game trailblazer

Chapter 373 Cheat, Cheat
A residential area on Jinxiu Road, Pudong New Area, Shanghai...

Sitting in front of the computer, Xia Tian clicked on a link sent by a netizen from ICQ. It is said to be a super easy-to-use tool software called "Change Gear".With the support of the newly installed ADSL broadband, the website pointed to by the link was quickly opened. This is a very simple personal webpage, but the download address of "Change Gear" was placed on the homepage very eye-catchingly. Xia Tian clicked it The download address of "Change Gear", a small piece of software, was quickly moved back to her hard drive by Internet ants.

Taking a sip of Coca-Cola from the cup, Xia Tian clicked on the "Change Gear" instruction file, "...How to change the speed of the game after starting the program? The original speed is at the beginning of the program, you can use the left and right keys or the mouse to move the slider , the program will display the set speed, such as reducing by 4 times or speeding up by 8 times, etc...", it seems that the software is easy to use, and her slightly frowning brows are also relaxed.

Xia Tian immediately installed the "Change Gear" according to the instruction file, and after starting the "Shift Gear", he opened the recently played "Stone Age", logged into the game, and operated his character to move slowly in the village of Kalutana. After walking around, she pressed the "+" button to adjust the speed to the fastest, and the character's movements immediately became fast.

Looking at the primitive man who seemed to be stepping on a hot wheel, Xia Tian nodded in satisfaction. Ever since she came into contact with "Stone Age" at the end of last year, she fell in love with this kawaii-style painting style, and fell in love with this An interesting primitive life, and also fell in love with playmates from all over the world in the game.

However, there is one thing that Xia Tian is still not satisfied with, that is, the speed of "Stone Age" is too slow, not only the speed of fighting is slow, but also the speed of walking is even slower. She didn't know about the existence of the Mammoth Bus at the time).Well now, with the existence of the "variable gear", she no longer has to endure the snail-like walking speed, and even according to netizens, she can even fight faster, so that she can have more Time to play games instead of spending time on the road like before.

He conveniently sent a smiley face to the netizen who provided the download link of "Change Gear" on ICQ. Xia Tian picked up the cup and took another sip of Coke, then leaned back on the soft chair and started to enjoy this "Stone Age" comfortably. High speed trip...

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Courtyard No. 29, Shangdi East Road, Haidian District, BJ City, in the office of BJ Company of Zhiguan Electronics......

Feng Huazhu was sitting on the sofa in his office, and next to him was Zhao Sanhe, the operation manager in charge of "Three Kingdoms on the Internet". On the tea table between the two of them, two cups of tea were smoking faintly, exuding a faint fragrance .

"What do you mean?" Feng Huazhu casually threw the report in his hand on the coffee table and asked with a puzzled expression.

"Mr. Feng, this is the information collected recently. It can be seen from the above that there are many tools and software for "Three Kingdoms on the Internet", such as 'smart robot', 'Internet Three Workaholics', mouse combo programs, etc., and even "China It was mentioned in Computer News." Zhao Sanhe flipped through the report on the coffee table, pointing at important places while talking.

Feng Huazhu crossed his hands, leaned back, and said, "Well... so what?"

"I think that if these tool software continue to develop, it may have a negative impact on the future revenue of the game." Zhao Sanhe glanced at Feng Huazhu's face, and his tone was slightly aggravated.

"OK! Let me ask a few questions." Feng Huazhu raised his legs calmly, and said nonchalantly, "Will these tools and software attract more people to play "Three Kingdoms on the Internet?"

"Hmm..." Zhao Sanhe thought about it and replied, "According to the current situation, it should be possible."

"Then will these software tools drag down the sales of our monthly cards?" Feng Huazhu continued to ask.

"This..." Zhao Sanhe thought for a while, and replied, "Probably not, and there may be more."

"Then it's over. Since the number of players will increase and monthly card sales will increase, then why worry?" Feng Huazhu said with a slight dissatisfaction.

Zhao Sanhe didn't give up, and wanted to work harder: "But, the lifespan of the game..."

"Okay, okay, you have nothing else to do first." Feng Huazhu waved his hands in dissatisfaction, he didn't want to listen to Zhao Sanhe's wordy words anymore.

"Mr. Feng, then I'll go first." Zhao Sanhe sighed inwardly, got up and was about to leave. Just as he arrived at the door of the office, Feng Huazhu's voice came from behind him: "Xiao Zhao, wait a minute." There was another ray of hope in Sanhe's heart, he immediately stopped and turned around, with a look of expectation on his face.

