Rebirth 98, the rise started from ripping off Microsoft

Chapter 727 Wegame
Hearing what Lu Yiming said was so serious, Li Quanwang was taken aback immediately, and said with some fear: "Fortunately, I came here to ask you, otherwise I would have been cheated to death without knowing."

Afterwards, he remembered that Lu Yiming had made a lot of money again, and he was able to buy planes worth billions of dollars, and he began to feel extremely melancholy again, saying, "Then what should I do now? I feel that I am completely It’s useless, I have nothing to do after graduation, I just eat, drink and have fun every day, I feel that life is so boring.”

He felt that he had to make money, a lot of money, or else he would fall behind with Lu Yiming.

Although he is now worth tens of millions, according to the living standards of ordinary people, the money will never be used up in a lifetime, but who would dislike himself for having a lot of money?
Those who say that they are content and happy when they have nothing to do, either they have become financially free and brainwashed you not to get involved with them, or they are so poor that they don’t even have a way to make money, so they can only use the spirit of Ah Q .

After selling the Tongxin Internet Cafe, he no longer has any property to operate under his name, but he still has a lot of money in his hand, but he has no idea how to use it to make more money.

Many of the financial intermediaries outside have approached him in private, but those people are mixed, Li Quanwang can't trust him, he only believes what Lu Yiming said now.

"How about I invest my money in your future capital? But it's too slow to make money."

It is said that it is easy to go from frugal to extravagant, but difficult to go from extravagant to frugal. Although the rate of return of the future fund is astonishing, it is simply the best choice for those who do not know how to invest, but Li Quanwang has made money from nothing in just a few years Tens of millions, a few percent of this fund, can't attract any interest from him at all.

For Li Quanwang's concerns, Lu Yiming also knew in his heart, and what was even more clear was that for Li Quanwang, no loss is a profit, so it is simply unrealistic for Li Quanwang to start a business, maybe he doesn't even understand the account.

But after all, he is a best friend, so can Lu Yiming not help?

After thinking for a while, Lu Yiming asked: "What are you more interested in? As the saying goes, interest is the best teacher. To start a business, you must first choose something you like, so that you will be motivated. Do it will be happy."

Li Quanwang thought about it seriously for a while, and then said to Lu Yiming: "Does playing games count? I really enjoy playing games."

Lu Yiming smiled and said: "Forget it, why not? You see, Xiao Qinghe and Lu Yiping, don't they just set up a studio to play games to make money now? Don't underestimate playing games. In recent years, they have relied on "Legend of Hot Blood" They made millions."

Needless to say, the vitality of this "Legend of Blood" is really tenacious. It has been two or three years since the server was launched, and the number of players has not decreased. On the contrary, with the decline in Internet fees in Internet cafes and the increase in personal computers, there are more and more players. .

However, Li Quanwang said distressedly: "But my parents won't let me."

Li Quanwang's parents are very traditional uneducated farmers. Every day, they buy vegetables from farmers in the fields early in the morning, and sell them in the vegetable market to earn a little difference.Tired is exhausted to death, but in fact the money earned is barely enough to make ends meet.

Now, Li Quanwang has made a lot of money with Lu Yiming, and the family lives in a villa. The two of them did not continue to sell vegetables, but set up a few stores in Bihailongting and opened a small supermarket. Their life is simple and satisfying. .

The wish of the two of them is that Li Quanwang can find a good job, preferably a civil servant or something, and have a stable source of income.

Games are a scourge. They all think that Li Quanwang's previous study was so rubbish because he played games. If he didn't play games, he would definitely pass the Qingbei exam.

As a result, after finally graduating, instead of going to a factory to find a decent job, and playing games?That's right, it's not doing business properly.

Lu Yiming said to Li Quanwang: "If you only play games, then of course you are not doing your job properly, but what if you are in charge of operating games? There will be more and more gamers in China. The older generation does not accept new things like video games, but when we After this generation and the next generation grow up completely and have the right to speak, the market size of games will be unimaginably large.”

