Number One Game Designer

Of course, Fang Xi didn't mean to start a pig farm and slaughter players like pigs. After all, his surname is not Ding.

"So I think our Honghu platform can be optimized." Fang Xi said. "After all, our purpose has always been to make the game better for players, so I think we should put some aspects on the agenda."

"Improve the player experience..." Lu Wanqi recalled Fang Xi's words, thinking that Fang Xi is paying attention to the news about the console today, thoughtfully:

"You want to make a handle?"

"Bingo!" Fang Xi looked Lu Wanqi up and down: "This is what I want to talk about, when did we have such a good understanding?"

Lu Wanqi cast a reproachful glance at Fang Xi: "Anyway, I'm also the senior game director of Hongyi now, so I still have this knowledge."

"A video game in the modern sense is generally speaking separately, it is a behavior that affects the screen on the display through the player's operation."

"So this process can be roughly divided into two parts, the game's peripherals and the game's software. Now Hongyi is making the game software to the extreme, which is the Honghu platform."

Fang Xi nodded. Just as the host platform is essentially a platform, his Honghu platform can also be regarded as a platform, but the difference is that the host platform is independent, so games can be priced freely, while the Honghu platform is still a PC in essence. The platform is not entirely his own platform, and it is also the root cause of Fang Xi's bad mood now.

"Our Honghu platform now allows players to communicate and share freely, provides help for players to make their own mods, and at the same time allows some producers who are not suitable for this line of work to earn a little money to promote the prosperity and development of the market."

"We are truly blessed."

Fang Xi's daily self-praise Lu Wanqi has become accustomed to and even immune to:

"Let's talk about the optimization of the Honghu platform. As I said just now, the game is essentially divided into hardware and software. In terms of software, our Honghu platform has achieved the ultimate, so we should worry about hardware. Gaming peripherals."

"The peripherals of the game are divided into input devices and output devices, and the output devices..."

"Stop, stop." Fang Xi made a stop gesture: "Baby, you should use nouns directly, don't use these to refer to."

Taking another reproachful glance at Fang Xi, Lu Wanqi continued to explain her thoughts:

"The output device is the display, which requires a strong level of craftsmanship. It is not impossible for us Hongyi to do it now, but it is obviously not cost-effective, and players obviously do not have a great demand for game-specific displays."

"However, in terms of input devices, PC games lag behind consoles. The input devices of the two are keyboards and gamepads, and except for playing some competitive games, the experience of using gamepads in most games is significantly better than that of keyboards."

Fang Xi nodded, the question Lu Wanqi mentioned was the first thing he thought of tonight. Although VR equipment is still under development, it should be more than enough to use the redundant manpower of the current VR studio to research a controller.

Since the day when the Honghu platform was launched, many players have expressed the hope that Hongyi’s games can support controllers, but the biggest problem is that the controllers on the market are not uniform: there is no company that specializes in controllers for PCs. Production, because the market is not unified, there are only three major console manufacturers that make controllers, but the problem is that their controllers can only be "perfectly" adapted to their own consoles, and if they are played on a PC, there will always be sporadic buttons conflict.

"Although the VR lab hasn't produced perfect VR glasses and handles yet, it has also developed several new small technologies. You will bring my request to them next Monday. I believe they will not refuse."

Lu Wanqi nodded, what she liked was Fang Xi's appearance as if everything was under control.

"Then what about our cooperation with Ren's?" Lu Wanqi smiled and said, "It seems that someone is not as close as imagined for the cooperation with Ren's?"

There is no need to deny this,

Fang Xi nodded:

"It's a modern society, and all cooperation has to add a premise, which is 'limited'." Speaking of this, Fang Xi shook his head again:

"The last time I went to Tokyo, Kimijima Satoshi proposed to me that the two companies exchange shares, and I rejected it."

"Share exchange?" Lu Wanqi was a little surprised: "Although the Ren family has been going downhill now, and the new mainframe hadn't been launched at that time, the emaciated camel was bigger than the horse. Was their condition at that time too much?"

Hearing this, Fang Xi denied it: "Satoshi Jundao said that if I want, he can persuade the board of directors to exchange 12.5% ​​of Ren's shares in exchange for 7.2% of Hongyi's shares in my hand."

Lu Wanqi's eyes widened. This is already a very generous condition. The outside world has a lot of comments on Ren's company, but the word "arrogance" is always indispensable, but such an arrogant company is willing to exchange higher shares for Hongyi Lower shares, this firstly shows that they are really optimistic about Hongyi, and secondly, they want to get shares of Hongyi regardless of the cost, which means...

"They want to expand their influence within Hongyi through share erosion? Or replace it?"

Fang Xi nodded approvingly: "This is basically a conspiracy. If it is normal for someone like me to build such a big company from scratch, he will definitely not be afraid of challenges. Ren's release of such a bait will definitely not miss it."

"However, they probably didn't realize that I have a mental cleanliness. For me, my Hongyi must be 100% my Hongyi. I don't want to share my company with another person."

Lu Wanqi digested the content, and then slowly said: "So the conversation between you and Satoshi Jundao just now on the phone as if they were relatives is fake. In fact, the two of you want to eat each other down to the bone?"

Fang Xi smiled at this statement: "Of course his thanks and my help are all sincere."

"But we also sincerely want to annex each other."

"It doesn't matter whether you appreciate it or not, this is modern warfare."

Lu Wanqi's eyes widened, she probably hadn't recovered from the meaning of this sentence, and then noticed the meaning of Fang Xi's words, annexing the other party...

"You also want to annex Ren's?"

"Who wouldn't want that?" Fang Xi didn't deny it.

"But there is a more direct way to annex the other party, with fewer hidden dangers and better results. Instead of using shares to erode such tricks that are not on the table and are called financial means."

Although Lu Wanqi doesn't know much about finance, she also knows that there is only one method Fang Xi mentioned, and that is acquisition:

"But it's impossible for Mrs. Ren to sell it?"

"No, they will." Fang Xi smiled meaningfully: "But not now."