Time Travel: 2014

However, it is good that such a decision can bring corresponding value to Lin Hui.

This has certain reference significance for Lin Hui when it comes to specific actions in IP in the future.

After all, the success of Goose Factory Interactive Entertainment in the previous life has verified the rationality of its choice.

Of course, it was just success in the previous life.

The current Goose Factory interactive entertainment/entertainment cannot be compared with the tentacles that spread everywhere in the next few years.

As for why this is so?

It has a lot to do with the fact that Goosechang Interactive Entertainment has just started a few years ago.

Lin Hui did a quick search on the Internet.

Judging from public information, the current situation of Goose Factory Interactive Entertainment in this time and space is similar to what Lin Hui had just imagined.

It was even worse than Lin Hui had previously estimated.

As for why the situation is worse than in the previous life.

Lin Hui thinks it's because this space-time goose factory is slightly inferior to its previous life in terms of games.

There is no constant blood transfusion in terms of gaming.

It’s not surprising that other aspects are worse.

After all, Goose Factory's real main means of profit at this time still relies on games.

There is still a difference between Gouchang's success in the next few years, which relied on wx payment, Gouchang Film and Television, Gouchang Animation, etc.

(Although Goose Factory also has wx payment at this time, it has only been online for a few months.

They are burning money to make all kinds of messy subsidies.

Even the model is much thinner than in subsequent years.

Although a skinny camel is bigger than a horse, at this time wx payment is enough to make many companies other than Ali the envy of.

But it is currently impossible for Goose Factory to count on this profit. )

Thinking that the Goose Factory's foundation was not strong enough at this time, Lin Hui suddenly thought of something.

Lin Hui felt that he was too preconceived in many cases.

He often brings his impressions of various companies in 2021 to the present.

I always think of my opponent's level as being too high.

But is it really so?

In fact, these companies are except for a few companies that have been in decline.

Many companies in this time and space of 2014 are not as strong as they were in 2021.

Not only are they not strong, some of the Internet companies that will dominate the market in 2021 are now quite weak in 2014.

For example, some Fortune 500 companies in the next few years are not having an easy time now.

I am afraid that the goods will be overstocked in the warehouse and cannot be sold, which will lead to a collapse of cash flow.

They even dare not produce products in large batches.

For this reason, although it has a certain user/fan base, it has also been accused of hunger marketing because of the shipping mechanism.

The embarrassment does not end there, there are many other companies facing similar embarrassments.

If such companies really want to have trouble with Lin Hui.

It's easy to figure out the pain points of such companies.

After all, Lin Hui knew very well how such enterprises became bigger and stronger back then.

Building a business can be difficult.

But it’s not easy to disrupt a company’s normal development path.

Having said that, Lin Hui has no intention of cooperating with these companies.

But we have no intention to compete maliciously with these companies.

As long as these companies don't offend Lin Hui.

Lin Hui has no intention of getting into trouble with such companies.

After all, Lin Hui’s stage is all over the world.

Rather than just being limited to the small fish pond of the Chinese Internet environment.

From now on, Lin Hui will compete in a global environment.

Of course Lin Hui has a good idea.

But I want to put this idea into practice.

Then Lin Hui himself must be strong enough. After all, to make iron, you have to be strong yourself.

Asking for too much without corresponding strength will only cause endless pain.

Fortunately, as far as the current time is concerned, Lin Hui still has a long period of time where he can let go and accumulate strength.

Whether it is to enrich knowledge, accumulate wealth, or reserve talents, there is no problem. Lin Hui has a smooth road ahead of him.

Lin Hui remembers clearly that the environment was relatively peaceful at this time in 2014.

The external environment is more favorable to Lin Hui.

As far as the domestic environment is concerned, Lin Hui's impression is that a number of domestic Internet giants are busy grabbing cakes at this time.

For example, competing for traffic entrances and secondary traffic entrances.

Lin Hui remembers this very clearly, and even the shadow of the original competition can be seen in the software ecosystem in the past few years.

Domestic mobile phone users can enter video streaming mode from almost any application that seems to have nothing to do with video playback.

Sometimes even when looking at the weather, the software will inexplicably enter the video mode.

