Build a game empire from scratch

"Let's go to the company to talk, please."

Lin You finally decided to invite people into the company for a chat.

After calling a passing administrative girl to help pour tea, Lin You did not accept the interview directly, but asked the lady reporter to drink tea first and wait a while, because he still has urgent matters to attend to.

After going back yesterday, he did rest, but Xiaomeng didn't.

Xiaomeng happily made the large open zoo a mess.

Animal information is insufficient and has not been completed yet.

But with the current degree of completion, it can be submitted for review.

In order not to waste time, Lin You handed the copied game to Shen Ping first, and asked her to come and submit the game for review.

"New game?" Shen Ping asked confusedly: "Boss, when did you make this? Aren't everyone busy recently?"

"I just made it. I was busy all day yesterday and worked overtime to finish it."

"Yesterday?" Shen Ping was puzzled at first, but soon became full of disbelief: "Boss, did you make a new game a day?"

"No, there are experts to help, and it's not finished yet, hurry up and submit it for trial."

Lin You urged, "By the way, I would like to let Sister Qiao inform that this afternoon, all employees who can spare their hands will suspend work, and everyone will test the game together."

It's all time for testing, so it's still called unfinished? Shen Ping was speechless, and hurried out with the game.

After finishing his urgent business, Lin You hurriedly came to sit down in front of Zeng Ningshuang, took a sip of water, "Wait a long time, things are arranged, we can start."

This intellectual lady reporter unfolded her notebook, picked up a pen, and also took out a recording pen to signal to Lin You, and opened it only after obtaining Lin You's consent.

——Many times journalists don't mind adopting some "special" techniques in order to obtain the truth, but Lin You's identity is not just an entrepreneur.

Big newspapers with a certain official background, like "Great Summer Industry Observation", are different from small newspapers in society, or the new so-called "self-media".

They had received hints from top to bottom early on, so the big newspapers had never participated in all kinds of gossip, snooping, and discussions about Lin You himself on the Internet before.

Only some objective reports have been made on his disclosed inventions and the achievements he has made in starting a business.

Therefore, Zeng Ningshuang was very polite and polite from the beginning to the end. Of course, this politeness also included respect for a top scientific research scholar.

But being polite is polite, she will not be polite in the manuscript, let alone whitewash, she will only report truthfully.

She would rather write the manuscript and not publish it, and it is impossible to write untrue content against her will.

This is the pride of a features reporter.

"Let's talk about the past two days first." Zeng Ningshuang didn't rush straight to the topic, but chose a recent event as the starting point.

"A video producer was sued for copyright infringement and used your trailer to make a paid video. Yesterday afternoon, the video website removed his video. Do you know about this?"

Lin You nodded, it was his request, how could he not know?

"Many video producers are worried now. Some are because they have used their materials to make videos, and some are worried that they will not be able to use them in the future. What do you think about this concern?"

"I really didn't think about it before. After all, I also like to watch videos and have some fun. So it's not that I've done it too much. I usually don't care about it."

Lin You thought for a while and added, "Since you asked, I can also say an attitude: If you make a video with your heart, you can use it. In principle, we won't trouble you. But those 'low-invasive, transporting , plagiarism, manuscript washing’, then you’d better be careful, one day I’m in a bad mood, maybe I’ll pick a few out, sue and relax.”

Zeng Ningshuang looked up at Lin You in surprise, and found that he was serious and not joking.

Emotional Yunmeng really has no relevant regulations! It is based on the mood of his boss to decide whether to sue?

what is this? If the punishment is unknown, is the power unpredictable?

Seeing a lot of female reporters who had a lot of trouble, she couldn't help but blinked in confusion, but she didn't make any further comments, but talked about the next question.

"The grievances between you and NetDragon are well known. So, have you paid attention to the recent situation of NetDragon?"

Am I following? Lin You complained in his heart, I paid so much attention!

NetDragon is a "special concern" position for Xiaomeng. Whenever there is any movement, Xiaomeng will report to Lin You when Lin You wakes up to wash up.

Now Lin You is planning to snipe the DLC of "Flame 3"!

But it's obviously not suitable to say such a thing, it seems a bit petty.

So Lin You shook his head, "I'm too busy developing new games, what's wrong?"

"The director of NetDragon's R\u0026D department suddenly resigned, and within a short period of time, many scientific research talents in the R\u0026D department of NetDragon left one after another. According to predictions, NetDragon's latest generation of VR equipment 'Dragon IV' may not be able to meet the schedule listed."

"Oh, what a pity." Lin You expressed his regret politely.

He only knew that the core personnel in the R\u0026D department had left their jobs, but he didn't know about the postponement of NetDragon's new equipment.

Good thing! Later, I have to slap a few milkshake dog heads to celebrate.

"In addition, there are relevant statistics to prove that since the launch of the virtual reality host Mirage, the sales of VR game equipment have decreased rapidly. Entering September, after Mirage has put 15 million units on the shelves every week, it has ushered in a cliff-like decline. .”

