Chapter 65 Cooperation
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"You agreed?" Xu Mengying looked at Wu Qi and asked.
"Do you think I'm worthless?" Wu Qi laughed at himself.
"It's understandable, after all, it's a penguin." Xu Mengying said softly, "Don't take it too seriously. There's nothing you can do about it. Who let you and Zhu Jun get mixed up!"
Not to mention at home, certain things abroad cannot be separated from rights. Xu Mengying understands these things very well. She just doesn't want to see Wu Qi fall into despair.
"You are right. Maybe dragging Zhu Jun along is not the right choice." Wu Qi sighed, "I just want to make money quietly, why is it so difficult?"
He had the courage and confidence to reject Penguin before because of "Sorg Continent", but it is different now because Quicksand Company invested in Sorg Company.
Before completing the large-scale peripheral plan, he needed the help of this group of people to protect him, especially in combating piracy and local directly-operated stores. He needed their strength.
Otherwise, with the strength of the new company, it would be impossible to resist the pressure from all aspects, let alone follow-up channels. Yi Hong and others obviously grasped this, so they became strong.
Of course, Wu Qi can also choose to refuse, but this would be too ruthless and could easily affect future cooperation. Furthermore, Wu Qi is not opposed to cooperating with Penguin now.
It was the early days of the game's release, and Penguin wanted to pick up the slack, but that would definitely not work.
Now!
I have to admit that when the company was just starting out, it was immature in many aspects.
With Penguin's help, at least the game would be more exciting and engaging.
This is of great benefit to the opening of direct-operated stores around New Year's Day.
Only by maintaining attractiveness can more players become customers and pay.
Wu Qi secretly asked Mapu to settle the score. No matter what, he would not suffer any loss by cooperating with Penguin.
Just make sure that the game is in your hands and the technology will not be stolen.
"This is how business is done. Appropriate concessions are beneficial." Xu Mengying looked at him, "Then what are the regulations for cooperation? Do we really need to jointly develop all copyrights?"
"How is that possible?" Wu Qi shook his head, "Start domestically and start with film and television, animation and literary creation. We can just authorize it."
Full copyright is impossible, but peripheral copyright is still possible.
Games are the main business of Dark Horse Game Company, and there is absolutely no room for failure.
Even peripheral authorizations have a limited number of years and specific terms.
For example, in terms of game characters, they must not be pirated and entered into Penguin games.
Penguin is not allowed to borrow or plagiarize plots and characters to create games.
It can be said that in the field of games, Wu Qika is very good.
"What about the PC version?" Xu Mengying was quite satisfied with these, but she asked, "You said before that you would launch the PC version soon and promote offline clubs and offline events."
"This is one of the reasons why I agreed to cooperate," Wu Qi rubbed his brows. "By cooperating with Penguin, our game can get the best promotion. When the game's reputation reaches its peak, it will be most suitable to launch it on the PC. But it is inevitable to have to cooperate with Penguin.
After all, we really don’t have any experience in cooperating with Penguin, and Penguin is at least the top player in the country in terms of offline events.”
"It seems that cooperation with Penguin is beneficial and harmless, so why are you worried?" Xu Mengying smiled, "You just think too much."
Wu Qi smiled bitterly, he really didn't think too much.
Sister Yi Hong came forward in person, which put a lot of pressure on him.
It was inevitable that he had some bad expectations for the future. He didn't want to be someone's white glove. If he fell into this, he might as well ruin the game.
He hates being forced and hates others forcing him, but when his own strength is not enough, he can only choose to compromise, which feels really bad.
Unless he wants to turn things upside down, break the current rules, and ignore his relatives, friends, parents, and family, he needs to abide by the existing rules and temper himself.
The Penguins were extremely fast and sent a team to sign the contract on the third day.
Xu Mengying came forward in person and took the newly established legal team and management to discuss and review each case one by one. It took nearly five hours before the contract was finally signed.
In the afternoon of the same day, the literary website under Penguin's name started a call for essays under the name of "Sorg Continent". There was no restriction on subject matter or classification, focusing on game characters, and soliciting original literary essays.
The maximum cash prize is one million, and there will also be a film and television adaptation.
There are also omni-channel rewards.
Penguin animation and animation have also begun to work hard, and two large production teams have begun to study the game and strive to launch the first episode and the first painting on New Year's Day.
As for film and television, there is no movement yet, because this requires caution.
It depends on the situation after New Year's Day, the situation of directly-operated stores, the operation of the game, and the response after the animation and anime are launched. Penguin is professional in this regard.
Penguin's actions inevitably had a great repercussions in the industry.
Apart from other things, the film and television aspect is not optimistic.
At least people in the industry are not optimistic about it. The reason is that Western fantasy is too cold, and it is two extremes from Eastern culture. Although the plot is very good, it cannot hide the incompatible attributes.
There hasn't been much movement on Penguin's part, but there are internal sources saying that it seems that the project has already begun, and it will take the route of a high-quality online drama, but later there was news that it would cooperate with foreign countries.
In short, no one can tell whether the news is true or false.
Dark Horse Game Company did not make any move on this matter. In fact, after cooperating with Penguin, everyone began to get busy, especially Tan Lin's publicity department, which began to use the Penguin platform to exert its efforts.
The cooperation between the two companies is not finished after signing a contract. There are still many things that need to be done, and the most important thing is communication in the field of cooperation.
Xu Mengying is fully responsible for this, so there won't be any problems.
There are just a lot of things to discuss with Wu Qi.
For example, the problem of linkage between the game and penguin peripherals.
How to promote animation, animation, and online literature in games is also Penguin's specialty. As for whether to link up, Wu Qi agreed without hesitation.
Although it will inevitably be diverted, it will have great benefits in expanding the influence of "Sog Continent", which is what Wu Qi needs.
It was already mid-October when Penguin's licensing fee was paid to Dark Horse Game Company's account. With the company's sufficient cash, Dark Horse Game Company took over two floors of the existing office building, which meant that the company expanded again and occupied
Four floors.
The company's major departments were reorganized, and the R&D department was all moved to the newly purchased two floors. Space was also allocated on one of the floors to become the office of the logistics department.
Dark Horse Game Company is developing very fast, and all departments are recruiting people. Otherwise, it would be too busy. Fortunately, it is managed by Xu Mengying, otherwise it would have been in chaos.
Chapter completed!