Chapter 157 Mihuyou's Dilemma(2/2)
If the investment cannot be obtained within two months, Mihuyou Studio will cease to exist.
At that time, whether it is disbanded or incorporated, it is not a situation they want to see.
"Liu Wei?"
At this time, a man in his thirties suddenly walked over and greeted Liu Wei.
Liu Wei looked up and found that the other person was Zhang Liang, the manager of Taishan Angel Investment Foundation. He immediately showed a polite smile and said hello to Zhang Liang in a slightly reserved manner: "Hello, Mr. Zhang, what can I do for you?"
"What else can I do? Of course it's for investment." Zhang Liang smiled, patted Liu Wei's shoulder, and said, "To be honest, many companies are not very optimistic about you, especially you."
The proposed otaku market segment is too limited compared to the overall number of players."
"Actually, it's not that small, Mr. Zhang." Liu Wei tried his best to explain, "Domestic Aizhan and Bizhan are both concentrated places for two-dimensional users. Together, they have millions of users, and this number has always been
They are all rising, and coupled with the extremely high loyalty of the two-dimensional audience, player stickiness and willingness to pay will far exceed those of ordinary games."
"Yes, these are all advantages you mentioned." Zhang Liang hooked Liu Wei's shoulders and took him to the corner while talking, "But it is undeniable that the market today is still based on the Three Kingdoms.
Chinese-style mobile games such as martial arts and fairy tales are more popular, and their player base is much broader than that of two-dimensional mobile games."
"So why do you insist on sticking to such a niche field instead of turning to other more popular game fields?"
"After all, with your current technical capabilities, you can quickly produce games of this type, right?"
Before producing the game Honkai Impact School, Mihuyou Studio had only built a light novel community website as early as 2009.
In 2010, they also modified their self-developed Misato 2.5D game engine based on Flash Magic. In 2011, based on the self-developed engine, they only made a game called "Speechless", which won the game development competition
Won the campus category championship.
During this period, we also cooperated with Shanda Game Department to develop the Bubble Hero game. Because of the good effect of the game, Mihuyou was even invited to acquire by Shanda.
However, because it wanted to maintain the right to independent research, Mihuyou ultimately rejected Shanda’s acquisition invitation.
At the end of 2011, Mihuyou Studio developed and uploaded the first iOS casual mobile game "Fly Me 2 the Moon". It has been online for half a year and has received more than 3,000 downloads without any promotion and marketing.
volume, creating sales of 50,000 to 60,000 yuan for the studio.
Although this achievement can fully cover the development costs and even make some profit, it cannot support them to continue to develop new games.
In the end, they relied on the founders' savings and participating in various entrepreneurial competitions and winning bonuses to barely allow their studio to continue to develop.
Recently, Honkai Impact Campus has just reached the halfway point of development, and it is expected that it will not be initially completed until at least December and enter the inner stage. However, the studio's funds are already stretched thin, and it may be difficult to support the game until it is launched.
Therefore, in addition to continuing to participate in various entrepreneurial competitions, Mihuyou has recently released news that it hopes to exchange 15% of its shares for an angel round investment of about one million.
Unfortunately, until now, almost all the investors Liu Wei has met have the same attitude.
invest?
sure.
After all, everyone in your Mihuyou Studio team has top-notch skills and is a very strong talent in the industry.
But when you invest, you have to make demands.
The requirements of these investors are also very simple.
Give up the two-dimensional market and change the game type to a Three Kingdoms or martial arts-type trap game. Investments of two to five million, let alone one million, are negotiable.
But Mihuyou’s attitude is also very clear.
Just refuse.
Sometimes the two-thorned ape otaku is like this. When it comes to this kind of stance, he will always appear to be particularly determined and unoffensive.
But if it weren’t for this persistence, we probably wouldn’t have seen Mihuyou in future generations.
"Sorry, Mr. Zhang." Liu Wei forced a smile, shook his head and said, "I'm sorry that I can't agree to your request. Our team still wants to stick to our own ideas. If you can't reach a consensus with us, then I can only say
I’m sorry and sorry.”
Zhang Liang was not angry after hearing this. After all, before coming here, several other investors who had contacted Mihuyou had talked to him, but he did not expect that they had already reached this situation, and this studio actually planned to resist.
.
"Alas..." Zhang Liang patted him on the shoulder and shook his head helplessly, "Sometimes you can't be too stubborn when doing things. When you hit the south wall and get bleeding, it will be too late to turn around. By then, it won't be
It’s as simple as 15% of the shares.”
"We are still young people." Liu Wei smiled shyly, "You have to hit it to know whether the south wall is strong or not."
Seeing Liu Wei's firm attitude, Zhang Liang said nothing more. He waved his hand and said hello to Liu Wei one last time, then turned to chat with other project teams.
When Liu Wei looked at the investors in the background, each of them found a project that he was interested in, but no one came towards him, he smiled helplessly, shook his head, turned around, packed his things, and left.
Prepare to leave.
But at this moment, a girl's voice came from behind.
Chapter completed!