Rebirth of the big era of online games

Chapter 405 Boiling Group Annual Meeting
In fact, at the end of 2004, the Boiling Pioneering Building had already been completed, but there was still some finishing work and final cleaning to be done. The non-important departments and branches such as Boiling Real Estate, Boiling Internet Cafe, and Boiling Network Management moved there one after another. Yes, it's a head start.

Today, the main body of the Boiling Group, namely the group’s administration, personnel, and logistics, as well as its subsidiaries such as Boiling Games, Boiling Business, Boiling Entertainment, and Boiling Internet, will be collectively relocated in time for the 2005 Spring Festival.

Of course, this process is not just as simple as changing the office location, but a grand opening ceremony, which can be regarded as an unprecedented annual meeting.

Since the establishment of Boiling Group at the end of 2002, all subsidiaries of the group have been making great strides in development. The company's employees have expanded from the initial 30 to 300, then 3000, and now 3.

Not to mention the company's messy business, just the recruitment and personnel changes, the entire group company has never stopped, so the previous annual meetings, except for the one when the group was established, have been fighting on their own for the past two years. Do it yourself, after all, everyone doesn't even recognize the colleagues of their own subsidiaries, and they are talking about group companies.

This time, taking advantage of the opening of Boiling Industrial Park and the completion of Boiling Entrepreneurship Building, Fang Jie decided to organize the annual meeting of the group. By the way, he will summarize and look forward to further strengthen the cohesion and centripetal force of the employees, and at the same time distribute benefits.

Now that the boss has spoken and attaches great importance to this matter, this celebration event has been held as the group annual meeting with the largest scale, the most complete staff, the richest programs, and the most generous benefits since the establishment of the Boiling Group.

It is precisely because of this that the group has been preparing for a full month before, and it was not until the end of January 2005 that the collective relocation was officially carried out. Therefore, it was not the construction period that delayed the group's move into Taiji Tower, but the delay in the preparations for the annual meeting.

A group company that is not short of money and whose boss is the richest man in Huaguo has been preparing for the group annual meeting for a whole month. One can imagine what kind of scene it is.

Not to mention anything else, just the management and employees of all subsidiaries of Boiling Group, more than 3 people, all participated in this carnival.

More than 3 people can't use it?

nonexistent.

How about the Boiling Industrial Park, which covers an area of ​​more than 100 hectares?
Just a boiling entrepreneurial building covers an area of ​​20 hectares, which is equivalent to the area of ​​a bird's nest + peripheral supporting facilities.

Moreover, before the completion of the Boiling Pioneering Building, the Boiling International Convention and Exhibition Center and surrounding supporting facilities had already been completed, including the first phase of the employee residential complex, which was also completed at the same time.

Although the location of the Boiling Industrial Park is a bit remote, the traffic is inconvenient, and the park has been developed by one-third, and other places are still under construction, but there is no problem in accommodating 3 people and providing supporting hospitality services .

If it doesn’t work, just use money. For example, Boiling Digital, which is far away in the capital, directly charters flights and cars to and from the whole company, with free board and lodging, including Boiling’s overseas entertainment company employees and their families in South Korea, as well as JYP Entertainment, SK Group, The same goes for the representatives of CJ Group.

What is rich and powerful?

This is!
Nima’s 70 billion Tai Chi Pagoda has been gritted out. Do you still care about these odds?

Yes, the final total construction investment cost of the 66-story Tai Chi Tower is as high as 70 billion RMB!

If the underground two-story garage is included, there are actually 68 floors, which is equivalent to a construction cost of 1 million yuan per floor!

Such a valuable big toy, of course, should be taken out and shared, and it should be shown off to let everyone know that this is the current front of the Boiling Group, and a real Tai Chi Tower standing there is better than bragging about the sky!

In fact, let alone outsiders, even the employees of the Boiling Group saw such a strangely shaped landmark building in the sky, full of futuristic science fiction, and also contained some unknown traditional philosophical worldviews. That spontaneous pride and shock cannot be hidden even in Tibet.

Even if the annual meeting is not held, the employees just see this Tai Chi Tower for the first time, and know that they will formally settle here to work in the future. The sense of pretense is full of pull!
The fact is also the same. When people ask them what kind of work they do in the future, they will simply say "I work in the Tai Chi Pagoda", which is worth a thousand words and will attract envious looks from around.

