You call this entrepreneurship?

Chapter 54: G Fat, I’m here to help you solve your problem
"Yes, that's right!" Qin Shaoyan said firmly.

"What is this secret weapon you are talking about?" Fatty G looked confused.

"Steam!"

"Steam?!" Fatty G was very surprised. He hesitated for a moment, "John, you haven't used that thing yet, right? It's actually..."

"I know what it looks like." Qin Shaoyan directly interrupted G Fat's words, "Although it is not perfect now, maybe it is ugly, but it is only temporary."

"Cars were ugly when they were first invented, and their performance couldn't compare with horse-drawn carriages. Airplanes were just a bunch of wooden frames at first, but they have evolved from generation to generation and become the mainstream means of transportation in modern times."

"I believe the same is true for the Steam platform. What it brings to the gaming industry is the direction of future development. It represents the arrival of an era."

Fatty G's face turned red with excitement at this time, and he clenched his hands into fists, "You're right, John! It will be the future!"

"Now the key to the future is in your hands!" Qin Shaoyan looked directly at G Fat. "This super weapon will give the publisher a fatal blow. It is like an epoch-making weapon."

"Just like aircraft carriers obsolete battleships in World War II, this is an advancement of technology and an advancement of the times."

"Gabre, this historical responsibility now falls on your shoulders." Qin Shaoyan said in a stern and unquestionable tone, "You must take on the responsibility of saving game developers and players. This is the call of duty of the times!"

"Like a brave knight, take up arms, defeat the evil dragon of the publisher, and save the player princess!"

"I have a question." Fatty G frowned and looked at Qin Shaoyan, "How should I defeat this evil dragon?"

"Open!" Qin Shaoyan said decisively.

"Open?!" Fatty G was stunned.

"Yes, Steam will be open to game developers all over the world!" Qin Shaoyan said righteously, "Steam is not the Steam of V Club, it is the steam of developers and gamers around the world!"

“It is necessary to deeply review the old ecology of the game industry, thoroughly understand the distribution market environment, break the market barriers established by publishers, and create a closed loop of ecological content of the platform through in-depth co-construction with other developers, open up online and offline scenarios, and provide developers with Bringing common value to developers and players to achieve a win-win situation for both parties.”

"At the same time, we use the platform's traffic advantages to achieve theoretical separation and thorough transfer, perfectly occupy the traffic dividends, conduct attribution analysis of all market categories, occupy the commanding heights to quickly iterate, and prepare to achieve dimensionality reduction in the ecological niche."

Qin Shaoyan waved his hand, "Our underlying logic is to open up the channel barrier between game developers and offline players and establish a new industry ecosystem. The top-level design is to build a platform moat."

Fatty G looked dull when he heard this, and slowly said: "Huh?!"

"Ahem, I'm sorry for being so smooth-talking." Qin Shaoyan immediately realized that the person for his PPT was the wrong person. He had talked too much in his previous life and ended up spilling the beans.

G Fat is not one of those businessmen who lives in the Internet business world. He is just a game developer now and has to use another language to speak.

"Don't worry about the details just now." Qin Shaoyan put on a kind expression, "Imagine that in the future, developers from all over the world will upload their games to the steam platform, and players from all over the world can choose from a variety of different countries on Steam. game."

"They no longer have to wait for the publisher's slow and delayed game release, they can play their favorite game as soon as possible."

"Players from all over the world are playing and communicating on this platform. Imagine what a wonderful scene it is!"

G Fat's eyes gradually lit up with golden light, and the scene Qin Shaoyan painted for him was like heaven.

"In the future, steam will become a holy land for gamers, and you are the king of this holy land! You are God!" Qin Shaoyan added a heavy blow in a seductive tone.

These words made Fatty G excited. He clapped his hands and praised, "John, you are really an excellent speaker."

He didn't think about these high-end things when he established Steam. The original intention was to facilitate the release of V's CS and other games and to provide anti-cheating support.

Steam is not the earliest game platform. The first one is Blizzard’s Battle.net.

As early as 1997, Blizzard released Battle.net, and at the same time released the shocking "Diablo 1", Battle.net became the first online service to be fully integrated into the game. In 1998, "StarCraft" was launched, and later Battle.net also launched functions such as ladder ranking and player matching.

In addition to the dispute with the publisher Xueleshan over the copy of the game, the biggest reason for selling it on CD at that time was the update issue.

BUGs are inevitable in games. At that time, players could only wait for the release of a new version of the game disc to fix the loopholes in the previous version.

In addition to the annoying update issues, game discs are also very easy to be pirated.

Therefore, the advantages of the online service of the game platform are highlighted. The game version can be updated in time to ensure the player's gaming experience.

At the same time, online detection can effectively prevent piracy.

But when Qin Shaoyan said this, G Fat opened the door to a new world.

Since publishers are so useless, why can’t we ditch them and go it alone?

Fatty G nodded while thinking, "John, your idea is great. If we can succeed, the future will be wonderful."

"There are no ifs." Qin Shaoyan smiled slightly, "This is inevitable."

"It seems that you are more confident than me." Fatty G laughed, "But the difficulties we face are not many at all."

"The steam platform is not mature yet, and no one is willing to hand over the game to it except ourselves."

This is indeed a problem. Currently, steam has no advantages except for many bugs and poor experience.

The biggest problem is that there are not many users. After all, no one except V fans uses this thing.

No game developer is willing to hand over their efforts to the current steam. If they are not careful, they will lose all their money, and no one is willing to take the risk.

It doesn't matter if you tell them this is the future, there is a price to pay for moving towards the future.

But why should I pay this price? I don’t want to be a corpse on the road to Steam’s rise.

Faced with this problem, Qin Shaoyan said with a smile, "Gabre, I'm here to help you with your problem."

Fatty G was stunned, "You?"

"That's right." Qin Shaoyan said solemnly, "The problem of lack of game content on Steam is very easy to solve for me."

"Because my coming to North America this time actually does not mean that I am here. I am here on behalf of the entire Chinese gaming industry."

"What?!" Fatty G was shocked when he heard this.

Qin Shaoyan smiled slightly and said quite proudly: "Behind me are hundreds of game development groups and hundreds of game developers."

"They can become the first wave of content providers on the steam platform and test the waters by opening up the market for steam."

"Wow." Fatty G nodded, "This is really a brilliant idea."

Qin Shaoyan struck while the iron was hot, "And these developers from China have an advantage that the North American market cannot refuse."

"What advantage?"

"Cheap."

(End of this chapter)