Lingjing Overseas Operations Department: [Boss, the eight university alliances are demanding 50% of our net profit for contract renewal, otherwise they will no longer act as our "umbrella" in the overseas market.]
Lingjing Overseas Operations Department: [Boss, major overseas game forums are strongly blocking keywords for games produced by Lingjing. The eight university alliances have not taken any action.]
Lingjing Overseas Operations Department: [Boss, the FBI paid a visit for tax audits. It's concluded, no issues.]
Lingjing Publicity Department: [Boss, there's a VR game seminar in Shenzhen inviting our company. It's officially led, should we accept?]
Lingjing Publicity Department: [Boss, the boss of Pig Factory invited you for afternoon tea this weekend. Should you accept?]
Bai: [Are you going to the VR seminar in mid-March?]
.........
Opening his phone, Lu Li felt a headache coming on. He had only spent a few hours exploring in the game, how could so many things have happened?
As more and more games were produced by Lingjing, the attention it received grew. Information about Lingjing, a little-known but historically long-standing pure-blood game company, was gradually being unearthed.
Excellent lineage, deep heritage, and low-key strength became the company's labels.
Perhaps to society at large, these were just insignificant social news in obscure corners. But in the gaming circle, players who had long suffered from the mediocrity of domestic games were finally ecstatic!
Lingjing had burst onto the domestic game market as an absolute dark horse in the past two years, gaining immense popularity and countless accolades, establishing itself as the third major domestic game company after Tencent and NetEase.
Perhaps Lingjing's other businesses were no match for Tencent and NetEase, but in terms of gaming alone, a subtle tripartite confrontation was emerging.
Helplessly,
Lu Li had to recruit talent and expand his team, so that Lingjing could "live up to" the praise from players.
Lingjing had now become a legitimate professional game development company, no longer just an empty shell. Various departments were functioning as they should, and new games were constantly being developed.
Furthermore, three independent studios were established: Mihajiao, Legend Platinum, and Lingjing Star, specifically responsible for the in-depth development of mobile games, online games, and VR games respectively.
Among them, Mihajiao and Legend Platinum had already filled their development teams, with key planners and developers such as Hai Mao, Pharaoh, and Mi Zizi in place, all engaged in their work.
It was expected that soon, fun games filled with sweetness and "knife-edge" flavor would be released under the Lingjing banner to the public.
As for Lingjing Star, the company's most mysterious department, it currently consisted only of Lu Li.
However, that was enough.
The current mainstream of the game market was VR games, this burgeoning rising star. Although it did not constitute a "dimensionality reduction attack" on the other two fields, it indeed occupied a very significant portion of the game market.
It wasn't that he lacked trust in the development department; it was simply that the foundation was too shallow. To craft a VR masterpiece, without external help, required time for accumulation, and the confluence of timing, opportunity, and human harmony was indispensable.
The only barrier for VR games at present was the excessively high entry threshold, requiring professional VR equipment. Even if manufacturers sold them at cost, the cheapest VR headset would start at twenty thousand.
Lu Li personally overseeing the VR game sector not only allowed him to continue developing new games to harvest emotions but also brought in a continuous stream of income to maintain this massive machinery.
It not only provided numerous job opportunities, giving back to society, but also offered a platform for aspiring young designers to realize their ideals and ambitions.
He was not in a hurry for the development department to achieve results; he would handle the results himself. Everyone could focus on their own tasks, leading to a harmonious and fulfilling environment.
The only drawback was that he was no longer a solitary figure and could not be a hands-off boss anymore. Every day, the top leaders of each department reported their work and sought decisions.
"Eight university alliances... you have quite the audacity!"
As Lu Li replied to the messages one by one, his expression darkened upon seeing the news from the Overseas Operations Department.
The overseas management team consisted of professional agents that Lu Li had hired at top salaries from a headhunting firm when he was preparing to expand into the overseas market. Their professional capabilities were top-notch.
The negotiations and collaborations with the eight universities were all handled by them.
In essence, for overseas business, besides Lu Li providing the games, no other work required his input. With substantial foreign exchange income each quarter, he had been an exceptionally comfortable hands-off boss.
This was mainly attributed to this group of professionals doing professional work.
For the two years since the overseas business commenced, Lu Li had not had to worry about it. He had thought he was benefiting from the shade of a large tree, but unexpectedly, the heartwood of this so-called large tree was insufficient, and it intended to swallow an elephant.
Fifty percent of net profit, Lu Li rolled his eyes. It would be better to hand over the overseas Lingjing game platform to these white-skinned pigs directly, oh... and the black-skinned farm tools.
The initially agreed-upon 8% was a reasonable concession made based on the sponsorships from overseas major manufacturers like Bao Xue, Yu Bi, V Society, and Ren Tian Tang.
Even if these major manufacturers no longer sponsored, it wouldn't affect these schools due to the withdrawal of these funds. The cost was merely to lend their support to Lingjing, and they didn't even need to issue a statement.
This way, everyone wins, and everyone makes money.
Now, it was clear that these major manufacturers felt the pressure from Lingjing's continuous and aggressive output. After experiencing difficulties in direct confrontation, they were preparing to resort to underhanded tactics.
Lu Li surmised that there must be the shadow of overseas major manufacturers behind this, perhaps promising more lucrative terms than Lingjing.
But, could they really deliver?
At the time, Lu Li had made the decision to concede 8% to gain university support after careful consideration. The purpose was to force overseas major manufacturers to make sacrifices to entice the universities when they tried to poach them.
Don't talk about overseas capital, merchants' national confidence, or united resistance against external forces. Overseas brothers simply don't buy into that; the pursuit of monetary gain is more realistic.
Therefore, to shake the determination of the university decision-makers, there had to be benefits more attractive than Lingjing's proposed 8% profit for the universities to be moved. Such a sacrifice would inevitably be a severe blow.
Not everyone had Lu Li's cheat.
With this thought, Lu Li's lips curled slightly:
"Brother, I build a game with zero cost, and you're really planning to follow suit?"
"If you don't want this 8% piece of meat, plenty of dogs are scrambling for it. That's real money in dollars, and no one will go against money."
"Lingjing doesn't need publicity, as long as it can survive overseas." He had enough confidence in the games he chose to build.
Lu Li replied to Overseas Operations: [If the eight universities don't want this piece of meat, find other universities. If reputation is insufficient, let quantity make up for it. Once the news is released, someone will be unable to sit still.]
After doing this, Lu Li replied to several more messages.
Finally, he focused on an unread message box, fell silent for a moment, and then clicked on Bai's message box: [Go]
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(Tsk, tsk, real-life plots are indeed harder to write than game plots, requiring a lot of thought. The pace today is a bit slow.)