Rewrite the Technological Landscape

Chapter 63 The meaning of Laozi’s rebirth

Symbian’s failure is largely a problem of his system itself, so as long as IOS and Android do not appear in advance, Meng Qian’s heart is still set.

It was a news on December 8, 2000 that surprised Meng Qian again. History has changed again.

After being counterattacked by Fengxin, there has been no news for the Penguin for this period of time, but on this day, the Penguin broke the news that they actually acted for a game: “Millennium”.

Historically, “Millennium” is an online game that entered China earlier than “Legend”. People who have experienced that era should have an impression of this game. Unfortunately, although “Millennium” entered China early, it There is no such grand occasion as “Legend”.

But what many people may not know is that “Millennium” was actually developed by Actoz.

is the development company of “Legend 1”.

Seeing this news, Meng Qian quickly entered the memory mode. If he remembers correctly, the first game he represented in Penguin history was “Triumph”, probably in 2003, after the “Legend” fire.

But as a big game player in later generations, Penguin obviously failed to act for “Triumph”. It is estimated that many people may not know that Penguin has acted for such a game.

Thinking about it this way, Meng Qian suddenly understood the scene before him. When he saw Shanda’s “Legend” was on fire, Penguin immediately went to represent “Triumphal”, and now that “The Legend of God” was on fire, he immediately went to act as “Millennium”. Not surprisingly.

The official public beta of “Millennium” in China is the beginning of 2001, which is very similar to history.

However, just two days after the news of the Penguin agent “Millennium” came out, on December 10, 2000, another news broke,

Alian Games will represent Korea’s “Red Moon”, and the public beta is also in early 2001.

The three major online games in Korea, “Legend”, “Red Moon”, and “Millennium” are actually about to gather in advance…

But not all games are advanced. Meng Qian’s chaotic entry also caused a game to be postponed into China, that is, “Dark Light” that entered China in November 2000.

“The Light of Darkness” originally vowed to make a big splash in China, but it turned out to be a feather.

In this life, the time for “Dark Light” to enter China has been delayed. Perhaps it was because of the loss of “Legend” that some game adjustments were made. The specific reason for Meng Qian is unknown.

On December 12, 2000, the news that “Dark Light” entered China also appeared in the media.

“Three Korean online games got together to enter China at the same time?” On the afternoon of December 12, Meng Qian sat in the office and touched his chin in deep thought, “Is it because you want to work together to carve up the China market?”

The real situation is definitely impossible to guess by guessing. Meng Qian took out a pen and paper and began to make a simple analysis of the current game market.

Now in the Huaxia game market, “The Legend” is clearly the unquestioned boss. With huge investment, “Legend” has finally gained more than 5 million registrations, but in order to continue to attract players, “Legend” will be originally a month The free period has been directly extended to three months.

Another online game that currently has a certain market in China is “The King of Kings”, which was very popular in the past. What is helpless is the appearance of “The Legend of God” that makes “The King of Kings” no longer in this life. Continued glory, but in this era of scarce online games, “King of Kings” still has a certain number of players.

Especially the online game environment created by “The Legend of God” is good for other online games.

But once was able to compete with “The King of Kings”, the “Three Kingdoms of the Internet” launched in September 2000, the performance of this life is indeed a bit bleak.

Then there is the overall situation of competitive games. The emergence of online games must have suppressed the popularity of competitive games to a certain extent, but this suppression is not very large. After all, there are two types of games.

Warcraft, CS and other games are still played by many people.

Looking at the future, three of Goryeo’s games will come in soon, plus the existing “Legend”, then there are four games. No matter whether there is cooperation or not, Goryeo will definitely achieve a certain number of players. .

However, what Meng Qian cares more about right now is not the four games on the Korean side, but will log in to China’s “Stone Age” next month.

The Stone Age, which was released in 1999, entered the Chinese mainland in January 2001, and it remains the same in this life.

