Chapter 423 Something bad happened
Lin Haixiao glanced at Shi Yuzhu and hesitated to speak, but finally nodded.
"Okay, Mr. Shi, I will organize all the planners to try it out together."
Shi Yuzhu was very satisfied with his attitude, and suddenly asked: "Have you done any research on 3D engines? "
"Yes." Lin Haixiao quickly added, "But there is not much research, just some common sense technology."
"Can you tell me what the shortcomings of this 3D engine are?" Shi Yuzhu asked.
“Let’s talk about shortcomings.” Lin Haixiao thought for a while and said slowly, “Most of the 3D engines on the market are still in their early stages. The picture quality is still lacking, and there are many bugs. Customers The difficulty of development is also different. After all, there is a lot of experience in 2D development, and many technologies are very mature.”
Shi Yuzhu. Listening quietly to Lin Haixiao's explanation of the advantages and disadvantages of the 3D engine, he asked again: "Did you say that the 3D engine used in the Warring States Period was very advanced?"
"Yes." Lin Haixiao nodded. , "Better than any 3D engine I have ever seen."
"Does it also have computer configuration requirements?" Shi Yuzhu continued to ask.
"That's for sure. The picture performance and various new technologies will definitely not be able to be used if the computer configuration is low." Lin Haixiao said subconsciously, and then he also reacted and looked at Shi Yuzhu blankly.
"Since the graphics of "Warring States OL" are so good, it definitely requires higher computer configurations, which virtually raises the threshold for users." Shi Yuzhu smiled with relief, "This is called "Warring States" "Zhentianxiang, in fact, it's just like that."
"No matter how good the 3D engine is, look at that "World of Warcraft", isn't it just a joke? It's great, but the actual revenue is just that, not as profitable as "Legend of Warring States". Let’s avoid the sharp edges and seize the sinking market first, and then build a big city.”
Shi Yuzhu stretched out his palm, spread out his fingers and clasped them together.
Lin Haixiao didn't say anything. From beginning to end, his target was "Legend of Warcraft", "World of Warcraft", "Perfect World", and other 3D games such as "Shattering Earth", which were not on his competitor list because of the market The positioning and gameplay design are different.
But "Warring States OL" is different. This game has a vaguely weird flavor. Judging from the information exposed by the media, this online game has many similar gameplay methods to "Zhengtu" in terms of PVP design.
Lin Haixiao can feel that this 3D online game is likely to become their strong enemy.
However, based on Shi Yuzhu's analysis just now, the 3D engine of "Warring States Online" is indeed a bit ahead of its time, and even has dazzling skills in it.
Such picture quality must have very high requirements on computer configuration, so it will naturally screen out computers with medium and low configurations.
"Zhengtu" has relatively low computer configuration requirements. It only needs a Pentium 400 or Celeron 400 plus a 4M graphics card to run it.
Shi Yuzhu said that there is nothing wrong with this strategy to seize the sinking market. On the contrary, it fully utilizes the strengths of "Journey".
Soon Shi Yuzhu called the operations department over again and began to discuss local promotion strategies.
In fact, Shi Yuzhu has been targeting the sinking market for a long time. After all, the competition in online games in big cities is too fierce. There have been too many online games in the past two years, and they have spent a lot of money on advertising and promotion in order to grab the market.
Competition in regions below the second and third tiers has become much calmer, and many online game companies have even given up on promoting products below the second and third tiers.
After all, areas below second- and third-tier cities are too large and costly, so promotion seems uneconomical and wastes resources. It would be more cost-effective to concentrate resources in first- and second-tier cities.
Shi Yuzhu noticed this situation and sent people to conduct research, preparing to mobilize some resources for sinking.
If the competition is not fierce, then the promotion cost will not be very high.
……
Late night.
In the campus online game operations department, all employees are busy nervously. Tomorrow is the first day of online testing, and the atmosphere is extremely solemn.
Qin Shaoyan personally sat in the operation center and set up a computer to play "Warring States OL" by himself.
This is the final test version before going online. It is provided to people on the company's LAN for trial play. It is also an attempt to find undiscovered bugs.
But this is purely psychological comfort, because the final online version was closed a week ago.
After the closure, it is prohibited to submit any new content. Only content that corrects BUG will be submitted.
The test team tested this final version for a week, and after fixing all the bugs found, it was handed over to the operation side.
So it is almost impossible to find bugs missed by the testing team, which requires luck.
Let everyone play the final test version, it is just a way to relieve stress.
The max-level character controlled by Qin Shaoyan was dressed in a divine outfit. After twenty minutes of slashing, the world boss finally fell to the ground wailing and exploded with equipment.
“It’s really tiring to cut this thing down by myself.”
Art Director Hong Fei glanced at it and said, "The BOSS in this world is not for one person. The design is for dozens of people to fight in groups."
