From gaming to becoming the richest man, it all started with his counterattack against XunTeng.

12 month 1 day.

Rainbow Six Siege has been officially released.

Last night's preview livestream gave the game its final boost.

The game highlights that Yang Yi played at the end were regarded as a golden rule by players.

He even bluntly stated that game developers must know how to play games!

They even added a song called "Ode to a Knight-Errant" to the bottom of the video.

It really does fit the mood of the video.

Anyway, Yang Yi had a great time, and his intense afternoon of gaming was worth it.

Yang Yi was overjoyed as she waited for the sales figures.

The situation for Liu Lei, head of Golden Studio, the developer of the neighboring game "Crossfire," is dire. As the undisputed king of the domestic FPS market, this game had previously seen its daily online player count consistently exceed two million after Jack Ma personally intervened to quell the plagiarism controversy, firmly holding the top spot in its category.

Today, the number of people online is less than 10.

This was the result of the planners working overnight to launch multiple top-tier welfare events and limited-time exclusive items to try and bring back players.

Even if the number of online users barely recovers during the evening peak hours, it will definitely not be able to break the million mark again.

This single set of data is enough to reveal the whole picture; the days ahead for the Gold Studio are destined to be difficult.

Even though XunTeng's top management was extremely anxious, they couldn't come up with any effective solutions at the moment.

Rainbow Six Siege's global launch period was only two months after the Tokyo Game Show, and it directly competed with many top AAA games around the world at the same time, yet it still managed to break through the encirclement and become a global hit.

The current market situation has shown that none of the similar FPS products on the market can compete.

Meanwhile, J1 Studios next door is simultaneously developing a new FPS game that rivals its competitors. The project is already more than halfway through development and is equipped with the industry-leading Coldlight Engine. The original goal of the project was to directly compete with the Thunder Fortress series.

Liu Lei didn't believe this game could beat Rainbow Six Siege, especially considering that Thunder Games' market value had already dropped by 15%.

In the coming year, Rainbow Six Siege is destined to be unrivaled.

Just as Liu Lei was looking at the backend data, filled with anxiety about the future of "Crossing the Line of Fire"...

click, click, click—

There was a rapid yet soft knocking on the office door.

"Enter--"

Liu Lei frowned. Anyone contacting him at this time was probably not doing anything good.

Sure enough, the secretary relayed a meeting notice from her immediate supervisor, Li Xiaoguang.

This could be bad!

Liu Lei breathed a sigh of relief as he pushed open the door to Li Xiaoguang's office.

Li Xiaoguang wasn't the only one there; Ji Feng, the head of J1 Studio, was also present.

The presence of other people indicates that Mr. Li's purpose was not to criticize himself.

Most likely, there's some work arrangement that requires the two studios to work together.

As expected, Li Xiaoguang calmly handed the two of them a tablet.

Tactical Special Forces development plan.

Judging from the game's name, it's clear that it borrows heavily from Rainbow Six Siege.

This is probably not the next development goal for the two studios.

Li Xiaoguang subsequently confirmed Liu Lei's guess.

"I have a few requests for this game."

1. Developed using the Queen Bee Engine.

2. The game must have environmental destruction.

3. Weapons in the game can have their attachments changed.

"4. The game is more professional and realistic than Rainbow Six Siege."

"5. We need a large number of players in each round to give them ample time to engage in combat."

"That's all I can think of for now. Do you have anything to add?"

Li Xiaoguang's requirements covered a very wide range, and Liu Lei couldn't come up with any creative ideas for the time being.

A brief silence fell over the office.

Finally, after a long silence, Ji Feng spoke up to add—

"The Rainbow Six Siege campaign recently emphasized the word 'hardcore.' Should we focus our efforts on making it more 'hardcore'?"

Li Xiaoguang's eyes lit up upon hearing this.

Yes, the current popularity of Rainbow Six Siege means that players are now very accepting of hardcore games, doesn't it?

Li Xiaoguang thinks Rainbow Six Siege is exceptionally good. He has been working in the game industry for over a decade and has seen many innovative games, but such a groundbreaking game is truly rare.

He now only regrets that none of his subordinates are as good as Yang Yi's designers.

Unfortunately, the usual tactics of inviting people to meals, beheading them, and taking them in as dogs didn't work on Yang Yi.

They practically tore off Xun Teng's initial capital themselves.

"Great idea! We need to use differentiated design to attract players' attention."

"As long as our game quality is not too different, we can attract a considerable number of hardcore players from Rainbow Six Siege."

"And isn't that a great selling point?"

"This game was jointly developed by your two studios, and Ji Feng is the overall person in charge of the game."

"Let's put the game that J1 is currently developing on hold for now."

"Remember, we don't have much time, only one year. We'll rely on this to wow everyone at next year's Tokyo Game Show."

Although the gaming market is not as large as other top industries, even the top gaming companies do not have very high market capitalization.

However, the gaming industry involves many sectors, including graphics cards, CPUs, mobile phones, game consoles, live streaming, IP-related products, and more.

Every market is extremely terrifying.

Therefore, it is impossible for XunTeng to give up part of the game market.

A bee colony can only dominate for a maximum of one year.

Even if XunTeng doesn't take action, other companies won't sit idly by and wait to be destroyed.

Thunder Games has announced that next year's Thunder Fortress 7 will use new technology and optimize existing gameplay to create a brand new game mode.

Li Xiaoguang picked up his teacup, took a small sip, and looked out the window toward the direction of Beehive Games Company.

I hope that next year, Yang Yi, you can still smile like you do now.

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Hahahahahahahahahaha!

So this is considered cutting-edge gaming technology!

Yang Yi had been looking forward to these 100 million points for a long time.

The game was released in the morning, but it didn't reach a million sales until the end of the workday.

Judging from this momentum, the game should sell several million copies in its first week.

Fortunately, the system's advanced technology did not disappoint him.

Solid-state battery technology (research and development)

Technical approach: Sulfide/oxide solid electrolyte.

Single-cell energy density: 500–600 Wh/kg.

Volumetric energy density: 800–1000 Wh/L.

Cycle life: 3000–5000 cycles

Charges to 80% in 10 minutes (3C–5C rate).

Normal operating temperature: -30℃ to 60℃.

Needle puncture, squeeze, short circuit, overcharge: No fire, no explosion, no leakage.

Yang Yi doesn't know much about the battery industry, but you can look it up.

I learned a little about the current cutting-edge battery technology.

This solid-state battery is amazing.

Learn about the battery revolution.

With the same volume, it has more than twice the capacity of current batteries, more than five times the charging speed, nearly three times the cycle life, and its safety factor is absolutely superior.

However, the system provides cutting-edge research and development technologies that cannot be implemented in the short term.

Developing cutting-edge technologies requires building your own R&D team.

The final result will definitely be the extraction of the current cutting-edge technology.

However, when you have the money, it's more practical than mastering cutting-edge technology, since the research and development process often produces many strange and unusual byproducts.

For example, a necessary protective material for the chip industry was developed by a monosodium glutamate (MSG) company.

At the same time, self-developed technologies have a source and can be iterated and upgraded on their own.

Therefore, what Yang Yi needs to do is to recruit people to conduct research and development and build factories.

However, Yang Yi quickly rejected the idea of ​​starting from scratch.

No, that's too slow. Various equipment and factory facilities could slow down the R&D process by one or two years.

It seems that acquisition is the only option left.