Tokyo: Being coveted by my wife, I just want to play games

This time, not only the local Korean leaders came to Korea to discuss things, but also Mr. Bao from the Chinese Shanhe Group also sent his eldest son by plane to come over.

It’s time to say it or not.

Thanks to its extremely large population and a per capita consumption capacity that is not very strong but still good for the same population size, China is a market that all walks of life will pay great attention to.

China not only has a large market size, but also a huge production capacity. However, the mainstream trend in modern society is still the capital logic of Europe and the United States.

In other words, either you can provide them with cheap labor so that they can make cheap and easy-to-use products, so that their companies can occupy the market and make profits by taking advantage of price when their products go to other countries; or you have to provide them with a huge market so that they can make money by letting their products come in.

Just talking about the economic level, China used to be able to provide both, so it was highly valued by the outside world, and all kinds of foreign companies and foreign capital were scrambling to get in. But as China's domestic production capacity became too large, it had to compete with foreign companies and foreign capital in the market, and other populous countries in Asia rose, which could at least replace part of China's cheap labor, if not completely. Things changed.

There is nothing new under the sun.

In fact, it was the same with Japan back then. On the one hand, the rise of the great Eastern power allowed international capital to find a better place to go; on the other hand, Japan’s domestic production capacity was too high, resulting in a lot of foreign capital not being able to make much money when it went there.

The most typical example is cars. Japanese domestic cars occupy about 90% of the domestic car market in Japan, and even reached 97% in the highest year. In other words, nine out of ten people who drive cars drive Japanese domestic cars.

Huaxia is slightly better in this regard, with the market share of domestically produced cars at around 70%. This is actually the basis for Huaxia officials to negotiate with practitioners in many industries and the outside world.

Yes, confidence.

It seems that no one has the ability to overturn the dinner table on his own these days, but in a situation where you can't point a gun at someone else's head, whoever can bring more benefits to others will naturally have more say.

What’s interesting is that China does have too much capacity. Many industries cannot make money because of fierce competition, but the structure of the world is an extremely complex three-dimensional figure, not a flat line. Not all industries in China have excess capacity. In fact, there is still a lot of market space in the entertainment and cultural fields.

This is actually why, whether it is Japanese, Korean, European or American celebrities, when talking about China, unless they are some idiots with their heads stuck in the door, everyone else basically speaks well of China. However.

China's entertainment market is not that easy to enter.

It's like online games and cars.

BMW, Mercedes-Benz and Audi all have to form joint ventures with Chinese domestic capital to enter China; KartRider also has to find a domestic agent to enter China. If Chinese domestic capital is not allowed to reap the benefits, it will not be easy to enter the e-sports industry.

Whether this is a good or bad thing is a matter of opinion.

If Dongchuan Che, as a foreign investor, looks at it purely from the perspective of capital gains, this is naturally a bad thing for him, because he has to share a portion of the profits. But for Chinese capital and office workers, it is naturally a good thing, because it creates profits for capital and creates jobs that can earn salaries for office workers.

But at the same time, from the perspective of Chinese consumers, this is a bad thing, because with the addition of a middleman, prices will naturally go up.

If you sit in different positions, you will get completely different conclusions.

The world is indeed very complicated, but Dongchuan Che generally doesn't like to get entangled in things that he cannot change at all.

As Mr. Bao's eldest son arrived in Korea, he also greeted the other party enthusiastically. But what's interesting is that although Mr. Bao's eldest son was very polite and respectful to Dong Chuan Che, he was very arrogant to the Korean host.

"This Mr. Xiaobao really knows how to serve people according to their taste."

At the dinner table, seeing Mr. Xiaobao, who was politely toasting Dongchuan Che just now, and then put on an arrogant face to the Korean host the next moment, Chika Ohara smiled and complained.

But although she said this, her eyes were full of smiles.

It is true that Mr. Xiao Bao treats Dongchuan Che differently from his attitude towards other people, but this is mainly because most of the young entrepreneurs and managers in the entertainment industry now regard Dongchuan Che as an idol, or in other words, regard Dongchuan Che as a goal to catch up with.

No other reason.

The process of Dongchuan Che's rise is no secret. All you need to know is what he has experienced along the way and how he deals with various things.

