Horrible! Actually playing this kind of game!

After the launch of pokeni's game platform, relying on the current card games and recharge system, it suddenly gained a very stable income stream.

Neon is still considered a small player, while the big players are mainly on the Omi side. Nowadays, Americans use the Internet the most, and they also have high-quality payment capabilities. Many Americans are typical gamblers, and they are not interested in gambling on the Internet. There is no ability to resist.

In addition, the network construction and online banking system in the United States are relatively good, and online banking has become popular, and more high-quality customers will naturally emerge.

Many times it is impulse payment. When you lose, you always want to win and get offline, but the easier it is to get cheated. At this time, in the United States where online banking payment has been opened, their payment threshold is lower, unlike Neon and China. Users, many of them have to go and buy point cards, maybe they will calm down after blowing in the wind on the road.

Therefore, although the number of users in the United States is not the largest, it has the highest payment amount.

"President, isn't the gaming platform too powerful? I didn't expect this thing to make so much money."

On pokeni's side, Ken Akanishi, the director of the programming department, couldn't believe his eyes. It was such a small thing, even if it was included in the game category, it seemed crude and weak, but when put together, it produced such huge energy that it made pokeni can actually accumulate a large amount of funds in a short period of time.

And from the data point of view, the daily revenue is actually very stable and growing.

Ken Akanishi himself can't even imagine how far this thing will grow in the future.

Other colleagues in the company seemed to have no idea that a seemingly simple gaming platform could be so powerful.

The monthly turnover is more than 31 million US dollars, which is already higher than the annual income of many game masterpieces.

A game costs about US$60 in the United States. If it costs 30 million, it needs to sell 500,000 copies. Most games cannot achieve this level.

Even if it maintains this level of development, pokeni is equivalent to launching a game with a sales volume of 500,000 every month, and this number is still rising. Pokeni's own members cannot imagine what it will become in the future. What does it look like.

"Yeah, it's scary. It takes two years to develop our game and we may not be able to make so much money. The revenue of the game platform is so high in one month."

"How should I put it? I can only say that I am lucky that I am an employee of pokeni. Otherwise, I would be extremely envious when I see this number in other companies."

"Hahaha, being a member of pokeni is really a sense of accomplishment."

This feeling of winning by lying down is really unparalleled and wonderful, and it seems that because of the existence of Qing Zhiyuan, they have the illusion that making money is so easy.

Even if the company launches a new game platform, it seems that there are no blockbuster games, but it is really amazing that it can make so much money.

Before the official launch, no one in the company except Qing Zhiyuan would have thought of such an effect.

According to their previous thoughts, how much money can be earned from a game that is [free to download] and then recharged through point cards is probably similar to that of an arcade hall, but the monthly revenue of a large-scale arcade hall is about tens of millions of yen per month. , which is completely different from what we see now.

Seeing Akanishi Ken and others' jaws dropped, Qing Zhiyuan couldn't help but feel a little funny.

However, he gently patted Akanishi Ken's shoulder and told him to calm down. This was just a routine operation and there was no need to be too surprised.

“I can only say that in this world, if there are conditions, everyone can become a gambling dog.

Betting on dogs is the most hopeless thing. "

Qing Zhiyuan said with a smile, "Our game hall takes advantage of people's gambling nature. What we are afraid of is that players will not come to play. Once you enter the game hall and play a few games of mahjong, there will always be many who lose money." , naturally they will jump on it and buy more game coins.”

"Oh, I got it."

Ken Akanishi nodded seriously. When Qing Zhiyuan asked him to make a game platform, he didn't have a specific concept. Although he doesn't have much concept now, he finally has some understanding.

"Human nature is really terrible."

Previous games were basically differentiated and enriched in terms of fun and experience, but pokeni has created a new game model——

Allow players to pay through existing gambling games.

There is almost no beauty at all in terms of design, and it even takes advantage of the weaknesses of human nature, which seems a bit crude, but the profits it brings are indeed considerable.

