Looking at the game discs in the old man's black clothes, the packaging on the outside is extremely crude. In addition, "Diablo" is currently out of stock. If you want to buy it, you have to pay more. The few people in front of you are selling it for only fifty dollars.

The knife can't beat the official selling price. Cameron knows that these game discs are basically pirated copies.

Cameron didn't expect that piracy would appear so quickly, and it was enough to think about how popular this game is now, and that it would allow people from these gangs to stop stealing or sell contraband, and instead sell more

Game discs, you can imagine how much profit there is!

In fact, as Cameron expected, these gangs in Chicago, Los Angeles, and New York are no longer fighting and killing, but are busy making money, a pirated Diablo disc, because they don't need it

There is no tax, no fees for channel dealers, no advertising fees, etc. There is only one cost price, which is ten dollars at most. If it is mass-produced, the price will be even lower. If it is sold, it will be doubled five or six times!

And this is much safer than selling contraband goods. If you are caught, you will be released after just a few hours, so you will be directly targeted by those gangs. As long as you get pirated goods

Diablo discs can be resold for tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of dollars. Isn’t this more profitable than risking getting shot by selling those gadgets?

Even local pirate dealers in America have begun to join forces with overseas pirate dealers. It is quite similar to the image of American gangs joining forces with overseas liquor dealers during the Prohibition period in the 1920s and 1930s...

"I don't need it, I've already bought it!" Cameron said, waving his hands towards the three old black men in front of him.

After hearing what Cameron said, the three gangsters still refused to give up and turned to Cameron and said, "How about selling the disc in your hand? We'll take it forty dollars!"

Cameron didn't know what to say for a moment. After playing the game disc for more than a month, he could still sell it for forty dollars, which was equivalent to more than a month of free sex.

However, Cameron has no intention of selling the disc. He feels that he will rely on Diablo for the rest of this year. It is easy to sell it, but not so easy to buy it back.

Seeing Cameron's refusal, the three gangsters left the game with unsatisfied intentions and went to the long queue in front of the game store to find their next target.

"Today, the Los Angeles Police Department, with the cooperation of relevant parties, inspected a batch of nearly 90,000 game discs worth more than 5 million US dollars at a warehouse on Route 5 in Los Angeles. This is what the Los Angeles Police Department has captured in recent years.

The largest number of pirated game discs!”

In Song Yang's villa in San Jose, a TV station with a panda logo was broadcasting a news item.

This TV was jointly developed by Panda TV invested by Song Yang and Bell Labs. Its latest research and development is an LCD digital TV. It is still in the research and development stage and has not been mass-produced. It was delivered to San Jose from Yanjing.

, it was also Panda TV that told Song Yang, the financial backer, that Panda TV did not do foreign work, and expected Song Yang to invest more dollars in Panda TV.

There are many people sitting in the living room of the villa. Song Yang, Gallo, Gleick, Evan Spiegel, Ken Williams, the Blizzard trio, etc. are all there. Watching the news on the TV station, in the living room

There were a lot of angry curses.

And when he heard that these pirated copies were produced by local pirates in America, they specially obtained the goods from overseas Bulgarian pirates and then transported them to America for sale. Seeing this news, Song Yang felt helpless. These people

For the sake of beauty, I can do any kind of hard work. If I have the skills, why not resell something like that? I have to go to great lengths to resell pirated game discs.

"These damn vampires!"

Ken Williams, who was holding a glass of red wine, couldn't help but cursed angrily when he saw this news. Before the sale started, Ken Williams was worried that he wouldn't be able to sell it, but now it's not enough.

"Xuelesan has contacted several other disc manufacturers to produce Diablo discs for Xueleshan. By the end of this month, we will be able to increase supply capacity. In addition, Xueleshan has also obtained police departments from Los Angeles, New York, Seattle and other places.

Report and request a thorough investigation of local pirated discs!"

Ken Williams said helplessly that no matter how fast it is, the production capacity will not be able to keep up until the end of the month, and there may be a vacuum period of more than half a month. When he thinks that millions of less discs may be sold, Ken Williams

Williams felt his heart twitch with pain.

Gallo also said from the side, "The bounty hunters from Blackwater are also catching those underground rats, but there are too many of them!"

I'm afraid the bounty hunters at Blackwater would not have thought that one day they would not arrest those criminals, but instead arrest a group of people selling pirated copies.

