Chapter 786: "Legend of Hot Blood" Free
Under the scorching sun, freshmen ushered in first summer vacation in college. However, many students did not choose to return to their hometowns immediately, but planned to take advantage of this time to get to know the outside world.
At 8:50 in the morning, the sun was shining brightly. Wang Wei finished washing up and saw Long Wenhao still lying on the bed with his legs spread out, sleeping like a dead pig. He immediately rushed over and shouted, "Haozi, get up."
Long Wenhao watched TV series until late last night and was very sleepy now. After being hit by Wang Wei, he was still not fully awake. He said in a daze, "Get lost. Even if the sky falls, let me get enough sleep first ."
Wang Wei yelled, "It doesn't matter if the sky falls. The internal beta test for The Legend of Immortal starts at 9 o'clock and ends at 8 o'clock in the evening. If you can't get an account, you won't be able to play."
"ah……"
Long Wenhao screamed, and jumped up from the bed as if his butt had a spring. His eyes widened as he asked anxiously, "What time is it now?"
Wang Wei looked at the electronic watch on his wrist and said, "Eight fifty-two."
“Damn it!”
Long Wenhao didn't even have time to put on his clothes. He rolled out of bed and began to plug in the cables and turn on the computer in a hurry.
"I hope I can catch up. Lao Wang, why don't you help me turn on the computer first? I hope there won't be a blue screen..."
Ever since the incident with stealing vegetables, Long Wenhao has basically become unable to resist games developed by Junzi Interactive Entertainment, especially "Xianji", whose development progress has been continuously exposed in the past two years, which he has been looking forward to for a long time.
As a college student, he is completely unable to resist good novels and interesting games.
Fortunately, the computer did not cause any trouble this time and it started up successfully in just over two minutes.
soon.
It's time.
Click the mouse, tap the keyboard, and then take out the ID card and account to bind. The registration process is a little cumbersome, but it can't stop the enthusiasm of the players at all.
“We can finally begin!”
After registering his account, Long Wenhao couldn't wait to log into the game.
Before his eyes, the door to a new world was opening to him.
With a grand background setting, numerous yet very interesting basic settings, and a variety of professions and side jobs, the arrival of "The Legend of Wonderland" has impacted all players - it turns out that games can be made like this!
It is no longer a mindless game of killing monsters. Instead, you can stroll around magnificent and magical scenery, choose from a variety of quest routes, the primitive land, the five major races of locusts, scales, fur, feathers, and insects, as well as different immortal forces and different professional talent combinations. There are so many ways to play!
Long Wenhao felt as if he had immersed himself wholeheartedly in these epic plots, which were either sad or magnificent, and was feeling the joys and sorrows of every character in them.
Even some NPCs in the game "Legend of Mir 2" and characters that appeared in the novel "War of the Gods" were perfectly restored and were able to appear in "The Legend of Immortal", attracting screams from countless fans.
China Overseas, headquarters of Junzi Interactive Entertainment.
Jiang Rongfa was very excited at the moment. Although thanks to his efforts, Junzi Interactive Entertainment had produced two hit games, "Legend of Mir 2" and "QQ Farm", the success of these two games were of a different type, which was completely different from the real good games in his mind.
But "Xianji" is different!
In his mind, this is a truly "perfect" masterpiece, a good game that can leave a strong mark in the history of world games!
As the internal test progressed, he received rave reviews from players, which made him very excited.
Looking at the various data on the internal test game interface, Lu Yiming was also very happy. With the successor of "The Legend of Fairy", Junzi Interactive Entertainment will continue to dominate the domestic game market. The stability of its throne is simply unshakable.
With the company having a new cash cow, Lu Yiming will have money to work on his industrial chain layout.
Jiang Rongfa didn't think too much about it. He said to Lu Yiming excitedly, "If Mr. Lu hadn't invested in Junzi Interactive Entertainment, I would have changed my career a long time ago and wouldn't be where I am today. Alas, when I think about it, I really sigh that the world is so wonderful."
If he hadn't met Lu Yiming and sold the company, Jiang Rongfa felt that he would have missed out on this great honor.
Jiang Rongfa used to be extremely disappointed with domestically produced games, but now he has created a top IP like "The Legend of Oz" almost single-handedly. It can be said that he has no regrets in his life.
