Ten Years Against the Current of Rebirth

Although Liu Weiting wanted to agree immediately to avoid long nights and dreams.

However, considering that the shares were raised from 15% to 20%, and the huge risks of switching from paid to free in-app purchases, Liu Wei immediately called Cai Haoyu and repeated Xu Xing's conditions.

As for the third point of technology sharing and mutual assistance, it is obviously not very important to Mihuyou, who just wants to survive at the moment.

In fact, although Liu Wei was very reluctant to sell out the additional 5% of shares, the second point was still more difficult for him to make concessions.

Changing the buyout system to a free in-app purchase model is not something you can just talk about.

You know, the profit model is the basis for whether a game can be a hit or not.

If they agree hastily, even if they get this one million investment, and the game fails, that is not the situation they want to see.

So next, Liu Wei and Cai Haoyu on the other end of the phone entered the stage of mutual negotiation with Xu Xing.

But what makes Xu Xing a bit dumbfounded is that Mihuyou’s team seems to firmly support the buyout strategy.

First, because what they are currently producing is the iOS version of Pineapple Company. Today, the most popular games on the App Store are buyout systems, including the first game launched by Mihu Games, which is also a buyout system.

The second reason is that buyout games and free-to-play games have different profit methods, so they have different priorities when producing game content.

For games with a buyout system, users initially purchase all the content of the game in full, so merchants only need to make the game with peace of mind and focus all their energy on improving the quality of the game.

However, for free games, in order to guide users to make purchases in the in-game shopping mall, it is necessary to design and limit the game content and upgrade system.

Especially the growth in numerical values ​​needs to be strictly controlled, so that players are stuck at the point where they can get experience upgrades, but they are just a little bit short.

This is used to induce consumption among players.

Commonly known as cheating.

Or to be more crude, they directly tell you that only by charging money can you become stronger. Otherwise, players who are free of charge will become one of the gaming experiences of players who pay for gold.

This is what is called forcing krypton.

Although this model is criticized by most players, it does not prevent people from making money...even making much more money than normal and conscientious games.

But at the moment, this model is more common in free web games and mobile games have not yet seen very obvious signs.

In particular, more than half of Mihuyou's Honkai Impact Campus has been produced. Changing the profit model at this time means going through the numerical system again, adding an additional in-app purchase mall, and designing a consumption guidance process.

Mihuyou originally expected to complete the game around December, but after such changes, it may have to wait until next year before it can be launched.

Therefore, the founders of Mihuyou argued hard with Xu Xing, but in the end they did not completely relent on the buyout system.

As for the first condition regarding shares, 20% of the shares also put Cai Haoyu, who leads Mihuyou, in a dilemma.

For Liu Wei and the other two founders, 20% of the shares is not an unacceptable condition, because the combined shares of these three founders are less than 50%, and more than half of the remaining shares are all

In the hands of Cai Haoyu.

It was originally so that the team would not have a leader to lead the direction due to their differences and quarrels, thus causing the studio to fall into a situation of fighting each other. In addition, Cai Haoyu is the one with the strongest technology among everyone and also contributes the most money.

Therefore, as early as when Mihuyou was established, Cai Haoyu controlled more than 50% of the shares.

This is to ensure the unity of execution of Mihuyou as a whole, and if it raises funds in the future, at least Cai Haoyu can firmly hold the veto power of 33% of the shares, so that subsequent dilution will not be caused by the equal division of shares.

The founders only had more than a dozen shares, but outsiders took the majority share.

For a start-up company, the most common financing amount is often around 10%.

Because we have to consider Series C and D rounds of financing in the future. For every round of financing, the founding team has to take out a portion of its shares and compete with new investors. The shareholding in its hands must be maintained at a healthy level.

That way he won't be kicked out of the company due to disagreements with investors in the follow-up period, occupying the magpie's nest.

Because of Mihuyou's mobile game theme, it was difficult to raise enough money for 10% of the shares, so it expanded its investment to 15% online.

Now it has been raised by Xu Xing to the extremely dangerous line of 20%.

It would be fine if there is no more financing in the future, but after all, Mihuyou currently does not have the eyes to see into the future and cannot be as sure of its own development as Xu Xing. For possible financing in the future, Cai Haoyu must also invest in this financing.

Be careful with your budget.

Therefore, under Cai Haoyu's argument, although Xu Xing did not insist on the 20% high-voltage line, he still took a little more meat from Mihuyou and reached a 17% share acquisition.

