The meal lasted for a long time, and the two of them ate and drank while chatting. From what Jin Yue saw and heard at school here, to the special measures during the SARS period in China, to the physical condition of Uncle Jin and grandma, they chatted for four hours before leaving the restaurant. The plate was so clean except for the animal shells, and Hong Tao was given all of them.

The two of them did not go back to the hotel directly, but walked around the park on the coast, mainly to digest food. They ate a little too much, not only Hong Tao, but also Jin Yue. In addition to half a snow crab and a few green mouths, she almost stuffed her own portion of food into her stomach, and after that, she also made a small piece of crab meat cake.

Although Jin Yue has been here for more than four years, she is not very familiar with this city. Ms. Feng’s tutoring is quite strict. The two girls have to go home before 10 o’clock in the evening. Usually, the whole family goes out for a trip together when they have time. It has basically never happened to date the boy without the parents’ consent, and it is even more impossible not to go home and spend the night.

Now Hong Tao knows who the tall male classmate is. His surname is Huang and his name is Huang Yi. He is considered to be the child of Ms. Feng’s friend. His parents are both Asian, but not all Chinese, and they are half Japanese.

His family also lives in Houwan District and studies in the School of Architecture. He is a doctoral student. The architecture firm that Cindy said was also opened with him. The two of them invested half of the money, so Jin Yue was coaxed.

Hong Tao didn't ask much about Huang Yi's affairs, but it was over. There was no need to figure out everything. That would inevitably make Jin Yue very embarrassed and she couldn't feel much better. What was she trying to do?

Hong Tao only lived in Boston and Jin Yue for a day and a half, and accompanied her to Harvard and MIT's campus. Before she could have sex, she had to go home.

Jin Yue is now on summer vacation and is taking two summer courses. It doesn’t matter if she stops for a few days. But Hong Tao failed because Blizzard’s invitation to the second round of negotiations came. Diane was gathering a lawyer team from Hong Kong and arrived at Marshall Manor three days later.

So Hong Tao had to go back, so he couldn't let so many people wait for him to accompany his fiancée to the streets. Now he doesn't have this ability.

As usual, Hong Tao did not let Jin Yue send him off. He took the Red-eyed flight overnight and rushed back to San Diego. When he left, he left more than 2,000 US dollars for Jin Yue, which was all the cash he had on him.

The negotiations looked formal than last time. The negotiation location also changed to a larger conference room, with nearly twenty people sitting there. There were six teams Diane alone, both at home and abroad. They were all forty years old, and they were not good at looking at them.

The meeting was still hosted by Pierce and Lambberts, but they didn't talk like they did last time and went straight to the topic.

After they finished researching Hong Tao's agency operation planning case, they agreed in principle that Mantis Shrimp Company would represent the operation rights of World of Warcraft in mainland China. There was no big objection to the details of operation, promotion, and approval.

The current questions are how much agency fees are, how to divide the operational share, how to sell peripheral products, how to set up servers, and the rights, responsibilities and obligations of both parties.

In his previous life, the contract price of Jiucheng's agent World of Warcraft was about 75 million US dollars, of which the contract fee was 3 million, the four-year copyright fee was 50 million, the initial equipment investment was nearly 7 million, and the advertising and promotion cost was over 10 million.

In addition to these, during the period when Jiucheng Company operated World of Warcraft, he had to pay one-quarter of the share fee to Blizzard Company without selling a single card. This is the big deal.

Since he roughly knows Blizzard's bottom line, Hong Tao has to find a way to save some money and get more benefits. The signing fee is first agreed to one million, and the copyright fee has increased from 12.5 million yuan per year to 20 million US dollars, but not four years, but five years have been signed in one go. In fact, Hong Tao wants to sign for ten years, but unfortunately Blizzard does not agree.

The reason why the copyright fee is so high is mainly because Hong Tao does not want to share the game in Blizzard's later stages. But Blizzard is not a fool. They are determined to collect the share fee and will not let Mantis Shrimp Company buy out the game agency rights for five years.

Because of this incident, both sides quarreled for four days and finally made concessions. Blizzard Company symbolically retained 10% of its share in the later period, but the copyright fee increased by more than half every year, which was similar to robbing money.

But even if it was robbing money, Hongtao asked Diane to recognize her, because this would be much cheaper than the later profit sharing of Blizzard Company. And this result was already pretty good. If Mantis Shrimp Company had not had enough funds and had no need to rely on Blizzard's contract to raise enough funds, Blizzard Company would definitely not have made concessions.

At that time, Jiucheng was pinched to this pain point by Blizzard. Even if he knew that he had suffered a great loss, he had to sign the contract, otherwise he would not even be able to drink the soup. As the same goes, if he is not as skilled as others, he will always be controlled by others. If he wants to speak hard, he must have the goods in his pocket, otherwise he will only be slaughtered.

There is no need to give less equipment investment. Blizzard requires that HP's servers be used, otherwise it will be difficult to ensure gaming experience and technical support. Hong Tao does not object to this point. HP's servers are indeed expensive, but when you go back to China to find alternatives, the performance may be a little higher than HP's, but the compatibility and controllability are indefinite.

After all, Blizzard's technicians will need to help debug at that time. There is no harm in using their most convenient equipment. The extra money is tuition. Who can't make such a good game? I deserve to be slaughtered.

Hong Tao is still willing to spend money on advertising and promotion costs, so he directly agreed to invest 15 million US dollars. There is no way, so the Chinese people just want to take care of this, so they don’t care whether it’s good or not. You can see it all day long when you open your eyes, and then try different ways to fool them. It will definitely be a lot of people.

Hong Tao's generosity at this point also made Blizzard and Vivendi's people see sincerity, and said that they would make some concessions in technical support and game peripheral products. After all, this game is their children, and they will make money for them when they grow up. Everyone hopes that the result will be wonderful.

But all this has a prerequisite, that is, World of Warcraft in mainland China will be launched at the same time as North America. Before that, Blizzard had completed two closed tests and issued an announcement that the game will start public beta at the end of the year.

Mantis Shrimp Company is now preparing to be hasty in the future, but Hong Tao feels that even if he can't catch up with the formal operation together, it won't be much different. This is not a matter of money, but an attitude. Why can South Korea open a service with North America? The huge Chinese market will have to be delayed for a few months or even half a year.

Blizzard does not have any discriminatory terms for this issue. They are mainly afraid that there will be insufficient time. Even if they start operating from now on, it will only last half a year until the end of the year. Mantis Shrimp Company needs to prepare everything from scratch, which tests management level and operation skills.
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