[Answer to a few readers¡¯ questions! Neither the deputy mayor nor Fang Datou can escape]
On June 4, 1998, Lianzhong Games was launched. At the beginning, there was no money to promote the site, no one knew about the site, and there were no players.
After half a year, the number of simultaneous online users of Lianzhong Games finally exceeded 1,000.
Lianzhong is an entertainment platform that provides casual games to netizens. Although it is run by a company, there were actually only three people when it was founded.
The most famous one is Bao Yueqiao, who is the founder of ucdos. Before the advent of wind95, the Chinese operating system was his world.
The history of the development of China's national software was entirely a history of individual heroes in the early days, such as the independently written Jinshan Qiu Bojun, the super-defeater Liang Zhaoxin, and the Internet Ant's Hong Yirong.
There are also the well-known Shi Yuzhu who started his career with Hanka, and Lei Jun who was appreciated by Qiu Bojun for his perfect cracking.
There are too many similar examples, because this is an era of personal heroes!
What can Guan Ping do alone? As far as I know, Shi Yuzhu resigned from his job to start a business in 1989. It seemed that he developed his Hanka in just one month, and then in the third year of starting his business, he created a net profit of over 100 million yuan; Qiu Bojun wrote , locked himself in a hotel room without leaving home, and single-handedly programmed a generation of Chinese character office typesetting software on a 38; before Bao Yueqiao joined Beijing Hope Company, he independently programmed ptdos Chinese character operation system, and later ucdos, which he participated in completing, occupied 90% of the market share of Chinese character operating systems.
This is a field full of blanks. As long as you seize the opportunity, everyone can become a hero!
I didn¡¯t tell Guan Ping, but I arranged a path that suited him. When Lianzhong was founded in 1998, its development was slow due to financial problems. But because of me, Guan Ping didn¡¯t have to worry about this problem at all. When Lianzhong was first founded, he could It's said to be a grass-roots team. Except for three programmers. There are no talents; but I organized a team early on, including programmers, artists, and operations. Although the sparrow is small, it has all the essentials!
¡°Furthermore, the three people at Lianzhong are crossing the river by feeling the stones, but I have an advanced understanding of that field, and others can¡¯t figure out the direction through fog. But I have a clear goal!
Speaking of which, this is really easy for me, because I just need to use the QQ game platform ten years later as a template to do it!
Time flew by on the screen. Tomorrow was the day to announce test results and collect winter vacation homework. During the lunch break, a gang of four and I sat around the dinner table. Wang Ning was also present, playing the role of our chef and audience. Role.
I described to the five of them the entertainment methods n years later, n represents an unknown number: "After get off work in the evening, the first thing we do when we get home is to turn on the computer. By that time, computers had been widely used in every household, and some People even have more than one at home. After turning on the computer, we first dial-up to access the Internet Oh no, no need to dial-up, we already have broadband access to the Internet. As long as the computer is started, it will be connected to the Internet at any time. You can surf at any time."
"How much is the Internet fee" Lu Xiaodong interrupted me and said, "Now dial-up Internet access costs 12 yuan per hour!"
"Fifty yuan a month is enough. Six hundred yuan for the year, and there are other discounts." I said with a smile: "The technology was advanced at that time. The cost was naturally reduced. We stopped using telephone lines long ago. Fiber optic."
Lu Xiaodong stuck out his tongue when he heard it, fiber optic? That's the stuff of legend. It seems that this n year is a matter of the year of the monkey and the month of the horse.
I continued: "After surfing the Internet, we first open something called instant messaging software. We can use it to communicate with friends far away in real time. You type three words here, how are you? I will receive it over there. When you arrive, ask if you¡¯ve eaten. It¡¯s very convenient.¡±
"Is this an upgraded version of email?" Guan Ping couldn't help but think of the technical aspect.
"In terms of functionality, it is an upgraded version, but in terms of technology, they are two different technologies. We will discuss this later." I smiled at him, and then said: "First, greet each other with a few friends in other places or even abroad, and then talk to Colleagues at work chat about work, then open the group function of the software, and chat with some friends in the same city about going camping on the weekend. After doing this, we temporarily put aside the instant messaging software and double-click on the desktop An icon on the screen will open our game platform."
"The group function is actually a chat room, right? Is there anything different?" Wang Guangwu asked curiously.
