ace free man

Chapter 97 Think about yourself
Jiang Xun got into Lu Zhengping's car.

He doesn't play cars very much, so he doesn't know much about this brand. Judging from the appearance alone, it should not be a luxury car of a famous brand.

After getting in the car.

Neither of them said anything.

An acquaintance who hasn't seen each other for a long time should have a lot of things to confide in, but the two of them remained silent for a while.

There's a picture of it on the center console of the sedan.

As if he noticed Jiang Xun's gaze, Lu Zhengping turned the car key and was about to start the car. He introduced, "This is my wife. We met in my hometown, and we got married later."

"Children are very cute." Jiang Xun praised.

This photo is a group photo of three people, and there is a petite girl in the center of the photo.

There was a flash of love in Lu Zhengping's eyes, and he said: "This is my daughter, she is five years old now, and it's almost time to go to kindergarten."

"It costs a lot of money to go to kindergarten here, right?" Jiang Xun thought about the prices in Shanghai. If he wants to go to a better kindergarten, the price should be quite expensive.

"Well, but why don't you spend money now?" Lu Zhengping laughed.

After the two finished talking about this topic, they fell silent again.

Jiang Xun didn't take the initiative to ask, and Lu Zhengping didn't take the initiative to speak either.

After half a sound.

Lu Zhengping took the initiative to ask, "Are you also in your twenties this year?"

"Yeah." Jiang Xun said.

"It's 26, you're old and not young, haven't you talked about friends yet?" Lu Zhengping paused and said, "Is it hot? I'll turn on the air conditioner in the car."

He took advantage of the opportunity to turn on the air conditioner in the car.

Jiang Xun said: "The job is too unstable, I dare not talk about it, and I can't find the person I like."

If he stays in a company for two or three years, if he is not satisfied, he resigns and changes to another company. If he is not satisfied, he resigns and then changes to another company. In this situation, how can he dare to talk about friends?
"Be down-to-earth." Lu Zhengping's eyes dimmed, "We've all passed an age where we can risk our lives for our dreams, now try to accumulate as much wealth as possible, you're 26, you should think about the future, right?"

The topic suddenly became serious.

Jiang Xun thought for a while, and said, "I still want to give it a try."

"Don't use your future to pay for a dream you can't see." Lu Zhengping said expressionlessly, his hands gripping the steering wheel harder than before, "Seven years ago, the studio was disbanded, and I went back to my hometown to meet other people. I started a company together to make stand-alone games, and I also planned to find you at the beginning, but you were only 19 years old at the time, and I couldn't get your contact information at that time, and you wanted to study again."

"So I gave up my plan to come to you, and our newly established company spent nearly a year planning and producing a stand-alone detective game, and the sales were not bad." Lu Zhengping said with emotion : "Because all the money was spent on making games, we have no money to promote. After that, a platform found us and was willing to help us promote, but wanted to take a certain share. The final sales, our company probably lost money 100 million yuan."

"Is it "Third-Rate Detective"? I've heard of it. That stand-alone game is still very good." Jiang Xun's eyes seemed to be lit up, "I bought the original version in China, and I also have the follow-up expansion packs. I bought it, and I have the full set of DLC, which was a rare quality production in China at the time, but I didn’t expect it to make a lot of money.”

"Earn?" Lu Zhengping shook his head and said, "Single-player games have long since died. When the cracked resource version of "Third-Rate Detective" is released and circulated on the online disk, our subsequent profit margins will be even less."

"Later, we grandly used the reason that there were too many pirated players to transform."

Lu Zhengping said seriously: "Thirty years ago, the predecessors who made stand-alone games used this reason. We still use this excuse to escape reality."

Thirty years ago, there were a lot of pirate users, and there were various factors. Maybe they had no money to buy the genuine version, maybe they had no channels to buy the genuine version, or they didn’t want to spend money on the genuine version.

There were still many pirate users 20 years ago.

Even every year, many pirated users are becoming regulars.

But the problem of piracy has long been a problem in China, and it is not something that can be changed in a day or two.

It's just that nowadays, the poor sales of stand-alone games has long been no longer a problem of more or less pirated users.

Jiang Xun understands the situation, and knows the deeper situation, but he has been unwilling to admit this reality, and wants to attribute the problem to 'piracy', because it is an excellent reason no matter when and where.

But the real reason is very simple. It’s just that the cost of stand-alone games is high and the income is low. Not only domestic studios don’t want to make stand-alone games, but even foreign studios are slowly giving up stand-alone games.

The most simple and straightforward reason is the low income, which is the real "culprit" that kills today's stand-alone games.

The technology of this era is constantly increasing!

As the graphics processing capabilities of home consoles and computers become stronger, the cost of "creating game content" will become higher and higher.

The status quo of stand-alone games is that the cost of game development has doubled several times, and then?Then the price of the game itself still stays at that level, hundreds of dollars, tens of dollars, the most helpless thing is that the number of home console players has not increased much, and it will be continuously divided by other platforms, such as handheld platforms and mobile platform.

In the past, it may have been pirated players who killed stand-alone games.

What kills stand-alone games now is the reality that R&D costs are not directly proportional to benefits.

Dream, it is like a bubble, it looks beautiful, once it is punctured, what is left is the real problem that should be thought about.

""Third-rate Detective", we used a cost of 300 million yuan, bought out and earned more than 200 million yuan, 200 million yuan removed the cost, and then removed other expenses. At that time, we lost a lot, and I was in debt because of it. Sometimes I I only eat one meal a day, and I eat a huge bucket of instant noodles. The quantity is large and cheap, and I only buy it when the supermarket is on sale on weekends and weekends, and I can still get a discount when I buy a box." Lu Zhengping said with a smile: "After that failure After starting the business, we discovered the limitations of stand-alone games and immediately chose to transform. We finally decided to make a web game.”

"Yeyou?" Jiang Xun was startled.

There is a chain of discrimination in any industry, even if it is a game, there is a chain of discrimination.

People who do stand-alone games look down on those who make multiplayer online games, those who make online games look down on those who make mobile games, and those who make mobile games look down on those who make web games. But generally speaking, those who make web games are the lowest-end.

"The cost is low, the profit is big, just let go of your dignity and reserve." Lu Zhengping glanced at him and said, "You despise me for making page games?"

Jiang Xun shook his head.

"Actually, when I transformed into a web game, I was very helpless. I didn't even dare to tell my friends. I ran to make a web game. I was worried that I would be laughed at by others, but...if you become a dream When you can’t even fill your stomach, what dreams are you talking about?” Lu Zhengping said: “With the mentality of wanting to make money, I made a lot of money by making web games. At that time, I raised about 10,000+ yuan. Put them on the bed and count them one by one, not afraid of your jokes, at that time I cried after counting the money."

"After that, I stayed for another three years, and I had a conflict of ideas with the company. Now that I am getting older, I have a wife and children, and I am not interested in doing this kind of risky business anymore. The Shenda Group found me, and the salary It is not as high as before, but it is stable, I want to ask you if you are interested in coming to Shenda Group to do game planning?" Lu Zhengping said with a long sigh of relief.

"I know you have a dream that you have always insisted on." Lu Zhengping added: "But, should you also think about yourself now?"

"After a while, I will give you an answer." Jiang Xun didn't know what to say.

"Okay, add a friend, and tell me if you plan to come to Shenda Group." Lu Zhengping said in a nonchalant tone: "You don't have to care about my face or not. If you don't want to come, don't come. If you want to come, just come." Come on, what you have to think about now is not others, but yourself!"

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