my return 2002

Chapter 171 Everything is ready
On Lei Jun's first day at work, he saw the official notice of the termination of the contract between Xishanju and NetDragon Technology. Yes, it was just a simple notice without any form of negotiation.

Lei Jun's blood pressure went up, even though he had already left Xishanju, but after all, he brought up the project all by himself, and Lei Jun immediately called the former Xishanju's subordinates.

"Mr. Lei, I don't want to, but Mr. Qiu issued a death order, so I have no choice but to carry it out."

After hanging up the phone, Lei Jun yelled angrily: "What on earth is he thinking? Does he have to destroy Jinshan to be reconciled!"

Shen Lang poured a cup of tea for Lei Jun, and comforted him: "Qiu Bo Jun should not be too impulsive, he must have found a sales channel in advance before making such a decision."

"You mean Shanda?"

Lei Jun realized that the Internet cafe management software market in the mainland is now a duo. 360 Internet cafe management software covers more than [-] Internet cafes, firmly controlling the leading position. The other is that Shanda acquired Jisheng Technology, and then integrated Shanda After its own sales channels, it has covered [-] Internet cafes, and the rest of the Internet cafe management software is not large-scale because it cannot get the point card authorization of various game companies, so it can only survive in the cracks.

However, Lei Jun is not optimistic about Qiu Bojun's approach. Players of Swordsman Love have been used to buying point cards in these Internet cafes, but now they can't buy them suddenly, which will inevitably cause a decline in the number of players online.

"Sigh." Lei Jun sighed. Helping Jinshan go public has become his obsession these years, and now that his hopes have been completely shattered, he is relieved.

After a moment of silence, Lei Jun returned to work and asked Shen Lang about the company's progress during the Spring Festival.

"Mr. Shen, I don't think the multiplayer game has been launched in the Sword Rain Jianghu zone yet, and it's going to be tested next week, so it doesn't have to be so thorough, right?" Lei Jun reminded.

Shen Lang couldn't help shaking his head with a wry smile: "It's really not out of confidentiality this time, the main reason is that the gameplay of Sword Rain Jianghu is too rich, and it hasn't been long since the resumption of work, and Li Xuelin is still sorting out the strategies."

Lei Jun was stunned. Indeed, compared to the popular kimchi games on the market, Jian Yu Jiang Hu is several levels higher in playability, and the corresponding difficulty of getting started is much higher. If there is no perfect strategy, I am afraid it will persuade you to quit Some players are used to kimchi online games.

Finally, on January 1th, Duowan Games finally launched in the game zone of Jianyu Jianghu. This game, which is about to open its closed beta, finally lifted the veil of mystery in front of players.

Players clicked on the Jianyu Jianghu game area, and a title quickly attracted their attention.

"Reject the stereotypes and create your own characters."

That's right, it's just pinching the face. To what extent do young people pursue individuality?
In real life, Sha Matt's style has also become a symbol of young people's mavericks. Those bold young people dye their hair in colorful colors and wear exotic clothes. Walking on the street, they can immediately attract countless surprised eyes.

This is even more so on the Internet. QQ has just launched the QQ show for half a year, and has more than 500 million paying users, just to make their virtual accounts look different from others.

Prior to this, whether it was Legendary, Miracle MU, Westward Journey, or Swordsman Love, all the character faces were the same. Players were mainly distinguished by ID and equipment, but the equipment was often the same, so the enhancement system of Miracle MU That's why so many players are flocking to it. Apart from attribute enhancement, the biggest requirement of players is: handsome and different from others.

However, at this time, Jianyu Jianghu has launched the "face pinching system" for the first time, allowing players to customize their own characters, and the sense of substitution is instantly full.

"Fuck, this idea is so awesome, I don't want to say anything, just relying on this face pinching system, I want to play!"

"It's so cool, this is a real custom character, haha, I want to take a photo of myself, and pinch my face directly according to my appearance during the closed beta."

What's more interesting is that compared to male players, the face pinching system is fatal to female players.

Li Xuelin found that in Jianyujianghu, the face-pinching strategy has the highest number of clicks, and compared with the men's face-pinching strategy, the number of hits on the female pinching strategy is three times higher. Of course, this does not rule out the contribution of some LSPs. of hits.

