Super Game Empire

Nexon, known as South Korea's No. 1 gaming company, established an exclusive company in China: Lexian Software, Lenovo, IDG China, and Yingke Telecom. They led people to invest 150 million and bought 60% of the shares of Shanghai Post and Telecommunications Computer Company.

Stealing the limelight at cultural exchange events...

The original plan was to introduce Korean games that are popular around the world to China, and move "Kingdom of Wind", which has tens of thousands of players in Europe and the United States, and the just-launched "Dark World" to mainland China to seize the top spot in domestic online games.

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But what kind of answer did the Century Sky team responsible for operating Nexon's games hand in?

"Kingdom of Wind" has 40,000 registered users in mainland China, and there are about 15,000 active game players every day within a month of opening the server. The queues are serious during peak hours every day, and then they launched a charging system to pay within just three days.

The number of game players dropped to about 7,000 per day. This result caused their plan to open a server to be aborted, because each server only had more than 400 people, so why open a new server? They had the idea of ​​​​cutting down the server, but

No one dared to mention it, so they had to bite the bullet and burn money.

Burning money is not endless. Century Sky is holding its breath from top to bottom. They have to wait to see the sales of "Paradise" owned by their biggest competitor Longteng Company. If "Paradise" is also ignored

, they are still willing to continue burning until the day when the players grow up. If "Paradise" becomes popular...

No one at Century Sky wants "Lineage" to be popular. They have been looking for a way out. In addition to introducing Korean games, they also find ways to innovate themselves.

It's a pity that their innovation is also in a wild way, and they have not found a way to innovate themselves. They still believe in the doctrine of appropriation, and hold that China's laws are not perfect. You can't use my ideas and try to copy China Dragon Sports Game Company and

In szone's cooperative game, I was beaten so badly by the other party on CCG that I even had to knock out my teeth and swallow them.

"Fortunately, we still have Kingdom of Winds to compete with Soaring Dragon." This was the thought of the pessimistic employees after the CCG tragedy.

But today is May 14th, the day when Longteng's "Lineage 1" officially launches the server, 514, which is homophonic to "I want to die". Such an unpleasant date continues to become a sad day for them.

I'm afraid that after tonight, whether it's Century Sky, or Bitcom, or even the Korean master Nexon, or the Chinese master Lenovo team, they will lose confidence in their employees. They might really die this time!

Regarding the launch of Longteng's new game, Century Sky is facing a formidable enemy. Starting at noon, Shao Zhiqiang arranged for programmers to pay special attention to the situation of "Lineage 1" and collect relevant information.

During the day, several well-known BBSs such as West Point and Mufeng talk about Longteng and "Paradise". Needless to say, the official website is extremely popular, and their official website forum of Century Sky can generate 20 posts a day, which is pretty good.

This is the first place that is not as good as Longteng.

At 7 o'clock in the evening, 10 servers in China were instantly full. There were more than 1,000 upvotes on Longteng's official website forum urging the official to open a new server. In this regard, Century Sky's popularity was simply incomparable. It lost to the second one.

Originally thinking that this was only the case with Chinese servers, Century Sky programmers tried their best to visit European servers, American servers, and Korean servers, but found that no one was free. As far as they knew, "Land of Wind" was available in South Korea.

There are more than 20 servers, and there are rarely scary scenes of queuing. Their New Year begins to waver. Is "Lineage 1" really that good?

At 7:30, the second batch of servers opened as scheduled. After 5 minutes, they were unwilling to give in. They logged in again and saw that they were full again...

Come on, the loser even loses his pants, so what’s the point of fighting?

All the employees who knew the gap had lost their fighting spirit. No matter how hard they tried, they couldn't compete with others. This was a difference between heaven and earth. Even though the superiors ordered everyone to work overtime today, the employees did not refuse. Just work overtime. No matter where you go, you are not a fool.

You can also mix in some overtime pay and get a free dinner at the company.

Shao Zhiqiang looked at the silent employees in the room, each of them looking like a coward who couldn't even be beaten with eight sticks. Then he looked at them standing there like a piece of wood, with their heads lowered as if they were beaten and scolded no matter what, but they wouldn't fight back.

Fei, Shao Zhiqiang felt extremely angry with this urinary character who could not hold up the wall with mud.

It's a pity that he is waiting for a call now. The big boss above him has spoken and asked him to prepare the most detailed report on Century Sky, which may be reported to the board of directors in the next few days.

But where can he get the transcript?

Online games are losing money and no one plays them. Their independent research and development has been overturned. They have not been sued in court because the General Administration of Sports of the other party has given them face. They are lucky. Nowadays, competitors are opening servers that are full, and adding new servers and filling them again.

Zuo slapped him in the face again and again, and asked him to take this report card to report to the big bosses. Wasn't this asking him to die?

He was waiting for two calls, one from another group of people he had arranged, and the other from the big boss's secretary. He couldn't get angry with the boss, but when he looked at Zhan Feng, he felt disgusted for no reason in his heart. He kicked him over and knocked him down.

