Strongest Game Architect Chapter 10
Alerting stars in the galaxy
“You don’t need to make a decision in such a hurry.” Xia Cheng said, “The offer I gave is guaranteed to be fully effective within three years.”
Ming Yan raised his eyebrows.
Xia Cheng showed his true sincerity.
This offer is a clear way out. If he does not have the determination to be successful, or if his next attempt fails, then at least he can return to IPP to have a decent job.
No one will offer such generous terms if it’s not because they thought very highly of them.
Ming Yan did not continue to think about it, but said, “There might be a chance in the future.” Then the topic was over.
Xia Cheng smiled, there was a natural self-confidence, but not to the point of being forceful.
The solicitation was unsuccessful, and the two of them then went on to business and discussed the contract for <Minecraft> to go online on the I House platform.
Sincerity is sincerity, and benefit is benefit.
General Manager Xia was still very professional when bargaining, and pointed out the flaws of this game in terms of profitability in every aspect.
Ming Yan fought with him for two rounds, and the two sides are considered evenly matched. They negotiated the draw between 12% and 13%, and continued to negotiate down to the decimal point.
Ming Yan’s gaze stopped at Xia Cheng’s young arrogant face, and he suddenly had an idea, saying, “Director Xia is probably born to a rich family. I did not expect you to dwell on trivial matters, and haggle over every ounce with poor peasants like us.”
Xia Cheng brow furrowed ever so slightly.
For a nobleman like this, they never make a counteroffer when buying things, and sometimes they probably don’t look at the price tag at all. When the feeling of buying things straightforwardly occurs, they will unconsciously start to resist the slow game of tug of war.
The assets represented by a percentage point may be just a drop in the bucket for them, soso there is no need to waste their precious time on it.
Thinking of this, Xia Cheng said, ,”Forget it, 12% is fine is fine.”
As a result, when everything was settled and when he was ready to leave, Xia Cheng seemed to realized suddenly.
—He was pulled a quick one, by exploiting his character flaw!
—What Ming Yan said is not related to the commercial negotiations at all. This 1% was technically gifted by Xia Cheng to Ming Yan for nothing.
The corners of Xia Cheng’s mouth pursed angrily, but he still politely got up to send Ming Yan off.
Ming Yan saw his expression and couldn’t help but feel happy: Although Xia Cheng’s expression was very serious, the left side of his tense face had a slightly sunken small dimple.
Others show dimples when they laugh. How come this person shows dimples when they are angry?
This is really too special.
Ming Yan was in a very happy mood, and noticed that there was a small cabinet in the office before leaving.
There are some trophies in the cabinet, and in the middle is the trophy of the third place in the Wilderness Survival Club.
Ming Yan thought to himself, the trophy placed in the middle is definitely the one he is most proud of. It seems that this noble son is a fan of survival in the wild.
“I can’t tell from your looks, but Mr. Xia likes to experience survival in the wild?” Ming Yan comforted him very politely, “You’re really good in both studies and physical activities.”
Ming Yan said in his heart: After bullying others and taking advantage, his mouth at the very least needs to be a little sweeter.
Xia Cheng smiled and said, “Next time where there are club activities, I will invite you to join.”
Ming Yan said, “No, I—”
“Designer Ming doesn’t need to be polite with a person like me who haggles over every ounce. Otherwise I will be angry over these trivial matters.” Xia Cheng said, “We will have a chance around next month. I will treat you well, so please don’t worry.”
Ming Yan “…”
Heh, also someone who holds grudges it seems.
In any case, this cooperation was settled like that.
After 20 days, <Minecraft> will be officially launched on the IPP platform after the exclusive release period with Fei Yang ends.
With Xia Cheng’s favour and escort, there is basically no need to worry about the resources needed.
In addition, when Ming Yan was leaving the I House branch, the other party also attached a gift, saying it was a “signature fee”.
Large companies always do things that make people feel comfortable. When Ming Yan opens the gift, he can see that it is an electronic pen made by I House’s in-house company.
The cap is sparkling golden in colour, reminding him of young master Xia’s lion-like curly hair.
The aftermath of this incident has not ended here. About a few days later, the news had spread out from god-knows where.
The Atlas platform learned about the contract between <Minecraft> and the IPP platform, finally couldn’t sit still, and came back to chew on the grass.
A new manager came back and said to Ming Yan, “Designer Ming, I’m very sorry, but the temporary staff who contacted you last time did not have a proper attitude and caused some minor unhappiness. On behalf of Atlas, I apologize to you first. Please forgive him for his offense.”
Ming Yan laughed, “It’s okay, haha.”
Since ancient times, it has always been temporary workers who made mistakes. It seems that they have not evolved even in the interstellar age.
After apologizing, the manager of A House is now on the subject: He bid 15%.
It was the price that Ming Yan stated for A House when <Minecraft> had not been officially launched, or had it announced as the winner of the graduation design championship.
Now that the situation has been turned around, the other party started to cautiously return and invite Ming Yan.
