Chapter 553: Get Rich! Going Ashore!
As for the so-called forums and conferences, Lu Yiming himself was actually not interested. No one would disclose the development strategy of their own company in such a place. People who were too honest would definitely be killed by their peers.
During the conference, Jack Ma asked the question he had been thinking about: "Mr. Lu, what do you think about the future of the Internet industry?"
Lu Yiming said: "The future of the Internet industry is bright, but the road is tortuous. Many people are either blindly optimistic, thinking that the Internet winter will soon pass, or blindly pessimistic, thinking that the future is bleak. In my opinion, this winter will not end for at least two years. Only Internet companies that survive will have a future. If they can't survive, they will just become a shining meteor."
As he spoke, he looked around, seeing faces both familiar and unfamiliar.
In a few years, some of the people present today may disappear in the dust of history.
On September 11, the one-month internal beta test of "Legend of Mir 2" with prizes for 10,000 people ended. Both the installed base and the game's reputation were in line with expectations. According to Lu Yiming's previous deployment, the game was about to be officially put into operation.
Jiang Rong sent a form to Lu Yiming and said, "Mr. Lu, according to your instructions, we have designed three levels of game point cards, namely 35 yuan for 120 hours, 22 yuan for 72 hours, and 10 yuan for 25 hours."
Considering the current price level, this price is definitely not low.
Many domestically produced genuine games may not dare to sell at 35 yuan per copy, not to mention that "Legend of Mir 2" is not selling a game, but only the login time.
"Mr. Lu, I've thought about this for a long time. Isn't this price too high? After all, 120 hours only takes four or five days. It costs several yuan an hour to surf the Internet in an Internet cafe now. If players go to an Internet cafe to play this game, the cost is not small."
There is no doubt that although the cost of Internet access has been reduced, the point card has been added again. Jiang Rongfa is very worried that this price will discourage players from playing the game collectively.
Lu Yiming looked at the table and said, "There is no problem with this pricing. Players who can't afford to play "Legend of Mir 2" can't afford it no matter how cheap the point card is. So don't worry about those players. Just follow this. They are reluctant to spend money on playing games. And don't worry about players leaving. There are paralysis rings worth 500,000 waiting for them, and they will not give up this game."
Lu Yiming reminded again, "Oh, by the way, game characters are free before level 20, and they start to be charged after level 20. I remember that the minimum level requirement for outdoor dungeons is level 20."
"Yes."
Jiang Rongfa then realized that there was such a deep meaning behind Lu Yiming's spending 500,000 yuan to buy the paralysis ring, and he immediately admired Lu Yiming even more.
It's just like buying a lottery ticket. The lottery ticket is only two dollars a ticket. If you don't win, you lose two dollars. But if you win the jackpot, it is enough to change your life.
Although the price of point cards is not cheap, if you can get top-quality equipment, you can make a profit immediately.
With this temptation, players will definitely find ways to play the game.
In the game settings, the wild monsters around the safe zone can only allow the character to level up to level 20, and after that, you can only play dungeons. Moreover, the equipment is upgraded every 5 and 10, and at level 20, the maximum you can get is a set of level 4 equipment. Once you leave the safe zone, you may be killed instantly.
In other words, if you don't spend money, you can only play to level 20, and you may be killed instantly by high-level players when they return to the city at any time.
Jiang Rongfa said: "What if some players upgrade to level 20 and then change their account to start over? Should we limit the number of registrations?"
Lu Yiming said: "No, these players can help us increase the number of daily active users, which is also very good for boosting our momentum, and we don't have to hire people to brush up the data. They just need to be able to endure the boring game experience of chopping scarecrows and killing chickens every day." "Boss Lu, you are amazing. You even calculated these? It's terrible."
Jiang Rongfa couldn't help but shiver, feeling filled with emotion.
Is this the strength of the youngest richest man in mainland China?
It’s really awesome!
"Thanks for the compliment, haha."
Although Lu Yiming kept saying that he was not worried, that was just self-consolation after all. No one knew the real situation.
It's like the novel he read before, which was collected by tens of thousands of people, but when it was put on the shelves and charged, only about a thousand people paid to read it. How can this be justified?
Although the number of registered users of "Legend of Mir 2" has now exceeded 400,000, it is still hard to say how many people are willing to pay to play.
At midnight on September 12, "Legend of Mir 2" point cards officially went on sale.
Since there is no mobile payment now, it is not convenient to buy point cards, so Junzi Interactive Entertainment cooperates with Tongxin Internet Cafe Management System. Internet users can make cash purchases at the Internet cafe service desk and then deduct the money from the Internet cafe’s financial account.
On the night of September 11, the lights were on at Junzi Interactive Entertainment Network Technology Co., Ltd., and everyone stayed to work overtime.
In the conference room, on the big screen, everything was dark.
Everyone is waiting for the arrival of midnight.
"The announcement has been sent out, I wonder if anyone will pay to play."
"Wouldn't it be awkward if no one paid?"
"With hundreds of thousands of registered users, it's impossible that not a single one of them spends money, right?"
"How could there be none? At least the rich player who spent 500,000 RMB to buy a paralysis ring, he won't rush?"
