giants of the era

Chapter 455 William's Facebook (fourth update)

Everyone looked at Li Zetian with puzzled eyes.

Li Zetian smiled lightly, and began to carefully express his thoughts to everyone.

After a while, everyone suddenly realized, and their expressions were shocked, and they admired Li Zetian very much.

"Mr. Li, I was almost scared to death just now. I really thought that "World of Warcraft" would be free? Well, the charge for this item is indeed very innovative!" Mike Mohan said with a smile.

This is the first time for Ma Huateng to feel Li Zetian's domineering side leakage and universal talent up close.

The current mainstream fee for online games is point card charging, but he does the opposite, proposes to abolish the point card charging model, promotes that the game is free, and adopts item charging. If the player does not buy the item, it is really worth a penny. No flowers.

At first glance, this idea sounds very stupid, but after thinking about it carefully, especially after listening to Li Zetian's analysis just now, Ma Huateng feels that this is the inevitable path for online games in the future!

Ma Huateng had to sigh from the bottom of his heart that his big BOSS was really awesome and worth learning all his life.

Li Zetian glanced at Ma Huateng, with an imperceptible smile on his face: "Hehe, Ma Huateng was deeply shocked by me!"

Li Zetian walked by at this moment, patted Ma Huateng on the shoulder, and asked, "Ma Huateng, did you understand what I just said?"

"Understood!" Ma Huateng nodded, and said seriously, "Mr. Li, your idea is unique, different from ordinary people, and it has pointed out the operating fee model of online games in the future! I really admire you , just like the waters of the Yangtze River flowing endlessly!"

Li Zetian smiled and said: "It's nothing, many people can think of it. Shanda Group's "Legend World" is released, is it popular in China?"

Ma Huateng nodded and said, "It's very popular. Because many people have played "Legend of Blood", once "Legend World" was released, there were many fans supporting it!"

"Well, but it doesn't matter, "Legendary World" is a shoddy work after all, and there are many cheats and private servers. The game will collapse sooner or later. "World of Warcraft" should learn from it, and absolutely put an end to the existence of cheats!"

"Yes, I understand!"

A few days later, Ma Huateng returned to China.

Blizzard decided to develop more props during the public beta.

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Softbank and Shanda Group are deliberately trying to kill Tencent, so they attach great importance to Shanda IM and sent the company's strongest software development team to carry out product research and development.In fact, developing IM (communication software) is not very difficult. Many college students can complete the basic functions in just a few hours, let alone a large company like Shanda Group?

In addition, Shanda Group will definitely copy Tencent QQ software, which goes without saying, so the development speed is faster, and a test version can be produced in a week or two.Before Christmas, a more mature product has been born.

Chen Tianqiao announced that Shanda IM will be officially released on January 2004, 1, and the new year will be auspicious.

In addition to acting as an agent of "World of Warcraft", Tencent Games also has several games developed by itself.

The first one: "QQ Tang", plagiarized Shanda Company's "Bubble Tang" in 2002, which was the sole agent of South Korea's NEXON company.Shanda IM copied Tencent qq, and the development speed was very fast. Naturally, "QQ Hall" copied "Bubble Hall", and the development speed was also very fast. Everyone interacted with each other.

The second one: "Cross Fire", well, everyone knows what plagiarism is.

The third one: "QQ Fantasy", "Fantasy Westward Journey" released by NetEase not long ago has already been targeted by Tencent, um... Mr. Ma can, he will carry out plagiarism to the end as soon as he takes office!
The Q version of "Fantasy Westward Journey" independently developed by NetEase is very popular, not inferior to "Legendary World". Not only boys love to play, but even girls like this game very much.

NetEase has also gone its own way, cultivating its own game development team, and more products will be released in the future.

Right now, among the major Chinese portals, NetEase is doing very well.

Both Sina and Sohu are a bit "miserable".

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During the Christmas period, schools across the United States are closed.

William also returned home.

"Facebook developed?" At dinner, Li Zetian asked casually.

William nodded excitedly, his mouth was like a machine gun, and he couldn't stop, and told Li Zetian about the development of Facebook in detail.

William recruited six college students at Stanford University, and it took one and a half months to develop the Facebook website.

"On the morning of December 12th, Facebook was officially released. However, during this period, the school is on holiday and many people have gone home. I plan to wait for the new semester to start and send people to promote it in the school."

"Although Facebook has few registered users now, I believe that Facebook will become popular! Stanley Milgram, a famous professor of psychology at Harvard University, once created the theory of six degrees of separation in 1967. The core idea is: you and any stranger There will be no more than 6 people between them, that is to say, you can meet any stranger through at most 6 people! According to the theory of six degrees of separation, each individual's social circle is constantly enlarged, and finally becomes a large network !"

"So, although we are only doing college social circles now, we look at the whole world!"

William said: "There are many SNS (social network service) websites, but Facebook has its own originality."

"First, to provide complementary online services to the existing brick-and-mortar community, such as by providing college students with information services that are not available in the brick-and-mortar community, an interactive student guide, including each student's course plan and social network. The Facebook website does not create a new community that did not exist before, on the contrary, we provide a more important information and communication service for the existing physical community! In this way, Facebook can rely on these physical communities to develop rapidly !!"

Li Zetian nodded in satisfaction. It was a good decision to serve other communities and grow rapidly when their own strength was weak.Didn't Google also serve Yahoo back then, and did it become its own in the end?

"Second," William continued, "Facebook created an ideal online service by restricting user registration! This is a very important decision for Facebook. In the early days, we only allowed users to register with the email address of the school domain name to ensure the authenticity of users. , and then through word-of-mouth marketing, it gradually spread from universities in the eastern United States to universities throughout the United States, and then gradually developed to Europe and other parts of the world. The original purpose of this decision is to make users feel that the Facebook website is exclusive and unique. The difference is a social networking site that only belongs to the university elite.”

"Birds of a feather flock together, and people form groups! College students will be proud to join Facebook!"

"Different from other SNS social networking sites, we use a real-name system based on the real social relationship of users, so users are very sticky, and it is easy to attract more users to join. For example, a college student who wants to know his classmates, or a crush If you are a goddess, but you are too embarrassed to find her in person, then you can use Facebook to easily understand her situation. There are many ways to establish a relationship chain, and this is a social chain based on 'search'!"

Talking about William Kaikai, he is full of confidence and has a demeanor of pointing out the country.

Well, as expected of my species!

Li Zetian felt complacent and satisfied.

Li Youran was also listening, looking up and down at William, and said in surprise, "I can't tell, you usually like to play so much, but you have a bit of a business mind!"

William glared at her, proudly said: "Just kidding, don't even look at who I am!"

Yu Jingqiu said: "Okay, okay, don't talk about it, the food will be cold by the time you finish talking."

Li Zetian said to William and Youran: "Okay, let's eat first!"

"Oh……"

PS: I will update 2 chapters for you in the evening, the code word speed is slow, and I have tried my best to update 6 today.

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