Volume 2: Storm Rising 2015 Chapter 261 Inspection Work
In the blink of an eye, 2015 has entered the second half of the year. The beginning of July is not so good for most people.
Especially for those stock investors who bought at the bottom of the mountain, compared with the pleasure of cutting with a white knife and cutting with a red knife, cutting flesh with a blunt knife is the most painful.
To cut or not to cut, this is a question, and the cycle continues.
However, people do not share the same joys and sorrows. To Zhou Dongsheng, who was watching from the other side of the river, he just felt that they were noisy.
Seeing that the weather was sunny today, after presiding over the overall situation of Little Man Media, Zhou Dongsheng was bored and came to the PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds game studio, euphemistically calling it "inspecting work."
This is the first time that Zhou Dongsheng, the investor, namer and largest shareholder of the game "PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds", has visited the studio.
Although the studio is located in the building next to Little People Media in the same park, but... Zhou Dongsheng only remembered this today.
After all, unlike stock trading, where you can immediately see gains and losses as long as you throw money in, game development work is still relatively long and boring.
Especially for Zhou Dongsheng, who had never read "Programming: From Entry to Abandonment", looking at the series of programming codes, the feeling was probably the same as taking a math class, which was very confusing.
Of course, this did not prevent Zhou Dongsheng, as the "Party A", from coming to the studio to inspect. He could not find any problems with the code. On abstract issues such as game mechanics and style, Zhou Dongsheng could still provide some ideas.
After all, Zhou Dongsheng is also a fan of the game PUBG. He doesn’t know how to make the game, but as a player, he knows it well.
After listening to Zhou Dongsheng's "random instructions", Brandon Green also admired from the bottom of his heart.
"Oh my God, I can't believe that you, Boss, know so much about battle royale games. I swear to God, with your advice and guidance, the development of our game will be as fast as a rocket!"
Zhou Dongsheng pulled the corner of his mouth and said to Li Jiana helplessly: "Translation is translation, can you please not use this damn translation tone."
Li Jiana said innocently, "But that's exactly how it's translated literally."
I resisted the urge to kick Li Jiana's butt with my size 44 shoes. After all, she was still needed as a full-time translator.
After hearing Brandon talking about the progress of game development, Zhou Dongsheng asked casually, "Well, old friend, according to your estimate, how long will it take for our game to be developed before it can be launched?"
Although he can no longer remember the exact launch time of PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds in his previous life, Zhou Dongsheng is very clear that it became popular on the entire Internet in the second half of 2017.
Because at that time, this game dominated the screens in Internet cafes and live streaming platforms, and its popularity once surpassed that of League of Legends, which was a staple in Internet cafes.
Even because of the huge user demand, a large number of Internet cafes have been forced to spend money to improve the game configuration. After all, compared to League of Legends, which can be played by anyone with any configuration, the threshold configuration of the game PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds is indeed not low.
Coupled with the 99-yuan purchase threshold, for domestic gamers who have long been accustomed to the free-to-play world, this game is like a breath of fresh air, exuding the tone of "play it if you want to or not."
Even though the threshold is not low, it still cannot stop PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds from becoming popular all over the world. In a short period of time, it has become a phenomenal game .
For three consecutive years, there has been a craze for eating chicken from PC games to mobile games. The popularity has remained high, attracting tens of millions of users worldwide. Its terrifying ability to attract money has even made Tencent jealous...
Zhou Dongsheng briefly recalled the little knowledge he had about the game PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds. In addition to its popularity around the world, it also had a huge potential risk in the domestic market.
That is the issue of game licenses! Even an Internet giant like Tenda has failed to solve this problem, which shows how deadly this potential risk is.
Even after more than a year of "charitable" operation of the chicken-eating mobile game and repeated self-sacrifice, it finally got the mobile game license in the name of "Peace Elite" and turned losses into profits.
Perhaps because of this problem, Bluehole was not acquired by Tenda like the parent company of League of Legends. It only paid 3 billion yuan and took 10% of the shares as a token of appreciation...
Listening to the question translated by Li Jiana, Brandon Green showed a look of embarrassment on his face. "According to the current research and development progress, it may take one or even two years to complete. Although I have brought some old friends with me and a group of newly recruited R&D personnel, the team has just been formed and it still takes some time to run in..."
Zhou Dongsheng frowned slightly when he heard this. If we look at it in terms of two years, it would be the second half of 2017, which is not conducive to Zhou Dongsheng's plan to create a time difference.
Moreover, with Zhou Dongsheng's involvement, the start time of the "PUBG" project must have been earlier than in the previous life, but the launch time may be later than in the previous life...
Obviously, as one of the formula variables, Bluehole Studio still occupies a considerable proportion in the development of this game.
Although Zhou Dongsheng knows nothing about technology research and development, it doesn't mean he can't help.
"Oh my goodness, I don't think this is a difficult problem to solve. It certainly takes time for the team to get along, but wouldn't it be okay to introduce a more mature technical team to provide technical support?"
Brandon listened to Zhou Dongsheng's layman's speech. Ideally, this would be the case, but...
"That's true, Boss. However, mature technical teams basically belong to major game companies. Asking them for help may not be a matter of money..." Brandon said euphemistically.
"Oh, old friend, of course I know, but I just happen to know the boss of a big game company. I came here today just to bring you over to talk about cooperation." Zhou Dongsheng smiled brightly.
After all, the reason why Zhou Dongsheng remembered that he had such a big project under his control and rushed over to inspect the work today was certainly not to give some "random instructions" and demonstrate his authority as the client.
Although ... although there is a little bit of meaning in it, the main purpose of Zhou Dongsheng coming here today is because the big boss Ding Sanshi finally arrived in Yangcheng.
Zhou Dongsheng, who had the boss's contact information, knew the news first and made an appointment to visit him at the pig farm's headquarters building in Yangcheng.
Although Zhou Dongsheng had already verbally reached an investment intention with Ding Sanshi at the party in Shanghai before.
However, for a top Internet tycoon like Ding Sanshi who has already achieved success, he would definitely not take such a trivial little project seriously, and might even forget about it accidentally.
For business cooperation, only when it is signed in black and white can it be considered a true cooperation, and before that, everything is subject to change.
Of course, for a top boss like Ding Sanshi, he would definitely stick to his word. Such a trivial project is not enough to make him lose his credibility.
For a small project like this, there is actually no need for him, the head of the pig farm, to personally supervise it. He just needs to hand it over to his subordinates to follow up and coordinate.
Therefore, Zhou Dongsheng naturally chose to take the initiative and decisively hold on to the thigh.
Even though Zhou Dongsheng has some capital now, he is still an insignificant "little man" compared to Ding Sanshi.
After all, Ding Sanshi was once the richest man in the country.
