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However, Yao Xiaodong has confirmed through his connections that the HR department and Tencent's internal audit team are already making preliminary preparations.

The HR department is already preparing a large number of resignation procedures, and the internal audit team has also begun to understand the information of all employees of the company.

Without a doubt, after Ma Huateng resolves the current talks, everyone, including Yu Zhong, will be used as an example and eliminated directly.

As the project leader, Yao Xiaodong would at least be removed from his senior management position, and if the internal audit team finds anything, he might even go to jail.

And all of this stems from the mess these bastards made with the copywriting.

Chapter 408 United Front

Domestic gaming communities at the end of April.

Once again, a game by Tencent has caused a great uproar.

But for Xinghuo and for Lin Li, there was something even more important to deal with.

It happened on December 28th.

Spark held a platform development meeting.

The meeting was held at Xinghuo's headquarters and was not large in scale, with representatives from eight domestic game companies in attendance.

Both old friends and newly acquainted friends were present.

Dawei from miHoYo, Yuwan from Manjiu Network, Yuan Lei from Xishanju, Wang Xi from Conqueror's Blade, Xing Keyi from Tower of Fantasy, Kuro, Papergames... and Guan Lei from Studio 24, the development team behind Naraka: Imperishable.

Apart from Guan Lei, all the others had participated in the Spark Carnival and the Spark platform launch event.

The reason why he came here.

It was also due to the introduction by Wang Xi, the person in charge of Zhan Yi.

Wang Xi and Guan Lei have similar experiences. Both left large companies to start their own businesses, and their studios are located in Suzhou and Hangzhou. Moreover, the games they created, one a martial arts battle royale and the other a Mount & Blade battle royale, are not mainstream in China.

Everyone is working on niche topics.

Therefore, they often communicate with each other.

They even went through cooperation negotiations with NetEase at one point.

In the original world line.

Both of them eventually joined NetEase.

But in fact, the two of them did not lack funds for game development.

This is only considering operations.

He had no choice but to sell himself to NetEase.

This is exactly what Lin Li meant when he said that it's not enough to just make games in China; you have to find a sect or faction to complete the final step of the game.

However, in this timeline...

The two were impressed by Xinghuo's platform-packaged operation model.

Who would want to be subordinate to someone else if they could be their own boss?

After attending the Spark press conference, Wang Xi had already made up his mind.

What Zhan Yi needs is a platform with a high reputation and the ability to operate globally.

Spark perfectly met his requirements.

Upon returning to Suzhou and Hangzhou, Wang Xi sought out Guan Lei.

Guan Lei was also tempted by the offer, so he temporarily put aside his idea of ​​cooperating with NetEase and, following Xinghuo's invitation, went to Shanghai with Wang Xi.

In short.

There were a total of 8 participating manufacturers at this event.

The old and the new coexist harmoniously, creating a joyful atmosphere.

The topic of the meeting was actually not complicated.

Spark is a new platform company.

The established strategy is to focus on high-quality products.

On the one hand, Spark itself has limited resources; on the other hand, for a platform, one appealing game can bring more traffic than 10 or even 100 ordinary games.

Therefore, although the Spark platform is open to everyone, there is definitely a bias in resource allocation.

Since it involves resource allocation, the prerequisite is that Spark must invest resources.

Lin Li is not a philanthropist.

Investing resources naturally requires a return.

What these people can give him in return is platform exclusivity.

Although the platform exclusivity has been criticized by many players.

However, in business competition, exclusivity is the best weapon for platforms.

This is especially true for market challengers.

For a long time, no one mentioned the exclusivity of PC ports.

Because PC is an open platform, in addition to game platforms, single-player game manufacturers often release their own CD keys.

For manufacturers, as long as they don't need online verification, they don't necessarily need a game platform.

As for the players, if you have an exclusive version, I can just use a pirated copy.

Based on these two points.

There's basically no such thing as exclusive content on PC.

The first PC exclusive appeared after Epic Games became popular, when they started spending money to buy exclusives from some manufacturers.

However, on the one hand, the lineup of exclusive games is too poor, lacking any major titles.

On the other hand, these exclusive games often suddenly announce halfway through that they will not be sold on Steam, or they are simply sold halfway through and then become exclusives.

It severely damages his reputation.

