my return 2002

Chapter 236 Legendary PW
"Mr. Shen, your performance just now was really great."

Backstage, team leader Duan enthusiastically shook Shen Lang's hand.

Shen Lang said a few words politely, and was about to leave, but Team Leader Duan rubbed his hands and said.

"Ahem, Mr. Shen, it's like this. We are planning a brand new column, which is a large-scale entrepreneurial column. I want to invite you to be the entrepreneurial mentor of this program. Look."

Shen Lang frowned slightly: "Shouldn't there be more than one issue of this kind of large-scale column? I'm afraid of time constraints"

Before he finished speaking, Team Leader Duan hurriedly said: "This is not going to be finalized immediately, and our column is still under preparation. Let's keep in touch first and communicate at any time. What do you think?"

CCTV still has to give face, Shen Lang thought about it and agreed.

Coming out of CCTV, Shen Lang went straight to the hotel, took his luggage and boarded the flight to Shanghai.

During the two days before Shen Lang left, the Voyage Century public beta was also officially launched. As Shen Lang expected, the results of the Voyage Century in China were relatively mediocre.

Shi Hai also gave up the idea of ​​continuing to increase publicity in China, and instead focused his energy overseas. When Shen Lang came back, Shi Hai had already led a team to North America to participate in the game exhibition.

After listening to Lei Jun, Shen Lang nodded. There is no doubt that Voyage Century is definitely a good game, but after experiencing the baptism of Korean kimchi games, domestic players are not very accepting of innovative gameplay. World of Warcraft dominates the entire 3D online game market, and the living space of Nautical Century in the national server is too small.

Shen Lang turned his gaze to Wang Tao and asked, "How is the [Zhu Xian] project going? Are all the people from the 3D game engine project team back?"

"Everything is going well now, Yao Yong and the others are back, but the office area is a bit crowded, and we can't even arrange an office." Wang Tao said a little embarrassed.

Shen Lang and Lei Jun looked at each other, and said with a smile: "Don't worry, I have already bought a building next to Jiucheng, and it is already being renovated. It is estimated that I can move there after New Year's Day. You can overcome it for the time being."

"That's great." Wang Tao was overjoyed. Now the company is too crowded, and the aisle basically only allows one person to pass through. It is inevitable for employees to feel a little depressed working in this environment.

"By the way, Mr. Shen, recently there was a game called Audition in Nine Tours that became very popular. Now major manufacturers in the mainland are creating competing products. Do you think we should make a similar game?" Wang Taohui reported.

Audition actually conducted a public beta as early as May, but at the beginning, Audition did not become popular immediately. It was not until the launch of "Audition" V5 "Super Show" version in September that Audition began to detonate the Internet .

In fact, Jiuyou launched a total of three music online games this year: Jin Band, Audition, and Super Dancer. They fought against themselves, and incidentally occupied the entire music online game market.

Shen Lang shook his head: "We still have to focus on [Zhu Xian] and [Ghost Blowing Lantern] now, and consider enriching the game category after these two games are launched and gain a firm foothold."

The game of Audition is indeed popular, but the fire is easy to burn on yourself. For a long time in the future, Audition will not be able to get rid of the "bad minors" and "killing Matt base camp" all kinds of things. Labels, regarded as a scourge by parents, have been condemned in major media.

However, in fact, just in July this year, Audition became the first batch of titles issued by the Ministry of Culture: Green online game products suitable for minors.

Let Jiu You recite this infamy.

Although Wang Tao was a little disappointed, he also knew that now was a critical moment for the company, and too much money had been invested in [Zhu Xian]. The development of the game engine alone cost more than 7000 million yuan, and the entire [Zhu Xian] project team was burned. At least 1.2 million yuan. By the time it is officially launched, at least 1.6 million yuan will be burned. If it is replaced by an ordinary game company, it will not be able to withstand it.

[Ghost Blowing Lantern] The person in charge of the project was Zhuang Yan, one of the game planners who went to Korea with Shen Lang last time, and was promoted to the position of the main planner after returning.

"Mr. Shen, 60% of the production progress of the ghost blowing lamp has been completed, and it is expected that the internal test will start on New Year's Day." Zhuang Yanhui reported.