When Li Quanwang heard this, he immediately became excited, and asked Lu Yiming excitedly: "So, games can be made?"

But then Li Quanwang had another difficulty: "But I just like playing games, I don't know how to make games."

Lu Yiming smiled and said: "How can you make money by making games? You can build a game platform, be responsible for operation and distribution, and you don't need to make games yourself. You just need to improve the selection and recommendation mechanism. Such a game platform will definitely It is very popular with players. With enough players, are you afraid that you won’t be able to make money?”

In 2002, the Haofang battle platform appeared. Although it provides more online services, it can also be regarded as a game platform. Players can enjoy many games by logging in to an account.

In the same year, the Steam system came out together with CS1.4Beta.

What Lu Yiming wants Li Quanwang to do are platforms like "game warehouse" and "game mall" like Steam and WeGame.

In China, because of the piracy problem, it must be a loss to be a game platform now that your mother doesn't even recognize you.

But the game platform itself can also act as an agent for some overseas game releases, such as the master of online games - "World of Warcraft"!
Lu Yiming didn't plan to act as an agent for this game himself. After all, Junzi Huyu's main business is game development, so he simply partnered with Li Quanwang to set up a new company, specializing in the agency of overseas games.

Lu Yiming asked Li Quanwang: "Have you heard of Blizzard?"

"Is not this nonsensical?"

When it comes to his field of expertise, Li Quanwang immediately beamed with joy: "If you don't even know about Blizzard, can you still be a game player? I like "Warcraft 3: The Frozen Throne" that just came out in July. It should be said Not to mention, as expected of a major international game company, Blizzard's products must be high-quality products."

This statement was true before Blizzard was acquired by capital.

It's a pity that Blizzard fell into a downfall later, and all the core game designers left, and the company was controlled by a group of professional managers who had no enthusiasm for games, so they made a lot of showy operations, and were finally kicked out of the summer. In the domestic market, it can only be said that it is self-defeating.

But that was in the future. At this time, Blizzard was still in full swing, dominating the entire PC game market.

Lu Yiming said: "According to my information, Blizzard is developing a massively multiplayer online role-playing game called "World of Warcraft". I judge that this game is subversive for the entire game industry. It’s very profitable, you can go to Blizzard to negotiate the agency right now, and it’s best to get Xia Guo’s agency right in advance.”

On November 2004, 11, "World of Warcraft" will open the US server, and players all over the world will be attracted to it.

And this game will also give players around the world a little bit of Blizzard shock.

So if you want to negotiate terms with Blizzard, you have to do it before that.

Seeing that Lu Yiming said something so solemnly, Li Quanwang nodded seriously: Well, I see.

But then he was a little puzzled: "How do you know that this game is subversive? "World of Warcraft" should still be in the development stage, right? And the quality of the game is really as good as you said, why don't you represent it yourself? ah?"

Lu Yiming curled his lips and said, "Didn't I let you make money? If you don't want it, I'll take it."

Li Quanwang hurriedly said: "I want it, hey, I'll just talk about it casually, how can I not?"

Lu Yiming said sternly: "Actually, Junzi Huyu is also developing a cross-generational online game belonging to our Xia Kingdom. I can tell you the name first. It is called "Wizard". It is a large-scale online game with the background of the Eastern Xianxia. , adopts the latest 3D virtual engine technology, and the gameplay is unique and novel, which will definitely bring players a new audio-visual enjoyment."

""Wizard"?"

As a standard post-[-]s generation, it is needless to say that he is obsessed with martial arts novels and cultivating immortals.Upon hearing this name, Li Quanwang's eyes lit up.

"How far has your game been developed? When will it be available?"

Lu Yiming let out a long sigh, and said helplessly: "At least it will be the end of next year. This game has been developed for more than two years, and it has already cost [-] million."

"Have already spent [-] million?"

