Becoming Rich with Daily Scavenging APP-Chapter 473: Yingkumi Comes Under Fire from Public Opinion
"Alright, I got it." Chen Yiyang didn’t believe this timeline at all.
How many years has Musk been saying he would send humans to Mars?
So far, there’s not even a shadow of it.
This kind of timeline is usually to comfort short-term investors.
However, the prospect described by the other party seemed somewhat reliable.
"How much funding do you need?" Chen Yiyang asked directly.
"The first experimental apparatus in the early stage requires about 400 million, and later about a billion for commercialization trials."
"Alright, I’ll have my people go to your company to discuss negotiations."
Chen Yiyang decided to invest a few hundred million in this company to give it a try.
The funding needed for this seed round is indeed not much.
If it succeeds in the future, these investments could multiply dozens of times, of course, the probability is quite small.
Image of the fusion experimental device Honghuang 70.
After sending people to Shanghai to invest in this enterprise, Chen Yiyang continued to look for new reliable companies that needed investment.
A few days later, while he hadn’t found a company he wanted to invest in, the previously invested company sent him good news.
"Mr. Chen, the performance of our first game is quite good."
It was Cai Wei calling Chen Yiyang.
This company is the secondary game company Yingkumi that Chen Yiyang previously invested in.
After receiving Chen Yiyang’s investment, the company completely gave up going public and focused on making games.
After their first tower defense anime game was launched, it performed quite well, with a revenue of 600 million in the first month.
Even after various shares and taxes are deducted, the company could at least pocket more than 200 million in net profit.
"That’s not bad." Chen Yiyang wasn’t impressed.
A revenue of 600 million is too little.
The SLG game he invested in previously had revenues of more than a billion in the first month.
"By the way, Mr. Chen." Cai Wei didn’t notice Chen Yiyang’s indifference to these results.
He continued, "Our company’s third game, the open-world anime game that I’m in charge of, recently encountered some public opinion issues. Could you help solve it? I’m worried it will affect the subsequent game release."
"Send me the relevant materials for me to take a look at."
After hanging up, Chen Yiyang reviewed the materials Cai Wei sent over.
Actually, it’s not that big of a problem.
It’s simply that the game developed by Cai Wei has some similarities in gameplay and concepts with games from Japan.
Legally, these similarities are absolutely fine, but under the influence of intentional parties, they have caused quite a stir in public opinion.
Chen Yiyang had no intention of dealing with these disputes.
Because even in the gaming industry, there’s a large fan circle phenomenon, with fans of various games attacking other games for inexplicable reasons.
If domestic netizens truly couldn’t tolerate referencing or even plagiarism, then Tengxu and Net would have gone bankrupt a long time ago.
After all, these two companies are best at following closely when another company creates a new gameplay.
In fact, if you strictly judge based on public opinion, you wouldn’t find a few clean gaming companies in the world.
Domestic netizens have a favorable opinion of foreign gaming companies but are averse to Tengxu and Net.
Essentially, it’s the same reason foreign netizens refer to Tengxu as a white knight.
Not understanding the evil done by the other party, or rather the evil didn’t happen to them.
So they perceived them as pure and innocent.
But in reality, where’s the purity in big companies?
Even the Polish company that players affectionately call "stupid donkey."
This company created the globally renowned game The Witcher 3, and even released a large DLC for free.
But this company’s foundation has nothing to do with being a "stupid donkey."
This company initially started with pirated games and later began making its own games, claiming initially not to incorporate anti-piracy mechanisms due to its pirated game origins, allowing players the choice to pay or enjoy for free.
Of course, this is the version known to domestic players.
That’s why they think of the Polish "stupid donkey" as pure.
But if foreign players heard this label, they’d definitely respond with a cold laugh.
Because this company had anti-piracy tech in their game The Witcher 1.
The result was that it was useless, massively pirated anyway.
So in The Witcher 2, the company went extreme, embedding IP tracking in the game, suing over 40,000 pirates at once, demanding they pay for the game.
And as expected, the company got massively attacked by netizens, almost going bankrupt.
At that point, the company hurriedly mended its ways, announcing that future games would not include anti-piracy mechanisms, earning a reputation for being conscientious.
Hence, domestically, it was dubbed the "Polish stupid donkey."
Clearly, making a company conscientious is not about praising how good it is or media supervision.
It’s about making the company realize it’s on the brink of death and has to cater to its users.
In this case, Chen Yiyang decided not to delay.
He first called friends in Japan, asking them to let a few well-reputed companies in Japan interact with Yingkumi.
Then he called Wu Changxun to see if Tengxu could suppress the public opinion on this matter.
Chen Yiyang found that part of the attack on Yingkumi’s public opinion came from Tengxu.
"I’ll look into it."
After receiving the call from Chen Yiyang, Wu Changxun understood the ins and outs of the situation and then told Chen Yiyang,
"It seems this is just a simple commercial behavior by the people below. They think Yingkumi’s first game, while not very successful, still affected Tengxu’s market share in the gaming industry.
So they preemptively targeted Yingkumi’s next game with public opinion attacks. You might as well just ignore it."
"What do you mean ignore it?" Chen Yiyang was dumbfounded.
"That is, even my brother can’t control it. Because I don’t know which department launched the public opinion attack. Our Tengxu has way too many studios and departments.
Any studio or department could engage in similar preemptive public opinion attacks. If I check one by one, the commotion would be too big.
How about this, I’ll give you a discounted price to advertise on our Tengxu platform."
"Uh, if I do that, will your various studios and departments know that Yingkumi is your ally?" Chen Yiyang asked curiously.
"Of course not, if you advertise on Tengxu, our advertising department will proactively assist you with this matter. If any of our studios or departments attack you, the advertising department will actively help you resolve these troubles."
"Six."
Chen Yiyang was speechless.