When you love an industry to the extreme, what you need is so simple and plain.
Lu Yiming smiled slightly and said, "I am also very fortunate to have a helper like you. Without you, even if I have many ideas, it would be difficult to realize them."
These words are spoken from the heart. Although the success of Junzi Interactive Entertainment is inseparable from Lu Yiming's ideas and creativity, Jiang Rongfa's talents are also indispensable.
Game creation is not something that can be done simply by making a decision. Polishing on details and accumulating technology are the real hard power.
Jiang Rongfa was able to manage a large development team of more than 200 people and successfully produce the groundbreaking giant project "The Wizard of Oz", which in itself is an extraordinary talent.
If Lu Yiming is a Bole, then Jiang Rongfa is a thousand-mile horse.
Together, the two of them created the glory of Junzi Interactive Entertainment, and also made an indelible contribution to the cultural output of Xia State.
Lu Yiming patted Jiang Rongfa on the shoulder and said earnestly, "Old Jiang, I hope you can always keep your original love for games. I don't want Junzi Interactive Entertainment to become a complete commercial company after the great success of "Xianji". Always remember that our goal is to make games that players love, not to make the most profitable game."
Although game companies are established to make money, it is obvious that Lu Yiming has higher expectations for Junzi Interactive Entertainment and hopes that it is a company that can take on the task of cultural output.
Because he is not short of money.
Therefore, he would not even allow Junzi Interactive Entertainment to go public.
Although it is very powerful now, Junzi Interactive Network Technology Co., Ltd. is a small and micro enterprise solely owned by Lu Yiming.
Lu Yiming also has a profitable game company, which is the NASDAQ-listed Zhuchang. In the future, anyone who encourages Junzi Interactive Entertainment to go public will be directly thrown into Zhuchang.
Jiang Rongfa and Lu Yiming had the same goal on this point. So he said very seriously: "Well, I will keep this original intention in mind."
The huge success of "Xianji" caused a crazy shock in the entire Xia country's game market.
In particular, Tenglong Game Company, which regards Junzi Interactive Entertainment as its biggest competitor, held a meeting overnight to discuss the chain reaction caused by the internal testing of "Xianji".
You know, this is just a deleted internal beta test with limited accounts, but it has already caused such a big fuss. What will happen if it is released as a public beta in the future?
Ma Teng stood at his position, his face gloomy, like a volcano about to erupt. He tapped the table with the knuckle of his right index finger, glanced at a group of executives, and then said expressionlessly: "Junzi Interactive Entertainment's new game, everyone has played it, right? What do you think? Tell us now."
Everyone looked at each other, no one dared to speak first. After all, with Ma Teng's current mental state, he would be inflamed at the slightest spark, and no one dared to touch this bad luck.
Finally, Zhang Zhidong sighed and spoke up when he saw that no one had said anything: "I got a beta test account and played it for a while. I can only describe this game in two words - invincible. Whether it's the graphics, the plot, the gameplay, or even the background music, they all tell one fact - there is no such thing as money in this world. This is a game built with money."
Since Zhang Zhidong had spoken, the others breathed a sigh of relief and waited in silence for Ma Teng to speak. They were all veterans in the industry, and they could tell whether a game was good or not once they played it. And "Xianji" was just as Zhang Zhidong said, it was invincible. This was really not an exaggeration.
Junzi Interactive Entertainment spent hundreds of millions of dollars and two years to create "Xianji", which, in today's era, is simply written with the word "invincible" all over.
Other online games of the same type are not even qualified for comparison.
Ma Teng looked at the head of the R&D department and asked, "Lao Long, is it possible for us at Tenglong Games to develop a product of the same type?"
Manager Long couldn't help but smile bitterly: "Boss Ma, I heard that Mr. Lu spent at least 500 million on Xianji. Even if we don't consider the issue of copyright infringement, we can't afford the cost alone."
Five hundred million!
Ma Teng couldn't help but take a breath.
According to his idea, since "Xian Ji" is so popular, let's make a replica.
In the end, it costs five hundred million!
Tenglong had finally introduced a Korean game, but it was ruined by Lu Yiming before it became popular. Although he still had no evidence to prove that Lu Yiming was responsible for the code leak, Ma Teng put the blame on Lu Yiming.
