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Chapter 11, Chapter 11, Network Alliances

In fact, this way of dipping the sauce is the most authentic way of eating it in the birthplace of Yunnan and Guizhou.

It's just that after the snacks were circulated several times and introduced to Yecheng, some reforms were carried out according to the tastes of the local people.

Over time, this slightly lighter taste is more acceptable.

The eldest cousin works in Shangyue all the year round, and the predecessor of the studio, Fantasia Joy, is also an online media stationed in Shanwei.So during the few years of living there, the taste has become a lot more picky. Over the past year, I returned to Yecheng to start a studio. Although the salary is good, everything I eat feels a bit bland.

As a result, I tasted such a novel creation of Lixia today, and my eyes really shined.

"It really suits my appetite."

He was filled with emotion, perhaps he didn't even realize it when he was eating, the thumb had already quietly stood up.

Seeing his big cousin's performance as a country bumpkin, Li Xia shook his head, wanting to say something, but in the end he couldn't help but laugh.

It doesn't matter whether the steaming hot soup is hot or not. In just two or three mouthfuls, the big cousin cleaned up the rice noodles in the bowl.This eating speed can't even be compared to the eldest lady who has already ate half a bowl first.

The second-in-command and Xiao Hu at the side were a little stunned, looked around, and put down the seasoning just like their own boss did, but after taking a sip, they couldn't help frowning: "It's so good."

Xiao Hu is a native of Sanhuai. Although he is not from the local area, he is not far from Yecheng, and his taste is bland.As for the second-in-command, he seems to be a resident of Shangyue. It's just a matter of personal taste, and he has never been used to this kind of salty food.

These two bowls of rice noodles have already been seasoned, so naturally they cannot be eaten.So the second-in-command had no choice but to sigh, and greeted the proprietress to serve two more bowls.

The lady proprietress looked quite young, about her early thirties, her charm was still there, with a big wave, maybe because she had been a stand for a long time, everyone seemed to be smiling to welcome people.

After a while, the steaming rice noodles were brought up again.

Li Xia and his eldest cousin had already finished eating.

A few people chose the kind of round table, a large round table, which is usually used in restaurants to entertain guests with more than eight people.

But now there are not many customers in the store, the eldest cousin asked the proprietress for this table, and the other party immediately agreed.After all, the purpose of bringing the eldest lady here today is to treat guests to dinner.

Although when it comes to this kind of rice noodle shop like a roadside stall to eat a big meal, it is somewhat shabby.

However, there are not many good shops around. In terms of taste, the food here is better and cheaper, so it is simple.

The second-in-command and Xiao Hu were eating rice noodles, so naturally it was impossible for their big boss to watch eagerly.

So the eldest cousin pondered for a while, called the proprietress, and served some odd cold dishes.

By the way, I brought myself a pot of Erguotou.

The eldest lady ate a bowl of rice noodles, and her stomach was already full. Now if she wanted to eat anything else, she naturally couldn't eat it.

She licked the corner of her lips, but she became interested in Erguotou.

Thinking about it, I haven't tasted wine for a long time.

It is common sense that hotels will not open near schools.

Although the self in this life has gradually begun to like that kind of light diet, but after a long absence, I still have a little fascination for that wine.

Then, when he saw the little cousin sitting on his left secretly beckoning the waiter to serve the wine glass, the big cousin scratched his head and stopped the waiter in a rather embarrassing manner.

"This is not going to work." He shook his finger, "I promise your father will take care of you, but I can't let you drink."

The father is also aware of his daughter's temperament, so he specially told his nephew, after all, they are all from the same company, and there are many opportunities to get along with each other.

The eldest lady curled her lips, a little disdainful.

When I was working, I met myself pretending to be like a grandson, but now I am acting like a parent.

"Well, leader, please forgive me." The eldest cousin smiled awkwardly, and immediately sent a flattering expression.

This is the disadvantage of relatives being the leader... Sometimes I want to control but I can't. What's more embarrassing is that the leader in the head is actually a little cousin who is nearly a round younger than myself.

Sometimes that scene will be even more embarrassing.

After thinking about it, the eldest cousin simply waved away the entangled thoughts, and changed the topic to another level: "By the way, the leader, we recently received an invitation letter from the next-door platform, tell me, should we join or not? "

The eldest lady still couldn't forget that Erguotou, but now she heard Xia Ming's voice, but she couldn't help sitting up straight. "What invitation letter?"