Everyone was nervous and excited.
After working on it for so long, it’s time for “Legend of Mir 2” to be truly put to the test.
Whether the company can make a profit depends on this wave.
Jiang Rongfa swallowed nervously and asked, "It's 11:55. The last five minutes. Are all the data connected?"
"Once it's connected, as long as data is generated, it will be displayed on the big screen."
"Okay, let's look forward to it. Whether it can become a big hit depends on this wave!"
Just at this moment, there was a knock on the conference room door, startling everyone.
"Oh my god, who's here?"
"It's so scary in the middle of the night."
"Go open the door."
As soon as the door opened, Jiang Rongfa was stunned: "Mr. Lu?"
"Good evening."
"Boss Lu!"
"Boss Lu is here."
"Why is Mr. Lu here?"
"Good evening, Mr. Lu."
In the conference room, everyone felt incredible when they saw Lu Yiming appear.
Lu Yiming smiled and nodded to everyone: "Good evening, everyone. I came here today to witness the miracle with you all."
"OK."
"Tianyi, go make tea for Mr. Lu."
"By the way, don't the company have a lot of snacks? Go get them and let's eat together. Hurry up."
"You can call the night snack stand next door and ask them to bring some midnight snacks up."
Five minutes passed quickly.
"Ten seconds left."
"ten!"
"Nine!"
"eight!"
"seven!"
"six!"
"five!"
"Four!"
"three!"
"two!"
"one!"
"bite!"
The clock on the screen hit zero, and everyone seemed to hold their breath involuntarily.
The screen lights up.
A dot appears .
The entire conference room suddenly erupted in noise!
“The first one appeared!”
"My goodness, this guy is charging at a certain point."
“The second payment has also been made!”
"The third one..."
"The fourth stroke..."
As more and more bright spots appeared on the screen, appearing faster and faster, everyone felt relieved.
Well, my head wasn’t shaved, that’s good.
The number of recharges continues to increase.
In less than half an hour, the number of transactions had successfully exceeded 1,000, which made Jiang Rongfa's face show joy. He looked at Lu Yiming excitedly: "Mr. Lu, it's successful. We are going to be a big success. The total amount has exceeded 20,000 yuan!"
Twenty thousand yuan was deposited into his account in less than half an hour. Jiang Rongfa had never known that making games could be so profitable. He was working with passion back then, but now he has finally made it.
Seeing such a result, Lu Yiming secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
Fortunately, the world line did not deviate at this moment, and everyone's wallets are still very honest.
He encouraged everyone, saying: "It's a good start, but don't be complacent. This is just the beginning. We must keep up the good work and create more glories."
Later, Lu Yiming issued another instruction: "We need to speed up the establishment of channels, not just in Internet cafes. As long as users need them, they can buy our game cards at any newsstand. We can make physical cards, just like the phone cards used in public telephone booths. Mr. Jiang, we need to hurry up on this."
Jiang Rongfa nodded repeatedly and said, "Okay, I guarantee that we can distribute the goods in a week at most!"
Now that he can actually see the money, Jiang Rongfa is full of energy. Although there is no sign of the physical card now, but the word has been spoken, Jiang Rongfa will definitely make the card within a week, even if he has to work day and night!
After giving all these instructions, Lu Yiming suddenly missed the smart payment in his previous life. At that time in Xia Country, there was no software like Alipay and WeChat Pay, and bank transfers were very cumbersome, and often one had to use an anti-human thing like U-Shield.
Hey, if it’s smart payment at this time, why do we need a card password?
Twenty-four hours passed quickly.
In the early morning of September 12, the first day’s sales data came out.
According to statistics, the number of paying players of "Legend of Mir 2" exceeded 300,000, and the recharge payments exceeded 700,000, which shocked countless people in the entire industry.
Seven hundred thousand!
Many domestic stand-alone games cannot sell 700,000 copies even if they sell them all. In comparison, the daily revenue of "Legend of Mir 2" far exceeds that of countless hard-working predecessors.
Those who originally thought that domestic games were dead were also awakened at this time.
This new track of online games may be the way out for domestic games.
Countless domestic game developers who were in confusion have come to their senses.
It turns out that the game can be played like this!
In the following period, Lu Yiming continued to expand his gaming territory. Basically, all Internet cafes, big and small, across the country had installed the game "Legend of Mir 2", and the number of registered players continued to grow like a snowball, increasing by tens of thousands every day.
Not to mention paying players, Lu Yiming basically wakes up with more than 200,000 yuan in his wallet.
Seeing that game companies actually make so much money, Li Yiwen was really impressed this time.
“It turns out that you can really make money by making games, and you can get rich overnight.”
He shook the newspaper in his hand and continued, "Now people outside say that you can turn stone into gold, and whatever you do will become a hit."
Lu Yiming crossed his legs, sipping tea leisurely, and said with a smile: "They got the cause and effect wrong. It's not that what I do becomes popular, but that I know what will become popular, so I do it."
Reborn, it has stepped precisely on the prostate of the times. As long as it follows the steps, how can it not be popular?
However, the good times did not last long.
