Cai Haoyu stared at the computer screen. After reading the email, he asked the same question as Liu Wei.
"Japanese players?"
"Well, that's what he called himself in the email." Liu Wei explained.
"This is the first time I've met a Japanese who speaks Chinese so well. The Japanese students in school don't have such fluent Chinese expression skills, right?"
"What if the family is a college student majoring in Chinese, or there is Chinese ancestry in the family?" Liu Wei was not sure and said casually.
"That's true." Cai Haoyu nodded.
"Let's not mention this for now, Lao Cai, what do you think after reading it?" Liu Wei asked expectantly.
"What other feelings can I have?" Cai Haoyu's lips curled up. "It's rare for a fan to send such a long email, and it's still positive. Of course I can only be happy!"
"What else? What about the follow-up suggestions? I feel like they coincide with some of the plans we had before."
"Indeed..." Cai Haoyu nodded slightly. As mentioned in the email, card-based mobile games are currently popular in the domestic market, and they follow the routine of drawing cards to develop.
When MiHoYo held an internal meeting some time ago, they considered whether the next project would be to follow the trend of making a mobile card game or to make a sequel to "Honkai Academy". In the end, out of the desire to make a game that they loved that was not available on the market, a concept that was established in the early days of the business, they decided to make a sequel to "Honkai Academy".
"Relevant practitioners?" he muttered.
"Maybe." Liu Wei agreed.
In fact, they have already considered many of the suggestions in the email. The domestic game market has grown wildly in recent years, and there are countless similar successful examples. As long as you are willing, you can extract the key points from their profit methods.
"When Lao Luo wakes up later, let him take a look." Cai Haoyu said, "He knows more about this aspect."
Lao Luo's name is Luo Yuhao, and he is one of the three partners. He is responsible for the core commercial design and studies how to make the product profitable; the other two, Cai Haoyu, is the chief producer of all products and controls the technical direction of the entire product, and Liu Wei is Responsible for product operations and administrative affairs of the entire company.
In addition to these three partners, MiHoYo's current team also includes a lead artist from Guangdong University of Technology and three junior students from the Computer Science Department of Shanghai Jiao Tong University who are responsible for technology research and development.
These seven people formed a small game studio, which has been running for two years from the beginning to the present.
"Yeah." Liu Wei looked at the ajar door of the bedroom. Before work time, Luo Yuhao was still sleeping.
"By the way, is there any new progress?" Cai Haoyu asked.
"No." Liu Wei shook his head.
"Honkai Gakuen", which was released at the end of last year, did not achieve the success expected. The company fell into extreme anxiety. Part of the anxiety came from the fear of future uncertainty, and part of it came from the real risk of the money on the company's account. Running out.
Originally, as graduate students from Jiaotong University, they could easily earn a monthly salary of 20,000 to 30,000 yuan, but now they have been starting their business for two years, but they can only be careful about various living expenses. The salaries offered to employees by the three partners are only half of those for similar positions at other game companies on the market, and the salary offered to themselves is only 4,000 yuan. As founders, they can forget about their own hardships, but they really feel a little guilty about how they treat the few employees.
What they need most urgently now is not ideas, planning, or manpower, but funds.
It’s hard for a clever woman to make a meal without rice. Without funds, no matter how good the idea is, it is just a castle in the air.
They also discussed whether to devote special efforts to financing so that the company can survive longer. Although they encountered obstacles when seeking investment when they first started their business, what if they could reproduce their first game "Fly Me 2 The Moon"?
As a result, they began to try to contact investment institutions and investors, and Liu Wei was mainly responsible for this matter.
"The people from several institutions that I contacted last week are animation enthusiasts themselves. We got along quite well while chatting, and they recognized us very much, but... when it comes to investment, they seem to be unable to convince the institutions to take the money. .”
"Well, that's it." Cai Haoyu said silently, "That's it. You don't have to do such things in the future."
After two months of contact with no results, he had given up hope.
"I still have a few investors in contact. Let me ask again, what if?" Liu Wei obviously didn't want to give up.
"If there is still no result, forget it." Cai Haoyu sighed, "We can only rely on ourselves now."
If the next product is not successful, then this business venture will probably end in obscurity.
"It will definitely get better." Liu Wei said. To be honest, he was not sure whether MiHoYo could survive until this time next year.
"Yeah." Cai Haoyu nodded and said nothing more.
In the slightly crowded living room, Liu Wei finished talking about instant noodles, clicked on the reply on the mailbox page, and began to think about how to reply to this foreign player fan.
At this time, in the Nogizaka dormitory in Nishi-Kasai, Edogawa-ku, Tokyo, thousands of kilometers away, Amamiya Sugawara, who had just woken up, was checking the recent price trend of Bitcoin.
Due to the outbreak of the Cyprus debt crisis in January, many people abandoned the traditional financial industry and were attracted by labels such as "decentralization" and "constant total amount" instilled in Bitcoin. For the first time, Bitcoin was ignited as a safe-haven asset and gained people's favor, with its price showing steady growth.
On January 1, 2013, the price of Bitcoin was still US$13.3. By February 10, Bitcoin had risen to US$24. According to the current trend, if there are no special financial events in the near future, Bitcoin will still maintain a price of one or two. Months of growth until it levels off, by which time its price should break the $100 mark.
But no one can guarantee that it will stay at this price for how many days. Amamiya is prepared to sell some Bitcoin when it rises to 8 or 90 US dollars.
Although you will definitely make more money if you re-enter the market after the price oscillation period is over, time waits for no one, so Amamiya must raise sufficient investment funds and start-up funds for her company as soon as possible.
Looking at the Bitcoin price chart that resembles a stock K-line, Amamiya Soi imagined the day when it would grow exponentially.
By then, even if her company fails, she will still have enough money to live a carefree and prosperous life.
