Rebirth of the Internet Overlord

/*aos specializes in games such as dota and lol. Aos is considered a branch of the moba game. Because there is also a battle royale category behind it, aos is specially used to refine the moba classification.*/

{Time: August 15, 2004}

{Location: United States-California}

Bingwa knew Ning Zimo and knew that Ning was his peer. He worked as Paypal's COO at the age of 18, and then founded Skype with the first pot of gold he earned in Paypal.

In January this year, he not only sold the company he founded, Skype, for an astonishing US$5.6 billion, but also bought shares of Blizzard from Vivendi Games for US$900 million.

This series of behaviors made the ice frog very envious and curious.

Why is he still editing maps for Dota at the same age of 21, while this one is already famous far and wide?

What is supporting him step by step to get to where he is today?

And what is his purpose in finding them?

…

Ning Zimo sat on the stool and scanned the people around him. He knew that everyone sitting here had doubts, but he still wanted to reveal these doubts slowly now.

Thinking of this, Ning Zimo gave a light high-five to attract everyone's attention to him.

"Guys, thank you for being here today." Ning Zimo looked over one by one, his eyes stopped on Michael's face and said, "Michael recently told me that your Dota map team submitted a Warcraft engine from Ice Frog.

Perfect needs.

But today you have also seen that the entire Blizzard team is currently busy with the version update of "World of Warcraft", and it is almost difficult to devote extra energy to improving the Warcraft 3D engine."

As soon as Ning Zimo finished speaking, Yang Dao suddenly sat upright.

This sudden movement attracted everyone's attention at once.

Yang Dao smiled and said, "Yes, we just saw it. Now I finally understand why World of Warcraft has such a fixed update every week. It turns out that it is because the entire Blizzard team is invested in it."

After a pause, Yangdao added amidst everyone's curiosity, "World of Warcraft is so fun. I've been addicted to it recently."

Yang Dao suddenly jumped out of the topic and even acted as the "traitor" among the four. At this moment, everyone had to laugh helplessly. Michael and Frank even raised the corners of their mouths. After all, it was important for their products to be recognized by users.

Something to be proud of.

Ning Zimo smiled and nodded when he heard Yang Dao's words, but he immediately took over the topic and said, "Actually, I have been following you for a long time. So you sent the request to improve the Warcraft engine, and Michael and the others also forwarded it.

Gave it to me.

Logically speaking, I just acquired Blizzard and never planned to participate in specific operations, but I have been studying the future development possibilities of AOS games recently, so I came up with a new idea."

Ning Zimo immediately lit up the eyes of several people present by bringing up the topic he had prepared early in the morning.

Ning Zimo came to Blizzard in February last year and stayed for more than a week. Before leaving, in addition to Wegame, Ning Zimo also left good suggestions for various Blizzard R&D groups. Since then, Michael has been interested in this acquisition.

The young people at Blizzard have a different perspective.

Now, he has brought new ideas.

Thinking of the regret he just mentioned,

Michael was inexplicably looking forward to it.

"The aos (aeonstrife) game type currently still belongs to the rts (real-time strategy) category, but according to recent statistical data on wegame, because of the 'quick join' mechanism of the wegame platform, the aos game type has gradually developed into

The potential for a fine game classification..."

Behind wegame's "Quick Join" mechanism is a matching mechanism similar to that of the previous League of Legends. This extreme kindness to newcomers will naturally make new players experience the fun of the game instead of the helplessness of being slaughtered.

Although considering the competition on Steam, Wegame is currently not suitable to update the "quick join" mechanism to the matching and ranking mechanism of the previous League of Legends. However, "the reputation of going to Wegame to compete with opponents of the same level" has been established, so this

Wegame has been online for 2 and a half months, and the number of AOS game players on the Wegame platform continues to increase, almost at a rate of about 15% per month.

Taking into account the development of AOS games in previous generations, Ning Zimo is naturally very clear about the future "money path" of this type of game.

But at this point, Ning Zimo paused. He saw that his words aroused everyone's curiosity, and even his words lit up the eyes of the Dota foursome. But for Dota, which has not experienced the lengthy development period of AOS,

As far as the team is concerned, he must clarify some details before executing his ranch Jinshan plan.

Those things are the so-called "faith" roadblocks on the road of AOS development.

But today, he wants to uncover the cover of those so-called "faiths"!

"I know that Dota does not currently have a profit model. Every version update of the Dota game is sustained by you based on your own hobbies. But I have a question to ask you, that is, when Dota takes up a lot of your spare time

Will you regard it as a burden?"

Ning Zimo looked at Nichus when he said this. According to the information from his previous life, this developer who devoted a lot of effort to Dota is currently a biology student. He updates the Dota map entirely in his spare time.

to complete.

But in fact, in his previous life in 2008, Nichus was so overwhelmed that he "abandoned" Dota because free updates to Dota took up so much of his time and energy. From that time on, Dota was missing Nichus.

This creative designer.

The one who went against him was Ice Frog. Ice Frog has always insisted on the "faith" of being free. Of course, his persistence has also given Dota a large number of die-hard fans. But in the end, Dota still embarked on the path of charging.

Just with the help of a "free" shell.

Ning Zimo had gone through his previous life and naturally knew very well what the so-called "belief" of this group of map writers was at the moment. However, he knew that subversion should be done step by step, and he was now going to take action on Nichus first.

