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Didn't you say you usually operate independently from Xinghuo? Is this what independence is? It feels like Mr. Lin is the homeroom teacher nagging for homework.

David was completely stunned.

I never thought there was anything wrong with communicating with Lin Li like this on the phone normally.

But this is a TV show being filmed!

Besides, I didn't realize that Lin Li and I had been talking on the phone in this state.

A thousand thoughts arise from a single idea.

Cameras, lights—if there were a hole in the ground right now, David would definitely crawl into it.

But not now.

All he could do was awkwardly laugh and hang up the phone while explaining.

"No, we don't usually do this..."

Chapter 510 Mr. Lin, has it always been like this?

Lin Li made the call very casually.

The current relationship between Spark and miHoYo, or rather, with most domestic second-hand game developers, is very delicate. On the one hand, they are definitely competitors.

On the other hand, the profitability and revenue of Xinghuo's games are worlds apart from those of ordinary secondary game developers.

In fact, a situation of one dominant player and many strong players has already formed in the industry.

While many ACG (Anime, Comics, and Games) companies are still pursuing profits from individual games, Spark has already completed its initial capital accumulation in just two years.

They are now taking it a step further and pursuing platformization.

However, after pursuing platformization, Xinghuo faced less intense competition from other manufacturers in terms of individual products.

In fact, what Xinghuo has been doing recently is no longer competition, but rather supporting the development of the industry.

Everyone knows this is paving the way for the Spark Platform.

However, for most ACG (Anime, Comics, and Games) manufacturers, the fact that leading companies in the industry are willing to spend money is a good thing.

Moreover, Lin Li isn't the type to just make empty promises without providing anything in return.

Starting this year, a series of actions have changed the industry's, especially the domestic game industry's, perception of Xinghuo from a game developer to a platform developer.

For many game studios in China, Spark is already a better choice than Steam, including miHoYo.

Once Spark is placed in the STEAM context, Lin Li's image towards these manufacturers' bosses changes from that of a mere competitor to that of a senior figure.

It's somewhat similar to the early Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods, where everyone fought each other, but they all recognized the same person as their leader.

The eldest brother is the overlord; his words carry weight.

Xinghuo has not yet reached that level, nor has it become a hegemon, but its status is indeed quite extraordinary.

Although David was ambitious and wanted to take over, he also acknowledged Xinghuo's status and agreed with many of Lin Li's views.

During this period, since both of them were in Los Angeles, they communicated quite a lot.

Lin Li would occasionally chat with Dawei about Genshin Impact and offer some suggestions.

Most of these suggestions have little to do with gameplay; they mainly concern details about monetization, such as the distribution of weapon resources and gacha resources.

According to the original plan, today was the day for Genshin Impact to submit its black-box test demo version.

After receiving this demo, Xinghuo still needs to conduct black-box testing and integration.

The black-box test is a global test, and Spark needs to set up servers in advance, seeing that miHoYo hasn't submitted their data yet.

Lin Li then made a phone call.

Regarding Genshin Impact

Lin Li still takes it somewhat seriously.

The core reason for this emphasis is to drive traffic to the Spark platform.

After all, Genshin Impact is a decent story player in the early stages, so Lin Li doesn't really care if it falls apart in the future.

What he needs is for Genshin Impact to clash with Galaxy Paradise when it launches.

On the one hand, collision marketing generates traffic.

Secondly, it is also to prove to more people that the Spark platform can not only make Spark popular, but also make other manufacturers popular.

It also serves as a demonstration to investors that other companies can succeed in this field.

This is actually quite important.

It wasn't until Genshin Impact became a hit 20 years ago that subsequent large-scale anime games were developed, such as Tower of Fantasy, The Rising Tide, Blue Starfield, and the Otherworld, all of which were influenced by it.

These projects were delayed until 24 only because of masks; otherwise, a large number of big-budget remakes should have appeared in 23.

For a platform

The booming market is definitely a good thing for Xinghuo, not a bad thing, because Xinghuo has gradually gained control of domestic platform channels, so the more money they make, the more money Xinghuo makes.

Don't be fooled by the fact that Spark only takes 10% and FullStack only takes 20%. Once the platform grows, the bulk of Spark's revenue will definitely come from the platform in the future.

But now, since Spark rose to prominence in 16, the top games in the market have always been Onmyoji, Honkai Impact 3, Battlefront Girls, FGO, and a group of familiar faces from Spark.

If Spark wants to make a move, it naturally needs to show everyone the meat (meaning something is more substantial/substantial).

