I was born again with 100 million

Chapter 290 The Lianzhong is defeated! (two in one)

On the ninth day of the first lunar month, Gengu Technology and Gengu Network officially went to work. Lin Xiao stood at the gate of the company and distributed red envelopes to the people of the two companies.

In this regard, Lin Xiao has always been generous, so the employees all happily entered the door with red envelopes.

As the boss, he basically didn't do too much business this day. He went to the key departments of the two companies respectively, and then people in the office began to flow in an endless stream.

In the afternoon, Lin Xiao met with the senior managers of the two companies to clarify what to do now.

For Eternal Technology, the most important thing is a series of preparatory work for the launch of Gpod, various work in terms of production and marketing.

As for the ancient network, it is doing a good job of updating the version of "Stone Age" and further expanding the scale of QQ users. Some of Lin Xiao's other plans are preparing to be released slowly.

The next day at work, Lin Xiao went to Baidu first. Li Yanhong and the others officially went to work today. Akatsuki felt relieved.

Staying in Baidu until after 10 o'clock, Lin Xiao received a call from Xiao Ma, saying that Lianzhong had taken action.

After encouraging Li Yanhong and Lu Jianguo to continue to focus on project development, he returned to Eternal Network.

As soon as Lin Xiao joined the company, Xiao Ma immediately approached him to report.

"You mean, Lianzhong launched a chat software today?" Lin Xiao was also slightly taken aback when he heard Brother Ma's words.

Brother Xiao Ma immediately nodded, then pointed to Ren Yuxin and said: "Yuxin discovered it. The software of Lianzhong is called GICQ, and it is also a Chinese version of ICQ."

Ren Yuxin has been in charge of QQ games recently, and pays more attention to Lianzhong, so when Lianzhong launched GICQ today, he immediately discovered it.

At this time, Ren Yuxin took up the conversation and said: "This chat software of Lianzhong is basically similar to ours in terms of functions. Oh, by the way, they don't have the chat emoticon function, and they are also interoperable with the Lianzhong game hall. GICQ enters the game hall."

While they were chatting, they also came to Ren Yuxin's computer together.

Lin Xiao saw that this GICQ is not the same as QQ in style, but uses a color similar to that of the Lianzhong game hall, but on the panel, there is indeed an icon for logging in to the Lianzhong game hall.

After some operations, Lin Xiao found that GICQ has no chat emoticons, and there is no entrance to the game lobby through friends' updates.

After thinking about it, Lin Xiao said to Xiao Ma and the others: "It seems that this GICQ should have been prepared by them before, rather than a temporary launch. There is no chat emoticon and friend dynamic entry, so it should be too late to add it."

"Interesting." Lin Xiao smiled, "It seems that when we were making QQ games, Lianzhong was also developing this GICQ, but we were ahead."

Lin Xiao really can't remember that Lianzhong Company developed such a thing in the previous life, and QQ is the only one in the future. Although there have been Fetion and the like, it seems that none of them have made it.

After thinking for a while, Lin Xiao said: "In this case, Lianzhong should be thinking of importing Lianzhong users as GICQ users."

Lin Xiao said, clicked on the Lianzhong game on GICQ, and directly entered the Lianzhong game hall, but Lin Xiao felt a little strange that the Lianzhong game hall was not any different from before.

Lin Xiao tried it by himself, and found that there was no entrance for users to register GICQ in the entire Lianzhong game hall. He couldn't help being a little curious, and muttered:

"It shouldn't be, Lianzhong will definitely think about importing the users of the game hall into GICQ, why not..."

Ren Yuxin understood what Lin Xiao was saying at this time, and immediately took over the words: "They have, if you are not a GICQ user, you will be prompted to register for GICQ after logging in to the game lobby."

"Oh, let me tell you." Lin Xiao said, returned Ren Yuxin's GICQ, and then logged into his Lianzhong game account.

Although Lin Xiao felt that the game hall of Lianzhong was not doing very well, but as a competitor in the same industry, he had logged into the opponent's game anyway, so he still had an account.

After logging into the Lianzhong game hall, Lin Xiao really saw a pop-up window saying that Lianzhong Company has launched a new instant messaging software GICQ, and users of Lianzhong game are welcome to register, and launched a one-month activity. During this month, register for GICQ Users will have the opportunity to participate in a lucky draw.

The prize is also very interesting, it is the same IBM driveless laptop as in the God of Wealth Avatar event.

After reading the complete introduction, just when Lin Xiao was about to close it, he suddenly found that there was no place to close the entire event page.

What do you mean?
Lin Xiao froze for a moment, then asked Ren Yuxin, "Where is their event page?"

