Rebirth of the Evil Life

75 Chapter four hundred and seventy-two waiting for the show

According to the "Report on China's Game Industry in xx Years" released by the Year of the Dead:

In 2009, there were only a few online games such as "Stone Age" and "King of Kings" in China. At that time, the number of domestic online game players was less than one million. 91du's novel has been sorted out since Lin Feng founded the "Second World" in four.

From the official public beta of "Legend" on xx, xx of the same year to the four months of this year, the number of domestic online game players has doubled exponentially every year, from less than a million at the beginning to more than 10,000 now.

In just a short period of time, the number of players has soared from one million to tens of thousands. Apart from the charm of the game, the most important reason for this is that the "Audition All-Star Lineup" under the "Second World" has attracted countless players. Millions of star female fans make the army of online gamers increase instantly. Of course, this is not counting the foreign players of several games under the "Second World" in Southeast Asian countries. If the number of online game players is counted, the number of online game players will exceed 40,000.

And the number of large-scale online game players in China is more than tens of millions. "Second World. How can the "Swordsman Love: Loyalty to Serve the Country" satisfy the game desires of these tens of millions of players? Now there is only one area with a population of 10,000, counting the next week. Ten thousand more online quotas are also added to Li Wan players. So where do the remaining 10,000 players go? What kind of services do they enjoy?

All the reporters are waiting for the players to tangle, and many competitors are sneering. They want to see how the "second world" chooses? Compromising to the cruel reality for the sake of profit or gritting your teeth for the sake of face, but no matter what, it is good news and a dawn for other online game companies.

Wu Zhaopu looked at the many reporters below and Wei Yiwu said, "Loyalty under the Sword: Devotion to the Country" under our company will add a super computer within a week and open 10,000 online players. After that, we will open a new area every month. Multi-game area." Wu Zhaopu said slowly.

The faces of many gamers in front of the TV are dimmed. The legendary "millions of players online at the same time" is impossible to come true. And let's listen to his tone, more game areas will be opened. I am afraid that the subsequent servers will not be like the first server now. Can accommodate Liwan players online.

Regretful expressions overflowed unreservedly on the player's face.

Although this was expected by many players, after all, after a certain industry veteran named "Coke Drink Hedy." analyzed in detail and explained in detail the gap between super computer servers and ordinary game servers, players also deeply understand There are technical differences. What's more, another person who also claims to be a game technician "Falcon Gaoxiang" also said that after the number of online players on the same server reaches a critical point, the data generated by each additional player will be higher than before. A hundred times, a thousand times.

Under the analysis of these two veterans, many players can also understand the helplessness of the "Second World", but they always feel a little uncomfortable when they understand it. Naturally, I am even more envious of the players who are still fighting in "Swordsman Love: Loyalty to Serve the Country". What they enjoy is that there will be 10,000 players online at most.

Many competitors sneered and secretly said that it was so, and at the same time secretly rejoiced that they still had a chance of survival. No matter how good the production of "Swordsman Love: Loyalty to the Country" is, it can only accommodate four people online. The so-called large-scale battle and the huge map will become the fatal injury of "Swordsman Love: Loyalty to the Country". After all, if there are not a large number of players playing on the same server, but the famous players are on a huge map that can accommodate tens of thousands of players and is not too crowded, then it is really not much different from a stand-alone game.

"Wait a minute" at the end of the Second World press conference, it was announced that "Miracle" will launch a new expansion piece and open a higher level. "Chen Xiaowei ordered. She wanted to snatch more players while the players were disappointed with "Swordsman Love: Serving the Country with Loyalty".

However, Chen Xiaowei felt a little doubtful. Wu Zhaopu said that launching a district every month is too slow? Do you want to modify the map? make it smaller?

Under Chen Xiaowei's thinking, Wu Zhaopu announced the final decision.

"Here, due to various reasons such as technology, our company's "Swordsman Love: Loyalty to Serve the Country" failed to promise the previously advertised "millions of players online, but our company will do its best to let players experience the joy of more gamers playing on one server." . Therefore, all players of "Swordsman Love: Loyalty to Serve the Country" please rest assured that the game area opened in the future will be the same as the first area, and each area will use Taiwan-level computers as servers and will support tens of thousands of players to play online at the same time. " Wu Zhaopu waved his fist and said.

After Wu Zhaopu finished speaking, many reporters in the audience were taken aback. Originally thought that the "Second World" had compromised with the reality to earn the maximum profit at the minimum cost, but suddenly announced that it would still use four-level computers as servers. This is too irrational. The purpose of online game companies is to make money, not to do "charity".

The many players in front of the TV were stunned for a moment, and then burst into cheers. Although the wish of millions of players playing on the same server cannot be realized, every zone opened will have 10,000 players online, which will definitely make all players excited. Of course, there are rational players who worry about whether the "Second World" can bear such a huge investment, but think about it, each district will be able to accommodate 10,000 players online in the future, so all worries and doubts are swept away, and only the right is left. Looking forward to the opening of the second game area.

Chen Xiaowei, the president of "Ninetowns", and others were a little at a loss. She originally thought that the "Second World" had already compromised.

But I didn't expect the "Second World" to do the opposite. This is incredible!

"Vice President Wu, may your company use supercomputers as servers, which will definitely increase your company's operating costs? With such high operating costs, can your company guarantee the interests of the company's many shareholders?" A reporter from "Four Times Weekly" asked.

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"No, although using high-end computers as servers will increase our company's operating costs, we believe that its profits will definitely ensure a balance of payments. After all, if the company does not make money, we cannot continue to operate." Wu Zhaopu explained.

