The Fantasy Entertainment Empire

Chapter 557 Is it really worth it?

Fan Zhe did not go to see the arrival of Activision executive Arnold.

At present, the development of “Steam Ming” has entered the final and most critical stage. He is very busy now, and he is not thinking about any commercial matters. This matter is left to Ye Jiayi to talk about it and it is over. He still concentrates on the content work under his hands and creates a better quality and more testable work. That is the kingly way.

Recently, he has had a lot of communication with Gao Yixiang, who is in charge of the project.

As Wan Jie guessed, the current completion of “Steam Daming” is quite good, and even if Dimension Entertainment is willing, the DEMO version can be released.

However, many procedural problems still require further investigation and optimization. Vicious bugs must be eliminated. Fan Zhe would rather skip the ticket for the work-they have not announced the specific launch time anyway-and don’t want any vicious bugs that will cause the game to crash and the game is not smooth after the work is online. This is too bad for character and too bad for the monument.

Moreover, the work is well optimized, and another very important point is the performance ability on low-configuration hardware.

This is actually an aspect that cannot be ignored, and it even has a lot of significance on the host.

“Steam Ming” should be online on all platforms. But like the main XB platform and SN platform, there are some differences in their performance. This difference is technically necessary for Dimension Entertainment to overcome.

Of course, it is not difficult, at least not too difficult in terms of multi-platform adaptation.

The bigger difficulty lies in the PC port.

On the PC side, since almost every user’s hardware is different, optimization will be more difficult. High-end performance machines are certainly not afraid, but how to make games run smoothly on computers with low-end configurations is a challenge.

At present, the most important task for the technicians of the “Steam Daming” project team is to work hard in this area.

It is impossible to expect a low-profile computer to run the game with full effects, but at least it is necessary to give players a choice, so that the game can enjoy the fun of the game smoothly in the case of low-to-medium effects without being too stuck.

…

When Fan Zhe focused on monitoring the quality of his works, Ye Jiayi also met with Arnold.

Arnold did bring Activision’s sincerity.

“…We are willing to give a more sincere quotation relative to “Taiwu 2”. In terms of agency fees, we can give a price of 35 million US dollars, which is higher than the original “Taiwu Picture Scroll 2″ Three million US dollars. We will also increase the publicity budget. We promise to invest no less than 110 million US dollars in the global publicity of this work.”

This is indeed quite good sincerity, the agency money price is good, and the commitment to announce the investment is also quite acceptable.

However, Ye Jiayi still only shook his head.

“Are you not satisfied with this?” Arnold made an unbelievable expression, but in fact he was quite calm in his heart.

Talking about business, bargaining on the ground is a normal operation. Although there is no such idiom in the West, he certainly understands this meaning.

However, Ye Jiayi’s next reaction was a bit beyond his expectations.

“Mr. Arnold, we have a good relationship, so we will have this meeting. However, personal relationships belong to personal relationships, and business matters belong to business. Now we really have no intention of reaching cooperation with other companies on “Steam Da Ming” so soon. ”

After speaking, Ye Jiayi stood up and said, “Thank you for your visit. If you have time tomorrow, I can take you to a nearby golf course. I remember you like this very much.”

This is a bit of the meaning of sending guests off.

Arnold opened his mouth, wanting to say something more, but he immediately realized that this kind of business involving hundreds of millions, or even billions, is normal for a while to talk about no results.

But despite this, he was still confused by Ye Jiayi’s attitude.

He thought that he had already brought Activision’s sincere intention to cooperate, but looking at Ye Jiayi’s appearance, he didn’t seem to be interested at all.

This gave him an ominous hunch that the taste of Dimension Entertainment this time may be great.

…

The next day, Arnold accepted Ye Jiayi’s invitation and played a round of golf together.

He is a master, Ye Jiayi can only play at best.

But basically, he didn’t think much about playing this game.

Throughout the whole process, he tried to test the attitude of Dimension Entertainment on “Steam Daming”, wanting to see their needs and their bottom line.

Unfortunately, he didn’t try it out.

This made him feel very frustrated.

You know, he is not an ordinary business negotiator, he is currently Activision, not to mention covering the sky, he is at least one of the top management.

I came here in person, and it turned out that Dimension Entertainment had this attitude, which was really uncomfortable.

There was some resentment and anger in his heart, but they didn’t show it.

Personal emotions are far less important than business cooperation.

He does not intend to return to the United States, and returning to this kind of thing without success is unacceptable.

In the subsequent time, he has been in contact with Dimension Entertainment.

In the end, he finally got a more accurate answer during the fourth meeting with Ye Jiayi.

Then he was shocked.

Previously, the attitude of Dimension Entertainment made him consider that their appetite for this work would not be small, but in fact, he himself is quite confident.

Although, UU reading www.uukanshu. com’s preliminary quotation seems to be only a part of the increase from the original “Taiwu 2”, but in fact, according to the results of internal discussions between Activision before he came, their bottom line is quite high. There is relatively large room for negotiation.

But unexpectedly, the requirements of Dimension Entertainment suddenly compressed their space to the limit.

“In terms of agency money, our requirements are not high, as long as it reaches the 60 million U.S. dollar line. However, we hope that you can provide more protection in the publicized budget. We think that we will invest 160 million U.S. , Is more reasonable.”

When Ye Jiayi said this, he was quite calm and breezy, but he was very frightened by Arnold.

These two figures were too exaggerated, and even made him think that Ye Jiayi was joking with him.

But after calming down, he thought that he couldn’t decide this matter for a while.

This is almost beyond about one-third of their initial psychological price.

Is “Steam Ming” really worth this value?