Atari finally decided on the future direction of the company with a slight advantage. The company finally decided to cooperate with third-party game development companies to develop the Atari 2600 game market.

However, just when many shareholders sneered at this decision, when the company sent an invitation with a third-party game development company, they did not expect to encounter a cold response.

When a third-party game development company learns that if it chooses to sign a contract with Atari, the company will not be allowed to develop any games on the EA Game Company's red and white machine platform. This bundled contract is a way out for third-party game development companies.

As game development companies, their acumen is much higher than Atari.

Just when Atari wanted to sue these third-party game companies, just when the Red and White Machine had just achieved dazzling achievements in Neon Kingdom, major game developers in North America had purchased Red and White Machines for internal testing.

For them, one more platform will make the income more. For the same game, two different game versions, Atari and EA can be developed. It can easily cover the two mainstream home machines on the market. For third-party companies, it not only saves a lot of development costs, but also greatly reduces the game development cycle.

Once a certain game achieves dazzling results, it can be copied quickly and expanded to another platform.

Now that the high-ranking Atari company is actually unpredictable to cooperate with them. Atari company has sent lawyer letters to them many times, and both parties almost walked into court.

Now, EA Games’ red and white machines have officially started to be sold in North America, but at such a sensitive moment, Atari actually bowed his head.

However, for third-party game development companies, if Atari is willing to lower his high head and sign a cooperation agreement with them six months earlier, these third-party development companies will sign an olive branch from Atari without hesitation.

However, when a third-party game development company watches that the performance of red and white machines is better and more popular with consumers, as a pure game development company, it will naturally not put advanced consoles on it, but is willing to break the initiative to cooperate with Atari.

If this agreement is really signed, such a third-party game development company will not be eliminated by the market in long.

No one is willing to take such a risk, and as a capitalist, no one is willing to give up such a great "money prospect".

"Mr. Carl, we all know what your identity is in Atari? You jumped out of Atari and started a company with us. We thought you were interested in this emerging industry and hoped to create a big career together. But we both never expected that you would let us sign such a self-destructive contract.

In this contract, we will voluntarily give up the market of red and white machines. However, Atari cannot give us enough benefits. As a choice of 2-choose one, if Atari can take out 100 million US dollars as the signing fee, the company is willing to sign such a contract. If it is just a verbal word, it will be impossible for us to give up the market of red and white machines." The other two partners of the Magic Star Game Development Company were very dissatisfied with Carl's decision.

Listening to my friends’ complaints, Carl was also very helpless.

He was excluded by all shareholders in Atari Company, and everyone thought he was a scammer.

In my company, my two friends obviously think they are suspected of being stingy.

"You two listen to my explanation. I think this contract is a huge benefit to our company. Although we want to give up the market of red and white machines, our interests will never suffer huge losses. I am confident that we can win more from the market of Atari.

The games we developed before were not officially promoted by Atari. Once we received official promotion and obtained official sales channels of Atari, our game products will inevitably be sold at multiple growth. With the example of our company's development team, we can quickly occupy the market and win an important place for the company.

I know what you are worried about. If we choose to fight Atari, we will offend EA Games. But have you ever thought about it? Will EA Games reject third-party game development companies like Atari? At that time, will we still invest in high manpower, material resources and financial resources to develop games like we are now, but we cannot get any strong promotion. We can only rely on the reputation of consumers before to build our own advantages in the market." Carl tried to convince his two friends. However, before he finished speaking, he was interrupted by his friends.

"From a legal perspective, there is no need for us to sign such a contract and limit ourselves to a strict limit. We can develop games on these two platforms at the same time, with very high freedom and no capital constraints. Just imagine, if we become Atari's partners, all sales and promotions are restricted by the other party. Once the game we develop conflicts with the game developed by the game production team within Atari. For example, as a racing game, a fool will understand that Atari will definitely promote his own, not third parties, such as us.

After all, if you sell one of Atari's own games, they will get pure profits. And our third-party game companies, they help us promote and sell, it seems that we have won many opportunities, but Atari has to withdraw certain channel fees from it. This is equivalent to giving up all our economic lifeline to Atari to operate. I will not agree to such a dangerous thing no matter what. If Carl really insists, you can take over the stock in my hand. I choose to withdraw from this company and re-establish a brand new game development company." The partners' words instantly put the atmosphere into a deadlock.

Cal originally thought he had won a major historical opportunity for his game company, but he didn't expect that he had just asked the company's partners that the company's partners actually wanted to withdraw their shares and withdraw.

Obviously, for this company, it is facing its darkest moment.

"Your concerns are redundant. As one of the shareholders of Atari, I am not a major shareholder with a right to speak. But it can ensure that our company, as a third-party independent game development company, can enjoy the most fair treatment." This time Carl did not say anything more, but pointed out that he was one of the shareholders. It must ensure that this third-party independent game company can get the best resources and the most fair treatment.

It seems that there is no problem following Carl's interpretation.

