Chapter 1428 Let Them Give Us Money!

Racing games are just games; their connection to reality is weak. The driving experience differs greatly, even to the point of having completely different rules.

Not to mention that many racing games have modification systems, allowing players to modify their vehicles according to their preferences. After the modifications, all the vehicle's stats are maxed out, further reducing the differences between vehicles.

This isn't the fault of those racing games. After all, the ultimate goal of all racing games is to allow players to pursue the fastest possible speed. Very few games are like *Safe and Civilized Driving*, which restricts the in-game driving speed to be exactly the same as in real life and doesn't allow players to arbitrarily crash vehicles.

This is a difference in the core gameplay, not a problem of design or production level.

But it does make players feel completely different when playing.

In general, players' sensitivity to the driving performance and safety of a particular type of vehicle is much higher in *Safe and Civilized Driving* than in other racing games, and slightly higher than in other driving simulation games.

There's no way around it, it's all forced by the strict game mechanics.

This feeling doesn't come entirely from the game engine and rules of *Safe and Civilized Driving*; a large part of it comes from psychological factors.

Since players experience driving experiences and feelings in *Safe and Civilized Driving* that are closer to those in real life, their attention and willingness to discuss the safety and handling of various models will naturally be much higher than in other games.

In addition, the huge popularity of *Safe and Civilized Driving* online, and the collaboration with iiAs and the impact of the Passat crash, have given several domestic cars unprecedented attention.

In fact, with the rapid development of domestic manufacturing, domestic cars have developed rapidly.

Although there is still a certain gap between domestic cars and top foreign brands in terms of technology accumulation, technical foundation, and some high-precision and cutting-edge technologies, "domestic" is no longer a synonym for "rough manufacturing."

We must face up to the gap, but there is no need to underestimate ourselves.

Moreover, how can we explain the repeated phenomenon of joint venture vehicles reducing configurations in China?

Are the domestic companies that have joint ventures with foreign companies all corrupt?

Of course not.

The root of this kind of thing is that foreign companies have the final say. They do not respect domestic consumers, regard them as second-class citizens, and do not serve them with the attitude they should have towards God. Instead, they have a magical arrogance and sense of superiority.

This is a legacy issue. Because the domestic industrial industry was underdeveloped in the past, coupled with the behavior of some unscrupulous companies cheating on subsidies and not paying attention to quality, domestic consumers have developed an inertial mindset that "foreign products are of good quality, advanced, and high-end."

It can only be said that this is a historical problem that should be reversed, but it cannot be accomplished overnight.

It requires batches of down-to-earth enterprises and one high-quality product after another to reverse this inertial thinking.

The mobile phone industry is like this. It has gone through such a process from foreign brands dominating the market to the rise of domestic brands.

Even if domestic mobile phone brands have fierce competition in the internal market and tear each other apart, it is undeniable that the domestic mobile phone industry has been able to compete with top foreign brands. In the foreseeable future, domestic brands will continue to improve until they completely surpass them.

The domestic automobile industry will also go through such an inevitable process, and the arrival of the new energy era will inevitably accelerate this process, allowing some excellent domestic car companies to achieve overtaking on corners.

And now the most troubling problem for those excellent car companies is reputation, publicity, and credibility!

After all, cars are different from mobile phones. They are not small items worth a few thousand yuan. They cost 200,000 to 300,000 yuan at every turn and are directly related to people's lives.

Many people may buy a cool new product for a few thousand yuan out of curiosity. As long as it doesn't explode, even if the performance is weak and the system is poor, it's not a big problem. At most, they will just scold it online.

But few people buy a car worth 300,000 to 400,000 yuan out of curiosity.

Poor people will definitely be picky when buying a car, while rich people often buy well-known luxury cars to play with.

If domestic new energy vehicles want to attract customers, the only way to go is to lower the price.

At this time, for those domestic car companies that are more confident in their products, how to prove to consumers that their products are okay and trustworthy has become the biggest problem.

Promote it yourself?

Some people will say that you focus on marketing and neglect quality, and that you spend all your money on advertising. This is self-praise and not trustworthy.

Ask others to review it?

Some people will say that you gave money to the reviewers and that it is not credible.

All consumer recognition of a brand requires a long period of accumulation, and it is impossible to establish it in just half a year or a year.

If it happens that this car company has had several negative incidents before, then it is even worse.

Finding iiAs to do a crash test is one way, but on the one hand, not many people pay attention to it except car enthusiasts, and on the other hand, the crash test can only prove safety, not other things.

This simply does not meet the requirements of marketing and publicity.

Therefore, the best way for these car companies is to find brands that consumers trust to cooperate with!

This is equivalent to using these excellent brands to endorse their quality. Consumers trust a certain brand, and they will naturally have a good impression of the cooperating models. Even if they don't blindly support it, at least they will be interested in it and want to learn more about it and test drive it. That's enough.

