Silicon Valley

It is impossible to negotiate all at once. The major directors of the NFL League said that they should consider it, and politely refused.

Henry had nothing to say, just nodded. From Henry's point of view, the reason why they didn't agree immediately was because they didn't see any real benefits!

As the saying goes, seeing is believing.

These people are all capitalists who don’t see the rabbit and don’t scatter the eagle. Even if Henry said that the sky is bad, they may not completely believe it! In this regard, Henry can only build more powerful influence, thus forcing them to submit. Jack Ma once said, "Today you ignore me if you love me, and tomorrow I will let you down."

If one day, the NFL League sees that with Henry's support and promotion, when the NBA is making crazy profits all over the world, it will only know how much it regrets it!

Henry returned to San Jose, and the follow-up was just to send his subordinates to continue contact with the NFL. He didn't have the time to talk with a bunch of greedy capitalists there.

July is almost here, and the Firefly game platform is ready to go online!

There are only two games that landed on this platform at the beginning, one is "Warcraft 1" jointly developed by Blizzard and Westwood, and the other is "Doom" developed by ID-software game company!

"Warcraft 1" is a real-time strategy game, and "Doom" is a first-person shooter game. The two games are both first-of-its-kind ancestor-level games. Once released, they will definitely shock the entire game industry! ! !

In the previous life, "Warcraft 1" was tepid, mainly because there was already Jasper - "Dune II" developed by Westwood Studio, while "Warcraft 1" was a work imitating "Dune II". But now, Westwood Studio has not developed "Dune II", but developed "Warcraft 1" together with Blizzard, the first real-time strategy online game, which will inevitably be popular all over the world!

And "Doom" is even more popular, and it is unparalleled. There are almost very few computer players who have not played the game when "Doom" was the most popular... If the Internet cafes in the previous life were not popular at that time, otherwise, the Internet cafes will definitely be uniform. Playing Doom!

Firefly Games has been dormant for several years. There has never been a game work, it is just a blockbuster!

At that time. Countless game designers will fall for it, and countless gamers will be crazy about it!

Plus, Henry has always advocated for online gaming, so. Both Warcraft 1 and Doom can be played online!

Internet cafes will usher in the era of explosion! ! !

July 1st.

Firefly game platform is online!

The interface of ICQ chat software has been partially changed, and the original "ICQ game platform" has been changed to "game".

Then click "Game", there will be two options of "ICQ Game Platform" and "Firefly Game Platform".

In order to strengthen mutual cooperation, an option "Firefly Game Platform" was added to the interface of "ICQ Game Platform". Naturally, there will also be an option of "ICQ Game Platform" on the interface of "Firefly Game Platform".

This kind of bundling, basically every software company is playing!

In order to achieve seamless cooperation. Henry intends to have ICQ make a strategic investment in Firefly Games. Cross-holding! And if the Firefly game company is supported by ICQ, it will be even more powerful, develop more rapidly, and at the same time, it will be more stable!

Henry finally decided that ICQ held 20% of the shares of Firefly Games, and Firefly Games held 5% of ICQ's shares!

The market value of Firefly Games is much lower than that of ICQ, not even a quarter of it, but Henry believes that Firefly Games has great potential for development. The valuation should not be too low, so it is cross-exchanged according to 1:4!

For Henry, the crossover is the same anyway, and it doesn't matter. But there are bound to be ideas for shareholders on both sides of the company.

Therefore, before the launch of the Firefly game platform, Henry invited Tian Shuai, the CEO of ICQ, to go to Firefly Games to try out "Warcraft 1" and "Doom", and let him take a look at other games that the company is developing, such as "Warcraft 1" and "Doom". FIFA1994. FIFA Football Manager, Need for Speed, and more.

After finishing, Tian Shuai said to Henry very excitedly: "Chairman, Firefly Games will definitely become the overlord in the game industry. This is a very great company! I have no objection to cross-shareholding!!!"

"Chairman, can I copy Doom and go back to play?" Tian Shuai asked with bright eyes.

Henry shook his head and smiled: "Copying is useless, we designed a program in the game, you need to log in to the Firefly game platform to purchase a registration code to play the game! The registration code is only bound to the account of the Firefly game platform, except for logging in There is no other way to play games on the Firefly game platform!"

Tian Shuai couldn't help but be stunned when he heard the words, "But this way, wouldn't it give up a huge market? You know, there are still many users who don't have access to the Internet!"

"Hehe, do you know about hunger and thirst marketing?" Henry smiled at Tian Shuai and asked, but before he could speak, Henry himself continued, "Online games are more fun than stand-alone games, there is no doubt about this. Stand-alone games are more fun. If the game cannot be played, the Internet cafe will inevitably be in short supply, so that it can create an unprecedented game fire, and even dozens of people line up to play the game in the Internet cafe!!!”

"The less you can't get it, the more you want to play! When players' desire reaches the highest point, we will release the single-player game CD. At that time, the sales volume will explode, which is unimaginable! Haha... I'm afraid of that. It's too late to produce more game discs!"