The results were not good.

but.

Although EPIC's exclusivity did not have a very good effect.

But that doesn't mean the path is wrong.

Lin Li understood perfectly.

Since 18, in addition to traditional blockbuster titles, a new genre of single-player games has been rapidly emerging in the market.

That's a networked single-player game.

PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds, Fortnite, Fall Guys, PUBG, Tarkov, and even Endless Bladepoint all belong to this type of game.

This type of game is best suited for platform exclusivity.

It has high traffic, high user stickiness, and once it becomes exclusive, it becomes unique.

Also.

Compared to companies that make pure single-player games, these service-oriented companies are less averse to exclusivity.

This is why Lin Li did not invite Zhu Long.

The reason why the companies present were all making service-based online games is that they all make such games.

For online games, whether paid or free, platform exclusivity is relatively more acceptable.

After all, they were originally going to create their own login application.

Exclusive access to the Spark platform.

It's just that the launcher has been changed to the Spark Platform.

Especially for the domestic market, the exclusive use of the Xinghuo platform is not necessarily a bad thing for them.

Lin Li personally delivered the presentation at this meeting.

That's the main point.

"The Spark platform has been quite successful since its launch, and domestic and international channels have been successfully established."

"In the future, we will continue to focus our efforts on this area."

"Don't be fooled by the current stagnation of PC games; history always comes full circle."

"I predict that in the next five to ten years, the major trend in gaming will definitely be multi-platform integration."

"Mobile games are difficult to platformize, and we don't plan to get involved in that area. So we have a basis for cooperation, and once we build up the platform's reputation and establish the quality of the games."

"We can definitely stick together and let good money drive out bad money."

"We will take back more market share."

At this point, Lin Li changed the subject: "Gun quotas require a lot of resources. I, Lin, am willing to take the lead in investing, but we also need everyone to work together."

"We'll each develop our own mobile app. All you need to do is provide an interface so that the mobile app can launch the game, view game information, and read news."

"But for the PC side, we need to unite and promote the PC platform together. With this approach, combined with the simultaneous promotion of the Spark platform, the overall effect will definitely be greater than the sum of its parts."

Lin Li talked for a long time, his mouth was a little dry, so he picked up his teacup and took a couple of sips of tea.

At this moment, Yuan Lei from Xishanju smiled and said, "President Lin, there's no need to say so much. I trust you."

"This isn't about trust or distrust; it's a collaboration, so things need to be clearly explained," Lin Li said earnestly.

"I know this is the first time we've all worked together. Account integration and platform integration are sensitive issues, but if we don't work together and integrate these things, we won't succeed."

"After logging into the platform and opening the game, I am redirected to another launcher and have to log into another account. I also cannot find my scores or account information on the game platform."

Chapter 409 Preparations for the Interview

"If the cooperation is superficial and the hearts are not aligned, then it's better not to do it at all."

Yuan Lei of Xishanju nodded.

Lin Li's words just now are very much in line with the motivational speeches his subordinates have been feeding him.

That's Mr. Lin for you—always striving for perfection in everything he does.

Dawei from miHoYo also nodded.

However, he quickly raised a question.

"Account access and data port integration are no problem for me, but there's one more point, Mr. Lin. Could we change Spark's full-stack mode to a semi-full-stack mode? We'll provide the servers and basic management, and only need to integrate with Spark's marketing and distribution?"

Following the Spark Carnival, integrating with the Spark platform has become a consensus at miHoYo.

However, in the actual implementation stage...

There are still disagreements within miHoYo.

As the leader, Dawei still hopes to focus on learning rather than revealing everything, in order to prepare for the future development of self-operated PC games.

His argument was also very simple.

In his view, miHoYo is lacking sparks, but it's missing one crucial element: miHoYo didn't capitalize on a goldmine like FGO during its peak development phase.

Honkai Impact 3's funding is insufficient to support the simultaneous advancement of several large projects.

If you want to make Genshin Impact, you can't start any other projects.

And the spark that catches the golden pig can become two, two become four, and in just two years it splits into a behemoth.

but.

This does not mean that miHoYo has absolutely no chance.

If Genshin Impact succeeds.

Then miHoYo will also have its own golden pig.

At that time, will we still have to submit to the scorching sun?