my return 2002

Chapter 339 Uncrowned King?

Shen Lang glanced at Li Xuelin angrily. This guy seems to be drifting recently. This is in the United States, an area where stand-alone games are prevalent. Online games are not considered mainstream in the first place. There are 20 simultaneous online games just after the server was launched. It's a pretty good score.

The score of 20 online at the same time also gave the Yangdao team a shot in the arm. They are also more optimistic about the future of League of Legends, and they will work harder to update.

"Don't get too excited. Although the results are good, the shortcomings are also obvious, especially the balance of heroes. League of Legends is positioned as a competitive game. In the future, we will hold various e-sports events. Game balance is very important. Now It's just that the internal beta players may find it relatively new, but if the products we come up with are still the same when it comes to the public beta, it will undoubtedly push users to the opponent." Shen Lang said seriously.

A person's characteristics are difficult to change, and Yangdao is such a game maker with distinctive characteristics and many shortcomings.

When making DOTA before, Yangdao had a similar problem. When designing heroes, he seldom paid attention to balance issues. The skills of many heroes can only be described as abnormal. At that time, there was an ice frog behind him to wipe his ass. Now Ice Frog is developing DOTA2, even if there are other people in the team to deal with the aftermath, Yangdao still designed a perverted hero like the original card.

How perverted are the first-generation cards?The card cutting skill, the yellow card is not a single dizziness but a group dizziness, and the arrival of the E skill card, yes, it is the big move of the card later, it is just a small skill, and it is still the whole picture, and now the internal test players It's basically a grab card.

There is also Sion, the same is true, no matter whether it is an AD outfit or an AP outfit, there are a lot of fierce ones. A small crispy QW will hang up directly. With five people chopping.

When Yangdao heard Shen Lang's warning, his expression became serious, and he knew very well that Shen Lang was not just talking. The DOTA2 that Ice Frog is making is the most direct competitor, that is, Ice Frog has always worked slowly and meticulously, otherwise Their products should go live around the same time.

"I understand how to be a boss." Yang Dao solemnly assured.

Shen Lang patted his fleshy shoulder: "It's good that you understand, your team has done a good job this time, everyone's bonus will be increased by one month's salary this quarter, and I will invest another 2000 million US dollars, yours The studio also needs to add some fresh blood."

Carrots and sticks have always been the two magic weapons for controlling subordinates. After these years of training, Shen Lang has already mastered them with ease.

The Yangdao team was really overjoyed and called out: Long live the boss.

The closed beta of League of Legends is still going on. Although there are various problems, compared with the old DOTA1, League of Legends also has its own unique advantages, that is, an independent client, and DOTA1 is based on the Warcraft client. If you want to To play DOTA1, you must first purchase Warcraft.

Although Blizzard's Warcraft has reached 1200 million sales worldwide, only a small number of users in the United States have purchased genuine copies.

Moreover, the control of piracy in the United States is much stricter than that in China, and there are no third-party platforms like domestic VS and Haofang that provide battle servers for DOTA1 maps. American players must use Blizzard Battle.net if they want to play against netizens.

At this time, League of Legends has attracted a large number of players with its higher-quality graphics, brand-new props, and easier-to-use operations. Most importantly, it is free.

After 20 people were online at the same time on the day of the public beta, the number of people online at the same time rushed to 30 in just three days, a large part of which was attracted by word of mouth among players.

Of course, there are also many old DOTA players who are disdainful, but this does not prevent the influence of League of Legends from gradually expanding, especially for many novice players, this game is really too high, the skill CD is short, and the control Not much, especially when the mage and the support team fight, all you need is to throw skills without thinking.

Compared with those high-level players, assassin heroes are at the tip of their swords, and the thrill of instant killing makes them want to stop. The only fly in the ointment is that there are too few hero models in the beta version.

Of course, it is useless for a game to rely solely on word of mouth from players. Shen Lang is also very willing to invest in publicity. Google, Facebook, and Twitter have done publicity. League of Legends alone cost millions of dollars.

