Rebirth of the big era of online games

Chapter 377 The leader who is about to go abroad
There is a saying that goes well: the right one is the best.

The boiling 3D game engine developed by Boiling Software has done a good job in optimizing the "CF" game. It can perfectly adapt to the requirements of Chinese people's computer hardware configuration. Even if you only use an integrated graphics card, you can run this game smoothly.

But it doesn't mean that this game engine is very LOW.

In fact, if players have high requirements for image quality and frame rate, as long as the hardware meets the standards, they can also adjust the image quality and resolution by themselves.

In terms of game development, the boiling engine can not only develop stand-alone outstanding masterpieces like "Thor's Hammer 3: Arena", but also can be applied to other 3D online games with relatively low requirements, such as "Meteor Butterfly Sword", "Magic World ", "The Age of Great Navigation".

Moreover, the boiling engine has an advantage over the current "Thor III" engine in that it not only supports hardware acceleration, but also supports software acceleration, while "Thor III" only supports hardware acceleration, and a graphics card with hardware acceleration capability must be purchased.

Therefore, in terms of game experience, with the same computer configuration, players playing "CF" will still be smoother than "CS" even if they increase the picture quality a little.

Or the same fluency, intuitively, players feel that "CF" has a finer picture than "CS", and the texture quality is more realistic, which makes players feel more immersive.

It can be said that "CF" has completely surpassed "CS" in every aspect.

When Boiling Games announced that the game engine of the game "CF" was independently developed, laymen didn't understand the meaning, but the industry was astonished.

You must know that domestic game manufacturers and capital are only acting as agents for Korean online games at the moment. Although some far-sighted game companies are developing their own online games, they are only developing 2D online games following Boiling Games.

Now Boiling Games has developed an internationally leading 3D game engine. Game production and development has simply exceeded 1-2 generations. If you said that before, everyone thought that there was a chance to catch up with Boiling Games, but now, you know that you can’t catch up even if you flatter your horse. I can only look at the ocean and sigh.

Although Boiling Games has been making a lot of money by relying on several games before, its status in the domestic industry is actually not too high, at least not an authoritative hegemony. In the eyes of professionals in the industry, Jinshan Company is the NO.1, or their Xishan Ju studio is the handle of game development.

But now, Booming Game, which has its own intellectual property game engine, has finally won the crown and established its position as the overlord in the industry, and it is an unmatched leader. , This is the great significance and impact of this incident.

Of course, there are so many players who don't understand these things at the moment, and there are so many people on the Internet who scold "CF" for plagiarism. Fang Jie didn't block these remarks, because it was unnecessary, and there was no way to block them.

He just set an example and played "CF" in the live broadcast room.

The effect of Fang Jie bringing the goods himself is of course leveraged. Although there are also many players scolding in the barrage, more players have switched from "CS" to "CF" without saying a word, just thinking See if you can meet the leader in the game and play a game with him.

For some players' incomprehension and abuse, sometimes he doesn't bother to pay attention, and sometimes he can't help but spout a few words.

Of course, it is said that it is a confrontation, but it is actually playing routines and rhythm.

Let’s start with a strong argument: ""CF" is developed by our own company. I don’t play my own game. Is it possible to play a foreigner’s game? There’s no reason for that!"

Some players who opposed it felt that this was the reason.

It's true that others play "CF", but it's completely natural for the leader to play "CF". How can there be any reason to turn your elbows outward?
Then there is an online routine: ""CF" is a 100% self-developed domestic online game. I am from Huaguo, and I don't support games from my country. Do you want to eat inside and outside? You are still from Huaguo!"

Fuck, this is killing people!

But the angry young players felt that the leader was very fond of their temper and appetite, and it touched their hearts.

exactly!
Domestic products, good or bad, should be supported without thinking, and foreign products, good or bad, should be discarded without thinking!
For example, the Korean wave and Korean dance are dances and poses. You should not learn from them. Those who go abroad are all traitors.
Well, even though we don't understand the domestic ones, it's just brainless support!
After fooling the cynics into the game, there is an unknown routine.

""CF" uses our self-developed 3D game engine, which is the world's leading technology, even better than the game engine of "CS"! Do you understand the game engine? Don't understand? Okay...

"This engine is very powerful and can produce 3A masterpieces! What is 3A? Well, I suggest you go to Baidu..."

"Then it must be rendering engine, physics system, collision detection system, Graphics Wrappers, front-end FrontEnd, environment mapping EnvironmentMapping, network engine, atomic type and atomic operation... You don't understand these, do you?"

