To become the richest man from the beginning of the game

Chapter 700 E-sports Division (Updated)

Zhang Yuan couldn't help but his eyes lit up: "Mr. Pei, tell me, I would like to hear the details!"

Pei Qian took a sip of tea and sorted out his thoughts a little.

"First of all, we need to provide a unified standard contract for all clubs and players, and at the same time strictly prohibit any yin and yang contracts."

"The standard contract allows both short-term contracts and long-term contracts, but only basic content such as contract time, liquidated damages, transfer fees and salaries can be stipulated, and some messy clauses cannot be added to restrict players."

"In particular, some very vague clauses cannot appear, such as 'players must unconditionally cooperate with the club in commercial operations', etc. This must be clearly prohibited."

"It's okay for the club to conduct commercial operations, but it must be under our supervision, not without restraint, let alone oppressing players."

"Secondly, during the transfer period of each year, clubs and free agents are free to contact and make commitments, but they cannot sign contracts privately. Before signing, we must arrange for each club to conduct secret auctions for free agents. Make a unified bid."

"During the secret shooting, the clubs first send out their intentions, clearly stating the preferred contract time, liquidated damages, salary, additional special treatment, such as the promised playing time of the players, etc."

"Once the intention is confirmed during the secret auction, the players will be asked to choose which team to go to. If the two parties agree, a formal contract will be signed. As for the promise made during the secret auction, the club must abide by it and we will be responsible for supervision."

"In the end, when a dispute arises, both parties must accept our mediation, and we will act as an intermediary, allowing the players and the club to take a step back and choose a solution acceptable to all three parties."

"Based on these principles, our DGE club only accepts players who are free agents. If a player is still within the contract period when the player leaves, the transfer fee or liquidated damages will be paid according to the minimum standard."

Zhang Yuan was stunned for a moment: "Mr. Pei, isn't this a bit idealized? Isn't it very operable?"

"What if the club doesn't accept our standard contract? Or sign a yin-yang contract privately?"

"What if the club backs out after confirming their intention?"

"The contract signed by the club and the players has legal effect. Once a dispute arises, the club can completely bypass us and go to court with the players. We can't control this."

Pei Qian smiled slightly: "It's easy."

"We made an agreement with these clubs in black and white from the very beginning. If there is a violation, there will be a fine or a suspension."

"If these clubs do not accept our supervision, they will not be eligible to enter the GOG League. If they want to quit, we will buy their GOG divisions as a middleman and sell them to other clubs that intend to enter the GOG League. .”

In other words, it’s okay if you don’t accept our unified management, then I won’t play with you.

If you want to play other e-sports, go for it. I will also buy your GOG branch and sell it to others, so that you will not suffer substantial losses, but as long as you do not agree with the supervision, you should not enter this circle.

As for why Pei Qian made such a rule, it is mainly due to three considerations.

First of all, there is only a unified standard contract, without yin and yang contracts and various additional clauses, so let the club play some tricks.

Many clubs offer sky-high contracts, but they are not really sky-high prices. There are many tricks in it.

For example, one of the most common phenomena is that the club and the live broadcast platform each pay a part of the money, but in fact they have requirements for the live broadcast of the players, which overdraws the future commercial value of the players.

The players made money on the surface, but they didn't necessarily make money in reality.

But in this way, the transfer fee will actually go up. At that time, DGE Club will get a sum of money for every player sold, which is too uncomfortable.

Therefore, everyone should be less routine and more sincere. Raising the transfer fee to such a high level just sounds good, but it is actually meaningless.

In addition, the DGE club only agrees on the minimum transfer fee, which allows the DGE club to earn as little money as possible from the transfer fee.

Secondly, the establishment of such a regulatory agency requires the recruitment of a large number of personnel, and the daily operating expenses are an expense; at the same time, these various regulatory regulations will definitely have a dissuading effect on some clubs.

If there are clubs that don't accept it and want to withdraw, that's easy to handle. Pei Qian will pay to buy their GOG branch, and won't let them suffer. I will make up for your investment.

But it's not so easy to come in after you leave.

Buying these clubs would cost another sum of money, which Pei Qian couldn't wish for.

In the end, Pei Qian did have some ideas about regulating the industry and protecting the rights and interests of players.

If there is no higher-level supervision, it will never be possible to establish an equal relationship between players and clubs, because the right to speak is not at the same level.

Just like ordinary wage earners, when facing a company, they can only vote with their feet and choose the least bad company, but in fact they do not have the ability to bargain with the company.

Only a very small number of exceptionally good and completely irreplaceable people have bargaining power.

