I'm almost a Muggle

Pei Qianlong said it lightly, but it is very difficult to do it.

Domestic R&D games like outsourcing, and many game studios rely on outsourcing orders to survive. Even giants like Penguin Games adopt a combination of internal independent research and development and diversified external cooperation, and have lost a large amount of outsourcing business in many fields such as R&D, testing, and review.

It's really not an easy thing to find a master if you really want to wash away the sand.

Fortunately, Penguin Games began to adjust its organizational structure since October 2014, revoking the original eight studios and reorganizing them into twenty studios and four studio groups. Each studio group is independently responsible for the development and operation of independently developed game products.

This adjustment is not simply splitting and merging, but a resource integration and business allocation.

The impact it has was huge, or it could be said to be a catastrophe for independent studios outside. When Penguin Games did not outsource so much business, a large number of independent studios had to start "PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds".

However, it was not the first one to be acquired by these hungry wild studios.

As a veteran gamer, Yang Baofu's first target was to create the Heluo Studio, which created the domestic RPG game masterpiece "The Legend of Jin Yong".

None of them!

Heluo Studio, led by Xu Changlong, was established within Zhiguan in 1993, and in 1996, it released the first part of the Heluo Trilogy: "The Legend of Jin Yong's Heroes".

In the market where inferior games were rampant at that time, "The Legend of Jin Yong" quickly became a name for himself with Jin Yong's high acceptance of martial arts and excellent game design, and achieved good returns.

With the popularity of "The Legend of Jin Yong" and the studio immediately started to develop its sequel, and then released the highly acclaimed "The Legend of Wulin" in August 2001.

After that, the situation suddenly changed, and the collapse of the stand-alone game market came rapidly and rapidly. In less than three years, the market shrank to one-third of its original state.

As the external environment deteriorated rapidly, Heluo Studio had no choice but to spend a year to develop and complete the "Legend of the Three Kingdoms Heroes".

While ending the Heluo Trilogy, it also announced the end of its historical mission. Xu Changlong officially left Zhiguan Technology, and then Xu Changlong's Oriental Calculation announced its disbandment the following year.

In a sense, this No. 1 studio in China, which created many childhood games dreams, went bankrupt.

In the blink of an eye, it was more than ten years later.

During the Spring Festival of a certain year, Lao Xu, who was far from the front line of game development, accidentally remembered "The Legend of the Martial Arts" at home. He tried to search for keywords on Google, but unexpectedly found that this game, which had almost been completely forgotten in Wanwan, was still popular in Baidu Tieba, and the dream of making games was rekindled.

This is not only the feelings of players, but also the feelings of people like Lao Xu.

Therefore, on March 17, 2014, Xu Changlong registered Heluo Game Co., Ltd. and announced that he would use modern technology to remake the "The Legend of Wulin Qunxia" of that year under the name of "New Wulin Qunxia".

In April this year, "The Legend of the New Martial Arts" was finally renamed "The Legend of the Knights" and released.

If it is an ordinary passionate and inspiring story, "The Legend of the Knights" should be a perfect ending that shines brightly and rekindles the passion of the past.

However, things went against my expectations.

After the release of "The Legend of the Knights", a lawyer's letter was sent to Heluo Studio. In the letter, Zhiguan Technology accused Heluo of replicating "The Legend of the Knights of the Wulin" of infringing on Zhiguan's copyright.

Subsequently, the old boss of Heluo Studio sued the court and claimed NT$24 million.

In terms of conversion, the Chinese currency is 5.2 million.

It was a drizzle for Klester, but Heluo Studio was poor.

It was originally a project that used Ai to generate electricity, so Lao Xu had already spent his little savings on developing the game, so where did he get the money to pay?

Heluo Studio is in an unprecedented crisis.

At this time, Meow Meow Game's acquisition plan for them became an irresistible way to survive.

Moreover, when Meow Meow Game goes to Wanwan to talk about the person in charge of the acquisition, he talks freely during the chat. When talking about interesting parts of the trilogy, he will have a fascinating smile on his face, claiming that he has passed the level more than fifteen times.

It is obviously the NC fan of the Heluo trilogy.

Fans came to save themselves, and Lao Xu almost cried.

To acquire Heluo Studio, Miaomiao Games spent 30 million yuan, which was about NT$120 million.

In addition, he spent 20 million to buy all the relevant copyrights of the Heluo Trilogy from Zhiguan Technology.

Heluo Studio has experienced more than ten years of ups and downs, and its personnel are polarized. Some are old developers, some are newcomers from Hong Kong and Taiwan, and most of them have the experience of working and studying in major foreign factories.

This time it was acquired by a mainland game company, some people chose to follow, while some people found another way out.

Just move.

The economy there is in all kinds of recessions, and there is nothing to be left to nostalgic for.

Of course, the industry is not very optimistic about this acquisition.

The Cat Factory is no longer an unknown person in the domestic Internet industry. The news of the establishment of Meow Meow Games spread throughout the entire game industry at the first time.

However, at the beginning, everyone believed that the original intention of Meow Meow Game was to operate fgo on behalf of agents.

After all, M Station recently obtained the agency rights of fgo.

No one expected that they would go to Wanwan to acquire the Heluo Studio, a grandfather.

Heluo Studio has a new tour in April and is in crisis in June. It has been almost two months since then. If it were so valuable, it would have been acquired by people long ago.

In fact, Heluo Studio also tried to use Return to Zhiguan Technology to solve this crisis.

However, Zhiguan Technology has no interest in stand-alone games at all. Its main business is agents, and the more famous ones include World of Warcraft, Perfect World, etc.

Those who don’t want you will want your money.

If you want to acquire Heluo Studio, this is obviously the best opportunity.

But Heluo Studio is too old.

Their products do not have wide value.

Moreover, the acquisition amount actually reached 30 million.

Heluo is not worth even 20 million.

But no matter what, everyone can feel the extremely inflated ambition of Meow Meow Games.

This is obviously a route of independent research and development.

This time, more than 40 people came to Heluo Studio, including men, women, young and old. After getting off the plane, they stuffed into a bus.

The closer they get to the destination, the more uneasy these people are.

This time they left their hometown. If nothing unexpected happens, some people may even take their families over.

The promised treatment here is enough to make their strange cities settle.

However, promises are one thing, and no one knows what the real situation will be.

The root of everyone's uneasiness was that Klester's promise was so good that they doubted its authenticity.

Not to mention the salary and benefits, they have to increase their research and development efforts, so that they can strive to create a Chinese masterpiece comparable to the Wizard 3, Odyssey, Red Dead Redemption, and GTA5.