Reborn to create a virtual world

Hearing what Zheng Fangcheng said, Lin Shu understood what he meant.

What Zheng Fangcheng meant was that the appreciation ability of the mainstream readers does not lie in the level of the work, because many people simply cannot distinguish the pros and cons of the work at a higher level, and they will not feel a sense of disobedience in some overly exaggerated or distorted details. .They don't mind if a president looks idiotic or mentally handicapped, because they themselves don't understand the status and level of a so-called "president" or the leader of a large enterprise.

There is no existing impression, so it doesn't matter whether the characterization is distorted.

After a long while, Lin Shucai said: "But if such a plot is adapted and put on our platform, I will always feel a little complicated. Generally speaking, I still expect a slightly higher quality of official games."

Zheng Fangcheng said: "I don't recommend you to do this either." Then he was silent for a while, and continued, "The real fool is the one who treats readers as fools. Nowadays, in online articles, there is no emphasis on writing style, logic, innovation, and thinking, only There are quite a few people who follow the fixed red text routines, and readers are quite fond of this routine. But are they willing to watch such routines for a lifetime? Children will grow up and their reading experience will increase, and the industry as a whole The level will also improve. Thousands of boats compete with each other, sailing against the current, if the creators can't compete, they will only fall behind."

"A person may not be able to be the president of a large company in his entire life, and there are always a few who can be. But it is impossible for them to meet the "president" in their entire life. Even if they do not, they will see it from other more excellent works. more realistic and attractive character creation. Once exposed to higher-level works, a person's reading taste will be raised higher and higher, and more and more picky. At this time, only truly excellent works can Retain fans. Time is a process of scouring the sand, the current market has just not been cultivated, and there will only be more and more excellent works in the future."

In the middle of the result, a voice suddenly came in and interrupted Zheng Fangcheng's speech: "Although I don't hate your prediction, after all, everyone wants to see more good works. But Manager Zheng, I don't know if you know Do you know that a well-known writer who writes online articles said such a sentence, which is called "the one who wins the novice wins the world"? Do you know, according to the survey, who are the main readers who pay for reading?"

Lin Shu was slightly surprised by Bai Miao's sudden appearance and interruption.

But I heard Zheng Fangcheng say: "I've heard of it. This person is indeed making a lot of money by relying on a lot of updates. It is indeed the real biggest winner. There is no one else who can achieve more than 2000 million in revenue in the last year. But Bai Miao, let me ask, how is he doing now? On Qihang Chinese website, he Do you still occupy the leading position now?"

Bai Miao took a deep breath.

This question is really too sharp.

This great writer, who has been constantly updating and the content of his works for several years as his selling point, has actually been going downhill in recent years.At present, even the website where he made his debut, the head of Huadan, has someone else.

Zheng Fangcheng didn't care whether she answered or not, and continued: "Then what do you think, in the past few years, what is the level of the leading authors who replaced this one under the name of Kuaishu Group?" Then he paused , asked, "You know who I'm talking about, right?"

Of course Bai Miao knew who it was.Zheng Fangcheng is talking about the authors who have successively occupied the top of various lists after Kuaishu Group integrated the major websites.

However, these authors, compared with those red cards in the early years, are much stronger in writing and plot, and even take a different route.Bai Shuang has almost insulated from them, even though they are still following the Su Shuang route, but these few are more biased towards character creation, and they tend to promote goodness, passion, friendship and great love, and the logic and novelty of the whole story are also enhanced. a lot.

Even the villains began to be so vivid that they had their own appearance and demeanor.

Bai Miao said: "...Of course I know. They are all my male gods."

Zheng Fangcheng said: "Actually, that person not only said that 'the novice wins the world', he also said that it doesn't matter if the veterans don't read it slowly, anyway, there will always be new people stepping into this field every year, and there will always be newcomers. Bai started to get in touch with online literature, and I just need to pay close attention to this part of the readers. But in fact, there is a misunderstanding here: what he narrated was in the period when the Internet literature was just emerging. 'When the article can be read, make an assumption. You said that if you put the works of these people and that work together, whose story would readers prefer to read?"

...Of course it is the work of several male gods now.Bai Miao knew it almost without thinking.The levels are too different.

Zheng Fangcheng said: "That person's fame is both inevitable and accidental. We have an old saying, 'there is no hero in the age, so that Zhuzi becomes famous'. Of course, I think his hard work is worthy of recognition, but Bai Miao, he will not Become a benchmark in the online literature industry. After a few years, when people discuss this person, they will only say: 'Has this guy been popular before?' Even if they read his works, they will not understand why he was so popular."