In the case of a large amount of promotion resources, the number of players in the League of Legends closed beta has also shown a huge increase. By the last day of the closed beta, more than 70 people were online at the same time, and the number of registered users exceeded [-] million.

In the last hour of the internal test official server, there was an unprecedented influx of more than 120 million players. Since the internal test only opened one area, the server was almost overwhelmed.

Li Xuelin has never seen a game that can go from 20 to more than 100 million concurrently online in such a short period of time, so he was dumbfounded on the spot.

"Operate this game well, and Xingchen Games will be invincible." Shen Lang patted Li Xuelin on the shoulder and said.

Li Xuelin nodded again and again, he had already seen the potential of the League of Legends, so naturally he would not neglect it.

But then Shen Lang said seriously: "What do you think about the operation of the League of Legends?"

"Mr. Shen, if you have any instructions, just tell me. I haven't operated this kind of game yet." Li Xuelin said with a wry smile.

Shen Lang didn't make a fool of himself: "League of Legends is going to take the route of competitive games. The operation needs not only to update and maintain the game, but also to hold various competitions, just like the Internet cafes held in our country when we are promoting ghost blowing lights The league is the same as the college league."

Li Xuelin was not too surprised. Blizzard is a representative of making games and holding e-sports competitions. With Blizzard's successful experience, many game companies are also trying to promote game sales through e-sports, but they are pushing A stand-alone game with a buyout system.

"Just in this way, our manpower is not enough."

Before he finished speaking, Shen Lang waved his hand: "The most important thing in the country of America is manpower, and the most important thing I need now is money. You just need to recruit people."

As Shen Lang said, under the influence of the subprime mortgage crisis, countless companies have closed down, and the remaining companies have either laid off employees or cut wages. For companies that can create jobs, the government will even provide subsidies and various tax reliefs.

However, these methods can only be regarded as a drop in the bucket in the bad environment. According to government statistics, under the influence of the economic crisis, more than 800 million Americans will lose their jobs. This is just the statistics of Americans.

Many American companies lay off Asians and blacks in a limited number of layoffs. These are not included in the statistics, which shows how miserable the economic situation is.

It is precisely because of this that more and more unemployed Americans have become addicted to games. They can't find a job anyway, and they can barely live at home receiving relief funds.

Just like the golden age of Hollywood in the last century, it just happened to catch up with the Great Depression in the United States. In the case of a bad economic environment, people's lives are very hard, and cheap entertainment naturally becomes the best way to get spiritual comfort .

It is also in such a general environment that the internal beta of League of Legends can be so successful. Many players even urged the official website to start the public beta as soon as the internal beta was closed. It is really boring.

Not only games, but e-commerce and flea markets have also become popular in the United States. In the past, Americans did not pay much attention to the price of consumer goods because they had a high income and could use credit cards to pay.

When many domestic media report on the financial crisis in the United States, they always gloat and say that the American people have no savings, which is actually inaccurate.

People in the United States do not have the habit of saving money, because they put their money in the financial market. Leaving aside several financial crises, the stock market in the United States has actually been growing.

Moreover, banks in the United States usually have very low interest rates, but when they encounter inflation, they will raise interest rates. The habit of the American people is to put money in the financial market when bank interest rates are low, and to store money when bank interest rates are high. bank.

This is also the main reason why the financial crisis has had such a severe impact on the U.S. economy. Everyone’s stocks are locked up, and no one is willing to sell them, and they can’t sell them. In fact, there is still money.

Rather than what many domestic media have said, the reason why Americans have no savings is that they swipe their credit cards to spend in advance and travel.

Just imagine, if there is a relatively stable financial market and a mature credit card system, if you put your savings in the financial market, and then use the credit card to settle the consumption, it means that your savings are always making money, and as long as the credit card is not overdue, it will not It is precisely under this system that the consumption of Americans will appear extravagant.

