Chapter 8

After selling 150000 copies, William did not produce any more game discs. Now he knows that the price of 6 pounds is cheaper, and many guys in the school have sold more than 10 pounds each, though not much, but not little.

William will lose hundreds of thousands of pounds, but he can't help it. Now his most important thing is to make the game famous. If he sells more than 10 pounds, he can sell 50000 now. Thank God.

The sales volume of games in London is booming, and the sales volume and praise make EA, Ubisoft, these big game companies, game agents and supermarkets, even Blackstar, which specializes in DVD and computer games in the United States, come here. The hundreds of thousands of pounds less earned these days are regarded as the salaries of the hundreds of alumni who sell games to London University, and the advertising expenses to attract these big companies.

A few days ago, William received a consultation from these companies, saying that he wanted to talk about agency or buy the game. Then he went to the top law firms in London.

Anthony William, senior partner of yuelida law firm, costs 1000 an hour to hire this guy, and this kind of negotiation will not be completed in a few days or ten days.

Ma Dan, I'll have to pay Anthony tens of thousands of pounds. Fortunately, William and yuelida law firm signed an hourly fee contract. If they share the contract, they don't know how much they will pay yuelida law firm.

William made a reservation for a conference room at the Hilton Hotel in London. At 8 a.m., he met Anthony of yuelida law firm on time.

After the meeting, William shakes hands with Anthony and asks with a smile, "good morning, Mr. Anthony, is it eight o'clock to start billing now?"

Anthony knows that William is joking: "good morning, Mr. Devonshire, if you think it will make you happy to start billing in ten minutes, we'll start billing at eight ten, I don't mind.".

"Ha ha, Anthony, you're humorous. I like you. OK, let's get to the point. I need you to help me solve all the legal problems. Don't worry about it"

"of course, no problem. Mr. Devonshire, that's what we do. I promise that the contract handled by our law firm will not have any problems. This is our confidence and commitment of yueshida, ”Anthony said to William.

William nodded and agreed, which is the reason why he asked yueshida's lawyer, "OK, I still trust you yueshida very much. As the three largest law firms in England, your strength and reputation need not be questioned, so Anthony, let's start. Today should be very busy."

William and Anthony's four team members shake hands to say hello. William doesn't think it's expensive to have the best lawyer and his team in London for 1000 pounds an hour. If there is a problem because the lawyer is not professional enough, William has no chance to cry.

Of course, only barristers can make a lot of money as lawyers, and they only pay thousands of pounds a month.

At 9 o'clock sharp, EA, Ubisoft, Blackstar, Carrefour and other big companies and some other game companies arrived on time.

After everyone has found a good position, William is not polite. Everything depends on the quality and sales of the game, as well as the benefits. No matter how good the others are, these game companies and agents will not be interested.

William took the microphone to the platform of the conference room and said, "welcome, gentlemen. My name is William Devonshire. I'm the creator, designer and owner of the game of plants vs zombies. Your time is precious. I won't waste your time. Many people and companies have come to me these days, which let me know that you are either here to buy out the copyright of the game, If you want to represent the sales rights of the game, I'm right "

William said that the company's negotiators all nodded and didn't say much. These days, all the companies who are sitting here have sent people to find William, but William hasn't revealed anything. Although they are optimistic about the game, they don't want to be treated as a big injustice by William. First listen to what William wants to say.

William then said: "well, gentlemen, let me first say the bottom line that I can accept. If there is too much difference between me and you, if you are dissatisfied, please be quiet and listen to me."

everyone looked at each other. All of you were competitors. The game was famous only a few days ago. The companies that can come to this conference are very optimistic about plants vs zombies Now no one wants to be such an outsider, and William's request is not too much, so they all nodded again.

William was happy and thought, "it seems that these guys are very optimistic about Plants vs. Zombies, especially those game agents. They don't do games, they only act as agents. When they encounter good games, of course they don't want to let go."

Seeing that no one objected, William nodded and said, "thank you. Let's talk about the agency first. I can accept that the agency price is 8 pounds per game disc. 8 pounds is almost 13 dollars. I think it's no problem for plants and zombies to sell for 20 dollars in the United States. We all know that the price of EPS games in the late 1980s will be 25 dollars. You are all experts in the game industry If you know what I said is right and if the price of 8 is reasonable, can you accept 8? If you can, let's talk about it.

EA and Ubisoft didn't think about the agency, but they were afraid that the remaining companies would stir up the agency price. When William stopped selling the game, they would come in vain. They nodded and said, "8 pounds is acceptable."The agents think about it. They all specialize in game agents. As William said, the fire game is no less than $20 in the United States. However, after seeing the game company's promise, they secretly resent that "these soulless guys should go to hell. Their company's games are so expensive, and now they are competing with us for agents."

the people of Blackstar and Carrefour also nodded to accept it The price is too high.

"Very good. If you can accept the price of 8 pounds, then we have the conditions to go on. I have the information about 150000 game discs sold in London a month, so I won't send it to you. You must know that. This is also the reason why we can all sit together. You may not know the second one, but I think you should know it 。”

William stopped to look at the person in charge of the family, he nodded with a smile, because it has something to do with their family.

20 days ago, I signed a license contract with Carrefour for T-shirts, hats and other daily necessities. Now I want to sign it early, but it doesn't matter. I still want to thank Carrefour. This contract is authorized to Carrefour in five counties around London for the production license of cartoon images of plants and zombies. In the 15 days since the sale, plants and zombies have been sold in 120 counties around London The sales data of jiarefu is 430000 pieces, with an average of 3600 pieces sold in 15 days and 240 pieces sold every day. The turnover is 6.45 million pounds, with an average of 15 pounds per piece.

When I heard William's data, it was the first time that other people in the conference room knew about it, except for those at home.

Hearing that the five counties around London sold for 6.45 million pounds in 15 days, these guys would be excited if the whole world could sell for how much after the game fire.

Ma Dan, plants and zombies are the major players in making money. Europe and the United States are very strict in copyright investigation. This kind of lawsuit with clear copyright is a big one.

So jiarefu is very happy now. They come here just because they want to sell the game peripherals. However, after today's big sale of the game peripherals, jiarefu just wants to find a bargain.

William knows that tomorrow will be more than the companies here today.

After everyone calmed down, William said, "well, if any of you want the full copyright of plants vs zombies, what price should I offer? I don't think it's much to sell 1 million copies of the game in the continental bar. Even I don't think it's difficult to sell more than 3 million copies a few years later."

The people in the agency companies are looking ugly now. They don't have many estimates in mind. Some of them expect more than that, but there are only a few hundred thousand more.

It's only 2000 now. Although there are many good games, there isn't a game like plants vs zombies yet. No matter the elderly, children or adults will be interested in this game. You know, over 25 million zombies were downloaded in the 13 years of plant Wars

William went on to say, "the United States of America, selling 2 million will not be a problem, other countries can add up to about 2 million, gentlemen, please think about a game that can sell more than 7 million and how much wealth it can create for you with the surrounding game"

"fuck, is to create wealth for you ”。 The crowd cursed.