Giant of the times

Shanda Group's development of Shanda IM is kept secret in order to prevent Tencent from coming up with countermeasures in advance.

In fact, Tencent QQ is no matter what the wind blows from the southeast to the northwest, and I remain unmoved.

Game IM belongs to a weak relationship chain.

If players no longer play this game, this IM game will become a "lonely city" or a "ghost town", losing a lot of popularity.

In the long history of IM development, many companies such as Shanda Group and NetEase have developed game IM, but what is the result?

But QQ is different. Friends and relatives are all on QQ. This relationship chain is extremely difficult to break, like a steel city wall.

As we all know, according to Dunbar's number principle, a person's stable daily social network is about 150 people. In other words, if you want another IM to replace QQ, then you have to mobilize at least 50 to 100 people to use the new product, otherwise You will definitely fall into loneliness with no one around you. What's more, the address books of many people are far more than 150 people. What is the cost? It is simply an insurmountable gap! !

Therefore, Shanda IM, which Shanda Group has placed great hopes on, is destined to be unable to replace qq.

Chen Tianqiao, Sun Zhengyi and others are secretly proud or ambitious, but they will all be disappointed in the end.

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Flamingo Company has two platforms, one is the Flamingo game console platform and the other is the Battle.net platform! Originally, Battle.net was only part of the "Flamingo Game Platform", but Battle.net and Battle.net Points were so famous that the Flamingo Company decided to rename the "Flamingo Game Platform" to Battle.net. It is not uncommon for a website to be renamed because a certain product brand has become more famous.

At present, Battle.net has developed into the world's largest gaming platform, with more than 500 million users.

The world's top games will be released on Battle.net. For example, South Korea's "Legend of Legend" is poorly produced and has rough graphics. It is even suspected of imitating "Dark Breaker" and is not qualified to be on the Battle.net platform.

I didn’t expect it to become so popular in China, it simply caught the attention of many people.

In fact, except for "Legend of Blood", which is popular in China, no one cares about it in other countries, including South Korea.

On November 30, Shanda Group will release "Legendary World", and before then, promotional advertisements have been overwhelming on the Internet. Obviously, he wants to use "Legend of Hot Blood" to become popular again!

Naturally, Battle.net and Tencent cannot sit idly by and remain indifferent.

Just the day before Shanda Group officially released "Legendary World", Tencent and Flamingo Company reached an agreement. "World of Warcraft" developed by Blizzard, a subsidiary of Flamingo, will be jointly represented by Tencent and Battle.net!

Battle.net has an in-depth cooperation with Tencent. The two companies jointly represent "World of Warcraft", which shows how strong the promotion of this game is!

"World of Legend" and "World of Warcraft" seem to be competing against each other.

They are all "World". Who is stronger and who is weaker, and which game is more fun, has attracted the attention of the media and players.

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On the evening of November 29th, Shanda Group.

"I knew Tencent would definitely make big moves!" Chen Tianqiao said with a sullen face, gritted his teeth, "I just didn't expect that Tencent would join forces with Flamingo! Usually, Flamingo's games are all Just let Battle.net sell it exclusively or be an agent..."

"Mr. Chen, the situation in China is different. The cooperation between Tencent and Flamingo is indeed a win-win strategy!" A Shanda executive analyzed, "In China, Tencent has so many QQ users that it is so popular. Flamingo also wants to turn these users into its own users. Blizzard is originally a subsidiary of Flamingo. The more Blizzard makes, the more Flamingo makes. Obviously, "World of Warcraft" "If it is handed over to Tencent as an agent, it will be able to get a large number of users, and Flamingo will make more money. At the same time, it can also deal a heavy blow to Shanda, The9, NetEase, Giant Network and other companies!"

"Yes!" Chen Tianqiao couldn't help but nodded.

Afterwards, everyone began to discuss how to deal with it.

Chen Tianqiao and others are still full of confidence in "Legendary World".

"I won't say which game is more fun, after all, we haven't played "World of Warcraft" yet. But as far as I know, "World of Warcraft" has very high computer configuration requirements. Considering the current computer configurations in Chinese Internet cafes, it may be difficult to You can’t bring this game! This has already restricted the development of “World of Warcraft” in China!”

"Haha, yes, look at the promotional video, the picture quality of "World of Warcraft" is amazing, the computer in an ordinary Internet cafe will never be able to carry it! Just imagine, playing a game and it keeps getting stuck, who the hell is still in the mood to play!"

"Ha ha……"

There were bursts of laughter in the Shanda Group's conference room.

It's just...didn't Tencent, Flamingo, Blizzard, and Li Zetian realize that the computers in Chinese Internet cafes couldn't run "World of Warcraft"?

Li Zetian has long thought about this issue since Blizzard developed "World of Warcraft".

Indeed, the development speed of China's Internet is slower than that of European and American countries, and the replacement of computers in Internet cafes is also slower.

In order to promote "World of Warcraft", we can only improve the computer configuration of Internet cafes.

To this end, Li Zetian has made detailed plans.

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Shenzhen, Ant Factory.

In many workshops, countless workers are producing computers from Lenovo and Mango Computer Company.

No matter what other Internet cafes do, the Honor Internet cafe chain under Li Zetian's name will be completely updated before "World of Warcraft" officially lands in China! Just sell those old computers.

Li Zetian believes that as long as other Internet cafes see the popularity of "World of Warcraft" in the Honor chain of Internet cafes, many Internet cafes will be interested. At this time, Lenovo and Mango Computer can take the opportunity to launch installment payment activities to attract some Internet cafe owners who lack financial resources or are hesitant. On the one hand, it promotes the sales of computers; on the other hand, the computer configurations in Internet cafes are improved, and naturally more people play "World of Warcraft"!

November 30th is here, and "Legendary World" is officially launched.

"World of Warcraft" is also in open beta testing in North America.

"Legendary World" is similar to "Legend of Legend". Players' curiosity and expectations are actually not strong, and it only caused some sensation in China.

But "World of Warcraft" is a game that players all over the world are looking forward to. They are looking forward to the stars and the moon, and finally this game is here.

On the day of the open beta of the "World of Warcraft" game, countless American players fell into a state of madness, sitting in front of their computers, looking forward to the game starting, and shouting slogans along with the music.

"For the tribe!!!"

"Orcs will never be slaves!!!"

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PS: There are at least 6 updates today. Well, this is called an explosion, right...