Shen Lang nodded, it is normal that the production progress of Ghost Blowing Lantern is fast. Firstly, the game engine used is the same as Jianyu Jianghu, and there is a certain accumulation of technology. The novel background of Blowing the Light does not require another world view, the only difficulty lies in the arena.

"The arena is also one of the core gameplays of the Ghost Blowing Lantern game. You must pay attention to balance in the game profession. This will also be a big selling point in the future. It can even develop into a professional league like Warcraft. You should pay more attention to this."

Zhuang Yan immediately beamed with joy when he heard the words. There is also competition among various project teams within the company. After all, there are only so many resources, and it is certainly impossible to be equal, especially for projects like [Zhu Xian], which spend huge sums of money. It must be vigorously promoted.

In fact, Zhuang Yan has always been very worried about whether Ghost Chuideng can be welcomed by the market. He finally took the position of chief planner. If the game data is not good and he is directly marginalized, that would be too bad.

"Okay, I know how to do it."

After coming out of the conference room, Zhuang Yan repeated what Shen Lang said to the members of the project team. After hearing this, everyone was full of fighting spirit. If nothing else, just look at the year-end awards of the Jianyu Jianghu project team last year. Only after making money can they drink soup.

At the same time, Shanda headquarters.

Chen Tianqiao appeared in the meeting room with a red face holding a rectangular object, and all the executives in the meeting room stood up.

"Mr. Chen."

"Mr. Chen!"

Chen Tianqiao was in a good mood, and said to the crowd with a pleasant smile, "Sit down, it's just out of our reach."

The eyes of the executives were all attracted by the thing Chen Tianqiao held in his hand. Even before Chen Tianqiao started to introduce it, they all probably guessed that it should be something that Chen Tianqiao spent 10 billion US dollars to tinker with.

Chen Tianqiao smiled and put the object in his hand on the conference table, and stroked it lightly with his hands a few times.

"Everyone seems to have guessed it, yes, this is the grand box! How is it?"

One thing to say, the shape of this thing is still very good-looking, a bit similar to a DVD, with a black background and red paint, and a camera on it. In fact, the executives did see the letters marked DVD on the warehouse exit.

Chen Tianqiao waved his hand excitedly: "This is Shanda's next main project. All departments must cooperate with Shanda Box's promotion and sales. If there is any failure to cooperate, just write a resignation letter yourself. When it comes to me, Tan will always take care of it."

Tan Qunzhao couldn't help but make a bitter face, which meant he was asked to sing a bad face again.

Before the executives could respond, Chen Tianqiao waved to the outside. A group of employees held rectangular cardboard boxes in their hands and put them in front of the executives.

Chen Tianqiao said with a smile: "Everyone will try it when they go back, experience it, and help to see what needs to be improved."

The corners of the executives' mouths twitched. Why does this scene feel like the teacher assigning homework in school?
There is no way, who makes someone the boss, and the executives can only leave one by one holding the big box.

Tan Qunzhao was going to report to Chen Tianqiao about the game business, but Chen Tianqiao waved to him holding the big box, let's go to my office to talk.

Back in the office, Chen Tianqiao began to fiddle with connecting the Shanda box to the TV.

However, half an hour later, Chen Tianqiao and Tan Qunzhao were both squatting on the ground, their suit jackets had already been taken off, their heads were sweating profusely, and they were still holding various excuses in their hands.

"Why doesn't this thing respond? Is it broken?" Chen Tianqiao was a little puzzled, and when he saw the power indicator light of the Shanda Box, it was clearly on.

An hour later, Chen Tianqiao threw away the audio cable in his hand and made a phone call irritably.

"What did you do? The sample you gave me is bad, so hurry up and send me a good one."

Not long after, the staff delivered a grand box that hadn't been opened yet.

Another half an hour passed, and there was still no signal on the TV screen.

Chen Tianqiao couldn't help but call the engineer of Shanda Box directly, and finally connected.

"It turns out that this is the case. Is this connection too complicated? I don't even understand it. What should users do? This needs to be changed."

In front of Tan Qunzhao, Chen Tianqiao couldn't get angry, so he could only say something bluntly.

The engineer responded awkwardly and left.