Zeng Ningshuang's serious face showed obvious worry: "This is not only the decline of NetDragon's equipment sales, but the entire industry. All VR equipment manufacturers have experienced a precipitous decline in sales."

"In recent years, the sales of VR game equipment have been growing steadily, and the entire industry chain has benefited accordingly. However, in the past two months, sales have declined severely, and the prospects are no longer optimistic. The industry has begun to permeate anxiety. "

"What do you think about this?" Zeng Ningshuang finally asked her biggest worry, "Will virtual reality games completely destroy the VR game industry?"

Lin You put away the schadenfreude in his heart, and said seriously: "Arcade machines, handheld machines, and home machines have all experienced similar things. It's just that they haven't developed to the same scale before they are squeezed out of most of the market space. VR games are so big, so it doesn't seem to be as worrying as the current decline of the VR industry.

But from the perspective of the game type, the degree of tragedy is actually the same. But look, no one complains about arcades, and no one complains about handhelds. Why? Because people are naturally pursuing progress, pursuing better sound quality, better picture quality, stronger expressiveness and immersion, better story presentation and free interaction...

From this aspect, VR game equipment is indeed a kind of progress, and I think this is also the reason why the scale of VR game equipment has continued to expand in recent years.

But I bet that even without the birth of virtual reality gaming devices, the market share of VR devices will reach a ceiling in the near future, and it is impossible to maintain growth forever. It will even be overtaken and defeated by PCs, home consoles, and even mobile phones, which have been reduced to the underdogs over the years. "

Zeng Ningshuang was obviously surprised by this point of view. Before the interview, she naturally did her homework and had a detailed understanding of the development of the game industry.

She knew very well that VR games had completely defeated other game types before and occupied the absolute dominance of the market, but what did Lin You say?

PCs, home game consoles, and mobile phones that have already been defeated, the Jedi counterattack, defeating VR devices?

Zeng Ningshuang's eyes were full of disbelief, and she even wondered whether Lin You had implicated her grievances against NetDragon on the VR equipment.

"Don't get me wrong, I have no prejudice against VR games." Lin You could see her disbelief, and he could understand it.

After all, she has never seen a world where console games are popular all over the world and PC games have 800 million daily active users, and she has never seen a world where everyone has a mobile phone and can take it out anytime, anywhere to play a game of "pesticide".

I haven't seen anyone who counts the number of players in units of "100 million", so it's normal not to believe it.

Lin You explained to him: "Not only do I have no prejudice against VR games, I even really think that this is a great form of games."

——It is really great, and it is also the only game type in the short game history of this world that surpasses the previous life. It must have soaked in the hard work of many game producers and technology researchers, which is really admirable.

"VR games have many benefits, such as picture quality, music, immersion, physical health... almost everything is good. But it has only one bad point-it raises the threshold of the game.

And it has improved a lot in one go!

It makes too many people "unworthy" to play games: players who cannot afford equipment, players with poor health, those who are sick, those who have poor balance and are prone to dizziness, and those with disabilities in any limb...all are eliminated directly up.

In the era before VR devices, one finger can also press the keyboard to release skills, and one hand can also hold the handle to speed through difficult real-time combat games without injury. Even players who are completely paralyzed can play games with their mouths!

But in VR games, as the games become more and more complex and highly customized controllers, 10 finger manufacturers are almost not enough, let alone only five fingers to play! "

Lin You looked at Zeng Ningshuang, "How should we judge, which is a good improvement? Should we eliminate equipment that is not advanced enough, or eliminate players whose bodies cannot keep up?"

Without waiting for Zeng Ningshuang to answer, Lin You gave his answer firmly: "People should not adapt to technology, but technology should serve people!"

"Abandon players who are not worthy of playing games? Where do they get the qualifications! Such game devices will sooner or later be pulled down from the altar as the player base continues to expand and become a 'minority'!"

"So it's not me who wants to eliminate VR games, but players who want to eliminate it! Even its own limitations must eliminate itself!"

Zeng Ningshuang, who was sitting opposite, looked at Lin You in surprise.

Obviously, she had never heard such a statement anywhere or from anyone before.

But this statement is so convincing!

Whether it's logical thinking or intuition in her heart, she feels——

Lin You is probably right!

She was shocked: Is this the way a genius thinks?

She even thought further: At the very beginning, Lin You appeared in the media's field of vision because he criticized NetDragon's "new equipment" as technologically backward.

Is it because at the very beginning, he thought that going forward on the VR device and adding more load to the player was a wrong path?

In the end, he couldn't bear to watch it any longer, so he ended up personally and developed a virtual reality device.

The purpose is to "break" the game industry back to the right path by personally taking the wrong path of the game industry? !

It adds up to 6k!

Originally, I wanted to say that it was an addition of 1200 average.

But thinking about it, it feels too shameless, so forget it.

I'll try harder...