"These novels are too." He leaned back in his chair, looked at the romantic red text that appeared on the web page on the screen, and said, "I don't recommend making these novels into game mods. The price/performance ratio is too low, and it will take a few years at most They will all be eliminated, and no one will remember what they wrote."

Lin Shu thought for a while and said, "But if you can be popular, there must be some advantages."

Then after a while, Bai Miao said: "Let me tell you—the best part of this kind of article is the rhythm control. As for the character design and bloody plot, although Manager Zheng may think it is too useless, many people I really like this kind of rottenness. President-type male protagonist, Cinderella heroine, this is basically the most classic setting. You say this setting is rotten, I admit it. You say this setting will be outdated, I Strongly disagree. This setting has been a classic for thousands of years, and I believe it will continue to be a classic in the future. Even if the current mode is not popular in a few years, the core setting will not change. At most, change the mode and start again. Come again."

Zheng Fangcheng listened, thought for a while, and said: "If it's just the core, it will not be outdated. I agree with that. But the core doesn't have to follow their routine. We can design and write the plot by ourselves. It can be written more smoothly and reasonably while maintaining the original coolness, and the content can also be expanded to make it more healthy and emotionally integrated, so there is no need to buy some shoddy and defective products.”

After the entire meeting room was silent for a few seconds, Bai Miao suddenly said: "This idea is good, why didn't I think of it. The routines of the president's article are quite limited, we can completely write the character design by ourselves, save money and make it more detailed A little. And you can also stuff all kinds of favorite plots into it... Oh, the more I think about it, the more I think this idea is good!"

Her reaction completely exceeded the expectations of the other two, which made Lin Shu wonder whether this guy was actually speaking for the works of the Empress and Lvyi, or was actually hurting them.

Bai Miao thought about it for a while, and suddenly said: "How about the boss, how about this? Let's classify several classic character designs, and then make them into personality templates. At that time, users can load the templates, choose character designs, and create personality templates. The role of the target of the attack. At that time, they have to name the target of the attack as the fish pond master or the fourth master, whatever they want. Anyway, if you want the personality of the president, you have the personality of the president, and if you want the personality of a loyal dog, you can choose the personality of a loyal dog. Choose—do you think this is good?"

After hearing this, Lin Shu felt that the idea was very good, but hesitated and said, "But what if the plot is not well written?"

Bai Miao immediately waved her hand and said, "It's okay. It's too bad to be able to write tens of thousands of characters in one day. Isn't the quality of the plot bad? I used to work as an intermediary for novel cover painting, and I am very familiar with these websites. Not only are they familiar with drawing, but they are also familiar with writers. When they write novels, they all have a standard template, and all kinds of plots can be arranged step by step... I will use it for your reference later. Later, hire a few professionals with better writing skills Writers, let them spend more time thinking about it, it is definitely better than most buyouts."

Lin Shu: "..."

Zheng Fangcheng: "..."

Always feel corrupted by someone.

However, there was no other better way, so Lin Shu put this arrangement into the schedule and communicated with Du Sitong.

Even so, in the end they still bought the copyrights of several novels from Di Nu and Lu Yi respectively.These novels are not the most popular works on the two sites, it can only be said that the popularity is not weak.The quotations for the two stations of popular works were too high, and Lin Shu excluded them from consideration with just a glance.

Anyway, many plots of other works are not much different, just rearrange and reorganize and refine.

The last trouble is Jingshui College.Among the three websites of Emperor Girl, Lvyi, and Jingshui, Jingshui should be regarded as the leading star of Kuaishu Group, and it is higher than the other two sites in terms of resources, treatment, and evaluation.

Although the mainstream works and types of readers are not much different from the previous two, but different from the previous two, she still has many excellent works with novel content, wonderful stories and outstanding writing skills.

Therefore, the list of books that Du Sitong handed over to ask for a quotation was also very long.

As a result, when the price list was returned, Lin Shu and Du Sitong saw the long string of zeros behind each title on it, and they were both silent for a while.

Regardless of the quality of the above works, the price of each work is a sky-high price that far exceeds the original value of the work.

Kuaishu Group is rich and powerful, and Jingshui Academy is also full of confidence, so their quotation is very high, which is completely beyond the range of Lin Shu.

Lin Shu felt very heartbroken.

The library of Jingshui Academy has a great feature, that is, the polarization of the works is extremely serious, the top batch is extremely outstanding, while most of the rest are lost to everyone.