"Ahem, the first-generation product, there are inevitably some flaws, it's fine to change it." Chen Tianqiao held the remote control, and regained his beaming state.

Tan Qunzhao could only smile in embarrassment, and tentatively said: "Mr. Chen, the situation of private servers of legends has become more and more rampant recently. If we don't take any action, it will seriously affect Shanda's revenue."

Despite the fact that Shanda now represents dozens of games, 80% of the income still comes from Legend and the Legendary World. The emergence of Legendary Private Servers has undoubtedly diverted Legendary's user base and seriously jeopardized Shanda's interests.

Chen Tianqiao's face also became serious when he heard the words. Shanda Box spent 10 billion US dollars. The money was transfused by the game business. Before Shanda Box can make a profit, the game business still has to be kept.

"Why do those players play private servers instead of using official servers?" Chen Tianqiao didn't quite understand.

Tan Qunzhao said helplessly: "Official server upgrades are too slow, and the equipment explosion rate is also low. Many legendary private servers will give you a complete set of equipment when they go online, which saves a lot of time for players to level up."

Chen Tianqiao frowned: "But, it costs money to open a server, right? How do those private servers make money?"

"Private servers basically make money by buying equipment. Players only need to spend a small amount of money to buy top-quality equipment for official servers, and private servers do not need to order cards." Tan Qunzhao shook his head secretly while explaining. I have written reports to Chen Tianqiao a long time ago, but it is a pity that the other party put all their energy on the Shanda Box, and probably did not read those reports at all.

Chen Tianqiao said angrily: "These moths, you must show them some color. In this way, you can discuss it with Tang Jun and send a lawyer's letter to these relatively large private server bosses. If it doesn't work, you can sue directly. Shen Lang can Send in the hackers, why can't we send in the private servers?"

Tan Qunzhao said with a wry smile: "Mr. Chen, we have already sent the lawyer's letter, but it is useless. There are too many people. If we destroy a group of private servers, there will be more private servers with smaller scales to take over. There's a market problem."

Chen Tianqiao scolded: "These stick companies are unreliable, they only ask for money, and they don't do anything serious! Even the source code of the client can be leaked!"

"Then what do you say?" Chen Tianqiao asked dryly.

Tan Qunzhao made a tentative suggestion: "How about we call together those relatively large private servers and talk to them. If possible, we might as well charge licensing fees directly."

Chen Tianqiao pondered for a moment: "This is a way, then do as you said."

After finishing speaking, Chen Tianqiao continued to tinker with the grand box, but Tan Qunzhao could only swallow the words and left the office.

Coming out of Chen Tianqiao, Tan Qunzhao found Tang Jun and told him his thoughts.

Tang Jun thought about it, and thought it was a good idea, so he strongly supported it, and asked the legal counsel to prepare the indictment and the authorization contract. If he is willing to pay the protection fee, then sign the authorization contract. If he does not pay, then he is sorry. See you in court.

Soon, the big-scale private server bosses in the market got wind of it. Everyone was shocked when they saw that Shanda was going to play for real this time. After all, it was indeed illegal to do such a thing, and it was inevitable that they would feel guilty.

They have no choice but to go to a hotel designated by Shanda and prepare to negotiate with Shanda.

However, most private server bosses dare not go directly, but find another place to live near the hotel, check the situation, and run away immediately if they find a police ambush.

After probing for a while, they found that there was no ambush, so these private server bosses dared to enter the hotel.

Then in a room, Tang Jun and Tan Qunzhao met dozens of private server bosses. During the conversation, the two realized that Legendary private servers had so many audiences, and even they themselves felt a little unbelievable.

An idea came to Tan Qunzhao's mind, if all these people were arrested, how many players would return and how much profit would it bring to Shanda.

But soon he suppressed this seemingly good idea, because according to the descriptions of these private server bosses, many players don't even take a dime out of private servers, and only a very small number of players really know how to buy equipment.

But what surprised him was that the private servers paid by only a very small number of players could support so many private server bosses, and when talking about licensing, they actually accepted hundreds of thousands of licensing fees.

"There are so many players just because it's free?" A bold idea came to Tan Qunzhao's mind.

(End of this chapter)