my return 2002

Chapter 198 Expansion Pack Update

Penguin headquarters.

Zhang Zhidong looked at the almost one-sided criticism of Penguin on the Internet with some headaches.

"Mr. Ma, we have to think of a way to turn the situation around. If this goes on, it might affect Penguin's stock price."

Brother Xiao Ma is also very depressed. He doesn't understand why most Internet companies in China have "referenced" behaviors, so why netizens are so obsessed with Penguin.

"Let's make an announcement first, clarify it, and then ask the media to do some positive reports."

Although Xiao Ma knows that the effect of doing so is close to nothing, it can be regarded as expressing an attitude to the outside world.

Zhang Zhidong sighed: "That's the only way to go first."

Brother Xiao Ma didn't take this matter too seriously. After all, many QQ users shouted to boycott it on the Internet. In fact, not only did the concurrent online users of QQ users not drop during the recent period, but there was a small increase, and the number of registered users also increased. The increase shows that QQ opened the voice chat room function, which still attracted many users.

"How is the progress of the QQ Hall project?"

This is the question that Brother Ma is most concerned about.

Zhang Zhidong said: "Everything is going well, and it is estimated that the test can be carried out by the end of the year, but in this way, we will tear ourselves apart from Shanda. What if Shanda sues us?"

Brother Xiao Ma waved his hand nonchalantly: "Shanda is just an agent, and it involves copyright disputes. If you want to sue, the development company of BNB is qualified to sue. If you want to sue in the mainland, even if you can't win, we can delay it. The lifespan of this game is only two or three years, and if the game stops making money, the worst case is to lose some money, just close the server and reconcile.”

On the other hand, since Ninetowns signed the World of Warcraft agency agreement with Blizzard, Zhu Jun has been busy and has no time to play with Shen Lang.

For World of Warcraft, Zhu Jun gave the highest level of attention, immediately set up a World of Warcraft operation team, and began to work on the localization of World of Warcraft.

Soon, Zhu Jun ran into his first trouble. The world view of World of Warcraft is too large, and there are millions of texts that need to be translated. Not to mention, some obscure words cannot be translated directly in Chinese, and the background of World of Warcraft needs to be understood. It must be understood to explain clearly, which undoubtedly greatly increases the workload of localization.

There is no way, Zhu Jun can only lead the team to study the Chronicle of Warcraft in person. It can be said that Ninetowns has definitely paid extraordinary patience and perseverance for World of Warcraft.

This also made Zhu Jun feel tremendous pressure. It has already cost tens of millions of dollars to win the agency rights of World of Warcraft, and there are various continuing expenses after that, as well as the purchase of World of Warcraft servers, which all require a lot of money.

Miracle MU was officially launched in 2003. Although the annual revenue reached 6 million, the foundation of Ninetowns was still too weak in just one year. Zhu Jun almost invested all the money from Miracle MU into World of Warcraft.

Correspondingly, due to the deployment of a large number of people to do the localization of World of Warcraft, the operation of Miracle MU has also encountered some problems, the most obvious being the proliferation of cheats.

Due to Jianyu Jianghu's zero tolerance for cheating, many cheating production teams began to focus on other games. Korean kimchi games such as Legend and Miracle MU have become the best targets. The source code of the client can be seen everywhere. Anyone who knows a little bit of programming can make a plug-in with good functions.

Perhaps there are too many cheat-making teams, Miracle MU has so many cheats to the point of involuntary, some cheat teams have reduced the price to five yuan a month.

Some cheats even started to be used by players for free. Players in this era still don’t understand that free is the most expensive reason. They use free cheats one after another, and the result is that their accounts are stolen one after another.

Ninetowns was also at a loss for what to do about it. After banning a batch of accounts that used cheating, they found that the situation had not improved. Zhu Jun could only ask Miracle MU's parent company, Webzen, for help.

However, Korean companies are notorious for taking money and not doing anything. They just updated a few patches perfunctorily and fixed some loopholes, but they were quickly cracked by the plug-in production team, which was useless at all.

Since there are too many players using cheats, Zhu Jun didn't dare to beat them to death. He could only issue an announcement stating that Ninetowns will open a server [Greedy Island Area] that allows cheating, and other service areas will Game cheating will be strictly prohibited. Once investigated, the player's account will be permanently banned.

