Horrible! Actually playing this kind of game!

Chapter 298 202. What is cost-effectiveness?

The number of pokeni games completed this year is indeed a little less. The main reason is that except for galgame, other games require hardware support, and the development difficulty and development cycle are much more difficult.

Fortunately, pokeni is not short of money now.

Especially after the release of Pokémon 3D World, Neon’s domestic sales alone have now reached an astonishing 2 million copies.

It will be released in Europe and the United States again at the end of the year, and 5 million copies should be stable.

This is the global power of Pokémon.

During the next period of time, Qing Zhiyuan had no other thoughts. He only focused on pushing his only treasure, "To the Moon".

So Qing Zhiyuan quickly invited the presidents of major distributors to have dinner.

After chatting with Hiroyuki Hattori, President Hattori immediately said to order 100,000 copies directly.

Last time, because I wasn't very optimistic about the 3D market, I didn't dare to get more games like "Pokémon 3D World", and I was still in the embarrassing situation of being sold out.

However, after this incident, Hattori Hiroyuki also had a very clear understanding——

Between Times Market and Qingzhiyuan, it is right to choose Qingzhiyuan.

So this time, I will withdraw 100,000 copies in one go.

After the two of them finished eating, on the way home, Hattori Hiroyuki threw the CD of "To the Moon" into the trash can as usual.

Duang!

"The game is a hit!"

…

After finalizing the next marketing plan for "To the Moon" and the contracts between major distributors, Qing Zhiyuan breathed a sigh of relief.

The next step is for the project team to complete the PV and posters according to the needs of the operation department, and then release the corresponding materials to major media. Then "To the Moon" can enter the normal sales process.

These step-by-step matters are handled by Kazakhstan Takahashi, the director of operations.

…

October 9, 1995.

When Qing Zhiyuan returned to the company, he suddenly remembered something. He originally wanted to press the button for the elevator on the 14th floor, but then pressed the button one floor down.

The 13th floor actually belongs to Qing Zhiyuan, but the name of this company is——

P-net.

Yes, this is the subsidiary that was separated from pokeni by Masayoshi Son. Its current main business is Internet products.

However, so far, P-net has only two products, one is pokeni's official website, and the other is pokeni's official forum.

But in fact, these two are combined, and the forum is mounted under the website.

P-NET is still in a period of burning money. It costs tens of millions of yen every month just for network fees.

Fortunately, it has reached a certain scale. So far, pokeni-net has more than 100,000 daily visitors.

In 1995, this was already an extraordinary achievement.

Because of pokeni, a website operating company called Yahoo is now living extremely hard.

Whether it is consulting or entertainment, Yahoo has never done much pokeni. The most important thing is that Masayoshi Son, who was supposed to invest funds in Yahoo in his previous life, did not become their father.

In the absence of external capital injection, Yahoo struggled to grow.

It’s not that there has been no growth at all. After all, the Internet is a trend. As long as you stand on the trend and differentiate yourself from pokeni, you will be able to take off one day.

However, according to Qing Zhiyuan's estimation, the take-off time may be moved back a lot.

…

The moment Qing Zhiyuan's figure appeared outside the glass door, the young lady at the front desk was a little stunned.

Nani?

Is this the one?

real or fake?

Although she was extremely shocked, the young lady's reaction was extremely quick. She quickly stood up and bowed to Qing Zhiyuan.

"Hello, President."

President? ! !

Others heard the voice of the lady at the front desk and looked over.

Nani? !

Why would the president patronize our P-NET? !

Oh my God!

Isn't it incredible? !

The employees of P-net were extremely moved when they saw the president coming to inspect the work.

Especially the old employees of the head office who were transferred from pokeni to [support] were almost crying.

Finally remembered that we were here.

Although it's only one floor away, it doesn't feel like working at the headquarters.

Although this place is very strategic according to the president, the old members actually know it in their hearts——

We are all exiled.

Exiling someone with a high salary is really unheard of. It can only be said that the president played a good card.

Not only will you be demoted, but you will also be given a salary increase to prevent you from changing jobs.

In the current employment environment, it is really not easy to get such a high-paying job. Who dares to change jobs, and who is willing to change jobs?

"Hello, President!"

The employees of P-NET stood up and paid attention to Qing Zhiyuan.

Ah this...

Qing Zhiyuan was also nervous all of a sudden.

I always feel like I am participating in a military parade.

Qing Zhiyuan was no less surprised than them.

P-NET currently has a total of more than 50 people, 80% of whom are new recruits, and Qing Zhiyuan does not recognize any of them.

