industrial maniac

Chapter 396 Xu Fei: Come to Aynak If You Can

The popularity of Legend in the East can be called "monopolizing the entire game industry".

The so-called monopoly does not mean that Legend has killed its competitors, but that in the East, there is only this rpg online game to choose from on the market.

As a result, about one-third of the 2.6 million Internet users generated by the supply and sales of computer rooms in the East, plus the previous accumulated 5000 million Internet users, have been exposed to Legendary, and about one-tenth of them choose to play often.

With such a huge player base, there must be such and such needs.

Where there is demand, there is a market.

In this context, Director Xu's personal power leveling was once just a bad boy who was unlearned and addicted to the Internet in the eyes of his parents. Now that he finally has a chance to "get ahead", he will definitely not play games all day long.

Instead, they consulted with the military division to customize a set of sustainable development plans, and helped Director Xu set up a special 'leveling company', also called a 'game studio'.

These game studios, apart from helping the factory manager maintain their accounts, spend the rest of their time 'generating income'.

Including buying and selling equipment, buying and selling gold coins, buying and selling materials, point card charging, role playing, role trusteeship, and finding places...

They even held gang offline activities, secretly helping Lei Ze companies to promote new products and develop offline sales personnel.

The 'power levelers' follow the factory manager, which means that they have no worries about food and clothing, and they will not be short of money at ordinary times. In order to increase their influence, almost all the income of the studio is used to 'win people's hearts'.

The advantage of doing this is that the snacks, cosmetics, daily necessities, etc. of Lei Ze's enterprises have a wider market.

And the gang members naturally became 'offline salespersons', or 'new product promotion ambassadors'.

At the same time, the Lei Ze company also gave the studio a considerable amount of remuneration.

In general, power leveling→studio→legendary games→guild members→offline salespersons/distributors→new products of Leizer companies open up nationwide sales→studios make money→salespeople get two cents (gang salary + sales commission).

A month ago, Director Xu decided to expand the 'power leveling team' by adding 200 regional servers.

Many studios, headed by the factory manager, increased capital and expanded production, reorganized and rebuilt on the same day, and in the name of "Internet Culture Company" or "Internet Entertainment Company", they collectively settled in the empty Daze underground passage - West Second Ring Business District .

Today, a month later, these studios have announced to disband the gangs and withdraw from the legendary game. They not only took away the high players on the server, but also took away the most active people on the server.

At the same time, many game derivative businesses cannot be carried out.

For example, point card recharge can only be done at the supply and marketing cooperatives, and cannot be done online.

For example, no one accepts the equipment, no one accepts the materials, and all the skill books on the market are gone.

For example, there is no one to help with leveling, no one to help hang up, and it seems that more than half of the people in each server are missing.

In addition, the Souhu Forum-Legendary section is full of red sticky posts about the disbandment of the xx gang and the retreat of the xx boss.

As a result, some second- and third-tier news media and newspaper organizations that couldn't find any sensational news took the news in the forums as hot topics.

Some tabloids even revealed the reasons for the players' guesses.

The legendary boss got involved in gangsters and ran away.

What kind of legendary boss xenophobia immigrated.

Why did Shengda sell to American capital...

Soon, the news of 'Legend has died' spread throughout the game circle.

Coincidentally, Legendary insiders accidentally leaked the inside story of "a large number of player losses", which made the Legendary game even worse.

In the field of psychology, there is something called 'herd effect', or 'herd mentality'.

It means that when people face uncertain situations, they tend to follow the decisions of the majority instead of making decisions based on their own judgment.

Now the famous gangs in the legendary game are all disbanded, Gaowan has all retired, and many famous characters have been sold, how can we still play eggs?

Although there are many players who are very reluctant to let go of the legend, friends, classmates, and neighbors in the computer room all turned off the game interface, and even laughed at themselves, "The game is closed, so what are you playing?" ', in the end, because of face, they also closed the game page one after another.

Here comes the question, if you don’t play legends, what should you play?