The person in charge of Jingshui obviously understands this matter very well, so the quotations for the book list are also extremely accurate. The quotations for the best batch of works are all sky-high prices.For the rest of the works, the price is much more mediocre.

However, even if it is a lower price, it is still more than a fraction higher than similar works of Di Nu and Lu Yi.Du Sitong negotiated with the other party several times, but all failed.

Although she tried her best to express to the person in charge of Jingshui her willingness to cooperate to achieve a win-win situation, but the other party adhered to the usual style of commercial websites based on interests and friendship, and did not accept Du Sitong's approach.

Several times of negotiations were deadlocked, and then Du Sitong got a reply from Jinjiang Original.

The other party's quotation is much more reasonable than Jingshui.Although the quotations of some popular works are still higher than the budget of future games, at least the other party did not really quote according to the price of the mobile game adaptation rights, but only added some restrictions on the use of the contract.

As expected, Du Sitong did what she promised before. She had a lot of fun choosing character designs or works whose prices were lower than her pre-set limit, or choosing character designs or choosing the full text.As for the works with a relatively subtle price range, she also selected a few items with relatively high cost performance as appropriate.

In addition, she made up her mind and selected two works whose quotations exceeded the upper limit, namely "Flowers on Ink" and "Cheng Wen Ji".These two articles are relatively distinctive works. The former was once popular, extremely popular, and the entry point is also very novel.The latter has a very good world view setting, and has a very high conception, and it also alludes to reality. It is an extremely provocative work on a big scene.

There is also a novel, although Du Sitong himself likes it very much, but the official quotation is too high, and the novel itself is the most popular work on the website at a certain period, so the price can't be negotiated, so Du Sitong can only give up with regret.

Because of Jinjiang's reply this time, the negotiation between Du Sitong and Jingshui became less urgent.Around the end of June, Lin Shu, who was in Yanjing, authorized Liang Yuehua as a representative to sign the contract at the Jinjiang headquarters.

During this period of time, regardless of the younger generations of the Liang family, the elders had already known what Lin Shu had done from Liang Yuehua.At first they thought Liang Yuehua was joking, but after finding out that the whole thing was true, Lin Shu's uncle almost got involved in Future Games.

In fact, he may not just want to occupy Lin Shu's property. After all, for the Liang family, the so-called "career" between Lin Shu and Ju Mingfeng at this time can actually be regarded as a trivial matter at best.He just felt that Lin Shu was too young, and that he might not know how to run the company, so he wanted to intervene in future games, and use his ability to help Lin Shu seize the opportunity and stabilize the current development.

But Lin Shu didn't appreciate it, and the two sides almost broke up due to disagreement.In the process, Lin Shu was helpless, and even took advantage of the emotional advantages of a child who cried, made trouble, and hanged himself, which finally made his uncle helpless and embarrassed.In the end, Liang Yuehua came out to smooth things over, asking Lin Shu to ask his uncle more about what he didn't understand, and smilingly asking his brother to teach his son more, and also helping Lin Shu's company to make contacts, so that the whole matter was blurred. .

However, being a child has such advantages, even if you had a hard time the night before, but being an elder can't and can't care about you.There are solutions that are absolutely impossible to adopt as adults, but are stress-free to use at this time.

At the same time as purchasing the copyright, Future Games also started the second recruitment.This time the recruitment is mainly for technical customer service and copywriting.Technical customer service is recruited from some information technology majors. Although he is currently working as technical customer service, after working for a period of time, Lin Shu plans to transfer them to other positions or departments at an appropriate time.The copywriting was poached by Bai Miao one by one.

There are four copywriters in the first batch of recruitment, and there are also four technical customer service personnel.Most of the former are female writers who are originally skilled in business, while the latter are rookie siege lions who have just entered the industry.

Then comes the busy work.The current workflow in the future technology company is as follows: Lin Shu plans the process of launching modules every week, Du Sitong cooperates to arrange the story modules to be adapted and launched every week, and then assigns the specific work to several copywriters.The copywriting girls are responsible for correcting, embellishing and sorting out the plot, and input the lines, options and trigger conditions into the engine program one by one according to the module creation flow chart designed by Jinghe.During this process, Bai Miao contacted the artist, and ordered the artist to set up the draft and background image.After the entire module is completed, the technical customer service will conduct tests and bug checks when there is no customer service call, and finally upload it to the platform.

All work is proceeding in an orderly manner.

Until this day, Du Sitong suddenly received a phone call. The Jinjiang official stated that the copyright fee of the work that could not be negotiated in any case before. The author himself expressed his intention to authorize the adaptation and hoped to conduct another tripartite negotiation.

