Game Development Giant

Jester did not directly reject Adrian's suggestion to produce another 100,000 trial version floppy disks of "City of War".

He thought for a while and said to Adrian: "Selling one hundred thousand copies in half a day is indeed beyond my expectation, but I think two hundred thousand copies is a very high number. These readers are not for you. I bought it from the magazine, but it was just for the game "City of Battle". I think that instead of making another 100,000 game floppy disks and selling them in this issue, it is better to put these 100,000 floppy disks in the next issue. .”

"Next issue?" Adrian was a little confused.

Jester said with a smile: "Actually, it's easy to understand. Our next issue of the magazine plan does not include free trial games. No matter how many we sold in the first issue, these have not yet formed a reading stickiness for our magazine. For readers, the appeal will definitely decrease. If we publish a message saying that because the game floppy disks prepared in advance are insufficient, we did not expect players to be so enthusiastic, so we will give away this game again when the second issue is released. "City of War" demo version."

Hearing Jester's words, Adrian nodded on the other end of the phone. He understood what Jester meant.

"Boss, what do you mean, if some of the players who want to get "City of Fierce Battle" are diverted to the second phase, then our sales in the second phase will also be very high?" Adrian asked guessing. .

"Haha." Jester smiled, then denied Adrian's guess, "No."

"That's it?" Adrian didn't understand for a moment.

"You directly ask the sales points that sell our magazines to announce that there are no more game floppy disks in the first issue, but now those who have purchased the first issue of "game" after the third edition will be released in our second issue At that time, as long as you purchase a second issue of the magazine, you will get a second issue of the magazine that comes with a trial version of "City of War". Of course, if there is no third edition of the first issue of the magazine, , then you cannot purchase the second issue of the trial version of "City of Fierce Battle" that comes with it." Jester explained to Adrian in detail.

"Aren't these players very dissatisfied? They also bought the first issue, but they have to pay for the second issue to get the gifts." Adrian felt a little bit when he heard Jester's plan. Unreliable.

Jester looked at the time. He still had things to do after a while, so he couldn't help but speak faster.

"It's actually very simple. You just need to make these people think it is profitable. In this way, I will give you twenty places to come to the Mars Entertainment headquarters for game testing. You can experience all the games we are currently producing, and also You will receive souvenirs from us, and you can publish them in the magazine. In order to make up for the losses of players, only those who purchased the second issue of the game version magazine that comes with a bonus can participate in this quota selection. You will receive a gift in the second issue. Just put a raffle ticket in the game magazine, and the cost is basically negligible.”

Adrian's eyes suddenly lit up when he heard Jester's explanation, but he still found something wrong. He asked hesitantly, "Doesn't this force those who have already bought the first issue to continue?" Are you going to buy the magazine from the first issue to the third edition? Aren’t they dissatisfied?”

"They will be dissatisfied, but it doesn't matter. They will still buy it, but the quality of your magazine is the most important. In the final analysis, we sell magazines, not floppy disks for game trials." Jester nodded, smiling. Said, "The purpose of this is to let readers who have already bought it buy it again. However, this can only be used to increase the initial sales of "Game", but how many readers can be retained depends on what you do." The quality is down. We can’t let the readers who buy your magazine be disappointed with the quality of your magazine.”

"I understand." Adrian nodded in agreement.

After hanging up the phone, Jester also breathed a sigh of relief. It seems that the game magazine he created is getting off to a good start thanks to the reputation of Mars Entertainment. However, how far it can develop in the future depends entirely on the person he is optimistic about. As a young editor-in-chief, he wants to develop a magazine. It is understandable to use his crooked ideas at the beginning, but to develop later, he can only rely on his own hard power.

Just as Jester was looking through the R\u0026D logs sent by the R\u0026D team for the first half month, the phone on his desk rang again.

"Boss, I heard you're looking for me?" The voice was deep and rich, with a hint of New York accent. It was Howard Garfield, the barrister whom Jester hired with an annual salary of 800,000 US dollars.

It was Jester who contacted his grandfather for help. The barrister's wife was Chinese and had been favored by Jester's grandfather when he first came to the United States. Moreover, because Howard was dissatisfied with his salary, Jester asked Jester to help him contact him. Only then can we take advantage of it.

Moreover, the price paid for the big lawyer Jester was not small. He was not directly hired by Howard Garfield.

In the United States, unless a lawyer of Howard's level is a behemoth like IBM, it would be difficult for them to live there willingly.

