166 Get "Legend"
"Oh, sorry. Mr. Chen, I have neglected this. Let's do this. Considering that your company will invest more manpower and material resources, I will invest more than 100,000 US dollars in one unilaterally, and then half of the income we and your company are one?" Tang Feng pretended to be inadequate, and then increased his investment with an apology.
"No, Mr. Tang. I think Mr. Tang still lacks sincerity. If it was only an investment of 400,000 US dollars, I would easily get it, and the price I had to pay would definitely not be as much as Mr. Tang said!" Chen Tianqiao shook his head again and said.[..com]
"Mr. Chen, I think you can figure it out. The investment I mentioned is only for the game "Legend". If Mr. Chen wants to invest, other people's goals may not be just this game, right?" Tang Feng did not blindly continue to raise prices, but reminded him.
After hearing Tang Feng's words, Chen Tianqiao hesitated for a moment.
As Tang Feng said, after China.com withdraws, it is not without venture capital companies that are interested in Shanda Network. After all, they have a large registered user base.
However, after parting ways with China.com due to differences, Chen Tianqiao was fed up with such days of being controlled by others. Therefore, he firmly felt the idea of not letting Shanda.com be out of his control.
However, whether the other party acquires shares or raises funds, it means that others will get a large part of Shanda shares.
Although he will try to maintain more than half of the equity and retain decision-making power, he will inevitably be restrained by those shareholders when making decisions. If he is restrained like this, how can he let go of his hands and feet to develop?
In this way, what Tang Feng proposed was only a cooperation plan for the game "Legend", which was undoubtedly very in line with his appetite.
It can not only ensure the integrity of his company's shares, but also obtain financial support. However, in his opinion, it is still a bit of a big talk that he wants to get half of the game's profits with just $400,000.
Therefore, after considering it, he replied: "Mr. Tang, I am indeed more inclined to the cooperation plan proposed by Mr. Tang. But Mr. Tang is really a little stingy in investment. The share we promised to share actoz is 27%. Then the profit is only 73%. If Mr. Tang divides half of it, then will our profit be only 36.5%?"
When Tang Feng heard the distribution plan mentioned by Chen Tianqiao, he felt a pity. Because he knew very well that at the peak of the legend, the annual income was hundreds of millions. This gave 27% of the Koreans for no reason, which really made him feel uncomfortable.
Thinking of this, Tang Feng raised a question: "Mr. Chen, we are not secretly speaking. Do you think about the market of "Legend"?"
Chen Tianqiao obviously didn't expect Tang Feng to suddenly raise such a question, but he still responded without hesitation: "Of course I'm optimistic, otherwise why would I spend all my money and introduce this month's game?"
"How optimistic are you?" Tang Feng continued to ask.
"How optimistic are you?" Chen Tianqiao seemed to ask back, but also seemed to ask himself.
In fact, for him, introducing "Legend" with all his wealth is actually a gamble.
He did not have any extra funds and the manager to do market research. He just intuitively felt that this "ketchup game" was very in line with the taste of Chinese game players, and it would be inevitable to succeed in China! However, he did not think about how successful this game would be and how much benefit it would bring to him.
Seeing Chen Tianqiao fall into deep thought, Tang Feng took the initiative to say: "If I say "Legend" will become the most profitable online game in Chinese history, it will become a myth in Chinese online game history, do you believe it?"
Hearing Tang Feng's words, Chen Tianqiao showed a shocked expression on his face.
Because even though he was trying to introduce "Legend", he never thought that "Legend" would win the success as Tang Feng said!
In his opinion, "Legend" has helped Shanda Network get rid of its current dilemma, start to build on the online game industry, and develop steadily, which is a very good result.
As for what Tang Feng said about "the most profitable" or even "a myth in the history of Chinese online games", he had never thought about it.
Moreover, he still couldn't figure out why Tang Feng showed his unreserved idea of "Legend"? Wouldn't this be more unfavorable to his own negotiations?
"Whether you believe it or not, I believe it anyway! This is why I spent so much effort to contact Mr. Chen! I do not hide my optimism about this game, nor do I hide my desire for the benefits this game brings to me! Therefore, I will not change the position of asking for half of the profit after the share of actoz! But, I still said the same thing, why do we want Koreans to make this money? Twenty-seven percent of the share is too high. You can't imagine how much money this will be in the future!" Tang Feng finally expressed his intention. His meaning is very simple, that is, to reduce the share of the Korean side.
"But this is the international practice of overseas agents of online games today. Twenty-seven percent is not high." Chen Tianqiao also agreed with Tang Feng's words. If possible, he would not be willing to give so much money to Koreans.
"That's because the agency fee you gave is only 300,000 US dollars! What if we increase the agency fee of 100,000 or even 200,000 US dollars? Do you think they are willing to reduce part of the share? "Legend" is not a popular game in South Korea. Strictly speaking, it is not a failure at most. Do you think actoz will be optimistic about the prospects of this game? Are they willing to choose a fixed annual income of 100,000 US dollars, or to ask for the share that may be pitifully small?" Tang Feng continued to ask.
Before his trip to China, he also learned about the market of "Legend" in South Korea from the Internet. His number of online users in South Korea, which has many online games, is only ranked eighth.
Although they can maintain profitability, they cannot bring much profit.
Tang Feng also believes that actoz itself will definitely not know how rough the game "Legend" is actually and how many problems it has.
