Tokyo Video Game Tycoon

"Have you guys considered putting this game on GS1?"

During the chat, Zhu Youxing asked the question he wanted to ask the most.

Bourne was taken aback, then sighed and said: "Of course I want to, why don't I want to, GS1 is now the place with the largest number of users, if we can log in to our games on this game console, then more people will definitely pay attention, but the authorization of GS1 Gold is not something we can afford right now."

If a game developer wants to register his game on a certain game console, there is the biggest threshold first, which is the authorization fee, which can also be called the patent fee.

This is equivalent to the entry fee to join a certain game console.

However, the entry fee is usually relatively high, and it is difficult for some small game studios to afford such a licensing fee.

Unless their works are really famous, it is possible to rely on the money they earn to log on to other platforms to continue to expand their influence.

And when you log in to PC, you don’t need these things. You just need to publish the game on the PC platform, and players will naturally download and play it.

But PC will also give rise to another problem, that is piracy.

Youxing Electronic Entertainment doesn't care much, even if Doom Slayer cracks more than 10 million scale on PC, it will not affect the basic disk of Youxing Electronic Entertainment at all.

Zhu Youxing has also started playing pirated games since he was a child, and he has maintained this kind of tolerance for latecomers.

And piracy and cracked games are not all bad things for a large company.

This also means that these players are also focusing on their own products, and sometimes the number of users is also a fortune.

Outsiders estimate that the total number of users of Youxing Electronic Entertainment's licensed and pirated versions may have exceeded 130 million.

This huge number of users is beyond the reach of ordinary companies.

The company valuation brought by the number of users alone has exceeded tens of billions of dollars.

Now as long as Zhu Youxing is willing to let go, in the blink of an eye, there will be countless capital clamoring to join the group with money.

And they will give Yuxing Electronic Entertainment a valuation of at least 20 billion US dollars.

Even if Zhu Youxing sells 1% of the shares, it will be 200 million U.S. dollars, which is the money for a large investment similar to FF7.

However, piracy is not a problem for Zhuyouxing, but a small studio like Bourne is likely to be dragged down by piracy.

They could have bankrupted the studio by missing a sale or two.

Looking at this doomsday role-playing game, Zhu Youxing still likes it very much.

It made him feel like he used to play Fallout 2.

If he let this game miss him, he would definitely regret it.

But people in this world know very little about games in this form of expression. Prudent investors will definitely ask for more studio shares if they see that it is not a popular game, otherwise they will choose a better quality game. game studio.

Even though the game industry is very hot at the moment, they are still very cautious in investing.

This seems to be the norm for investors in this world.

At this time, Zhu Youxing said: "Patent money is really a troublesome thing, but I actually recently heard that Youxing Electronic Entertainment is working on a new plan, the purpose is to explore more potential video games, for these Early-stage game studios with little capital themselves gave preferential treatment to patent fees, such as how many more sets of games were sold before receiving patent fees.”

Bourne was taken aback: "Ah? Is there? Why haven't I heard of it?"

There is no such thing, but Zhu Youxing is the boss of Youxing Electronic Entertainment, and he said that if there is, then it will definitely happen.

But this is also Zhu Youxing's sudden and temporary idea.

He has always wanted to recruit some talents in game development, but he has also forgotten that not everyone wants to work in a company willingly. game development team.

Even if Youxing Electronic Entertainment's status can still attract many talents, it is difficult for this kind of more independent genius to be attracted.

He had been investing in the game development environment before, but he ignored this matter.

Fortunately, it is still too late to recover now.

Zhu Youxing nodded: "Indeed there are. I'm half an industry insider. I have some media interviews with... Youxing Electronic Entertainment. The interviews two days ago indeed revealed that Youxing Electronic Entertainment has this plan. To be honest, I think your game is not bad, maybe you can take the initiative to contact Youxing Electronic Entertainment, even if the plan has not been opened yet, but if there is a high-quality game, they should not mind giving the green light in advance."

Zhu Youxing's words made Bourne's mind immediately active.

Chances of a free login on GS1?

This is quite rare.

In the early FC era, Yuxing Electronic Entertainment naturally didn't collect too much patent money at the beginning, and it mostly took the lion's share in the share.

Later, as more and more game companies joined, Youxing Electronic Entertainment naturally needed to make certain changes. It needed to simply kick out some guys who only wanted to fish in troubled waters, so as not to affect their own development.

But now it seems that this strategy is not completely correct, because it really blocks a lot of guys who fish in troubled waters, but at the same time abandons these potential game developers.

After Zhu Youxing finished speaking, Bourne's attitude towards Zhu Youxing was obviously completely different.

"Sir, may I ask your name?"

"You don't need to ask for my name. I'm just doing a little favor. Now I'm a player."

"This... I actually want to thank you very much, because you revealed this news to me. This is really important to Darnley and me. If it weren't for you, we might have suffered serious losses."

Zhu Youxing smiled and said: "There is no need to be so exaggerated. Anyway, I don't need to say it. In a few days, it may even be at this exhibition that Star Electronic Entertainment will announce a new plan."

"But even so, I am very grateful to you."

Bourne thought for a moment, then immediately took out a notebook from the side, and wrote his name and a paragraph of text on it.

'I, Burn Stamper and Tim Darnley owe you a favor now, sir. If there is anything that needs us in the future, please use this to find me at any time, sir. I am willing to use all means possible return mr. '

Because Zhu Youxing was wearing sunglasses and a mask, Bourne could only tell through his accent that he was not American.

He also respected Zhu Youxing's choice of not being exposed, so he thought of using this method to record Zhu Youxing's favor.

Then, he tore off the paper very seriously, and sincerely handed it to Zhu Youxing.

"Sir, please accept this. Maybe this thing is not of much value, but I hope that I will have a chance to repay you in the future. Even if our game development fails in the end, or no one cares about our work, the two of us finally I have no choice but to do odd jobs, as long as you use this to find me at any time, I will return you immediately."