On this day, Lu Yiming was attending class seriously in the classroom when Jiang Rongfa called him.
"Boss Lu, something terrible has happened. A parent has complained under his real name that online games have ruined his son. He is protesting in front of our game company with a banner. More and more people are watching, and even reporters have come."
"I lost..."
When Lu Yiming heard this, he couldn't help but swear in Chinese.
His first reaction was whether one of his colleagues was causing trouble - after all, he had encountered this kind of thing more than once.
But soon, he thought that it was not his peers who were causing trouble. After all, this kind of thing would cause too much damage. It was purely an industry cannon, involving the entire online game industry. If it was his peers, they would not be so stupid. Wouldn't it hurt the enemy by a thousand and hurt yourself by eight hundred? This would destroy the rice bowl of the industry.
"Okay, you stabilize the situation first, I'll be there now."
Lu Yiming put away his textbooks and couldn't help but sigh in his heart: This generation of parents is so difficult to teach.
Lu Yiming has heard for decades that online games ruin teenagers and children.
The strange "Legend" in 2000.
Blame LOL in 2010.
Blame the cell phone in 2020.
Someone has to take the blame.
It seems as if all the mistakes are someone else's fault and these parents themselves are blameless. They pass the blame so easily, as if playing games is a capital crime.
Then who ruined the lives of young people before online games appeared?
I can only say that some parents have no intention of solving the problem, nor do they know how to educate their children. They just habitually want to shirk their responsibilities.
Soon, Lu Yiming arrived at Junzi Interactive Entertainment Network Technology Co., Ltd.
By this time, the company's entrance was already surrounded by people in three layers, making it impossible to get in.
In the center of the crowd, there was a parent holding a banner and a sign, with an indignant expression on his face, as if he had some deep hatred against the game company.
Around him, in addition to the onlookers, there were also reporters from various media who were excitedly taking pictures non-stop.
Lu Yiming looked at the tall and strong parent who looked very social. The parent was holding a loudspeaker in his hand and standing at the highest point of the flower bed. He said loudly, "The unscrupulous game company has ruined our children with these spiritual opiums. Do they deserve to die?"
A group of parents below shared the same hatred and shouted hysterically: "Yes!"
“Should this kind of company go bankrupt?”
"should!"
All the parents thought of their children, and became anxious, angry and extremely furious.
"My child had good grades in kindergarten, but since he became addicted to online games, he has not attended classes and is now having a hard time getting into junior high school."
"Who says he isn't? My son is very talented. The neighbors say he's a good candidate for a key university. But now he's playing this game and doesn't even want to go to class."
"I have a friend whose child's life is ruined. He used to say that he could pass the mock exams with the level of Peking University. But now, he played this thing called "Legend of Mir 2" and failed the college entrance examination. He couldn't even get into a junior college and is now a beggar on the overpass."
Lu Yiming's blood pressure suddenly rose after hearing these discussions.
What the hell, how can a game that was publicly tested in August affect the college entrance examination in July?
Can you time travel by playing a game? Can you make it less unrealistic?
When Jiang Rongfa saw Lu Yiming, he ran over as if he had seen a savior, and said bitterly, "Boss Lu, you're finally here. If you hadn't come, I wouldn't be able to control this situation."
Lu Yiming immediately pulled the man aside and asked him patiently, "Is it that serious ? What's going on now?"
Jiang Rongfa pursed his lips at the man who was standing at the highest point and giving orders, and said in a low voice, "Did you see that guy? He organized all the people here. He has a very stubborn temper and is determined that our game corrupted his son, so he has to pick a fight with us."
Lu Yiming frowned and continued to ask for more details: "Have you investigated? What is going on with him?"
Jiang Rongfa said with a look of pain and helplessness on his face, "I asked him about it. He would beat and scold his son at every turn. His son just finished the college entrance examination a while ago. His son is also a player of our "Legend of Mir 2". He beat and scolded his son as usual this time. As a result, his son ran away from home in anger. I heard that he is temporarily staying at the home of a guild member. I just found out this information by asking in the game."
When Lu Yiming heard this, he was immediately stunned: "Fuck... Can you blame the game for this? Parents like this are fucking psychopaths, okay?"
However, the reporters don’t care about all these things. They only know that this time, there is big news to be reported!
"Boss Lu is here!"
"Mr. Lu, Mr. Lu, I'm He Weian from the Beijing Daily. May I ask what you think of this parent's tearful complaint?"
Facing the questions from many reporters, Lu Yiming sneered and started to retort: "I don't think much of it. I think he is just being unreasonable. In this world, only losers always like to attribute the problems to others, without realizing that they are the ones who made the mistakes."
As soon as these words came out, the reporters were shocked. They felt that Lu Yiming really deserved to be the richest man. He dared to say anything. Under normal circumstances, shouldn't he apologize first at this time?
One reporter couldn't help but ask, "Mr. Lu, don't you feel sorry for him? You made money by making games, but his son's life was ruined because of games."
Lu Yiming sneered again: "No one or anything can ruin a person's life, except his parents. You asked me if I felt pity for this parent. I can only say that his son is quite pitiful. Having such an unreasonable father, he may be traumatized for the rest of his life."