At this moment, the word 'Qin Shang' appeared on the Hongqi UI desktop.

Click to view, and a battle video is presented in front of you.

In the picture, Cao Ren in gorgeous heavy armor collided with Guan Yu in green robe and shield, sparks flew everywhere, and the special effects were directly full.

But a paragraph immediately popped up: Do you think the game is like this?No, it should be.

next second.

A strong man in simple armor came out with a splash, carrying a shield full of vicissitudes.

On the opposite side, a burly man with scars on his face, twisted muscles, dragged a huge halberd, and rushed over quickly through the flying dust.

"Heh~ah!"

Bang!

The dull sound like knocking cowhide echoed in the newly replaced headset in the supply and marketing computer room, making the scalp numb.

Immediately afterwards, the CG animation was transformed into a game scene.

Same character, same action, same effect...

[Epic level masterpiece, the first 3D online game Qin Shang in the East, see you at 8 pm today! 】

[Semi-open world, a new generation of TEP ultra-capacity server that can accommodate 5 characters online at the same time, allowing you to experience the end of the Qin Dynasty for yourself! 】

"Oh my God, no wonder the studios have all retired. I'm afraid I have not received the news long ago."

The player next door: "For sure, the game publishing company must have talked to the studio."

"I'm afraid the legend is really cold."

"It's worth throwing away."

"I hope Qin Shang will be as great as the propaganda."

Players who received the message spread it to ten, ten to a hundred, and quickly poured into the Souhu Forum-Qin Shang section.

I don’t know, I’m scared.

Qin Shang's section was almost the same as the Legendary section, with red titles at the top, and the content was all about gangs.

It's just that Legend has withdrawn, and this side has announced to settle in.

And it was also reminded that players who have a power bank can use the 'machine code' to activate the novice gift package within two hours of logging in to the game.

"My God, did you get the support of Director Xu?"

"According to the gossip, it is said that Director Xu attaches great importance to this matter, and personally donated 5 million US dollars for Qin Shang to log in to Europe and the United States."

"hiss……"

"Don't stay in the forum, log on to Qin Shang's official website and research careers."

"Are there many occupations?"

"No, there are only three for the time being, sword and shield hand, euphorbia warrior, and archer, but judging from the official "little black man", it seems that there will be Taoist priests who can heal and poison in the future, magic warlocks who can attack in groups, and warlocks who can attack in groups. The setting of the mech-summoner and many life-supporting occupations is not complicated now, but it is better to plan the development route in advance than to play again at that time, after all, the game development companies are now imitating the Mechanical Three Kingdoms."

"Makes sense."

At this time, the player in front suddenly exclaimed, "My God, this 'Target Online' company that developed Qin Shang is too powerful."

"How to say?"

"They even bought out the Unreal Engine of GTA3, and then joined the simulation technology of Dasawa Industrial Design Company."

"how do you know?"

"Look at the company statement, it's all written in it."

"By the way, this engine is very valuable?"

"It's not that it's valuable or not, but it represents the follow-up game development capabilities, which involve rendering, collision, detection, AI, graphics, network and various files. With this thing, as long as the target online company guarantees the survival of the development team, it will completely It can allow Qin Shang to follow the development of computer hardware and make the game performance better and more extreme."

"don't know."

"In other words, if two similar 3D games are played on the same computer with the same picture quality, the better the game engine, the higher the performance efficiency, otherwise it will freeze and drop frames..."

"I still don't understand."

"Go play your game."

"..."

At 8 o'clock in the evening, Qin Shang opened 10 groups of servers in a row.

This made the players who had been waiting for a long time very dissatisfied.

However, it was soon discovered that after Zone 1 is full, players will be assigned to Zone 2. If players in Zone 2 want to see players in Zone 1, they only need to go to the same coordinates and choose to change Route 1 to see players in Zone 1. .

The magical gameplay quickly attracted many technicians.

Then I know the AI ​​algorithm of the 'super-capacity server'.

