Giant of the times

Everyone looked at Li Zetian with puzzled eyes.

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

After a while, everyone suddenly realized and looked shocked, admiring Li Zetian.

"Mr. Li, you almost scared me to death just now. I really thought that "World of Warcraft" was going to be free? Well, charging for this item is really innovative!" Mike Mohan said with a smile.

This was the first time for Ma Huateng to experience Li Zetian's domineering side and world-class talent up close.

Nowadays, the mainstream charging for online games is point card charging, but he went in the opposite direction and proposed to abolish the point card charging model, promote the game to be free, and use props to charge. If the player does not buy the props, then every penny will really be lost. No need to spend money.

At first glance, this idea seems very silly, 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 that online games will take in the future!

Ma Huateng had to sigh in his heart that his big boss was really awesome and worthy of his lifelong study.

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

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

"I understand!" Ma Huateng nodded and said seriously, "Mr. Li, your idea is unique and different from ordinary people, and it also points out the operating charging model of online games in the future! I admire you so much. , just like the water of the Yangtze River flowing endlessly!”

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

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

"Well, it doesn't matter. After all, "World of Legend" is a shoddy work, and there are many cheats and private servers. The game will collapse sooner or later. "World of Warcraft" should learn from this and must absolutely eliminate the existence of cheats!"

"Yes, I understand!"

A few days later, Ma Huateng returned to China.

Blizzard decided to develop more props during the open beta period.

…

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

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

Chen Tianqiao announced that Shanda IM would be officially released on January 1, 2004, wishing for good luck in the new year.

In addition to being an agent for World of Warcraft, Tencent Games also develops several games of its own.

The first one: "QQ Hall" is a plagiarism of "Bubble Hall" produced by Shanda Company in 2002, which was the exclusive agent of South Korea's NEXON Company. Shanda IM copied Tencent QQ and developed it very quickly. Naturally, "QQ Hall" copied "Pao Pao Tang" and developed it very fast too. Everyone is interacting with each other.

The second one: "Cross Fire", well, everyone knows what it plagiarized.

The third one: "QQ Fantasy". NetEase's "Fantasy Westward Journey" just released not long ago has been targeted by Tencent. Well... Mr. Ma can 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, no worse than "Legendary World". Not only boys love to play it, but even girls also like this game very much. It is a game for both men and women.

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

At present, NetEase is doing very well among several major portals in China.

Sina and Sohu are both a bit "miserable".

…

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

William also returned home.

"Has Facebook been developed?" Li Zetian asked casually at dinner.

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

William recruited six college students at Stanford University and developed the Facebook website in one and a half months.

"On the morning of December 24, Facebook was officially launched. However, during the school holiday, many people went home. I plan to wait until the new semester starts and send people to vigorously promote it in the school."

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

“So, although we are only doing the university social circle now, we are looking at the whole world!”

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

“First, provide auxiliary online services to existing physical communities, such as by providing college students with information services that are not available in physical communities. This is an interactive student guide that includes 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 communities! In this way, Facebook can rely on these physical communities to develop rapidly. !!”

Li Zetian nodded with satisfaction. It was a good decision to serve other communities and grow rapidly when his own strength was weak. Didn't Google serve Yahoo back then and finally achieved its own success?

"Second," William continued, "Facebook creates ideal online services by restricting user registration! This is a very important decision for Facebook. In the early days, we only allowed users to register with emails from school domain names, ensuring the authenticity of users. , and then gradually spread from Eastern United States universities to universities across the United States through word-of-mouth marketing, and then gradually developed to Europe and other parts of the world. The original purpose of this decision was to make users feel that the Facebook website was exclusive and unique. The difference is that it is a social networking site that only belongs to the university elite."

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

“Unlike other SNS social networking sites, ours is a real-name system based on users’ real social relationships, so users are very sticky and it is easy to attract more users to join. For example, a college student wants to know his classmates or has a crush. A goddess, but you are too embarrassed to go to her in person, so you can use Facebook to easily understand each other's situation. There are many ways to build a relationship chain, and this is a social chain based on 'search'!"

William talks openly and confidently, and has a kind of guiding style.

Well, as expected of me!

Li Zetian felt proud and satisfied.

Li Youran was also listening, looking at William up and down, and couldn't help but said in surprise: "I can't tell, you are such a fun-loving guy, but you actually have some business acumen!"

William glared at her and said proudly: "You're just kidding, you don't even know who I am!"

Yu Jingqiu said: "Okay, okay, let's not talk about it now. By the time you finish talking, the food will be cold."

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

"oh……"

PS: I will update 2 chapters for you tonight. The coding speed is slow. I have tried my best to update 6 chapters today.