my return 2002

Chapter 369 Mobile Games
Regarding Jack Ma's statement, although Huang Zhang wanted to refute it, he had to admit that the reason why Meizu could develop so fast was inseparable from Shen Lang's support.

From being a handheld computer at the beginning to making a smart phone, Meizu's success has benefited from the sound ecological chain of the star system from the very beginning.

Now the Internet pattern in the mainland is basically clear. The era of the three major portal websites has passed, and the era of BATL has come. Among them, the most powerful one is naturally Inspur Group.

The other three companies, Baidu, are slightly weaker, and Penguin and Ali are not much different. If you want to stand in line, you must choose one of these two.

After a long time, Huang Zhang raised a condition: "I want to hold 65% of the shares, and my voting rights must always remain at 65% in future financing."

Jack Ma's face turned black when he heard it, this is simply an overlord clause.

"Are you kidding? Even if I agree, other investors will not agree."

Huang Zhang's attitude is very firm: "It doesn't matter, if it doesn't work, I will do it myself."

Once bitten by a snake for ten years and afraid of well ropes, with the lessons from Meizu, Huang Zhang has to be cautious, not to mention that Jack Ma's reputation in the industry is also very average. To put it bluntly, he is not as good as Shen Lang, at least Shen Lang Only one investment project drove away the founder, but Ali directly replaced the entire management team.

Jack Ma did not think that Sassafras actually proposed such a condition, and his attitude was so firm that he did not give any room for maneuver.

After thinking for a long time, Jack Ma still agreed to Sassafras's conditions. He himself is not interested in making mobile phones, but Ali needs a carrier to compete for mobile users, and he really can't find someone more suitable than Sassafras. this project.

"Then it's a pleasure to cooperate!"

"Happy cooperation!"

The news of Sassafras’ re-emergence soon appeared in some media. Regarding the sudden withdrawal of Sassafras from the management of Meizu, there were some speculations circulating in the market, and this is completely true.

After all, if Sassafras hadn't been kicked out, even if he started a new business, he should have chosen the star camp instead of joining the rival Android camp.

All of a sudden, those good media published articles under the titles of "The Return of the King" and "The Moment of Revenge", in which they wrote some true and false grievances between Sassafras and Shen Lang, which attracted the attention of many netizens.

"Fuck, I said why Sassafras did a good job, but suddenly left Meizu. It turned out that he was kicked away."

"Shen Lang is too domineering. After all, Meizu was founded by Huang Zhang. Now Huang Zhang has caught the opportunity."

"Well done, a knife in the back of Huang Zhang is enough for Shen Lang to drink a pot."

As a public figure, if someone likes Shen Lang, there are naturally people who don't like him. What's more, after the news of Shen Lang's engagement with Liu Tianxian was exposed, he basically became the public enemy of all male netizens. There are a large number of male netizens brushing in the comment area.

"The hatred of taking a wife is irreconcilable!"

Seeing that Shen Lang was unlucky, he also echoed the expectations of many netizens, so the popularity of Sassafras' re-emergence on the Internet surprised even Sassafras himself.

Of course, for Jelson, this is undoubtedly great news. For this reason, he also specially met with Sassafras and gave him an investment to express his thirst for talents in the Android system.

Shen Lang also knew the news of Sassafras' comeback immediately. It was reported by Bai Yongxiang. Sassafras wanted to re-establish a mobile phone brand, so naturally he needed manpower. Many people in Meizu were raised by Sassafras. It's a bit of a passion, and Huang Zhang has also learned a lesson this time. When talking to these people at the beginning, he not only promised a high salary, but even proposed an equity incentive plan. Anyone who is willing to go with him can get a part of the original share.

Now that Meizu’s business is booming, its valuation has skyrocketed, and senior management has options on Meizu, so they will definitely not take risks with Sassafras, but those middle-level managers can’t stand the temptation. Sassafras has dug more than 30 people from Meizu. Middle management and technical staff.

For this, Bai Yongxiang blamed himself very much.

Shen Lang didn't blame him: "It's going to rain, and my mother is going to get married. Since they have decided to leave, can they be tied up with a rope?"

"Then, the sassafras." Bai Yongxiang asked tentatively.

Shen Lang waved his hand: "Don't pay too much attention to him, the current market environment is different from a few years ago, and there is no blessing from the star system, he can do whatever he wants, as long as you do well in Meizu and Meilan. A brand is enough."

