My game, you have no right to award

Chapter 157 Standing
After Zhou Kuang and Tetsuya Yasuda met, they were taken to a small negotiation room by the staff.

There are only two dark blue short sofas and a light-colored coffee table in this negotiation room.

In terms of space, it is by no means spacious, so it is naturally used for private meetings.

He waited patiently for Niu Tieming to come out of the conference room. The two of them agreed to talk privately after both sides had finished their work.

Niu Tieming did not come to the Antarctic Group headquarters today just for Zhou Kuang.

He was there to attend a meeting about his incubator company. Although Zhou Kuang didn't know the specific content, he could tell the importance of this meeting by looking at his well-fitting suit, neatly combed hair, and the anticipation and a hint of nervousness on his face.

After about an hour, Zhou Kuang went out to fetch water twice before the door was finally opened.

Niu Tieming walked in with a beaming face, and it was obvious that the meeting was going very smoothly.

"How about it?"

As soon as Zhou Kuang stood up, Niu Tieming quickly pressed his hand and asked him to sit down.

Niu Tieming did not answer immediately. Instead, he sat down on the sofa, took a breath, wiped the sweat from his forehead, and then answered with a smile.

"Great, the money and personnel are in place!"

"We can start working anytime!"

"That's great!" Zhou Kuang said happily for him.

The two men were tied to a warship and wanted something from each other.

Things are going smoothly for Niu Tieming, which is naturally beneficial to him.

"How about you over there? How's your conversation with the CEO of Xinglun going?"

Niu Tieming casually took off his tie to loosen his neck a little.

"It's okay, but I still need to discuss it with you."

Hearing Zhou Kuang's words, Niu Tieming's eyes flashed, and he quickly turned his head to look around. After confirming that there was no one nearby, he leaned over and whispered.

"What is it? Can we talk about it here?"

Zhou Kuang knew that the other party had misunderstood his meaning.

However, the fact that Niu Tieming could say this showed that the other party's position was no longer just on the side of the Antarctic Group, which made Zhou Kuang feel warm in his heart.

"It's okay, it won't be a problem."

Zhou Kuang waved his hand and said.

Niu Tieming also breathed a sigh of relief.

If possible, it's better not to be sneaky.

"Have you heard of Star Wheel's preferred partner list?"

After hearing Zhou Kuang's words, Niu Tieming stroked his beard and thought for a moment before speaking.

"I seem to have heard that only a few Japanese companies that supported Star Wheel during the GS1 era are included on this list as contributors to Star Wheel."

"However, I don't know if this thing still exists." Niu Tieming looked at Zhou Kuang, "Why do you suddenly ask this?"

"It wasn't me who brought it up, it was the other party who brought it up."

Zhou Kuang spread his hands.

Niu Tieming was shocked. This list actually still existed?

And the other party took the initiative to mention it to Zhou Kuang?
He quickly said, "Tell me how you talked about it."

So Zhou Kuang told Niu Tieming about the general process of his negotiation with Tetsuya Yasuda.

However, he still kept a trick up his sleeve and deliberately did not make it clear whether this exclusive contract would restrict the release on the PC side to see how Niu Tieming would react.

He said that all companies joining the "Star Wheel Preferred Partner" list must sign an exclusive first-release agreement with the GS platform, which is misleading to some extent.

He would only explain if Niu Tieming asked.

After all, this is not a lie, it is just a further test of Niu Tieming's thoughts.

The closer the business partners are, the more you need to know what the other person is thinking, so that you can trust him/her with confidence.

Otherwise, a sudden backstab one day would be a double critical hit!

After hearing the whole story, Niu Tieming pondered for a moment before raising his head and speaking.

"The conditions are good, but this is difficult to do..."

"Is such that."

Zhou Kuang nodded, otherwise, with such generous and extremely generous conditions, he would have agreed on the spot.

"Are you planning to give up the European and American markets?"

"of course not."

Zhou Kuang shook his head and said.

"I'm releasing my games, but I'm not using their VX console."

"But that's not the problem," Niu Tieming explained, frowning. "There were gaming companies that chose to join the GS camp in the past. Before joining, their games had a pretty good reputation within the industry."

"But after being recruited by the Starwheel Group, the games they had previously released suddenly became negative examples in the industry, as if overnight."