When the strengths of the two sides are not equal, if the official does not act and maintains absolute neutrality, it is actually tantamount to pulling sideways.

It's like a boxing champion fighting an ordinary person. On the premise that neither party is clearly at fault, the third party is absolutely neutral and ignores it. That is to let the ordinary person die in fact.

Therefore, Pei Qian's supervisory organization will objectively protect the rights of the players, but it does not exploit the club. It is just to keep the club from being greedy and squeezing the players too much.

The transfer fee and liquidated damages that the club should get are not bad at all, and the commercial contracts, popularity and influence that it should have are not bad at all, but they can't take advantage of the loopholes to do whatever they want.

Of course Pei Qian recognizes the spirit of the contract, but there are two prerequisites: first, the contract itself must be fair, it cannot be an overlord clause, a slave contract, and cannot be based on one party's exploitation of the other; second, the spirit of the contract must be fair. It doesn't mean that the contract must never be violated, but that it is willing to bear the corresponding consequences after it is violated.

In short, this kind of regulation allows DGE clubs to earn less transfer fees, and can persuade some club capital to withdraw. After these clubs quit, they can buy their entire GOG branch and spend a sum of money. Isn't it beautiful?

Moreover, the daily operation of this new regulatory agency also costs money. It would be good to recruit more people to support them. It would be nice to be able to pay more wages.

Zhang Yuan has already brought over two pieces of paper and quickly recorded what Mr. Pei said before.

I just read these terms carefully, but I feel a little bit uncertain.

Can it work?

All the major leagues in the world don't seem to do this.

The reason is also very simple, I dare not or do not want to tear myself apart with big clubs.

Big clubs bring fans, enthusiasm and funds to the league. In all fairness, the popularity of a certain event must be the result of the joint efforts of the organizers, sponsors, clubs, professional players, and audiences. If any link is missing, there will be problems.

So in many cases, even if the organizers have the ability, they are unwilling to offend these big clubs. Even if a certain club actually squeezes the players, as long as they don’t cause too much anger and resentment, most of them will play [-] big boards each and let the matter go. .

After all, in most cases, a player is replaceable and sacrificial, but the loss caused by the departure of a big club is difficult to make up.

However, the regulations given by Mr. Pei are not very friendly to the clubs, and there must be some clubs that are not happy.

The unhappy result can only be parting ways and breaking up, because Mr. Pei has never been a person who will compromise.

From Mr. Pei's attitude, one can vaguely guess that he really doesn't seem to care about the resources these clubs possess!

Zhang Yuan was silent for a moment, then said: "Boss Pei, from an emotional point of view, I support the supervision of the league. After all, there is no rule without rules. Only when the league is regular can healthy competition be formed."

"However, if we adopt such strict control measures, we will definitely dissuade many clubs. If the loss is compared with the gain...is it worthwhile?"

"If the club is persuaded to quit, the funds, enthusiasm, attention, etc. of the entire league may be affected. If more than half of those old clubs leave, then what should we do if we suffer more losses than gains?"

Pei Qian chuckled: "Of course it's a good deal."

Zhang Yuan was silent for a moment, then nodded: "Okay."

Since Mr. Pei is so sure, he must have seen more long-term things, so Zhang Yuan didn't ask any more questions.

"Then Mr. Pei, what is the name of this new regulatory department?" Zhang Yuan asked.

Pei Qian thought for a while: "Let's call it the e-sports business department. It just happens to take this opportunity to start GOG's professional league GPL."

"The current clubs can give priority to obtaining admission qualifications, but the premise is that they must accept our conditions and accept supervision."

"As for how to arrange the specific schedule, we will think about it after the new department is established."

Zhang Yuan nodded: "Okay, Boss Pei."

After sending President Pei away, Zhang Yuan went back to the meeting room again, and read through the content he wrote down earlier, trying to figure out the deep meaning of President Pei's move.

For Zhang Yuan now, his biggest confusion is Mr. Pei's sentence "Of course it's a good deal".

For the current e-sports industry, the first priority must be to make the plate bigger.

Although the GOG Global Invitational has achieved good popularity, anyone with a discerning eye can see that there is obviously a lot of room for improvement in this event.

There is still a lot to do in the future.

Mr. Pei also said that to launch GOG's professional league GPL, it is obviously also to expand the e-sports plate.

But the problem is that restricting clubs with such strict regulatory conditions obviously runs counter to this goal to some extent.

How did Boss Pei choose?

Zhang Yuan began to carefully analyze every request made by Mr. Pei.

(End of this chapter)