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Chapter 125 Your game is unreliable
Has Legend started to be promoted now? Cheng Yi vaguely remembers that the public beta of Legend was in late September.

The name "Legend" was still used in this era and was not changed to "Legend of Mir 2".

He had originally planned to get his first pot of gold and then find a way to get some of Legend's channel agency rights, but he didn't expect that Shengda's people would come to him.

However, this timing is normal.

Previous news media reported that after Chen Tianqiao took over the legendary agency, he had very little money left, and the corporate dedicated lines, game servers, game operators, and point card distributors needed for subsequent operations were all shut down.

Although he managed to try out the Dell server and telecom broadband for two months with the agency contract, he was eventually stuck in the hands of the point card distributor Zhonghai Yubi.

Yu Bi had originally agreed that they would be responsible for the production, distribution and marketing of the installation discs, and Shengda would be responsible for the introduction and operation of the game. However, just after the internal test was completed, Yu Bi's senior management suddenly broke the contract.

There are many theories about the reasons for the contract break. Cheng Yi speculates that Shengda Company was too small, and Yu Bi didn't want to take such a big risk. What if he printed 10 sets of CDs and point cards and couldn't sell them? Moreover, in this era, the promotion channels for CDs and point cards were software stores and bookstores, which all cost money.

Shengda even bought its servers and broadband on credit. If this game fails, it will have to bear the loss on its own.

Any other company would probably hesitate.

After Yu Bi broke the contract, Shengda had no choice but to go it alone. They didn't have the point card channels from software stores and bookstores, so they had to change direction and set their sights on Internet cafe owners.

They gave Internet cafe owners 10% of the profits from point card sales, which opened the curtain on the Internet cafe point card era.

"Let him come up." Cheng Yi said.

Not long after, a young man carrying a worn backpack strode up the stairs. The young man was not very old, probably in his early twenties.

He looked around at everyone on the fourth floor timidly and asked timidly, "You, who among you is the boss?"

Du Yusheng raised his hand and pointed at Cheng Yi and said, "If you have anything to say, talk to our deputy store manager."

"Hello, my name is Wang Yun, and I'm a legendary field salesperson." The young man took out a business card and handed it to Cheng Yi respectfully.

Cheng Yi looked at the young man and asked, "Are you an employee of Shengda Company?"

The young man nodded and said, "Yes."

Cheng Yi looked down at the business card: Wang Yun, Marketing Manager of Zhonghai Shengda Network Technology Co., Ltd.

Cheng Yi smiled and said, "Manager Wang, right?"

"Yes." Wang Yun nodded quickly.

"Let's talk about your game and cooperation mode first." Cheng Yi said with a smile while playing with the CD in his hand.

Wang Yun immediately said, "This is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game. We've already obtained the license from South Korea. I'm here to jointly promote our game with your internet cafe. In return, we can give you the right to sell point cards, and 10% of the proceeds from the point card sales will belong to your internet cafe."

"How about I install the game for you first and take a look?" Wang Yun said, "We've done internal testing, and the players have given it very good reviews. Even if it can't compare to Stone Age, it can definitely compete with Millennium."

"Wait a moment, these computers don't have CD drives right now." Cheng Yi shouted to Sun Baxin and the others, "You guys go to President Guo and get our spoils."

"Okay." Du Yusheng and others stood up excitedly.

Thirty Pentium 4 computers, that's like a huge upgrade.

"Manager Wang, let's go to the tea room first." Cheng Yi said with a smile.

"Okay." Wang Yun followed Cheng Yi and soon arrived at the tea room.

Entering the tea room, Cheng Yi smiled and said, "Manager Wang, how many people are there in your company now?"

Wang Yun gave a wry smile and told the truth: "To be honest, boss, there are only 18 people in our company."

"Aren't game companies all very rich? How are you going to promote this game with just such a small team of people?" Cheng Yi pretended to be surprised.

Wang Yun said, "Our company was founded not long ago, and we experienced the dot-com bubble last year, so our performance has been poor. This time, we've put all our resources into promoting our products, and Handong Province is our first stop." Cheng Yi frowned and said, "If your financial resources are insufficient, wouldn't that be a complete disaster?"

Wang Yun smiled awkwardly and did not explain.

Because he thinks so too.

Ever since Yu Bi suddenly broke the contract, the morale of their entire company has become low.

If their boss Chen hadn't collected some money from his friends, their company would have probably been dissolved long ago.

In order to promote the game, their company, with the exception of the boss couple and four technical staff, had 4 other people driving a Jinbei van and embarking on a nationwide promotion tour.

As soon as they arrived in Jingzhou City, Handong Province, the 12 of them split up into small groups and dispersed to various districts and counties to look for Internet cafes to discuss cooperation.

Cheng Yi pretended to lose interest, stood up and said, "Go ask somewhere else. We at Momo Internet Cafe won't participate. We have eight branches in Jingzhou City, with over 2,000 computers and tens of thousands of users. If we go bankrupt after your game goes online, it will greatly affect our reputation. We are the internet cafe with the best reputation in Jingzhou City."

"Boss, boss, we are really serious about making this game. We will do our best to avoid the problems you are worried about." Wang Yun pleaded quickly.

Cheng Yi frowned and said, "How can you avoid it? This can't be avoided by just talking."

Wang Yun was slightly stunned, and then he heard Cheng Yi say: "If you want me to cooperate, you can show me the long-term server rental contract. As long as your contract is for more than one year, I will believe in your sincerity."

Wang Yun looked embarrassed and said, "I..."

"You can't even come up with this? Are you trying to bullshit me?" Cheng Yi frowned and asked, "Or are you planning to just shut down the server and run away when it expires?"

"I sold point cards for you, and then you shut down the server and ran away. Will those players forgive me?"

Cheng Yi’s words dealt a heavy blow to Wang Yun’s heart.

He now began to doubt whether their boss Chen really intended to make money for two months and then run away.

If you think about it carefully, this is indeed possible.

They have lost Yu Bi's channel support. Can they really make this game successful by just running around to recruit cooperating Internet cafes?
There is no money to make posters, no money for publicity, and not even money to publish an advertising page on Popular Software.

This seems unreliable no matter how you look at it.

Should he change his career? Wang Yun even considered quitting his job and changing careers.

"Oh, never mind. It's not easy for a small company like yours." Cheng Yi sighed and said, "Who among you can decide the company's affairs?"

"Our Vice President Luo can do it." Wang Yun said quickly: "He is one of the three vice presidents of our company."

"Just 18 people, and three vice presidents." Cheng Yi laughed.

Wang Yun blushed and said, "When we were doing 'Internet Silicon Valley' last year, the company still had dozens of people..."

"Let Vice President Luo come and talk to us in person," Cheng Yi said. "Just tell him I have hundreds of thousands of users and ask him if he wants one."

Looking at Cheng Yi's back, Wang Yun felt mixed emotions.

At that moment, at the entrance of Feiyang Internet Cafe, a man in a suit and glasses took a deep breath and spoke to a tree in front of him. "Hello, I'm Luo Shenyi, the vice president of Shengda Company. Our company is the agent for a game and would like to cooperate with your internet cafe. We can give you the right to sell point cards, and you can get a 10% commission on each point card sold."

Nervous, too nervous.

This was his first field sales promotion, and he was facing the largest Internet cafe in the city center, which is said to have three branches and a total of 1800 computers.

If 1800 computers are converted according to the independent IP addresses on the Internet, that means more than 20000 daily active users, and they are all heavy consumers.

(End of this chapter)