The younger generation, starting from where the wind blows...

Chapter 9 Beware of another person surnamed Ma
After sending the message, Ma Qiushan felt uneasy.

He was terrified that Yang Muye would send him a message saying, "You fucking dream on."

After all, both parties had signed a contract, and Ma Qiushan was prepared to be rejected.

Yang Muyi stood in front of the computer in the internet cafe and considered for half a minute.

The fact that Ma Qiushan was able to create "Niu Le Ge Niu" in just ten days proves that he is capable.

In addition, based on my understanding of him from the TV series in my previous life, he is a trustworthy partner.

The only flaw might be that their judgment is a little poor.

However, this was not a problem for Yang Muye. He didn't need Ma Qiushan to have a good eye; he could just listen to him.

"You can partner with me, but how do we split the profits?"

Upon receiving the message, Ma Qiushan didn't dare to look directly at it. He covered his eyes with his hand, read the first half of the sentence through his fingers, and then moved his hand away.

Yang Muyi actually agreed!!
Ma Qiushan excitedly stood up from his computer, clenched his fists, and roared.

After finishing, he immediately sat down and quickly typed a reply: "How about a 30/70 split? I get 30% and you get 70%."

Actually, 28 Maqiu Mountain is also acceptable.

To my surprise, Yang Muye actually agreed.

"Sure, but we need to sign a concerted action agreement. Simply put, you have to listen to me about what products to develop and how to do them."

Ma Qiushan paused for a moment, then quickly typed a single word on the keyboard.

"Okay!"

If he hadn't seen Yang Muye still online, he would have contacted a lawyer immediately to revise the contract.

Yang Muye glanced at the computer next to him. Xie Zhiyao had restarted the game for who knows how many times, but still couldn't beat it. He was struggling with himself.

Then, Yang Muye typed a line of text in the chat box.

"Have you ever completed the second level yourself?"

"just one time."

Ma Qiushan immediately replied: "I was just about to talk to you about this. When the official version goes live, should we lower the difficulty a bit? Otherwise, I'm worried it will discourage a lot of users."

"I told you to design the first level so simply, did you really think it was just for beginners?"

Yang Muye typed rapidly on the keyboard: "When you played the first level, did you think it was super easy? Then when you couldn't pass the second level, you felt like your IQ was being challenged and you had to pass it no matter what?"

That's right!

Ma Qiushan felt the same way when he first played the game, and that's why he was worried: "If it's too difficult, some people will really give up and stop playing."

Yang Muye didn't care at all: "You're talking about a single-player game, but we're making a social game. We're going to make the second level really, really hard so that it will feel very rewarding to beat."

Ma Qiushan continued, "Then all his friends can see the news of his success? And that motivates them not to give up?"

"Your idea of ​​a leaderboard in the idiom spelling game is good, but our game doesn't have individual leaderboards. Instead, we have leaderboards based on schools and regions. All users can see how many people from their school and region have completed the game, using schools and regions to encourage everyone to complete the game."

Upon seeing the long message sent by Yang Muye, Ma Qiushan was completely stunned.

Ranking schools and regions by category is simply—

Absolutely!

Especially on school intranets, rankings based on schools are a huge incentive for college students.

Chinese people are raised with collectivist education from a young age, and almost everyone hears a certain phrase when they enter university after taking the college entrance examination.

Today you are proud of your school, tomorrow your school will be proud of you.

At this moment, personal honor and school honor are firmly locked together.

Otherwise, there wouldn't be a saying that goes like this about one's alma mater: you can criticize it however you want, but others can't say a single bad word about it.

After reading the message sent by Yang Muye, Ma Qiushan realized that the game "Niu Le Ge Niu" was bound to become a hit on the school's intranet.

Just as I was getting excited, Yang Muye sent another message.

"You need to be mentally prepared in advance. Anything that becomes popular overnight will not last long. Our game is the same. It will be popular for a few months at most. The key is how to monetize it quickly."

After reading it, Ma Qiushan felt as if a bucket of cold water had been poured over his head, and he immediately calmed down. He knew very well that the prize money from the campus programming competition would definitely not be enough to satisfy Yang Muye.