"Damn it, you've been playing the piano for a long time! Since you don't understand anything, what are you spraying? You should figure out these concepts first, and then spray, a bunch of "CS" brainless fans!"

Seeing some professional terms that Fang Jie casually popped up, many players were immediately stunned.

Can we still have a good communication, who the hell understands you!
But I don't realize it!
So it seems that "CF" is really good?Better than "CS"?

At this moment, many players have already experienced it in "CF", and they have sent bullet screens to stand in line with Fang Jie.

"Without investigation, there is no right to speak. It is recommended to talk about the game experience after playing "CF"..."

"Y1S1, "CF" is indeed smoother than "CS", with more gameplay and better network conditions. Now playing "CS" through Lianzhong Battle.net platform often disconnects, "CF" does not have such a situation, smooth very……"

"Foreigners don't know farts! The leader only understands the needs of our domestic players. "CF" is much better than "CS". Personally test it!"

"Sir, stop talking nonsense with these people. If you understand it, you understand it. If you don't understand it, you don't understand it. You don't even know what a game engine is. How dare you pretend to be aggressive in front of the leader..."

"Visual inspection, it's just a group of old-fashioned old antiques blinding BB here, don't pay attention to them..."

After the rhythm was picked up, Fang Jie began to play the routine of telling facts and making sense.

"The game structure, game engine, and game code are different from "CS", right? Just because it borrows from the game mode, it becomes plagiarism? If this is plagiarism, then how can FPS games like "CS" be used in the future? Aren't they not allowed to be developed?"

"Let me ask you, after you have played "CF", ask yourself, is "CF" better than "CS"? Is the picture more refined, is the game smoother, is there more variety in the gameplay, is the network More stable, isn’t the gaming experience better?”

"Since this is the case, how should everyone choose? Do you still need to think about it?"

"Whether "CF" is a plagiarism is not what you decide, but what the court decides. But so far, the game developer of "CS" has not sued us for boiling games, because foreigners know this game better than you Is it plagiarism or reference, and whether it can be supported by law."

"So, I advise everyone not to worry about the emperor and the eunuchs. Players, you shouldn't worry about this kind of 'state affairs', go enjoy your game..."

It's not enough to just be reasonable, you have to stimulate the players.

So Fang Jie also took out his trump card: "By the way, at the end of the year, Boiling and Tencent will jointly hold the first "CF" professional sports league! The total prize money of this event is 500 million, and Boiling video will be broadcast live online during the competition. Welcome The vast number of game masters form teams to sign up for the competition, and the specific rules of the competition will be announced on the official website of the competition later!"

This news immediately sparked heated discussions and retweets from countless players.

Bonus 500 million!
Get it by playing the game!

Is there an easier way to make money than this?
If the opportunity never comes again, why don't you rush into the game to practice marksmanship!

Ever since, the quarreling and cursing stopped immediately, and players flocked to "CF" to practice.

Especially those masters who played "CS" in the past, they are the main force of trolls. After all, after changing a game, the technical essentials such as operation, marksmanship, and prediction have to be adapted again. Of course, they are firmly opposed to "CF" .

But now everything is "to the money".

Play "CS" well, do you make money?
No, apart from being able to pretend, there are no other practical benefits, but now "CF" has it!

And it's a 500 million prize!
Previously, "CS" also had professional competitive leagues, but they were all held abroad, and the prize money was poor. Although there were some small competitions in China, they were not authoritative. Both Kingsoft and Ourgame held similar professional leagues with Internet cafes as the unit. .

In other words, this kind of professional league in China is just an Internet cafe activity led by the game company and organized offline. The purpose is not to promote the game, but to promote the game company and advertise their own company.

The so-called game rewards are some game points or game peripherals, and there is almost no cash.

However, the "CF" professional league jointly organized by Boiling and Tencent gave a large bonus!
500 million is nothing to Fang Jie, but in 2003, in the eyes of ordinary people, especially in the eyes of young players, it is simply a golden mountain in front of them, and it is the kind that is readily available!

Therefore, this is a professional game league in the true sense. It is one aspect to advertise for their own company. The main purpose is to promote the game "CF", learn from foreign practices, and create a domestic professional game competition ecology.

And with such an ecology, game live broadcasting can be done.