Because working in the Tai Chi Pagoda is equivalent to becoming a white-collar worker, and it is synonymous with "high salary", "high benefits", "high development space", "high return" and "talent".

This is also one of the reasons why Fang Jie insisted on building Boiling Industrial Park and Taiji Tower in the first place.

There are a lot of things, it’s useless to let your hype go, something real is better than everything, the so-called seeing is believing, there is such a Tai Chi Tower, which is the totem and spiritual symbol of the Boiling Group, and the employees will naturally have a feeling A sense of honor and a sense of mission will also attract more talents to join Boiling.

So the 70 billion spent is still worthwhile, and many hidden benefits cannot be measured by money.

Since all 3 employees have come to this annual meeting, and they are even allowed to bring their families with them, it will be very lively.

It was supposed to be the Spring Festival on February 2th, but the employees of Boiling Group basically started paddling at the beginning of January because they heard about the scale of the annual meeting, and then on January 9th, the annual meeting started for a full period One week, so it can be said that this year everyone has a collective holiday 1 days in advance.

Compared with other companies in China, Boiling Group is unique this year, which has caused heated discussions on the Internet.

Unfortunately, although Fang Jie invited everyone he could to this year's annual meeting, he didn't plan to publicize it to the outside world, that is, his family members closed the door to have fun and entertain themselves.

When the Boiling Group was established, it hadn’t been out of the circle yet, so it needed publicity to increase its popularity. Now... Mu Xiuyu Lin must destroy it, Fang Jie is already the richest man in Huaguo, and Boiling Group has also become the leader in the Internet industry Ordinary existence, now it is good to count money behind closed doors, if you still go around blatantly, not only is it meaningless, but it is asking for trouble and stimulating the nerves of the public.

Today's boiling group no longer needs to prove anything to the outside world.

Although it's just self-indulgence, the ostentation is not small at all.

For example, the scale and level of the large-scale theatrical performance at this annual meeting is comparable to that of the Spring Festival Gala, and even more exciting than the Spring Festival Gala.

Many domestic movie stars, singers, comedians, well-known hosts, as well as popular stars and idol groups in South Korea, countless handsome men and beautiful women, as long as they are a little famous, have been invited to participate in the performance of the Boiling Group's annual meeting.

Due to too many stars and too many programs, the cultural evening was held in three sessions, one session every night, for three days in a row!

Even in the previous life, I have never heard of anyone who has done such a thing. They actually invited celebrities over as if they were Chinese cabbage, and performed on stage one by one, and they performed for three consecutive days.

What was even more speechless was that the audience was only the 3 employees of Boiling Group and their families. There was no live broadcast or video recording. The three wonderful evening parties were for these [-] people.

Maybe it's not bad money?

So many celebrities were invited over, and a lot of money was thrown out. It’s hard for others not to understand the situation. Anyway, these celebrities think that Fang Jie is a fool with a lot of money. The richest man in China.

Fang Jie wanted to say that to be a tool person, you must have the consciousness of being a tool person. If you invite tool people to come and perform to make your employees happy, it’s nothing to spend a little labor cost. If you make a video or even live broadcast, help them Propaganda, that is a fool.

By the way, by 2005, the Korean wave that has been popular in China for several years has begun to decline. At least the bloody routines of Korean dramas have been figured out by Chinese people. The storyline is often criticized. After Today, there are indeed no Korean dramas worth watching.

Some of the more popular Hallyu stars in the past, except for a model worker Kim Hee-sun who is about to become a Chinese daughter-in-law, other Korean stars are also gradually declining.

Then there are mainly Korean online games, which are not as strong as last year and the year before last. In the past two years, most of the online games on the market were developed by Korean companies.

It is precisely because of this that the domestic game operators and capitals who have suffered a lot have realized that it is better to rely on others than themselves, and have focused their energy on investment, production and development of domestic games, so this year's situation is obviously different. As a result, there is no longer a situation where Korean games line up to be shot.

However, this is only the first stage of the misfire of the Korean wave, and then Korean variety shows have started their second spring.

For example, "Love Letter", "X-MAN", and "SISTEEN" are currently the most watched variety shows by domestic netizens, followed by the two domestic variety shows "Quick Book" and "Kangxi Is Coming".

