Becoming Rich with Daily Scavenging APP-Chapter 447: Hardcore Alliance

I hope the huge returns mentioned in the leaked intelligence are truly substantial.

Chen Yiyang stood up and said, "Let me take a look at the games you’ve made, and by the way, ask when your games will be launched."

"Huang Feng’s will be the earliest; it can be tested in two months. Li Lun’s will take four months, mine will need eight months."

Cai Wei introduced while taking Chen Yiyang to the company’s computer room to view the game demos.

Huang Feng is leading the creation of a tower defense game, with a pretty anime-style visual.

Chen Yiyang tried out the game and felt it was alright.

However, there have been no successful examples of anime-style tower defense games on the market before.

So the three of them have doubts about whether this game will succeed after its launch.

After all, launching a game requires a large marketing budget.

Right now, the company doesn’t even have this amount of money.

In fact, they have already started to delay salary payments internally.

The three are worried that if Huang Feng’s game does not generate the expected income after launch, the company morale will collapse immediately.

And the other two projects will be directly dissolved.

Even if money is available later, without the original project participants, recruiting people to continue developing the games will be very difficult.

After all, no one knows how the previous group maintained the messy code.

Chen Yiyang hurriedly finished looking at the games created by the three.

The games are all well-made.

But games are like movies.

No matter how optimistic the industry insiders are, the true outcome can only be seen post-launch.

There are plenty of films and games that are highly anticipated before release but flop immediately upon launch. 𝐟𝕣𝗲𝕖𝕨𝗲𝐛𝗻𝗼𝐯𝗲𝚕.𝗰𝚘𝐦

"How much equity are you willing to give up?" After viewing the games, Chen Yiyang went to the meeting room to formally negotiate terms with the three.

"Thirty percent," Cai Wei said, "If you are willing to invest, you’ll hold thirty percent of the company’s equity, each of us will have twenty percent, and ten percent will be reserved for equity incentives for key technical staff and executives."

Feeling so confident?

Chen Yiyang was somewhat surprised upon hearing the equity distribution.

Because with this setup, if any of the three were to turn against Chen Yiyang in the future, he could take control of the company.

So Cai Wei’s plan essentially bets the three’s ability to keep the company depends on their unity in the future.

However, considering these three’s gambler-like style of doing things.

Chen Yiyang actually believes the three can unite to control the company in the future.

"Thirty percent, let me see." Chen Yiyang calculated the company’s valuation.

"I value your company between three hundred million, and I’m willing to offer ninety million for thirty percent equity.

This amount should be enough to support your upcoming development.

Simultaneously, as the major shareholder, I will assist you in negotiations with Tengxu and Heartbeat regarding ad placement and channel distribution post-launch."

"We don’t plan on excessive marketing post-launch." Cai Wei said, "We believe good games don’t require heavy advertising.

Therefore, after the game launches, we only intend to open a channel on Bilibili video platform with minimal advertising.

Moreover, we aren’t planning to expand channel distribution much, as the channel commissions are excessive."

Channel commissions indeed are high.

Having his own gaming company, Chen Yiyang is well aware of this.

Domestically there’s an alliance called Hardcore Alliance.

This alliance consists of Android phone manufacturers like Hua Wei, We WO, and Oh Bubble.

These phone manufacturers have pre-installed app download platforms on their phones.

Any game downloaded from their platform has a minimum commission of fifty percent.

For games made by small companies, the commission rate can even reach seventy or eighty percent.

While Tengxu isn’t a member of the Hardcore Alliance, its channel commissions aren’t insignificant.

"If you don’t use channels, your game not being popular is fine, but if it becomes popular, Hardcore Alliance might go crazy."

"We don’t care." Cai Wei said seriously.

Initially, Chen Yiyang wanted to advise Cai Wei and the others.

But he suddenly thought of his recent hunting experiences.

Damn it, ever since I started leaking deals, I’ve been conscientious, kind.

Just picking the leaks, not making trouble.

Never have I provoked those big domestic companies.

But the return?

The return first was Great Wall, now it’s a bunch of enemies hunting me.

Screw it.

Thinking of this, Chen Yiyang said, "Then skip the channels. If they dare to retaliate, we’ll retaliate back."

Already having multiple challenges, Chen Yiyang isn’t worried.

If he can survive this wave of hunting, why would he fear the Hardcore Alliance?

Just knock them down together.

After discussing the cooperation details with Cai Wei and others.

After leaving, Chen Yiyang called Wu Changxun.

"Do you want my Middle East prince’s revenge?"

"What are you saying?" Wu Changxun didn’t understand what Chen Yiyang meant.

"I have a game company specifically making skinned games for the Middle Eastern web, earning billions annually. Does Tengxu want it, if you do, I’ll sell it to you."

"Where are you? I’m coming over immediately." Wu Changxun was excited upon hearing what Chen Yiyang said.

"I’m in Shanghai, just take a flight over."

Upon receiving Chen Yiyang’s call, Wu Changxun didn’t waste a moment.

He flew over the same day.

Though Chen Yiyang doesn’t have many game companies, Wu Changxun envies them all.

One is the one making skinned games for the Middle East.

Though there’s not much technical content.

After all, Tengxu is also experienced in skinned games.

But unfortunately, this overseas market highly values first-mover advantages.

Chen Yiyang’s game company seized the market by relying on skinned games and established local teams and good service early on, thus dominating the market continuously.

Later, Tengxu did attempt to squeeze in.

Trying a few times, the cost calculations showed that even if they managed to squeeze in, it would incur losses.

Since skinned games don’t have development costs, what they do have are marketing costs.

Chen Yiyang’s company, for every dollar earned, eighty cents need to be reinvested into advertising, leaving only twenty cents as profit.

If Tengxu forced entry, they’d find the marketing costs increasing, needing one dollar and twenty cents for every dollar earned.

The Middle Eastern market is small with no clear growth trends for the future.

So Tengxu gave up.

Now that Chen Yiyang is willing to sell, Tengxu certainly desires it.

This piece of the gaming market in Chen Yiyang’s hands can only make skinned mobile and web games.

But involving Tengxu, it could include a skinned client game still.

Furthermore, securing the Middle Eastern market can boost short-term stock prices, making the financial report look much better.

Thus, Wu Changxun rushed over immediately.