Chapter 125 The Second Cooperation

This call from the United States was from Mihnlee, the father of "Counter-strike" who had previously collaborated with Lin Feng. During the phone call, Mihnlee told Lin Feng that because Lin Feng recommended them to develop online games during their previous cooperation, "Counter-Strike"

Strike" online, after consideration, the Valve game development team has just recently developed "Counter-Strike Online". In view of the previous happy cooperation between the two parties, they hope to negotiate with Lin Feng about its Chinese agency rights.

At the same time, Mihnlee also hopes to introduce the founder of Valve, current CEO Newell, to Lin Feng, and hopes that Lin Feng can come to the United States as soon as possible.

Hearing the news, Lin Feng was in high spirits. He didn't expect that he had casually said to Mihnlee that he hoped he could develop "Counter-Strike" as an online game. Unexpectedly, a year later, he actually developed it as an online game and...

Contact yourself first.

Nowadays, "Counter-Strike" is becoming popular all over the world. It has also officially become the first www.piaotian.com Ter-Strike organized by South Korea's Samsung Company. This year, it is in full swing in China and is deeply loved by everyone.

Lin Feng has previously sold a total of more than 400,000 quasi-genuine copies of "Counter-Strike" through Dingdang.com. Tencent also provides an online online game platform, with an endless stream of players. If "Counter-Strike Online" is launched at this time, it will definitely be a big hit.

If you are hot, you can take your gaming empire to the next level.

"Legend" is a role-playing online game, "Plants vs. Zombies" is a casual online game, and the upcoming "Counter-Strike Online" is a first-person shooting online game. The three online games are divided into different categories.

Types of players, and they are all high-quality online games, so instead of conflicting, they can echo each other and will surely make their "second world" reach new heights.

At that moment, Lin Feng held an urgent small meeting with Wu Zhaopu, Liu Yingying and others to determine the maximum acceptable amount and related details of the US bank's agency for "Counter-Strike Online". After arranging the company's affairs, Lin Feng took the lead.

He went to the United States alone with several assistants.

This trip to the United States also made Lin Feng realize that he had too few think tanks around him. Every meeting had to summon Liu Yingying, CEO of Dingdang.com, and Wu Zhaopu, CEO of "Second World", for consultation, which was not good for the company's development.

.Especially as our own companies are growing day by day, if we want to develop rapidly and stably, talents are essential, and there are a lot of talents.

Talent, talent, I hope I can search for some talents during this trip to the United States and come back.

Americans and Japanese have different working styles and attitudes. As soon as Lin Feng got off the plane, Valve's CEO Newell and Mihnlee personally greeted Lin Feng and took Lin Feng directly to the company headquarters. Lin Feng didn't even have the legendary Silicon Valley.

Enjoy it.

Valve's headquarters is actually not that big. However, in a place like Silicon Valley in the United States, where land is at a premium, if you want to rent a floor or a building, it's definitely not the case for Valve, a company that has only developed a few games.

What you can bear.

After entering the company and chatting briefly, Newell introduced the main creative staff of the current company, and then asked the technical staff to show Lin Feng the graphics and operability of "Counter-Strike Online".

The graphics adhere to the consistent style of "Counter-Strike". The light and shadow effects, picture details, music and sound effects are still not outstanding, but they are enough for the game to run smoothly, and the graphics are not overly demanding, which directly reduces the requirements for computer configuration.

Requirements, for an online game, are the key to its popularity.

As for the operation, it still provides the same number of guns as "Counter-Strike", and maintains the original refreshing feeling and good feel. Lin Feng tried it and felt very good. The kind of gun that sweeps the battlefield with an AK47.

The feeling is still so exciting.

As for the game rules, this time it was adapted into an online game and added a variety of modes: competitive mode (traditional "counter-strike" LAN mode), decisive battle mode, grenade mode, extreme mode, biochemical mode, etc. The biggest highlight is

It expands the camp system.

"Counter-Strike Online" is divided into ct camp, t camp and zombie camp. In the ct camp, there are elite troops from various countries, such as France's armed action group, Russia's snow special forces, Taiwan's thunder group, and Japan's warning

Guards, American Navy SEALs, etc., and of course the most important Chinese Yanlong Tactical Team.

Lin Feng can imagine that once he becomes an agent in the future, there will be countless players who choose the Chinese Yanlong Tactical Team.

As for the t camp, there are the Blue Legion (mercenary force) from the United States, the Wild Guerrillas from the Middle East, the Sunset Legion from Japan, etc. What surprised Lin Feng was that in the t camp setting, Japan actually had three troops selected. I’m afraid

Once the network is put into operation in the future, whoever chooses a Japanese team from the T camp will definitely be bullied.