Fortunately, the popular variety shows in South Korea are all carried by Fang Jie in advance. Since they are carried in this world, they cannot be regarded as Korean variety shows, so strictly speaking, this is not considered Hallyu, at least the audience thinks This is a variety show project planned by the Chinese themselves, and it is nothing more than the first launch in Korea.

Many netizens asked: Why didn't Fang Jie bring these three variety shows to China, but gave them to Koreans at a lower price?
Regarding this problem, Fang Jie gave a simple explanation during a game live broadcast: Because there is no system of young idols in Huaguo, there is no way to make such a variety show.

The guests participating in variety shows in South Korea are almost all young handsome men and beautiful women, with their unique idol culture. The highlight is in some funny and ambiguous game sessions where men and women interact, such as "X-MAN" and "Love Letter" And later "We Got Married", it is the same.

As for Hua Guo, there are almost no young handsome men and beautiful women in the current entertainment industry.

It's not that there are no handsome men and beautiful women in Huaguo, but that there are no idols who have been cultivated. Even if there are some mixed entertainment circles, they may be submerged before they get out of the circle, or they don't want to be subbed and give up this path, so Domestically, they want to form a group for some ambiguous variety shows, but they can't even find suitable guests.

The most is to invite those already famous stars to do variety shows, but these stars are neither young nor handsome, and they can't be ambiguous, nor can they make jokes. Seriously, if it's a blind date, it's either purely scripted, unnatural, no matter how you look at it, how to respond.

In the previous life, although there were handsome and beautiful idols in China, and there were some similar variety shows, but before they fully developed, the entire industry committed suicide and was banned.

Fang Jie regretted this for a while. He thinks that not all audiences will become fanatics. For example, audiences like him who treat these handsome men and women as tools, think that except for those who are neither male nor female, This kind of show is still very pleasing to watch...

For example, at this year's annual meeting, there was the popular idol boy group "TVXQ" under the South Korean SK Group. At present, when the famous Korean stars Kim Hee Sun and Ha Ji Won come on stage, the audience will also howl like wolves.

As for the sexy dance of Lee Hyo-ri and Chae Rin, let alone.

All in all, it's just for entertainment, take it easy and don't take it too seriously, because whether you are serious about being a fan or seriously boycotting it, it is a very stupid and stupid behavior.

In addition to three consecutive gala gatherings of big-name stars, this annual meeting also held many colorful activities, such as COSPLAY masquerade parties, various indoor sports competitions, werewolf killing and other small games that can be participated by multiple people, and even squares. Jie also bought fifty arcade machines at one go and put them in the hall for everyone's entertainment.

Werewolf Killing is a killing game or an intellectual social game, and the relevant game rules and planning are also carried over by him specially for this annual meeting.

Because this kind of game can exercise people's observation ability, logical ability, imagination, judgment, eloquence, expression ability, psychological quality and performance ability, it can also cultivate team spirit, activate the group atmosphere, enhance the emotional communication of team members, Improve the cohesion, and soon let the employees with generally high overall quality enter the pit.

Someone came up with a whim and suggested that the boss can make such a computer game or a matching poker game, and renaming the game "Please close your eyes when it gets dark" might be more down-to-earth.

Well, this is indeed a good idea. There was such a game in the previous life, so let’s get it out in the next year. Genre games are qualified to be called a great game company.

In addition to these entertainment activities, of course, there are serious things to do.

The main content of the annual meeting is of course the meeting.

Every day during the day, the morning is the annual summary and work report meeting of each subsidiary, and the afternoon is a symposium, with Fang Jie as the core, accompanied by other branch executives, and the employees are the audience and viewers. Discuss and expand relevant hot topics.

There is nothing to talk about in the annual summary meeting. It is nothing more than a summary of how awesome our subsidiaries have achieved last year, and plans to achieve even better results in the future. Not only is it not exciting, but a little drowsy .

But the situation at the symposium was quite different.

In terms of knowledge and experience, Fang Jie far surpassed these contemporary people, so during the symposium, he not only made witty remarks, but also allowed the group company to further appreciate the unique personal charm of him as the leader of the group. Strategic thinking and imagination of the future really opened everyone's horizons.

For example, at the moment when everyone is still talking about the Internet economy, he has thrown out the concept of "Internet +" and conducted open discussions on the Internet of Things, the Internet of Intelligence, and the Internet of Vehicles.