According to the experience of previous life, the logical connection among them is that firstly there was a professional game competitive competition, and then the game live broadcast became popular, and then the game live broadcast further ignited the game platform, and the relationship between each other is dependent .

The reason why those live streaming sites became popular in later generations was brought about by competitive games such as "StarCraft", "DOTA", and "LOL".

At present, the reason why Fang Jie's game live broadcast room is popular is largely due to his star effect, not the game itself.

In just two months now, Boiling Video has opened hundreds of live broadcast rooms for grassroots players. The live broadcast content is nothing more than games or talents, and occasionally chatting or something, but the popularity is very average, which is completely different from Fang Jie's live broadcast room. Fabi's traffic is less than one percent of his.

The so-called all things are difficult at the beginning, and this is the situation when doing webcasting these days.

On the one hand, the network conditions are limited, and many people cannot watch the live broadcast, cannot post barrage in real time, and cannot interact with the anchor.

If someone changed Fang Jie's live broadcast room, even if Li Qing was to replace him temporarily, the number of people online would instantly drop by two-thirds.

The game professional competitive league is a magic weapon to increase the popularity of game live broadcast and user stickiness.

As long as the high, medium and low-level game professional leagues are held in various names every year, just like the first-level, second-level, and super leagues in football leagues, the time span is long enough, and the popularity will gradually become bigger and stronger. With the brand effect, the game live broadcast is not afraid of having nothing to eat.

The NBA in the beautiful country is actually the same routine.

This kind of competitive game is inherently ornamental. NBA is actually a game sport. After professionalization, it has ornamental. With ornamental, it can bring traffic and popularity. With money.

This is where competitive gaming and sports come in.

Competitive fighting online games like "Meteor Butterfly Sword" are not friendly to novice players, but it does not prevent them from being used as professional competitive games for novice players to watch.

I can't beat you, and my skills are not as good as yours, so I will find a powerful game master or team to support me. If they win, it means I win. From a psychological point of view, this is not self-deception, but a A kind of empathy, just like the mood of parents looking forward to their children becoming a dragon.

Cai Junsong didn't know that his game hadn't been developed yet, Fang Jie had already thought about the future arrangement, "Meteor Butterfly Sword" will definitely hold a professional league, and in the future there will be "Meteor II", "Meteor III" The production and development of the game will produce a series of competitive events.

The game itself may not be very profitable, but the live broadcasts of competitive players are entertaining. After forming a professional competitive event, it will be able to stick to the viewers and users who watch the live broadcast for a long time, and then open up another traffic channel for various industries of the Boiling Group. What's more, live broadcast rewards can also make money.

However, there is currently no reward function in the live broadcast room of Boiling Video. Fang Jie feels that the time is not ripe enough, and the ecological chain of "game-live broadcast-platform" must be established first.

His considerations are more than that.

Whether it's "CF" or "Meteor Butterfly Sword", at most it will be a domestic game professional competition league, and it will have little influence on foreign players. In the future, Boiling Games will go international, so we can't just focus on our own acre three points.

After all, the game "CF" is just a copy-like online game. It is the graduation work of Boiling 3D game production.

It's nothing more than Fang Jie fooling around with a bunch of domestic players. If he puts it abroad, even if he doesn't get involved in a lawsuit, he will be scoffed at and rejected and resisted by foreign players. Moreover, foreigners look down on Chinese people. How can this game be released? Isn't it to give the face to a foreigner?
Of course not!
Not to mention "Meteor Butterfly Sword".

"Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" is indeed famous abroad, and many foreigners understand it, but martial arts culture is not the mainstream culture in the Western world after all, and it is destined to be a small audience. If martial arts competitive games are released, there may be some hope for Bruce Lee to be alive. Now, It's hard to get good grades.

Therefore, while the domestic game industry is developing steadily and making breakthroughs, Fang Jie has turned his attention to overseas markets.

If Boiling Games is currently the industry leader in China, then when it goes abroad, it will instantly become like a younger brother.

Whether it is traditional console game developers Nintendo and Sony, or PC game developers Ubisoft and Blizzard, EA companies that have developed the "Need for Speed" series, "FIFA" series, and "Command and Conquer" series, or other independent Compared with the game development company, Boiling Games might not even be worthy of carrying shoes.

In fact, let alone now, even after 20 years in the previous life, no domestic company can rank among the top ten game development companies in the world.

Actually...Compared with the top ten, it is still a bit of a big deal. Even if Boiling Games is compared with those game companies in South Korea, it dare not say that it is better than others.