Before this, only arcade machines had similar effects.

"The revenue we see now is quite high, mainly because the growth of new users is relatively rapid and in the rising stage," Qing Zhiyuan said to Shinji Mikami next to him, "I will assign you a new task in the future. It’s just about finding ways for players to spend the virtual currency of the gaming platform.”

"Huh? What do you mean?" Shinji Mikami took out a small notebook and took notes. For a while, he couldn't catch up with the president's thinking.

"Aren't we going to launch a game download function in the future? These games can be purchased with Dandelion coins. After more third parties join the game platform, the game coins will have an outlet for consumption."

"Yeah." Shinji Mikami nodded.

"But these game consumption exports are still not enough," Qing Zhiyuan said seriously, "We also need to provide other things."

In fact, the money that players recharge in the game will eventually be circulated on the platform and gathered in the hands of a few people. If these virtual coins are not consumed, they will eventually overflow.

The real money that pokeni can make comes from the amount of dandelion coins spent to open a room, especially a high-end room, and the other part comes from rake like in a casino.

Therefore, Qing Zhiyuan needs to ask Shinji Mikami and others to design more ways to consume currency.

"For example, on the gaming platform, each player's personal avatar can be personalized by purchasing more good-looking avatars provided by the official. Do you understand what I mean?

It is equivalent to making a virtual image of a player on the Internet, and then selling them the corresponding face, hair, body, clothes, pants and various special effects...

These are all to be sold for money. "

"Huh?" Mikami Shinji was a little shocked, "Is this really okay?"

It was actually hard for him to imagine what kind of players would be willing to pay for an avatar in the game. Mikami's instinctive reaction was -

This thing cannot be eaten or worn, and has no use value at all. Will players really buy it just for performance in the game?

"You don't understand, this is called virtual goods, but virtual goods are also commodities." Qing Zhiyuan said with a smile, "And in the future, we will also provide them with houses, cars, accessories, etc. that we built by ourselves. Anyway, just go as far as you can. Just do it.

These functions are used to recover game coins. "

"Okay president."

Although Mikami Shinji has doubts about whether virtual goods have value, this does not prevent him from understanding Qing Zhiyuan's design ideas, and Mikami feels that he should be able to do it well.

"Mikami," before leaving the president's office, Mikami was called back by Qing Zhiyuan.

"President."

“If you think about it this way, the game itself is a kind of virtual commodity. Whether it is a game disc or the data transmitted through the network after digitization, it is just the carrier of the game.

Can you understand this? "

Mikami Shinji was stunned for a moment, thinking about what the president said, and his eyes sparkled in less than two seconds.

"Yes. I understand, President."

Once he understood that games are virtual goods and that anything can be virtualized, Shinji Mikami suddenly became enlightened.

"In other words, we can also make a claw machine on the gaming platform in the future."

"Hahaha, yes, that's right, that's it." Qing Zhiyuan laughed happily. This guy's ability to comprehend is really strong.

Sega was the first game manufacturer to make a claw machine. By integrating the claw machine into a game platform, it not only recycled dandelion coins, but also allowed players to play the role of a virtual human.

In the future, Pokémon dolls can also be released and turned into [virtual pet] images. Not only virtual dolls, but also virtual pets that are lively and active.

However, that time was already the gaming platform 2.0 era.

It is equivalent to pokeni retaining a large amount of data for each player, which places high demands on the server.

Qing Zhiyuan’s big idea is equivalent to building a virtual home with games. It’s not just as simple as steam. Not only can you create your own world in the virtual home, but you can also dress yourself up and use this virtual person. Socialize, play games, buy items and keep pets…

This is actually the future [Metaverse] model, but it is definitely more grounded than Zuckerberg’s idea.

Once netizens get used to and identify with their identity in the Dandelion world, they will regard it as another self over time, and they can use this virtual image to become a real and vivid individual life in the world.

