Then, he handed over a stack of documents, saying, "So I took the opportunity to hack into their server, and this is their acquisition plan. They intend to suppress Blue Star's reputation in order to raise funds from us at a low price."
Mingyan flipped through the documents and discovered that the mastermind behind it all was actually Cruise Capital.
—A well-known venture capital fund in the Sixth Star Province.
They are notorious not only for their astonishing annualized interest rates, but also for their unscrupulous profit-making methods.
Shorting first, then acquiring—using underhanded tactics to lower the expectations of the target company—that's exactly what they're capable of doing.
They're secretly plotting something, but outwardly they're preparing to appear as saviors.
Imagine when League of Legends was being criticized, BlueStar Studio was universally condemned, and players openly declared they were despised...
Cruise capital appeared out of nowhere, deleted all the negative news, and then invested heavily, instantly rescuing Earth from its quagmire.
The optimism of large investors is a major positive for an emerging company.
During Blue Star's lowest point, the cruise line planned to invest only around 500 million yuan to help establish Blue Star Limited and incorporate it into its incubation park...
Thus, they could legally and legitimately obtain more than half of Bluestar's original shares and all of Bluestar's IP assets.
Then they can carry out the share issuance and listing themselves, and improve the reputation of "League of Legends". They can immediately obtain more than 50% return on investment from this financing.
In this process, Blue Star Studio itself is actually irrelevant; any other studio with good games would have used the same approach.
To capital, games and gamers are merely commodities.
Cruise Capital wants to raise funds from Blue Star through dirty tricks.
But no one expected that such a grand plan would be ruined by a single programmer...
Knowledge is indeed power, and wisdom is indeed the most powerful weapon.
The firsthand information he obtained after hacking into the other party's server was extremely important.
Ming Yan directly gave the programmer a bonus equivalent to ten months' salary to thank him for his loyalty to Blue Star Studio and for his contributions.
I heard that this programmer received a bonus and immediately commissioned a life-size doll—yes, his anime waifu!
Afterwards, Mingyan carefully reviewed the proposal and was surprised to find that Cruise Capital actually had a pretty good impression of League of Legends.
Despite their smear campaigns, they will never let go of any business opportunity that can make money!
They also produced a fairly detailed test report and concluded that League of Legends is very suitable for operation as an otherworldly game!
First, the game map is very small and highly controllable, requiring only a small amount of otherworldly resources to create.
Each otherworld contains an infinite number of time slices, and each slice can be used as a game map for a match.
Once you've finished playing, there's absolutely no need to clean up; it's practically a completely natural "dungeon."
Therefore, completing dungeons in otherworld games is very simple.
Secondly, the game requires virtually no NPC characters, further reducing the resources needed.
Since you only need two shops, you can just place two robots on them!
Finally, the game's future profitability is very promising.
In the otherworldly game, each player needs a body, which is created through the colony base in the otherworld.
Creating a standard, templated player body requires very few resources, which is perfect for producing original classes without skins.
Each skin can be remanufactured, and each body can be charged to players.
This pricing is completely reasonable and legitimate, much more reliable than VR skins based on virtual data, and players will definitely approve of it.
In conclusion, if League of Legends were to be made into an otherworldly game, it would be a low-cost, low-risk, and high-return venture—a true money-making machine!
As soon as Cruise Capital discovered this, they were eager to complete the process before the Chinese New Year and acquire at least half of Bluestar's original shares.
In addition to their normal operations, they also planned to directly buy out the copyright of "League of Legends".
They must keep this money-making machine in their own hands and invest in it themselves!
To this end, they have even prepared a fairly detailed plan.
Now, this plan has fallen into Mingyan's hands.
What is this?
This is the meaning of "bitterly resenting the years spent embroidering gold thread, only to make wedding gowns for others."
The proposal produced by Big Capital is truly extraordinary; it immediately gave Mingyan a fairly in-depth understanding of the production of the otherworld game.
The cruise line also estimated the cost of developing a crossover game based on League of Legends.
It's roughly around two billion yuan, with most of the funds used to purchase suitable resources from another world.
It also explicitly states that it might be a price they can afford!
Upon seeing this, Mingyan was both surprised and delighted, and immediately began to estimate the amount of money he had on hand.
One billion yuan of revenue from Minecraft has been invested in Bluestar Research Institute, while other revenue goes into Bluestar Studio's account.
League of Legends has just begun to turn a profit, and all revenue must be reinvested in the further operation and maintenance of the game, so it can be disregarded.
"Hachiko's Story" is entirely charitable and can be disregarded.