"Lineage 2" in South Korea is a 3D online game that uses the latest famous "Unreal 2" game engine.

And "Paradise 2", which uses the "Unreal 2" game engine, how powerful is the picture?

In the previous life until 2011, that is, 8 years later, the graphics of this game are still at the mid-to-high level in the industry!

The picture expressiveness of "Lineage II" is quite astonishing. The unprecedented comprehensive application of 3D cutting-edge optimization technology and the addition of real lighting effects make the picture quality of the whole game more delicate and vivid. From animation, light and shadow, particles and special effects, etc. Completely overturn the look and feel of the screen of "Paradise I", making the game screen more natural.

During the live broadcast, Fang Jie naturally experienced this game.

The buildings and scenes inside are very realistic. No matter the majestic and magnificent buildings or the perfect details, they all bring an extremely shocking visual impact. The slightly dark picture of "Paradise I" is brighter and clearer, and the tiny details are more detailed and textured. Absolutely meet the player's high-quality look and feel requirements.

But the funny thing is, even though Fang Jie has advised everyone not to play this game countless times, there are still many netizens who watched the live broadcast, and seemed to join in the fun by buying an overseas proxy accelerator, downloading the game, going in to experience it, and then... …

Then the experience is very poor.

Because the game requires too much computer configuration, if you don’t use a computer with server performance like Fang Jie’s, the game won’t be able to play normally at all. A more normal experience.

It's not just these netizens who are depressed, but also overseas game studios.

After "Paradise I" was scrapped, everyone was waiting for "Paradise II" to go in and continue to make money. As a result, this game has a special configuration.

Boiling’s overseas game studios are better, at least they can find Fang Jie to apply for it, and spent a lot of money to replace the money-making equipment, but many domestic game studios like small workshops don’t have the courage, they have downsized or Simply close down and change careers.

However, this also raised the threshold for making money in "Paradise 2". In the early days, the boiling self-operated overseas game studios made a lot of extra money without any competition from their peers.

Regardless of these small episodes, Fang Jie now has too many industries to cover everything.

It can only be said that the boiling game is currently unknown in the international arena. It can even be said that it does not even have a name, and the flag has not yet been planted. It is by no means an easy task to go abroad.

Fortunately, Boiling Games has relatively rich experience in game production. It has completed technical reserves and has the Boiling Engine as a foundation. The next step is to plan a game that foreign players can accept and make its own name.

The last thing Boiling Games worries about is game planning, Fang Jie can throw out countless game plans casually.

However, among the many classic game solutions, some issues still need to be considered.

There is no need to consider 2D games, which cannot represent the current game production technology of boiling games, and it is difficult to gain international fame.

This is the first shot to go abroad, it has to be a hit!
Just like an international racing competition, people drive a Ferrari to compete, you can obviously drive a self-made sports car to show off, but you drive Wuling Hongguang to make soy sauce...

Just wanted to ask: are you kidding me?
And the copycat version of "World of Warcraft", "Magic World", can only pass.

It’s okay to keep this game in China to stop “World of Warcraft”, but if you go abroad to stop it, the end is probably no different from “CF”. Foreigners can tell at a glance that it is plagiarism and borrowed from “World of Warcraft” which is in the internal testing stage , Not to mention boycotting or not, at least it will have a very bad impact on the international reputation and reputation of Boiling Games.

Absolutely can't do this, otherwise it's a small loss!

And it is not impossible to take out games like the "PUBG Mobile" and "Battlefield" series of later generations, but the production cycle is too long. Such a classic masterpiece cannot be done without 1 or 2 years.

Fang Jie's idea is not only to go abroad, but also as soon as possible.

It's not that he didn't want to go out to show off earlier, but the problem is that the engine has not been fixed and there is no way to do it. Now that Dongfeng is waiting, he has to hurry to plant the flag internationally!
I can't wait!
So here comes the problem: one that cannot be plagiarized, must have its own innovation, has a short production time, but is 3D, has considerable playability and influence, and can make Boiling Games an instant hit What the hell is a game?
Which game in the previous life can take on this important task?

On September 2003, 9, the first day of school opening across the country, Fang Jie, who had been in retreat for a long time, finally got out of his otaku state, returned to Jiangcheng, went to the boiling game headquarters in person, and presided over a project meeting.

At the meeting, he announced and presented a game plan: "Before the end of the year, I want to see the completion of this "Minecraft" and sell it on STEAM!"

(End of this chapter)