Li Quanwang couldn't help being dumbfounded: "I like games, but I just like to play. Like Ma Teng, they are at most acting as agents of foreign games. You are better, just spend money and start research and development from scratch? Is this the happiness of rich people? Love love love gone."

Lu Yiming laughed and scolded: "I love your size, go to Blizzard quickly, otherwise many competitors will compete with you if it's too late, and you won't be able to negotiate any good terms."

"Oh, I'll go back and study. But you have to help me."

Blizzard is the world's top game company, and Li Quanwang is just a bad gamer. He was very apprehensive when asked to talk about game agency. After all, he has never experienced such a big scene in his twenties.

Lu Yiming smiled and said: "Don't worry, I will help you. My request to you is to win the agency operation right of Xia Kingdom of "World of Warcraft", and then form a team to develop a game platform similar to steam. You can study Study this steam, see how they do it, and then copy it directly. For example, it is called wegame or something, and the literal translation is our game.”

Two days later, Lu Yiming came to Zhong Hai, walked into the office of Junzi Interactive Entertainment Network Technology Co., Ltd., and found Jiang Rongfa.

"Mr. Jiang."

When Jiang Rongfa saw Lu Yiming coming, he got up immediately: "Mr. Lu, why are you here?"

Lu Yiming smiled and said, "It's okay, I'm bored at home, so I'll come over and have a look. How is the development of "Wonderful Trail" going?"

Speaking of the game, Jiang Rongfa said excitedly: "Although we encountered many problems during the development process, we finally solved them all. This is all thanks to Mr. Lu's foresight."

When Lu Yiming told Jiang Rongfa that he was going to develop a new game, Jiang Rongfa didn't think so. "Legend of Hot Blood" is so popular now, he feels that by concentrating on running "Legend of Hot Blood" well, the company can make a lot of money, there is no need to launch a new game now.

However, when Lu Yiming came up with the game plan and announced that he would invest [-] million in research and development funds, Jiang Rongfa was shocked.

It is really courageous to develop a new game with 3 million yuan, and it is also a game of Guofeng Xianxia, ​​and it also needs to use the most advanced [-]D virtual engine technology.

That is to say, the game team has now signed a confidentiality agreement, and the outside world does not know about it at all. Otherwise, if it is revealed, the circle will not directly fry the pot?

In 2003, Xia Guo spent more than [-] million yuan to make games. People with no serious brain problems can't do this kind of thing.

But as a game creator, Jiang Rong found it exciting now, he had never fought such a rich battle.

At the most difficult time a few years ago, he didn't even have 30 in his pocket, let alone [-] million.

Afterwards, Jiang Rongfa felt like he was walking at night in brocade clothes. He couldn't put on a show or feel uncomfortable, so he said, "Mr. Lu, are we sure we don't want to do any publicity now? I think the 3 million investment and the [-]D engine are a very good selling point." , if we start the preheating of publicity now, we can gain popularity in advance."

Lu Yiming said: "It is still too early to promote. The Internet has no memory. If you promote it today, they will forget it tomorrow, unless it is bombarded with advertisements every day. But not to mention the high cost, it is easy to arouse user resentment."

Lu Yiming completely asked Jiang Rongfa to develop the online game "Wonderful Trail" according to the future "Naishuihan" and "A Chinese Ghost Story".

In terms of gameplay, absolutely impeccable.

Of course, Lu Yiming doesn't plan to engage in any "world that costs money even to breathe". "Wonderful Trail" is still the same as Legend of Blood, and the main feature is point card fees.

This masterpiece, which Lu Yiming placed high hopes on, is the super trump card that Junzi Huyu uses to compete with Blizzard's "World of Warcraft".

Just because it was the trump card, Lu Yiming didn't want to play it too soon.

Jiang Rong felt refreshed, but he was still a little uncertain, and said, "Boss Lu, the company spends [-] million yuan to make a game. Isn't that too risky? If the game loses money, the sky may fall."