Tenglong is now the same as when it was developing QQ, although not so poor that it has to make a living, but it is almost the same. Where can you ask him to get 500 million?
Even if plagiarism could save half of the cost, that would still be more than 200 million yuan, which is not something Tamron can afford now.
Even if they go through all kinds of difficulties and sell everything they have to get the money, what if the game fails after it is made? Wouldn't Tenglong Games be disbanded right there?
This time, I might end up in debt again.
Ma Teng doesn't dare to gamble anymore.
I don’t dare to gamble, and I can’t win in a fight, so I’m stuck in a vicious circle.
Ma Teng scratched his head and said, "So what should we do now?"
Zhang Zhidong said helplessly: "In the same field, we can't compete head-on with Junzi Interactive Entertainment. We can only find another way. Let's go to South Korea to see if we can represent other types of online games."
Although Ma Teng didn't want to admit defeat, he couldn't win. When doing business, there was no need to go against money. Although it was embarrassing to admit defeat, it was better than losing money.
In the end, Tamron Games chose to back down.
The situation is similar for other online game companies. Faced with rivals like "Xianji", their peers have all retreated.
So much so that in the MMORPG segment, the two most popular games in Xiaguo are one produced by Junzi Interactive Entertainment and the other also produced by Junzi Interactive Entertainment.
Others can only work hard to compete for the third position.
But there is no point in winning, because the remaining market share is less than 2%, which is not enough to rent a server.
However, just when everyone felt prosperous, Jiang Rongfa called Lu Yiming over.
When Lu Yiming arrived at the company, he saw Jiang Rongfa's miserable expression, and his heart skipped a beat. He asked, "Old Jiang, what's wrong? Is there something wrong with "Xianji"?"
Jiang Rongfa sighed and said, "It's not that there's a problem with "Xianji", but that there's a problem with "Legend of Mir 2."
Hearing that it wasn't the problem with "Xianji", Lu Yiming breathed a sigh of relief and said with a smile: "What's the problem with "Legend of Mir 2"? "
Although the life span of "Legend of Mir 2" was a bit outrageous in history, it has been running for three or four years now, so it is not short-lived. Therefore, when Lu Yiming heard that there was a problem with "Legend of Mir 2", he relaxed.
Jiang Rongfa said distressedly: "Because of the popularity of "Xianji", "Legend of Mir 2", a similar online game, has been greatly affected. Even the version update with a lot of new content can't save it."
There is no way, the generation gap between the two games is there.
Jiang Rong found that this was what he was worried about. He said, "Many employees in the company are complaining now. They say that since we are all in the R&D department, why are the employees of the "Xianji" team getting such high bonuses, while the employees of the "Legend of Mir 2" team have seen their income plummet by more than half."
It would be fine if everyone's work intensity was different, but in fact the work intensity of the two groups was not much different. They all maintained the game, fixed bugs, and made new copies, and the process was similar.
After listening to this, Lu Yiming understood and said, "You mean, the company can't treat everyone equally now, right?"
Jiang Rongfa said: "That's it. The life cycle of the game "Legend of Mir 2" has come to an end, but updates and maintenance are necessary. I don't know how to deal with it now."
This is a really troublesome question. If the salaries are the same, then we are eating from the same pot, and I am afraid that the various project teams will play the game of "discarding the best" in the future. But if the salaries are different, it is indeed a bit unfair to the members of the "Legend of Mir 2" development team. After all, many members of the "Xianji" team came from the "Legend of Mir 2" project team. What is worrying is not the lack of salary, but the inequality of salary.
Jiang Rongfa said: "Why not just cancel "Legend of Mir 2"? The number of players is decreasing anyway."
Lu Yiming said: "It's such a waste to cancel it. You underestimate the power of sentiment. Besides, the long-term income of the game "Legend of Mir 2" is actually quite good. How about this, "Xianji" will still maintain the point card charging model in the future, while "Legend of Mir 2" will be free forever."
Jiang Rongfa was puzzled: "Boss Lu, this game is directly free, how can we make money?"
The game is free, but the development is still going on, isn't that just losing money?
It would be better to cut it off.
Lu Yiming said in an unfathomable way: "You don't understand this. Free things are the most expensive."