This situation is largely the product of the original "protracted" battle for traffic entrance/secondary traffic entrance.

The reason why there are video entrances everywhere.

It is largely influenced by the trend of thought that “in the era of mobile Internet, any APP may be a traffic entrance”.

From Lin Hui's point of view, these giants have the energy to compete for various traffic entrances, so they might as well invest more in research and development.

The current competition for traffic entrances and secondary traffic entrances seems to Lin Hui to be an act that intensifies internal friction.

The evolution of events in the previous life basically supported Lin Hui’s view.

The original battle for traffic entrance was like a farce.

The original giants fought to nothing, and no one took too big advantage in the traffic entrance.

Instead, most of the fruits of victory were taken by the Toutiao Department, which had suddenly emerged in the previous life.

What is a "snipe and clam fighting each other to benefit the fisherman" fight if it doesn't just increase internal friction?

And if the city gate catches fire, it will affect the fish in the pond, and the ultimate loss will be the interests of the users.

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The main rivals in the domestic environment have no time to worry about anything else.

As for the international environment, international Internet giants are blindly expanding at this time.

Of course, the main target of these giants' expansion is the Ganges River Country, which has little to do with my country.

In the process of expansion, these companies should also understand the principle of making many friends and few enemies.

Under such circumstances, it seems that these crooked companies would not deliberately try to make things difficult for Lin Hui.

Of course, even if Lin Hui deliberately caused trouble, Lin Hui seemed to have nothing to panic about.

As a person who is still at the beginning of his career.

If he can gain competition from international giants, wouldn't this mean that Lin Hui has made rapid progress?

In short, although Lin Hui hopes for a peaceful development environment.

But Lin Hui is fully aware of the challenges that may arise.

Competition in society is becoming increasingly fierce.

Especially for IT companies.

Perhaps the early growth of some IT companies relied on technology to make a fortune.

But after growing up to a certain level, these warriors who used to rely on technology to slay dragons suddenly discovered.

Compared with the profits gained from continuous breakthroughs in the technical field.

It is completely incomparable to the profits gained after obtaining a monopoly.

As a result, the former dragon-slaying warriors turned into evil dragons.

Suppress and win over all kinds of backward technological newcomers.

In short, everything is for monopoly.

Is this really necessary?

In Lin Hui’s view, monopoly is an endless road.

The Internet's software technology, hardware technology, commodity technology, service technology, etc., have almost unlimited possibilities.

Is the monopoly here?

Not to mention monopolizing everything, it means that one company wants to occupy the leading position in all industries in the short term.

This is a very difficult thing.

Almost impossible to accomplish.

However, various pursuits of monopoly are not uncommon.

There are too many such examples.

And the goose factory recruits Lin Hui.

On the surface, it is seeking cooperation.

But actually?

How could the price tag of 100 million yuan be simply to develop a game?

Although there are many games that require more than 100 million yuan to develop.

But usually it is game developers who continue to increase project costs so that development costs can exceed 100 million yuan.

Because the project often exceeds the budget, the project is not willing to stop when it is in progress.

Therefore, investment can only be increased repeatedly.

Eventually the investment amounted to over 100 million.

If a game is not officially launched, it will be known that the project will cost more than 100 million.

It is estimated that many domestic game developers will be dissuaded.

It was really rare in 2014 for someone to be prepared to spend hundreds of millions of dollars before the game started.

In short, Lin Hui felt that Goose Factory’s claim of giving Lin Hui 100 million yuan to develop a casual game was very unreliable.

Even if Lin Hui is asked to develop games, Lin Hui should take the lead in developing large-scale games.

Rather than giving Lin Hui 100 million yuan to play some casual games.

Or is it that the reason for the 100 million yuan offer was that the Goose Factory gained the inside story of reaching a letter of intent with Super Cell.

This made the goose factory have a deep understanding of the ability of forest ash to attract gold, so it offered such a high price.

Lin Hui thinks it is unlikely. As of now, the transfer of the game "HILL CLIMB RACING" to Super Cell is still confidential.

Goose Factory may be able to get some general information through some gossip.

But it is absolutely impossible to know the specific details of this transaction through Super Cell or the eGame platform.