Jester directly provided money to help him establish a law firm and gave him half of the shares. The name was called Howard Law Firm. This also satisfied Howard Garfield's vanity to a certain extent.

Then the $800,000 that Jester paid was the fee for hiring his law firm to serve as his legal adviser to Jester Holdings Group, and was not directly given to Howard Garfield.

Jester can get 30% of this money, because the law firm contract he signed with Howard is that not only he can only own 50% of the shares, but the other party also has 70% of the dividend rights. In this regard, Jester After much consideration, Stern readily agreed. He knew deeply how important it was to have a barrister who had an alliance of interests with him in the United States.

In the final analysis, the United States is a country of capitalists and lawyers.

"Howard, I do have something." Jester's eyes flashed coldly, and he tapped the table with one finger unconsciously. He has been busy these days and has no time to deal with the international student named Yu Yunlong. , now that his matter has come to an end, he is also ready to settle the matter.

Yes, this international student just offended him because of a small thing. If he was an ordinary person, he might just find an opportunity to beat him up. That's understandable. After all, it's okay to vent his anger. It's just because of jealousy. And caused by small things.

But now he is not an ordinary person, he is a businessman, and a businessman that makes many people jealous. The shopping mall is like a battlefield. There is a saying that is very good, kindness cannot control soldiers, and justice cannot conduct business.

This international student has made a fool of himself in front of the Chinese people on the entire West Coast. If he doesn't fight back and doesn't show his strength to others, then he will be considered a weak sheep, a man holding a gold ingot in the busy city. He couldn't even deal with a baby walking around in a powerless international student, so who would take him seriously? Then no one can bully me. If this continues, no matter how much money I make, I will lose all prestige.

You may even become fat in the eyes of others.

This has nothing to do with morality or caring, just because Yu Yunlong made a mistake that must not be made in the United States.

Don't offend the rich.

This time many Chinese people are looking at themselves, and they must establish their authority.

Jester briefly explained what happened to Howard. In fact, even if he didn't tell Howard, as long as he planned to let Howard solve this kind of matter, then the matter would not be hidden from him. The eyes and ears of these big lawyers are definitely better than many people's. Imagine, and these people take both black and white.

After listening, Howard just smiled and without even thinking about it, he said directly: "How do you want to deal with it? Car accident? Robbery? Or..."

"No." Jester shook his head, remembering a story he had read before.

That was when "Ninja Gaiden" had just been released. Because the game was too bloody, the game producer Sulfur Face was criticized by many people, saying that he was a bad teacher to children.

When he was interviewed by a British media, he was asked this question.

Sulfuric Face answered this question very seriously.

Jester still remembered Sulfuric Face's answer at that time, and he agreed with Sulfuric Face's explanation of violence, so he paused for a moment and said directly to Howard on the other end of the phone: "Howard, what do you want? Know that violence does not mean cutting the enemy into pieces or chopping until blood drips from him, that is not real violence."

"Oh?" Hearing Jester say this, Howard became a little curious. He wanted to hear Jester's unique understanding of violence.

"Do you know the samurai of old Japan?"

Jester asked first, and he did not expect Howard to answer his question, so he squinted his eyes, his tone became cold, and he kept saying, "In the tradition of the old Japanese samurai, if you want to humiliate your opponent, A true swordsman will chop off four fingers of his opponent's sword hand, leaving only his thumb. This way he will never be able to hold a sword again in his life and become a samurai, but he will still have a thumb that allows him to In the future, what will happen to this samurai who has four fingers chopped off? He will not be able to bear the difference and commit suicide in the pain of inner suffering. He will be helpless and ashamed. To die without anyone taking pity on him is true violence."

Even across the phone, Howard felt a chill that penetrated into his bones from the story Jester told.

"you mean……"

Before Howard could finish speaking, Jester interrupted him again.

"Howard, you have to know that I have nothing to do with this matter. I just told two stories, one about me and the other about the Japanese samurai. I didn't mean anything, and I didn't ask you to do anything. , I'm just chatting with you." Jester said with a smile.

Howard on the other end of the phone took a deep breath and was silent for two seconds.

"I see."

Jester smiled and said "Hello", then he hesitated for a moment and said, "Don't let my grandpa know."

"We just had a casual phone call to chat about the recent affairs of the law firm. Why would Mr. Li be interested in this?" Howard's laughter came from the receiver again, and nothing unusual could be heard. It seemed that just now He and Jester were really discussing the law firm.

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ps2: In fact, in the United States, you are not allowed to invest in a law firm without a lawyer's license. I have removed this rule here for the sake of the story. If you know, don't complain.