Rebirth of the big era of online games

Chapter 256 The Pixar of China
In addition to hardware income, there is also a monthly maintenance fee of 5 yuan per computer for a diskless workstation. This account is only based on the 300 million maintenance fee given by Tencent every month to promote QQ through the Internet cafe management system. The nationwide maintenance fee is 1500 million per month.

Of course, it will take time for diskless workstations to be promoted to the whole country. It is only in its infancy at present, and there is not so much fixed income yet.

However, the hardware revenue alone is enough to make Boiling Company a lot of money.

Because the previous calculation was only the renovation cost of the old Internet cafe with a diskless workstation.

If it is a new Internet cafe, you can also earn a lot.

If you buy the goods directly from the manufacturer, a computer has at least 500 yuan in hardware sales profit, and this price is cheaper than buying goods from the computer city, at least the same.

After all, the owner of the Internet cafe is not an idiot. If it is more expensive than the computer city, even if the working group specifies the hardware, it still needs to be talked about.

In addition to this income, the old Internet cafes recycle the extra hard drives, which can also be used in the new Internet cafes, so waste recycling makes a fortune.

On the other hand, since it is a diskless workstation Internet cafe, games, film and television programs, various office tools, drawing software, stock software, etc. can be installed in almost unlimited quantities.

And to install these software... you have to pay money to the Internet cafe management system.

It is not expensive, each computer downloads a piece of software, the cost is 0.5 yuan, and each update costs 0.1 yuan.

It's cheap, right?

And it's also very convenient.

After the Internet cafe management system was revised in 2001, a "software housekeeper" was added.
Well, similar to the software housekeeper of 360 in the previous life.

The owner of the Internet cafe or the network administrator can check the software that needs to be downloaded. After paying and submitting the order through the 51ka platform, the Internet cafe management system will automatically download and install the software when the computer is idle.

The software provided by the software manager includes not only office software, but also all other software, drivers, games, and film and television programs on the market. The number of the first batch of online software is more than 3000!

In other words, if all of them are downloaded, the software download fee for each computer is 1500 yuan!
So it seems that 0.5 cents a piece of software is very cheap, but in fact...is it ridiculously expensive?

The point is, Internet cafes still have to install many things, because the Internet cafe industry is also involved. Your Internet cafe does not have Word installed, but other Internet cafes do, so many people who go to Internet cafes to process files will not come to your Internet cafe. up.

Another example is PS, if you don’t install it, then it is equivalent to shutting out customers who are interested in P pictures, and losing this piece of customers.

If the stock software is not installed, the netizens who speculate in stocks will not come.

If the game doesn't install...

The game must be installed, but there are too many games!

I don’t know if Boiling Company is crazy about money. It not only uploads all domestic games, but also converts all foreign messy games to hard drives, and localizes them. Many games have never been heard of by many people, but it is What should I do if I really want to play?
Among other things, just talking about the games released in January 2001, there are a total of twenty games!
For example, the action game "Onimusha" produced by the island country Capcom, the real-time strategy game "Three Kingdoms" produced by Target Software, the action game "Ani", the simulation business game "Simulator Paradise", and the No.1 shooting game "World War II". Fengyun: Bloody Normandy, role-playing "Fox Fairy", role-playing "Fallen Angel", flight simulation "Pearl Harbor: Attack at Dawn", puzzle and leisure "Gourmet King"...etc.

Then every month, basically the number of newly released games is almost 10-20. If they are all downloaded and installed, a computer will have to pay 5-10 yuan for download and installation fees every month.

What's even more deceitful is that on the client side of the Internet cafe management system, these games are listed in the form of a list!

Many people go to Internet cafes to surf the Internet. When they are bored, they see so many unheard-of games in the game column, and want to click in to experience them. As a result, a prompt box pops up: Sorry, this Internet cafe does not have this game installed, please remind After the network administrator installs the game, log in to the game.

As a result, many people approached the network administrator or even the owner of the Internet cafe: I want to play this game, please play it!

Emmmmmm... What can we say, pretend, anyway, 5 cents, not expensive!
As for movies and TV shows, it's even worse!

The episodes that have already ended are better, at least they can be packaged and downloaded, but the episodes are still being updated, then...

Fortunately, the business department of Boiling Internet Café still has some morals. It is not expensive to update episodes with an update fee of 0.1 yuan per episode.

But a variety show like "Quick Book" that will be broadcast for more than 20 years in the future, with one episode a week, is quite scary, isn't it?
It would be even more abnormal if 100 film and television variety shows were updated once a week.

Later, the Internet cafe owners did some calculations, and they were taken aback. A newly opened Internet cafe often had to spend tens of thousands of yuan in downloading and updating fees.

Many people feel that it is not cost-effective, but let them install it by themselves, and they don’t have such technical conditions, and they can’t find such content. The key is that it is still very troublesome.

However, the Boiling Internet Café business department is not without expenses, such as hard disk and localization of games, especially cracking the CDKEY, all of which require cost, and the game technology department charges for these things.

Secondly, after the promulgation of relevant laws on Internet copyright, the Boiling Internet Café Business Department filed N lawsuits and had to spend astronomical sums of money to buy the Internet copyright of these contents.

Of course, these are all things for later. As far as the law is not perfect, the boiling Internet cafe business department has not paid a penny of copyright fees in this area for the time being. A big black material - too shameless!

Fang Jie had a laissez-faire attitude towards this at the beginning.

This is not to say that the bottom line of the principle has been broken, but it is true that there is no such thing as Internet copyright in the early days, and it is not illegal. Everyone in the country is using various pirated versions, so why can’t we use them?

Those who scold Boiling Company all day long are also enjoying various benefits of piracy, so stop yelling, stop thieves, his time is precious, and he has no time to pay attention to this group of people who are both right and wrong.

On the third day when the diskless workstation promotion project was in full swing, Fang Jie got the information about Crystal Stone Company collected by Ziyuan. This company is acquired!

Because from all aspects of information and details, this company can be called the current Pixar in China!
Fang Jie has never heard of this company’s name, and there may be other reasons for the reason why it is not well-known in later generations. But at present, Crystal Stone Company is absolutely It is NO3 in China!

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