Rebirth of the Evil Life

While negotiating the agency contract with Newell, Lin Feng suddenly remembered the first-person shooter online game that was once popular in China before rebirth——"Interstellar Online".

This online game, which was once popular in China, was as popular as "Legend" at the time, but it was a pity that it was stopped by the domestic agency players who made troubles, and finally had no choice but to stop playing it, which caused countless obsessed players to sigh. . In order to make up for the regrets in their hearts, players who have the conditions and can understand English switch to the US server, and the rest can only remember the past nights when bullets flew and gunfire raged, which made countless people crazy and exciting.

"Don't be afraid of enemies like wolves, but teammates like pigs." - This is a famous saying that all players respect as sacred.

Now Newell's "Counter-Strike Online" is still affected by the stand-alone CS in terms of networking, and the networking is not thorough enough. After secretly comparing the two games, Lin Feng made his own suggestion.

Lin Feng proposed to add a level system in the game. Players rely on killing enemies to gain experience and upgrade their characters. The higher the level, the more weapons the player can choose from. However, there is no slight difference in strength between high-level characters and low-level characters. A level 1 character can also kill a top-level character.

Then there is the abolition of the money system, and all equipment is directly supplied by the base. And it is proposed to launch a large-scale map in the later stage, provide armored vehicles, aircraft, and even ships for players to use, and conduct all-round battles by sea, land and air-this is also a reference to "StarCraft Online".

For Lin Feng's proposal, Newell and MihnLee's eyes lighted up. These points can increase the player's sense of substitution and enhance the player's enthusiasm for the game. I believe it will contribute to the popularity of "Counter-Strike Online". However, Lin Feng's last point proposed to launch a large-scale map and provide armored vehicles and aircraft for players to use. This is something they did not expect before, so it may take a lot of time to complete this point.

For Newell's concerns, Lin Feng reassured him. This point can be slowly released in the future with its expansion packs for system upgrades, and it is not necessary to release them for the time being.

After some detailed communication, the two parties finally reached an agency agreement amicably.

Lin Feng won the agency rights of "Counter-Strike Online" in Asia with an agency fee of 10 million US dollars, and Valve enjoys 20% of the profit share of "Counter-Strike Online" every year.

Lin Feng knew that he had taken advantage of this contract. This is an online game that is popular all over the world. To get it at such a low price seems like pie in the sky. As for the complete agency right, Lin Feng didn't think about it at all. Previously, the agent wanted the full copyright of the other party's game because of the anti-piracy relationship. However, "Counter-Strike Online" is a first-person online game, and generally plug-ins are useless.

As for the plug-ins such as "gun headshot" and "accelerated walking" that appear in the stand-alone game CS, they can be easily eliminated with today's technology, so there is no need to worry too much. Therefore, Lin Feng did not mention his complete copyright at all.

After an amicable agreement was reached, both parties relaxed. Newell also accompanied Lin Feng on a tour of Silicon Valley and introduced the current environment of Silicon Valley. I have to say that Silicon Valley is indeed worthy of being the center of the electronics industry in the world. Big companies such as Cisco, Intel, HP, Lucent, and Apple are gathered here. Looking at the endless stream of pedestrians on the street, don’t look at the sweaters, T-shirts, etc. The clothes are extremely simple and simple, but you may be a millionaire or a multi-millionaire with just a touch. It is normal to get rich overnight here.

"Boss Lin, it's a pleasant cooperation. I hope we will have a lot of cooperation opportunities in the future." After signing the agreement, the two parties agreed on payment and other related matters, and Lin Feng was ready to return to Shanghai.

"Happy cooperation." Lin Feng smiled slightly. This time, we not only got the agency right in China, but also the agency right in Asia. The harvest is so rich that people are overjoyed.

Lin Feng and his party were preparing to leave accompanied by Newell.

At this moment, Lin Feng inadvertently glanced at the computer that a young man was tinkering with, he was taken aback for a moment, thought for a while, and then stopped.

"Boss Lin, what are you...?" Newell looked at Lin Feng in confusion.

"Excuse me, who is this?" Lin Feng pointed to the young man and asked.

"Oh, this is Cohen (Cohen), the leader of our newly hired technology development team." Newell said.

Lin Feng nodded, smiled slightly at Cohen who turned around, and then stared at the computer in front of Cohen.

"Hello, what software are you working on now...?" Lin Feng pointed to a software window on the computer and said.

"Hello, this is a download software based on P2P file transfer protocol that I developed when I was bored. I call it BitTorrent." Cohen said indifferently.

Although Cohen didn't care, Lin Feng's heart skipped a beat. I thought it was no wonder the software window was so familiar just now, it turned out to be BT, a small but extremely important software that changed the Internet world in later generations.

Existing downloading software such as Flashget, etc., are all downloading software based on the HTTP transfer protocol. Although the downloading is not slow, there are not small restrictions on the rebroadcast files, and the host needs to provide resources to download. But BT is different, it can freely disseminate files, as long as it is a seed, it can be provided to all users for download. And it is multi-point upload, the more people download, the faster the speed.

However, BT software also involves an infringement issue, mainly when distributing movies. But for Lin Feng, these problems can be solved, even if they can't be solved, they won't fight. What Lin Feng likes is that through this software, his company's name will be famous all over the world, and this is the most important thing.

"Excuse me, have you finished this software?" Lin Feng asked calmly.

"Hehe, it's done, this is just a downloadable software." Obviously, Cohen has not realized that the software he developed will change the world. But it's useless even if he realizes that he is a technical talent, not a business talent. In the world before Lin Feng's rebirth, Cohen failed to make a fortune with BT, and was still a poor technician.

"Uh, then, do you want to sell it? I want to buy the full copyright of it. What do you think of the price of 50,000 US dollars?" Lin Feng asked.

"Do you want to buy its copyright? $50,000?" Cohen's tone was a little high. This was his leisure work, but unexpectedly it was picked up by someone, and the asking price was $50,000, which made him both surprised and pleasantly surprised.

Although the average annual salary in Silicon Valley has exceeded US$100,000, US$50,000 is still not a small number for him. Immediately, Cohen agreed to sell its full copyright to Lin Feng. As for Newell, there is no comment on that. This software was originally developed by his employees in their spare time, and the copyright does not belong to the company, so he naturally has no right to intervene. On the contrary, he was very pleased that his employees could develop a small program and sell it for 50,000 US dollars.

But what Newell didn't know was that because of his negligence at this time, Lin Feng bought the copyright of BT, and in the end he came to ask Lin Feng instead. It has to be said that life's encounters are like this, and they are fickle.

In order to reach an agreement and allow Cohen to complete the final optimization work, Lin Feng stayed in Silicon Valley for another day.

The next day, Lin Feng left Silicon Valley with the CD containing BT's copyright, related development data, and Cohen's experience, and signed the "Counter-Strike Online" agency agreement.

But before the plane took off, Lin Feng received a call.

"Director Lin, it's not good, something happened to "Legend"." Wu Zhaopu's urgent voice came.

"What! What's the matter?" Lin Feng's heart skipped a beat, and he hurriedly asked.

"Sir, the plane is about to take off, please turn off your phone." The stewardess reminded kindly.

"But I..." Lin Feng wanted to say that his company was at a critical juncture, but he knew in his heart that if he still called before the plane took off, the lives of everyone on the plane would be in danger. In desperation, Lin Feng hurriedly called After Wu Zhaopu told him to deal with it as appropriate, he turned off the phone.

What happened? ——Lin Feng looked anxious on the plane. Lin Feng, who had just signed the agency contract and accidentally bought the complete copyright of BT software, was not in the mood to celebrate at the moment.