"All the Western media are hounding them, criticizing their games from every possible angle."

"Even the games they made later, when they were about to be released, the reviews from the gaming media almost caused their launch to collapse."

Niu Tieming sneered.

"This is the true face of these so-called professional game review media."

"It's just a vicious dog that will be hired for money."

Zhou Kuang nodded, agreeing deeply.

"If you join this Star Wheel Preferred Partner, regardless of whether you keep a low profile or not, you will definitely suffer retaliation even more brutal than this."

“No company is monolithic, not even Starwheel Group.”

"The day you choose to join, this news will reach the ears of the senior management of Blue Window Technology."

"Don't forget, Europe and the United States are Blue Window Technology's territory."

"And most of the well-known gaming media are located in Europe and the United States."

Zhou Kuang smiled when he heard Niu Tieming's warning to him.

It was a smile tinged with contempt.

"Hasn't 'Netherworld Mountains and Seas' already been slandered by them?"

Hearing Zhou Kuang's words, Niu Tieming was stunned for a moment, opened his mouth, but didn't know what to say.

He thought about it and it seemed to be true. Even though "Youming Shanhai" was not included in the GS platform when it was released, and was not involved in the host war between the giants on both sides, it still suffered similar attacks.

The fact that Megvii Games is a Chinese company, and the instinctive resistance of these Western gaming media towards games from the Global South, areas that they cannot control, is enough to make "Nether Mountain and Sea" suffer sufficient slander and attacks.

"But this is different. The media's current attacks on you are simply because they are unfamiliar with you and you are not considered one of their inner circle, so they are rejecting you."

"Maybe it will get better in the future."

Niu Tieming was thinking from Zhou Kuang's perspective, but in fact, he himself had no confidence in what he said.

"Then how can we join their circle?" Zhou Kuang asked a soul-searching question.

“Add LGBT elements?”

"Join Hey Ming Gui?"

“Add the rainbow flag?”

"Paying their so-called consulting firm?" "Enforcing a 50/50 gender balance on the development team?"

"Or do you want to change something?"

Seeing Niu Tieming speechless, Zhou Kuang shook his head.

"Forget it. I think if you can't fit in, don't force it."

"It's just a compliance test."

"If I have to kneel down and work like a dog to earn money, then I'd rather not earn it!"

"And the most important thing is!"

"I don't believe I can't make this money standing still!"

Zhou Kuang showed an evil smile.

"Even though Netherworld Mountain and Sea was criticized so much, didn't it still sell over five million copies?"

Niu Tieming nodded and didn't intend to persuade him any further. What the other party said was correct. With the domestic market as its foundation, Megvii Games could still stand firm even if it suffered a full-scale attack from Blue Window Technology.

No matter what, Blue Window Technology’s tentacles cannot break into the restricted area.

That is seeking death.

"Do you have any problems?" Zhou Kuang asked Niu Tieming.

"I?"

Niu Tieming was stunned for a moment before he realized that the other party was asking about the Antarctic Group.

"It doesn't matter. The games developed by our company have signed exclusive agreements with both platforms."

"We don't take sides, and neither Star Wheel nor Blue Window are stupid enough to force us to take sides."

"Don't you have any ideas?" Zhou Kuang urged, looking like he was enjoying the fun.

Niu Tieming was slightly moved after hearing this, but he quickly calmed down and looked at Zhou Kuang speechlessly.

"You kid! Stop looking for trouble!"

"None of our top management has this idea!"

"Okay, okay, I won't say any more. I'm going to sign with Xinglun." Zhou Kuang raised his hand and made a French military salute.

Then his expression became slightly serious.

"Then, I'll have to rely on you to handle public opinion."

Niu Tieming nodded.

"Of course, don't worry about that."

The two chatted about the incubator again.

Niu Tieming took away several trusted and beloved generals from Antarctic Interactive Entertainment without authorization, for which the senior management of Antarctic Interactive Entertainment protested to the headquarters.

Originally, Niu Tieming was a member of Antarctic Interactive Entertainment. Who would have thought that he would suddenly become the head of a company on the same level as Antarctic Interactive Entertainment.

Such a turn of events caught everyone off guard, and the people at Antarctic Interactive Entertainment were completely unprepared.