After Henry finished speaking, Tian Shuai nodded in admiration.

This hunger marketing did not say that after hanging people's tastes, they will make a lot of money!

At this time, Henry said to Tian Shuai: "We are also developing disc encryption technology. By entering the registration code during the process of reading the disc, even if other people know the registration code, it is useless because he does not have the game disc! At present, the The research and development of the technology has reached the final stage, and it will not be long before mature applications! Of course, if you want to play now, you can log in to the Firefly server and enter the authorized account password. Later, you can find Firefly games Company CEO Simon Hodge wants an account!"

Tian Shuai said with a smile: "That's great, I just reached the first level of "Doom"!"

"Haha. John Carmack and the others have designed more than 30 levels in total, and they are getting more and more difficult. You have played some of them!"

"Doom" has a battle mode and a tackling mode. Among them, the tackling mode is divided into single player or multiplayer!

The battle mode can accommodate 8 people, and the tackling mode can accommodate 4 people.

This game, Henry played for a while, then stopped playing. The picture is a bit frustrating and bloody. Of course, this game is only 11.5MB, which was already considered a big game at the time. The average game is only a few MB, even "Warcraft 1". Its size is only 7.6MB. For these players who have not been exposed to a few gigabytes of games. "Doom" is already very awesome, and the game screen is still 3D, which shocked them!

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After three or four hours of fermentation, the Firefly game platform finally broke out.

The new game mode, the new fighting method, "Warcraft 1" and "Doom" just made them addicted, plus the ability to network with other players, it didn't take long for them to become popular.

"Oh, my God. It's great, it's so classic, it's the most fun game I've ever played!!!" In the Blue Star Internet Cafe, Jack stared at the screen, his eyes were shining, and he couldn't help shouting. stand up.

"Hey, brother, what game are you playing, it's really so fun?" The users who were online around couldn't help but look over.

Without turning his head, Jack replied, "Of course. Super fun!!!"

"Fuck, this picture is actually 3D, it's really awesome, and it's a first-person shooter game, it's really cool! Hey, what's the name of this game?"

""Doom Warrior"!!!"

Jack responded casually, and suddenly, the character that Jack controlled was killed by a blue-eyed, bloated and fat monster in front of him, and Jack couldn't help but push the keyboard forward in dejection. , scolded, "Oh, f~uck..." After scolding, he took the time to turn his head to look at the crowd of people standing behind him, "Hey, buddy, are you playing? Let's network together. Tackling the problem, Temade, this one is too difficult, I can't beat it alone!"

"Can this game be played online together?"

"That's right, you can PK in online battles, and you can also network together to tackle key problems!" Jack said.

"Fuck, this game is so dangling! Tell me, where can I download it!!!"

"Oh, click 'Game' on the ICQ chat software interface, then download the Firefly game platform, and then enter the Firefly game platform, there is "Doom". However, if you want to play the game, you must download the game, and then purchase and register You can play it only after the code! It's actually very simple, you just open the ICQ and click the game, and then follow the prompts, so-easy!"

Jack urged: "Hurry up, I'll wait for you. I'll download "Warcraft 1" first and play it. This Firefly game platform has only these two games for the time being. "Doom" is so fun, it doesn't make sense. Warcraft 1 is not fun, it must be a classic game!"

"Okay, then I'll download the game now!"

"Warcraft 1" is only 7.6MB, with a network speed of 56kbps, it can be downloaded in a few minutes.

Jack started playing Warcraft 1 and bought a registration code for $20, the same price for Doom. Jack felt that the price was too good. If you bought the game CD, it would cost at least hundreds of dollars. But now, you can play two classic games for only $40!

"Uh, there are two modes of single-player game and online game? Oh, then I'll play the single-player game first, and get familiar with how to play!"

After Jack chose the stand-alone game, since it was the first time to play, he would be prompted how to play at the beginning. Jack quickly got started and found that this was a brand new game, developing bases, building various buildings, collecting resources, building soldiers, and fighting wars. Although the game operation is a bit cumbersome, it is really cool to be able to control where the arms are pointing, just like an arm.

Jack has created a lot of various types of troops, and he is full of sense of accomplishment, but just when Jack was feeling a little stunned, the computer suddenly sent troops to fight!

"Oh, shit!! The computer is hitting me!!!"

Jack screamed and hurriedly directed the army to fight back, but at this rookie level, he was quickly slaughtered by the computer. All the things that he had worked so hard to make were all destroyed. Jack watched as the base headquarters was destroyed, and finally exploded with a "bang", and he was instantly furious!

"Mad, I don't accept it. It's obvious that I don't know how to play... Hmph, I'm going to do it again. This time, I won't leave the computer film that I want to kill!!!"

Just when Jack was about to click the game to start, someone patted Jack on the shoulder and said, "Hi, brother, I've finished the game of Doom, let's come together!"

"You play first, I'll play with you later. I'm going to play "Warcraft 1" now, and I'm going to take revenge!!!" Jack said through gritted teeth!

(To be continued ~^~)