Ren Yuxin replied: "Oh, their page cannot be closed. If you want to enter the game lobby, you must register and log in."

"What? You mean, Ourgame has implemented a mandatory bundling, and you must register with GICQ to continue playing Ourgame?"

After Lin Xiao asked, he immediately laughed after getting Ren Yuxin's affirmative answer.

This Lianzhong's thinking is really weird, this kind of gameplay, even if I don't dare to play it myself.

If you need to log in with an account to use the product itself, it doesn't matter, most users can understand it, but this way of bundling, you have to register another software to bundle with one software, this...

Perhaps it was only at the beginning of the birth of the Internet, when users' thinking was not established at all, that companies would come up with such tricks.

This is digging one's own grave!
At this moment, Lin Xiao had even directly sentenced the other party to death.

In Lin Xiao’s view, if Lianzhong simply imitates itself, it will immediately launch games such as Happy Landlords and Lianliankan. able to hold their ground.

But what the other party wanted was to launch GICQ to compete with his own QQ. Forget it, but he even came up with such a self-defeating tactic, it seemed that the other party was really crazy.

In fact, if Lianzhong did this trick before its own QQ game came out, it might be okay, everyone is annoying, but after all, there is no choice in the market.

But now... that is to push users to QQ games, so there is no reason for me not to catch it.

Lin Xiao stood up, and immediately said to Xiao Ma and Ren Yuxin: "Mr. Ma, Yuxin, immediately update the QQ game and launch the tourist mode."

"Tourist mode?" Brother Xiao Ma and Ren Yuxin were both stunned.

Lin Xiao nodded, "Yes, tourist mode."

Didn't Lianzhong force people to register, but I came up with the complete opposite, set up a tourist mode, and then Lin Xiao began to explain to Xiao Ma and Ren Yuxin.

"The so-called tourist mode means that if the user just wants to experience the gameplay of the QQ game, the system directly generates a tourist identity for the user to join the game without logging in."

"Then after the tourists have played for 10 minutes, remind the user to register. This registration must have a one-click registration function, that is, as long as the user clicks, a new QQ account binding registration can be generated immediately. At the same time, after half an hour, the reminder The user completes the relevant information and sets a password before continuing the game.”

After listening to Lin Xiao's words, Brother Ma and Ren Yuxin's eyes brightened.

Without Lianzhong's current mandatory binding, it seems that this model is not very attractive, but with Lianzhong's model, the comparison is very obvious.

And after careful consideration, they immediately discovered the advanced features of Lin Xiao's mode. They let players try it first, and then gave players a one-click registration function. Under normal circumstances, tourists should click directly.

In the future, it will take half an hour to complete the data before continuing to play. At this time, the player is more happy to play. As long as the process of completing the data is not too complicated, the player is still very happy.

Then the player only needs to write down the account number himself, and use this account to log in next time, which means that both QQ and QQ games have a new user.

Brother Xiao Ma immediately called Zhang Zhidong and Ren Yuxin to start program development.

In order to speed up, Lin Xiao also asked Zhang Xiaolong, who had participated in QQ and QQ games during this period, to also join the program development team.

The function mentioned by Lin Xiao itself is not particularly complicated. The so-called tourist mode is to automatically generate a user by simulation by the system, and then associate this virtual user with the user's newly registered account.

As for QQ registration and the like, they are all ready-made, and they are also very simple. With the cooperation of several people, the program development and testing can be completed in about two or three days.

The time came to the [-]th day of the first lunar month. In the past few days, the activity of Ourgame has also gained a certain influence. As Ourgame began to place GICQ advertisements on major websites, it also attracted some users to register.

What makes Bao Yueqiao, Jian Jin and others not sure whether they are happy or sad is that the users of both GICQ and the game hall of Ourgame are on the rise. did not rise.

The number of people online has not increased in the case of Lianzhong's large-scale advertising. Bao Yueqiao and others can also see the meaning behind this, but after all, the time is too short for them to make accurate judgments and responses.

And at this time, the QQ game was updated!
With the thought of taking advantage of your illness to kill you, Lin Xiao not only let Xiao Ma and others develop the tourist mode of the QQ game in a short period of time, but also prepared it long ago, and originally planned to release it in the next stage. The happy mahjong online directly.

advertise?Isn't that just a matter of throwing money!
In Huaxia Internet, there is no Internet company, and there is Eternal Internet, which makes money quickly. This advertising fee is really a piece of cake for the continuous gold-absorbing ability of "Stone Age".

