game development designer

Chapter 123 Cooperation
The reason why Wang He came to him, Chuhe knew very well, was to put the road to survival on their wegame platform.

But Tianhe Network has maintained good cooperation with WEGAME before.

Whether it is the Meteor Butterfly Sword or the Jianghu later, they all landed on the WEGAME platform.

If it was just for Tianhe Network's games to be launched on the WEGAME platform, obviously Wang He would not come here in person.

This time, if Chuhe's guess is correct, WEGAME probably wants to monopolize Tianhe Network's new work.

What Wang He said next also confirmed Chu He's guess.

Wang He said with a straight face: "With regard to Tianhe Network's next new work, WEGAME hopes to obtain the exclusive right to the platform."

Without waiting for Chuhe to speak, Wang He continued: "Now the global version of WEGAME has been developed in Hong Kong, and Penguin has invested in many powerful game studios. At the same time, we have signed a strategic cooperation agreement with Ubisoft. We have also signed a strategic cooperation agreement with Japanese factories such as General Air and SE.”

Separate the global version of WEGAME from the domestic version, and choose to open a branch in Hong Kong for development.

Apparently, Penguin has considered it carefully. Choosing to stay in Hong Kong can avoid strict official regulations in China. In addition, Penguin helped Ubisoft get rid of Vivendi and acquired a small part of its shares. Obviously, Ubisoft and Penguin can reach a good cooperation. relation.

Instead of choosing to compete with the steam platform at home, Penguin chose to directly go abroad to compete with the steam platform.

It sounds a bit exaggerated, but in fact, this is the most ideal means for Penguin to promote the WEGAME platform. It uses money to buy exclusive titles and directly smashes a way.

This is Penguin's usual gold dollar method.

And if this kind of practice is in China, there are too many things to pay attention to.

Is the steam platform really invincible?
Of course not, just because of taking the lead, with the influx of games, the development of the steam platform is getting stronger and stronger.

Games are the most fundamental part of a platform.

Some people say how convenient, convenient, and humanized the steam platform is.

In fact, these are just incidental things. If there are no good games on the steam platform, then the so-called humanization and convenience will be useless, and players will definitely abandon this platform ruthlessly.

Small independent games enrich the game library of the platform, and 3A masterpieces serve as business cards, attracting players to settle in this platform.

This is the strategy that Penguin's WEGAME wants to implement. It is very simple, but very effective.

But such a strategy in China, to be honest, if it can be implemented, it may not have the power to compete with the steam platform.

But the most critical issue is the review of the game.

Spending money to buy the agency rights of popular games, negotiating with big manufacturers to let the games land on the WEGAME platform, and even issuing vouchers to lose money and make money, but all of this is based on the game being approved.

However, it is a pity that 70.00% of the 3A masterpieces cannot be passed in terms of the domestic review system.

It can be said that in this environment, even if Penguin wants to spend money to increase the number of users, it will not be able to.

Relying on domestic games, relying on independent games, and saying a bad word to WEGAME in China, even if it is given 10 years or 20 years, as long as the steam platform is not blocked, WEGAME will not be able to compete.

After listening to Wang He's words and WEGAME's conditions, Chuhe couldn't help being silent for a while.

I have to say that the conditions are really attractive.

Divided into 3 grades of condition.

The first one to land on both console and PC platform at the same time, Penguin will invest up to tens of millions of dollars as promotional expenses.

Of course, this is based on the sales volume of the game. It is impossible to directly promote the tens of millions of levels as soon as it comes up.

Unless Left [-] Dead is Penguin's own son.

The second is to transplant it to PC within half a year after landing on the host platform, and at the same time give corresponding conditions according to the sales volume of the host platform.

The third one is not to insist on exclusiveness, but to release it in advance, so that players can enter the game on the WEGAME platform one week in advance.

At the same time, the commission of the game will be twice as low as that of the steam platform.

The rich and powerful goose looked at Wang He, and Chu He, who was sitting on the chair, couldn't help sighing in his heart.

The first and second conditions, if the game sales are hot, there is actually not much difference.

For the third one, although the conditions are not bad, but in a word, the current Tianhe Network is really a bit contemptuous.

"There is absolutely no problem for the game to log on to the WEGAME platform, but we will not accept exclusive and differential treatment." Chuhe shook his head and said.

Although the conditions sound attractive, but from the heart, if Tianhe Network wants to make a lot of money, it can develop a few mobile games and web games, and there is no need to make money from the road to survival.

This was not Chuhe's original intention.

Hearing Chuhe's words, Wang He was obviously taken aback for a moment. Although he was prepared in his heart that Chuhe would not agree immediately, he did not expect that Chuhe would directly refuse.

"WEGAME is very sincere, and Tianhe Network does not have much appeal overseas." Wang He said to Chuhe.

Hearing Wang He's words, Chuhe just smiled.

This is not very honest, even if it lands on PS and XBOX console platforms, the other party will not advertise it with much fanfare, but will just follow the general specifications, unless Left [-] Dead is an exclusive game for one of the consoles.

But on the steam platform, if there are no appealing games in the same period, it will probably be ranked as a recommendation. After all, the two games of Famine and Jianghu have already proved themselves on the steam platform, and Jianghu is still steam until now. The top ten of the platform's best-selling list.

Moreover, although Jianghu is not a popular game overseas, its overseas sales have already exceeded one million, and the global sales of Famine reached 1300 million copies, of which overseas sales reached 4%. Until today, on the Twitch platform, Famine The live broadcast ranking is still in the top fifteen.

It would be too much to say that Tianhe Network has no appeal overseas.

The two parties have been cooperating for a long time. Wang He and Chuhe have also had a lot of contact in private, and know what kind of person the other party is. Since Chuhe has clearly rejected it, there is no need to talk about it.

"Talking about cooperation with Mr. Chu is sometimes very pleasant, but sometimes it makes people very helpless." Wang He shook his head and said.

In his opinion, Penguin's conditions are really very sincere. This set of combination punches, even SE, Capcom, those big manufacturers are all tempted, although most of them did not choose to monopolize, but Special benefits for players who choose the WEGAME platform, as well as early server opening.

But at least it was a cooperation, not like Chuhe, who even refused this condition.

Hearing Wang He's words, Chu He couldn't help laughing and said, "Probably because I'm not a businessman."

(End of this chapter)