"There is a big platform that is wooing us. It is similar to the form of enterprise integration. Many online game companies are gathered together, and one company is selected as the leader for unified management. Then it makes recommendations for various contracted online games under its umbrella and provides downloads. And the launched channel." Seeing how serious his big boss is, the big cousin also thought about it: "It's similar to the form of an online game alliance."

The eldest lady listened carefully, and she had an idea in her heart.

This is similar to Steam in later generations.

It is a group of online game companies gathered in one place, and then select the representatives with the most funds and action power to create a game platform. On that game platform, you can see all kinds of games and promotion introductions from different companies .It is a kind of online game alliance.

That's not a bad breakthrough.

In the final analysis, for the construction of a platform similar to an online game alliance, the early stage development and investment must be indispensable.And for these online games gathered together, when vying for recommendation positions in the future, the most basic criterion is definitely the amount of investment. Afterwards, a certain recommendation reward is received.

Thinking, Li Xia gradually lost control of his thoughts.

Being invited by the platform is enough to show that your game has the capital to be valued by others.Recently, although their "Sky City Warriors" has been criticized more than praised in the external media, anyone can see through it that the potential of this game is infinite.

Anyway, recently their "Sky City Warriors" is planning to take a stable route, and they haven't paid much attention to advertising.In addition, I have accumulated a considerable amount of income in my hand, and it is not a bad thing to take out part of it now for future investment.

As a result, Li Xia started to think about it, but the big cousin was still hesitant.

"I think it's better to forget it? The alliance sounds good, but it actually has almost the same meaning as acquisition."

He waved his hand, and Xiao Hu seemed to have some ideas, and added afterward: "Yes, maybe they have already moved their minds to suppress our market share."

It's no wonder they think so.

After all, the domestic corporate structure is different from that abroad.

Similar game platforms, such as the later Wegame, or its predecessor TGP, most of the games published on it were either acquired, or the products produced by the company were self-produced and sold.

Looking back at the platform alliance now, it seems to be a wonderful picture for the major manufacturers, but in fact, it is just a wolf in sheep's clothing.

It sounds good in the early stage. Once you enter the platform, you may introduce a series of unequal policies.

For example, games that are signed and acquired will have certain benefits compared to those games that do not accept the terms of the acquisition, or home page recommendations, or download priority and internet speed priority, and so on...

It seems to be a benefit for the acquired games, but it is actually another form of exclusion for those who do not accept the acquired games.

In such a big environment, the inbound company had no way to quit midway after signing the contract, so during the squeeze out during the contract period, it had to be forced to sign the unequal agreement of being acquired, which was very predictable result.

What's more, if it's really just an acquisition, that's all.

Since the hand-waving contract is to be signed, the party that spends the money will definitely try its best to reduce the market value of those games before signing the contract in order to strive for less advance payment.

And the most intuitive method is to invite trolls to smear those games wantonly, making the reputation of the game itself worse.

In this way, the attention of the game will decrease, and the revenue will naturally decrease day by day, and the acquirer will have an excuse to offer a relatively low price to sign this originally extremely expensive contract.

Similar practices are not uncommon in a series of audience industries such as live broadcasting.

There is no need to worry about a series of loss problems such as the acquired works not making money after the word-of-mouth deteriorates.

After all, the initial purpose of the alliance platform was to promote the game.No matter how bad your work is, as long as it is packaged by the platform, you can still get good traffic.

Thinking about it, Li Xia suddenly had a glimmer of understanding.

"cousin?"

"Huh?" The eldest cousin was startled.

The eldest lady knocked on the table, and said with sharp eyes: "I heard Xiao nonsense before, and the studio seems to be a bit unbalanced?"

The implication is whether the commercial espionage is related to this so-called alliance invitation.

This time, the whole group was asked.

The eldest cousin and the second-in-command looked at each other, looked at each other, and finally just shook their heads silently, and then nodded their heads lightly.

To be honest, these programmers are most specialized in computer programs.As for people's hearts, they tried to guess, but they couldn't.

But looking at their slumped appearances, the eldest lady squinted her eyes, and she understood half of the outline in her heart.

"Then what are the clues?" the eldest lady asked again.

"A clue?"

The second-in-command raised his eyebrows, obviously not understanding what the eldest lady meant for a while.

"It's just that there are signs that other companies are targeting us." Li Xia continued to follow the temptation: "You can't say that you suspect someone is doing something wrong, but you can't even produce any evidence in the end?"

