my return 2002

Chapter 193
Back in Shanghai, Zhu Jun left first because he was going to Korea tomorrow.

Shen Lang invited Shi Hai to sit in the company and talk about the 3D game engine by the way.

In the conference room, Lei Jun and Wang Tao were there, while Shi Hai looked at Shen Lang in surprise.

"Mr. Shen, I remember that Jianyu Jianghu has only been online for two months. Are you so anxious to develop new projects?"

Shen Lang shrugged: "3D online games will be the trend in the future, if it is not focused on this, why would the snail want to do Voyager Century?"

Although the image quality of Jianyu Jianghu is quite delicate in the online games in 2004, it is still a 2D game, the viewing angle is locked, and the game modeling is not delicate enough. These defects are unavoidable, but World of Warcraft has not yet come, so players Those who are attracted by the novel gameplay of Jianyujianghu will ignore its weaknesses.

Once the World of Warcraft server is launched, although Sword Rain Jianghu will not decline immediately, it will definitely lose a large number of players.

Shi Hai greatly appreciated Shen Lang's vision, and at the same time admired his courage, and asked straight to the point: "Mr. Shen, do you mean that you want to outsource the development of the 3D engine to our snails?"

Shen Lang didn't hide it either: "That's right, Inspur Technology provides the funds, and Snail is responsible for the technology. Of course, Wang Tao will also send a group of employees to participate in this project."

"Boss Shen is planning to steal from me." Shi Hai brushed his hair and said with a smile.

Wang Tao said to Shi Hai: "Mr. Shi, don't get me wrong. The reason why I sent employees to participate in the research and development is mainly to save some time in the process of getting familiar with the game engine in the future in the game production process."

Shi Hai smiled noncommittally at Wang Tao, then looked at Shen Lang.

Shen Lang spread his hands: "Mr. Shi, I think this deal is fair. I pay for the research and development of the game engine, and the ownership is still with the snail. My request is nothing more than the snail's help in training a group of employees. I believe so. Find another game company with the same conditions, and they will agree to my plan."

"Mr. Shen, can you disclose your budget and requirements for developing this 3D game engine?" Shi Hai didn't immediately agree.

Shen Lang looked directly into Shi Hai's eyes, and said word by word: "I need a 3D game engine that can rival the Unreal Engine, budget? No budget, as long as this goal is achieved, any amount of money will do."

Shi Hai took a deep breath. The Unreal Engine can be said to be the top level that the mainstream game engines on the market can reach. What made him even more unexpected was that Shen Lang would pay so much attention to the development of a game engine.

You must know that in the mainland game market, most game companies do not even have the motivation to develop a game by themselves, and they are all fantasizing about replicating the success of Shanda and Ninetowns.

Although Jianyujianghu is popular, Inspur Technology still has little influence in the game circle. From this meeting, it can be seen that many game company bosses don't even know Shen Lang. To put it bluntly, Jianyujianghu's success is in their eyes It cannot be copied, and has no research reference value.

"Okay, I'll take this job, but Nautical Century is expected to be launched by the end of the year. At that time, you have to give me some good promotional resources." Shi Hai likes challenging things, which is very different from him as a Art students are related, and he is not at a disadvantage in this deal.

After Shi Hai left, Wang Tao said to Shen Lang worriedly: "Boss Shen, isn't it too risky to do this?"

Shen Lang sighed: "There is no way, we started late and have a weak foundation, so we can only spend money on it, but it doesn't matter, as long as we have learned the technology and experience in developing game engines, the money will be worth it."

"By the way, you should screen the people you send this time, and try to arrange for those who are more stable and have a family. We pay such a high price. If they are poached away with their fresh academic achievements, they will be beaten like eggs." Shen Lang reminded.

Wang Tao nodded: "Well, I understand."

After Wang Tao was about to leave, Shen Lang stopped him again: "In addition, during the period of game engine development, the progress of [Zhu Xian]'s project should not be delayed. Let Xiao Ding and the others first update the game's story background, characters, and world view. When these are enriched, game planning must also be involved, and if you have any good ideas, you must communicate with the game engine development side at any time, and there is not much time left for us.”

Wang Tao responded, and left the conference room with a solemn expression.