"If there is such a god-level rich man, I must challenge him. What about myself?" Qin Shaoyan thought about it, "Although it was a sense of accomplishment to finally cut it down for twenty minutes, it was too tiring."
"Should we make some more convenient designs to make this more convenient? Shenhao Is it easier for the elder brother to play?"
Hong Fei couldn't stand it anymore, "No, Mr. Qin is going to follow your ideas, so what's the point of playing the game?"
"You don't understand." Qin Shaoyan sighed, "Our game is essentially a digital game. What we sell are attributes and services. We want to provide those big spenders with spiritual needs that they can't understand in reality."
"Brother comes into the game to enjoy mental massage, not to work."
Qin Shaoyan was already thinking about making something that automatically hangs up the battle, and after thinking about it, he added it to his notepad.
Just add things to improve the design bit by bit, it doesn’t have to be done in one step.
You still can’t take too big a step, otherwise you will definitely get hurt.
“Zhou Yuan.” Qin Shaoyan raised his head and shouted, “How many accounts are there for active internal testing now?”
Zhou Yuan quickly looked at the background data, "More than fifteen thousand."
"Put out another five thousand invitation codes." Qin Shaoyan stretched out his palm and spread his fingers, "Put out another five thousand at noon tomorrow. ."
"Okay, I'll contact the campus network welfare center." Zhou Yuan immediately picked up his phone and called another department of the campus network.
Zhang Pingyi frowned, "If you put so many invitation codes, can the server be able to sustain it?"
"It's okay, Teacher Fan has prepared five groups of servers, each with five Thousands of people are no problem." Qin Shaoyan smiled and gestured to Fan Xiaoqian.
Fan Xiaoqian looked confused.
"Why don't you release the invitation code all at once? You have to release it in batches." Zhang Pingyi was a little confused.
"This is called hunger marketing. The less you get, the more you crave it, and the higher the online discussion." Qin Shaoyan replied, "This is part of marketing."
" What’s the process of finding someone to buy it back after you finish it?” Zhang Ping Yi was still confused, "What kind of hunger marketing is this?"
"That's right." Qin Shaoyan said with a smile, "At the same time, we also give some benefits to the bankers on the campus network. Only by raising the price of the invitation code can there be a topic. Degree. ”
"You're still playing tricks." Zhang Pingyi cupped his hand and said, "I'm willing to accept the defeat."
"It's a trivial skill, nothing worth mentioning." Qin Shaoyan looked proud.
Fan Xiaoqian suddenly raised her head at this time, "The internal test server will be closed in half an hour. Are there any bugs that need to be submitted?" "The last time I ask, is there any bug that needs to be submitted? After the time has passed, It is forbidden to submit any changes, including fixing bugs!”
After shouting three times in a row, seeing no one responded, Fan Xiaoqian gestured to the programmer. Then he took out a form, asked the planner and art director to sign it, and finally handed it over to the test team.
After the test team went through the inspection process, the team leader solemnly signed his name on it.
This means that the test team has completed the final test and can be handed over to operations.
Qin Shaoyan stood up at this time and said happily: "Everyone, please be energetic. The company is treating us to McDonald's as a late night snack, so we can celebrate in advance."
Everyone cheered and immediately The person in charge of each group took a piece of paper and pen to count the needs of employees one by one.
"It's a pity that it's not summer now, otherwise it would be more enjoyable to eat skewers." Qin Shaoyan sighed, "I've eaten enough hamburgers and French fries."
Zhang Pingyi rolled his eyes, "What kind of bicycle do you want? Some food will be good."
After everyone had a good meal, the main leaders took their sleeping bags to rest early and waited until six o'clock tomorrow morning to take over. Personnel on duty.
Qin Shaoyan couldn't sleep, so he sat in front of the computer until dawn.
At 9:30 in the morning, everyone completed the final preparations before the server launch and silently waited for the server launch time to arrive.
At 9:59, the "Warring States OL" server was opened.
In an instant, thousands of players poured in, and the speed made everyone stunned.
The server was stuck for a while, and Fan Xiaoqian almost jumped out of her chair, but fortunately it returned to normal quickly.
Other employees’ attention is focused on the game, only programmers and operations and maintenance are staring closely at the backend.
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At the same time, in addition to the R&D team and players who are most concerned about "Warring States OL", colleagues in the game industry are also invested in the game.
A group of people gathered in front of a computer and discussed the game enthusiastically.
Lin Haixiao, the producer of "Zhengtu", frowned and looked at the game in front of him. The people standing in a circle behind him also stared at the computer screen in silence.
What can I say about this game?
Like, very similar...
Some parts of the gameplay are really similar to the design of "Zhengtu", but no one can say that "Warring States OL" is plagiarizing.
Let’s not talk about the gameplay design, which everyone is copying, and there is no such thing as copyright.