Just one day after the Jianyujianghu game zone was launched, it caused a huge sensation among the players. The face-squeezing system shocked the entire online game circle in the mainland, and made many game companies sigh: So the game can still do this!
Grand headquarters.

Chen Tianqiao leaned on the back of the chair, his eyes followed the sliding of the mouse, and looked at it very seriously. After a long while, he put the mouse aside and hammered the desk hard. Tan Qunzhao, the person in charge of Shanda Games, also had an ugly face.

Chen Tianqiao was silent for a while, then looked at Tan Qunzhao: "Can we make this face pinching system?"

"Yes, it is possible, but it is not easy to join the mature online game products such as Legend and Legend World." Tan Qunzhao said awkwardly.

This is really not his evasion, the main reason is whether it is Legendary or Legendary World, the style of painting is relatively rough, and it is difficult for players to see the difference after adding the face pinching system, and a mature online game is currently running, and suddenly joined A brand new system will inevitably cause some bugs, and the gains outweigh the losses.

Chen Tianqiao frowned when he heard the words, and finally waved his hand: "This face pinching system still needs to be developed quickly, and the miracle can be used at that time."

Tan Qunzhao secretly groaned, the closed beta of Miracle has just been completed, and the public beta was originally going to be in February, but now it seems that it can only be postponed, and the workload will increase.

Chen Tianqiao suddenly got up and walked to the French window and looked in one direction for a long time, then smiled at Tan Qunzhao: "This Shen Lang is really a rare talent, pinching his face, thank goodness he can figure it out."

"Unfortunately, it just can't be used by me!"

Zhu Jun of Ninetowns was also staring at the game section of Jianyu Jianghu in his office. Compared with others, he was the first to know about this game.

However, until today, he discovered that all he knew before was just a name, and the gameplay of Jianyu Jianghu has surpassed most of the games on the market.

If there is a comparison, the only thing Zhu Jun can think of that can compare with it is World of Warcraft.

"Hey, Brother Lang, you really handed Shanda a knife to stab me this time!" Zhu Jun immediately called Shen Lang to complain.

Shen Lang was a little puzzled: "What mess? What are you talking about?"

Zhu Jun sighed: "Believe it or not, Miracle will definitely skip the public beta this time. Those of you who are doing self-research can adjust it. What should I do?"

"You deserve it, who made you think about being an agent all day long." Shen Lang gloated.

Zhu Jun thought for a while: "No, I have to contact Han Fang and let their Excellence Sword also set up a face-squeezing system."

Well, this guy is hopeless, Shen Lang didn't bother to talk to him and hung up the phone directly.

Listening to the busy tone on the phone, Zhu Jun couldn't help but shook his head with a wry smile: "This kid can make such a big noise no matter what."

Almost at the same time, Netease headquarters.

For Ding Sanshi, 2003 was undoubtedly the highlight moment in his life. Due to NetEase’s outstanding performance in the two major businesses of games and mailboxes, NetEase’s stock price soared from 2002 cents in early 0.95 to 70 US dollars per share.

NetEase became the first stock on the NASDAQ network in one fell swoop, and Ding Sanshi himself was also crowned the title of the richest man in the mainland. At that time, he was only 32 years old, and he was also known as the youngest richest man in the mainland.

Not only that, in December 2003, "Fantasy Westward Journey" brought huge profits to NetEase once it was launched, which also made NetEase gradually approach Shanda and Ninetowns.

For Shen Lang, Ding Sanshi never underestimated him. Last year, the anti-virus software fee and free dispute made him further convinced that his judgment was correct.

Afterwards, Shen Lang recruited Lei Jun to Inspur Technology, which once again made Ding Sanshi aware of Shen Lang's ambitions. However, NetEase's current product line has no overlap with Inspur Technology, and he was happy to sit on the mountain and watch the tigers fight.

Thanks to the fact that Netease's game was based on the Q version of the turn-based system, there were no decent competitors in China. Now that Jian Yujianghu appeared, Ding Sanshi even gloated a little.

"Let them fight."

"However, this face pinching system can be learned."

Speaking of which, Jinshan was the hardest hit by the emergence of Sword Rain Jianghu.

On this day, all the planners and programmers of Xishanju were called to the main meeting room of Jinshan, and Qiu Bojun ordered that all leaders of Xishanju must come to work, otherwise they will be fired immediately.