Shen Lang and Bai Yongxiang stand from completely different perspectives. From Shen Lang's perspective, it is no longer the grievance between Sassafras and Meizu, but the game between the Star System and the Android system. Without Sassafras, there will be Bai Zhang and Wang Zhang , It doesn't make any sense to target him. The key is to integrate the upstream and downstream industrial chains of the Star camp and bind the interests of software and hardware manufacturers in the entire industrial chain.

Of course, all of this cannot be accomplished overnight, and it will take time to adjust slowly. As for commercial issues, to put it bluntly, profit comes first. As long as the Star System occupies enough market share and the installed capacity increases, everyone can make money. It will naturally become tighter.

After Bai Yongxiang left, Shen Lang couldn't help but fell into deep thought. At present, the ecological chain of the star system is already very complete. With the advent of 3G mobile phones, users can basically realize the functions of later generations of mobile phones except that they cannot scan codes to pay and watch videos at any time.

How to improve the competitiveness of the star system again is the most urgent problem before Shen Lang.

Wechat is under research and development, and it is expected to be available by the end of the year. This is a killer weapon, but Shen Lang does not fully pin his hopes on this product.

Shen Lang swiped the screen of his phone, looking at the various apps inside, suddenly he had a flash of inspiration.

Now that 3G networks have begun to become popular, can large-scale mobile online games be put on the agenda?

In the era of 2G networks, Star System mainly produces stand-alone games like Fruit Ninja, and third-party app stores are full of similar puzzle and casual games. The reason is also very simple. 2G networks cannot support a large mobile phone online game. The required network speed, if the number of players is slightly more, it will be stuck in PPT.

In addition, the hardware configuration of the mobile phone itself was relatively low before, and it was difficult to drive large-scale mobile online games, but now both the hardware configuration and the 3G network have made great progress, and it should be possible to manufacture large-scale mobile games.

Thinking of this, Shen Lang immediately called Wang Tao and other game project team leaders to the conference room.

What Shen Lang didn't expect was that when he proposed a large-scale mobile online game project, everyone, including Wang Tao, responded indifferently.

Shen Lang was a little puzzled, so he called the names directly: "Mr. Wang, tell me, what do you think about this project?"

Wang Tao said with a bitter face: "Mr. Shen, actually, we still prefer to make PC games."

Shen Lang finally understood why they were not interested. To put it bluntly, they just disliked the low technical content of mobile games. After all, with the current mobile phone configuration and network speed, if you want to run a large-scale online game smoothly, you can only improve the picture quality and special effects. Subtraction, unlike PC games, can continue to add. For those who are technically addicted, mobile games are naturally not as attractive as PC games.

"Since no one is willing to take on this project, then I have no choice but to call names, Mr. Zhuang, and I will hand over this project to you."

With a solemn and helpless expression, Shen Lang scolded with a smile: "Okay, don't be reluctant, starting today, Dew Games will set up a separate mobile game business department, and you will be in charge of it in the future, and your position will also be taken care of." If you mention it above, you will be one level lower than Mr. Wang in the future, and report to me directly if you have anything to do!"

Zhuang Yan smiled instantly. Although he was only promoted to one level, this level is a world of difference. Originally, he was only in charge of the [Ghost Blowing Lamp] project team, and above him were deputy general managers such as Li Qing and Yao Yong. At their level, it is already difficult to rise up. More importantly, this mobile game business department reports directly to Shen Lang. In terms of authority, it is even half a level higher than the deputy general manager, just under Wang Tao.

Li Qing, Yao Yong and the others were also a little envious of Zhuang Yan's shit luck after hearing the words.

"Okay, since none of you are willing to do it, let's stay solemnly, and everyone else can go to work!" Shen Lang said angrily.

"Have you ever thought about making [Ghost Blowing Lantern] into a mobile game?"

Shen Lang's choice of Zhuang Yan as the person in charge of the mobile game division was not random, but after weighing. It is not so easy to make a large-scale mobile online game. It is a good plan to transplant the successful experience of the PC terminal to the mobile terminal. .

However, due to the hardware configuration and network speed of today's mobile phones, large-scale MMOs such as Zhu Xian and Xun Xian are not suitable for porting to mobile phones, but games like [Ghost Blowing Lantern], which mainly rely on dungeons, are more suitable for porting.