However, the other two partners obviously remained skeptical. At the same time, one of them was still tough and did not want to become another's subsidiary. Instead, he hoped that his company would develop independently and span two major platforms. He would become one of the top game production companies in the game industry in the future.

"These two choices are like the size of the bet on the gambling table. All you said is just the benefits you can see, but you didn't mention the risks in it.

Once our decision today goes wrong, our company will have no future.

Just imagine, if Atari loses to EA Games in the future gaming market, what if we third-party companies are tied to Atari, wouldn’t it become a sacrifice?

Who can guarantee that Atari will last? Although EA Games is a latecomer, it clearly shows absolute strength. The strength they have now is obviously higher than Atari.

We must admit that this gap exists and cannot blindly worship the achievements that Atari has achieved. Nothing is absolute in this world. If what I said happens, how do you explain to us? In this company, you have the most shares. You own 51% of the shares, and you can completely decide for yourself. However, if you still decide to follow Atari, then you must buy the stocks in my hand. I want to withdraw my investment and I want to withdraw from this company. I have a better choice to do both companies at the same time, but I just have to take the lead when EA Games Company comes to North America to start selling. If Atari Games Company is full of confidence, why should they throw this bundled contract to a third-party company?

This only shows that Atari Games has panicked. They have shown obvious disconfidence, and at this moment we cannot take sides." The friend said very toughly.

Seeing one of them taking the team to Atari Games Company and the other insisting on the development of two platforms at the same time, he expressed his disgust with a clear attitude and threatened to withdraw from the company.

The other person looked at his two friends and shook his head helplessly and sighed.

"Do you remember the original intention of the three of us to set up this company? At that time, we were all players in arcade games. Later, after Atari's home console appeared, the three of us were unanimously optimistic about family games, so we set up this company.

At the beginning, we wanted to make the best games in the world and sell them to all consumers. What I want to say now is, aren’t the red and white machines of EA Games our potential customers?

If I really want to tie Atari, it goes against the original intention of establishing the company. If so, I will also choose to quit the company. I don’t care how much money my company makes, I only care how many people play my game. I won’t let my game be narrow-minded and only bind one game platform.

Don’t forget that I am the only one of the three of us who is a real game developer. You two can only be considered a wealthy game player and a richer capital investor.” The third person also expressed his attitude.

Although the statements of the two people cannot change, they only own 49% of the company's shares. These 49% of the shares have no right to determine the future direction of the company.

However, everyone is a good friend. It was this friendship that came together at the beginning. But now it is a bit regrettable to have reached this point.

Although there is no right to determine the direction of the company, it has the right to withdraw from the company.

Carl was a little disappointed when he listened to the decision of his two friends.

Of course he understood that choosing a company with all his gambles was risky.

But real benefits are also in front of you.

If the company chooses to tie up with Atari Games, there is still potentially good news for the current company.

Once the company's performance makes rapid progress, the company can choose to go public in the stock market with the wind of Atari Games.

Once listed, the wealth of the three people will instantly increase by hundreds of times.

From the perspective of capital operation alone, choosing Atari is one of the most reliable choices for making profits in the near future.

Although in the long run, there is indeed a risk of Atari's failure, and it is also possible to miss the opportunity to become the world's number one gaming company.

But in the short term, especially within one or two years, the wealth of three people will instantly explode hundreds of times. Everyone can realize their financial freedom, and everyone no longer has to worry about money.

With his identity as a shareholder of Atari Company, he can maximize the interests of his game production company.

It can be guaranteed that in addition to the game production team within Atari, its own company ranks second in the entire Atari platform.

Strictly speaking, there is no right or wrong in today's partnership meeting.

There is no right or wrong in the world of adults, there is always only benefit.

But the other two partners still have their own dreams. Maybe they are too young and are eager to realize their so-called dreams.

But the world of adults is very cruel. Only with money can you realize your dreams. If you don’t have money, you are nothing.

After you have money, you can take the money you get and chase the dream you want again.

It’s just a company. For a capital, the failure and success of hundreds of companies are just a story. As long as there is no loss of cash in hand, it is still the king of capital.

As long as you have money in your hands, you can use this money to gather all the game production teams on the market and set up another company.

By then, as long as the current company completes its listing and tells several good stories that have attracted capital interest, the stock price will not fly up in a helicopter.

Seeing that his two friends could not feel his intentions, Carl was helpless.

In desperation, Carl no longer asked his two friends to guess and feel it. After all, the company was about to face disintegration. Instead, he directly expressed his original intention and intended to take advantage of the cooperation between the two parties. In addition, he was a shareholder of Atari Games Company. All this was not a problem of game production at all, but a problem of capital writing, telling stories, and speculating on stock prices.

Carl talked mysteriously for more than ten minutes later.

The two friends suddenly realized.

"Since that's the case, we will quickly set up another company before signing the contract. After all, once we sign the contract, we will go out to establish a new company, which will be considered a breach of contract. In this way, we can still take both companies and complete future stock price monetization." One of the friends said immediately as if they had an epiphany.
Chapter completed!