Rebirth of the big era of online games

Chapter 272 Acquisition of Lianzhong Games (Leader Plus 2)

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What else could be the reason why Zhonggongwang failed to pay the promised money in time?
Naturally, it was caused by the bursting of the Internet bubble!
The Nasdaq has fallen below 1800, not to mention domestic, Internet companies all over the world are now all over the place, how can there be money to mess around?
Of course, except for boiling network, there is also Tencent, which has just been raised tens of millions of dollars by the funder's father MIH.

But the life of these two companies is a little easier. Sina, Sohu and NetEase are now on the verge of bankruptcy, especially NetEase, which is rumored to be likely to be suspended by Nasdaq.

Against such a general background, Boiling Network made a move, and the specific process is not nonsense.

In short, Fang Jie directly dumped 2000 million to Zhonggong.com, rounding up all the shares of Ourgame in their hands, and then invested another 500 million to get 11% of the shares from the founder team of Ourgame.

As a result, Lianzhong Games has transformed into a holding subsidiary of Boiling Network, which is placed under the management of the game business department.

Bao Yueqiao and other founder teams were overjoyed by this, and welcomed it with their hands up. The 11% of the shares are still 10%, which is nothing. With the development of Boiling Network, the 10% of the shares will definitely be more valuable in the future.

Offcn is also happy. Before all 1000 million was invested, 3 million came back in 2000 years. Not only did it solve the urgent need at once, avoid the end of the company's bankruptcy, but also made double the money back!
From the perspective of Zhonggong.com, Boiling Network is like the MIH that invested in Tencent at the beginning. People are stupid and have a lot of money, so they dumped all the shares without even thinking about it.

Is Fang Jie really a fool? How much money?

Ha ha.

After becoming the big boss of Lianzhong Games, Fang Jie quickly carried out drastic reforms.

Although Lianzhong Games still retains the current name and brand, the company has relocated from Beijing to Jiangcheng as a whole. Those employees who are willing to follow will come, and those who are unwilling will be abolished on the spot, but they will be compensated according to relevant laws and regulations.

Anyway, except for a small number of technical talents in Lianzhong Company, most of them are operation and service personnel. It is not a pity to leave. Jiangcheng can recruit a lot of people, and the labor cost is much lower than that of Beijing.

User data, servers, etc. are directly placed in the IDC data center of Boiling Internet Capital, and the boiling company will send special personnel to manage and maintain them.

Then the content of the game platform has been expanded, and the corresponding payment mechanism has been added.

In addition to the original various chess and card games, the LAN game battle section has been added historically and creatively.

Through the LAN game battle platform section, players can form a game against players from all over the country, instead of having to join the computer AI to fill in the numbers as before, shouting in Internet cafes for a long time may not be able to form a game.

Especially Internet cafes in third- and fourth-tier cities are more difficult to organize due to their small scale.

But now it's convenient. "CS" has become the hottest game in the local area in an instant since almost no one cares about it. It can even be called a phenomenal game. Even "Wulin" and "Stone Age" have to be sidelined.

Tongcheng is a typical example. When Li Yi came back last year, there was no "CS" in the Internet cafe.

Even if there was, it was impossible to form a game with others. This state lasted until the battle platform was launched, and then suddenly reversed. Almost overnight, most of the Internet cafes in the streets and alleys were playing "CS".

And to play CS against players from all over the country on the platform, you need to pay.

Two-tier payment model.

The first layer is the membership model.

Fang Jie's routine is to set a ratio limit between the demand for platform organization servers and the actual development volume, which will never fully meet the needs of all players.

Players need to wait in line for a few minutes when entering a group of battle server rooms, but if they recharge their membership, they can squeeze into the room at any time and form a game to participate in the battle at any time.

The membership fee is not high, 15 yuan per month. If you recharge through 51ka or 51wan, you can also enjoy preferential discounts.

For those impatient and addicted players, knowing that there is a pit in front of them, they will jump into it without hesitation.

Besides, the Internet access fee is also very expensive. Waiting for 5 minutes for each round is still money. It is better to recharge the membership directly, which may be more cost-effective overall.

The second layer is the point charging model, or the virtual game currency model.

Every time a game starts, a certain amount of game points will be deducted, and every time a game is completed, a certain amount of points will be awarded according to the results of the battle.

Under normal circumstances, after a player registers a platform account and completes novice tasks such as data registration, some game points will be rewarded. As long as the game is completed normally, the balance of payments can basically be maintained, and some points can be earned if the player has good skills.

However, if there are violations during the game, such as hanging up in a daze, passively fighting, killing teammates, quitting midway, etc., points will be deducted as a punishment after the player has the qualifications and is verified by the system.

Once the points are not enough to support a game, it is impossible to continue playing.

Registering a trumpet is not very useful, because the game account also has an experience level mechanism. The server divides the group rooms according to the level. The trumpet with a low level does not have permission to enter these rooms to play, and can only compete with other unruly garbage players. I played in the novice room together, and the game experience was quite poor.

So, what should I do if I don’t have enough points and need to maintain an account?
Recharge.

1RMB can be exchanged for 10000 points.

On average, each game consumes 20 points. If the game ends normally, the points will be returned. If you win the top three MVPs, you can get 30-50 points.

In fact, you can figure it out, this is the flying boots in disguise...

This mechanism is very fair to players of normal games. You don’t actually need to recharge to play the game, but there are all kinds of birds in the forest, and sometimes there will be accidents such as sudden network disconnection, so it is inevitable. There will still be a demand for recharge, and the demand is not small.

However, this income, even if the membership income is added, is actually only a small amount of money, which does not bring much income to the game operator.

What really makes money is the introduction of this points mechanism into chess and card games.

Take the simplest game of Doudizhu as an example, points are deducted for winning or losing, and the platform also charges an opening fee, which is equivalent to charging a table fee.

In addition, game currency can be traded in various forms, such as deliberately losing.

Therefore, a special industrial chain will be produced, and the point-based intermediary transaction will be generated.

When a player earns a lot of points in chess and card games, he/she finds a point intermediary to exchange for cash at a price lower than the official price. price difference.

Then this matter will slowly evolve into online gambling, and Lianzhong and winger in the previous life are all involved.

Then, it also extended out of Laoqian Studio.

The so-called Laoqian Studio refers to some professional players, through chess and card games, such as Texas Hold'em, registering some small accounts to watch the game process of players with a large number of game coins for a long time, and analyze and judge their personality, habits, playing style and other details Then use the tuba to bet against him, take advantage of the opponent's psychological loopholes and defects, and win his game currency.

In the previous life, such an old studio spent a lot of time studying opponents every day. In fact, the table time may only be half an hour, but the money earned can be used to live, eat, drink and have fun in a five-star hotel all day long... …

It just so happens that Fang Jie knows these inside stories very well. He is a law-abiding citizen. While opening the point system, of course, he also severely cracked down and blocked such problems.
(End of this chapter)