Reborn: Billionaire in College

“On September 9, Renren Games’ new game PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds will be launched in closed beta, the first battle royale game in history!”

"Hundreds of people are fighting on the same map. Who will win?"

"The game was planned by the genius Mr. Chen Pingjiang himself, full of creativity and sincerity!"

"The most unique shooting game in history. Can you survive to the end and win the game?"

"..."

Renren acted quickly, completing the initial revision in just one week, and then began a vigorous publicity campaign.

Even if only one-third of the strength was used, it was already overwhelming.

It’s spread everywhere in various game forums, player communities, and WeChat groups.

The production team did not dare to monopolize the limelight and gave the credit for the planning genius to the big boss. After all, the essence of this game is still to win by creativity.

This made Chen Pingjiang blush, and he reluctantly accepted it.

Even if we don't say that this idea was plagiarized, even in today's world, battle royale is not a new thing.

As expected, this propaganda slogan was immediately criticized after it was released.

"I admit that putting the concept of battle royale into the game is indeed novel, but it's an exaggeration to say it's the first in history, right? This is not the way to lick your boss. After all, doesn't the idea come from Xiao Rizi's novel Battle Royale? This novel was even made into a movie, and subsequent classic works The Hunger Games and The King's Game were all based on it."

"You may not know that the first battle royale game was adapted from the novel, BR Battle Royale. Although the game does not have any exquisite graphics, just like the games of that era, it is basically a text adventure type, but the fun of it has long been highlighted."

"Fuck, has the upstairs also played such an old game? I still remember that game. I was particularly obsessed with it back then. At a fixed time every day, the class teacher would announce the restricted areas for the day. As the game time went on, more and more restricted areas would appear. Players needed to constantly check the restricted areas, because players in the restricted areas would be shot in the head as the restricted time came."

"You're talking too far back. In fact, after the Hunger Games came out in 12, there was a game called Battle Royale, where 42 people were randomly given guns and set up their own camps. The person who survived to the end was the winner. I saw the introduction of PUBG, and it actually used this template."

"So... you mean Chen Pingjiang is plagiarizing? That's not the case, right? He's such a big shot, would he still care about his reputation?"

"It's definitely not plagiarism, but it's definitely borrowing. To say that they are the best in history is definitely bragging, and to say that their boss is a game planning genius is just shooting the horse's hoof."

Chen Pingjiang couldn't help but blush when he saw a bunch of netizens on the NAG forum almost beating the copywriter of the publicity department.

Of course, if we really count, in the original time and space, the battle royale trend only became popular in the entire gaming industry starting in 17.

This trend started with H1Z1.

The thrill of being the only one alive among a hundred people has touched the hearts of countless players, and the era of national battle royale has arrived.

Although there are controversial voices, there are more generally positive responses.

No matter where the idea comes from, whether it is borrowed from a novel, a movie, or another game.

But "PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds" has obviously surpassed all its predecessors and made subversive innovations.

With the official CG animation released.

Players who like shooting games have a collective climax.

"Renren Games is really willing to spend money. People used to say it was a pity that Blizzard didn't make a movie, but it turns out that Renren is even richer and made such a beautiful promotional CG."

"There are still seven days until the closed beta! QQ: XXXXX, urgently looking for three friends to form a four-person chicken-eating team. I am a CS veteran."

"This game is quite interesting. You can drive a car, sail a boat, and there are airdrops."

"I am a very skilled shooter and a former semi-professional CS player."

"Gun skills are nothing, this game is dominated by old bitches."

"I want to buy the internal test activation code for a large sum of money! As long as you name a price, I will definitely not bargain."

"..."

The entire "PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds" production team never expected that players would be so crazy after just one internal test.

The internal test activation code was sold for one thousand yuan each and put on Taobao for sale.

Even in many gaming QQ groups, there are people constantly looking to buy it.

The number of activation codes issued in the first batch was not large, only two thousand, and it was a small-scale test.

One is to test game bugs and loopholes, and the other is to warm up the game through disguised publicity.

Therefore, activation codes are mostly distributed to editors of game magazines and game websites, or to veteran players, star players, and even game teams.

These people are relatively more professional.

After Yu Benzong reported the news to Tian Hongrui in a hurry, Tian Hongrui waved his hand and said, "Add 8,000 internal test accounts to make up 10,000. We don't lack servers."