When some high-level executives were still analyzing the information age and believed that the Internet age was an information revolution, he proposed the age of intelligence in advance.

When the top executives of Boiling Business were still talking about it, thinking that the next development direction of 51mai should be B2C, further expanding sales categories and business volume, Fang Jie proposed the concept of "thousands of people, thousands of faces".

The so-called Thousand Faces is actually a big data algorithm technology. It was first proposed by Ali in the previous life. Its original idea was to collect user data, and according to their network behavior and tendency, the system automatically calculates and pushes customers who may be interested. products or content.

This concept is well known to the later generations, but in 2005, it was definitely a new and advanced concept. Many employees even felt that they were listening to the heavenly scriptures, while some people who understood the concept felt that it was whimsical. , very unrealistic.

But if you want to say that everyone thinks that the most unrealistic and imaginative concept put forward by Fang Jie is not thousands of people and thousands of faces, but "cloud services".

Everyone understands this concept, but they feel that it is even more unrealized.

At first, the executives of Booming Technology proposed that since we can make smart phones, with the existing technical reserves, we can make our own brand computers like Lenovo and seize the PC market share, because a smart phone is actually a condensed computer. .

Secondly, Xia Hao, the person in charge of Boiling Internet Café, agreed that Boiling Internet Café Chain should further strengthen mergers and acquisitions on the current basis, and continue to expand the industrial scale of Boiling Internet Café Chain.

What he said inside and outside the meaning is that the boiling Internet cafe chain should not only focus on those Internet cafes in the good sections of the central city, but also in slightly remote streets and areas. They should all come down and continue to expand the boiling Internet cafe chain territory.

But Fang Jie rejected their proposal on the spot.

The first reason is quite reasonable, at least everyone thinks it is forward-looking and feasible, that is, Fang Jie judges that the future is the era of handheld computers such as smart phones, and the PC computer market will be replaced by the mobile phone market. Now that Huawei mobile phones have been deployed in advance, Then there is no need to go back for a little market profit.

This is especially true for Internet cafes. In the future, there will be fewer and fewer people going to Internet cafes, more and more home users, and the time spent by home users using computers will gradually decrease, and everyone will get used to using mobile phones to surf the Internet.

So continuing to sell and develop smartphones is the right route.

Even when the penetration rate of mobile phones is saturated in the future, there will be fewer people buying mobile phones at that time, because the mobile phones used before are still good, and there is no need to spend unreasonable money to replace them. It is nothing more than a little poor performance.

But it doesn't matter, we can develop cloud mobile phones and cloud computers. Through the cloud network, we can borrow high-performance hardware provided by the server, so that we can enjoy high-quality service products without replacing our mobile phones and computers.

For example, a game that requires high computer performance, and my computer has not been replaced for several years, or I have no money to buy a high-end computer, then I can use the cloud computer to experience games that my computer cannot play, and the mobile phone is also the same. the same way.

This is actually an enlarged version of a diskless workstation in an Internet cafe. Everyone uses computers with low configuration or even lack of normal configuration to control high-performance servers for games or other online activities.

Therefore, when the cloud service develops to the extreme, there should be no such thing as Internet cafes. At that time, everyone will be able to play very expensive game masterpieces through their antique computers at home, which is equivalent to chartering games without leaving home. Who still goes to Internet cafes at that time?

After hearing this concept, almost all the participants were stunned.

In the eyes of everyone, diskless workstations are already considered high-tech. A few years ago, everyone even thought they were black technology. Now Fang Jie means to upgrade the diskless workstations to pure cloud workstations.

But for a diskless workstation in an Internet cafe, at least two computers are connected and controlled through a LAN, and for cloud services, one is at home, and the other may be in a server room thousands of miles away. How can this be strictly controlled?

Unless the network speed is extremely fast, as fast as a local area network, there is almost no delay, and to do this, at least the problem of network speed across the country must be solved, then this involves the construction of network infrastructure at the national level. It's not as easy and simple as it sounds.

If the cloud service mentioned by the boss can really be realized, then Boiling Internet will definitely become the protagonist of this concept. Therefore, after listening to this symposium, many people can’t help but feel that Boiling Internet has more development potential and consider whether to change it. past...

(End of this chapter)