That is, District 1 is full, and players in District 2 want to go to District 1 to meet people. At the same time as switching lines, a player who is mining alone or fighting monsters alone in the suburbs of District 1 will be squeezed into the small scene server together with the monsters ', without finding yourself changing lines.

When Area 1 becomes free, players who fight monsters alone will automatically leave the 'Small Scene Server' and return to Area 1.

Of course, in order to avoid bugs, there is also a total algorithm covering 1~10 servers, so as to prevent someone from using this method for profit.

Two hours after the opening of the zone, Target Online issued its first notice.

Districts 1~10, equal to the first server, use the Xishan map.

Areas 11~20 are equivalent to the second server, using the Yanqiu area.

Areas 21~30, equal to the third server, use Dongshan map.

It will be postponed to the 70th area in turn, and then the first expansion piece will be opened, which is version 1.1, Qinhuang's death.

At the same time, open the big secret realm that can be entered twice a week-Qin destroys the six kingdoms. No matter whether you pass the customs or not, you can get equipment below level 10 by destroying any enemy.

In addition, open a small secret realm that can be entered 5 times a day-Lanling King's Breaking Song, which will drop equipment below level 8.

The quality of equipment dropped by each secret realm is linked to the difficulty of the secret realm.

Experience Difficulty → Gray.

Normal difficulty → white.

As for the "difficult difficulty" of dropping suits and accessories, the "heroic difficulty" of dropping cloaks and mounts, and the "defying difficulty" of dropping meritorious deeds, Qin Shang will divide them in batches according to the progress of the expansion, according to quarters and years open.

However, the secret realm is just a way to play. Players who don't want to go to the secret realm can completely obtain "task equipment" by doing tasks. The attributes and characteristics are also very good, and even fighting wild monsters can form a powerful combat force.

But if you want to PK, you must enter the 'dangerous area', compete with skilled NPCs, or attack the enemy to obtain the 'military uniform', in order to gain an advantage in the competition.

The players didn't feel much after reading the notice, but after entering the game, they found that the map was not as big as usual.

从1~10区的西山地图，跨地界跑到11~10区的燕丘地图，竟然需要35天。

35 days in reality!

"Dog plan, this is a card game."

"It's okay, just get out of the mount."

"By the way, this seamless map technology, and the technology that can cross regions and servers at any time, how does it feel like 'Three Kingdoms of Machinery'?"

"Hush, play the game well, don't talk nonsense, I didn't look at Goldman Sachs' futures and funds in the East, they were all turned into negative numbers."

"..."

……

the other side.

Supply and Marketing Headquarters computer room.

This is a corridor-style network cultural service center facing Tianmen Square with a length of about 500 meters.

The internal structure is like a train carriage, with three machines lined up by the windows, two more machines set up against the wall, and a booth in the middle.

There is a half-foot-wide conveyor belt on the top of the booth. If players need beverages, snacks, etc., they only need to buy them on the computer, and the waiter will use the conveyor belt to send the goods to the storage box marked with the seat, waiting for the player to swipe the card to collect.

Below the booth are popular toys, books and magazines, promotional posters, etc.

There are a total of 1666 machines in the entire store, one-fifth of which are seats for minors, and the rest are seats for adults. Without identity verification, they cannot be turned on. Smoking, making noise, and defecating anywhere are prohibited during the use of the machines.

Xu Fei wore a wig and fake beard, disguised as a street artist, and strolled around the store with an electric guitar he couldn't play.

Although it is not a holiday, nor is it a Saturday or weekend, the store is still overcrowded, and more than 300 people have to wait in line to find an empty seat tomorrow morning.

Without it, surfing the Internet is cheaper than staying in a hotel. Besides, Tianmen Square is next to it. When you get off the plane at [-] o'clock in the morning, you can participate in the flag-raising ceremony when you walk out of the store.

Most of the customers on the plane are couples or a family of three.

A small number of them are listening to music and watching movies, a small number are playing forums, a small number are playing CS, and the rest are playing Qin Shang.

As for the legendary game...

