Rebirth of the big era of online games

Chapter 240 PHS

Fang Jie really needs to find a way to make money now.

There will be more than 9000 million in the account after the year, plus the QQ promotion fee paid by Tencent and the development fee of "Cross Fire", and there will be only 1.1 million on hand.

However, after deducting employees' wages, year-end bonuses, company annual meetings, and office supplies for new employees, it is now back to more than 9000 million.

Among them, 5000 million is to be reserved for the project funds of the Boiling Pioneering Building in Boiling Industrial Park. His psychological cost budget is conservatively estimated at 1.5 million. 5000 million is only 30% of the down payment for the project, and there will be at least 1 million in the future. fill up.

The remaining 4000 million, to maintain the basic operation of the company, the company is still continuing to recruit people, and it will cost a lot of money just to buy the authorization of the third-party software toolkit of the game engine.

The authorization fee for third-party software toolkits is not too expensive, generally between 20 and 100 million US dollars, but the number cannot be supported. If you get seven or eight tool authorizations, calculated at 50 US dollars each, this is more than 3000 million Gone.

By the way, you have to count the license of the Thor engine, which is another $100 million.

In short, there is no need to calculate other expenses, just a simple rough estimate, and you know that the money is definitely not enough.

So from the outside world's point of view, the rise of Boiling Games is already unstoppable, and the future situation is promising, but Fang Jie knows very well that Boiling Games actually lacks everything now.

Lack of money, lack of people, lack of technology, lack of time, lack of venues, boiling games are not as smooth as everyone imagined.

And this is only the predicament faced by the core industry of online games. Other additional industries have not been developed or even laid out in time. As for the various industries and conditions required for future virtual reality online games, there is no shadow. Both need to be considered in the long run.

Fang Jie and Wang Yu had been studying and discussing the framework of the game engine until after two o'clock in the morning.

In addition to the subsystems mentioned earlier, the entire game engine involves nearly a hundred subsystems. In the end, Fang Jie took over the work that he was good at or understood, accounting for about one-third of all subsystems. The subsystem will be completed by him.

As for the rest, it can only be thrown to Wang Yu, but one-third of them can be purchased for authorization or developed through existing technical software, and the remaining one-third are the difficulties that need to be overcome.

The direction of the initial development of the game engine is to give priority to 2D multiplayer online games. To be exact, the game engine of "Legend" is first developed, and then gradually expanded.

After all, the 2D online game engine is relatively simple, and some of the development tools and software packages of "Wulin" can be called directly. Many of the contents are common, and the game plan is ready-made, which meets the conditions for priority development.

Once this engine is successfully developed, the follow-up 2D multiplayer online "Legend of Jin Yong Qixia" will be much easier, and then gradually expanded to 3D engine, 3D martial arts and 3D magic-themed online games can be produced, and then further expanded to stand-alone games, mobile games and more.

As for "Cross Fire", let Tencent wait for a while. In the past life, it has been waiting for this year, and it is fine to wait in this life.

Of course, the premise of all this is still one word - money!

So after he woke up, Fang Jie was not in a hurry to complete the part of the game engine subsystem he was in charge of, but invited Wang Changxu to the school with a phone call.

Since the cooperation between 51ka and China Telecom, the relationship between the two parties has always been mutually beneficial. Telecom eats meat, and 51ka drinks some soup, and life is quite comfortable.

Currently Fang Jie's biggest source of income comes from 51ka.

After the separation of China Telecom and Mobile, the cooperation between the two parties has not been greatly affected, especially the IP phone card has filled the gap in the mobile phone recharge card business, and after jointly establishing the IDC data center, the cooperation between the two parties has been further deepened. With a good cooperative relationship.

But a few years later, there was news from the telecommunications sector that the China Netcom branch, which is based in ten northern provinces and cities, would be forcibly split off, and the IP phone business would also be taken away.

This is cheating.

However, for 51ka, it has no impact. Netcom has made a lot of money in the IP phone business through the 51ka online sales platform. Even if it is split off, it will continue to cooperate with 51ka, which is equivalent to the second mobile company.

Originally, Wang Changxu made great contributions to the telecom company in 51ka business, IP telephony business and IDC data business, but due to his lack of qualifications, he was promoted to the provincial capital only half a year ago, so it was not appropriate to be promoted again, such as the IDC data center project The peaches were picked.

Although his achievements are obvious to all, and Netcom is about to be spun off, if he wants to make further progress at this juncture, his qualifications are flawed, and overall, he is still almost ready.

Several times, Wang Changxu called Fang Jie to complain, and occasionally went to sit on the third floor of Boiling Internet Café to chat and express his dissatisfaction by the way.

Of course, complaining is actually about maintaining daily relationships. Now that Fang Jie's career is getting bigger and bigger, and it's all related to the Internet, he might be useful, so of course he has to hold on to his thighs.

Now Fang Jie was short of money, so he immediately thought of Wang Changxu, in order to give the other party a big gift, and at the same time, he could also drink some soup.

As soon as they met, Fang Jie cut to the chase and said, "Have you heard of PHS?"

Wang Changxu couldn't help being taken aback, and after thinking for a long time, he said, "You said it's a mobile phone business in Zhejiang Province?"

Fang Jie shook his head and smiled: "You don't even pay much attention to the news in the industry? PHS is not a mobile phone."

"What?"

Wang Changxu, an insider in the industry, looked confused: "It's obviously a low-end cheap mobile phone, okay? Besides, I'm working in China Telecom now, does this matter have something to do with us?"

Fang Jie said: "This matter has a lot to do with you!"

"Then listen carefully?"

Although Wang Changxu said so, his expression was very disapproving. He really couldn't understand what this matter had to do with him.

Fang Jie didn't explain immediately, he asked from left to right: "I heard that you are going to split up again, right?"

Wang Changxu nodded: "Well, before the middle of the year, Netcom will be split off. Now our telecom will lose the market in ten northern provinces and cities, and the IP phone business will also have to be lost...but this doesn't have much to do with me. It has little impact on the structure of Jiangcheng."

Only then did Fang Jie throw out his own thoughts: "Netcom has split the IP telephony business, and you Telecom are willing? Have you ever thought about continuing to intervene in the telephony business? For example, engage in PHS?"

"No, no, no!" Wang Changxu waved his hands again and again, "You may not be clear. Our Telecom, including Netcom, which is about to be split off, does not have a mobile license, so we cannot do mobile phone business."

Fang Jie laughed: "Didn't I tell you just now that PHS is not a mobile phone, but a fixed line. You Telecom does not need a mobile license at all to develop PHS!"

"You're lying to a fool!" Wang Changxu rolled his eyes and said, "What is a PHS if it's not a mobile phone? Although the style is a bit uglier, the performance is a bit worse, and the communication cost is a bit lower, it's still a mobile phone!"

Fang Jie also rolled his eyes and said: "In terms of technology, PHS is a fixed line, but this fixed line uses wireless technology, and its essence is still a fixed line. If you don't believe me, go and investigate carefully. So..."

Before he finished speaking, Wang Changxu had already reacted, and he took over the conversation in shock: "So, you can carry out PHS business without a mobile license!?"

Fang Jie smiled slightly: "Not bad!"

(End of this chapter)