is negligible, but it is definitely within the acceptable range of players.

These operations must not have been thought of by Timi now. Timi probably came here to attract a large number of users with innovative and mature gameplay. Cooperate with Zhuo Guang, who is firmly established among game companies.

After Luo Ming figured out Timi's purpose, he wanted to use Murong Fu's trick to retaliate against him.

Use Timi's successful experience in his previous life to fool him and gain some benefits for himself.

This is why Luo Ming pretended to be a burning light and played a similar game just now.

After Luo Ming heard Yan Jiaqing say that only one of Penguin's studios was working on mobile moba games, Luo Ming put all the micro-expression management skills he had learned in drama school during this period into use.

Seeing Luo Ming's expression wavered, Yan Jiaqing immediately said, "Mr. Luo, I think we can jointly develop this game. That's why I came here in the first place."

"If Mr. Yan jointly develops it, how much share can I get?"

"It all depends on how big a role Mr. Luo can play. We have the manpower and the money. What we need is innovation in gameplay and a way to balance game values. If Mr. Luo can help us solve the problem, For these two issues, I can make the decision and give Mr. Luo a 5% to 10% profit share."

"It's too little. I might as well fight for this share myself!" Luo Ming said with a frown.

"How much does Mr. Luo want?"

"Penguin holds 15% of the shares of Burning Light Games, so I want 15% of the shares!"

This time it was Yan Jiaqing's turn to frown.

(End of this chapter)