The zombie camp is divided into five types of zombies: ordinary zombies, host zombies, shadow Barbies, hateful butchers, and witch zombies. Although zombies cannot use guns, they have special skills that are unmatched by the human camp.

The three camps have their own advantages and disadvantages, which greatly enriches the playability of the game.

After trying it out, Lin Feng was extremely satisfied with the quality of the "Counter-Strike Online" game he developed over the past year. Once he becomes an agent, it will definitely become a hit on the Internet.

Seeing that Lin Feng was satisfied, Valve CEO Newell and CS father Mihnlee also had smiles on their faces. This time they selected Lin Feng as the first agency partner of the newly developed "Counter-Strike Online". In addition to the previous relationship between the two parties,

In addition to the experience of successful cooperation, the more important point is that Valve is currently in a lawsuit with the company it previously cooperated with, Snow Mountain, due to previous game copyright issues, and the relationship between the two companies has also extremely deteriorated. Therefore, it was originally planned to first recruit agents in the North American market.

Newell's, Xin Yiheng simply turned his attention to other markets.

After their market research, they found that although the European online game market started early, there are not many gamers. Football is the number one sport there, and football games are also the number one game. Although the world's most famous CS team is also in Europe.

, but Valve CEO Newell is not optimistic about the prospects of "Counter-Strike Online" in Europe, at least in the short term, the returns will definitely not meet Newell's current requirements.

The lawsuit between Valve and Sierra is currently locked in a stalemate. No matter who wins the case in the end, the two companies will be unable to cooperate again. For Valve, which has exhausted its funds due to the development of "Counter-Strike Online" and "Halflive 2", this first agent must

Success must bring them huge funds for subsequent research and development.

Europe is not good, and Africa is a no-brainer. There are too few people in Oceania, so it is not as good as Europe. Finally, Newell set his sights on Asia. At first, Mihnlee proposed to cooperate with Lin Feng, but Newell believed that a company that sells quasi-genuine products has limited strength.

Although the two parties had a happy cooperation before, they were unable to bring the huge amount of funds they expected to Valve, so they rejected Lin Feng from the beginning.

However, after careful investigation, Newell found that the most popular online game market in Asia today is not Japan, let alone South Korea, but China. The most popular online game company in China, which can also be said to be the well-deserved overlord, is the "Second World"

" After further investigation, Newell was dumbfounded when he discovered that the president of "Second World" was actually Lin Feng, whom he had rejected before.

Especially when he heard that the monthly profits of "Legend" developed by Lin Feng's "Second World" were in the tens of millions of dollars, Newell was even more shocked and speechless. The "Legend" they developed was well received by the market.

Halflive" only brought $15 million in revenue to Valve, while "Legend" developed by Lin Feng had almost the same figure every month. This shocked Newell and immediately made up his mind to cooperate with Lin Feng.

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Immediately, I asked Mihnlee, who had been in contact with Lin Feng before, to call Lin Feng, and Lin Feng's trip to the United States began.

The cooperation attitude of both parties was sincere, and they had cooperation experience with each other, so the negotiations were naturally smooth. Newell demanded US$10 million in mainland China agency fees and enjoyed a 30% profit share.

Lin Feng is already familiar with this type of negotiation. Even though Newell has developed a series of world-famous masterpieces, Newell, who is a technical R&D engineer, is not as good as Lin Feng in negotiation, otherwise he would not have an explosive relationship with Xueleshan, which he had previously cooperated with.

Game copyright disputes.

After some bargaining, Newell insisted on the agency fee of US$8 million, but the profit share was reduced to 20%. He could even give the Asian agency rights to Lin Feng, but the initial agency fee of US$8 million must not be any less.

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This is not that Newell is stupid, but that Valve is currently in trouble. The lawsuit with Sierra is not only protracted and consumes a lot of energy from the company's senior management, but also makes many venture capitalists hesitate to move forward, making it impossible for Newell to obtain new financing. And now Valve

It is necessary to obtain at least US$8 million in working capital, otherwise the following series of development plans will be stranded or even terminated. Therefore, Newell did not hesitate to reduce the profit share and even gave Lin Feng the agency rights for the entire Asia in order to obtain a

A huge amount of liquidity.

Lin Feng knew that this was already Newell's lowest offer. Of course, it had not reached Newell's limit yet. However, things should not be done forever. Cooperating with Valve was just the beginning. There was no need to make the relationship so rigid just for some benefit. Lin Feng

I don’t want to become the second Xueleshan and have to litigate with Valve in the future.
Chapter completed!