Moreover, the popularity of "Time and Space Hunter" on mobile phones back then also proved that this kind of horizontal action online game is very suitable for mobile phone operations.

Zhuang Yan's eyes lit up: "Mr. Shen, you mean to directly port [Ghost Blowing Lamp] to the mobile phone?"

However, Shen Lang shook his head and said, "It's not just as simple as transplanting to a mobile phone, but my idea is, can the data exchange between the mobile phone end and the PC end be possible?"

"Data exchange?" Zhuang Yan was startled by Shen Lang's bold idea.

However, after careful consideration, it seems that it is not impossible. As long as the PC terminal is perfectly transplanted to the mobile terminal, and the two sides update simultaneously, it is not impossible to achieve data interoperability.

"It's just that in this way, the technical requirements for our transplantation are too high." Zhuang Yan said.

Shen Lang smiled: "You don't really think that mobile games are jobs without technical content, do you? Mobile phones don't have keyboards and mice, so how can we achieve fine operations on the screen, how can we compress such a large game content into a size that can be loaded on a mobile phone?" Come on, these are all you need to study."

Zhuang Yan scratched his chin in embarrassment: "President Shen, as for the personnel."

Shen Lang waved his hand: "You are free to choose people from the company, or recruit from the outside world. If you can't, you can also find headhunters, and in the future, the mobile game business department will be on the same level as the client game business department. In short, If you want people to give, if you want money to give money, if you want resources to give resources, then it’s up to you.”

Zhuang Yan was overjoyed, and immediately patted his chest and said, "President Shen, don't worry, if this matter is not handled well, I will resign voluntarily."

"It's a good idea, who will work for me after resigning, anyway, the task is entrusted to you, I will see the beta version before the end of the year, no matter what method you use, understand?" Shen Lang scolded with a smile.

Solemnly exited the meeting room happily, and the appointment was issued soon. For this newly established mobile game department, many employees still don't know what's going on.

However, seeing Zhuang Yan as the person in charge of the mobile game division made many colleagues envious, especially the [Ghost Blowing Lantern] project team. After all, his boss was promoted, and his former subordinates also congratulated him.

Zhuang Yan also called the subordinates of the [Ghost Blowing Lantern] project team together immediately, and explained the tasks arranged by Shen Lang.

"Starting today, our project team will be completely independent, but the update of the end game can't be delayed. I will transfer a group of people from it to form the [Ghost Blowing Lantern] mobile game project team, and the others will still do the original thing. Understand?"

"Understood boss!"

"Too clear, boss, I want to join the mobile game project team, I've always wanted to make mobile games!"

Many people with more flexible minds are keenly aware that this is a good opportunity. After all, the mobile game project team has just been established, and those who are transferred will definitely have more opportunities than those in the original project team. Maybe they can be promoted directly to management layer.

Zhuang Yan did not express his opinion on the spot, but privately found some of his trusted subordinates and asked them if they would like to join the mobile game project team.

Soon a team was set up, and Zhuang Yan didn't dare to delay at all. It was only four months before the end of the year. Although it was a transplant, it could save a lot of work, but the time was very tight.

First of all, the problem that Zhuang Yan needs to face is how to completely transplant so many skills from the PC side of [Ghost Blowing Lantern] to the mobile phone side. After all, the screen of the mobile phone is only so big, and the skill icons are too small. Easy to touch by mistake.

A subordinate proposed a solution: "Actually, even on the PC side, there are only seven or eight regular skills for each profession. Can we directly let players set eight skill buttons, and then use the method of sliding the wheel to rotate, Players can put some skills with a short CD time on the initial skill page, and skills with a long CD time on the skill page 2, so that you don’t have to worry about accidentally touching them.”

Zhuang Yan praised after hearing the words: "Well, this plan is good, you can give it a try!"

After several days of discussions, he finally solemnly came up with a transplant plan and handed it over to Shen Lang.

Shen Lang took a look and thought it was not bad.

"Okay, just follow this plan. If you have any questions in the middle, come to me at any time. In addition, don't just focus on this project. Mobile games will be the general direction of our development in the future. Other types of projects Do it too." Shen Lang reminded.

"Yes, Mr. Shen, I know what to do."

(End of this chapter)