Shen Lang turned to Mr. Lei who hadn't spoken yet: "Mr. Lei, the anti-addiction system will be handed over to you. Make it as soon as possible. I estimate that there will be a few months before the document will be officially issued."

Lei Jun looked at Shen Lang suspiciously: "How could you be so kind to develop an anti-addiction system for free use by other game companies?"

Well, I still can't fool this old fox. In fact, the reason why Shen Lang is so concerned about this anti-addiction system is mainly to pave the way for the subsequent electronic payment. When the time comes, doing real-name authentication will be twice the result with half the effort.

Lei Jun couldn't help laughing and scolding after hearing Shen Lang's words: "I just said, you little fox, why are you so generous this time, you co-authored to let those game company bosses work for you!"

Shen Lang shrugged: "I helped them save a lot of software development costs, and charging some handling fees, isn't it too much?"

Lei Jun: .
Two days later, Shi Hai's snail game received a research and development fee of 2000 million. Following the arrival of the research and development fee, there were also ten programmers from Inspur Technology. After seeing Shen Lang's sincerity, Shi Hai It also reorganized a 3D game engine research and development department very faithfully, named Voyager 2.

The employees are all veterans of Voyage Century 1 game engine, and they are also the technical backbone of Snail Games.

To put it bluntly, the reason why Shen Lang made such a generous move is also due to Jianyu Jianghu's performance in April. Compared with the open beta that just did not delete files in March, the number of players in Jianyu Jianghu in April has increased significantly, reaching 120 million. Simultaneously online not only broke the legend's record of 70 online for more than a year.

At the same time, it also contributed 800 million yuan in revenue to Inspur Technology, and also brought 400 million yuan in net profit to Shen Lang. I have to say that this idea of ​​making online games is really profitable. No wonder Shi Yuzhu said that Anyone who sells health care products will come to engage in online games.

Although the game made money, Shen Lang did not put his main energy on the game. On the contrary, after entering May, the three companies under Shen Lang's name did not promote Jianyujianghu as much as before.

On the one hand, it is to not affect the user experience, and on the other hand, it is also to free up resources for other products.

This product is YY. Thanks to the promotion of Xingchen Chinese website in April, the number of registered users of YY has exceeded 500 million by the end of April. Although it is not worth mentioning compared with the [-] million registered users of QQ, it is still It is the first step in the Long March.

Since May, YY has enjoyed a feeling of soaring in the sun. With the support of various promotional resources, in just one week, the number of registered users has broken through the [-] million mark.

The reason why such achievements can be achieved is mainly due to the influx of players from Sword Rain Jianghu.

In the past two months, the players in Jianyu Jianghu have generally exceeded level [-], and the difficulty of the dungeon is far from the difficulty of the previous level [-] plot dungeon. The requirements for players' cooperation and positioning are getting higher and higher. It is difficult to complete the difficult dungeon.

YY's voice group chat function has been recommended by many players, and has become a standard configuration for Jianyu Jianghu players. Even when they don't usually play dungeons, Jianyu Jianghu players are used to chatting with friends in the game while hanging YY voice. , or the girls are chatting hotly.

Correspondingly, the YY voice function has also greatly enhanced the online time of Jianyu Jianghu players. Some girls have no interest in leveling and dungeons. What they like to do most is to find a beautiful place in the game, look at the scenery, and then Chat with the "husband" in the game in YY voice.

Not to mention, in the multiplayer game community, there are really many couples who got married because of this, and developed from online to offline, and I don't know how many single dogs I envy.

It also makes those players who are still hacking legend jealous. After all, the game of legend has developed to this day, and there are no female players.

What's more interesting is that the existence of YY's voice also debunks the "shemale" in many games. Those guys who build a female account and then call their husbands to prostitute their equipment for free, in the era before voice changers, they basically died at the sight of light.

This has also led many gamers to start registering YY accounts, but whenever they encounter someone calling their husband in the game, they immediately throw out a sentence and use YY voice, but anyone who pushes back and forth and dare not use YY can basically be judged as a "shemale".

Of course, there are also some unharmonious scenes in YY voice, such as cursing. Many players often get too involved in the game, and the two sides start a scolding battle. In the past, they could only vent their anger by typing, but now it’s okay. YY voice, the two parties made an appointment in the chat room and began to spray each other.