When Lin Li made the call, he was naturally unaware that Brother Dawei was being interviewed.

Lin Li was somewhat confused after the call was hung up on.

So I dialed it again.

Why did you hang up on me?

David remained silent.

"I'm being interviewed by CCTV. I'll get back to you later."

Lin Li remained silent.

"Oh."

After a while, Lin Li called again.

"Mr. Wei, this is Lin Li. I've seen the Genshin Impact demo you submitted. It's very well done, absolutely a groundbreaking work. Our Spark platform is very supportive..."

David didn't react at first, listening to Lin Li boast for a long time about the support from the Spark Platform.

Yang Ning was the first to react and said something.

"Mr. Lin, we've been recording all along, and the last part has already been recorded."

Lin Li replied.

"you are?"

"I am Yang Ning from CCTV."

"Oh, hello, hello. Was the last part of the recording not good? Then let's cut it. I'll call back later. I feel like I can do even better."

"..."

Yang Ning glanced at Dawei, as if to say, "Has President Lin always been like this?"

David nodded.

In public, Lin Li presents himself as a game enthusiast, a professional game producer, and a reliable boss.

But this kind of shamelessness is also the norm behind the scenes.

The key is that other people would find it annoying if they were so persistent.

Lin Li's shamelessness, however, gave off a different feeling altogether.

Whether it's the halo of success or not, Lin Li's actions, while leaving people speechless, also exude a strange sense of freedom and magnanimity.

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Over there, Lin Li and Yang Ning were discussing how to make it more natural.

the other side.

Penguin Building, WEGAME Conference Room.

"No way! Why should we change the time? If anyone should be changing it, it should be EPIC!"

"Yeah, we're the Penguin headquarters! Epic should be allocating more resources to us, what's going on?!"

"It's just that the press conference bookings haven't generated enough buzz."

"No way, we've already boosted the number of reservations in the last two days, the data looks pretty good."

A noisy meeting room.

Everyone was chattering about the injustice.

Chen Zhou rubbed his forehead.

The reason why WEGAME executives are so indignant is that Penguin's top management "kept them in the dark" by completing a strategic partnership with EPIC.

The incident was related to both Spark and EPIC.

The relationship between EPIC and Penguin is actually quite complicated.

Back in 12, Tencent acquired 48.4% of Epic's issued shares for $3.3 million, equivalent to 40% of Epic's total shares, making it Epic's largest shareholder.

Therefore, based solely on this shareholding percentage, EPIC can be considered a partner company of Tencent.

However, Penguin and EPIC had an agreement when the shares were acquired.

Penguins only have the right to receive dividends, not management rights.

For this reason, EPIC and Tencent are also competitors in the platform war.

Chapter 511 Those Are My Lyrics

Normally, EPIC wouldn't bother collaborating with Penguin, especially after Fortnite became popular.

After all, aside from having money, Tencent doesn't really offer EPIC much in terms of business, except for its agency business in China.

This year's E3 pre-event event, organized by EPIC, was also independently hosted by EPIC itself.

however.

With Spark's debut on the eve of E3.

EPIC's Eric Nathan has a bad feeling.

For EPIC, press conferences from companies like Sony and Microsoft are completely irrelevant, as they are not in the same league.

What they really care about is the launch event for STEAM and Spark.

Initially, EPIC placed great importance on STEAM, and even considered sending industrial spies to investigate what STEAM was planning to do in order to prepare for it.

As for Xinghuo? Sorry, I haven't really paid much attention to it.

But never thought.

Just in time, Xinghuo, an E3 newcomer, unexpectedly became an instant hit at the exhibition.

Although only one game, "Future Defense," became a hit in the United States.

But you should know that at many big companies, only one or two people might become famous after several hours of E3.

For a company like Spark, a company in a "non-mainstream" circle, to release a game like "Future Defense" is already a great success.

If the news of Spark Games going viral is somewhat acceptable for EPIC, then...

Subsequently, Ubisoft, Sony, and other major Japanese companies all endorsed Spark.

This completely stunned EPIC.

Because among the companies invited by Epic that can be considered major companies, Bethesda can barely be considered one, Bluehole might be half a major company, and the rest are all small and medium-sized companies.

There are many reasons, which I have mentioned before, so I will not repeat them here.

As the head of the EPIC platform, Eric Nathan is naturally aware of his shortcomings, so besides Fallout 76, the biggest surprise EPIC prepared for this press conference was...