rebirth from small pockets

Chapter 608 The value of time

Author: The sea under the clouds

Chapter 608 The value of time

In November 2000, an Internet company called Shengtong Network reached a cooperation with a Korean game development company.

Shengtong Network will represent an online game titled "Legend of Hot Blood" produced by this Korean game development company for an agency fee of US$300,000.

However, this news did not cause much response in China and South Korea. After all, both Shengtong Network and the Korean game development company are minor players in the industry.

As for the online game called "Legend of Hot Blood", even Chinese people have never heard of it.

In fact, let alone Chinese people, not many people in Korea even know about this game.

Naturally, this kind of cooperation is unlikely to cause much splash, which has led to several domestic game forums being a little confused when it comes to promoting "Legend of Blood".

Some people may wonder, since there is no way to start, why should we help promote "Legend of Hot Blood"?

There is obviously only one answer. Of course Shengtong Network paid for it!

Different from the many sources of information later, the early domestic Internet information sources were very single, and Internet users were accustomed to going to whichever website they were looking for what type of information they were looking for.

For example, if you want to buy a car or want to learn about cars, you will go to some car forums.

If you want to know some information about games, then you will naturally go to some game forums.

However, in 2000, there were actually no professional game forums. At most, it was just a communication forum where some game enthusiasts gathered.

But even so, these forums are still very influential in the circle of game enthusiasts, which is why Shengtong Network is willing to spend money.

It doesn’t cost much anyway, so even though Chen Qiao now wishes he could break a penny in half and spend it, he doesn’t feel bad about the promotion fee.

It's just that Shengtong has just reached a cooperation with a Korean company and the game has not entered the country yet, so these forums can only rely on some information given by Shengtong Network. Nonsense!

Although the effect of such publicity is bound to be greatly reduced, it still attracted the attention of some game enthusiasts.

And on November 20th, after some internal closed testing, this "Legend of Hot Blood" run by Shengtong Network Agent began its first round of internal testing in the domestic market!

In fact, there is no so-called closed beta or internal beta these days, because before this, almost all game companies would not release the game to the market until the test was completed.

Of course, this is mainly because most of the previous games were single-player games. But at the stage of online games, the early test mode is obviously inappropriate.

The first is the cost issue!

The cost of developing an online game and producing a stand-alone game are completely different things.

This is also the reason why most early online games always have a bunch of various bugs, because their funds simply do not allow them to test out those bugs at the beginning.

Therefore, some smart game companies have come up with some other tricks.

For example, some game players are invited to the game company to help test the game. The game company is responsible for the food and accommodation of these players, while the players are responsible for "playing".

Of course, if we look at it from the perspective of future generations, these players are actually being paid for free by the game company. After all, helping the game company test for free is basically equivalent to working for the game company in vain.

But in the early days, players who could be invited by game companies to test would not have such a feeling at all.

They may even be proud of it!

And game companies are also happy to use this free prostitution method. After all, you can hire a group of people to help test the game for a small amount of money. This is so cool!

Secondly, this method of joint testing between game companies and players is equivalent to promoting the game in advance.

The vast majority of invited test players will basically become a help in promoting the game later.

This is equivalent to not only using a bunch of testers for nothing, but also saving a large part of the publicity and promotion expenses.

So later online games basically like to do this.

Even though those game companies no longer lacked that amount of funds, everyone still likes to engage in closed beta ~ internal beta ~ public beta.

Of course, in 2000, there were almost no online game companies doing this.

After all, this kind of testing is actually a double-edged sword. If the game is stretched to a certain extent, then the so-called testing and publicity will be a complete joke.

Just like "Westward Journey 1" launched by Wangnan in its previous life, there were too many bugs, and some bugs could not be fixed, which ultimately led to the failure of the entire game.

To put it bluntly, online games are still a new thing in this era, and everyone is trying to cross the river by feeling the stones.

If you can follow the stone to the other side of the river, you will naturally be considered a victory.

But if you cut your foot on a stone while crossing the river, that's a different story.

Wangnan in the previous life was the one who had his foot cut, and Shengda at that time was naturally the one who touched the other side.

And this point has a lot to do with "Legend of Hot Blood" itself.

Although the results of this game in South Korea were not good, because it had been introduced to the market, overall, "Legend of Blood" at that time was actually considered a mature online game.

Even after this game entered the domestic market, a large number of bugs still appeared, but compared with those domestic online games that have just started, the two are not the same concept at all.

In particular, "Legend of Blood" copied the siege warfare gameplay from "Paradise" and is regarded as a classic in online games.

Every time during the siege of Shabak, when the battle song of "Jinda Laihua" sounded, and the conductor's hoarse shouts resounded throughout the Internet cafe, all the players' footsteps moved in the same direction. It was definitely a game of that generation.

Memories shared by players.

And how classic is this gameplay?

Even when the official game server became unpopular, a large number of game players gathered in some unofficial game private servers because of this gameplay.

This shows how attractive this gameplay is!

Of course~ the initial version of "Legend of Blood" did not have this gameplay. This is considered a big killer of this game. After all, it will not be officially launched until the game has passed the early testing period.

But in this era, let alone the gameplay, in fact, as long as it is an online game that can run normally, there are a lot of people willing to play it.

Even in the monster-killing mode that was almost abandoned later, players can still spend a whole day hacking away.

So in this era, it is not that important whether the game is fun or not. What is important is that the game must run stably, and try to avoid frequent major bugs.

As for some bugs that are small enough to not affect game operations, as long as they can be fixed, they are not a problem at all.

On the 20th, Chen Li also participated in the testing of this game.

After all, this method of public internal testing was his suggestion to Chen Qiao, so he naturally participated in it.

