My science and technology museum

Domestic game engines have suddenly emerged and surpassed well-known overseas game engine development companies in one fell swoop.

What everyone wants to see is for domestic games to go global and make overseas game players pay for them, instead of the current situation where the PC game market is almost entirely occupied by overseas games.

But in this rare opportunity, game companies such as Penguin One came to do this, which is simply stimulating the public's nerves.

how?

The money from co-authorship can only be earned by you.

Others must use love to generate electricity, right? It's not typical that only state officials are allowed to set fires, but ordinary people are not allowed to light lamps.

Faced with this situation, there is no reason not to end up complaining.

The people who are most angry about this are the small domestic studios established because of their love for games.

In the past, due to the problem of game production funds, they could only choose low-cost games. Their passion and talents could not be put to use, and they were suppressed by big companies at every turn.

The sudden appearance of the Phantom Star Engine undoubtedly allowed them to see the light of day.

Not only can it be used to develop high-quality games, but the main production costs can also be significantly reduced.

Compared to these companies, which only need to pay 20% of game sales as royalties, it is nothing to mention to them.

Overall, the company's profits are definitely rising in a straight line.

More importantly, they can compete head-on with these well-known domestic game companies.

But now these game companies are charging an additional 5% service fee for technology in the future, which is a loss to their interests.

So they were so angry that they didn't care about offending anyone. Some game studios even directly banned their official accounts to express their dissatisfaction, which caused a wave of denunciation of domestic game companies on the entire Internet.

"Dr. Ma, please be so noble as to stop doing these dirty tricks and leave some food for those of us at the bottom!"

"I really can't understand why it has become like this when it was clearly a matter of win-win cooperation."

"Don't guess what the capitalists are thinking. You won't be able to figure it out even if you keep guessing."

"Future technology will be tough, so we can't let them get used to it."

"We think it's just a matter of copyright fees, but you have to know that it will be related to tens of billions of interests in the future. Who doesn't want to earn more."

"This is the first time I saw a penguin kicking on an iron plate. I don't know why but I suddenly felt very happy."

"Are these major manufacturers really not prepared to use the Magic Star engine? I am still waiting for the release of domestic games that are not inferior to top foreign games. Isn't it just like this?"

"Everyone should just follow anime. Isn't it better than games?"

"I wonder what these companies would feel like knowing that Future Technology charges an additional five percent service fee. I'm just simply curious?"

…

In response to the discussions on the Internet, Xu Lei also asked Xingtong to summarize and organize them to facilitate his control of the situation.

After confirming that the wind direction was on my side, I felt completely relieved.

However, after seeing that domestic small and medium-sized game studios suffered unreasonable disasters due to Penguin.com and their actions, after careful consideration, we decided to set a threshold for an additional 5% service fee.

That is, this service fee will only be charged after the cumulative sales of the game exceed 10 million.

Although the number of employees in major small and medium-sized studios is small, it is still considerable when looking at the country. Supporting them can promote the increase in the number of users of the Fantasy Star Engine.

But as the saying goes, some people are happy and some are worried.

After the latest announcement of Future Technology was released, it can be said that companies such as NetOne, Perfect Juren and others who joined the initiative were very angry.

Because looking at it this way, the additional five percent service fee is obviously targeting them.

For this reason, temporary core meetings of the company were held to discuss the next steps.

Penguin, on the other hand, ignored the online discussions and did not make any official response. It felt like the mountain was collapsing and they remained calm.

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"Director Ma, after we released the proposal, Future Technology immediately announced a 5% increase in service fees. This is obviously telling us that it is impossible for them to reduce the copyright fee."

"Now if we want to use the Fantasy Star engine to develop games, I'm afraid we have to pay 25% of the game sales."

"In addition, there is a lot of criticism against us online, and some game studios have even threatened the public to boycott our games. The situation is not optimistic!"

Shenzhen.

Penguin headquarters building.

Zhang Tiandong, standing in the chairman's office, did not hide the anxious look on his face at this moment.

After reporting the details to Ma Teng in concise language, he waited uneasily, hoping that Ma Teng could make a decision as soon as possible.

Otherwise, if this continues, even Penguin with a big family and business may not be able to sustain it.

After all, there are no absolute friends in the mall, only real interests.

Nowadays, well-known domestic game companies such as Yimiyou and Perfect Juren are in the same camp as Penguin. If they choose to abandon the dark side and turn to the bright side, they will accept 20% of the copyright fee and 5% of the service fee to use Fantasy If Star Engine develops games, I’m afraid that Penguin Games’ domestic market share will soon be seized.

By then, even if he is still the person in charge of the game business, what's the point?

After all, Ma Teng had experienced strong winds and waves. After seeing the eager look on Zhang Tiandong's face, he still said calmly and calmly: "Keep your heart in your stomach, the situation is not that bad right now."

Hearing the sound, Zhang Tiandong looked a little surprised.

Just as he was about to ask in detail, Ma Teng's voice came again.

"This Xu Lei is indeed tough enough. He didn't give us any room for maneuver and directly expressed his attitude by increasing the service fee. However, he still made a mistake."

"mistake?"

"What kind of mistake was it?" Zhang Tiandong couldn't help but ask.

Faced with this question, Ma Teng did not answer it directly this time. Instead, he took the initiative to ask a question.

"Let me ask you, can those low-level game studios in China really develop popular games even if they use the Magic Star engine?"

Although Zhang Tiandong didn't know why Ma Teng suddenly asked this, as a subordinate, he answered truthfully from his professional perspective.

“Using the Fantasy Star engine to develop games, although the production cost is greatly reduced, and the game has top-notch picture quality and smoothness, the success of a game still depends on many factors such as plot setting, marketing, etc., many of which are developed by small studios. Not available.”

"You're right."

Ma Teng cast an approving look at Zhang Tiandong and continued: "So it is very difficult for Future Technology to create phenomenal games through small domestic game studios. In the end, they still have to rely on us to earn high royalties. "

"Tell Wangyi Miyou Juren and other companies that have joined the proposal that the maximum copyright fee that Penguin Games can accept is 10%."