My Animation Era

  Chapter 277 Pokémon Competition System (Subscription required)

  Talk to talk, laugh to laugh.

  Even though Xiao Xiong was very angry and felt that Gu Miao's offer was insincere and that he was being slaughtered as a wrongdoer, he still didn't want to give up.

  The second day after Du Hao's wedding.

  He led part of the marketing department of Feiyang Group to Wanbao Animation to negotiate with Gu Miao about the authorization of "Pokémon Gym".

   "I think this is better..."

   In front of Mr. Xiong, Gu Miao expressed his true thoughts.

  Pokémon Gym, you can do it!

   But how? how to do? This should not be decided by Feiyang Group, it must be decided by Wanbao.

   "Set up the Pokémon League?"

   "Regularly hold Pokémon competitions? Pokémon-related activities, players and fans who have achieved excellent results in the competitions, will be invited to become the owners of gyms in the area?"

   Interesting!

   Xiao Xiong finally realized that Gu Miao was not particularly interested in his rhetoric of "attracting tourists".

  What he wants to operate is the IP of "Pokémon", and also wants to use it to create a competition and "Gym" operation system.

   But there is also a problem.

  Competitions, especially game competitions like "Pokémon", must at least be competitive, right? "Pokémon" is not an FPS or MOBA game. Is it really that competitive?

   "Competitiveness is indeed a little bit worse."

  Gu Miao said calmly: "But it's not without competition. In the future, I will let the game company increase the competition of players' PVP."

   "Pokémon" has more than one generation.

   This thing is a super game that can be popular for more than ten or twenty years. In terms of popularity, to be honest, it is not much worse than that plumber "Mario".

  Lack of competitiveness now does not mean lack of competitiveness in the future.

  As long as the game keeps updating and releasing new styles, sooner or later it will catch up. Not to mention reaching the height of FPS or MOBA games, at least it can make the game more exciting.

   "OK! Then there's no problem."

  After learning that Gu Miao wanted to operate the "Pokémon" IP "for a long time" and create a competition system, Mr. Xiong nodded and said.

   "You can do whatever you want to hold a competition or something. I only care about one question, that is, how many offline physical Pokémon gyms should be opened?"

  How many gyms?

  This problem, if it is set according to the game or animation, it will be troublesome. You should know that in games/animations, there may be several gyms in a "region".

   That's too much!

  Taking Jiangchuan as an example, assuming that there are four or five Pokémon Gyms in Jiangchuan, how many Pokémon Gyms will there be in the whole country?

  Certainly can't play like this.

   Leaving aside the cooperation between Wanbao and Feiyang, whether they have the financial resources to build so many "Pokémon gyms" across the country.

  Is it necessary to build so many gymnasiums in "Pokémon"? This is the real world, not the anime/game world!

  In the anime/game world…

   Almost everyone is a "Pokémon" trainer. The existence of Pokémon is as important as "eating and sleeping". Because of this importance, there are so many Pokémon Gyms in one region.

  But in reality, although "Pokémon" is quite popular, it has not yet become so popular that "everyone knows it".

  So you don’t need so many gyms.

  Gu Miao believes that in major cities across the country, such as Beijing, Zhonghai, Jiangchuan, Yangcheng, Pengcheng and other places, it is enough to have one family each.

  A total of ten "offline" gyms!

  The existence of these gyms, in addition to providing "Pokémon" fans/players with a place for communication and fellowship, also has a very important role.

   That's the "promoted event"!

  In the future, it is possible for Gu Miao to establish a competition area based on these offline physical gyms, and then hold the first "Pikachu Cup" Pokémon Contest.

   Bear always agreed to this plan.

  According to the plan, Feiyang Group will provide Wanbao Animation with a free store in the commercial plazas of these ten cities.

   Renovated and remodeled.

   These ten stores distributed across the country will be synchronized with Wanbao's official website and become Wanbao's "officially certified" Pokémon gyms.

   Fans who love "Pokémon" animation, or gamers, can go to these gyms to learn more about and experience the "Pokémon" culture. By the way...

  Collect badges?

   Badges. At first, Gu Miao wanted to give them away for free. As long as you come to the gym to check in, you can get a badge directly.

   But Bear always thought it was too easy.

   "No one will cherish things that are easily obtained. And doing so may also lead to a flood of badges, and our rewards are worthless."

   "Makes sense."

  Gu Miao thought he was right.

  So he modified the rules, from the original "Punch in and get it" to, you need to challenge the gym and pass the grades before you can receive the exclusive badge.

  Challenge gameplay is also very simple.

  These gyms each hold some “entertaining” activities, such as [Pokémon Quiz], you can get badges for how many questions you answer correctly, etc.

   After collecting all ten gym badges, you can go to Wanbao official website, or any gym, to receive free exquisite gifts prepared by Wanbao Group and Feiyang Group.

  Gifts don't have to be expensive!

  But what everyone enjoys is undoubtedly the process of "collecting badges", including the "sense of accomplishment" and "sense of happiness" of successful collection at the end.

  The plan is so determined.

  Because these ten gymnasiums are all located in the commercial plaza under Feiyang Group. After the gymnasium officially opens for business, it will definitely attract many "Pokémon" players and fans to check in.

   In a sense, Feiyang Group is the one that has gained the most from this cooperation.

  Of course, Gu Miao is not at a loss.

  Whoring ten stores for nothing, taking a small amount of advertising fees along the way, and taking the opportunity to cultivate the "Pokémon" competition system, it can be said that it is profitable.

  After seeing off President Xiong who had returned with a full load, Gu Miao compiled the "Gym plan" that had just been determined into a book, and handed it over to Lao Gu for execution.

  Why Lao Gu?

  Of course it’s because Lao Gu is now the chief person in charge of Wanbao’s “directly-operated stores”, and he is familiar with opening stores offline.

and…

  Taking this opportunity, he can still distract Old Gu, so that he won't have the chance to stay in front of Gu Miao and spend all day flirting with Aunt Chen.

   That was so greasy!

  Once or twice is okay, I show my affection in front of Gu Miao every day, I'm almost sixty, I don't know what to show?

   Probably this is "living out" the second life!

  Speaking of Lao Gu...

   After attending Du Hao's wedding with Gu Miao yesterday, he made a bold decision.

  He is going to get a certificate with Aunt Chen.

  This matter can be regarded as a decision he made after discussing with Gu Miao. He said, if Gu Miao minded, then forget it, as if he hadn't said this.

  How could Gu Miao mind?

  He is almost in his third year, and he is not a child. How can he stop his father from pursuing true love?

  Get married, get married!

  As long as it's not a hot-headed thing, Gu Miao thinks it's okay to go to be some kind of crooked son-in-law!

  (end of this chapter)