"Oh, you arrange some "Network Three Kingdoms" activities, such as buying 12 monthly cards at one time to give away special items in the game, try to attract as many players as possible to buy monthly cards." Feng Huazhu ordered with a serious face.

"Well, yes, I will arrange it." Zhao Sanhe was a little disappointed in his heart, but he didn't show it on his face. After agreeing, he turned and left the office.

Feng Huazhu breathed a sigh of relief, leaned back again, and completely relaxed.In fact, Feng Huazhu didn't completely understand what Zhao Sanhe said, but he knew that the next focus of Zhiguan Electronics was "The Legend of Jin Yong Heroes Online". As for "Three Kingdoms Online", it could be discarded at any time, so No tool software is not important at all, the key is to seize users and pave the way for the future operation of "Jin Yong Heroes Online".

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Room 9072, Jing'an Center, North Third Ring East Road, Chaoyang District, BJ Huayi United Software Development Co., Ltd. office area...

"...The situation is basically like this." Zeng Yijiang, the manager of the technical support department, cleared his throat and continued: "Mr. Zhou, in addition to the speed change gear, there is also a tool software called SADE in "Stone Age". It can provide perverted functions such as passing through walls and meeting enemies in place, which can be said to have threatened the long-term development of "Stone Age", I think..."

Zhou Chenghu waved his hand impatiently, interrupted Zeng Yijiang's tirade, and said dissatisfiedly: "I'm not interested in listening to you talking so much nonsense, I just want to know if these things will affect my monthly card sales?"

"Well... this..." Zeng Yijiang felt a little uncomfortable when he was interrupted in the middle of his speech, but it was not easy to get angry in front of his boss, so he pretended to think about it and replied: "Shouldn't you?" meeting."

"Then it's no problem." A smile appeared on Zhou Chenghu's face again. He actually knew nothing about the technical issues of online games. He hadn't even played "Stone Age" much. What role does it play, but this does not hinder his plan to continue making money from online games.

"But..." Zeng Yijiang was still a little unwilling to give up, and wanted to try to persuade him again.

But Zeng Yijiang just said two words, and was interrupted by the impatient Zhou Chenghu: "Old Zeng, you have to know that online games are actually just a game, and you have to make customers enjoy it. If you want customers If you have fun, you have to let them do it, make them comfortable, then they will pay for it happily. It’s like the piece in heaven and earth, if you make the guests feel comfortable, the money will come rolling in... ..."

When he was talking, Zhou Chenghu touched the black silk jade legs of the secretary next to him, and while feeling the silky and soft touch, he continued to teach Zeng Yijiang, the "old-fashioned" in his mind.

Because of the partition of the desk, Zeng Yijiang did not see Zhou Chenghu's big hands moving up and down, but the slightly trembling body of the secretary made him feel a little strange. Thinking of the company's internal evaluation of the boss, he quickly I understood what the other party was doing.Zeng Yijiang couldn't hold on any longer, and didn't have the heart to try to persuade the boss to change his mind, so he simply found an excuse and escaped from the office that made him very embarrassed, so that he didn't hear Zhou Chenghu's last order clearly. About the preparations for the new online game "Great Master".

Standing outside the office, Zeng Yijiang snorted disdainfully, he was too disappointed with this somewhat ignorant boss, "Maybe I'm considering another place", he began to think about the possible next destination in his mind.

"Well... the matter of "The Great Master" has to be sped up. If we can add another profitable gold mine, maybe we can change to a better car soon." Zhou Chenghu glanced at the closed door, and then Holding Miss Secretary in his arms, while thinking about the next plan, he began to conduct a more in-depth "exploration" with the beautiful woman in his arms...

Shangdi West Road, Haidian District, a small meeting room in Building 5, Oriental Industrial Park...

