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"Boss, the mid-term final review of "John Wick" gave the game a rating of [18 banned]. Players under the age of 18 are not allowed to buy it."

Fan Rui was very frustrated.

Lin You couldn't help opening his mouth, but he quickly regained his composure.

To be reasonable, Lin You was really surprised when he heard the news.

But soon, he thought of Fan Rui's operation in the game, and suddenly felt: There seems to be nothing to be surprised about...

"Okay, what exactly is it that affects the rating?"

Great Xia's review mechanism is still very complete. The rating review of the game will give a very clear report, not only giving the current rating of the game, but also explaining the reasons for the rating.

The most powerful thing is that a guide will be given later, clearly explaining which elements need to be modified if you want to lower the rating.

As long as you modify the specific content according to the guidance of the report, you will be able to lower the rating smoothly.

As for "John Wick", it was originally expected to be consistent with "League of Assassins", and it was also set at [16+]. That's why Lin You asked this question.

Fan Rui blinked, "Street girls in scantily clad clothes; strippers' voices are too seductive, and the relevant hints are a bit obvious; and the scale of the underground mixed bathhouse is too large..."

"These three changes can lower the grade to [17+], which is M grade. And [16+]..."

Fan Rui felt a little speechless, but under Lin You's gaze, he still confessed honestly: "There are 18 changes in total."

"..."

Lin You felt very speechless and wanted to cover his face helplessly.

Leaving aside the 18 places [16+], the first three are also outrageous!

Why do Night City have scantily clad street girls? ! What about the promised luxury?

Are you doing this scene of "the rich man's wine and meat stinks" in order to inspire the players to think humanistically in a "bang bang bang" game?

It's not impossible, but can you stop being so explicit!

Let’s not mention the mixed bathing area, that is part of the main line, Lin You is also mentally prepared to make a certain compromise on this.

But where the strippers are...

What is "sound" too tempting? ? ?

Why is the sound too alluring, not the dance? ?

What the hell did you put in the music? !

When Yunmeng starts making butter, Fan Rui will definitely be the No. 1 top talent!

Thinking of this, Lin You suddenly wanted to ask Fan Rui a question: What kind of game did you play before joining the "Raging Flames" project team? Did you really make butter?

But considering that Fan Rui is also a general after all, although the grading scale is slightly out of control, the overall progress of the game has been very smooth.

It's better not to provoke him.

In the end, Lin You shook his head and accepted the reality: "Forget it, I don't think about [16+], change those three places, let's position the game as [17+], mature level."

"Okay, we can finish it today!" Fan Rui assured, patted his chest.

But Lin You is not at ease: "Mature level is the bottom line! Be sure to pay attention to it later!"

Fan Rui repeatedly assured that Lin Youcai was finally relieved to let him leave.

*

Today is also the third day of Yunmeng's frantic "sweeping" and buying IP, and another wonderful change has occurred in the market.

Yunmeng was scolded by others.

But it was not the reasons such as "disturbing the market" and "suspected monopoly" that Lin You had expected.

Rather, "purchasing a large number of little-known IPs, but ignoring the well-known IPs with huge market influence, exposed the serious shortage of the acquisition team's aesthetic appreciation and market value evaluation capabilities!"——This kind of people is stunned. It's an outrageous reason to be speechless.

The bottom line is that it was Lin You who instructed, "Only buy high-quality IP, not bad ones."

The difference between "high quality" and "poor" is not just about commercial value.

Some works have been driven up to a price far exceeding their own value when a large amount of capital is involved.

Just like there is an animated film called "Red Fish", which has gained a very high popularity and national recognition entirely by relying on a lot of sentimental publicity and hype. Even when it was released, it succeeded in achieving a very good box office. score.

There is even news recently that because of the "success" of the first animation, the second animation will be produced soon!

Yes, just looking at the box office, the marketing is quite successful, but please read the audience's evaluation!

You were sprayed from the show to the next show!

For this type of works, Lin You made it clear: Do not buy them! No free shipping!

There are also works with strange three-dimensional views, those that are ugly to death but inexplicably popular, and those whose creators have serious stains...

Skip all of them, these people won't be able to earn a penny!

Lin You does have a lot of money, and he is very generous when he does what he wants to do.

But for those who don't like it, Lin You won't give a penny!

This has led to the fact that when the IP acquisition team acquires IP in groups, sometimes they walk to the door of the intended company, and the other party even goes out to greet them. Suddenly, they receive a text message and immediately change their attitude. They are not even willing to enter the company's door went in.

He directly said that the acquisition plan was cancelled, and then hurriedly bid farewell to the next one, saying that he couldn't keep it.

On the way to the next one, I will call back and apologize politely.

——No way, time is tight and tasks are heavy, they really can't afford to delay.

After all, Yunmeng has to get off work at 5 o'clock, and everyone has long been used to it. Even if they come out to discuss cooperation, they should try to finish before the o'clock, so the pace is very fast.

Similar things happened more than once.

This inevitably caused some companies to feel offended.

Of course, if it was just such an offense, they wouldn't care too much about it. In the business world, all kinds of things will happen.

What really makes them uncomfortable is that there has been a strange trend of public opinion in the market-"Yunmeng acquired IP so ruthlessly, but he didn't even enter the door of his company, obviously thinking that their works are not good!"

And this kind of groundless public opinion has intensified, and even caused the value of their copyrights to begin to decline, messing up the other two copyright acquisitions!

This is a big problem!

Some companies thought of Lin You and Yunmeng's style of work, although they were very angry, they still chose to endure it, thinking that they had suffered an innocent disaster.

But some companies are different. They feel that they have successfully produced works that are recognized by the market. With their own record and hard power, they don’t need to be afraid of Lin You, so they stand up and attack Yunmeng without hesitation.

To be more polite, they only pointed the finger at the acquisition team, saying that the acquisition team "has a big problem, has poor aesthetic ability, and does not understand business."

——You don’t care how I got famous, whether the word of mouth is good or bad! Black and red are also red!

You even paid a lot of money for the copyright of many unknown small works, why don't you buy mine?

Are you looking down on me?

The bad-tempered people have already started to directly shoot at Lin You: "Is this the quality of the employees? They do things like this, and you, the boss, can't speak out and pretend to be dead?!"

—— People in the game industry and the media are afraid of you, but I am not afraid of you! We are not in the same industry!

Even if you attack me, it still brings me traffic! I wish for it!

*

Lin You focused all his attention on the "Jelly Bean Man" track, carefully watching the players' game conditions.

Watching other people play this game is a completely different kind of fun than playing it yourself.

But just watching with relish, relying on his little dream, he suddenly sat up and shook his arm: "Master, you have been scolded again!"

? ? ?

Lin You had a question mark on his head.

Also, why do you have to add "again"?