Chapter 58 What’s missing from my success?
“Hi, John, congratulations!”
The V headquarters was filled with joy, and everyone was greeting the producers from China enthusiastically. .
Qin Shaoyan responded one by one with a smile and walked into the conference room with brisk steps.
At this time, the conference room was filled with senior V executives including G Fat and George, and even a few shareholder representatives.
Recently, Valve has encountered one after another turmoil, and suddenly it has made a huge turn, showing amazing potential, which makes everyone unable to sit still.
“Let us welcome Mr. John Qin, the great product designer from China.” George whistled and stood up and took the lead in applauding. Others also applauded with smiles on their faces.
Qin Shaoyan waved his hands to everyone with a smile.
"There are now more than five million registered users on the steam platform, and more than one million daily active users!" G Fat said excitedly, "And this data is still growing. John, we succeeded!"< br>
“Nono, this is just the beginning, we are still far away from success.” Qin Shaoyan said very calmly, “Let me tell you a number, we will exceed 10 million registered users within a year!”
"Daily active users must exceed three million. This is the beginning of success!"
"Starting next year, we will provide players with a large number of high-quality and low-priced games for players from different countries and different preferences. Targeted launch and production of games." Qin Shaoyan said with a serious expression, "We want to add new functions to recommend games based on players' preferences."
This recommendation function is not something that only came about after the rise of big data. Fei Fei started working on it a long time ago. They created a recommendation algorithm to better rent CDs to users.
G Fat nodded, "I will add this item to my work diary. We should also find some game developers and convince them to put the game on the steam platform."
"John , you told me before about Huaxia Games entering the steam platform?”
"I will take care of this matter when I get back. Next year I will bring a group of people over to inspect and sign the contract." Qin Shaoyan said in an understatement, "There is no rush in this matter. Let's talk about our recent achievements first."
G grinned, "George, tell our shareholders and customers how much we have sold recently."
"Half-Life 2 has received two million advance payments. , seven million users clicked on the button to pay." George took out the report and read it to everyone with a smile, "800,000 people downloaded the trial version of Plants vs. Zombies on the first day, and more than 600,000 people chose to pay for the official version. ."
"On the second day, 2 million users have downloaded it, and 90% of them have paid for the genuine version."
"Congratulations, John," George said with an envious tone. , "You will become a billionaire this year."
G Fat and the shareholders all had bright faces, and they looked even happier than Qin Shaoyan.
They couldn't be unhappy. Before Qin Shaoyan came, V Club had a lot of bad luck.
Half-Life 2, which cost 40 million US dollars to produce, was leaked by hackers and had to be delayed.
V Club is still fighting a lawsuit with Xueleshan, which is also a huge headache. It can be said to be internal and external troubles.
The company's funds are already very tight, and even the copyright fee for "Plants vs. Zombies" has not been paid to Qin Shaoyan.
Fortunately, Qin Shaoyan didn't care and stepped in to help V Club overcome the difficulties.
The pre-sales of "Half-Life 2" alone brought back 10 million US dollars. If Fatty G hadn't been a little panicked when he saw the quantity, I'm afraid this figure would have more than doubled.
Two million pre-sales, that’s two million T-shirts.
If this becomes 5 million pieces, all the employees of V agency will be exhausted and they won’t be able to finish the delivery.
When Fatty G heard the figure two million, his eyes darkened, and he didn’t know how to complete the subsequent shipments.
But Qin Shaoyan doesn't care, he's not an employee of V agency, so it's none of my business whether you can handle it or not.
Qin Shaoyan was happy that he finally made money.
"This is also thanks to the steam platform. It is a win-win situation for us." Qin Shaoyan wanted to open a bottle of champagne at this time and celebrate with everyone.
It was not easy. I deceived and deceived all the way and finally sold the game.
According to everyone’s expectations, the game Plants vs. Zombies will sell at least five million copies this year.
According to the original price of 10 US dollars, that is 50 million US dollars. After deducting the steam platform share and taxes, that is also a considerable amount of money.
You must know that the exchange rate between the US dollar and the RMB at this time is one to eight, which can be said to be quite explosive when converted to domestic terms.
After struggling for so long, Qin Shaoyan can finally stand firm in the tide of the times.
“Call me to order takeout!” Qin Shaoyan looked at George with a smile, “I want to treat the whole company to pizza and coffee!”
The impressive performance puts a lot of pressure on G Fat Minus, he suggested enthusiastically, "Let's go to the beach to have a bonfire party tonight and eat barbecue together!" "Wow!" There was a burst of joy in the company, and everyone whistled and started to applaud, expressing their support for this proposal. Agree.
So everyone in the V club started mobilizing, preparing various materials, looking for a venue, and everyone was involved in the preparations for the party.
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In the evening, a group of otakus in the gaming industry were shouting at the beach.
Drinking beer, eating barbecue, blowing the sea breeze, chasing and fighting on the beach, having fun.
George happily walked up to Qin Shaoyan and Zhang Pinyi with a beer, held up the bottle and said excitedly, "John, thank you."
"You're welcome." Qin Shaoyan smiled and touched the wine with the other party. bottle.
“Thank God, I opened your email that day instead of deleting it.” George said with emotion, “If it weren’t for that email, I really can’t imagine what V Society would be like now. Like?”
“I wouldn’t have been able to come to the United States if it weren’t for your invitation. I can only say that this is fate,” Qin Shaoyan said with a smile, “I brought good luck to V agency.”
“Yes!” George nodded in agreement.
The two chatted with each other about business for a while. George himself was not very good at socializing, but he was very talkative when talking about games.
The topic quickly turned back to work, and George asked curiously: "How do you download your game so fast?"
Qin Shaoyan laughed, "This is a Special skills. "
In fact, the skills mentioned by Qin Shaoyan are worthless. It is not a technically difficult thing, but a matter of download strategy.
This thing is called subcontracting download.
Put all the content of the first level of the game into the download package, which is called the first package.
Compared with the entire installation package, the contents of the first package are much smaller.
The largest resource in the game installation package is art resources. The content of the first package can be streamlined and the first package can be made very small.
After downloading the first package, players can directly enter the game, and then start downloading the content required for the second level.
This technology is common in web games, rarely used in PC games, and even less used in stand-alone games.
In the past, stand-alone games were installed from CDs, so there was no downloading problem.
After switching to the online platform, stand-alone games require payment first and then downloading and playing.
Now that the money has been paid, players will not give up downloading the game just because it is too slow to download.
So the game company has no motivation to do this. I already have the money and you still expect me to do my best to provide you with services, right?
In later generations, Internet speeds have accelerated, and players no longer care about downloading problems.
But in this era of slow Internet speeds, long downloads are very painful, and no one cares about the after-sales experience of players.
Qin Shaoyan was the first to come up with this, just to improve the player experience and make some efforts to increase sales.
At the same time, Qin Shaoyan also used this skill sharing as a condition to reach an "82%" share agreement with G Fat.
Qin Shaoyan briefly introduced the techniques inside, and George suddenly realized it and once again praised Qin Shaoyan's broad thinking.
"John, your first game was a huge success!" George complimented sincerely, "You will definitely become the world's top game producer."
Qin Shaoyan smiled and didn't answer. It doesn't matter whether he is top-notch or not, as long as he can make money.
"Although our game has sold a lot of sales, it still lacks something to be successful."
"What thing?" George asked curiously.
Qin Shaoyan sighed, "We still lack some trophies."
George said with a smile, "There will be some."
Qin Shaoyan nodded and suddenly looked at George: "George, how about we get a prize ourselves?"
"Ah?!"
(End of this chapter)