On the fourteenth day of the first lunar month, this is the eve of the start of school for many college students, and it is also the first weekend after many factories go to work after the new year. On this day, many people who have no access to the Internet during the Chinese New Year flood into Internet cafes.

Internet cafes all over the country ushered in the strongest wave of surfing the Internet after the new year, and many Internet cafes had the phenomenon of queuing up for a machine.

On this day, people in the Huaxia Internet industry and netizens suddenly discovered that when they went online, there were suddenly many advertisements from the two companies.

One is GICQ of Lianzhong Company. Their slogan is to create the purest Chinese version of ICQ and regard the connection with ICQ as the biggest selling point of the software.

The other is the QQ game of Eternal Network. The advertisement is accompanied by the patterns of Happy Fighting the Landlord and Happy Mahjong, and there is also a sentence advertisement.

"You can play without registration, come and experience the fun game!"

If the previous competition between Eternal Network and Ourgame was just a matter between the two companies, then these overwhelming advertisements are equivalent to showing everything in front of the public at once.

All of a sudden, the product comparison between Eternal Network and Lianzhong Games quickly became popular all over the Internet.

Whether it is Lin Xiao or Bao Yueqiao, they can hear the voices of netizens without going to an Internet cafe, but such voices can be described in one sentence in the eyes of the two companies.

Make some people happy and some people worry!

When the product advertisements of the two companies appeared on a large scale, the first place where a comprehensive comparison and evaluation post appeared was the Tianya Forum, and this article titled "Eternal Ancient and Lianzhong, Competing on Different Levels" appeared, and it was very popular. It quickly spread across the Internet.

"Gengu Network acquired OICQ and changed its name to QQ, and launched QQ games, which mainly focus on chess and card games. Once launched, they became popular all over the Internet. Feeling threatened, Lianzhong Games also launched GICQ, trying to have a head-to-head confrontation with EverGu Network, but in my case It seems that this is obviously not a contest on one level."

"I don't compare the size of the two companies. From the point of view of products, QQ Game is several grades higher than Lianzhong Game. From the perspective of the fun of the game, QQ Game wins..."

The author of the article wrote about his feeling of being amazed by the QQ games Happy Fighting the Landlord and Lianliankan, and then came to the first conclusion.

"In terms of game content and settings, QQ Games has completely broken people's inherent perception of chess and card games in the past two years. While being novel, it has also added core gameplay, which is much stronger than Lianzhong Games. the first point of

"Second point, from the perspective of user experience, QQ games cannot be called a complete victory, but crushing!"

"QQ games have been setting up convenience for players from the very beginning. Not only have a lot of game entrances been set up on QQ, but you can also log in directly with your QQ number in QQ games, and now a tourist mode has been launched, which allows players to play as they want. , even if they are on that basis, there may be fewer new signups.”

"On the other hand, Lianzhong not only needs to register for new users, but even old users need to register for GICQ to log in. This kind of artificial barrier is a huge harm to players. Why don't I go there when I have this time? Playing QQ games, is your Lianzhong game more fun? Obviously not.”

"From one place, we can see the difference in concept between the two in terms of bringing convenience to players. QQ Games has set up a one-click game function at the very beginning. Players do not need to find a table by themselves, while Lianzhong Games has a While copying off-the-shelf templates, their updates did not add new features.”

"So, the two companies are not competing at the same level. The gap is not in user scale or game design, but in thinking, ideas, and innovative ideas!"

After the article was published on the Tianya Forum, it attracted many comments in just half a day, and almost all of them agreed with it.

"QQ games are really fun. I haven't played Lianzhong since Chinese New Year."

"Happy Fighting Landlords, why are you playing Lianzhong!"

"I am an old user of Lianzhong Games. I logged in today and found that I have to register GICQ. After seeing this post, I am going to try QQ games."

"Our games are rubbish, I have already started playing QQ games."

……

Later, the article was reposted by different forums and chat rooms, turning the competition between QQ Games and Ourgame directly into a comparative discussion between the two.

The result is naturally self-evident, and the voices supporting QQ games are almost one-sided.

Lianzhong's mandatory registration is really inappropriate, and if there is no comparison with QQ games, it can still be justified, and people will complain at most.

But with the comparison on the QQ game side, it seems to be more brain-dead and more brain-dead.

Especially in a place like the Internet, because the herd mentality is particularly prominent, there are so many people who fall into trouble, and the criticisms can't even be suppressed together.

Even later, some media reporters also paid attention to this comparison, and published news reports based on some viewpoints discussed on the Internet.

Yanjing, Lianzhong Company.

Bao Yueqiao and others began to pay attention to online evaluations yesterday afternoon, but at that time, such extensive discussions had not yet been introduced.