In order to stop the stock from plummeting, Goldman Sachs announced to the outside world that the server failure caused the background data to go wrong, and that’s why so many players were lost, and temporarily closed the login channel.

This explanation is reasonable, but Goldman Sachs temporarily eased the pressure of public opinion, but failed to prevent TEP Group from suing.

Because Goldman Sachs put the reason on the server, it is tantamount to spreading rumors about TEP Computer Service Company, causing its "server leasing business" to be questioned globally, and Strauss suffered heavy losses.

For example, the 70 sets of servers rented by the target online company could have earned 30 billion red notes, but because of Goldman Sachs' rumors, TEP Computer Services had to give a discount of [-]% in order to retain this big customer.

Therefore, Clint, a salesman, and Mrs. Clint, who is preparing to run for the next North American general manager, visited Goldman Sachs Capital to make a claim.

Behind Goldman Sachs Capital is the Judas-Marcus family, and behind it is the Rothschild family. The two sides once supported Roosevelt and other North American managers. In the face of huge losses, they will definitely not give Kelin face.

This led to a conflict between TEP and Goldman Sachs Capital.

Even the new Boston consortium also launched an attack on Goldman Sachs.

TEP is not a small business, but a North American defense contractor, the second shareholder of International Supply and Marketing Co., Ltd., a world-class crude oil supplier, the owner of the world's largest toy chain store, and owns three-fifths of the "iron towers" in the world.

The New Boston Consortium is not a rabble, and nearly 17 of the world's top [-] companies are included.

Now that the two sides are having an unhappy fight, Goldman Sachs' financial business in North America has begun to decline sharply.

However, these overseas operations are temporarily in the charge of TEP Chairman James.

Xu Fei mainly solves the problem on the east side, which is to make private capital have the ability to resist foreign capital.

At present, although Qin Shang is in operation and the situation is very good, all eggs cannot be put in one basket.

In other words, Shengda Network sold the company to Goldman Sachs, which is a lesson from the past.

Therefore, Xu Fei also searched for games such as "Sword and Sword Conquering Demons" and "Swordsman Love", and injected capital, technology, and personnel respectively, so that the other party has the ability of "sustainable development".

And ask the secretary group to increase investment in the studio to expand the peripheral products of each game, create industries, create jobs, and increase domestic demand.

It can be said that engaging in games is also a bonus.

Logically speaking, it seems that there is no need to engage in games in order to engage in industry.

But when people are full and have nothing to do, they will think wildly, express their personal opinions everywhere, and cause big troubles.

After the end of the world broke out, everyone entered the refuge, and had to do something every day except eating and drinking.

Isn't playing games the best way to pass the time?

Xu Fei was wandering in the computer room, thinking, and soon walked into the supply and marketing head office.

At this time, Raymond called.

"Xu, stop it."

"What?"

"Everything that happened to the legend must be related to you."

"Old Lei, with my temper, if I want to get Goldman Sachs in the East, do you think I will use such a small trick? I will first ask the supply and marketing computer room to collectively remove the legend, and then through the broadcasting station, cancel the legend. Version number, and then kill a few Goldman Sachs shareholders."

"..."

"So the problems that Goldman Sachs encountered were really not caused by me. This should be caused by 'market factors'. After all, Goldman Sachs is a financial player who suddenly broke into the game industry. Can they figure out how to play in a short time?"

"Well, this matter has nothing to do with you, but the NSA revealed that Goldman Sachs is eyeing you."

"Those who want to kill me can line up around the parent star hand in hand, not bad for them."

"The thing is, they think you did it, and I'm afraid they'll Boom my hound breeding center."

"I'm going abroad now, you can help pass a message to them, come to Aynak if you can, I'll wait."

As May approaches, Debei has delivered materials to the Aynak Copper Mine and is about to start full-scale mining.

In order to prevent the development of North America, North America will definitely sabotage it secretly.

If these North American soldiers are caught and declared to be ruthless people sent by Goldman Sachs, and then ask Goldman Sachs for money, it is not known whether it will be paid by Raymond or Goldman Sachs.