Horrible! Actually playing this kind of game!

Chapter 561 465. The problem is very difficult!

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From October to November, pokeni worked hard to prepare for the upcoming new game "Dragon Journey".

Yes, live and not just on shelves.

Although pokeni released "Dragon Journey" simultaneously globally this time, the release and promotion content in the Omi region and other regions are obviously different.

In the Oumi region, pokeni focuses on a brand new online mode:

For players and users who can connect to the Internet, there is no need for physical discs to purchase pokeni games. You can purchase them online through the recharge function, and then use the activation code to download the game, whether on a computer or a DC game console. Can play.

The official slogan of "Dragon Journey" is: a game that can be played without a game disc.

Moreover, Dragon Hunting Journey is an alternative exclusive model, which is different from the traditional game console exclusive games. The officially promoted Dragon Hunting Journey will be pokeni’s exclusive game on the Dandelion gaming platform.

It is also exclusive to the gaming platform, but this gaming platform is a virtual platform.

It’s completely different from what everyone knows.

So after the official news of pokeni was announced, it was actually fine elsewhere, because there was no change from the previous release model. However, on the Omi side, countless players were a little confused when they first saw [Online Download].

"Online download? Exclusive to Dandelion Game Platform? Can this also be called an exclusive mode?"

"It's really amazing. This thing is quite new. Qing Zhiyuan is a person who can invent proper nouns. He has redefined the concept of monopoly."

"Hahahaha, this is probably the funniest exclusive I've ever heard of. Generally speaking, doesn't exclusive mean that it can only be played on this platform and cannot be played anywhere else?

But "Quest for the Dragon" I watched supports PC and DC game consoles. No matter how you look at it, it is dual-platform, right?

You can’t possibly say that I created a Dandelion game platform, and then I released it on both Sony PS and Sega DC, which is called exclusive, right? "

"It's really funny, but haven't you noticed that once you fall into the discussion, you fall into Qing Zhiyuan's trap.

It doesn't matter whether it's exclusive or not. What's important is that you start the discussion and raise the heat, then pokeni has already won. "

"Yes, after all, we are a company that produces and sells games. Once it becomes popular and spreads, it will naturally expand its influence, and more gamers will come to play.

So it’s not really a big deal whether it’s exclusive or not, right? "

"From the perspective of hardware platform attributes, there is actually no problem in saying it is exclusive. After all, there is no exact manufacturer that has a monopoly on the computer side. But game consoles are different. Sony's games cannot be played by Renten, and they are only sold on Sony PS. This is called exclusivity.

Rentendo's game console cannot play pokeni games and is only sold in Rentendo. This is also called exclusive. "

"If we look at game consoles, it seems that there is nothing wrong with saying it is exclusive."

"And if the Dandelion platform is exclusive, why is it not exclusive? I think there is no problem.

Think about it, this is equivalent to whether you use Windows, DOS or OS, which operating system you use. Isn't it exclusive if they are incompatible with each other? "

"It seems to make some sense."

“It’s not important, I think exclusivity is just a gimmick, the key is to have new games to play.

The most important thing to pay attention to this time, shouldn't it be that pokeni's new game can be downloaded through the Internet?

A few months ago it seemed like a fantasy, but now it’s about to be launched. "

"Pokeni, this is serious. I saw them saying at the E3 electronics show that in the future, games released by Parallel can be downloaded and played directly from the Internet. I thought they were bragging, but I didn't expect it to be realized so soon? "

"That's right. I was still talking about digitalization a few months ago. No matter how I looked at it, it would only be realized in one or two years. I didn't expect pokeni to be well prepared."

"As I said, P Club is serious about it, unlike Sony, a game developer that tries to take advantage of others.

Sony announced that digitalization is something that will be done in the next few years.

When pokeni announced digitization, it was probably already done. "

"Hahahaha, it's really like this, P Club is really scary."

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This is probably the manufacturing speed of P Company.

Not only the players sighed, but also people in the industry were shocked.

Nobuyuki Idei said, I said digitalization is a strategic concept that must be realized step by step. Qing Zhiyuan, why don’t you just realize all my PPT content directly?

Everyone thought this thing was just a braggadocio, drawing big cakes, but they didn’t expect that pokeni’s flatbreads actually have flavor.

