my return 2002

Chapter 175 Meeting Little Ma Again

On February 2th, seeing that there were only 10 days left for the closed beta of Jianyujianghu, the players' enthusiasm for the game not only did not decrease, but became more and more obsessed.

But for those players who don't have an activation code, the waiting time has been too long, so naturally they don't want to, and the two sides started a debate because of this.

The closed beta players justly stated that by extending the time of the closed beta, they can come up with more strategies and find more bugs, which is meaningful to both the official and the players.

However, the players who missed the closed beta without the activation code have been living their lives for a long time. How can they believe such nonsense and angrily denounce the closed beta players for their own self-interest, regardless of the interests of the majority of players.

Such a proposal was quickly suppressed by a large number of players. Naturally, Shen Lang did not intend to extend the time of the internal test. He didn't even want to do any public beta, and went online directly. After all, one more day of online, one more day of money.

Wang Tao has long been familiar with Shen Lang's unconstrained ideas, and he was stunned for a while after hearing him.

"But, Mr. Shen, all online games go through internal beta and public beta first, and then they are officially launched."

Shen Lang shook his head: "Whether it's the closed beta or the public beta, there are no more than two purposes. One is to do publicity to gather popularity, and the other is to find bugs in the game."

"With the current popularity of Jianyu Jianghu, do we still need to promote it? Has the game found many bugs that the project team has not found so far?"

Wang Tao shook his head subconsciously, but he still reminded: "You can skip the public beta directly, isn't it too ugly to eat?"

Shen Lang thought about it, and pondered for a moment: "In this way, we can hand over the power of choice to the players."

"Give it to the player?"

Shen Lang patted Wang Tao's shoulder and said with a smile: "That's right, we're not talking about canceling the public beta, it's still in the name of the public beta, we can post a vote in the multiplayer game, and let players choose whether to delete files for the public beta or not." Delete the file, if there are many players who choose to delete the file, then we will honestly do not charge for the public beta.”

"If there are many players who choose not to delete the file, then we will directly charge the official fee. I have already thought about the gimmick, and it is called the public beta without deleting the file!"

Wang Tao was shocked, how could he still play like this?

So, very soon, a popular post appeared on the homepage of the multiplayer game. The poster was the official Jianyu Jianghu. There was a lot of thanks in front of the post. Of course, these are all nonsense. What really caught the eye was the votes below.

Regarding the question of whether to delete files or not to delete files in the public beta, as long as players with a normal mind will choose not to delete files, which player will feel better if the account that has been practiced so hard returns to the pre-liberation overnight?Players in the closed beta can't wait for their account to be directly inherited from the public beta.

Coupled with Jianyu Jianghu's face-squeezing system, players have deeper feelings for account characters than other games, and naturally they don't want to watch their characters disappear.

As for the charging of the public beta, as long as the file is not deleted, the fee will be charged, and there are more strategies for internal beta players. There are many places in Jianyu Jianghu where you can make money and exchange point cards. Even the 0 Krypton Party can still play, but The progress will be slightly slower than that of point card players.

This time the voting was completely one-sided with no suspense. More than 85% of the players chose not to delete the file, and 8% of the players chose to abstain. Only less than 7% of the players chose to delete the file.

For this wave of coquettish operations in Jianyu Jianghu, the game industry in the mainland can only be described as stunned. It is still possible to do this, directly bypassing the public beta and start collecting money. The most important thing is that the players not only did not curse, but hated to delete the public beta. Start tomorrow.

Of course, for other game companies, it is a trick learned, but for Shanda, this is undoubtedly a bolt from the blue.

Originally, Chen Tianqiao compressed the time for listing in the United States to less than two months, which was already in a hurry, but it turned out that Shen Lang didn't follow the routine, and actually skipped the public beta and went online directly.

Chen Tianqiao was caught off guard, he glanced at the senior executives present, and even had some doubts, whether someone would inform Shen Lang again, otherwise how could it be such a coincidence.

But after thinking about it, he and Shen Lang had no feuds before, and the two sides did not tear their skins apart. The only difference was the cooperation between 17173 and Jinshan. Shen Lang shouldn't be targeting him like this, right?

When he came back to his senses, Chen Tianqiao looked away and looked at Tang Jun: "Ahem, Mr. Tang, can you see if this listing time can be shortened, and we can pay more for Goldman Sachs."