This is the game platform 2.0 model conceived by Qing Zhiyuan.

There will be 3.0, 4.0 in the future...

Until the day when brain computers actually appeared.

…

For colleagues in the gaming industry, hearing about the results of the pokeni gaming platform was like experiencing a major earthquake.

"200,000 max online? What is this concept?"

On the Chinese side, Kingsoft CEO Qiu Bojun was a little confused.

After all, no online games had been born this year, so everyone was not very sensitive to numbers.

Qiu Bojun can be said to be China's earliest legendary programmer and the earliest pioneer of the game industry. As early as January 1996, Jinshan's Xishanju Studio released the first commercial game in mainland China - "Zhongguancun" "Apocalypse" marks Kingsoft's official entry into the gaming field.

In 1997, a game called "Swordsman Love" became popular throughout China, and Xishanju was also the well-deserved number one game developer in China.

"It is said that pokeni earned US$31 million from the gaming platform alone from July to August." explained the marketing director next to him.

If you have no idea about the number of people online, then you still have an idea about money.

"So many?"

Qiu Bojun was a little confused.

"And..." the marketing director gritted his teeth and continued, "according to the observations and estimates of our market colleagues, pokeni's gaming platform will be able to generate at least 30 million US dollars in monthly revenue every month in the future, and even this number will increase as the The number of users will increase."

"What...ahem..." Qiu Bojun was really frightened.

You must know that although Swordsman Love is popular, its lifespan is actually very short. After the first two months, sales will only go downhill.

And you told me that chess and card games can make 30 million dollars every month, and it’s still in U.S. dollars!

Isn’t this equivalent to Pokeni releasing a hit single-player game every month?

Mr. Qiu's eyes turned sharp, "Is a board game so scary?"

…

Bao Yueqiao, the CEO of Lianzhong, was also a belated observer. It wasn’t until someone told him that a gaming platform similar to theirs appeared on the market that he went to try it out. This experience was not a big deal, and it scared his back. Breaking into a cold sweat.

Now they are still troubled by how to make the game lobby pay and monetize, but they didn't expect pokeni to make it directly.

This kind of cool operation of purchasing point cards offline and entering recharge online is really eye-opening. Bao Yueqiao can't think of it even if he breaks his head.

"Damn it! We woke up early, and we fell behind all of a sudden!"

…

After about a month, other game manufacturers have basically come back to their senses and finally understood Qing Zhiyuan’s cool moves.

"Ah! So this is how online games work."

Ken Kutaragi of SCE Company is simply amazed by Qing Zhiyuan's operating model. Using online games, and then connecting real people through the Internet, and then directly transporting board and card games for gaming, this is equivalent to opening up an online world. casino.

Although funds can only go in but not out, players can only earn virtual game currency in the game and cannot exchange it for money, but every time P Club sells a game point card, it is real money!

Before, everyone was still stuck in the traditional one-time payment mentality, but now pokeni has directly taught everyone a lesson with its new online game, telling everyone that there is still this kind of long-term game production method.

Judging from the results, arcades are probably not as profitable as pokeni’s online gaming platform.

You must know that the Dandelion gaming platform is spread all over the world. In China, together with Omi and Neon, it basically covers a large number of gamers.

Although there are only a few million players now, there are hundreds of millions of potential users.

Kutaragi Ken has already felt a deep shudder. He can almost imagine how huge the Dandelion gaming platform will develop into in the future.

"It's too scary. Pokeni's gaming platform is simply a gold-swallowing behemoth."

The Dandelion Game Platform feels like a giant whale swimming in the ocean, but there is no one around that can compare.

Kutaragi Ken's fingers trembled subconsciously, and he had an intuition that if he didn't keep up with P Club's pace in the short term, he might be left far behind.

But--

Sony currently has too little grounding in the Internet field.

This gave him a headache and fear.

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