This can't help but make many game companies break their defenses, and at the same time let the world feel pokeni's technology.

"It's so scary. I said that when Qing Zhiyuan was talking about digitalization at the E3 electronics show before, why was it so wrong? They immediately held a press conference on digitalization. This is not over yet. After the press conference, digitalization went online directly. Can you believe this? ?”

“There are many people in the world who brag, but not many who can achieve it.

There are very few people who can realize what they boast about. But at least there is part of it.

But in such a short period of time, what I just boasted can be realized, and I only obey Qing Zhiyuan. "

"When others brag, they brag first and then talk about it. It doesn't matter what happens to them in the future.

Some people brag because they are on the road to planning. Qing Zhiyuan should not be classified as bragging.

Only what is temporarily unachievable is called bragging, and what has been achieved is called telling the truth! "

"Players must love Qing Zhiyuan very much. The pace of technological updates and iterations of pokeni is also terrifying, with new tricks coming out every year.

The key is not to make small fuss, but what others make can set off huge waves.

At first glance, this digitalization seems to have nothing to do with neon, but I always feel that it will become a major trend in the development of games around the world in the future. "

"With pokeni here, who will dare to brag in the future?"

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When Qing Zhiyuan saw the relevant comments, he said, why is the virtual game platform exclusive not exclusive? ?

That's just because these ignorant humans don't know the horror of virtual gaming platforms.

The game is exclusive to the steam platform, what’s the problem?

What are the problems with the Orange Game platform being exclusive?

Do you have to stick to a certain game console series?

It's time to teach the players of this world a lesson.

However, before Qing Zhiyuan was about to teach everyone a lesson, Akanishi Ken found him with a sad face.

The testing of the Dandelion game platform has now been completed, all functions have been implemented, and the bugs have been converged fairly well, and can reach the release level.

The only thing that gave Ken Akanishi a headache was, "President, I feel that with the current network speed, downloading a large game like "Dragon Journey" is still a bit difficult."

The test data sent back from pokeni in the United States shows that on the current network in the United States, if you download Journey to the Dragon, the download speed can be about 20 to 50k.

Yes, that's right. During this year, although the downlink speed of the US network was 3 Mbps and the uplink speed was 768 kbps.

It seems to be much higher than the actual value run by pokeni, but that's the result.

Because it is necessary to consider that a network may be used by multiple users at the same time, and some comprehensive situations may occur during network transmission.

It can achieve a download speed of about 50k, which is actually very good.

The game "Quest for the Dragon" is over 800 megabytes in size, and it is the result of Pokeni's hard work over the past two years. It's the kind of game that I can't bear to delete even a single frame of.

And this is pokeni, a game produced by a company with the world's top game development engine. Other companies dare not even think of it.

It takes about 16 hours to download a game of more than 800 megabytes at a speed of 50k.

This user experience can be said to be quite bad.

It simply cannot serve as a positive publicity, and people will be more inclined to buy physical game discs, so the digitization of pokeni will probably be regarded as a joke and an experiment.

Including Ken Akanishi himself thinks so.

Although the president's concept is good, it is just too advanced. Judging from the current development speed of the Internet, it may take another five years or so to reach the level Qing Zhiyuan wants, that is, within a few hours. After downloading games like "Dragon Quest".

After Qing Zhiyuan heard the report, he couldn't help but frown.

"Do you have a compressed body size?"

Akanishi Ken nodded, "After the compression is completed, it can probably be controlled at around 500M."

500M, but it’s still too big.

It will take about 10 hours to download.

And the network must be relatively smooth.

“What’s even more frightening is that we have conducted a server stress test and found that if multiple players request server downloads at the same time, the download speed will be significantly slower.

We also added more servers to handle this. "

This is a very natural and simple truth:

All players downloading the game is equivalent to queuing up to pick up goods from pokeni's servers, which is the process of picking up goods from warehouses. However, the road to pick up goods has a certain width. When the players come to pick up the goods, When there are more, traffic will naturally become congested.

Then the logistics speed will also slow down, which is the slowdown in download speed caused by the server side.

There will be similar problems in the future.

Just like how Internet users browse pokeni's website now, if there are too many people browsing, the server will be under great pressure. If the server is under great pressure, it will naturally become stuck.