How hot “Stone Age” was back then, it goes without saying that after “Stone Age”, Neon Kingdom officially opened the three-legged game situation of Korea Neon in Europe.

The reason why Meng Qian is worried about “Stone Age” is that the games of Goryeo are ultimately played in a similar style to “The Legend of God”. It is difficult to surpass “The Legend of God”.

The painting style of “Stone Age” is different from the gameplay. It’s hard to predict what kind of results will occur.

Looking at the names of these games written on the paper, Meng Qian tapped the table with a pen, and finally his eyes fell on “The King of Kings”.

Ten minutes later, Song Zhenluo, Shi Xueyi, Ruan Yongkang, Fu Qinyi, Chu Binhong and Sun Xiaojing gathered in Meng Qian’s office for a meeting.

“I know that everyone’s hearts are slowly drifting towards the New Year, but there is one thing that has to be put on the agenda. I will tell you about the situation first, and if there is any difficulty, I will bring it up later.”

Meng Qian went directly to the topic, “There will be three Korean games and a neon game coming to China in the next year, everyone should know?”

Everyone clicked.

“Do you have confidence in our “Biography”?”

“Yes!” everyone said in unison.

“really have?”

“really have!”

“Well, if you are really confident, I want you to do something now. Next year, we will push our “Biography of God” to Goryeo and Neon.”

Everyone was taken aback, Meng Qian looked at the expressions of several people and said in a deep voice, “Why? Lost confidence?”

“Of course I have confidence!” Song Zhenluo affirmed, and other people’s emotions returned to normal because of his answer.

Meng Qian nodded and continued, “That said, although Korea and Neon have more experience in game development than us, this is not a problem. We just need to focus on doing ourselves well.

If a game wants to enter other countries, change is inevitable, and game operation is even more critical.

This time I chose to export to Neon and Goryeo first. The important reason is that we are all Asian countries, and we have advantages in cultural understanding and character resonance. But you have a few in your heart. Sooner or later we are going to enter the country. Omi market.

So now I arrange work. The operation department and the promotion department do two things. First, go to the two countries to select suitable game agents. Second, to understand, dig deeper, and analyze the game environment, cultural environment and player characteristics of the two countries. And give the game modification plan for the two countries, including the game itself and operational strategy.

My current idea here in the technical department is to separate the two of you one responsible for Fengxin and the other responsible for games, so that everyone can be more focused. As for who wants to pick up the game, go back to your private Give me a result after the chat, as for what you have to do is also very clear.

During this period of time, the language system was first settled, and then after the plan of the operation department and the promotion department came out, the game modification and adjustment began immediately.

The art department is the same. It is also based on the plan to modify the screen and character design, but in the art aspect, you are more professional, so I hope you can take the time to understand the relevant situation of the two countries from now on.

When the time comes, give them more meaningful opinions and suggestions. Manager Ruan and Manager Chu will also communicate with the art department.

“Okay.” The three of them responded at the same time.

“Then I will talk about the time node. January 24 is the Spring Festival. I hope to complete at least one beta version of the game modification before the year. After the year, I will finalize the game agent, complete the foreign server construction and related review issues, and the first half of next year. , I want to see “The Legend of God” appear in Korea and Neon.

Finally, it’s the feedback time. Any difficulties are raised. ”

Everyone was embarrassed, but no one spoke. Because they have become accustomed to Meng Qian’s high demands, but working under such high demands, the growth and financial rewards obtained make them feel that everything is worth it.

“Are you sure there is no problem?”

Meng Qian asked again, but no one spoke.

“Okay, let’s start working. The technical department has the result and let me know.”

“Okay.” Everyone left Meng Qian’s office.

Waiting for everyone to leave, Meng Qian walked slowly to the floor-to-ceiling windows and looked at the distant sky, “This first step must be steady. The meaning of Lao Tzu’s rebirth, but TM is not for infighting…”