Thinking of this possibility, Jiang Rongfa's calves trembled.

Lu Yiming complained: "I pay all the money, you're a mess. You just play the game honestly, focusing on the effect, don't think about money."

"Legend of Hot Blood" helped Lu Yiming earn a lot of money, and the profit from this alone was more than enough to develop "Wonderful Trail".

And the most important thing is that Blizzard's masterpiece "World of Warcraft" is coming soon, and at this time in Xia Guo, there is no online game that can compete with it.

This highland of culture, if you don’t occupy it, it will be occupied by others.

What's more, making online games is actually very profitable, so instead of letting foreigners make all the money, Lu Yiming feels that he should also take a share.

Jiang Rong made up his mind and said, "Okay, since you have said so, Mr. Lu, then I will focus on games."

Just after talking with Jiang Rongfa about work, Lu Yiming received a call from Jack Ma.

"Hey, Mr. Lu, are you in Zhong Hai? I'm coming to Zhong Hai. Let's have dinner together tonight?"

Lu Yiming said without hesitation: "Sure, if you treat me, I will also fly to Zhong Hai."

In the evening, the two met in a high-end restaurant. Lu Yiming saw Jack Ma with a pair of panda eyes and a haggard look on his face. He was surprised and said, "What's the matter?"

Jack Ma sighed and said, "Didn't one of Ali's female employees be found to have a fever before? After that, more than 500 employees in the company were immediately declared 'home quarantine', and even the normal operation of the company was interrupted. You Tell me how unlucky I am?"

Speaking of this, Ma Jieke was also afraid at the moment: "Fortunately, it's all over now, and nothing will happen. At that time, I was really afraid that the company would disappear. That time was simply the biggest challenge since I started my business."

Ali's current development can be regarded as on the fast track.

Due to the previous special period, normal business contacts and exhibition transactions were completely interrupted, and many companies could only rely on the Internet to maintain contact and find business opportunities, so Ali's traffic unexpectedly increased significantly.

Ma Jieke also took the opportunity to let Taobao show his face in the field of e-commerce.

However, unlike many people's imagination, Ma Jack is not only not starting with Tianhu at this time, but is holding a bad hand.

Because of the current Internet, there are many e-commerce companies. Although most of their peers have been eliminated in the Internet cold wave, they may survive, but none of them are easy to mess with.

Among them, the overlord of Xiaguo's C2C field is "EBay" developed by referring to the eBay model.

At this time eBay is not simple, has monopolized more than 2% of the market share in the C90C field.

On August 1999, 8, when eBay was first established, the company only worked in a two-bedroom residence in Zhonghai.The founders Shao Yibo and Tan Haiyin were the only two employees in the company at that time.

But in May 2000, eBay successfully acquired the 5 mobile phone direct sales network to carry out online mobile phone sales, making this business one of the characteristics of eBay, with 5291 million registered users.

In March of last year, the world's largest e-commerce website, eBay America, invested 3000 million U.S. dollars and formed a strategic partnership with eBay. Online shopping with more choices and relatively lower prices has made eBay grow tremendously.

In fact, in the original history, in June 2003, eBay would wholly own eBay with US$1.5 million.

But now it's August, and eBay hasn't launched any action yet.

The reason is naturally that the acquisition of PayPal was hindered, so eBay had to focus on the North American market, and Lu Yiming disrupted its original development pace.

Jack Ma sighed and said: "eBay is so powerful now, I'm afraid I can't compete."

Lu Yiming comforted him and said, "Actually, you don't need to take eBay to heart."

Jack Ma suddenly raised his head and asked, "Why?"

Could it be that Lu Yiming has a way to defeat eBay?

Lu Yiming said: "Because eBay is coming soon, eBay is estimated to be acquired soon, and then your opponent will be eBay. How about it? Are you excited?"

Jack Ma: "???"

(End of this chapter)