After all, the production cost of this game alone was 100,000.

"When the game is launched, we will apply for the permission of value-added services from Renren.com. You will have three free challenge opportunities per day. Once you have used them up, you can only get more challenge opportunities by attracting new users or by spending money."

At this time, Renren.com had already launched Renren Beans, which had similar functions to QQ Coins.

Yang Muyi didn't want to make a scene right from the start, so after discussing it with Ma Qiushan, he set the price at one campus bean for three challenges, and only allowed three purchases per day.

It won't cost more than 100 yuan a month, and when the game becomes a hit, it will reduce a lot of controversy.

It's just that the advertising business on Renren.com didn't take off. Otherwise, Yang Muye would have wanted to follow the example of his previous life's "Sheep and the Sheep" and rely on advertising revenue.

After all, what's free is often the most expensive.

"And one more thing."

Yang Muye's fingers tapped rapidly on the keyboard: "After the game has been online for a while, we'll upload the game directly to Kaixin.com. You can start doing that now."

Kaixin.com was only established in March of this year, but it has developed rapidly by copying games such as parking space games from Facebook.

In just six months, it has already gained more than 2000 million registered users.

Kaixin.com primarily targets white-collar workers, and its user base has almost no overlap with that of Xiaonei.com.

Since the potential for "Niu Le Ge Niu" to become a huge hit has been foreseen, Ma Qiushan has no objection to porting the game to other platforms.

However, he still reminded Yang Muyi: "I heard that the big boss behind Xiaonei.com is talking to Kaixin.com, wanting to acquire it in its entirety. I don't think it will work out. Kaixin.com is developing so fast, and the founder came from the One-Eyed Dragon. He has no shortage of money, technology and experience. He can be his own boss. Who would work for someone else?"

In today's internet business arena, there's no such thing as maintaining good relations even if a deal falls through.

If the negotiations between Qianxiang and Kaixin.com, the companies behind Xiaonei.com, fail, the two sides will immediately break off relations and become enemies.

This was the case in my previous life.

When Kaixin001 refused to sell, Qianxiang immediately activated his Sharingan and created a pixel-perfect clone of "Kaixin001".

The most outrageous thing is that the fake "Kaixin.com" uses the website kaixin.com, while the real Kaixin.com uses kaixin001.com.

Because the domain name of Kaixin001 had been registered by someone else long ago, and the other party asked for too high a price when Kaixin001 was created, the deal fell through. As a result, Qianxiang failed to acquire Kaixin001, and instead bought the domain name.

Buy if you can, copy if you can't.

Internet business warfare is just that simple and straightforward.

Yang Muye certainly wouldn't tell Ma Qiushan about these things. He just told him, "I'll transfer another 100,000 yuan to you later. You can change the game's shell and port it to Kaixin.com. If the name doesn't work, you can call it 'Sheep's Sheep'."

Ma Qiushan, sitting in front of the computer, was completely stunned.

Then my old habit kicked in again, and I typed a question: "Is there any explanation for this name?"

As soon as he sent it out, Ma Qiushan regretted it.

Unexpectedly, Yang Muye actually replied to him seriously this time: "Otherwise, what else would you call it, 'Ma Le Ge Ma'? That sounds awful. Let me clarify, I'm not targeting your surname, I'm targeting someone else with the surname Ma."

Another one surnamed Ma?

By process of elimination, it can't be Ahri, so it can only be the penguin.

Ma Qiushan reacted very quickly, immediately typing, "What if Penguin copies our game?"

These days, when internet entrepreneurs seek venture capital, they first have to answer two questions.

How can a product avoid being copied by Tencent?

What should we do if Tencent copies us?

"That's why we need to strike first and copy ourselves."

Yang Muye wasn't joking: "Once 'Sheep' is launched on Kaixin.com, you can develop another one called 'Goose', and then go to Shen Zhenteng and ask him if he wants to buy it."

Ma Qiushan immediately replied with a "laughing and crying" emoji.

Yang Muyi's move wasn't very harmful, but it was extremely humiliating. Ma Qiushan was worried that if he went to Shenzhen, he wouldn't be able to come back.

(End of this chapter)