As for the third condition regarding technology sharing, Cai Haoyu agreed directly. After all, the only technology their studio has that is of some value is the 2.5D rendering engine based on the magic modification of the Unity engine.

Although this thing is quite useful, in the face of the current life and death situation, Mihuyou doesn't have much to think about. Getting investment as early as possible is the key to survival.

Their only requirement is that after the technology is shared, neither party can transfer the other's technology to outsiders, and a limited cooperation time is set. The cooperation will be terminated after three years. After that, if they want to continue the technical cooperation, they can negotiate separately.

During this period, Mihuyou will unconditionally agree to and share all technical requirements proposed by Qunxing Company to Mihuyou Studio.

The entire negotiation process took much longer than Liu Wei's presentation.

We talked from about eight o'clock in the evening until eleven o'clock in the night.

Xu Xing was helpless. He had good intentions in making Mihuyou free. After all, after investing, he always hoped that Mihuyou could make money for him.

Otherwise, if we wait until Beng Er is born, we will have to wait until 14 years.

Not to mention the even more amazing Beng San, which happened 17 years ago.

If possible, Xu Xing wouldn't mind helping Mihuyou speed up the process, but if things don't work out as expected, the Mihuyou team obviously has its own ideas and won't be changed so easily.

In the end, with the exchange and communication between Xu Xing and Cai Haoyu, the two parties reached a preliminary agreement——

1. Qunxing Company invested 1 million yuan in Mihuyou, accounting for 17% of the shares.

2. Mihuyou’s new game has destroyed the campus and still implements the buyout system.

3. The two companies realize technology sharing and mutual assistance, but cannot transfer technology to outsiders. Mihuyou must unconditionally share technology with Qunxing Company. The cooperation period starts from September 2012 and ends in September 2015.

After the two parties finalized the main terms in the middle of the night, Xu Xing left the contact information of several of them and sent Liu Wei and Jin Zhidong away.

The detailed terms of the contract will have to wait until Cai Haoyu comes in person tomorrow morning, and the two parties will continue to discuss the details before they can be completely finalized.

Standing by the window, Xu Xing looked at the retreating figures of Liu and Wei, thoughtfully.

To be honest, if you want to invest in Mihuyou, there are actually two points in time.

One is to cut off 15% of the shares in Mihuyou in advance before the company from the previous life took notice of it.

The second one was when Mihuyou failed to apply for listing during the development of Genshin Impact and was unable to accept various additional requirements from Tencent’s financing. This was also an opportunity.

The latter is still early and will have to wait until at least 2018 or 2019. Xu Xing will not consider it for the time being.

But at this point in time, it is still quite profitable to acquire 17% of Mihuyou shares.

You know, in the previous life, Mihu Games skyrocketed after making Genshin Impact. Regardless of its reputation, the original market value was already over 200 billion, and the worth of the three founders jumped into the domestic rich list.

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In other words, Xu Xing’s investment of 1 million for 17% of the shares today will be worth about 30 to 40 billion in ten years.

A full 30,000 times return on investment!

Thirty thousand times!

Not to mention that when Mihuyou was in financial trouble when producing Genshin Impact, if Xu Xing could still make another profit then, it wouldn't be as simple as 17%.

And you don’t necessarily need to wait so long. After all, if it doesn’t change to a free in-app purchase model, it may be difficult for this Honkai Impact Campus to recoup the cost... Xu Xing thought of this, narrowed his eyes looking at the night, chuckled, and was already there

Thinking about how to continue to bite another piece of meat from the prey.

Thinking about it this way, Mihuyou did not agree to switch from a buyout system to a free system, which may not be a bad thing for him.

Stretching, Xu Xing checked the time by the window.

At this time, the school dormitory had already turned off the lights and locked the door, so he was too lazy to go back.

Just before, Yao Yuanyuan asked Xiao Peng to buy a folding bed. Xu Xing took out the folding bed from the cabinet and put the quilt that Yan Chijuan brought last time on it. He planned to go to the toilet to wash up briefly and spend the night.

As a result, just as he was about to walk out of the office, he heard a knock on the door.

Xu Xing was stunned for a moment and checked the time again. It was already 11:30 pm, and it would be early morning soon.

The employees in the studio should have gone back from get off work long ago.

"Who?"

"Are you done?" The person outside opened the door and poked his head in.

It’s Xu Niannian.

"I just finished my work." Xu Xing nodded and asked, "Where are the others?"