In Internet cafes, anyone who plays the "Three-Character Classic" while wearing earphones for no apparent reason can basically conclude that this person must be making an appointment with someone on YY Voice.

This is also a very helpless phenomenon, and Shen Lang has nothing to do about it. There are all kinds of birds in the forest, so he can only issue a "positive energy" announcement to remind the user when he logs in to the YY chat room. Whether it is useful or not, it can be regarded as a comfort.

Of course, the breakthrough of [-] million registered users in YY also brought a trouble, that is Penguin's attention, Brother Ma also called Shen Lang himself to inquire about the situation.

Shen Lang can only say: "Mr. Ma, I can't help it. It is too difficult to have some dungeons in Jianyujianghu. Players need a voice software to communicate. You have been working on communication software for so many years, and you know better than me. This stuff doesn’t make money, so I really don’t want to do it.”

Brother Xiao Ma cursed inwardly: I believe you are a ghost.

On the surface, he still tentatively said to Shen Lang: "Boss Shen, I think your YY project is quite good, why don't you just sell it to me, game users don't need to worry, I will still provide services for them."

"It's better not to cause trouble for Mr. Ma, I can handle this myself."

Brother Xiao Ma hung up the phone with a livid face, and then came to Zhang Zhidong's office.

Zhang Zhidong saw that brother Ma's aura was not right, and asked curiously: "What's wrong with you? Who are you angry with?"

Brother Xiaoma pulled away the chair in front of the desk, sat down opposite Zhang Zhidong, and said with a serious expression, "We're in big trouble, I'm not joking."

"What's the trouble? Tell me clearly." Seeing this, Zhang Zhidong immediately sat up straight and became nervous.

Ma asked: "Do you still remember Inspur Technology?"

"Of course I remember, what's wrong?"

"Inspur Technology launched an instant messaging software called YY, and the number of registered users has exceeded [-] million!"

Zhang Zhidong was relieved when he heard it: "Hey, I thought it was something, isn't it just tens of millions of registered users, not to mention that it is far from us, even if it is not even a star and a half away from Langma UC, there is nothing wrong with it." A big storm is coming."

Before, because QQ adopted a period of fee registration and some value-added membership services, some QQ users began to use Langma UC as an alternative. However, as QQ canceled the fee registration, Langma UC soon disappeared. Form a substantial threat to QQ.

Brother Xiaoma stood up impatiently, pacing back and forth: "This is different, Langma UC is incomparable to YY, no, to be precise, Wang Wei is incomparable to Shen Lang at all, this is an extremely dangerous opponent!"

Zhang Zhidong felt that Brother Ma was a bit alarmist. He had never met Shen Lang, but he heard that he was a very young junior. How young was he? The post-80s generation, under the background that Internet entrepreneurs are all in their 60s and 70s, Shen Lang, a post-80s generation, seems a bit abrupt.

At the same time, Zhang Zhidong was a little curious, what kind of person could make Xiao Ma so afraid?

Brother Xiao Ma calmed down, sat down opposite Zhang Zhidong again, and said to Zhang Zhidong in an extremely serious tone: "We can't let YY continue to grow and develop, otherwise, this will be a serious problem for us!"

Before Zhang Zhidong could ask a question, Brother Ma immediately added: "Shen Lang has too many cards in his hand, 360 Security Guard, 360 Browser, 360 Search Engine, and NetDragon Technology are also his, you know YY How long did it take from publishing to breaking [-] million registered users? Two months, only two months!"

Zhang Zhidong was indeed taken aback. From 0 to 1000 million within two months, even when the QQ user growth was the fastest, there was no such speed.

"Is what you said true?"

"Do you think I still have the mind to joke with you now?"

Zhang Zhidong swallowed his saliva: "Then what should we do now? The online agent rights of our Q coins are still in their hands."

Brother Xiao Ma was so depressed that he wanted to bang his head against the wall. He never expected that the decision he thought he was extremely shrewd at the beginning has now become a shackle around the penguin's neck.

Zhang Zhidong persuaded: "Whether we can go public or not depends on next month, we can't make any mistakes now!"

Brother Xiao Ma sighed dejectedly: "We can only wait for the listing first, then talk about it."

"But we can't just let it develop like this. I think YY's voice chat function is pretty good. Let someone study it."

"Well, that's a good idea."

(End of this chapter)