It's not that I don't want to get to know him, it's mainly because I'm too busy and don't have time to come down and inspect the work.

And with Qing Zhiyuan's memory, unless he is particularly good-looking or unique, he will basically forget who is who after returning home.

The old employees were excited, the new employees were all strangers, and Qing Zhiyuan had the illusion of being treated like a monkey.

Am I here to inspect, or am I here to be watched by you?

It’s hard to say.

It was also the first time for many employees to see the real-life version of the president.

Qing Zhiyuan is actually a relatively low-key boss in the gaming industry. He rarely appears on TV or in media cameras except when necessary.

But that doesn't mean there are fewer people who know him.

Qing Zhiyuan will occasionally appear in newspapers and periodicals. For example, Guo Letong reported on him, and in the previous news, there was a peak master talk between Qing Zhiyuan VS Hayao Miyazaki.

His recent appearance on the screen was due to his participation in the Electronic Entertainment Industry Association organized by Sony.

Compared with the presidents of other companies, Qing Zhiyuan's appearance is really outstanding. He especially stood out at the press conference and was made like a star.

It's hard not to be remembered.

What's more, there is a large organizational chart hanging on the wall upon entering P-net.

The only portrait at the top of the pyramid is that of Qing Zhiyuan.

So the new employees who had only seen Qing Zhiyuan's photos and videos were nervous and excited.

It was the first time I met a living president.

"The president is really handsome!" A female employee sighed softly.

The people next to him didn't dare to move, but they had similar thoughts in their hearts.

The president looks much better in person than on TV.

Those reporters really didn’t know how to take pictures, so the pictures of our handsome and handsome president were dark and blurry.

…

Taking this opportunity, Qing Zhiyuan got to know the employees of P-net one by one with a smile on his face.

In the end, I still didn’t remember any of them.

These days, almost all IT programmers are male, and even if there are one or two female ones, they are very ordinary-looking.

After going around in a circle, Qing Zhiyuan called the current head of P-NET, Toki Yosuke, into the conference room.

"President, why did you think of coming here?"

"Well, I just have a little time today, so come and take a look." Qing Zhiyuan nodded slightly, "Sorry, I'm late. Mainly because I was too busy with work and couldn't get away. I should have come down earlier to have more contact with you. of."

"No, president, your work is important." Toki Yosuke said.

Yosuke Toki is very young, only 29 years old this year, but he has been working at pokeni for several years. He was recommended by Ken Akanishi when he was in danger.

So on a technical level, there is nothing to say about strength.

"Well, I may not be able to pay that much attention, so could you please Dongmu Sang briefly tell me about the current business situation of P-NET?" Qing Zhiyuan asked.

"Okay president."

Toki Yosuke took a deep breath and his brain started spinning rapidly.

To be honest, it was the first time I met the president face to face, and I didn’t say hello at all before. I was really nervous.

"In accordance with the tasks assigned by you, the president, we have now built the pokeni official website. This is a comprehensive website where dedicated staff will update information every day.

At the same time, we have also implemented the image function of the website, but it is limited by the network speed. Different places and different network conditions may load our web pages at different speeds. "

"Yeah." Qing Zhiyuan nodded.

This was still very clear in his mind.

Nowadays, the transmission speed of dial-up Internet is very slow, ranging from a few kilobytes to tens of kilobytes. It is really difficult to load pictures and other things at this speed.

However, with the introduction of pictures, pokeni-net has strong portal capabilities. At least so far, P-NET is unique in terms of loading speed and support for pictures.

With text and picture functions, pokeni-net has the basic ability to receive advertisements, which can be a bit more cash-in-the-making.

Qing Zhiyuan is relatively optimistic about this.

Regarding network hardware, Masayoshi Son is already working on it. Now the world still uses the IPV4 protocol. Masayoshi Son is building an experimental IPv6 network called 6bone.

But this thing is difficult to develop. According to the normal development process, it is expected that the commercial stage will be after 2003.

ADSL communication should be faster, which is the legendary broadband.

This technology was already born in the United States in 1989. If Neon wants to use it commercially, it must first roll out the network cables.

The original form of telephone wire we used to make calls only occupied the low frequency portion of the copper wire and did not fully exploit its full potential.

ADSL technology uses frequency division multiplexing to divide ordinary telephone lines into three relatively independent channels: telephone, uplink and downlink, which not only avoids interference but also increases the speed.

From dial-up network to ADSL is definitely a qualitative leap, the network speed can be increased from a few K to 1M or even 2M.

Although 10M will be too slow in 2023, in this era, if the network speed can reach 512k, it already feels like it is about to take off.

Soon, soon.

Qing Zhiyuan thought.