Qing Zhiyuan couldn't help but fold his hands, feeling a little uncomfortable.

This situation is actually inevitable in historical development. Qing Zhiyuan once read the history of network development in this era in books. In the dial-up network period, the transmission speed was calculated in bits. Then in the ADSL period, although the theoretical value It has reached the M level, but it is basically impossible to achieve this theoretical value in actual applications.

It may even be much lower.

How do smart humans do this at times like this?

Qing Zhiyuan suddenly thought of a god, and the corners of his mouth raised slightly.

Looks like I need some strong medicine.

Seeing the smile on Qing Zhiyuan's face, Akanishi Ken couldn't help but trembled and his body stiffened.

The president's meaningful smile was all too familiar to him. It probably meant that Qing Zhiyuan had already thought of a solution, and something unfriendly to programmers would always happen.

Qing Zhiyuan snapped his fingers, "P2P technology."

"Huh?" Akanishi Ken was slightly startled.

Qing Zhiyuan immediately found a whiteboard and explained it to him.

P2P technology was still a laboratory product in 1999 and had not been popularized. However, the theory of this technology has been around for more than ten years and almost 20 years.

“P2P technology, simply put, is peer-to-peer technology.

However, what we are going to do is slightly different from the previous server-client transmission protocol in that——

From now on, we are going to turn every player's machine into a server itself. "

"ha?"

Qing Zhiyuan drew many square grids to identify the player's machine, whether it is a DC game console or a PC.

"Each of these machines is a point in a transmission network.

Then, when players download our games, they don't have to download each one from our server.

Instead, we adopt the principle of proximity and speed, and download from the game console that is closest to us and has the best transmission speed.

This game console can be a player's machine that already owns the game "Dragon Quest".

You know what I mean?

Each machine can be both a client and a server. "

Damn it!

This was the first time Akanishi Ken heard such an incredible plan, and his jaw dropped in surprise.

However, although it seemed incredible at first, he immediately understood the changes brought about by this technical solution:

In the past, players had to download games from the many servers provided by P. Now it is equivalent to each player who downloads the game being one of the warehouses, so everyone does not need to queue up to pokeni's server.

Network speed is limited by physical effects. In the real world, transmission distance is an important factor:

The transmission speed from Tokyo to New York will definitely be much slower than the transmission speed from Tianjin to the Chinese imperial capital.

However, under the P2P solution proposed by Qing Zhiyuan, players can build a small transmission network by themselves.

And when more people download, the corresponding download speed will be faster, because there will be more [supplies].

"This... I think I can try it."

The P2P protocol is not difficult, and the relevant retrieval technology Pokeni itself has it. They are the first Internet company to do information retrieval, and it can be said that it is quite smooth.

The first person who invented the P2P software Napster was just a first-year student at the University of Pennsylvania, and it didn't take him much time.

Therefore, Qing Zhiyuan has reason to believe that Akanishi Ken and others should be able to complete the task quickly.

Thinking back to P2P technology, Qing Zhiyuan couldn't help but laugh.

During his college days, there were several very popular P2P downloading software, the most famous of which was called Vagaa. As soon as he used this to seed, the entire dormitory network was taken over by himself.

The speed was quite fast, and it could almost take up the downlink speed of the network at that time.

Then later came eDonkey.

Next is Internet Express, and finally is Thunder.

Compared with the big brothers in front of them, Xunlei was a scumbag at the time.

The speed of Internet Express was once unparalleled in the world, and this software was completed by one person. If the developer had not become addicted to World of Warcraft and neglected software updates, there would basically be nothing to do with Thunder.

From this perspective, games do harm people.

Ha ha ha ha.

Qing Zhiyuan couldn't help laughing when he thought of this.

Ken Akanishi felt his scalp numb. After asking about the detailed settings, he quickly left the president's office after confirming that there was no problem.

After walking out, Akanishi Ken silently broke into a cold sweat.

I just felt like my back was soaked.

The president is really terrible.

Being able to solve problems in a short time makes him like an inexhaustible treasure trove of knowledge. With the P2P model that treats every player machine as a transmission node, Akanishi Ken even wants to You may not be able to figure it out with your brain.

But the president downplayed it, as if he just picked it up at his fingertips.

What a bummer!

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