Well, apart from those cowards who always attribute others' success to luck and think that their own failure is always just bad luck and therefore they can never get ahead, and those overly [naive] rich second-generations, other people of the same age, or juniors like Xiao Bao who are a few years younger than him. They don't say that they admire Dongchuan Che very much, but at least they respect and admire him.

There is no one who doesn't want to be respected by others, and there is no woman who doesn't want her man to be a respected figure.

Feeling the loving look in Ohara Chika's eyes, Dongchuan Che took a sip of white wine and said with a smile: "It is normal for a prince of the Beijing circle who was born with a silver spoon in his mouth to be a little arrogant. But this child is not a bad person by nature, and he is actually quite down-to-earth. Didn't Shanhe Group send a study group before?"

"Huh? You mean the one three years ago?"

Chika Ohara took a sip of red wine. Not long after the Holy Light Society was established, Shanhe Group sent a group of top students to study there. After the release of Elden Ring, those top students returned to China, saying that they wanted to make China's first 3A masterpiece.

Chika Oohara also knew about this matter, but after all, she was not in charge of the project personally, so her impression was not very clear.

Dong Chuan Che nodded, "Yes, after that group of people returned to China, they worked under this Xiao Bao. Last month they showed me the demo of their game. Although the overall quality is not as good as that of international giants, it has the flavor of a top masterpiece. Although his father found a lot of elite soldiers and generals for him for that project, the fact that the project was completed at least proves that he is not the kind of lounge bag who drags down the team."

The tone was somewhat sighing and relaxed.

Honestly, he didn't care much about the internal affairs of Shanhe Group. He was just looking forward to the game "China's First 3A Masterpiece" based on the Investiture of the Gods. Whether it succeeded or not didn't affect him. However, the cooperation between Shengguang Society and Shanhe Group was very close and comfortable. The fact that Shengguang Society's games could have a huge influence in China was inseparable from the Shanhe Group's connections.

However, just like Dongchuan Che is already 30 years old, Bao Zong is also getting old and will have to retire in less than two years. If nothing unexpected happens, this young man will take over.

In this case, we naturally need to pay more attention.

Thinking of this, Dong Chuan Che's eyes flashed with a hint of nostalgia. He took another sip of wine and smiled with emotion: "Time flies so fast. When I first saw this little guy, he seemed to have just entered college, and now he's a working person."

"You're the same, aren't you? You were clean-shaven when we first met, but now you even have a mustache."

Ohara Chika smiled and pulled the beard on Toru's chin. Toru rolled his eyes and said, "Come on, you guys told me to grow this beard. You said I looked too young without it and couldn't intimidate people. But now I have a beard and you don't have one."

"Huh? No beard? We're not going to die anyway, what are you talking about out there?"

Chika Ohara was stunned for a moment, but after seeing Toru Fuyukawa's winking eyes, she quickly reacted and understood what the beard was.

It must be said that Dongchuan Che doesn't really care whether he has a beard or not, but as the wives in his family get older and have more fun, his experience is also getting richer.

Not to mention the pigtail, [shaving] is a common thing. Even the most outrageous Sato Fujiko once shaved a heart shape and dyed it pink. She even pulled Fuyukawa Tetsu to take a front and back photo in front of the floor-length mirror.

It's very exaggerated, but for an old couple, it also adds a lot of romance. Ohara Chika occasionally does things like this to flirt. For example, a few days ago, when Dongchuan Che returned home, he found a little zombie wearing only a high-slit cheongsam at the entrance, kneeling on the ground with her butt facing the door, and her wrists tied at the ankles with tape. It was called "Beautiful Zombie Woman".

They played a lot, but they played behind closed doors. When talking about these things outside, Chika Ohara was still very shy. But Fuyukawa Che liked to see the shy looks of the ladies.

The other people at the table were toasting each other, and the young couple were talking and laughing in low voices. For a while, the atmosphere was very harmonious. However, as the atmosphere at the table became more and more heated, people's conversations began to get to the point.

This time Dongchuan Che came to South Korea, ostensibly to discuss the formation of a future team, but actually to discuss the future division of interests.

The amount of money required to set up an e-sports team is not a lot of money for those who can sit at this wine table today. But whether they are willing to pay this money depends on whether they think they can make a profit from this project.

The key here is to see how much money the professional league can make, and after the league makes money, how the money is distributed between the league and the teams.

Currently, the e-sports leagues on the market basically split the profits 50-50 between the league and the teams.

