Chapter 622 The First Party Studio
You know, the game he is preparing to make is a strategy chess game, and Matsuno Yasui is an absolute authority in this type of game.
You can even say something without hesitation.
All players in the world who like this kind of games have basically never played Matsuno Yai Matsuno. His "Knights of the Royals" is the pinnacle of this kind of games. Although Jest's "Flame Emblem" is the beginning of this kind of games, "Flame Emblem" is still mainly based on RPG elements. Even Jest's "Fantasy Simulation War" personally conducted by Jest does not transcend his Fire Emblem and the settings Matsuno Yai Matsuno in "Knights of the Royals".
Therefore, when Ye Mingzhang heard that Matsuno Tai was willing to supervise his game, it means that he was just optimistic about this game and he also felt that this game would be successful.
Therefore, it is impossible for Ye Mingzhang to be unexcited.
Of course, like before, although Matsuno Tai already said that no matter whether they become the first-party developer of Mars Entertainment in the end or not, and are willing to serve as the supervisor of "The Knights of the Fire Dragon", Ye Mingzhang shook his head and expressed his apology: "Although I am extremely happy to hear you say this, this is not a game for me alone after all. I still need to discuss with my friends before I can make a decision."
Time flies very quickly.
There is no need to worry about Hantang and their game "The Dragon Knights".
After Ye Mingzhang returned to Wanwan, he talked about this matter to his friends. After hearing the news, his friends were extremely excited. They even blamed Ye Mingzhang for why he didn't agree directly at that time, what if they regretted it?
This made Ye Mingzhang very passive.
He really wanted to agree immediately, but the problem was here. After all, this was not something he could decide on was his own, so he said that he would come back and discuss it first.
Unexpectedly, his friends were not grateful, but fortunately, this was just an irrelevant matter. When they went to Mars Entertainment to inquire at Wanwan's office, the office was very enthusiastic. Even the office received a notice from the Asian branch in Japan about the establishment of Hantang Studio. The headquarters has been fully handed over to the Asian branch. After a few days, the Asian branch will personally send someone to handle this matter.
It was even mentioned on the phone that it was Matsuno Yai Matsuno who came to take charge of this matter this time.
As for whether to become a third party or a first party in Mars Entertainment, Ye Mingzhang and his friends fell into a quarrel. Some people believe that becoming a first party in Mars Entertainment has great benefits, but the discount on distribution and platform fees is almost equivalent to the entire income they can get for a game.
The problem was also here at that time.
Although the development atmosphere of Mars Entertainment is very free and easy. As long as the studio can survive at your own profit and loss after deducting the proportional commission from the head office, what type of game the studio develops? The headquarters will not care at all, unless the studio has to apply for development funds from the headquarters, the headquarters will inquire and review.
For example, Studio A is planning to build a big project.
But they currently do not have the cost of carrying out this big project. At this time, Studio A can apply to the headquarters and request the headquarters to carry out the original work on funds. Of course, when these independent studios provide financial assistance, the headquarters is qualified to review these projects. If the headquarters thinks the project is good, it will invest.
Of course, it is not a free investment.
It needs to be divided again according to the proportion.
For example, an independent studio was originally divided into two or eight-year-olds with the parent company of Mars Entertainment.
After deducting the distribution and platform fees from the game, the headquarters will first collect 20% of the sales revenue of the game, and then the remaining 70% will belong to the studio. If Mars Entertainment does not make any investment, then the remaining 80% will naturally belong to the studio. If the head office makes any investment, then the 80% of the sales revenue will naturally be further divided according to the investment ratio share.
Naturally, only when the headquarters has capital investment will they inquire about the development of the game. If there is no investment from the headquarters, they will not care about what games the studio below develops.
Because after the game is developed, except that PC games can be directly released without any concern, as long as you want to go to the console platform, you need to review the console platform. As long as you can pass the review by the platform, the game can be released on the platform.
In other words, the freedom in the development environment of Mars Entertainment's first-party studios is also the most free among all small game companies. Some small game companies sometimes need to compromise for sales, but Mars Entertainment's first-party studios are not needed at all. Of course, if the sales are not good, it is difficult for first-party studios to survive.
The biggest problem that Ye Mingzhang's friends quarreled with him was not the freedom of game development, because this was not a problem at all.
The biggest problem is that if they agree to the request of the first-party studio of Mars Entertainment, the owner of the studio they established will no longer be theirs, although they have never really set up such a game development studio, although they have already claimed to be so in normal times.
"What do you think so much? Without Mars Entertainment, we might not have the opportunity to develop the game we want to make."
After someone said this, Ye Mingzhang and others were silent. It was true that they said this, but they were still a little unwilling to hand over the ownership of the studio they had not yet established to others.
"Actually, the first condition they gave was that both of us each held 50% of the shares, which I think was pretty good." Ye Mingzhang once again talked about the first condition that Jester told him. This condition was indeed good, although he could not enjoy the maximum discount on the distribution channel of the first party of Mars Entertainment's development studio and the platform's premium.
But after all, Mars Entertainment occupies half of the shares, so they have to enjoy greater discounts than ordinary third-party studios.
Moreover, Mars Entertainment does not have an absolute controlling stake in them.
They can make any decisions they want without being disturbed by Mars entertainment.
Just as everyone was about to agree to the first condition, Ye Mingzhang's words once again made them fall into deep thought: "Do you really think that if Mars Entertainment wants it, will they not get the controlling stake in Hantang?"
Ye Mingzhang sneered and said this.
After saying this, he added: "I don't think it's meaningless to discuss these for a studio that we haven't officially established yet. Moreover, I personally think that there is nothing wrong with being the first-party studio of Mars Entertainment. Although we will lose the opportunity to be on the entire platform, being on the entire platform may not necessarily reduce our premium."
"The most important thing is that the main audiences of strategy war chess games are all on the dreambox platform."
After several thoughts.
In the end, Ye Mingzhang and his friends chose the second condition, which was that Mars Entertainment Holding 51% of Hantang shares, and Hantang also became the first studio of Mars Entertainment.
Of course, the development plan for "The Knights of the Fire Dragon" did not begin immediately. After Hantang was officially established and became the first first-party studio outside Japan of the Mars Entertainment Japan branch, which had been reorganized into an Asian branch, Matsuno Yasuhiro had once again invited Ye Mingzhang and others.
The invitation to Japan for internship for half a year happened to be in preparation for his new work of "The Knights of the Royal Family".
Ye Mingzhang also told his friends that whether it is Jester or their idol, Tai Yi, the absolute master of strategy and chess games, told him that the design of "The Dragon Knights" is a bit rough, perhaps because the designers are all newcomers and have no experience in developing games, so after hearing Tai Yi's invitation.
The few people agreed happily.
After all, if you can develop a game with your idol, the experience you can gain will definitely be much better than their fumble.
Jester was also very concerned about this matter. He had specially advised Matsuno Taiyi that after the matter was settled, he would notify him immediately. Therefore, after finishing the matter of Han Tang, Matsuno Taiyi had not even had time to rest, so he called Jester directly and explained some of Han Tang's affairs to him. When he heard that Han Tang finally chose to become his first-party studio, Jester was quite happy.
It’s not because Hantang is such an important studio.
Moreover, there are problems with the personality of the producers of Hantang. The games they make are fun, but they are too hard-core, which means they are too difficult. For such a game, some fans will certainly be loyal, but there will not be too many fan pages.
If there are not many fans, it means that it will definitely not bring much economic benefits to you. (To be continued, please search for Astronomy, novels are better, updated and faster!
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