"I asked them to go back." Xu Niannian opened the door and walked in, carrying a bag of barbecue in his hand, "I asked Jiajia to send vinegar back. Do you want to eat barbecue?"

"You bought everything, how can I just watch you eat it?"

Xu Xing felt a little relieved when he heard that Yan Chijiu had been sent back. While responding to Xu Niannian, he took out his mobile phone and saw the QQ message sent by Yan Chijiu.

[Jealous]: I have to go back to school first, otherwise I will be laughed at by my roommates if I go back too late.

【Vinegar】: We’ve arrived in the dormitory, I’m going to take a shower.

[Vinegar]: Isn’t the boss finished yet?

[JiuJiu]: I have to go to bed first, there are morning classes tomorrow.

[Vinegar]: Good night, boss~

Xu Xing looked at the chat record fixed at eleven o'clock in the evening, smiled slightly, and sent a reply to Yan Chijiu.

[Yicao Yanyu]: Well, I just finished my work.

[Yi Li Yan Yu]: Good night.

As a result, Yan Chijue responded immediately.

[Vinegar]: Yeah, good night, boss, go to bed early.

[Yicao Yanyu]: Didn’t you say you were asleep?

[Vinegar]: I got up to go to the toilet...I just happened to see it.

[Yi Li Yanyu]: Okay, go to bed early, good night.

[Vinegar]: Yeah, good night~

"Who are you talking to?" Xu Niannian leaned over curiously.

"Abin, this guy has been annoying me." Xu Xing moved quickly and quickly jumped to the chat page with Li Zhibin.

And Li Zhibin has indeed been annoying him. He started sending him messages at about 7 o'clock in the evening, and continued to send him messages until about 10 o'clock in the evening.

The above is all information about the research tasks assigned to him by Xu Xing. During the weekend, Li Zhibin had already come to try to contact those companies.

As for the results.

That can only be said to be haha.

The main reason is that Li Zhibin lacks experience and is very immature in negotiation and needs more training.

Xu Niannian did not doubt his presence, and knew that Xu Xing and Li Zhibin had a good relationship. After seeing the chat records between the two, he lost interest and put the barbecue on his desk.

The two of them were eating barbecue and chatting. Halfway through the meal, Xu Xing suddenly realized a problem.

"You won't go back to the dormitory tonight?"

"How can I go back at this time?"

"Then where do you sleep?"

"Don't you have a bed here?"

"This is a single bed... so why didn't you go back with everyone just now?"

"Sister, aren't you afraid that you will work too hard and be hungry at night?" Xu Niannian rolled her eyes at him, "You are so heartless."

Xu Xing looked at Xu Niannian's fair face and delicate profile under the light, and listened to the words "He has no conscience" in his ears. He felt a little confused for a moment, thinking that he had gone back in time.

But soon, after eating the barbecue, Xu Xing still had to face a serious problem.

How will he and Xu Niannian sleep at night?

After going to the toilet and briefly gargling their mouths and faces, Xu Xing and Xu Niannian returned to the office, looking at the single folding bed in front of them and falling into deep thought.

In the end, Xu Xing gave up the folding bed to Xu Niannian, and he moved in a few more chairs and built a bed, planning to make do with it.

"Is it so good?" Xu Niannian sat on the folding bed, looked up at Xu Xing and said with a smile, "Why don't you, Mr. Xu, sleep on the bed? I'm a little employee, so I'd better sleep on a chair."

"Come on." Xu Xing shook his head, "With your sleeping habits, I'm afraid you'll fall down when you fall asleep."

After saying that, Xu Xing turned off the light, took the small blanket that Xu Yi had covered before, lay down on the chair and covered it, and said: "Go to sleep, we have to continue working tomorrow."

"Oh." Xu Niannian used the moonlight to see that the blanket covering Xu Xing's body was not long enough to reach Xu Xing's knees.

She looked at the thick quilt on her bed again, rolled her eyes, and simply moved the folding bed next to Xu Xing's chair bed. After lying down, she covered Xu Xing with half of the quilt: "Come on, come on, this is

The quilt is so big, give it to you."

The height of the folding bed is relatively short, only about two-thirds of the height of the chair.

After Xu Xing covered himself with the quilt, he turned around and saw Xu Niannian, who was more than ten centimeters shorter than him.

The two people looked at each other in the hazy moonlight, then looked away from each other and looked at the ceiling.

"How long has it been since we slept together like this?"

"Correction, this does not count as sleeping together."