Even if there is a copyright, there is no way to conclude that "Warring States OL" copied "Zhengtu", because the original version of "Zhengtu" was different from the current version, and it only became like this after little improvements.
The last test of "Zhengtu" and the version to be tested this time are completely two games.
Both production teams are developing in a closed manner, and neither of them knows what is going on with the other.
The version released for the first test of "Warring States OL" is similar to "Zhengtu". This can only be said to be a coincidence.
And the most embarrassing thing is that because "Zhengtu" has delayed the testing time, when it goes online, players may think that they are plagiarizing "Warring States Online".
But let’s just say it, Lin Haixiao doesn’t care about it.
The first version of "Journey" came out in mid-2005, and Shi Yuzhu had already begun preparations to expose it to the media.
But an unexpected incident disrupted the plan. "World of Warcraft" started operating in China in March, and Shi Yuzhu began to ask the development team to absorb some of the advantages of this game.
More importantly, the charging model of "Zhengtu" has been changed to a time-based free item charging model.
Yes, "Zhengtu" was originally designed to be based on a time charging model. After complex games and intense discussions, the direction of modification was determined.
(There are different opinions as to whose idea the free model was. Some said it was Shi Yuzhu who strongly requested it, and some said it was Lin Haixiao who first proposed it. Shi Yuzhu hesitated for a long time before deciding to support it. However, Shi Yuzhu was indeed deeply involved in the game. R&D Design, Lin Haixiao was gradually marginalized, and in July 2006 he was no longer responsible for the specific affairs of Zhengtu Network)
Campus Network announced that the new online game would be free for a limited time before the name of the online game project was officially determined. Props charging model.
Lin Haixiao was very puzzled. Could it be that the design of free online games leads to the same goal through different paths?
While he was thinking, he controlled the character to walk back and forth. When he entered the main city in the game, someone behind him suddenly said, "This game is actually not stuck."
Lin Haixiao was stunned and asked subconsciously: "What did you say?"
"Well, I said this game is not laggy. Look at so many people crowded in the main city, it is not as laggy as you thought." A The programmer said curiously, "Mr. Lin, look for a few more places and I'll look at other places."
"Is this engine so well optimized?"
A planner next to him interrupted and said, "Maybe it's because our computer configuration is high."
"No matter how high-end it is, how high can it be? Look at how many people are on the same screen, how many faces a character has, how many faces does a character have? No matter how many games there are, it won’t get stuck.” The programmer said angrily, “Our company’s computer is not so smooth when playing World of Warcraft.”
Lin Haixiao suddenly had a flash of inspiration in his head, his face suddenly changed, and he immediately said: "Find me a low-configuration computer, go quickly! Find a medium-configuration computer by the way!"
Soon! Everyone hurriedly brought over two computers, plugged in various cables and turned them on. Lin Haixiao immediately used the two computers with different configurations to start trying out "Warring States Online".
The more Lin Haixiao plays, the more surprised he becomes. "Warring States OL" can not only run smoothly on computers with high school configurations, but can also run on computers with low configurations. All you need to do is adjust the game settings to the lowest setting. That's it.
“It’s broken!” Lin Haixiao stood up suddenly and hurried towards Shi Yuzhu’s office.
This is really going to be bad!
Lin Haixiao rushed directly into the office and stood in front of the boss with a pale face, "Mr. Shi, something happened."
"Why are you panicking!" Shi Yuzhu scolded dissatisfied.
"It's the Warring States Period!" Lin Haixiao said eagerly, "The online game of the Warring States Period can also be played on a low-configuration computer."
"What?!" Shi Yuzhu was stunned for a while. Only then did he react and looked at Lin Haixiao with a suspicious face, "Didn't you say that the 3D engine is very demanding on the graphics card?"
< br>"Logically speaking, it is like this, but it was different in the Warring States Period." Lin Haixiao didn't know how to explain it, and he himself was confused. "Its 3D engine runs very smoothly on a high school computer. I I found a computer with low configuration and found that it can run even after modifying the game settings.”
Shi Yuzhu stayed for a while and said calmly: "There is nothing to be anxious about. We have to stabilize our mentality. We still have an advantage..."
Before he finished speaking, the door of the office was opened again. Pushed away.
Ji Xuewei, who was in charge of the local promotion team, walked in with a solemn expression, "Mr. Shi, there is a situation that I need to report to you. It is about Zhengtu Local Promotion."
Shi Yuzhu was stunned. I feel like today is a bit weird, everything seems to be happening together.
He frowned, suppressing his displeasure and said: "You say."
"People from our local promotion team found many advertising posters for "Warring States Online" in Internet cafes in counties below third-tier cities." Ji Xuewei said cautiously.
Be bad!
Shi Yuzhu felt an ominous premonition hanging over his heart.
(End of this chapter)