TheSlink wrote:
Drew_Benton wrote:
The information you are looking for is related to "franchise opportunities".
For this type of information, you need to contact Joymax through their "Investment Opportunities and Finance" division, which you can do so
here.
Before your friend does so though, they should at least understand how these things works. Simply having money to finance an endeavor is usually "not enough" when it comes to these things. If your friend has no previous experience in running a game, then I don't think Joymax will just license out their products to anyone. These issues are really sensitive in the business world and you have to remember you are dealing with a very large international company.
At a minimal, your friend should already have a plan for all the aspects of running a large mmo like Silkroad on hand. These include at minimal:
- Data center for hosting
- PR team for maintaining a positive image of Joymax's products you want to license
- Game administration team (technical support, GMs, forum admins, etc...)
For more information on this kind of stuff, just have them do Google search for information on buying a franchise. You should see a lot of the strings attached and will need to keep these things in mind before starting an inquiry. All businesses are different though, but remember that you are dealing on a business level now and unless you actually work in that area, there's always a lot more to it than might initially appear.
Congrats to your friend though!
This was exactly what i was after, truely brilliant post. Unlike some in here which are irrelavant.. and frankly.. His money.. his investment.. also why do you guys not see the bonus from this? If we can create a version which is fun, turk free (Sorry) and friendly.. im sure we could attract a large market.. as GM's would care, the updates would be worthwhile. This combimned would be a interesting combination. Think about it, its a "investment" which means he would reclaim his money.. its not like buying a car that de-value's.. and as to the family thing. He payed of his parents, his, aunties, sisters and brothers morgage.. and treated his parents to a holiday home in Spain and a round the world cruise. The 2m he has is AFTER tax and family.
Anyway, Joymax website cant function correctly.. we cant email them them threw the customer services.. we tried 4 valid numbers and still its rejecting we may have to call.
TheSlink
The "brilliant" post is simply from someone who understands what business is.
Your lucky lottery-winning friend has already wasted a large part of his gain (by spending it... he wont get any revenues from it anymore, nor will anyone) and is thinking of wasting the remaining part by "investing" in a SRO server.
I guess he is a teenager to have such ideas.
I dont mean to be demeaning but helpful.
Money is a matter that only people who are used to dealing with money understand correctly.
You dont know how to invest or even do business if you're a teen or a waged worker. It's a whole other education.
To sum it up, if your lucky friend wanted to INVEST he wouldn't even think of SRO. He would go for sound investment, not video-game fantasy.
Think about it like this : what matters is the revenues, not the capital.
Offer some cash to people and you haven't increased their revenue one bit, you may even have decreased it if they use your gift to buy new stuff that takes money to keep going every month.
You can have millions in capital, or be given millions, what matters is how you turn these into revenues, and what you do with these revenues.
In your example, your friend is willing to spend 2 millions pounds (a serious sum frankly, you could live, family included, all your life in a third world country from the revenues of that starting capital if you moderately cleverly invested it) into a game server of a game he likes...
The excuse that it is an investment is just that, an excuse. He is willing to get himself a big present, that's all there is to it. His precious. And you know where the "my precious" line ends up. Down the crack of mount doom. You're asking for trouble. He already lost about half his gain. Don't encourage him to lose the remaining half.
From what i'm gathering by your posts you are strongly advising him and encouraging him to go for it. Bad move. You admitted that you are jealous. Think of the relation between your jealousy and envy on one side, and on the other side your advice that leads him to waste the rest of the gift he got the luck to get but you didn't.
Think also that 2M£ is a huge sum for an average worker, and your friend is unlikely to have another opportunity like that during his whole lifetime.
Don't be a kid about it. It's his life and his future family's that are concerned with such a capital.
Put your ego on the side and acknowledge that (if you agree with the points i made) his best move is to invest the remaining money in a sound investment, not a teenager's video-game investment fantasy that is just an excuse for avoiding the responsibility to deal maturely with the opportunity.
Read about lottery winners stories. Unhappiness is very common as a result.
Be the friend that helps, not the one that drags him down.
Get selfless dude. It's hard to be responsible for a large sum of money. People just try to eat you up.
Think of his own good, and the good of his current and future family. His future children might need daddy's money in the future.
Hey grandpa, tell us again what you did with the lottery prize you once won, while we're eating dirt in our brand old trailer? Oh yeah, you "invested" it in a f2p mmo server. Thank you grandpa. You and your friend may be clueless teens now but soon you'll grow up and mature. In a few years or decades you'll have other ideas about how to invest 2M£ .
Frankly the sound thing to do would be for mature people to manage this capital, not the lottery winner. He's just wasting it.
xD JK JK