"Isn't it enough to cover you with a quilt? Your tone is too scumbag, no wonder you can't find a girlfriend."

"Employees, please be careful with your words, or I will deduct your salary."

"Damn, you're so arrogant." Xu Niannian sneakily reached over and pinched his waist, "The boss is great, he doesn't have to sleep on a chair."

"I don't even know who it is because of."

"hey-hey."

"Okay, let's go to sleep, I'm so sleepy."

"Oh, good night."

"Good night."

Under the moonlight, Xu Xing quickly fell asleep.

But Xu Niannian, who was on the bed, listened to Xu Xing's increasingly long and steady breathing, and turned his head, keeping looking at half of his face.

A pair of eyes reflected in the moonlight outside the window were sparkling, like the reflected lake surface, crystal clear and containing unspeakable emotions.

…

September 9th, morning.

Xu Xing opened his eyes and found something was wrong.

I looked to the right and saw a chair and bed that was a little taller than me.

Looking to the left, he saw Xu Niannian lying on his side, sleeping close to him.

There was even a long, fair and smooth leg resting on his belly.

Xu Xing: "...?"

So how did you get off the chair?

"Well..."

I don't know if it was because Xu Xing moved a little bit, but Xu Niannian also muttered a few times and opened his eyes little by little.

When he saw Xu Xing in front of him, he showed a naive smile, reached out and pinched Xu Xing's face: "Did you dream? It's quite realistic. Come and give me a kiss, sister."

Seeing how stupid this guy was who couldn't even tell the difference between dreams and reality, Xu Xing pressed her head with disgust and said speechlessly: "Please wake up, what are you daydreaming about?"

"Holy shit!" Xu Niannian woke up completely, sat up on the bed, looked down at Xu Xing, and said preemptively, "Why are you in my bed?"

Xu Xing: "..."

Good guy.

If only he knew.

However, Xu Niannian didn't hold on to him. After getting out of bed and putting on her shoes, she ran out to wash her face, not letting Xu Xing see the look of successful plot on her face.

Eight o'clock in the morning.

Cai Haoyu, Liu Wei, and Jin Zhidong arrived at Tianshu Studio on time and met young Mr. Xu.

On the basis of friendly exchanges, the two parties launched more detailed negotiations based on the terms agreed last night.

Finally, at around ten o'clock in the morning, both parties confirmed the final content of the contract and formally signed the contract.

Qunxing invested 1 million yuan in Mihuyou, accounting for 17% of the shares. The investment funds were transferred into Mihuyou's account in three installments, from 200,000 yuan within a week after the contract came into effect, to 300,000 yuan after the game production was completed and entered the testing phase.

million, and 500,000 after entering into publicity and marketing.

The specific payment requirements are clearly written into the contract, and one million is not directly credited to Mihuyou’s account.

After all, even if such a large amount of money is given in one go, Mihuyou actually only needs to spend tens of thousands of yuan every month, so it is impossible to use so much. It is normal for the financing funds to be disbursed in batches.

After the transaction was completed, Xu Xing kept Cai Haoyu and the other three for a brief tour inside the company, and then took a few of them to exchange experience on the unity engine with his new team. Once Qunxing Company

If you have any demand for their modified 2.5D engine, Cai Haoyu will immediately provide help and guidance.

After leaving them to have a meal in the company at noon, Xu Xing sent these three people away.

When he returned to the company, he received an urgent notification from his secretary Peng Yuxuan.

"Mr. Xu, I have a piece of bad news to inform you." Peng Yuxuan looked solemn as he walked into the office and reminded Xu Xing, "At twelve o'clock at noon, Tencent's Magic app will be available on all major Android platforms and the Pineapple App Store.

Tan Studio has uploaded a game called Q Fruit Ninja, the content is almost exactly the same as our Fruit Assassin.”

"Q Fruit Ninja?" When Xu Xing heard such a name, the corners of his mouth twitched, and he immediately frowned and took out his mobile phone from his pocket, "Is it available on all major platforms?"

"Yes, it's also available on Android." Peng Yuxuan took out his Android phone and showed it to Xu Xing.

Xu Xing searched for the name of the game on his Pineapple phone and took a look at Peng Yuxuan's mobile app store.

Immediately, his expression gradually became strange.

【Q Fruit Ninja】

[Price: 6.9 yuan]

Xu Xing: "...This is really brave."

Looking at the games on it, Xu Xing thought for a while and decided to pay to download one.