"...Since January, tools and software for online games have appeared on the Internet, such as zkok in "King of Kings", "Network Three Workaholics" and "Intelligent Robot" in "Three Kingdoms", etc. General-purpose mouse automatic combo program, operation recording program, gear change gear, etc.” Wang Tianlei gestured on the projection screen with a pointing pen in his hand, and the mouse pointer in the image crossed the application screenshots of the tool software: “Just in Yesterday, we internally decided on a unified name for these auxiliary tool software 'plug-ins'. Judging from the current development of plug-in software, it is mainly to automatically complete some tedious tasks in the game, whether it is zkok, Offline plug-ins such as 'Internet Three Workaholics', or auxiliary plug-ins such as mouse automatic combo programs and operation recording programs, have little effect on the balance of the game itself, but can increase the online time of players, but the gear change It is an exception, because being able to directly adjust the speed of most games will have a great impact on players who do not use gears, and it will also seriously weaken the interpersonal communication in online games and reduce the fun of the game..."

After Wang Tianlei finished his introduction, Ye Tianyu cleared his throat, and said to everyone: "Just now, Manager Wang has introduced the basic situation of the cheating. Now let's discuss, what impact this cheating might have on us? Manager Lu, you first Let's talk about it."

Lu Yongcheng, who was named, opened a folder in front of him, then smiled at everyone, and said, "Since Mr. Ye has named me, let me talk about the situation of "Legend" first. Hmm... In fact, at the beginning of the development, the big boss reminded us that cheats may affect online games, so during the development process, "Legend" has taken into account the existence of offline cheats, auxiliary cheats, and even speed change. Gears and FPE, on the one hand, increase the fun of players from the design of game content, reduce tedious and boring operations, and on the other hand, technically shield external cheats..."

"And..." Speaking of this, Lu Yongcheng glanced at Wang Tianlei who had already sat back at the conference table, and then said: "As far as I know, Manager Wang has set up an online game data monitoring system some time ago, which can monitor the server. Real-time recording and intelligent analysis of the data during the period, coupled with our integrated game packet intelligent verification system on the server and client, I believe that the birth of "Legend" plug-ins can be banned for a long time..."

After Lu Yongcheng's technical analysis came to an end, Ye Tianyu took the lead and slapped his hands lightly, and then said to everyone: "Well, Manager Lu is very good, do you have any comments?"

Coughing slightly, Xu Ziqian sat up straight, and said with a smile: "Just now, Manager Lu analyzed the possible impact of cheating on "Legend" from a technical point of view. What he said was very exciting. I will discuss it from a business point of view next. Let’s talk. As we all know, there are two main charging methods for online games at present, one is the monthly subscription system adopted by “King of Kings” and “Three Kingdoms on the Internet”, and the other is the point-and-shoot system adopted by “Stone Age”. card system, and our "Legend" is a combination of point cards and monthly subscriptions. For online games with a monthly subscription system, the operator's profit comes from more paying users. For online games with a point card system, the operator's profit The main reason is that users have more online time...According to the analysis of data collected in recent surveys, due to the attraction of the convenient functions provided by the plug-in, the paying users of "King of Kings" and "Three Kingdoms on the Internet" each increased within three weeks 40% and 60%, and the online time of users of "Stone Age" has also increased from an average of 4.5 hours a day to 6.3 hours a day... It can be seen from this that the cheats are "King of Kings", "Three Kingdoms on the Internet" and "Stone Age" has brought a great increase in profit. In contrast, although the total number of users of "Legend" is still rising, its market share has declined slightly... In the current period of rapid development of the online game market, plug-ins The impact on "Legend" is not obvious, but when the market competition is intensified in the future, the impact of cheating may no longer be ignored, so I think it is necessary to formulate a control policy against cheating. From the beginning, the development of the online game market has been brought into a healthy track.”

Influenced by Xu Ziqian's speech, everyone began to turn the topic to how to control cheating. You talked to each other, and the atmosphere in the meeting room quickly became lively.Some people proposed to learn from the original game classification policy, take the boycott of cheats as an industry policy, and call on all online game companies to crack down on cheats that affect the balance of the game.Some people propose to use benefit guidance, through more game development selection activities, and the popularization of primary game development tools, to attract those guys with excess energy to the game development industry.Some people also suggested that the state should come forward and introduce policies to curb the development of cheats to crack down on those cheaters.

"Should we report this matter to the big boss?" Lu Yongcheng suggested.

"There is no need to bother the big boss with such a trivial matter. He has just given birth to a son, so let's not bother him. As for the cheating matter, we can come up with a plan and send a work email." Ye Tianyu Shaking her head, she felt that such a trivial matter as cheating is not difficult to deal with, and there is no need to ask for instructions from above.

Looking around at the people in the conference room, Ye Tianyu tapped on the conference table lightly: "Okay, let's continue discussing..."

(End of this chapter)