After giving the instructions, Tian Hongrui thought about it and quickly ran to find Chen Pingjiang to report the good news.

After working in the workplace for many years, there must be a lot of people who need to flatter. Even if you don't flatter them, you still have to report to your leaders more often.

Tian Hongrui figured out this truth twenty years ago.

After taking the elevator to the 28th floor, Tian Hongrui first went to the secretariat to find Xu Rui to make an appointment: "Secretary Xu, is Director Chen busy? I have something to report."

Xu Rui looked at Tian Hongrui, whose face was almost wrinkled with laughter, and said with a smile: "Boss Tian, ​​you have been coming up quite frequently recently."

After that, he looked at the time and said, "In ten minutes, Mr. Liu from Jiuzhou Automobile will probably finish his work report. Then Mr. Chen will have half an hour to rest."

"Okay, okay, thank you Secretary Xu." Tian Hongrui didn't have anything urgent to do, so he sat there calmly and waited.

Ten minutes later, when Tian Hongrui entered Chen Pingjiang's office, he immediately smiled and said, "Boss Chen, PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds has received very good responses, and players are very enthusiastic about booking for the internal test. We have urgently allocated an additional 8,000 places. It's mainly because of your good ideas."

It would have been fine if Tian Hongrui hadn't said this, but Chen Pingjiang almost got angry when he heard this.

You are so good, Tian Hongrui, you are always bringing up things that are not relevant to the topic, right?
"Then I should thank you for your game promotion. It kept me stuck on NGA for three days." Chen Pingjiang rolled his eyes at him unhappily.

These people are so bad now!

Starting from Wan Yuqian, everyone wanted to use his name to attract traffic.

Very annoying!
…………

Chu He is a veteran gamer on YY Live, and he plays console games the most.

We have to mention YY Live here.

In people’s impression, YY Live is all about big brothers shouting on the rap or family battles. In fact, in 2012, YY launched the game live broadcast business, namely YY Game Live (the predecessor of Huya Live), becoming the first company in China to launch the game live broadcast business.

As of September 2013, Douyu had not yet been born.

Basically, all the game anchors with some fame are gathered under YY.

Chu He has just entered the game live streaming circle not long ago.

At 12 noon on the day of the internal test of PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds, Chu He invited a few good friends to play together.

His own gaming account was not officially issued, but he bought it on Taobao for a thousand dollars.

As a result, soon after receiving the game, Renren Games immediately added 8000 internal test accounts. This directly caused the price of the game sold on Taobao to drop slightly, which almost made Chu He angry. Fortunately, the game was so popular that the price went back up soon.

In the YY channel.

Chu He was bragging to a few good friends, and his mouse kept refreshing the client login interface, but the server kept showing as offline.

There were only two or three kittens in the live broadcast room, probably YY Live's robots, so Chu He ignored them.

"It's open, it's open!"

Suddenly, his best friend howled, which directly excited Chu Hegan. He shouted: "Hurry up and enter the server, hurry up and enter the server. There are so many people coming in, or the server will crash soon."

My good friend Da A laughed and said, "What do you think this is? This is Renren Games. DNF and LOL have been running for so many years without any problems. There are only 10,000 people in the internal beta test. How can the server be under any pressure?"

Chu He simply ignored his good friend's ridicule and operated the mouse to log into the server.

As soon as I entered, my headset vibrated.

A simple, solemn, yet grand, exciting background sound came into my ears.

"Tsk tsk, this is a Renren game after all, they are really good. I have to give 100 points just for the background music."

"I have created my characters. What are your names? Post them on the YY public screen. I invite you to join the group." Xiaohu, a good friend, said.

After two or three minutes, everyone formed a team and loaded into the game.

Looking at the loading interface, Chu He rubbed his hands excitedly and glanced at the barrage. Someone asked, "Is this the recently popular "PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds"?"

Chu He nodded: "This is it, it has just been launched, if you are interested, you can stay and take a look."

After live streaming for so long, Chu He finally gained his first fan and was a little excited.

After a moment, loading is complete.

The roar of an airplane engine came from the headphones.

The roar inexplicably caused Chu He's adrenaline to surge, making him feel nervous and excited.

"How come we are on a plane?"

Chu He: "Stupid, this is called a flight path. You can open the map to confirm where you want to parachute from. Let's wait a little longer and find a remote place with few people to slowly search for supplies."

