>> But he also mentioned that they already have investors.
He's bluffing. The activity could be paid for.
He wants to look strong, either to dissuade you from competing in the same market, or for you start negotiating with him, giving him the advantage.
But it's not like you can sit on your hands either.
Go right ahead and add Chinese translation to your website, I say. You can then use the same i18n infrastructure and hire Vietnamese, Indonesian, Tagalog translators and expand to the rest of South East Asia. Do Traditional Chinese as well, and get into Taiwan and Hong Kong. Translators from upwork.com should be quite cheap. Be careful to only send the translatable message files, though, don't send the code - I've heard of people getting their code ripped this way.
Try do that in a month.
Then you have them surrounded, and you can negotiate with them from a position of strength.
You can send them a grateful email thanking them for introducing you to the Asian market.
I like your leadership attitude :-) From the other people commenting in this thread I figured that cooperation is not a realistic goal, so we will try to up our Asia game.
But we also need some people from the local eSports community to work with/for us.
He's bluffing. The activity could be paid for.
He wants to look strong, either to dissuade you from competing in the same market, or for you start negotiating with him, giving him the advantage.
But it's not like you can sit on your hands either.
Go right ahead and add Chinese translation to your website, I say. You can then use the same i18n infrastructure and hire Vietnamese, Indonesian, Tagalog translators and expand to the rest of South East Asia. Do Traditional Chinese as well, and get into Taiwan and Hong Kong. Translators from upwork.com should be quite cheap. Be careful to only send the translatable message files, though, don't send the code - I've heard of people getting their code ripped this way.
Try do that in a month.
Then you have them surrounded, and you can negotiate with them from a position of strength.
You can send them a grateful email thanking them for introducing you to the Asian market.
Send a bottle of European wine as your regards.