Nichus looked at Ning Zimo. He was curious about why the other party looked at him, but Ning Zimo's question did touch something in his heart.

Dota is a product based on the map editor of Warcraft. These days, due to the launch of World of Warcraft, Yang Dao is temporarily busy with World of Warcraft, so the burden of updating the Dota map falls on him and Ice Frog. During this time, he

Participated in the updates of two versions, several new heroes and many skill updates were made by him.

But in recent times, he has also experienced the evil of human nature, because after every version update, there are always some players in the forum attacking the update and disrupting their operations, so that players will feel that the update has turned them from masters to novices.

.

With the launch of the two new versions, there are more and more such attacks. Although some old players will jump out to defend them, they have to retreat due to the abuse from those players who cannot withstand them.

So while participating in Dota updates, he also had to withstand the additional pressure brought by unscrupulous players. So much so that he sometimes considered whether it was right or wrong to participate in Dota map updates?

Ning Zimo saw Nichus' silent loneliness in his eyes and realized that the question just now touched him.

Now that the topic has been raised, Ning Zimo continued, "I plan to officially commercialize AOS-type games, but this kind of behavior is full of copper odor for people with 'faith'

.So before we talk about the next topic, let me give you a simple metaphor."

After standing up out of habit, Ning Zi silently asked, "I wonder if any of you have any niche bands that you like?"

The sudden change of topic made everyone stunned, but Michael suddenly realized that Ning Zimo was trying to use this topic to draw out a new argument, so he spoke directly.

"My favorite club 8 is a very niche band..."

"Club 8, not bad... your preferences are very unique. Although it is not special enough, it is enough for me to use as an example." Ning Zimo raised his eyebrows and smiled, "I often see a point of view on music forums. Many niche groups

Fans will say to their favorite musicians or bands, I like you because you represent my beliefs.

Every time I see this sentence, I want to laugh in my heart, because behind their arguments are often accompanied by such words. You are a minority, and you make me stand out, so you must not be angry.

Because I don’t like to have the same level of appreciation as the public.”

Nichus was stunned for a moment, not understanding what Ning Zimo suddenly meant. But he always felt that what Ning Zimo said seemed to catch a certain point in his heart, making him wrinkle up unconsciously.

frowned.

Although Ning Zimo saw his frowning expression, he didn't say anything.

After changing the subject, he continued, "I believe there is a similar argument in the Dota community. There is a small group of players who like Dota who particularly like this game. But apart from not paying sponsorship for the Dota map, they don't like the version of Dota.

Updates. People often blame Dota's character and skill updates for lowering their operational level, which is the original sin of their defeat as 'masters'.

In fact, the behavior of these people is of the same type as those who talk about "minority" and "belief." They use these two seemingly noble and avant-garde words to wrap their selfishness in a delicate coat.

In their eyes, as long as you are a minority, you should be free or cheap, and as long as you persist, they will respect you. But what everyone may not know is that your persistence is actually just their appreciation of you for obeying their orders.

Perhaps these players have never thought at all that the people who produce these "niche" products must also survive in this world, and more people must like and pay for them in order to launch better things.

They are fundamentally the same type of people as those who are good at accepting new things and have true 'faith'. They think that if their 'faith' is verified by the public and time, it will be full of the smell of copper and feel that their 'faith' will collapse.

Then they will definitely turn to other 'faiths' to continue their unique ways.

Therefore, this group of fans with 'faith' does not hold the truth, on the contrary, they just want to realize their selfish interests in the spiritual realm. After all, they are just vampires in a certain sense."

In a sense, niche and business are two parallel lines that can never intersect, but Ning Zimo has explored part of the truth along the way in his previous life. After the beginning of this life, a healthy business logic continues to be in his hands

Carry out work on all its projects and discover the corresponding success methods.

Now regarding the gaming industry, which will determine his development path for a period of time in the future, Ning Zimo must extend his business logic into it, but before that, he has to use his set of thinking to impact this group of people.

His words caused the expressions on everyone's faces to change again and again. This "nonsense" obviously had a great impact on what they currently advocated, and Ice Frog felt that his thoughts had been greatly impacted.

Because he is the one who updates Dota with "faith".

Bingwa has been updating Dota maps with Yang Dao for some time. At the beginning, he just did it for the purpose of preference. He will continue to absorb players' suggestions and update new maps that everyone likes more after weighing them.

But in fact, when he accepted the Dota map update, he encountered the kind of problems Ning Zimo mentioned.

Before today, he regarded these players who "believed" in them as a spur to himself.

But after Ning Zimo made such a side analysis, he began to reflect on whether he had understood it wrong.

"The reason why I mentioned the so-called faith is because from the very beginning when I found you, I knew that some of you were doing things with 'faith'."

Ning Zimo walked closer to the ice frog and continued, "In my opinion, good things are still good even if they are verified by the public and time. Even if they break through the shackles of the 'niche'

Still able to leave its mark in the long river of time.

So, I have a set of healthy business logic ready to be applied to projects related to you. But before you hear my set of logic, you need to think about what I just talked to you about."

"Now I will give you some time to think about it. I will wait for you next door with Michael and the others." Ning Zimo waved to Michael and Frank. After the two stood up, he continued to speak to the four Dota group, "

The choice is entirely yours."

/*The logic of this belief actually applies to all aspects of our lives. I will mention these topics later, hoping to have some practical significance for everyone.*/