Rebirth of the Internet: Starting from Games

Chapter 490: Rich and willful, healthy competition

It can't change the general trend, but drinking soup along with it is also great. --Zhou Shuren

In the domestic real estate industry, it would be considered a failure if it doubled by 10 times in seven or eight years. With just a little leverage, it would be easy to make it dozens of times easier. Even 18 years ago, it would not have been possible to turn over the situation.

Of course, in addition to real estate, Chen Hao also considered virtual currencies, such as Bitcoin, which was just emerging, but after thinking about it, it was boring to make a small fortune, and the risk factor of playing big was too high, so it was unnecessary .

The tree is big and attracts the wind, but stability is the priority, so he doesn't plan to touch this stall.

Real estate does not have this concern. There are two companies, Century Security and Century Vientiane, to protect the company, one soft and one hard. They are not afraid of anything happening in any place.

With such good innate conditions, as a conscientious investor in this era, there is no reason not to take action.

He doesn't need any information channels. He only knows the keywords of city center, school district, business district, Beijing and Shanghai, and entry and exit times.

Establishing wages and gathering funds now are all paving the way. They are waiting for the global financial crisis to hit in 08 and the property market to slump. That will be their time to enter the market.

In this way, with Chen Hao in charge, Xu Pengkun in charge, Lin Lang assisting, and Pang Ban escorting, the real estate company became a side job for them.

After finishing the personal work, it was time for the official business, which was "Glory of Heroes" and "League of Gods" that he was looking forward to.

One day in mid-September, Chen Hao visited Tianji Studio and came to the unique competition hall here.

This is always the busiest place in Tianji Studio. There are battle rooms on both sides. The big screen on the stage shows the game pictures. There are even two people giving game commentary. At first glance, it seems quite decent.

There were not only employee spectators in the audience, but also many staff members of Century Sports Company, ensuring that the game went smoothly. Even the two commentators just now were from World Sports.

Now it's more like a drill before the open beta. Everyone here is an engineer, and any problems inside and outside the game will be solved on the spot and recorded.

Why is it done like this? On the one hand, it is so that only those who like it can be liked by the majority of players.

On the other hand, this is Century Sports’ preparation for future e-sports events in advance.

Chen Hao watched it for a while. Under the guidance of Ice Frog and Sheep Dao, the two games "Glory of Heroes" and "League of Gods" have different world views, backgrounds and characters, but the game styles and mechanisms retain their respective originals. Original juice.

The former map is smaller, the hero skills are relatively simple, and it lacks the mechanism of denial that raises the operating threshold. It is more suitable for the majority of players to take the civilian route.

The latter is more competitive in nature, requires players to have higher operational skills, and takes a competitive route.

But in his heart, Chen Hao treated both of them equally, and they were both very popular.

After watching for a while, Chen Hao found Xu Peiliang and found that he happened to be in a meeting. He went in and listened for a while.

This meeting is a phased summary of some deployments of the game's public beta and current promotion.

Seeing his boss coming in, Xu Peiliang made a long story short, refined the key points, and ended the meeting hastily.

After all, it doesn’t matter when it opens again. The boss is not available at all times. There must be some instructions for showing up today.

Giving the right to speak to the boss is the most important thing at the moment.

Chen Hao asked some questions just now.

It was found that these two games have already been warmed up and promoted on the market, but they only used their department's own promotion budget, even under the banner of Century Interactive Entertainment, which only caused an uproar.

This is far from Chen Hao's requirements. After all, these two games are his two cash cows in the future.

"I'm here to give you a big gift package."

<divclass="contentadv"> Seeing that there were all core members of the studio in the venue, Chen Hao didn't hide anything.

"To make a long story short, I grew up watching these two games, Honor of Heroes and League of Gods, and I contributed hundreds of millions of ideas to them.

In October, these two games will be released for public testing in China.

In fact, from the beginning of the establishment of these two projects, you have known that the two project teams are in a healthy competitive relationship. As for whether they will advance hand in hand after the public beta, or whether they will live and die, that will be revealed in the market.

Of course I will treat both groups equally.

Externally, I will mobilize the group's publicity resources, including Century Weibo, Century.com, YY pop-ups, Century Navigation, etc., to promote it in an all-round way until the end of the year.

Internally, we have established a MOBA King incentive plan. The company will allocate 1 million as a bonus pool, and the weights will be divided according to the performance of the two games in the market."

Everyone in the room was about to cheer, but was forcibly interrupted by Chen Hao, "I haven't finished speaking yet. By what division? Not only revenue flow, but also user reputation and user data are all indicators. I will let the operation come up with a fair calculation." The method is to settle every quarter! Okay, I’m done, you can cheer.”

"The boss is awesome!" "The boss is awesome!" The audience burst into applause, expressing their excitement.

A quarter, a small 6-digit bonus, except Lao Ma, who would not be interested in money?

The sound even spread from the conference room to the competitive hall, making the guys here think that the boss was leading these leaders to engage in blackmail.

The more players like it, the more these employees will earn, and the more motivated and passionate they will be to work. Based on market expectations and feedback, we will improve response speed and iteration efficiency, and continuously polish and improve the product.

Buying bones for thousands of dollars was Chen Hao's purpose. After the meeting, Chen Hao left Xu Peiliang alone.

"Brothers must also settle accounts clearly, and this is especially true for the resources of the group. Promotion resources on all platforms are not free. Previous promotions such as YY Voice and Orange Press Conference required internal settlement afterwards.

The same goes for the two games in your hand. After the public beta, the market response was good. I will continue to tilt the origin and increase my efforts. If one or these two games are not satisfactory, I will directly be thrown into the cold palace. The cost settlement of promotional resources will also be deducted from the game revenue accordingly. "

"Understood, boss, I have confidence in these two games!" Xu Peiliang was extremely confident in the products they had worked hard for more than a year to polish, and promised the boss a discount.

"Well, I look forward to good news from you. How are the overseas preparations going?"

"The overseas version is currently undergoing some localization work, such as adding a few heroes that suit local characteristics, copywriting, etc. It is expected that the public beta will be two months later."

"Pay attention to the fact that the proportion of universal heroes should account for more than 90%, and there should be no more than 5 localized heroes in each region!"

"Don't be two months late. Get ready. The overseas version will be released simultaneously with the main version after the Chinese New Year next year."

Chen Hao said this deliberately because he thought about the domestic e-sports environment in later generations, especially LOL, which has been dominated by South Korea for most of the years. With such convenience this time, he still has to do something, so what if he makes less money. With half a year of first-mover advantage, he hopes to be able to Seize the opportunity.

"Okay, I have another question. After discussion here, we have two suggestions. I also ask the boss to agree.

The first is to move the seasons and rankings back, and wait until players are familiar with the character gameplay before launching the ranking, season, and pass systems. "

"Yes, I agree. You can communicate with Zhou Xiao and act in unison with other games. Where is the other one?"

"I just want to apply for another budget. I plan to let Century Sports host a national e-sports event to mobilize the enthusiasm of players."

"How many?"

"6 million."

Chen Hao shook his head, and Xu Peiliang felt cold when he saw this.