Everyone¡¯s expressions are very curious, because for them, chat rooms are still legendary. Even BBS, which is an electronic bulletin board, they have only seen pictures in some newspapers and magazines.
"How do you say this" I pondered for a moment and said, "Let's talk"The room is open and can be entered and exited. The group is more like a small semi-closed group. There are no guests and everyone is like a family. "
I said it vaguely, and they seemed to understand it, but for the time being, this was enough, as long as it gave them an advanced understanding.
"After opening the game platform, we first shouted in a game group and roared like a greedy snake! The word "roar" seems to be a dialect of some place. Haha, this is what we learned in the game from our friends from other provinces. If you come, just ignore it for now. Then yell again, today I will fight with the All-China Alliance, so don¡¯t come to me!¡±
"Guawazi is Sichuan dialect, it seems to mean silly boy!" Wang Guangwen said excitedly: "I understand, the Tianxia Alliance is another group of people, they must also use groups to communicate, what kind of alliance are we? "
"We call the same song!" I was talking nonsense.
Wang Guangwen was stunned when he heard this, and whispered: "Which melon boy named this"
I ignored this melon boy and continued to talk nonsense: "After a while, we organized two teams here. The team members came from all over the world, and there were even two students studying in Oceania. Everyone first asked the subordinates of the World Alliance Make a declaration of war and then split up to open rooms!"
"What does it mean to open a room?" curious baby Lu Xiaodong asked again.
"Just create a virtual game room, just like building a map when playing Red Alert." Wang Guangwu answered this mentally retarded question for me.
I nodded to Wang Guangwu, glanced at the unlearned Lu Xiaodong, and then said: "Soon, the two sides started fighting each other. The battle was so brutal that the sky was dark, the earth was dark, and the sun and the moon were dark! After the battle, there was a fight. Snake went to fight Cross Fire and Wilderness Racing again, and the fight lasted until midnight with no body parts separated. Both sides were a little tired and agreed to fight again tomorrow!"
Wang Ning listened with great interest. After I finished speaking, he asked with a smile: "It must be very interesting to play like this. Is that what Guan Ping's games will look like in the future?"
I nodded with a smile: "Yes, the entire game platform belongs to us. There are many games in it. You can play whichever one you want. There are at least tens of millions of people around the world playing with you!"
"There are tens of millions of people, how much money will we make?!" Wang Guangwu screamed. He didn't care where so many people came from, he only cared about money: "A set of Legend of Sword and Fairy sold for more than 100 yuan." Well, there are so many games on this gaming platform, how much do they cost? Wouldn¡¯t it be a huge profit to sell so many sets?!¡±
"Nonono, our game platform is free." I shook my head and rejected his idea.
"Free?!" The Gang of Four were immediately dumbfounded, but I think in their minds now, I should be the dumb one.
"Oh, the free I said is not what you think -" I smiled and waved my hand: "There is no free lunch in the world. This is how our game is set up. You can play it without spending money, but it costs money." You can have more fun with it.¡±
"How do you say this?" The Gang of Four had a question mark on their faces.
"Design some convenient functions that only paying users can use. This is the simplest way. For example, paying users can quickly enter the room, while free users have to queue up; paying users can participate in watching games, but free users cannot; paying users can Free users are not entitled to use some special game props. Of course, this is without destroying the balance of the game." After saying that, I smiled and spread my hands: "How about it, are there many ways?"
"How much money can such a game platform make in a year?" Wang Guangwen is more concerned about this.
How should I answer him? Tell him that Shi Yuzhu's "Zhengtu" reached 860,000 simultaneous online users after the first anniversary of its public beta? Quarterly net profit of 360 million? Would he believe it if he said that?
"Based on one tenth of the users paying, there are about a million people paying. If each person spends 100 yuan per year, the annual gross profit is about 100 million." I don't want to wear one for myself I am a braggart, so I gave a conservative number. And this number is quite conservative.
But this number still frightened them. Lu Xiaodong's eyes flashed with the light of gold coins, and he swallowed his saliva and said: "Damn it, this is too profitable There must be only one game platform like this on the Internet." One family, right?¡±
"No, no, no, how can there be only one company? In such a profitable industry, competition is certainly fierce." I said with a smile, "But I believe that as long as everyone is willing to work hard, we will definitely be the strongest among them!"