To give a simple example, in the LCK league, 50% of the league's annual sales will be equally divided among all teams in the league, while the remaining 50% will remain in the LCK league and be used as the league's management fee and operating funds.

E-sports competitions in this world also use almost the same mechanism.

There is actually no big problem with this profit sharing ratio, but there is still a problem, which is that the sales revenue is equally divided among all teams.

This is actually equivalent to eating from a big pot, which sounds good, as the capable ones work harder and drive the weak ones. But people's minds are not like this. In actual operation, this kind of big pot will only weaken the enthusiasm of the strong and the enterprising spirit of the weak.

But there's nothing we can do about it.

Yes, there is no way.

This model is because the current e-sports league is not large enough in scale and profit, and there are not many big investors willing to participate. In this case, if we still completely adopt the law of the jungle and do not support some teams with weaker capital strength, then in the end the number of league teams will probably be greatly reduced.

Of course, as the saying goes, if the mountains don't move, the water will move.

Although it is difficult to make changes to league sales, there is a lot that can be done with the additional bonus pool system.

The so-called bonus pool includes the basic bonus provided by the official, the champion skins purchased by players, the season pass income, the traffic and reward income during the live broadcast of the game, etc.

The combination of basic salary (equally divided among league sales) + performance (ranking bonus) is actually quite mature. However, the current leagues on the market still give too little to the teams in terms of bonus pools, which is not enough of an incentive. The champion team and its region can generally only get about 20% of the skin and pass income.

this number

Very stingy, comparable to LOL in the previous life.

In previous LOL world championships, the proportion of the champion prize money was about this much, and it is obvious that this number still has a lot of room for improvement.

The reason is very simple. The League of Legends S-League only gives the champion about 20% of the share, while the Dota TI World Championship, the champion can get about 45% of the share of the prize pool, and even the runner-up can get about 15%. And what Dongchuan Che wants to do is also to make changes in this aspect.

Needless to say, when Dongchuan Che put down his wine glass, as the wine glass made a sound when it fell on the table, as everyone's eyes were focused on Dongchuan Che's face, and as Dongchuan Che said, "The championship team will get 40% of the prize pool income, and every year in the future, 5% of the global net profit of the game League of Legends will be allocated to the prize pool of each country's national league according to the size of each country's league. At the same time, 15% of the net profit will be allocated again to the prize pool of the World Championship," the whole box was quiet!

Everyone stared at Dongchuan Che with wide eyes. As for Xiao Bao, who had just acted arrogantly in front of the Koreans, he looked at Dongchuan Che with emotion and a little admiration!

20% of the net profit from the League of Legends game!

This is not the profit from the season pass and champion skins, but the profit from the entire game!

This number is definitely much higher than the current share of all e-sports leagues on the market! And it is obvious that in order to achieve this, Dongchuan Che must make concessions.

"Ashi——What a terrifying courage!"

"No wonder he is called the most powerful rising star in the past twenty years by the Japanese business community. This is a really big deal!"

"According to this dividend ratio, as long as his game has no problems and becomes a big hit, then in the future, those who want to squeeze in and form a team won't have to have too much capital! Ah Xi! This surprise came too suddenly!"

"What a pity that they are not from us Koreans!"

"Shit! Don't be impatient. There is no such thing as a free lunch. He made such a big concession, so he must have some corresponding requirements for us."

As soon as Dongchuan Che finished speaking, the whole box became lively, with all eyes, some filled with amazement, some with admiration, and some with suspicious frowns, focused on Dongchuan Che.

Feeling so many eyes, Dongchuan Che drank the wine in the small glass in one gulp and said with a smile: "Yes, I am not a philanthropist. I made such a big concession, so you naturally have to give corresponding rewards before you can come to the table. But don't worry, although I am not a philanthropist, I am not a robber either. I am here to cooperate and make money."

As soon as these words came out, all kinds of flattering voices came from the table. As the voices fell, Dong Chuan Che raised a finger and said, "First of all, my first requirement is that all teams that want to cooperate with me in the future must set up a second-level team and a corresponding youth training camp under their jurisdiction. From the first-tier team playing in the first-tier league to the second-tier team playing in the secondary league, the number of players in the entire team cannot be less than 50. If the youth training camp is included, the overall scale cannot be less than 70 people."