There is no need to be too demanding. As long as ADSL is commercially available, a lot of things can be done.

At that time, he can show the world what the real future game is.

…

In addition to the support functions for images on websites and web pages, Yosuke Toki also talked about search engines.

This word was given by Qing Zhiyuan.

Because just like a car engine, the engine is a vital tool and technology that enables us to retrieve information and provide feedback to the players.

Although its entrance is simple and its appearance is unremarkable, in fact, what is buried deep underneath is as huge as an iceberg.

"Search engine, we can support almost hundreds of thousands of posts for on-site search, and they can be retrieved through keywords within 2 seconds. However, it is still affected by the network, and it may be slower externally.

In the future, we will optimize the algorithm to make the search faster and more accurate, and at the same time make it more intelligent. "

In this era, Qing Zhiyuan does not require much intelligence. High search efficiency is enough, and accuracy can actually be achieved step by step.

In this era, as long as you are fast, you can already beat the vast majority of Internet companies in the world.

It's fast, good and smart, but it's actually not realistic.

Qing Zhiyuan exchanged his thoughts with Toki Yosuke, and the latter agreed and wrote down the president's words in a small notebook.

…

After Toki Yosuke finished his report, he felt cold sweat on his back.

Is there anything more terrifying than a surprise inspection by the president?

Fortunately, although he was exiled by the head office, he was not a gangster. In Toki Yosuke's view, as long as he could do well in the subsidiary company, he would one day be called back by the president.

…

Now there are portals and search engines, which is equivalent to Qing Zhiyuan having merged the two companies [Google] and [Yahoo] together.

If this company does well, it will have a market value of trillions in the future.

However, I always feel that there are still some shortcomings.

Qing Zhiyuan touched his forehead and stroked it carefully, and suddenly found that he had another very important but relatively simple thing that he had not arranged.

"By the way Dongmu, let's see how you guys make one more important thing, an instant messaging tool."

"Instant messaging tool?" Toki Yosuke was a little confused.

From a literal point of view, it was quite understandable, but he didn't know what to make of it.

Qing Zhiyuan smiled, pulled a whiteboard from the side, and started drawing on it with a marker.

First, I drew a personal chat user interface, and then drew a chat box next to this interface.

This thing is what QQ looks like in Qing Zhiyuan’s memory.

It's just that he omitted some scalable functions.

Basically, only the functions of text input, friends, picture insertion and file transfer are retained.

After Microsoft's win95 came out this year, it basically heralded that the Internet era was really coming.

win95 is a true graphical interface operating system. It is precisely because of its visualization and simple and easy operation that personal computers have entered ordinary people's homes.

In the first half of this year alone, the number of Neon personal computer owners has more than doubled, and now it has almost 5 million users.

This is equivalent to one in every 20 Neon people owning a computer.

And this number will become more than 50 million by the year 2000.

It is imperative to make instant messaging software.

…

At this time next year, a communication software called ICQ will be born in the world, and Qing Zhiyuan has to get ahead of them.

Qing Zhiyuan did this because of his own strategic considerations.

On the one hand, seizing the instant messaging track is equivalent to having a large user base in the future. This is like QQ, which first accumulates users and then monetizes them.

On the other hand, developing instant messaging tools is also to prepare for online games in the future. You will definitely use this when interacting with others in the game.

It has to be developed sooner or later anyway, so it is better to develop it earlier.

In fact, this thing looks complicated, but it is quite simple to do.

When Qing Zhiyuan was in college, he was able to write a simple version of QQ independently, and it didn't take much time.

The functionality of the first version is very simple, and the company definitely has the technology.

The only thing that needs to be noted is that for all user privacy and data security issues, these data need to be stored in the server rather than simply stored in the local client.

Then there are some requirements for transmission efficiency.

According to Qing Zhiyuan's estimation, with the company's strength, this thing can be developed in a week at most, and the interface can take a little more time to beautify.

What is value for money?

This is called value for money!

…

Qing Zhiyuan told it in great detail, and Toki Yosuke could understand it at a glance.

"This should be doable."

He didn't dare to say it was easy, but he instinctively felt that it shouldn't be difficult. It was just a matter of workload, and it wasn't even that big.

Maybe a small team of 3 to 4 people can finish it in a month.

Then here comes the problem.

Toki Yosuke asked in confusion, "So, what should we call this instant messaging software?"

"Um……"

Qing Zhiyuan touched his chin.

“Since it is an instant messaging software developed by our company, let’s give it an English name literally.

How about Pokeni Real-Time Talk?

Abbreviated as PRTT.

Or RTT will do. "

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