So although they were also worried that such wind reviews would affect more people, they still had some fluke mentality.

But what they didn't expect was that in just one night, this discussion would become so big and affect such a wide range that even the media got involved.

"Yue Qiao, in just two days, our logged-in users have dropped to less than 40, and the number of concurrent online users has fallen below 4."

Listening to Jian Jin's words, Bao Yueqiao felt extremely agitated.

"There were nearly 50 before, but today it fell directly to less than 40?"

"Yes, we can't go wrong anymore." Jian Jin said anxiously.

"We have to quickly cancel the function of forcing QICQ login in the Lianzhong game hall. There are too many criticisms on the Internet. If we don't cancel it, I'm afraid the data will drop."

Bao Yueqiao also immediately said: "This is the only way to do it now, then you should quickly change the program, add a close button on the page, and no longer require association and binding."

After Bao Yueqiao made the final decision, Jian Jin hurriedly started to modify the program again, but it took more than half a day for this modification and various tests.

Therefore, three days after GICQ went online, Ourgame urgently canceled the mandatory association between Ourgame Hall and GICQ. At the same time, Ourgame also quickly sent an apology notice, expressing apology for the inconvenience caused to users.

However, the results of all the actions of Lianzhong are obviously not ideal. The mandatory binding has been cancelled, the apology has been apologized, and the advertisement is still running, but it has not stopped the trend of user decline!

On the contrary, Lianzhong Games has done this, making netizens feel that Lianzhong Games is at the end of its rope.

There are even more voices on the Internet.

"This official apology from Lianzhong is more like a letter of surrender. They admit that they are not as good as Evergrande in terms of software development and configuration. Now Lianzhong has some QQ games and they are doing better. While there are QQ games, Lianzhong does not, if Lianzhong does not launch innovative things, their ending can already be seen.”

The lack of stickiness of Lianzhong users is reflected again at this moment. With the appearance of various pessimistic voices on the Internet, users are also speeding up their abandonment.

Fall and fall!The statistics of Lianzhong are constantly declining!

Correspondingly, there is an overall increase in QQ and QQ game user data!
The advertising effect of QQ game itself, coupled with the topical effect brought about by the competition with Lianzhong game, made QQ game the most popular Internet product this month!

On the 24th of the first month, QQ Games officially launched for a full month, and the number of users exceeded 400 million. With the help of QQ Games and the advertising effect, QQ users directly exceeded 1000 million, which is far more than the previous life!
Considering that there are only 500 million netizens nationwide at this time, the number of QQ users is simply astonishing!
Because QQ users broke through the milestone of 1000 million, and because the company hadn't organized a large-scale dinner after the year, Lin Xiao directly held a celebration banquet.

"Congratulations to QQ users breaking through 1000 million! QQ game users breaking through 400 million, cheers!"

In the hotel, following Lin Xiao's shout, there was a burst of cheers immediately.

At the same time, Lianzhong Company was extremely deserted.

All the people in the company had already left work, and Bao Yueqiao, who had just finished answering the call from Xiao Jingye, the boss of Guangtong Holdings, was sitting at the table with Jian Jin with a confused expression.

"What did Mr. Xiao say?" Jian Jin asked with a glimmer of hope.

Bao Yueqiao rubbed his already messy hair, and said slowly: "In two days, Guangtong Holdings will arrange financial personnel to withdraw all the company's existing funds."

"How could they do this? The money has already been invested in us, and we still have some users..."

When Jian Jin said this, his confidence was a little lacking. They did have some users, but they were just some Go and chess players, probably of old age, and there were some good players gathered before Lianzhong, so There are still people playing, like other games, almost no one can see it.

The speed of Lianzhong's defeat was beyond everyone's imagination!
After a pause, Jian Jin continued: "Even if we can't do chess and card games anymore, we can switch to other things. If they take away the funds, won't the company be ruined?"

Bao Yueqiao said helplessly with a lonely face, "I fought for it, but they disagreed. They own nearly 80% of the shares. If they really want to take the money away, we can't stop it."

At this moment, Bao Yueqiao suddenly remembered the scene that happened at the Internet Conference.

At that time, Lin Xiao said, "Lianzhong can't last half a year!"

And he sneered, thinking that Lin Xiao was talking cruelly.

It turned out that Lin Xiao really wasn't talking harsh words. It's only been three months since the Internet Conference. The only thing Lin Xiao said wrong was that he said it took too long.

"We have lost completely." Bao Yueqiao smiled bitterly at Jian Jin, his voice was extremely hoarse.

"Lianzhong...it's over!"

(End of this chapter)