Rebirth of the big era of online games

Chapter 254 Change the way of promotion
After getting back the material library of Crystal Stone, everyone found that if all the materials were gathered together, the capacity of the computer hard disk would not be enough.

The capacity of computer hard drives these days is very small.

Considering the cost performance factor, ordinary home computers or Internet cafes generally choose hard drives with a capacity of 20G, and hard drives with a capacity of 30G are the choice of enthusiasts.

Fortunately, the WIN98 operating system is still easy to use, and it is also very "thin". If an operating system with a few gigabytes or even a dozen gigabytes is used like the later generations, it will be impossible to live.

This is also the fundamental reason why the game installation business of the Internet cafe management system has not been done.

Hard disk capacity is too small.

Although the Internet cafe management system can easily help all Internet cafes to use the computer's standby time to automatically download games, the hard disk capacity is not enough. After installing this game, you have to delete that game. They think it doesn't make much sense, except for popular mainstream games, other games are not as good as they can figure it out.

In fact, not only in this era, but even in later generations, such troubles exist in Internet cafes, and the hard disk is still not enough, but the situation is better.

The solution that can solve this problem is a diskless workstation.

For Boiling Game Company, especially for the art department, a diskless workstation is even more necessary, otherwise, just reading, copying, pasting, copying, and a series of operations to transfer computer files are so slow that they can It makes people crash, not to mention that picture files take up a lot of capacity, and the hard disk capacity is simply not enough.

However, due to the start-up of the company, the personnel have just arrived, and the computers have just been equipped, and there is no time to make a diskless workstation. At first, everyone thought it was unnecessary.

But after the game engine department is launched, this matter must be put on the agenda.

So Fang Jie called Ling Wo, changed the company's computer into a diskless workstation, and divided 10 art teams according to the division of labor, each team had 30 people, and shared a diskless workstation server. Servers form a diskless workstation server group.

The 20-person diskless workstation work team led by Ling Wo successfully completed this work with only one overnight overtime.

Fang Jie also participated in it. While guiding everyone, he also improved some technical details and workflow.

In fact, assuming a diskless workstation is already a matter of little technical content for Lingwo and his group, there is a guiding process for hardware installation, and a process for software installation and debugging. Just follow these two processes step by step.

This is like installing a network cable at home. A technician comes to install a cat, connects a cable, and then debugs and configures it on the internal network. The technician does not need to know how the cat is produced or how the network debugging software is written.

Therefore, the technical content of making a diskless workstation now is much lower than that of Fang Jie's own fiddling. It is simply a mindless operation, so the efficiency is also very high.

But strictly speaking, the diskless workstations of the game engine department still have disks.

It should be said that it is a combination of diskless and disk.

The original hardware of the computer, such as hard disk, optical drive, floppy drive, etc., are not disassembled, but used as an independent module of the computer itself to store personal data or temporary files, which has become a short board for diskless workstations. Supplement, but also to avoid waste.

This is also a new idea for the promotion of diskless workstations.

After completing the transformation of the company's computer to a diskless workstation, Fang Jie asked Ling Wo about the promotion of diskless workstations in the past week.

"It's okay. Right now in Jiangcheng, there are many bosses who intend to build diskless workstations."

Ling Wo replied: "However, the actual business received is only one or two. Most of the bosses are just doing research in boiling Internet cafes, and opening an Internet cafe is not as simple as a diskless workstation. Funds, stores, employees, Network cables, procedures, etc. all take time, it depends on when they are ready, we can only wait."

"How about directly transforming it based on the existing Internet cafe conditions?" Fang Jie asked.

Ling Wo said: "We won't be able to get the income from the hardware. At most, we will sell some network cards, and the return rate is not high..."

Fang Jie waved his hand and said, "Don't be too short-sighted. There are only two Boiling Internet cafes in the city. Although they are a successful model, their influence is not big enough. First, transform the existing Internet cafes into a diskless mode. Once everyone uses Once you log on, you will know how easy it is to use, and its influence is far greater than that of two boiling Internet cafes."

Ling Wo nodded and said: "That's good. Later, I will post an advertisement through the Internet cafe management system. Anyway, I am idle, so let's start the renovation business first."

Fang Jie said: "You write the copy, blow off the various advantages of the diskless workstation, make a comparison or something, and then let Li Yu and the others find some artists to make the advertisement more beautiful, preferably as a wallpaper That way, make a good publicity wave!"

"Wallpaper?" Ling Wo was stunned: "The people in the operation department are probably not happy, right? The current wallpapers are all from "Wulin"."

Fang Jie rolled his eyes and said, "There are already enough advertisements for "Wulin". It only earns me 2000 million yuan in a month, and you still want to dominate the wallpaper advertising channel? No way!"

Speaking of this, Fang Jie suddenly thought of something: "By the way, the wallpaper needs to be changed to an advertising investment model to earn advertising fees... Forget it, you don't have to worry about it, I will let Li Yu's propaganda department do it. You Just build a diskless workstation earlier, now that the company is struggling to make ends meet, your department needs to work harder and help me earn more money!"

Ling Wo laughed and nodded, but he doubted the boss's words in his heart.

Lack of money?Can't make ends meet?
Just now the boss said to himself that the income of "Wulin" is nearly 2000 million a month, why did he say that he has no money in the blink of an eye?Who would believe it!
But after thinking about it, shit, I forgot the boss's plan for an industrial park... That's really short of money, we need to work harder!
The place where Fang Jie is really short of money is not the industrial park. If this kind of real estate project is really impossible, he can ask for a bank loan. Anyway, the bank interest rate is far lower than the inflation rate, and the loan is absolutely cost-effective. Aren’t many real estate companies in previous lives just empty-handed wolves? Did you make it?
"Boss, I have a new idea."

Before leaving, Ling Wo showed his subjective initiative a little bit: "I think, diskless workstations should provide free installation services, not to mention the installation fee of 500 yuan per computer."

Of course Fang Jie didn't believe that free is really free, so he asked with a smile, "Oh? How should I say it?"

Ling Wo smiled: "I also learned this from you. Isn't the Internet cafe management system free to install? Our diskless workstations are also free to install, but the system maintenance is charged, 5 yuan per computer per month. Then Computers, network cards, servers, and switches must be our designated brands or merchants. In this way, we earn more, and they don’t think it’s expensive..."

Fang Jie smiled at the other party for a long time, then nodded: "Okay, I will do as you said."

(End of this chapter)