Take the first step to break the ice, and it will be easier and easier later.

Therefore, it is not surprising that these car companies want to cooperate with Tengda.

On the one hand, Tengda is currently the most trusted brand among domestic players and consumers, and it can even be said that there is no one else.

In the Sloth Apartment project, Tengda cooperated with various furniture factories to establish a supervision and spot check mechanism, which has proven that Tengda's cooperation and linkage with other companies is responsible and trustworthy.

And Tengda's success across multiple fields has made many people deeply believe in Tengda, and there is no problem of "forced cross-border".

On the other hand, *Safe and Civilized Driving* has a unique advantage, which is to provide players with a relatively simple but infinitely low-cost test drive platform.

There are differences between the game and reality. It is certain that a model that is easy to drive in the game may not be so easy to drive in reality, and the game cannot show some elements such as comfort and interior texture.

But models that are not easy to drive in the game are probably not easy to drive in reality...

Players will naturally have a good impression of a car after driving it for a long time in the game, and maybe they will consider it more when buying a car in reality.

There is no need to worry that the game will cause too much misleading. Anyway, before consumers decide to buy a car, they will definitely go to a physical store for a test drive.

"Consider it more" is the effect that these car companies want to achieve at all costs.

In short, many car companies have come to their senses. As long as the quality is good, isn't it good to cooperate with *Safe and Civilized Driving*? This is a win-win situation!

Therefore, many car companies that had previously rejected the offer because of the excessive damage to vehicles in the game have once again extended an olive branch, and even some car companies that Ye Zhizhou had not looked for before have also expressed their desire to cooperate.

Pei Qian was stunned.

What's going on?

He didn't intend to have *Safe and Civilized Driving* have many real vehicle brand authorizations, because everyone knows that the more real vehicle brand authorizations a racing game has, the more popular the game will be!

Although the authorization fee can be spent, compared with the game's income, what is that little authorization fee? It can be earned back quickly.

No, absolutely unacceptable!

If there are more and more authorizations for real brands in *Safe and Civilized Driving*, and the game becomes more and more popular, then it will definitely make more and more money!

Pei Qian's expression was serious: "If you don't want to authorize it, then you don't want to authorize it. If you want to authorize it, then you can authorize it again? There's no such thing!"

"Change the rules! We will not only not give a penny of authorization fee, but also ask the car companies to give us a platform fee!"

"Charge according to the authorization fee that was previously negotiated, but instead of us giving it to them, they give it to us."

"In addition, the car companies must also donate sample cars to us to complete crash tests and structural disassembly and research, in case a certain iiAs crash is inaccurate in the future? If the data is not rich enough?"

"Moreover, we will also spend money to buy cars from the market for testing to prevent them from sending us sample cars with tricks."

"In addition, we refuse to accept any suggestions or interference. If the car companies are not satisfied with the vehicle performance and safety performance in the game, then they should hold it in! They will not be refunded even if they are not satisfied!"

"If they can accept all our conditions, then okay, if they don't accept it, then we will break up."

Pei Qian's attitude was very firm.

He thought to himself, with such harsh conditions, no silly car companies should come over to ask for cooperation again, right?

In fact, after saying so much, I just want to euphemistically persuade these car companies: You can just sell cars and make money, so don't always try to get my attention.

I'm already in a mess, and you're still running over to make trouble for me. Is this appropriate? This is not appropriate.

Let's just live our own lives, it's good for each other.

Ye Zhizhou was stunned for a moment: "Ah, this..."

Indeed, Tengda was rejected by the other party when negotiating the authorization before, but now the other party took the initiative to come to the door, but Tengda did not accept it, and instead asked for money, which seemed a bit like a child sulking...

What's more, this is not just a simple price increase, and even some requirements that seem unreasonable to the outside world are put forward.

As a Tengda employee, Ye Zhizhou trusts his own company and President Pei unconditionally, but it is difficult to say how other companies will view this matter.

He was too embarrassed to say it directly. President Pei's statement was simply like a lion opening his mouth!

But as the quality of a Tengda person in charge, he quickly began to correct his views.

"President Pei is definitely not an impulsive person, nor is he a person who only cares about immediate interests and disregards long-term interests."

"In other words, President Pei's request must have other deep meanings, and it will take careful study to draw a conclusion..."

Ye Zhizhou was not able to understand the deep meaning in the first time, but he still nodded immediately: "Okay, President Pei, then let's do it."

Pei Qian nodded, very satisfied with the degree of obedience and execution of the current Tengda people in charge.

"Okay, then let's do this for now."

Seeing the situation in the warehouse, Pei Qian felt bored.

I came all the way here, and only saw that the Safe and Civilized Driving Simulator was selling well?

Unlucky!

Pei Qian told Ye Zhizhou a few more words, then turned and left.