Rebirth of the big era of online games

Chapter 362
(The content of the last chapter feels like walking on the edge of death. Fortunately, the reviewers at the starting point are magnanimous. They just deleted the title and deleted the content of about 200 words. There is no blocking. The content of this chapter is more honest. )
Fang Jie said that there is really no other meaning in letting an Asian be the president of Citigroup.

If so, is it because the people of the country may misunderstand what he means?
Anyway, in the eyes of old Americans, they feel that the richest man in Huaguo "knows very well" and understands their country's culture, various social phenomena and humorous expressions. Apart from his Huaguo identity, he is simply "one of his own people". Even better than their own people know.

This is very loving, and has gained great favor from the old beauties.

This is a kind of ideological love or sense of identity. In terms of analogy, there was once a Canadian foreigner named David in Huaguo who studied cross talk with a teacher and went to the Spring Festival Gala, leaving a lasting impression on the people of the country It has created an excellent impression, making Chinese people feel that this is foreigners' recognition of their own national culture, and they feel very face-lifting and morale-boosting.

Now Fang Jie is the same way. If people from Western countries are here to brag and talk about talk shows, everyone doesn't feel much. But a Chinese, the richest man in China, agrees with their country's culture so much, so he will naturally be sought after and admired. agree.

The potential benefits and effects brought by this sense of identity are far greater than his Huaguo identity and the boss of a listed company, which laid a good foundation for his public opinion in Citigroup in the future.

So when he once again proposed to save Citigroup's stock market with 30 billion privately, some simple old beauties actually believed it, and felt that Fang Jie was really one of his own, and that he was really worried about the world's worries. Of course, this "Tianxia" refers to Citigroup.

Even many years later, seeing that Nasdaq has really come out of the bull market from this day onwards, everyone will look back and evaluate him. It is not that he is a fool with more money, but that he is called "the savior of Wall Street". He revived Nasdaq and became a legendary hero in the minds of Citigroup investors...

In fact, even Fang Jie himself didn't think of this point. It can only be said that everything was a misunderstanding, and he just followed the trend.

To put it more bluntly, everything is his routine, and these people actually believe it, are they stupid?
But what's even more stupid is that some people in the country believed it later, saying that he eats inside and out...

In fact, when he returned from Citigroup, there were already such remarks in China.

After all, the news of the richest man in China, 51mai raising 300 billion US dollars at a valuation of 45 billion, and saving Citigroup’s stock market at 30 billion, etc., have recently spread across major media.

The vast majority of the media gave positive reports and evaluations, and believed that the Boiling Business under the Boiling Group was able to start the road to listing on NASDAQ with a super high valuation.

When Netease and Sina went public, the media also commented in the same way. It is nothing more than that the IPO of Boiling Commerce is larger in scale, with more gimmicks, and is more worthy of special mention.

However, because Fang Jie has accelerated the development of the domestic Internet industry, it is inevitable that some ghosts and monsters will appear to analyze the matter from some tricky angles in order to attract attention.

But before Fang Jie started to deal with these news and people, the hot spot of public opinion was replaced by another well-known matter, and it lasted for more than half a year.

So for the next half a year, Fang Jie almost didn't go anywhere. After all, his life was the most important thing. Even if it wasn't for himself, he had to consider how important his life was for the country and society.

It's not that he didn't go anywhere, during the past six months, he temporarily settled in Shanghai, bought a house near Shanghai Opera, lived in seclusion, and served as Li Qing's companion by the way.

At the same time, the entire Boiling Group also stepped up health protection work at his request, and asked all departments to minimize going out if not necessary, and those who can work at home should try to work at home, and wages and bonuses will be paid as usual.

In addition, Fang Jie donated 5000 million in the name of himself and the Boiling Group, a total of 1 million.

Then, he began to live the life of an otaku.

Of course, this doesn't mean that he didn't do anything during this period, and he would still handle the work that should be handled normally. It's just that he has reduced going out and usually works online at home.

Anyway, he doesn't need to do the company's specific affairs in person now. There are a lot of high-level executives. The company has been recruiting talents from all walks of life since 2 years ago, and the recruitment activities have not stopped.

After Boiling Group was formally established and planted its flag, many overseas talents also returned to China to join the group company, and many of them were die-hard overseas veteran players of Jinyong Qixia MUD.

These people were deeply influenced by Lord Tenjin, and most of them returned to China after successful studies abroad, and most of them joined Lord Tenjin's company.

When HR asks them why they choose Boiling Group, these guys with higher eyes than the top will often stare at HR with disdain: "This question is very unreasonable. You must know that as early as 2000, we were talking to the gods in the game. My lord is confused! Many executives of the Boiling Group are now my brothers in the game! They are lucky, they didn’t go abroad, and they were close to the water, otherwise, I would be an executive of Boiling now!"