"Then how to protect the interests of players? Will it be like the previously boasted "millions of players online will become tens of thousands of players online, and tens of thousands of players online will become thousands of players online in the future?" . a reporter asked.

This question is extremely sharp and even mean. Everyone looked to see that its logo was from Japan's "Asahi Shimbun".

For "Second World" to set a record of 10,000 players online, this shocked the entire Japanese game industry. The game data of tens of thousands of players "Second World" has a super computer that can naturally load it, but how does the player's computer load this huge data? Obviously, there is a very important technology among them, which is probably the mysterious "cloud computing".

This Chinese company ushered in a new era in the game industry, which naturally made many companies in the Japanese game industry unhappy. Today, a reporter from the "Asahi Shimbun" went to the press room with an unwilling attitude.

Wu Zhaopu frowned and wanted to continue explaining and report the company's operations and funds to all walks of life, but was stopped by Lin Fengping.

"Everyone here, I would like to reaffirm that we "Second World" are determined to build a world's top game company in China, so we will never do anything that harms the interests of players. Also, our company will definitely not be like the game companies in some countries, who will continue to make bad rice after a game sells well, releasing expansion packs of successive games or foreign works to cheat players out of their money.

As for the interests of our company, I believe that although we earn a little less, we will never make money by damaging the interests of players. So there is absolutely no need to doubt the strength and commitment of our company. " Lin Feng said with a disdainful look at the reporter of "Asahi Shimbun".

Lin Feng's words naturally won the applause of all the players and domestic reporters at the scene. These words are justified, especially alluding to the fact that Japanese game companies only want to make money when a game is popular, and then change its content a little bit. Change the protagonist and launch its sequel or rumors Regardless of the player's feelings about a game.

How could the reporter of "Asahi Shimbun" fail to understand the meaning of Lin Feng's words, his face was flushed with anger, but he couldn't refute it. This is normal in the Japanese game industry. The company's interest is to make money. No matter how bad a game is, as long as it can make money, why not sell it?

Humph, just blow! Let me see how you end up running out of liquidity! "Nine Cities"

Chen Xiaowei sneered.

Four high-level servers are worth more than ten thousand dollars to maintain the online operation of thousands of players. One region is released a month, and now the popularity of "Swordsman Love: Loyalty to the Country" needs at least two regions to meet the needs of players. The old region is 600 million US dollars in super computer expenditures. This does not include other network bandwidth and other expenses to support a conservative estimate. Last month, the "Second World" had to invest about 100 million U.S. dollars.

This is not a small amount to drive 100 million US dollars. I am afraid that the combined market value of most online game companies in China does not exceed US$100 million. Now a company in "Second World" is going to spend tens of millions of dollars for a server, and it's really shocking to spend such a huge amount of money just for an online game.

Of course, no matter whether Chen Xiaowei is willing to admit that "Swordsman Love: Loyalty to the Country" is a very successful domestic large-scale online game, whether it is its unique upgrade system or incredible martial arts combat system, it has created a new style of online games.

This game is conservatively estimated to be operational for years. But the premise is how the "second world" will come up with hundreds of millions of dollars this month! During this period of time, "Second World" has been making big moves. Although the net profit of the four companies announced in the first quarter reached a staggering 400 million US dollars, Chen Xiaowei does not believe that "Second World" still has enough liquidity to support it. This old gaming area spends on first-class computer hardware.

It's true that Lin Feng is indeed a wealthy individual in mainland China with a capital of xx billion US dollars, but most of it belongs to real estate and stocks, and he personally doesn't have so much cash flow. Unless he sells stocks or shares in other companies in his hands, but is he willing to do so? Of course, Lin Feng has a good relationship with President Jiang of the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, and there is absolutely no problem with getting a loan.

However, it will take a long time just to recover the hardware cost, which is too long. At present, there are only a few online games in China from development to recovery of cost at the same time. Only a few "Second World" have spent the same time researching "Swordsman Love: Loyalty to the Country", not counting the previous work by Qiu Xin and others in "Jinshan Company". The cost can only be recovered by adding the operating time of the previous month to the opening time.

This cycle is too long! In Chen Xiaowei's view, it was irrational. What will happen in it is anyone's guess and it would be reckless to invest such a large amount.

I'll just see how you play. Chen Xiaowei watched coldly. Of course, now she can only watch "Miracle" with cold eyes under the impact of "Swordsman Love: Devotion to the Country" and the future popularity is no longer a concern. Of course, other role-playing online games are not as good as "Miracle", such as "Swordsman" and "Swordsman Love: Loyalty to the Country" are of the same style, but they are far inferior. It may be very difficult for players to play "Swordsman" nowadays.

Fortunately, the operating costs of "Miracle" have been recovered, and "Ninetowns" has made a lot of money, not to mention "Ninetowns" and "Magic Baby".

"Magic Baby" has officially reopened. It is conservatively estimated that the net profit in the first quarter will be 40,000 RMB. With the income from "Magic Baby", Chen Xiaowei can naturally hold her head up.

At present, there is no online game company in the domestic online game industry, except for the dominant "Second World"

"Ninetowns" is the most profitable online game company outside of Tencent, which mainly focuses on small online games for the time being. What's more, "Magic Baby" is an online game with a concave turn system, and there is no other online game in China that can compete with it. This is also the reason why Chen Xiaowei went to Japan to win "Magic Baby".

But then Chen Xiaowei couldn't laugh anymore.

Amidst the slight discussion among many reporters, Lin Feng announced a piece of news that would shock and reshuffle the entire Chinese online game industry. This news made all the online game companies surprised, astonished, secretly happy, and angry!

How can you bastard! shame on you! Chen Xiaowei drank three bottles of mineral water angrily after hearing Lin Feng's words, but she still couldn't get rid of her anger.