Rebirth of the Internet: Starting from Games

Chapter 277 Director of Gu Raising Factory

Chen Hao looked at the first-hand news coming from reporters dispatched to North America by 17173. Although it had nothing to do with him, after listening to it, his temples felt tingling.

It is estimated that Blizzard is very busy and lively. These two days are enough for Blizzard to drink a pot.

Chen Hao shook his head. Blizzard was nothing more than that. It just so happened that the first test in North America had an advantage, that is, it gave them a sample and learned from each other's strengths.

They can just learn from their past mistakes when the public beta starts next year.

"1. The queuing mechanism adds the function of re-logging in to continue queuing within X minutes. X is configurable.

2. The server will be in saturation mode on the day of testing.

3. After entering the game, you also need to set a protection period. During the protection period, you do not need to queue up to log in again.

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As Chen Hao spoke, Xu Peiliang beside him took notes.

He knew this was a rare experience.

After recording, Chen Hao asked him to send a copy to Lao Xu at the same time.

Long ago, 17173 opened two special areas, World of Martial Arts and World of Warcraft. Other online game domain names have suffixes, such as /mir3, /mhxy

The two direct descendants are directly assigned subdomain names, and.

Moreover, these two game areas are equipped with their own art and operation teams for technical maintenance and support. Once entering these two game areas, players even feel as if they have arrived at a theme station.

It just so happens that we can take advantage of the North American game public beta to carry out the warm-up work of these two games.

Chen Hao has already mapped out the territory, and handed over the operation of the special areas to Tianxuan and Tianji Studio respectively.

Under the respective planning of these two studios, the martial arts world area and the World of Warcraft area have carried out theme activities accordingly.

Here in World of Warcraft are various reprints of live records of the North American open beta provided by dispatched reporters. There is an endless stream of graphic and text reports, which makes some players who can only watch from a distance have enough fun.

In addition, a World of Warcraft event was held, where players could share their experiences and experiences with Warcraft.

In the end, netizens vote to determine the rankings. The top ten will receive exquisite World of Warcraft figures, and the top one thousand will qualify for the internal beta of World of Warcraft.

The Neighbor Martial Arts World section contains some breaking news about the new game, such as game scenes that match the original novel, animations of martial arts moves, game features, boss mechanics, etc.

At the same time, a martial arts hero meeting was also held to convene all the knights to share every bit of their martial arts experiences. No matter life, games or novels, you can share them. There is no limit on the subject matter, the number of words, and the type.The top 1000 people can qualify for the internal beta test of Wuxia World, and the top 10 people can get figures including Wuxia World.

The deadline for these two special areas is December 12st.

In addition to activities, both have opened reservations. The reservation conditions are the same, that is, you must log in to your World Travel account and one of the games in the account lasts for more than 10 hours before you can make a reservation.

There is a line of small red text below: Those with game recharge records will increase the probability of obtaining internal beta qualifications.

Then directly above is the current number of reservations.

The number of reservations for World of Warcraft: 132823, and the number of reservations for World of Martial Arts: 117593.

Many players pay more or less attention to these two areas. Looking at this posture, it seems that their brothers are also competing in the ring.

At the same time, worries about happiness arose one after another. They were confused about which one to play when the time came.

Then simply make reservations for both games, and then it depends on your fate, whichever one wins the prize, you can play.

On November 11, Chen Hao called all the employees of Tianxuan and Tianji Studio in a very large conference room in the second phase of China World Trade Center.

These people looked at each other with no idea of ​​the boss's intention of suddenly calling them here. When they asked their boss, they were also confused.

Seeing that everyone was almost there, the projection in the center of the stage suddenly lit up. The 1000 million and [-] million displayed in the center were very eye-catching. Chen Hao stunned everyone as soon as he came on.

<divclass="contentadv">Seeing that it had the desired effect, Chen Hao smiled and said, "Let's play a game. The prize is what you see, 1000 million. The group's additional investment resources will be [-] million. , it’s a bonus package.”

Then he introduced the rules of the game to everyone in the two studios.

The same game type, the same resource investment, the same size technical team, and the same time node.

The only difference is that one is self-developed and the other is an agent, one is from the East and the other is from the West.

胜利条件：公测后7日、正式收费后7日和公测后半年，这三个时间节点通过在线人数进行分阶段PK，把奖品按照2:3:5的比重进行分配。

The winning studio will take away the corresponding stage prizes, while the losing studio will get nothing. The group will only provide subsistence-level support.

It's that simple.

After announcing the rules, Chen Hao answered some questions from employees.

After he finished speaking, he saw the people in the audience breathing heavily and looking excited, and he was very satisfied with everyone's reaction.

There is nothing more motivating than money. This is the inspiration he got from the kings of later generations. Those were the two years when he heard that the kings were the most popular. Although the year-end bonuses for employees of Tianmei Studio are also calculated on a monthly basis, that month The numbers are in the low double digits, and there are even rumors that the most popular person will get a 120-month year-end bonus. I don’t know whether it is true or not.

Now that he is the boss, he wants to follow suit and get a few months' bonus to test the waters first and see the effect.

You must know that there are basically 300 to 4 people in their studio, and all of them won, and the average bonus per person was 5 to [-], which is equivalent to several months of their monthly salary.

Although they are all products of the same company, they still need to have a sense of crisis before they can talk about the future.

In fact, Chen Hao had something he didn't say in his heart. The purpose of the martial arts world at the beginning was to defeat World of Warcraft. If this goal was not achieved, he would rather cut the martial arts world in half than let it survive.

Seeing that the goal was achieved, Chen Hao announced the adjournment of the meeting.

Xu Peiliang and Xu Changlong were also secretly assigned some tasks by Chen Hao, which was to observe the performance of the studio members below.

At least the work attitude can't be said to be that it's like taking a shot of chicken blood, and I'm working hard.

Moreover, the working areas of the two studios are adjacent to each other, and now there is a sense of tension and competition.

As the instigator, Chen Hao was very happy after hearing this. What he wanted was this kind of healthy competition, and no one would be convinced.

Of course, the previously boasted Haikou must be fulfilled.

The World of Warcraft hardware is a blade server purchased from Blizzard.

Wuxia World Hardware purchased the latest blade server from EMC, a hardware service provider with whom we have a tacit cooperation. The configuration performance is even better than that of Blizzard, but the price is nearly a quarter cheaper.

This made Lin Lang and Chen Hao secretly curse that Blizzard, a middleman, was too shady.

At the same time, Li Fang was asked to discuss the possibility of cooperation in game promotion with Coca-Cola and PepsiCo.

He remembers that The[-]'s marketing campaign was a cross-border cooperation with Coca-Cola to jointly promote World of Warcraft, which achieved market performance that exceeded expectations.

November 2004 was spent with Century Interactive Entertainment developing social media, Tencent entering gaming, and Blizzard World of Warcraft launching.

Everyone is satisfied with the results achieved.

The entire Internet market is booming.

All have a bright future.