Is it good luck not to go abroad?

Well, in a sense, at The Boiling Group it does.

At present, there are many factions in the boiling group, and there is competition among them, and they also have their own promotion routes for the factions.

Among them, those who are recognized as direct descendants are the MUD players of "The Legend of Jinyong", such as Tiger, Shisanmei, Wang Yu, Kaiwu, Liao Shunbin and others. They call Fang Jie "Master Tianshen" to show their special Status is the envy of everyone, and no one dares to provoke this group of people.

Almost all of these people are now senior executives of the Zeiling Group, and they are mainly concentrated in the core business departments of the Zeiling Group, namely Boiling Games, Boiling Business, Boiling Software, Boiling Internet, Boiling Network Management, and Boiling Entertainment. Shu Tong, the executive of the overseas game studio, and the executives of other departments have to show some face when they meet.

The second is Fang Jie's faction of relatives and friends, headed by Xia Hao, Zhang Yan, Shang Xiaoqiong, Zhang Ru and a group of Fa Xiao, the students of Jiangcheng University of Technology also belong to this faction.

They mainly control Boiling Internet Café, Boiling Real Estate, and some management positions in Boiling Games, Boiling Express, and Boiling Entertainment. They usually call Fang Jie "Boss" or "Big Brother", which is also a special title, but Fang Jie is in He was their boss in school, so there was nothing wrong with him.

Although this faction is not powerful, it can be heard in the sky, and this group of people has limited ability, low ambition, and low sense of existence, so no one will regard them as real competitors, and generally keep them at a respectful distance.

The third is the executives of the acquisition or holding company. This faction is the most powerful. Boiling Digital, Boiling Express, Boiling Chinese, Lianzhong Games, Overseas Business Department, etc. all belong to this category, but the personnel are complex and there are many internal small faction.

The reason why we talk about the division of the company's factions is that the first thing Fang Jie did during the six months as an otaku was to take out 1% of the shares of Boiling Business for equity incentives and employee stock ownership plans.

Although 1% of the shares seem to be very small, but do some calculations to know that Boiling Business was valued at 300 billion before listing, and 1% is 3 million US dollars, equivalent to RMB 24 billion!
If 200 executives share the 1%, 200 multi-millionaires will be created instantly!
And if there is no accident after the listing, it will be no problem to double the valuation on the day of listing, so the multi-millionaires born as a result are not just a few people.

In fact, there are only dozens of executives in the Boiling Group at present, and the rest can only be regarded as middle-level executives. Among these dozens of executives, those who are eligible to share shares in this Boiling Business IPO Not many.

After all, subsidiaries such as Booming Digital, Lianzhong Games, and Booming Real Estate have almost nothing to do with Boiling Business. Anyway, they will be listed separately in the future, and they will make a fortune sooner or later. This time, such a good thing will not be their turn.

Therefore, those who can really get the subscription rights of 1% of the original shares are the middle and high-level managers of the Jinyong Qixia Chuan MUD veteran player faction and the relatives and friends faction, followed by employees at all levels under Boiling Business.

Fang Jie doesn't understand the specific employee stock ownership plan. He only needs to specify the scope of employee stock ownership. He entrusts professional service agencies to formulate other details. Anyway, as long as Boiling Business can be successfully listed, even the lowest level employees can also earn at least 1 to 20.

All are happy.

Indeed, everyone is happy. Those executives and employees of other factions who did not receive share subscription shares at least saw wealth beckoning to them. It is definitely going to be listed, and the time will not be too long.

And Fang Jie made it very clear that in the future when other companies under the group go public, there will also be quotas for the personnel of the core business department. Because core businesses such as boiling games will not be listed, priority will be given to the executives and employees of the core business department. As it should be, everyone should not have any thoughts and opinions.

Regarding the employee stock ownership plan, Fang Jie did not completely copy the previous Huawei's approach. Anyway, his own company has many companies, and the shares of other companies distributed to employees are the same. It is more appropriate to hold core industries such as boiling games in his own hands. He needs this aspect absolute control.

In the past six months, he certainly did more than just this one thing.

For example, Boiling Express, under his instructions, launched a big-step development model in conjunction with the release of 50 singles related to "Super Girl".

Just during this period, people's public activities decreased, and many people's shopping methods had to be changed from offline shopping to online shopping.

Under the deliberate guidance of the Boiling Group's propaganda department, this method also gave it value.

Promoting online shopping is not just shopping, but a fashionable way of life, which represents a trend. If you don’t know how to shop online, or even handle online banking, it means that you are already OUT. It's a new era.