Xiaohu: "Chuhe, how do you know so much?"

Chu He rolled his eyes. "Didn't Renren Games release a promotional video introducing the game? Why don't you watch it yourself? There's also a trial video. We'll go to the airport later. It's said that the supplies are the most abundant here."

"Okay!"

Chu He stared at the plane's flight path, and when he got close to the airport, he shouted, "Jump!"

But he regretted it after he shouted.

Oh shit!

Not only his teammates were skydiving with him, but also a dense crowd of people!

Everyone headed towards the airport.

When the parachutes were opened, Chu He counted them and found that there were about 20 people. Their faces turned pale because of Chu Hegan.

"Hurry! Let's go to the middle building of that triangular building. After we land, go in and pick up the gun."

Chu He was still a little uncomfortable after running a few steps as soon as he landed. He was also not very skilled in picking up supplies. After all, he had just started playing and needed some time to figure out how to play.

After finally picking up an UZI submachine gun, Chu He went to another house to search for a backpack and other supplies.

However, just as Chu He entered the next room, there was a sudden sound of breaking a window, and a black figure rushed in, with the black muzzle of a gun pointed at his head.

There was a "bang" sound, and Chu He's screen turned gray.

Chu He was startled at first and shrank back. After he realized what was happening, he cursed: "Damn it! You came so quickly, and you are here to kill people instead of searching for supplies? That's unethical."

The only viewer on the barrage typed a mocking comment: "The host is terrible, but very joyful."

Chu He saluted awkwardly, "Sorry, brother, watch me in the next game, I will definitely not die as soon as I land on the ground."

As expected, the screams of teammates soon came through the headset.

The perpetrator used a spray gun to kill off a squad of them in just one minute.

Killing like hemp!
"It's okay, it's the first game, let's quit and start a new round." Chu He comforted him, "I feel like what the forum said is wrong. Hiding and slowly searching for supplies won't work. If there are people around, you have to pick up a gun and kill them as soon as possible, lest they take the lead."

"Well, Chu He, let's go to another place next time. This airport is too crowded."

"Yes, we will go around people and try to go to the suburbs where there are fewer people. We won't go to any big cities."

"..."

……

In the office, Chen Pingjiang took a sip from his teacup, smacked his lips twice, and looked at the eight big words on the screen with satisfaction: "Good luck, chicken dinner tonight!"

After a period of intensive training, Chen Pingjiang regained some of his touch. With more gaming experience, he jumped directly to the airport, picked up a shotgun as soon as he landed, and killed a team of four.

Then he just hid all the way, and finally won the chicken in the final circle with his teammates.

This feeling of satisfaction is quite refreshing.

Tian Hongrui and Li Xi beside him smiled and said, "Boss Chen, your marksmanship has improved."

Chen Pingjiang smiled and said, "Don't I know how good I am?"

Then he changed the subject: "How is the development of your anti-cheating system going? The biggest enemy of shooting games is cheats. If you don't have enough means to deal with cheats, it may cause the death of a good game in an instant. You must pay attention to this."

Li Xi nodded. "We realized this problem a long time ago and learned from Tencent's anti-cheating team. We then mobilized the best technical talent to continuously update the anti-cheating system to maximize the player's gaming experience. In addition, I also asked the legal department to take action and hold all the plug-in makers accountable."

Seeing Li Xi say this, Chen Pingjiang nodded.

Whether it is H1Z1 or PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds, to some extent, they are unable to take care of themselves due to plug-in scripts.

PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds, in particular, had the potential to become a huge hit, but the rampant use of plug-in scripts directly destroyed this potential, causing countless players to quit the game in anger.

Bluehole just mindlessly bans accounts, which only treats the symptoms but not the root cause.

The key to countermeasures is to improve detection capabilities and carry out anti-cheating operations offline.

Tencent has done a good job in this regard.

All I can say is that even though Bluehole became famous because of "PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds", its soft power cannot keep up, so a good game was wasted.

If it is now operated by Renren, firstly, the plug-in problem can be curbed to the maximum extent, and secondly, the successful experience of the "League of Legends" professional league can be copied to "PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds".

Let’s take a step back and follow the path of League of Legends and put the e-sports events of PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds on the agenda as soon as possible. (End of this chapter)