After hearing this, Du Sitong quickly negotiated with the other party and set an appointment time.So not long after, Du Sitong entered a conference call room with Luo Ying and the original author.

The title of this novel that Du Sitong likes very much is called "Misty Rain and Dark Thousands of Families". It is a very distinctive ancient time-traveling novel in both the characters and the main line.There are not too many girls who write about this kind of subject matter, and naturally there are not too many well-written ones, but the author of this novel, Yu Yin, has always played very well on this kind of subject matter. The first "Misty Rain and Darkness of Thousands of Families" is a top-notch existence among many works. During the serialization period, it has always been in the limelight on the website, and the portrayal of the times and the sketches of the characters are very vivid.

But different from the clean and crisp writing style, the author's personality is very soft and cute.After introducing each other at the beginning, the female voice said softly and shyly: "I have played your game before, and it is very, very fun. When I played it, I felt that your system is especially suitable for making games like my "Misty Rain" game."

Du Sitong immediately replied: "I think so too. To be honest, every time I play "Three Kingdoms", I feel that if this system is used to make "Misty Rain", it will definitely be very interesting. Because many settings in it are different. It is especially suitable for the plot of "Misty Rain", such as the skill 'Strong Argument', which is especially used as the heroine's main attack skill."

Yuyin said: "That's true."

It's much easier to open the topic.Then the two parties entered into a state of communication in a harmonious and friendly manner.

Du Sitong asked: "So Yuyin, you intend to authorize the production of stand-alone games, right? But the licensing fee you proposed is really a bit..."

But Ting Yuyin said: "I choose the second authorization method, but I hope to change to a commercial fee-sharing model."

Du Sitong was taken aback for a moment, and then realized that what she was talking about was the free authorization provided to Jinjiang at the beginning, the non-commercial use of fan nature authorization model.

But wanting to drink said that it would be changed to a fee-sharing model, Du Sitong asked: "The fee-sharing model means that the copyright royalties should be paid according to the share model after the fee is charged?"

Yuyin said: "It probably means this. In fact, it is like the way of sharing the fees of self-uploaded games on your website. The sharing should be divided according to the normal original game ratio... I remember it is the same as Jinjiang, it is also 40% Right? But I have to give the game a trial run before putting it on the shelves. If I think the quality is not enough, I have the right to ask for changes. In addition, I have some ideas about the specific details of the game, and I hope that you can make changes during the production process. Do what you can."

After hearing this, Du Sitong quickly understood the meaning of wanting to drink.She said: "We naturally have our own considerations on how to make the game. Of course, as a production company, we definitely hope to make the game as good as possible. If you have any ideas, you can bring them up at that time, and we will use them as a reference. , but it is impossible to do it well. After all, we are professional game producers, and we will consider which settings can be achieved, and which settings are not suitable for adding... If it is forcibly interfered, it is very likely In the end, you will make a four-faced image, which is not good for you or me."

After listening patiently, Yuyin said: "Well, I won't make a request that is very difficult to meet. If it is an unrealizable setting, you can refuse it at that time. We can write this article into the contract. But other than that In addition, there are some ideas, I hope you have listened to my ideas before discussing whether they can be realized, can you?"

Du Sitong thought for a while, smiled slightly, and said, "Of course it is possible." Then she said, "However, if we want to share the original games with players on the platform, our production costs must be charged separately—— Most of the original games uploaded on the platform are self-produced by players, but if we want to make "Misty Rain", how do we calculate the production cost?"

Speaking of this, it was Luo Ying's turn to play.She said: "Regarding this point, Yuyin himself is a popular author, and "Misty Rain" is also a popular work. If her work is released in future games, the popularity that comes with it..."

Du Sitong said: "There are only so many readers in Jinjiang, and we have bought the rights to adapt so many works or character designs. Among them, there must be a lot of readers who overlap with "Misty Rain"..."

The two argued for a long time, each fighting for their own interests on behalf of the company, and finally compromised with each other, took a step back, and established the details of the entire contract.

Du Sitong tapped on his shoulder, feeling stiff all over.Then she suddenly realized that after arguing with Luo Ying for so long, she didn't feel stage fright or feel embarrassed during the process.

She suddenly laughed - this can be regarded as being tempered.In the past few months, Du Sitong has only been working for a short time, but he has been honed to do many things that he would never be able to do before.Lin Shu pushed her into this position. She didn't think she could do well at first, but in fact, maybe it was her butt that determined her head, or maybe it was her position that made her feel embarrassed to continue to be shy. After a while, Du Sitong found that he had changed.

She thought: It's incredible.