While waiting for the download, Xu Xing looked up at Peng Yuxuan and said, "Go and call Yao Yuanyuan and the company's legal affairs."

"Okay." Peng Yuxuan nodded, and then immediately ran out to find Yao Yuanyuan in the finance room next door.

Q Fruit Ninja on Xu Xing’s mobile phone was also quickly downloaded.

After clicking to enter, I looked at the image of the penguin ninja wearing a black mask and bandages on the screen, and my eyes twitched a few times.

This is nothing more than changing the assassin teacher from Fruit Assassin into a penguin ninja teacher.

After entering the game, it is the familiar boot mode again. There is almost no difference in the fruit cutting interface. Just the background is changed. The color of the fruit is a little brighter and it looks more Q version.

But in terms of gameplay and content, even the achievement system and skin mall are exactly the same as Fruit Assassin.

All I can say is that it is indeed a penguin.

Xu Xing played for a while, and after roughly understanding the game, he set his sights on [Price: 6.9 yuan], smiled and shook his head, then stood up from the chair and took a deep breath.

He really didn't expect that just when he was about to have a big fight, Tengxin slapped him in advance.

Although it is only an internal behavior of its studio and does not rise to the level of Tencent itself, it is undoubtedly a very serious matter for Qunxing, a small company that has just started.

However, after confirming that it had been plagiarized and that the plagiarist was Penguin, Xu Xing felt that this matter was really reasonable and not surprising at all.

"What's going on?" Yao Yuanyuan opened the door and came in, followed by Peng Yuxuan and the company's legal affairs officer, yelling angrily, "Tencent copied our game? How can you be so shameless! It's such a big company, and it's copying our small company.

The company’s game? Damn it!”

"Dan Ding, Dan Ding." As the planner of Fruit Assassin and the target of plagiarism, Xu Xing is the calmest one.

He first looked at Peng Yuxuan and ordered: "Xiao Peng, help me contact the Android channel and platform provider, and say that I agree to a 50-50 split and a one-month extension of the payment process. The requirements for promotion are not high. I can agree to it before.

I agree to the conditions, but we must launch our Fruit Assassin within three days.”

After saying that, Xu Xing looked at the company's legal counsel Li Jing and arranged: "Help me contact a law firm that specializes in commercial plagiarism cases in this area, and go directly to sue Tencent's Motan Studio for plagiarism."

Li Jing, the legal counsel recruited by Yao Yuanyuan, has several years of experience. After hearing Xu Xing's words, she immediately reminded with a somewhat embarrassed expression: "Mr. Xu, Tengxin is already a habitual offender in this regard. Even if we file a lawsuit, we will probably

It’s useless and a complete waste of money.”

Xu Xing smiled and said, "I didn't say I wanted to sue him."

"Just tell the law firm that you don't want to win this lawsuit, you just want it to be filed as soon as possible. Lawyers' letters, court summons, etc., as fast as possible."

"But when it comes to the later stages, you don't need to sue or win. You just need to delay it for a while. Win or lose doesn't matter."

"Ah?" Li Jing was stunned for a moment, not understanding the meaning of Xu Xing's actions.

But Xu Xing had already turned his attention to Yao Yuanyuan and said, "You can arrange two things here."

"First, find a few influential media, as well as the game media that have always said they want to be interviewed, and say that they can be interviewed, and tell Tencent about plagiarism."

"Second, in addition to the above media, find other online media for exposure."

"On the company's books, except for the 200,000 yuan that will be transferred to Mihuyou soon, and the salary of the company's employees this month, everything else is taken out."

"Do as I say and take action first."

"Okay!" Yao Yuanyuan is a veteran who has been following Fruit Assassin all the way. She is very aware of Xu Xing's talent not only in game production, but also in advertising and promotion.

After hearing Xu Xing's mission arrangements, she already had a rough idea in her mind, but the time was too short for her to think about it in detail.

But after hearing this, she took action quickly and was the first to turn around and leave the office, ready to carry out Xu Xing's order.

Peng Yuxuan also immediately started contacting Android's channel provider. Li Jing, who was in charge of legal affairs, was a little slow, but seeing that her two colleagues had already started, she didn't ask any more questions and hurriedly ran to find a reliable lawyer.

Office.

After Xu Xing arranged all this, he slowly exhaled, then picked up his cell phone and called Xu Yi.

"Hello? What's the matter?"

"Uncle, I remember you are from the search department of a certain degree?" Xu Xing asked with a chuckle, "What is the price of your advertising and push business?"