This news quickly caused an uproar among Miracle MU players. The game officially allowed players to use cheats, which was the first time in history.

The Duowan game community also began to have a large number of similar discussion posts, some support it, some oppose it. Of course, players who oppose the use of cheats still account for the majority.

The opinions of some players who support the use of cheats are also worth pondering. Many players who use cheats are not for PK, but for on-hook leveling. Obviously, some players are already interested in Korean kimchi-style games, which only rely on repeated killing monsters to level up. Mode, bored, they hope to get rid of the tedious leveling, and plug-in is a very good tool.

However, regardless of whether the players support or oppose it, Ninetowns is determined to rectify cheats this time. With the opening of the Greedy Island server, any behavior of using cheats on other servers will be subject to account freezing, and some freezes for three months. , some for half a year, some directly and permanently.

After dealing with a batch of users, the number of Miracle MU's cheats has shown a clear downward trend, but this has also caused a sharp decline in the number of Miracle MU's simultaneous online users.

This is also one of the reasons why many online game companies condone cheating. Most games in this era are point card games, and being online at the same time means that players are consuming point cards all the time, which is generating revenue for the game.

Zhu Jun's move is undoubtedly a measure that a strong man cuts his wrist, in order to ensure that Miracle MU can survive until World of Warcraft goes online.

But what Zhu Jun didn't expect was that when he gambled everything for World of Warcraft, Blizzard became restless and even asked to set up a joint venture company with Ninetowns to jointly operate World of Warcraft.

This is clearly to kill the chicken and take the eggs, and not to take Ninetowns as a person. Zhu Jun sternly rejected Blizzard's unreasonable request, and at the same time said that if Blizzard insisted, he would give up representing World of Warcraft.

Blizzard can only choose to compromise in the end, but the seeds of dissatisfaction have been planted since this day, and evil flowers will bloom one day.

At this time, Shanda was also troubled by the legendary private server.

Since the source code of the legendary client was leaked, private legendary servers in the mainland have sprung up like mushrooms after a rain. At first, they were just small businesses. Gradually, some legendary private servers even had hundreds of players, and some even had a county-owned private server. In the case of playing on the same private server, this undoubtedly greatly damaged Shanda's interests.

And not only that, when everyone thinks that a business can make money, the most profitable way is not to do this business, but to provide services for this business.

Some skilled private server personnel are no longer satisfied with making money by opening private servers, and they have started a service business to help others build private servers.

Before opening a legendary private server, at least some technical knowledge was required, and the threshold was still relatively high. Most people can only look at the source code like a bible, and they can only sigh.

But under the operation of these people, it doesn’t matter even if you can’t understand the code at all. They provide a complete set of pipeline services from leasing servers, making GM tokens, to how users recharge, and so on.

As a result, the legendary private server began to show fission growth. In this case, the revenue of the legend and the legend world were greatly affected.

This also made Chen Tianqiao determined to rectify his private server, and this matter was handed over to Tang Jun and Shanda's legal department.

Soon, Tang Jun interviewed a group of relatively large private server personnel, but the effect was not good. These private server personnel then used more secretive technical means to transfer the server.

Moreover, private server personnel all know that 17173 is Shanda's base camp, and they attract players by playing more games and advertising, which makes it more difficult for Shanda to trace the IP of these private server personnel.

For this reason, Chen Tianqiao also specially called Shen Lang, wanting to play more games to cooperate with Shanda's attack on the legendary private server, and promised Shen Lang some benefits.

However, Shen Lang refused on the grounds of protecting the user's privacy, and Chen Tianqiao was so angry that he hung up the phone directly.

After Shen Lang ran into a wall here, Shanda did not give up tracing the legendary private server, but the effect was not obvious, because Shanda was only an agent and did not have the qualifications to sue legendary private server personnel. As for Legendary's parent company, Actoz, this company let him lie It's okay to collect money and let him do things.
Compared with the difficulties in tracing private servers, Chen Tianqiao's merger and acquisition game in the capital market is very successful. After acquiring Haofang Battle Platform and Bianfeng Games, Chen Tianqiao has set his sights on Actoz, the legendary parent company, perhaps also Fed up with Actoz's inaction, Chen Tianqiao decided to play a trick to steal the house, directly solving the worries about the legend's copyright, and paving the way for tracing the legend's private server.