"I know this." As a result, Xiao Hu immediately raised his hand and answered: "Our recent game data is suspected of being deliberately downloaded. It's fine if you download and install the update package normally. From the background, it was also mounted by an IP, and there were several smearing posts on the Internet, and the published IP was not far from the address of the stolen model."

Xiao Hu thought for a while, and then concluded: "I suspect that it's because Brother Xia was too ambiguous about the alliance invitation a few days ago, which made the other party impatient and planned to take the initiative to attack our company with one hand. Steal data and reproduce their own second copy of "Sky City Warriors."

Li Xia couldn't help but raise his eyelids when he was talking, and looked over with a rather astonishing look.

This kid is only in his early twenties, and he is a fresh graduate. Unexpectedly, among these clues, he even has a rough idea of ​​the next plan of the other party's platform. It is indeed very unusual.

Such examples are indeed uncommon in later generations, and commercial competition is generally the case.

What's more, "Sky City Warriors" is indeed a well-received game, and the classic 2.5D mode is easy to operate, and it is much easier to reproduce than those 3D modeling.

"That post not only contained comments that smeared our studio, but also revealed a lot of internal information. I always suspect that there are ghosts in the company."

Xiao Hu thought for a while, and then began to mutter mysteriously.

The eldest lady was silent for a while.

She doesn't know about the internal ghosts, but stealing the company's business information is bad enough to go to court.

The Internet is booming in this world, and the Internet Law has not yet been fully implemented. It is not surprising that some people will take advantage of loopholes.

Perhaps no one in the studio intentionally leaked information, but the other party's hacker made a move and found out some privacy about Xia Ming's studio from the loopholes in the webpage. This possibility does exist.

Seeing that his cousin was silent, the eldest cousin was even more convinced that what he did before was correct.

"Sure enough, those people who are in the alliance are not good birds." He slapped the table angrily, and the movement was so big that even the Erguotou wine glass in his hand trembled slightly. "I'm going to call and have a showdown with those companies!"

As a result, at this moment, Li Xia suddenly got up and stopped the other party: "Slow down first."

"what happened?"

The group of three people were still angry, seeing the boss's sudden change in attitude, they couldn't help being stunned.

As a result, the eldest lady nodded slightly, but under the surprised gazes of the three, she sighed and lightly tapped the table with her finger.

"This alliance, I think, no matter what tricks the other party makes, when it's time to join, we still have to consider joining."

Chapter 12, Chapter 12

He was a little stunned at what he said.

The eldest cousin still wanted to refute, after all, in his eyes, others have persecuted him so much, and their studio even greeted him with a smile regardless of previous suspicions, it is really too bad-tempered.

And the most critical question is what he thinks.

Today's online game companies are mostly in the retail state of their own operations.There are indeed similar alliance organizations, but they are not many. Some of them closed down in 08 due to the sluggish development of the Internet and other reasons.Therefore, in the eyes of the big cousin, this so-called alliance is more or less related to a series of adjectives such as that not being popular.

It is common sense to be secretly disdainful.

"You bumpkin, aren't you?" The eldest lady smiled, and tapped the table lightly with the chopsticks holding the rice noodles.

"It's the same as you used to eat rice noodles. You think the way of adding seasoning and soy sauce is very novel, but you don't know that the crooked way in your eyes is the most authentic way."

This is true.

In the future, the online game platform will probably focus on one network.

If you have a wide background and a high degree of attention, you can gain a wider audience than your brother games.

In the mobile games of later generations, there are many examples of simple production but huge profits, which can be described as quite convincing cases.

And if you want to get a bigger backer, the shortest way is to combine several game companies with the same status and almost the same size to form an alliance.

Although the eldest lady's attainments in business can be said to be very extensive, but it seems that the identity of the shareholder of West Street at that level is really helpless when viewed from the online platform.

The so-called interlacing is like a mountain, which generally refers to such a situation.

In other words, for the future development of online games, this platform alliance can be regarded as an indispensable and necessary road.

Go early and go late, you have to set foot on this road.

Anyway, the intrigue between the industries has always existed, but it just lowered the market share. For the game "Sky City", the eldest lady is still very confident.

At least those player groups have really felt the charm brought by the game, and naturally they will not give up the equipment and efforts they have accumulated in their hands because of some irrelevant slander.

Thinking about it, Li Xia also found it funny.

In the half of my life when I was reborn, I haven't seen any scenes, and I haven't encountered any turbulent waves. In terms of intrigue, I can't compare with these online game companies, can I?

The eldest cousin was sullen, not knowing what to say.