But Ming Yan excessively said, “That was the price at that time, and it will not be so cheap now.”
“…So what is your ideal price now?”
Ming Yan demanded an exorbitant price and said, “10%. By the way, the content of the contract between me and I House is 12%.”
“…Are you sure?”
“I’m sure.” said Ming Yan, “You guys in the market should understand the importance of timeliness. After missing the best opportunity, the second group who enter the market won’t be able to eat the meat anymore.”
This time the other party was quiet for a long time, and in the end said, “Sorry, this is beyond my authority. We need to think about it for a few days and get back to you later.”
This “later” was all the way after thirty days.
A House must be very angry, and felt that Ming Yan was justified but unforgiving, so they never responded.
Since then, Fei Yang’s exclusive debut period officially ended ten days ago, and the official version of <Minecraft> has blossomed on various platforms.
The most important of these is the IPP platform.
With the coverage rate of the IPP platform, this time it is not <Minecraft>’s passerby fans as traffic, but hundreds of millions of users of the sixth star province on IPP directly flowed in.
How scary is it?
It was like from a small faucet to Niagara Falls. It was *straight down three thousand feet the white spraying torrent runs, as if the Milky Way descended from Ninth Heaven.
*it’s an old chinese poem.
IPP only gave a recommendation for the “new work of the week” topic near the back of the center, the kind that requires two levels of page jumps. But even only with that it led to more than four billion UVs.
In other words, in about ten days, more than four billion people have seen at least the word <Minecraft> and the main page of the game.
On that day Ming Yan squatted at home to scan the data, and took a long time to recompose himself.
Faced with the huge data that can’t be seen, most people actually don’t even have a concept in their hearts.
More than four billion was half of the total population of Earth in its heyday that year, an order of magnitude that could completely wipe out the resources of a planet in a few hundred years.
The number of downloads for trial games quickly reached one billion, and about 30% of them chose to pay.
Perhaps it is because the interstellar people of Sunrise Alliance have been playing real-to-explosive “games” over the years, which has caused them being not interested with the seemingly cute style of artwork.
These players took a look at the screenshots, and then skipped it because there are tens of millions of games waiting for them on the IPP platform to play.
But if this is the case, the remaining players still contributed a gold vein for game makers.
—720 million.
This is the number that finally appeared on the book value of BlueStar Studio.
There were too many comments from the players. Ming Yan looked at the comment area of ”999999+” and only felt dizzy.
The self-media content from these players will soon attract new traffic, bringing more customers to <Minecraft>, and then start the next round of virtuous cycle.
Ming Yan’s stated account “Tiny work” was also completely bombarded with posts!
Frightened, he quickly turned on the filtering AI system to completely block those relatively watery comments and forwardings. Otherwise his poor little terminal that was bought for several thousand dollars is definitely going to burn.
Among these comments, there are pure players using 1,080 methods to *blow the architect’s rainbow fart;
*which means that they’re flattering him (T/N: But seriously tho rainbow farts HAHAHA gotta love these chinese terms xD)
There are small platforms with names that are never heard of seeking collaboration;
There are people who claim to be Ming Yan’s relatives/alumni/young partners/etc. anonymously to set up relationships;
There are also even several local TV stations who want to interview Ming Yan…
The title is: A Genius fresh graduate? A rising star in the game architecture industry? A miracle worshipped by billions of players!
Ming Yan, “…”
This is too ridiculous. It is said that the interstellar people of Western descent are generally enthusiastic and liked to exaggerate, which is really overwhelming.
Ming Yan was very moved, and then proceeded to reject them.
(T/N: hahahaha omg our Ming Yan is such a savage)
A fresh grad student has made a best-selling product that has spread all over the province and earned a sum of money that ordinary people can’t see in a lifetime. What should he do next?
Ming Yan turned over his own schedule.
The first thing: 720 million book value funds, if it is donated to the Earth Research Institute for charitable purposes, he can go through tax-free channels.
The remaining 1% is his own bonus. After deducting personal income tax, there is almost 5 million left, which can be credited to his personal account before the 10th of next month.
The second thing: Ming Yan had already almost completed the plan outline for the next game, and it is necessary to start looking for an artist who can assist him in the initial production.
<Minecraft> can be said to be a pixel style, so he can rely on his middle school art quality to barely draw a picture.
But in this new game, the screen performance, music and sound effects, and interface interaction are all crucial factors. It is by no means something a person can do casually.
Well, wait a minute, maybe he can tank the music first.
Ming Yan still remembers many famous Chinese and foreign masterpieces from the previous era. Although it is impossible to memorize the entire score, if the chorus part can be remembered, the rest of the content can be outsourced to some music studios for improvement.
Anyway… he is now rich! Rich! Rich!
(T/N: yes, say it louder for Kerry to hear)
The third thing: Tomorrow’s date is circled on the calendar.
Time flies quickly, and Ming Yan has been busy writing the new game plan recently.
Before he knew it, it was time for the whole class to have dinner together for the last farewell meal.