Secondly, this is also a manifestation of social morality. Using a special shopping method in a special period shows that you are a person with a sense of social responsibility. On the contrary... well, you ask yourself, does your conscience hurt?Can you sleep soundly at night?
In short, anyone who is familiar with Fang Jie knows that this seems to be his propaganda routine. Although he only commanded through remote control through the Internet and did not personally participate in it, the name of a "principal culprit" cannot be escaped.

For those who are not familiar with him, they only know that Boiling Group donated 1 million this time. It is a big good citizen and an example of domestic enterprises. Model, people have donated so much money, of course we people must support it!
In addition to online shopping, the online literature industry also began to exert its strength during this period.

Secretly planning Boiling Chinese for a long time, during the past half a year, 2-3 classic novels with the pseudonym "Yun Tianming" will be released every month. The emergence of these excellent novels directly detonated the entire Internet literature circle, and even caused a sensation. out of the traditional literary circle.

Let’s take a look at some novels: "We Are Champions", "Mercenary World", "I am a Hooligan", "Journey into the Misty", "Zhu Xian", "I am the Archmage", "A Generation of Military Advisors Going with the Flow" , "The Lonely Master", "The Best Family Ding", "Back to the Ming Dynasty to Be a Prince", "The Legend of Mortal Cultivation", "Legend of the Little Soldier", "The Strongest Abandoned Young Man", "The First Chaos in History", "The Way of the Dragon" "...

The release of so many well-known classic online novels from previous lives is no less than an earthquake in the online literary circle and even in the literary world.

Whether it is a reader or an author, reading this novel seems to open the door to a new world.

It turns out that novels can still be written like this?

It turns out that fantasy novels that have been badly written by others can still write so many new ideas, and even create a complete system of cultivating immortals?

It turns out that games can also become a kind of theme for online articles?
It turns out that urban subjects can still write a funny book with great brains like "The First Chaos in History"?

It turns out that sports-themed web articles can also be popular?
Well, it can only be said that the current readers and authors have too little knowledge, but these books have already shocked them.

But where is this? Fang Jie has not released more classic routines and themes in later generations, such as Infinite Stream, Shenhao Stream, System Stream, Prehistoric, End Times...etc. Meet the readers.

Forget it, take your time, don't rush.

At the beginning of 2003, Fang Jie also threw out the "Online Game: The Legend of Jin Yong Qixia" written by himself in his previous life.

He thinks this book is average, but he still achieved good results in the classification of online game themes in his previous life. It may be a little uncomfortable to take it out at this time, after all, readers are not too clear about the theme of virtual reality online games. concept.

The purpose of doing this, of course, is not to be famous or to recycle waste, but to create momentum for the 2003D graphics MMORPG online game "Legend of Jin Yong Qixia", which is planned to be launched in mid-2.

The graphic online game "The Legend of Jin Yong Qi Xia" is basically developed according to the settings in the MUD, and the novel "Online Game: The Legend of Jin Yong Qi Xia" is also based on this framework, nothing more than replacing the background of the virtual reality online game .

So after reading this book and playing this online game of the same name, it will be very interesting, it is part of the publicity strategy, and it can be regarded as a means of publicity warm-up.

By the way, the commercial performance of "Super Girl" lasted from the beginning of August to the end of November in 2002, and then was ordered to stop by Fang Jie. No matter how high the cost of the commercial performance was quoted by the local merchants, he did not agree .

For nearly 4 months, the concert + business performance averaged twice a week, and a total of 30 concerts were held, each with an income ranging from 500 to 1000 million, which made Boiling Entertainment earn almost 2 million.

This is simply picking up money, and the people are happy to hear it.

When this period passes, next year's second "Supergirl" can harvest another wave.

However, Fang Jie does not plan to operate the next "Supergirl" himself, and will hand it all over to Liao Shunbin, and he will not consider doing variety shows in China in the short term, after all, the environment is not suitable, so wait and see.

Of course, the more important reason is that the "Legend of Jin Yong Qi Xia" independently created by Boiling Games will be launched this year, which is the most important thing.

When the time entered 2003, Fang Jie became an otaku completely.

Instead of doing other things every day, I just supervise the development and production of the game "The Legend of Jin Yong" by Boiling Games, and participate in it through the Internet.

The so-called participation is actually playing games, or testing the DEMO of "The Legend of Jin Yong".

After more than two years of development, the framework of this game has basically taken shape, and it is no problem to play it in the form of a test.

Well, this is no problem. It means that if you can tolerate flashbacks from time to time, card bugs, only a few primary maps can be leveled, and the player character and NPC character are currently in the image of a stickman, without any weapons in their hands, and there is no attack. Word of any special effects.

The main problem with the game now is not the art. In fact, more than half of the related textures have been made. According to the current development progress, it will definitely be finished within half a year. The reason why it is not included in the DEMO is because it is unnecessary.

The problem with the program is not too big. After all, the big framework and even the details of the program are almost done. Now it is to find bugs and change bugs, fix them, and gradually improve them.