Through the projection on the big screen and the various strategies in the Jianyu Jianghu game zone, the mysterious veil of this game has been unveiled. However, for all the production members of JX, the blow is definitely all-round.

Laymen look at the excitement, and experts look at the doorway. If the above strategy is true, as the same martial arts game, Swordsman Love is placed in front of Jianyu Jianghu, just like a graffiti made by elementary school students.

Whether it is picture quality, gameplay, or interactivity, Jian Yu Jiang Hu is a very mature work, and it can even be said to be a work that transcends the times.

A small gap can inspire people's fighting spirit, but once the gap is too large, it will easily frustrate people's confidence. Many employees of Xishanju have even lowered their heads and are unwilling to watch the big screen. Like a public execution.

However, Qiu Bojun didn't think so, he scolded loudly.

"I called you here to let you have a look at the games made by others. Is there anything we can learn from? It's not for you to come to sleep, one by one, with your heads down, is there any money on the ground?"

Those employees who lowered their heads raised their heads, but what they were looking at was not the big screen, but Qiu Bojun's face.

Disdain, anger, grievance, all kinds of emotions were revealed, which made Qiu Bojun a little at a loss.

"Please, everyone is tired recently, why not let them go back to work first." A project team leader reminded.

Qiu Bojun snorted heavily and waved his hands: "The managers stay and continue the meeting, everyone else should go back."

After the employees had left, Qiu Bojun spoke earnestly.

"You have all seen the situation. This game is obviously aimed at us. I hope everyone can work together to kill the threat in the cradle."

However, after these words were finished, the passionate scene that Qiu Bojun imagined did not appear, and the entire conference room was silent.

Qiu Bojun glanced at the crowd, feeling extremely upset, and pointed to the project team leader who had just spoken.

"Tell me, what should we do now?"

The project team leader bit the bullet and said: "To sum up, we can start the limited-free event during the two weeks of Jianyu Jianghu's closed beta, and we can also start double experience and double drops, so as to keep players as much as possible."

Qiu Bojun was very satisfied with the project leader's answer: "Well, this can be done, as long as the competitors can be restrained, two weeks' income is nothing."

However, can this really prevent player churn?The project leader expressed doubts about this. In his opinion, unless these strategies of Jianyu Jianghu are fake, there is no way for Jianxia Qingyuan to compete with Jianyu Jianghu.

Qiu Bojun seemed to think that this method of brainstorming was very good, so he named a manager of Xishanju again.

While cursing inwardly that he was unlucky, he could only improvise a plan.

"Ahem, sir, I think we can also learn from the face-squeezing system of Jianyu Jianghu. There are quite a lot of female players in our Swordsman Love, so they should be interested in this."

Qiu Bojun nodded: "Well, is there any more?"

"Also. We can ask the navy to discredit them. A game cannot be without flaws. We only need to catch a few points to smear them. Most of the players will follow suit."

"Okay, this method is also good." Qiu Bojun was very satisfied.

Some executives reminded: "But the Duowan game community is in the hands of Inspur Technology"

Qiu Bojun waved his hand: "Then go to 17173 to post a post. Shanda Tan Qunzhao has agreed to cooperate with us, and will give us the best recommended position at that time, and these posts will also be pinned to the top by then."

Seeing Qiu Bojun's somewhat smug expression, all the managers of Xishanju couldn't help scolding their mothers in their hearts.

17173's reputation has long been bad among the veteran players, so it can fool some newcomers, Xiaobai, and people like Qiu Bojun who don't usually pay much attention to games.

On the other side, Shen Lang is busy running an online store. That's right, he is selling activation codes again, and compared to Miracle MU's activation codes, an internal test activation code of Jianyu Jianghu is directly sold for 100 yuan each.

This made many players who couldn't get the activation code for the event hate their teeth, but in order to play this game for the first time, they had to pay. In just one week, Shen Lang's Taobao store and eBay store added A total of more than 5000 activation codes were sold, and this alone made a profit of 50.

Veteran players like Lei Jun called out: profiteers.

And Jianyu Jianghu also completed all the virtual tests the day before the internal test, and the server was also debugged.

Everything is ready!

(End of this chapter)