Tang Jun almost didn't vomit blood, two months is already too fast, why compress?He is not a compressed biscuit.

"Mr. Chen, it's not about money. Migumi has its own system. Goldman Sachs also needs time to convince the brokerages. Two months has been squeezed to the limit."

The atmosphere in the conference room suddenly became heavy, and it took a long time for Chen Tianqiao to speak again.

"Everyone don't need to panic too much. Jianyu Jianghu has just undergone internal testing. It is still unknown how many players will buy it when it is officially launched. Moreover, even if this game is popular, it is just a game. There are so many games in Shanda. We are still No. 1 in the mainland online game market, and during this period of time, everyone should do their own things well and prepare for the listing.”

Shanda's executives also breathed a sigh of relief when they heard the words. The matter has come to this point, and they can only fight.

After the meeting, Chen Tianqiao left Tang Jun and Tan Qunzhao behind.

"Mr. Tang, during this time, I will go to the United States with you. You can help me arrange meetings with brokers and investors. We will try our best to advance the listing time to early April."

After finishing speaking, Chen Tianqiao said to Tan Qunzhao again: "Old Tan, after I leave, Shanda will be handed over to you."

"Mr. Chen, don't worry, I know what to do." Tan Qunzhao promised.

Before leaving, Chen Tianqiao also specifically asked Tan Qunzhao: "You must always pay attention to the trend of Inspur Technology. If Shen Lang makes any troubles, remember to call me as soon as possible, and I will turn it on 24 hours a day."

Inspur Technology.

Shen Lang didn't know that his unintentional actions had caused so much pressure on Shanda, and now he was not focusing on the game, but on the YY project team.

The team dug from UC finally came up with the product that Shen Lang needed after four months.

The operation of YY is basically similar to that of QQ. The similarity between personal friends and YY's personalized dress is as high as 80%.

Of course, YY also has its own special features - YY group chat and YY voice.

In fact, the earliest prototype of instant messaging software was a chat room. At that time, the chat room was like the current group chat. It was not until the background that it gradually developed into a mode that focused on individual chat and supplemented by group chat.

The reason is also very simple. On the one hand, users are gradually paying more attention to personal privacy, and on the other hand, it is because when chatting in groups, it is inevitable to meet people with different ideas from their own.

Therefore, when QQ launched group chat, it did not pay much attention to this function, and also set a threshold for group chat. Only one sun or a top-up QQ member account can create a group.

However, YY group chat has opened the group chat function to all players, and more importantly, it has also extended the function of YY voice chat.

These two functions are the tasks assigned by Shen Lang to YY's R&D team, and they are also an important part of his promotion of YY.

In 2004, QQ already had more than 1 million registered users. Although many users have multiple QQ accounts, it cannot be denied that QQ is already the No. [-] instant messaging software in mainland China.

YY, which has just been released, is not qualified to be tough with QQ at all, so it can only find another way.

YY voice is a breakthrough, which is why Shen Lang wants to launch Jianyu Jianghu in advance. Compared with other games, the interaction between players in Jianyujianghu is more frequent. After level 20, if you want to level up quickly, forming a team is the best way. In a good way, some life occupations also need to be traded in exchange for materials.

Of course, the most urgent need for YY voice in the next dungeon is the most urgent. As the difficulty of the Jianyu Jianghu dungeon increases, the 10-player dungeon and the 20-player dungeon also require higher cooperation between players. is impossible.

At this time, unified command is very important, and the appearance of YY voice will definitely be loved by game players.

In fact, it’s not just the game Jianyu Jianghu. Activities that require large-scale team battle command, such as the legendary attack on the sand and the guild battle of Miracle MU, have very high requirements for unified command, and these will become loyal users of YY Voice.

"Good job." Shen Lang took off the earphones, he was very satisfied with the function of YY voice.

Liang Han, the leader of the YY project, heaved a sigh of relief, and at the same time said to Shen Lang eagerly: "Mr. Shen, is our product ready to go online?"

Seeing the development of Inspur Technology is getting better and better, Liang Han's mentality has also changed. For him, Inspur Technology is a better and bigger stage. Dispensable supporting roles.