The real problem is planning, especially numerical planning.

The game "The Legend of Jin Yong" involves more than a dozen schools, hundreds of martial arts, thousands of moves, tens of thousands of game tasks, and countless game props.

How to achieve the balance of sect occupations and martial arts skills is a very difficult problem.

Even the text "MUD" can't solve this problem. There are often players from a certain sect get together, and some sects are not interested, so the graphic "The Legend of Jin Yong Qi Xia" has no successful cases that can be used for reference.

Previously, Jie Fang only came up with a plan based on the MUD version of The Legend of Jin Yong, and then asked Boiling Games to make the big frame of the game, and did not make requirements for the details and balance of the game.

It’s not easy to ask for this. It’s just a theory on paper based on imagination. It must be framed and tested continuously, and then adjusted with mathematical tools, then tested, and adjusted. Even after many games are launched, after players poison them, Still adjusting.

Now Fang Jie is involved in this work, otaku, of course there is plenty of time.

In fact, it's not just him, the high-level executives of the boiling game, namely Tiger, Lover, Xiaodao, Iron Man, Wang Yu and other veterans of the boiling group, have also returned to the status of players. After dealing with the affairs of the department every day, other time is serious If you don't do it, just get together in the game for a PK test.

In addition, Fang Jie also recruited a group of ashes players from the text MUD game for a paid test.

In terms of testing, starting from January 2003, "The Legend of Jin Yong" has already started the first round of closed testing for half a month, and will occasionally be released on the game's official website or other online media. One or two game screenshots and news to promote the game.

In February, the second round of closed testing began.

At this time, the game has rarely crashed. This is the biggest criticism of the early testers, so we focused on solving this problem in the second half of January, but there are still a large number of small BUGs that have not been fixed in time.

It's not that it can't be solved, but February 2st is the Spring Festival, and the company is on holiday for a week before and after. Everyone has gone home to celebrate the New Year. Of course, Fang Jie himself has to celebrate the New Year, so the game project has been stagnant for half a month.

Now it can't be compared to before. The company has enough manpower to complete the task without overtime, and Fang Jie doesn't want his employees to die from overwork.

The so-called 996 and 007 were caused by the special period of the company's start-up. They don't exist in Boiling Group now, and they won't exist in the future.

Fang Jie even stipulated that the company's employees should not work more than 24 hours of overtime per month, otherwise not only would they not be paid three times the overtime pay, but their performance would also be deducted.

This has led to employees wishing to work more overtime, because if the ability is insufficient, overtime is the norm. As a result, the longer the working hours, the more money will be deducted.

This has further caused the employees of Boiling Group to be very particular about work efficiency. Their personal ability is obviously higher than that of other companies, and their overall quality and health level are also high. After all, they have more time for leisure and entertainment, and they are not short of money. Of course, they have to find something interesting to do one do.

So after the new year, when the various departments of Boiling Games are in place and they are running efficiently again, many small problems and small bugs before have been quickly resolved.

In mid-March, the third and final round of closed testing began.

At this time, there are no crashes in the game at all, and it is difficult to find some small bugs in the program. Fang Jie also said at this time: If anyone can find a game bug now, if you find one, just send 1 The bonus of [-] yuan is not capped!
This made everyone very excited, and then they worked in the game one after another, and found a lot of bugs.

In April, the first internal test started, and all the textures and special effects in the game were loaded. The characters controlled by everyone are no longer stickmen, and the skills they play look quite gorgeous.

At this time, in addition to the first batch of hundreds of beta testers in the game, all employees of the Boiling Group also have the qualifications for the internal test. Fang Jie specially set up a reward mechanism for the internal test. Anyone who has practiced a certain martial arts in the game to the full level , The monthly salary doubled!
In fact, the full level is very simple. In the game, the leveling multiplier is adjusted to 10 times. One month is enough for the full level, so it is quite a gift to the employees, but the real purpose is to let more people participate in finding bugs, and at the same time It is also the corporate culture that implements boiling games.

In May, during the May 5st period, Boiling Games conducted the second internal test of game deletion.

At the same time, Boiling Group and Boiling Games launched a large-scale publicity campaign across the country, and news about the domestically produced online game "The Legend of Jin Yong" was flooding the screen.

This time, 1 players who have obtained the qualification for the internal test have also joined in, making those players who have not obtained the qualification for the internal test extremely jealous. In the game trading section on 51mai, a game account for the internal test was even fired to 1000 yuan , and there is no market for the price.

But the good news is that under Fang Jie's supervision, the production and various preparations for the game were completed one month in advance, and the public test will begin next month.

The so-called public test is actually no different from a direct listing.

Therefore, the 2D large-scale MMORPG online game "The Legend of Jin Yong", on June 6, see you there!

(End of this chapter)