Song Yang raised his wine glass and gestured to the Blizzard trio, Ken Williams and others, and then everyone raised their wine glasses together.

"The promotion of Diablo cannot be stopped, especially in overseas markets. The promotion of Diablo and the promotion of Snow Mountain Online must continue and the promotion cycle will be extended!"

Song Yang said to Ken Williams that America's local publicity has basically reached its end because there are too many entertainment activities. Players who should know about this game are basically bombarded by saturated publicity, and the rest

Those who get it are basically people who don’t have much interest in games.

But the overseas market is different. There are more than 100 countries and regions, enough for Diablo to slowly penetrate into various regions, from big cities to small cities, and then from small cities to county towns, etc., and even a Hollywood movie may be released in

It would be several years before the tapes would be available to users in other regions, and the same would be true for game discs.

"The global sales of Diablo this year are expected to reach 8 million units. Wall Street analysts have predicted global sales of 150,000 units for "Diablo" in two years!

Xueleshan has reached a long-term sales agreement with agents and distributors. In the next few years, game agents around the world will continue to sell Diablo!"

Ken Williams said with a smile on his face. Those Wall Street institutions were notorious chameleons. They had previously looked at "Diablo" coldly, thinking that it might be a failure, but the hot sales made it so.

Wall Street is highly touting this game, and its sales target is to continue to increase. It is more confident than Snow Mountain.

Game agents all over the world who represent "Diablo" are willing to sell it for a long time to bring in enough revenue. After all, it is not easy for them to encounter a popular game.

Like Hollywood movies, the sales cycle of games can also be very long. Just like those big-budget Hollywood bad movies, they cannot make back their money when they are released and can only be made into video tapes for sale. After a few years or even ten years, the publisher can actually

Get your money back.

The emergence of Internet videos has given even those bad movies the value of filling up the copyright library, and decades-old movies can be resold again.

Of course, for bad movies, it may be a return on investment, but for big-selling movies and games, the long-term return from release may exceed the income brought by the initial release, not to mention the return.

Develop peripherals, etc.

For example, Sanrio’s Hello Kitty, which was born in 1974, Winnie the Pooh that appeared in the 1920s and 1930s, etc., have made more than tens of billions of dollars through versions and peripherals over the years!

Diablo's IP certainly doesn't have that much influence, but the leeks that need to be harvested must still be harvested.

"Diablo's game peripherals, figures, clothing, film and television IP, etc., must also be put on the agenda and launched as soon as possible. Some collector's edition cards and the like can be activated to stimulate sales. Western Pictures can provide films and television for Xueleshan

Please support me!" Song Yang said to Ken Williams.

The good news will not go to outsiders. After Diablo's reputation has fermented, it can be adapted into comics, animations, TV series, movies, etc., which can continue to increase its popularity and sales, and clothing licensing and the like can be left to the Rick Group.

It can't be wasted anyway.

In addition, game peripherals and the like are also great tools for collecting money. The launch of collectible cards, out-of-print figures, commemorative editions and the like can be used to cut a new crop of leeks, and in a few years, they will be fried again and a remake will be released.

Yes, we can cut another crop.

A famous IP can be harvested over and over again. It has been decades since "Titanic" was released, but it has been re-released and re-released to collect box office revenue?

Ken Williams drank down the drink in his hand in one gulp. Now he felt like an old man going crazy. He was originally ready to retire, but now he was ready to do something big.

"I understand that Xueleshan will establish its own copyright development department as soon as possible to develop and adapt its game IPs!"

"In addition," Ken Williams said with a smile on his face, "I am planning to nominate Diablo for the first TGA Global Game Awards that will be held at the end of this year!"

After hearing what Ken Williams said, there was a burst of laughter in the villa. Song Yang couldn't help but look at Ken Williams, feeling that he was really thick-skinned now.

The TGA Game Awards is originally organized by Snow Mountain. Diablo was developed by Blizzard, a subsidiary of Snow Mountain. If you participate in TGA and don't win the prize but get soft, you won't be able to afford the beauty you spent.

"Blizzard Studio must also put the development of Diablo 2 on the agenda as soon as possible. Diablo will become Blizzard's second series of games after "Warcraft". In addition..."

Song Yang looked at the Blizzard trio of Mike Mowaimi, Alan Adham, and Frank Pierce, who were already frowning, and said, "The Battle.net platform of Snow Mountain Online can be further developed, and Blizzard can develop a real
Chapter completed!