The Antarctic Group naturally ignored such behavior, turning a blind eye and taking sides.

You want the horse to run, but you don't want it to eat grass.

Wouldn't that drive people crazy?

Just poach a few people and let them go.

As long as we can get this incubator set up, all this will be a small matter.

Seeing that the sales of "The Netherworld" are still rising, Antarctic Group is really jealous!

Not only the incubator, but senior management is also meeting with all capable studios within the company to see if anyone is willing to try their hand at 3A games, and they are offering very high salaries.

There is no need to do the same as "Netherworld Mountains and Seas", where a hundred people took two years to complete it.

I'll give you four years! With a team of 300 people and various outsourcing options, you can spend as much as you want within a reasonable range!
Isn't this condition more than doubled?
As long as you can produce 80% of the final product of "Netherworld Mountain and Sea", it will be fine! Even 70% is considered a pass!
However, the producers of these studios are no longer rookies. Who can fail to see the difficulty of the project "Youming Shanhai"!
They all shook their heads to refuse.

I have the life to earn money but not the life to spend it, so I might as well focus on making my mobile games.

As a production team that was developing a 3A stand-alone project for the first time, it took Megshid Games two years to create a world-class stand-alone game like "Netherworld Mountain and Sea"?

It’s simply a fantasy!

If you don't actually see the game released and play it yourself, these producers will never believe anything they say.

The top management decided to make 3A on a whim, but who knows what will happen in the future.

Now this group of people are saying that if the project doesn’t turn out well, they won’t hold the project staff and producers accountable.

But aren’t there enough changes in the Antarctic Group’s internal policies?

Even if they are really held accountable at that time, they will have no power to resist.

Don't do it, don't do it!

These producers all shook their heads frantically like rattles, fearing that this task would fall on them.

Their caution makes the top management very helpless. They can't force these studios to make 3A stand-alone games. If they do that, if the project fails, won't the responsibility fall on themselves?

Therefore, they have higher expectations of Niu Tieming. No matter what Niu Tieming asks for now, the senior management will try their best to satisfy it.

If you want to replicate the success of "Youming Shanhai", you can only rely on Niu Tieming's incubator.

We started from scratch, and our goal from the beginning was to produce and develop a 3A stand-alone game. You can't refuse this, right?
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As the sales of "Youming Shanhai" continued to increase to six million, Qingyan Studio's "Potato Brothers" was also released.

As a sequel to Qingyan Studio's previous work "Vampire Survivors", "Potato Brothers" has attracted the attention of a large number of players before it was released.

"Vampire Survivor" has been on the market for a very long time. During this period, apart from the mobile version port which is worth mentioning, there has been no new development.

Players who love survivor games are frantically looking for a roguelike game to play because they have seen such a reasonable setting and such an addictive gameplay for the first time.

However, almost no game can reach the heights of "Vampire Survivor", and both the gameplay and numerical settings are just poor imitations.

Their only fun is to download the mobile version of "Vampire Survivor", play it again, and experience the special skins operated by Antarctic Interactive Entertainment.

Therefore, when they learned that Qingyan Studio was about to release its next work, which was a game of the same type as "Vampire Survivor", they were simply overjoyed.

Pre-order what needs to be pre-ordered, and promote what needs to be promoted.

During the pre-order phase alone, "Potato Brothers" has sold hundreds of thousands of copies.

For many players who cannot fall in love with "Youming Shanhai", "Potato Brothers" is also like a breeze in autumn.

The difficulty is not that high, you can choose the difficulty yourself, and the gameplay is more casual.

Great game! Great production team!

After the game was released, it was exactly as Zhou Kuang had imagined. Leveraging on its reputation as the spiritual sequel to "Vampire Survivor" and the extremely high quality of the game itself, "Potato Brothers" became a small hit again.

Even when many people first learned that Qingyan Studio was actually affiliated with and produced the world-class game "Youming Shanhai", they couldn't believe their ears.

what?
You said that the company that made this ugly yet handsome 2D villain game is actually related to "Netherworld Mountains and Seas"?

How can this company achieve such a great success in both 3A games and independent games? Who is this company?
Just when players were speculating, "Youming Shanhai" finally released an announcement for the stable version 1.01.

Have a holiday!

(End of this chapter)