Or is it because Goose Factory has judged Lin Hui's huge revenue from previous games through some public data, so Goose Factory is willing to gamble 100 million yuan?

Lin Hui also felt that this possibility was unlikely, judging from the numerous investments in the goose factory.

Compared with Ali's various risky and showy operations, Goose Factory's investments are relatively more focused on stability.

It has always been a hawk that doesn't catch a hare.

In many investment projects, Goose Factory will only invest in them if even a layman can see the possibility of success.

One of the reasons why Goose Factory went through so much trouble when acquiring wx.

It's because the timing of the acquisition wasn't early enough.

wx has shown relatively strong potential.

In a situation where everyone knows the value of wx.

The acquired party naturally has privileges that are up for grabs.

In one word.

In the final analysis, Goose Factory is still a product-oriented enterprise.

Companies that pursue this mindset often prioritize products rather than technology when making decisions.

In layman's terms, they prefer to buy an already successful product or service directly.

Instead of spending a lot of money to gamble on an uncertain technological future.

Under the guidance of this kind of thinking, even though Lin Hui was very successful in the past.

But Goose Factory's values ​​do not mean that Lin Hui will be successful in the future.

In this case, why did Goose Factory generously offer 100 million to cooperate with Lin Hui?

Could it be that he was just showing off to Lin Hui?

Showing kindness is one thing, but it's definitely not the whole story.

Goose Factory's savvy is one of the best among domestic Internet companies.

How is it possible to make a loss-making transaction?

The reason why he claimed to invest 100 million yuan for Lin Hui to develop the game.

Lin Hui felt that it was just a drunkard who was not interested in drinking.

Goose Factory doesn't care about Lin Hui developing any casual games.

What lies in the Goose Factory is Lin Hui’s identity.

And what is Lin Hui’s identity?

When he was first reborn, Lin Hui was just an unknown developer.

But what now? Although Lin Hui is still a developer, he no longer seems so ordinary.

Lin Hui read many comment articles and called him an outstanding representative among domestic independent game developers.

In this case, the goose factory's recruitment of Lin Hui is most likely to buy horse bones for thousands of dollars.

On the surface, I am interested in Lin Hui, but in fact, I am more interested in the hundreds of independent developers behind Lin Hui.

If these people can join Goose Chang's command at Lin Hui's call.

Wouldn't the strength of the goose factory be greatly increased?

Independent game developers are not exactly the same as individual developers.

In a narrow sense, independent developers are still worth a small team of one or two people.

In a loose sense, those with less than 10 team members who are not attached to a larger game company or game studio group can be called independent developers.

The indie developer workplace is very casual.

Because of the free working style, many people who can't stand the arrogance of big companies and are conceited about their abilities have embarked on this path.

The look of turning around and leaving may be very chic.

But the road to survival is really embarrassing.

Perhaps this is a true portrayal of independent game developers.

Only a few independent games are profitable, and most rely on low and fragmented revenue to barely cover their expenses.

Although most independent developers are miserable.

But it doesn't mean these people are low.

On the contrary, those who embark on the road of independent game developers are basically generalists.

Just knowing game development is not enough, you also need to know a little bit about art.

Marketing operations, publicity, etc. all require more or less knowledge.

How could such talents not be favored by major manufacturers?

Having said that, these indie game developers generally have great personalities.

To put it bluntly, he is unsociable and stubborn.

In this case, it seems that we need to set a model among independent game developers to recruit.

So as to demonstrate it to the outside world.

If Lin Hui agrees to Goose Factory's solicitation, it seems to set an example for other independent game developers.

Even if they don't agree, the actions taken by Goose Factory seem to have the effect of buying horse bones for a thousand dollars.

No matter what, it's all blood money.

Well, Lin Hui has no interest in making a wedding dress for Goose Chang's ambition.

Soon Lin Hui organized some words and sent the email back to Goose Chang Interactive Entertainment.

The reply this time was still a stylized response.

But the specific content was not as polite as the previous email.

Although not unreasonable, it somewhat clearly expresses alienation.

Lin Hui doesn't like being a chess piece.

Although being used shows its own value.

But Lin Hui didn't want to be used by this cheap trick.