Therefore, they are definitely not optimistic about the benefits of "Legend" in China. In their eyes, the fixed agency fee may be even more attractive.
Tang Feng's words undoubtedly woke Chen Tianqiao up!
Since the funds he had only had the 300,000 US dollars, which was just enough to pay the agency fees proposed by South Korea. Therefore, he was not qualified to share the share to raise objections.
But once he has more funds, he can indeed reduce the share of South Korea by increasing agency fees.
Of course, the premise is that Chen Tianqiao can get funds. That is to say, he must choose to cooperate with Tang Feng or other investors.
There is no doubt that from now on, Tang Feng’s cooperation plan is undoubtedly the most attractive to him.
Just when Chen Tianqiao was in deep thought, Tang Feng took the opportunity to throw a bombshell: "This way, Mr. Chen! I will increase my investment of 100,000 US dollars in one side! We can issue an agency fee of 500,000 US dollars to South Korea, and then reduce the annual income to 20%, or even less!"
Hearing Tang Feng's words, Chen Tianqiao quickly made a calculation in his mind.
The agency fee for an increase of US$200,000 for more than a year is 1.6 million yuan based on the current exchange rate.
This brings 7% of the profit. In this way, Legend has to bring more than 20 million yuan in profits to Shanda every year to ensure that the transaction is not lost!
Is this young coach really optimistic about this game?
Do you want to take this risk with him?
After thinking about it, Chen Tianqiao raised his own question: "The plan you mentioned means that our legend's annual income must reach more than 20 million, so that the 200,000 agency fee and 7% of the income can be equal. But now there are only a few online games in China that can do this at all!"
"Not now, it doesn't mean there is no future! In my opinion, "Legend" will be the first online game to do this. Moreover, the annual income of "Legend" is definitely not just 20 million yuan, but several times more than that!" Tang Feng said confidently.
Chen Tianqiao's eyes were still confused when he looked at Tang Feng. He was preparing to do online games. He naturally had an understanding of the operation of other online games. The situation of domestic online games is just starting out and the returns are generally not high. This is also why Chen Tianqiao's expectations for "Legend" are relatively conservative.
It’s like a fruit farmer who sees that other fruit farmers in the village can only earn 10,000 yuan a year for apples, and you suddenly come over and tell him that growing an imported apple can earn 100,000 yuan a year, or even more!
Will he believe it easily? As for Apple, will the gap in revenue be so big?
Fortunately, Chen Tianqiao is obviously not a fruit farmer with no long-term vision. This is not difficult to see from his being one of the earliest Internet industry in China.
Therefore, after thinking about it, he decided to go for a gamble with Tang Feng!
"Mr. Tang, I agree with the plan you mentioned. But I hope your personal investment can increase by another 100,000 US dollars, a total of 600,000 US dollars. How about it?" Chen Tianqiao already agreed with Tang Feng's plan in his heart. This conversation was still just pursuing greater interests.
Tang Feng knew very well that even if he maintained his position, Chen Tianqiao would probably agree to cooperate with him. However, he did not stick to the 100,000 US dollars. He was willing to pay an extra 100,000 US dollars to win Chen Tianqiao's trust and at the same time enhance his confidence in this cooperation!
"Mr. Chen, you successfully convinced me. The 600,000 US dollars is 600,000 US dollars. I hope we can cooperate happily!" Tang Feng took the initiative to extend his right hand to Chen Tianqiao and said.
When Chen Tianqiao heard Tang Feng agree so readily, he seemed to regret why he didn't offer a higher price. However, he was not a petty little man. He also smiled and said, "It will definitely be!"
When Tang Feng and Chen Tianqiao held hands together, it meant that the cooperation was basically completed. Next, all we had to do was to let Zeng Fengkuang negotiate with Shanda on the details of the contract.
After successfully reaching this cooperation, Tang Feng provided some suggestions to Chen Tianqiao as a "experienced person".
For example, you should pay attention to the promotion of the game and some problems that you may encounter when operating the "Legend" game, such as plug-in problems.
As a veteran, although Tang Feng is not a professional business person, he has some understanding of the perfect marketing methods used by those merchants in the future.
And those methods are definitely very novel if they are taken out now.
It's like the famous viral marketing, and the kind of web ads that are very annoying but have excellent results in the future.
This kind of pop-up advertisement is like a Naobaijin advertisement, which is annoying, but it is deeply rooted in people's hearts without realizing it.
When he thought of web advertising, Tang Feng remembered the largest game website in China in the future 17173. In his impression, this website seemed to be slightly earlier than "Legend". It should be just starting now. He may be able to invest in shares. This is also a matter of making a profit.
Hearing Tang Feng proposed so many marketing methods in one breath, Chen Tianqiao immediately felt that he had benefited a lot.
When he thought of publicity, he immediately showed a slight smile and said to Tang Feng: "Mr. Tang, when it comes to publicity, can we invite celebrities to endorse the speech?"
"Celebrity endorsement? The idea is good, but the investment cost in this area is a bit high. If the person who is invited is a small star, the publicity effect will not be very good. For big stars, our funds will be tight again!" Tang Feng said after thinking about it.
"We can invite a free big star!" Chen Tianqiao replied.
"A big star for free? How can such a good thing happen?" Tang Feng said with a puzzled look on his face.
"Aren't you the free big star? You won't want an endorsement fee for the online game you invested in, right?" Chen Tianqiao said with a smug smile.
Chapter completed!