A computer chair next to the table was kicked away, and the chair slid crookedly to Zhanfeng's side. At the same time, he said, "Go away and sit down! Standing here and looking upset!"

Zhan Feng came to his senses, held the crooked computer chair to the side and sat down next to it. Like a primary school student who had made a mistake, he stood up angrily after sitting for a while, punishing himself by standing up.

"Mr. Zhan... please think of a way! If there is no explanation, we probably won't be able to pass the board of directors tomorrow, and we will all be laid off..."

"That's it... Mr. Zhan, let's play our game and Longteng play their game. Why are we competing..."

Several employees were whispering suggestions.

Zhan Feng smiled bitterly, and he was also asking himself in his mind, yes, Century Sky and Longteng should not be enemies of life and death at all. They are not Sega and Nintendo. They are both independent game producers under the Windows operating system. This

It should be a non-interference relationship, but why has it become such a life-and-death situation?

What happened to this world? Zhan Feng looked at the irritable Shao Zhiqiang, and then thought about how he colluded with Lu Chen to steal Szone's games but was eventually forced to give in. He thought about the company's senior executives being groveling, losing money and being embarrassed, and saying harsh words when they came back.

They wanted to make a similar game as soon as possible to seize Dragon Soar's market. He didn't know what to say.

Perhaps, this unrelenting ending has a lot to do with themselves. Unfortunately, many people can't see it. Zhanfeng sighed helplessly. Without thinking too much, he accepted whatever was coming.

Jingle bell bell…

The phone rang, Shao Zhiqiang took a deep breath, then picked up the receiver: "Hello..."

He didn't speak, but his face became increasingly blue. He snorted a few words and hung up the phone. No one saw the clenching of his fists under the table, or the veins popping up all over his arms.

Now he wanted to tear the guys on the other end of the phone into pieces, but what he did couldn't be done on stage, and other people couldn't know about it.

This is the domestic hacker team he hired with a high salary. It is said to be one of the best in the country in terms of technology. Paralyzing several servers is a piece of cake and can be done in minutes. He paid a deposit of 10,000 yuan and promised to give another 50,000 yuan after the completion of the work.

But the other party failed, and they couldn't explain the reason. They hesitated and said that the other party was prepared in advance, the server port was blocked, and the operating system was patched with the latest patch. They tried for more than an hour but still couldn't overcome it.

"Useless things! They are all his trash!" Shao Zhiqiang had the urge to throw the cup again, "You have received my deposit and you still don't want to do anything? It's not that simple! When I finish my matter, I will be the first one to come to you.

Spit out the money!"

He didn't know that the hackers he invited suffered heavy losses. They were tracked by Long Teng's people, and they used the powerful computing capabilities of multiple servers to quickly control their broiler flocks, and in turn used their troops to counterattack when they were not paying attention.

Several computers were damaged, causing the hackers to burn two hard drives and lose a large amount of useful data and programs. The loss was definitely more than 10,000 yuan.

Shao Zhiqiang finally waited for the call from the secretary of the big boss and reported on time at 9 o'clock tomorrow morning, bringing along the technical director and financial director. It seemed that the final liquidation was about to take place.

"What a vicious Long Teng! What a vicious person!" Shao Zhiqiang hung up the phone, thinking that all this was about to end. The enviable high annual salary was gone, the admired high status was lost, and maybe even the executives who had agreed to it were lost.

The allotment of shares also fell through, and it was all thanks to Long Teng, a disgusting opponent, and his bunch of pig teammates, and he was furious.

"Zhan Feng! I'm sorry, no matter whether I stay or go, you must be the person responsible for this failure!" Shao Zhiqiang looked at Zhan Feng and the dejected employees, made a decision in his heart, and then waved

Wave, be the first to walk out of the office and get off work!

Time always flies when playing games, especially when it comes to killing monsters and upgrading. The first few levels go up quickly, but unfortunately there are fewer monsters and more people. In the later levels, everyone spreads out a little bit, but upgrading requires more experience.

The night passed in a blink of an eye. When the sky turned pale, the sun rose in the east, and it was a new day, many people had already walked out of the novice area of ​​"Lineage 1" and began to explore deeper places.

Longteng's employees on duty also yawned and got up from their beds, rubbed their eyes and washed their faces before starting work, and arranged for people to take breaks in shifts.

""Lineage 1" is coming with great force and has become the online game with the largest number of players in China!"

"The performance of "Kingdom of Wind" has been dismal in just over a month after its release. The editor will give you an in-depth analysis of the core of Korean games!"

"The 150 million yuan joke is not funny. South Korea's number one game company encountered a waterloo in China."

"..."

Yang Yun looked at the computer and game newspapers he bought from the newsstand. These eye-catching headlines couldn't help but raise the corners of his mouth. He picked them up, handed over ten yuan, and said with a smile: "No need to look for it!"

"(To be continued...)