Three Kingdoms Shark.
Also known as "Thriving and Prospering."
Abbreviated as: "Thrive."
The origin of this nickname lies in a comment made by a customer service representative in his previous life: "Our game is thriving and prospering, oh!"
But in reality, the game was already terminally ill, with no signs of recovery to this day. The "dog cards" they released kept becoming more and more absurd with every update.
However, you cannot doubt the popularity of Three Kingdoms Shark.
Nor can you doubt its ability to generate revenue.
"Three Kingdoms Shark" was a board game designed by students of the 2004 Game Design major at the Animation School of the Imperial Capital University of Media and published by the Imperial Capital Youka Board Game Culture Development Co., Ltd. By late June 2009, it had been developed into an online game by the Hangzhou-based Bianfeng Network Technology Co., Ltd.
In other words, Three Kingdoms Shark had been online for less than two months, so it didn't yet have very high popularity.
But if one could spend a large sum of money to acquire the entire copyright and IP, the future revenue would be absolutely guaranteed.
However, acquiring it would be quite difficult, as this game was at least not losing money for them, and they could play the long game—it might even explode in popularity later.
And it did indeed explode later on.
Moreover, Bianfeng Network Technology Co., Ltd. belonged to NetEase, and the Tang Family didn't seem to have any connections the…
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