Hmm. Okay~ Actually, it’s just Chen Li who wants to play this game as soon as possible.

When the game's server was first launched, Chen Li was actually playing it at home.

Just over ten minutes later, Chen Li drove to the office building on the East Third Ring Road.

There is no way~ The private network these days is really bad. Even compared with Internet cafe users, home broadband is actually good enough, but Chen Li is still a little dissatisfied.

However, the speed of the corporate network met Chen Li's needs, so Chen Li went to the company over the weekend just to play games.

And just when Chen Li was chasing a bunch of chickens, deer, scarecrows and rake cats to chop them down, Zhang Ruolan and Mu Xiaoqing, who had received the news, also rushed to the company.

Because it was the weekend, Zhang Ruolan, Chen Li's personal assistant, was actually on break.

She made an appointment with Mu Xiaoqing today and planned to buy corresponding daily necessities for Mu Xiaoqing's new villa.

Mu Xiaoqing plans to settle down in Yanjing, but due to work reasons, she may still stay in the port city most of the time.

The reason why she planned to settle down in Yanjing, apart from the villa that Chen Li rewarded her with, was to make it easier to take care of her daughter.

In Hong Kong City, Mu Xiaoqing was very busy, so Mu Xiaoxi was actually taken care of by her Filipino maid most of the time.

Although Filipino maids are actually very capable at work, there are some things that outsiders cannot give, such as family love!

This time Mu Xiaoqing returned to Yanjing, apart from work, just for this matter.

After the villa in Yanjing is renovated, her parents will come to Yanjing to live, of course mainly to take care of their children.

After all, Mu Xiaoxi will be going to school soon, and Mu Xiaoqing was actually a little confused about this issue before.

The point she was struggling with was whether to let her children receive education in Hong Kong City or let them receive education in Yanjing?

Needless to say, the benefits of studying in Hong Kong City are not only the educational strength of Hong Kong City, but also the convenience of studying abroad in the future.

But the problem is that Mu Xiaoqing has stayed abroad all year round, so she naturally knows the situation abroad very well.

She knew very well that foreign countries were not as good as what many media reported at this time. Of course, she also had to admit that in many aspects, China at this time was indeed not as good as those developed countries abroad.

So Mu Xiaoqing struggled with this issue for a long time, and even mentioned it to Chen Li after he reported his work.

If it was a previous life, then Chen Li would probably not express any opinions on this issue. Even if he expressed his opinions, based on the principle of doing good for the little girl Mu Xiaoxi, Chen Li would probably suggest that the other party stay in Hong Kong City.

After all, in terms of education, China is indeed lagging behind at this time.

Moreover, when Mu Xiaoxi reaches the age of going to college, it will be more convenient to go to some top universities in Europe and the United States from the Hong Kong city than from the mainland.

But now. Chen Li told Mu Xiaoqing his opinion without saying anything.

Stay in Yanjing!

There is no other reason~ Just some time ago, Chen Li just bought the knowledge-based android Teacher Wang from the system who was tutoring the three sisters Chen Xuesan.

A total of 10 million mall currency! It took Chen Li a long time to save so much.

Even though Chen Li felt extremely distressed, he had no regrets about this choice.

Because now Chen Li has discovered that instead of exchanging for the finished products in the system mall, it is actually the best choice to exchange for these knowledge-based bionic talents.

On a larger scale, the knowledge reserve of such a knowledge-based android~ for the current China, is definitely far more useful than Chen Li's direct exchange for an item.

After all, this knowledge can be taught to others. When this knowledge is taught to more people, the gap between the two cannot be replaced by a little mall currency.

You know, even though Teacher Wang is just a knowledge-based android in high school, high school at the time of the system and high school now are completely different things.

In fact, at first Chen Li wanted to exchange it for a higher-level knowledge-based android, but the price Xiaomeng gave made Chen Li temporarily give up this idea.

Of course~ the main reason is because according to what Xiaomeng said, even if a knowledge-based android with an excessive level is redeemed by Chen Li, it actually has little meaning!

The reason is simple~ when the advancement of knowledge exceeds a certain limit, then the knowledge may not necessarily be suitable for the current era.

The meaning of this statement is naturally understandable. To put it bluntly, it is knowledge that will be obtained tens or even hundreds of years later. If it is put to the present, it may even be considered to be fallacies.

And what is the most important point? Even though Chen Li brought those profound knowledge concepts to this era, due to the limitations of the level of industrial and technological development, many things simply cannot be realized and proven.

The best way is to proceed step by step, starting with the knowledge-based android in high school, and then gradually increase the level of the knowledge-based android after Chen Xue, Wang Yan, and Chen Tingting have digested the knowledge brought by this android.

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Of course, although Chen Li thought what Xiaomeng said was reasonable, he still suspected that Xiaomeng, this damn girl, actually wanted him to spend more mall currency.

You know, the exchange price for these androids is very expensive.

In fact, for anything involving the concept of "advancedness", the price tag of the system is very expensive.

Just like the special medicine that Chen Li bought from the system to treat his mother's illness some time ago, in terms of cost, Chen Li undoubtedly spent a sky-high price.

But at that time, Chen Li paid for it without saying a word. This kind of special medicine that can treat cancer cannot be measured by value at all in this era.

And for Chen Li personally, the ability to free his mother from the disease is not something that can be compared with a small amount of mall currency.

Of course, those special medicines bought by Chen Li cannot be used by him for research, otherwise they would be worth another price.

As for the price, I am afraid that Chen Li will sell his entire life to the system, and he cannot afford it now.

After all, the price difference is not due to technical reasons.

There is also the value of time!

(End of chapter)