Time flies by, the long and hot summer finally passes, and the cool autumn comes.

In the conference room of Inspur Technology, there was a tense atmosphere, and everyone's eyes were fixed on the screen on the projector.

On the projector, densely packed figures huddled together in a canyon-like terrain, and various colorful light effects exploded in the air.

Finally, the countdown numbers appeared on the projector: 10, 9, 8
When the number 1 appeared, everyone in the meeting room breathed a sigh of relief, followed by cheers.

Shen Lang also showed a relieved look on his face. After two months of research and development, Jianyujianghu [Battle of Righteousness and Demons] expansion pack has been completed. This scene is the Lingtian Peak battlefield of the final battle between righteousness and evil.

Considering the large number of participating players, the Jianyu Jianghu project team conducted ten simulation tests, and the number of players has increased from 5000 at the beginning to 4 just now. In fact, the number of players in each server of Jianyu Jianghu is maintained at 3 There are about 4 people, and the online simulation of [-] people has not collapsed, which is enough to meet the needs of players.

Of course, there will definitely be freezes. After all, the real decision of whether freezes or not in this era does not depend on the server, but more on the network and computer configuration.

At this time, it has entered October, and the player level of Jianyu Jianghu has also improved a lot. The mainstream players have generally reached level [-] or above, and they have a deep understanding of character skills and game mechanics. It is also time to release the first game. Information sheet.

Shen Lang said to Wang Tao: "Let's make an announcement, it will be shut down for maintenance tomorrow, and the expansion pack will be officially updated."

The update of expansion packs is different from the usual update of some small patches. Many modifications related to gameplay need to be suspended, otherwise it will easily cause unknowable impact on players.

Soon, some players saw this update announcement on Duowan. What made Shen Lang dumbfounded was that the first reaction of the players was not to be happy, but to lament.

"No way, I'll take a break tomorrow, and I want to stop taking it?"

"Damn it, I'll be able to upgrade to level 60 tomorrow. I'm going to stop the server at this time. Is there a mistake?"

"Touch the level 60 boss in the front row, do you still accept the younger brother?"

Of course, most players are still knowledgeable. With the expansion packs of games like Warcraft and StarCraft first, players are naturally looking forward to the content of the expansion pack Jian Yu Jiang Hu.

"Don't say anything, the anticipation is over, Jianyu Jianghu is awesome!"

"This should be the first expansion pack of domestic online games, right? Looking forward to it, is the official here? I hope it can strengthen Huashan, thank you!"

"Hey, Huashan still needs to be strengthened? Then can we survive in Wudang?"

At midnight that day, all the servers of Jianyu Jianghu stopped serving on time. The server that was originally popular suddenly turned green, and then turned gray indicating that it was impossible to log in, which made the players sigh.

The night owl players with nothing to do started chatting and spanking on YY voice and multiplayer game forums, discussing various conjectures about the expansion pack.

What is more interesting is that since the last QQ Voice incident, YY Voice not only has a certain increase in the number of users, but also the user stickiness of YY Voice has also greatly increased, and many YY Voice users even look down on QQ Voice users. The mention of QQ voice is full of disdain.

Of course, there are also some players who have started to log in to other games and struggle in other virtual worlds.

After a whole night of repairing, starting at 11:30 a.m. the next day, countless players stood in front of the computer, waiting for the update and server launch of the Sword Rain Jianghu expansion pack.

"Why haven't you started the update, isn't it because you want to skip the ticket?"

"Hey, I've been waiting for so long, do you still care about this moment? The longer the preparation time, the richer the content of the update."

Some small updates of Jianyujianghu have won unanimous praise from the players, and the players have also developed trust in the Jianyujianghu game team. It should be considered a clear stream.

At 11:50, some players suddenly discovered that they clicked on the game client, and it was updated, and the updated content was also very large, almost 500M.

"I'm coming."

"Damn it, it's finally started, brothers rush!"

(End of this chapter)