It's just that all of this is based on the global blood transfusion to the United States. Once confidence is shattered, the market panics, and funds flee, this will not work.

On the other hand, the fire in the League of Legends has also brought great pressure to Icefrog. Before that, he used his business time to update DOTA1 and make DOTA2 at the same time.

At this moment, I have completely given up updating DOTA1, and put all my energy into the production of DOTA2, but even so, if DOTA2 is to be released, it will have to wait until the second quarter of next year at least.

Shen Lang is not in a hurry about this. In fact, the positioning of DOTA2 and League of Legends is different in essence. The mechanism of DOTA2 is doomed that this game will not become a game of national entertainment like League of Legends, even at the same time In terms of competition, it is also difficult for DOTA2 to obtain the same number of users as League of Legends.

Compared with Yangdao, Ice Frog is a very calm game producer. Shen Lang is more at ease with him, but only put forward some opinions of his own, and did not deeply participate in the production of DOTA2.

Seeing that it has entered December, some news from the United States has also begun to spread to the country. In addition to the news about the subprime mortgage crisis, the most eye-catching one is the news that the mysterious Oriental investor bucked the trend and made 12 billion US dollars.

And this mysterious Dongfang investor is naturally Shen Lang. At the beginning, this kind of report was only translated by netizens from the external network. Since the news was not necessarily accurate, many netizens did not take it seriously. They even thought that the relevant report was nonsense, 50 billion US dollars How much wealth is it?So many Wall Street investment banks have stumbled, why does Shen Lang make so much money?

However, it didn't take long for relevant news to appear in some tabloid media, and some directly took photos of relevant reports from the New York Post and published them.

With more and more sources of news, confirmed by various parties, many media found that this news seems to be true?

As a result, some online media took the lead in reporting related content, and the headlines were all astonishing. The title of the new generation of financial godfather was given to Shen Lang without money.

Only then did the netizens become skeptical, did Shen Lang really successfully pluck the hair on the tiger's butt?

Immediately afterwards, some paper media and local satellite TVs also began to rush to report. Compared with the Internet media, they are more ethical. They just translated the content of some American media reports, but the headlines of the reports in the United States are actually outrageous. , and even called Shen Lang the "Oriental Financial Wizard".

With the reports from these local satellite TVs, everyone began to believe that Shen Lang really made $50 billion during the financial crisis.

Based on the current exchange rate of 1:6.8 between the U.S. dollar and the renminbi, 50 billion U.S. dollars is equivalent to 340 billion yuan. What does this mean?
You must know that in the 08 mainland wealth rankings just released, Huang Guangyu topped the richest man's throne with 430 billion yuan, which is all assets.

And Shen Lang now has 340 billion in pure liquidity. According to his assets in the mainland, he can easily have 300 to [-] billion. In other words, Shen Lang's actual assets have surpassed the richest man in the mainland.

There was an uproar in the public opinion for a while, and netizens talked about it even more. The year 08 was also a key point in the transformation of social thoughts. People gradually changed from being ashamed of talking about money to gradually chasing wealth. prove.

Many good netizens even gave Shen Lang the title of "Uncrowned King", thinking that Shen Lang was just a little bit close. If it was revealed earlier, he would definitely be the richest man in the mainland.

The key is that Shen Lang's age and his career, put together, will always give people an illusion that he is really too young.

Of course, laymen watch the excitement, and experts watch the doorway. Since the relevant news spread to China, the bigwigs in the Internet industry in the mainland have been unable to sit still.

What does liquidity of RMB 340 billion mean?It is no exaggeration to say that Shen Lang can do whatever he wants, if he really spends money desperately, who can fight him?

Among them, Brother Xiaoma was the one who was most anxious. After getting the news, Brother Xiaoma immediately asked people to collect relevant information, and he didn't sleep well for several nights.

When he learned that Shen Lang could only bring 20 billion US dollars back to China, Xiao Ma finally breathed a sigh of relief, but even 20 billion US dollars is enough to cause headaches.

(End of this chapter)