Chapter 287 A billion dollar hero
In the studio, Chen Mo is considering the early promotion issues of "League of Legends".
Although the game "League of Legends" itself has strong diffusion attributes, the early promotion strategy is still very important, because the current channel capabilities of the Thunder Game Platform are far inferior to those of Penguin in previous lives.
Moreover, the player base of "League of Legends" in this world is also worse.
In his previous life, dota was the first to beautify. When "League of Legends" was launched, it happened to be stuck in a very critical period. Dota is very popular among young people, especially students, but it is limited by many factors such as engine, ranking mechanism, difficulty in getting started, cheating, etc.
"League of Legends" has reduced the difficulty of getting started, and Penguin's strong operation and promotion capabilities have gradually become popular.
Let’s put the grudges and hatreds aside for the time being. It is an indisputable fact that “League of Legends” has gained Dota’s glory. After all, Dota is considered a pioneer in this market.
But what about this world?
Although cog has initially possessed some prototypes of moba games, it is ultimately an imperfect map, which is far from dota.
The player group of "Warcraft" is much smaller than in previous lives. The players who really come into contact with Cog are only a very small number of players in the entire player group.
It is conceivable that when Chen Mo launches "League of Legends", the reaction of most players will be "What kind of game is this" rather than "Wow, there is finally a reliable moba game."
Therefore, we still have to think carefully about how to promote "League of Legends".
While thinking about it, the cell phone on the desk rang.
Chen Mo picked it up and saw it was a strange number from the Magic City.
Chen Mo picked up: "Hey?"
A male voice came from the other side of the phone, very polite: "Hello, is it Mr. Chen Mo from Thunder Interactive Entertainment?"
Chen Mo said: "It's me."
The male voice on the other side of the phone said, "Hello, let me introduce myself first. I am the head of the Ga Magic City Branch. You can call me peter."
Chen Mo frowned, peter?
Although it is an English name, he speaks Chinese very well and should not be a foreigner. Chen Mo thought about it again and said that after all, he is an executive of a foreign company, so it is normal to use English names.
GA has a branch in Magic, but it matches the location of the phone number.
Chen Mo asked, "Hello, is there anything wrong?"
Peter said: "That's right. Our GA headquarters is developing a new game called cog. I wonder if you know it. Because this game was originally a map in your game "Warcraft" and uses a lot of resources in the game, we would like to ask, can you sell the relevant art copyright to us? Of course, the price is easy to negotiate."
Chen Mo said without hesitation: "No sell."
"Cough cough." Peter coughed twice when he was choked, and then said, "Mr. Chen Mo, it's just some art copyrights. In fact, with GA's R&D and art level, it's no difficulty to make a game that surpasses Warcraft. The reason why we want to buy your art copyright is mainly to continue players' habits with the original cog picture and ensure the consistency of this game to the greatest extent..."
Chen Mo: "If you don't sell it, I'll hang up if it's okay."
"Please wait!" Peter was a little surprised that Chen Mo's attitude was so firm that he didn't even ask for the price. "You should know that GA is a company with very strong economic strength, and for these copyrights..."
Chen Mo: "Oh, how about one billion hero?"
peter: "Ha?"
This time Peter was confused in a fancy way, one billion?
Is your hero made of gold? Moreover, even gold made of gold cannot be worth so much money!
peter asked tentatively: "You mean, soft girl coins?"
Chen Mo: "No, American."
peter: "…"
Why don’t you grab a hero with a billion US dollars? That means if Cog wants to produce 30 heroes, it will cost 30 billion US dollars?
That's already the valuation of the entire GA company!
Peter was a little unhappy, obviously Chen Mo's attitude was insincere: "Mr. Chen Mo, although I don't know why, I feel that you may have misunderstandings about this matter..."
Chen Mo said: "There is no misunderstanding. I have told you a long time ago that I will not sell anything from "Warcraft".
"By the way, tell Raman Clive that although cog is a pretty good map, it seems to me that the nerdy Chinese will make a game that will crush cog in a comprehensive way."
peter: "Mr. Chen Mo..."
Before he could finish his words, Chen Mo had already hung up the phone.
In fact, it is not uncommon to buy and sell copyrights, and it is not a big deal at all. For most game companies, as long as they have enough money, they can talk about anything.
As for why Chen Mo's attitude is so firm?
Firstly, the IP value of "Warcraft" is difficult to measure with money, and Cog is considered a competitor, so Chen Mo cannot shoot himself in the foot for short-term interests; secondly, Chen Mo is very dissatisfied with these people's somewhat contemptuous attitude.
Obviously, Raman Clive and Ga look down on themselves a little too much.
Raman Clive doesn't believe that Chen Mo can do a good job in the game mode of cog, while Ga thinks that isn't it just the art copyright of a few heroes? It's just a small company in a developing country, just put some money in it and buy the copyright.
Moreover, Chen Mo has no good feelings for Ga, and he will become an opponent in the future, so there is no need to worry about their feelings now.
However, Chen Mo also knew very well that changing a set of art resources was not difficult for Ga, and the impact on Cog was minimal.
After all, there are not many players in Cog now. When the time comes, change the hero name, model, and add some new heroes, players will definitely accept it slowly.
But at least they have to make more trouble.
...
The next period of time seemed a little calm.
Although Dichao Interactive Entertainment and Shenhuan Game Platform have established the largest channel merchant alliance in China, there are still many independent game designers who choose to publish their games on Chen Mo's game platform.
Ultimately, it is because this new major channel lacks a decisive work to prove its powerful power.
Just like during the live broadcast platform war, poaching anchors through price wars is just a means. What can truly highlight the foundation and hard power of a live broadcast platform is still a god-making process.
It doesn’t matter if you poach my popular anchor. I will use one or two months to promote another big anchor, even more popular than the one you poached.
The same is true for channel dealers. It is meaningless to unilaterally brag about how many players they have. If they can launch a harvest-level PC or VR game masterpiece, they can prove their strength.
Therefore, before such a game appeared, all players and designers were still waiting and watching. Although Chen Mo's Thunder Game Platform is currently in a very unfavorable situation, it is too early to say that the victory of the Emperor Dynasty and Shenhuan is successful.
Chapter completed!