Shen Lang patted him on the shoulder and said with a smile: "At the beginning of next month, the server I ordered will be delivered this week, and it will take a while to debug. It will be officially released on March [-]st. You and the team members take advantage of this It’s time to quickly check and make up for the omissions, but don’t let users scold their mothers just after it’s released.”

Liang Han left satisfied, while Lei Jun looked at Shen Lang with a frown, and reminded: "Are you taking too big a step? And you purchased more than 1000 million servers at one time, you are right YY is so confident?"

Shen Lang sighed: "I also want to play it safe, but it's a pity that time is not waiting for me. QQ has more than 500 million registered users, and the number of online users has also exceeded [-] million. Now, if you don't take advantage of the wave of swords and rivers to push YY out, the more you will go The less chance of success, the user inertia is really scary."

Lei Jun was a little surprised when he heard this: "Is your evaluation of QQ a bit too high?"

In fact, in the early days of the Internet industry, BAT was not very eye-catching. In contrast, Shanda, Sina, Netease, and Sohu were the star companies in the Internet circle.

Shen Lang smiled wryly and shook his head: "That's because you haven't seen the horror of that penguin. Don't look at its weak and naive appearance now. When it opens its bloody mouth, it will be a nightmare for the industry."

Just as the two were talking, the phone in Shen Lang's office suddenly rang. It was an internal call from the front desk. After connecting, Shen Lang's expression became extremely strange.

Lei Jun asked curiously: "What's wrong?"

Shen Lang pouted at the glass door: "This man, he really didn't talk about it, he said Cao Cao Cao Cao will be here."

"Brother Ma is here?"

Shen Lang grabbed Lei Jun who was about to go out to greet him, and quickly said to him: "Go and talk to the people in the YY project team, tell them not to work for the time being, and turn off the computer first."

"That's not enough, is it?" Lei Jun felt that Shen Lang was exaggerating a bit.

Shen Lang said resolutely: "Brother Ma, you will understand in the future."

When Shen Lang went out, Brother Xiao Ma was already a little impatient, but when he saw Shen Lang coming out, he immediately changed his smiling face.

"Mr. Shen, long time no see. Under your leadership, Inspur Technology is in full swing."

Shen Lang said modestly: "Hey, compared to Mr. Ma, I'm just making a fuss. I heard that Penguin is about to go public, right? I should congratulate you in advance."

The smile on Xiao Ma's face became even wider when he heard this: "Where is it? It's just going to Xiangjiang for listing, not going to the United States for listing."

In this era, mainland businessmen always have a kind of blind admiration for the US stock market. They always feel that standing on the NASDAQ and ringing the bell can be regarded as letting the world see.

Shen Lang greeted Xiao Ma all the way and brought Brother Xiao Ma to the office without any intention of showing him around. Shen Lang successfully changed the topic when Brother Xiao Ma opened his mouth several times.

After being seated, Brother Xiaoma finally revealed the purpose of his visit.

"Mr. Shen, this time, I actually want to cooperate with NetDragon, a subsidiary of your company."

"Oh? I remember that Penguin seems to have its own sales channels, right?" Shen Lang couldn't help looking at Brother Xiao Ma in surprise.

You know, in order to be able to sell its own point cards, Shanda spent a lot of thought, and finally locked the sales model to Internet cafe terminals, and it took two years to see results.

But look at Penguin again. From the initial launch of the telephone payment registration service, to the later recharge of Q coins for phone bills, this is the only one in the country, and it is still an ordinary family.

Brother Xiao Ma smiled wryly and sighed: "Oh, I will cry if I talk too much. If it weren't for the poor sales channels, why would I make a Q coin to make it unnecessary?"

Hearing what Xiao Ma said, Shen Lang believed it a little bit. Even if there is something behind the cooperation with the mobile supplier, the profits that should be given should still be given. As for Penguin's sales team, it is a joke. Penguin's offline There are very few events held without overturning.

"So, Ma always wants to hand over the online sales rights of Q Coins to NetDragon Technology's agent?"

Brother Xiao Ma nodded, and said with some embarrassment: "I hope Mr. Shen can give you a preferential price."

The corner of Shen Lang's mouth twitched, wondering if Brother Xiaoma would still be as pleasing to the eye as he is today after YY is released.

(End of this chapter)