Super Tycoon

Alan Adham, Blizzard's president, was looking at another of the company's game development teams. This development team was established two years ago, but the progress has not been satisfactory to the company.

The major shareholder, Zhi Duoxing, has developed two games, Legend and Miracle. Among them, Legend claims to have more than 10 million paying users. In the Chinese market, there are millions of loyal players.

Although Miracle is not as good as it is, it still has nearly ten million active users around the world, and several million long-term paying players.

Massively multiplayer online role-playing online games are more profitable than traditional stand-alone games and LAN games, and more profitable than the most popular strategy games ever.

Because everyone said that this kind of large-scale online game combines the advantages of many traditional games. You can break through levels, you can fight, you need strategy, you also need teamwork, etc.

And because more people are playing at the same time, the map is bigger and has more changes.

This kind of game must be very profitable in the future. As a top game company, Blizzard naturally noticed it, and they couldn't miss this big cake.

If they want to make something different and play it for a long time, they think it must be a 3D online game. 2D games are already lagging behind, and the graphics can't compare with 3D.

Moreover, many games have relatively few skills, and the player's autonomy is relatively poor when upgrading, which is also a shortcoming that Blizzard believes.

Blizzard's idea is to get rid of all the shortcomings, launch a game that can be enjoyed by people for a long time, and it will definitely make more money, and the profit period will definitely be longer.

In the past, every time the company developed a game, it would announce it to the public before it was completed, so as to warm up the market and facilitate their sale after listing.

But since being controlled by the Zhiduoxing Group, Allen has learned a new model, that is, to keep quiet for now, and then give competitors a head-on blow.

Although more funds are needed for intensive publicity, the effect is better.

After becoming a company controlled by a subsidiary of Zhiduoxing, Blizzard's development is also better than in its previous life. It has the funds and energy to develop two large-scale games at the same time.

Blizzard's main plan this year is to launch Warcraft 3, and now this game has many fans around the world. They also made two versions, one is a single version, which can only be installed on one computer, and the other is a business version, which is specially set up for Internet cafes and so on.

All machines in the Internet cafe can be used, but system files cannot be copied. Of course, it's not completely impossible to crack, but would those technical experts be interested in cracking theirs?

With that technology, the salary of a technician is not low, just buy a game disc.

This is also requested by Zhiduoxing Group, because there are too many Internet cafes in China, in fact, other countries also have them, but Blizzard has not paid attention to them before.

Before, Zhang Yang had never been in charge of installing pirated games in Internet cafes. He suddenly took action some time ago, and cooperated with the industrial and commercial departments of various places to inspect the Internet cafes, asking the other party to install genuine games and pay a fee.

This move has attracted criticism from many Internet cafe owners, but it actually has no effect on players. The owner of the Internet cafe also knew he was in the wrong, and at the same time he couldn't handle Zhi Duoxing's thigh, so he could only obediently pay for it.

In fact, Zhang Yang doesn’t want much. In an Internet cafe, Zhiduoxing doesn’t release too many stand-alone games. It only costs 10,000 or 20,000 yuan to replace them with genuine ones. If there is a problem, Zhiduoxing Group is also responsible for after-sales maintenance.

At the beginning, many unknown netizens also scolded Zhi Duoxing on the Internet, saying that Zhi Duoxing stole money. But when Zhi Duoxing announced that the relevant income would be donated to the Zhi Duoxing Education Fund, no one said anything.

In fact, these incomes are not high, not to mention hundreds of millions of RMB, which is not in the eyes of Zhiduoxing Group at all. It's just normal revenue, and it also protects the original version and the industry environment. Why doesn't Zhiduoxing do it?

The reason why many small game development companies in China in the previous life had no room to survive was because there were too many pirated copies. It's not that everyone is unwilling to pay for this, otherwise there would not be so many legendary paying players.

Everyone is just not used to it, and thinks that there are people who don’t need money, why should I spend money, am I stupid?

To put it bluntly, China's economy is not developing fast enough, everyone doesn't have much money in their pockets, and they want a better life. When everyone is a well-off family, they don't care about these little money.

Just like twenty years ago when cosmetics were so expensive, how many would be willing to use them? But now, more and more people use it, including many men who use professional skin care products. Before Zhang Yang is reborn, the proportion will be even higher.

It was Zhang Yang's actions that increased Blizzard's revenue in China so much that Blizzard made up its mind to develop a large and fun online game.

Blizzard believes that this game, if it can be successful, can bring Blizzard billions of dollars in profits, and it will definitely outlive the 2D legend.

Only in terms of game planning, there were some differences among them. Some people think that it should be set directly into two camps, which are naturally opposed. Some think it is unnecessary, and it is more appropriate for players to form their own camps.

There are also differences in the setting of professional skills, maps, monsters, and equipment, and they have not made much progress yet.

Of course, it is also related to the average speed of the current network and the lack of advanced 3D technology. Making a large-scale 3D online game requires a lot of research and development funds and energy.

After thinking about it, Allen made that familiar call. He is one of the rare people who can leapfrog to that person on the phone.

Zhang Yang was walking slowly on the treadmill, and the ringtone of his mobile phone interrupted the song he was enjoying.

"Hello? Alan? What's the matter?"

"Mr. Zhang, Blizzard has an idea. It wants to develop a large-scale online game, like Miracle, but in 3D."

"It's just that the development is more difficult and requires more funds. I plan to upgrade the company's office equipment and invest more funds in development."

"Warcraft 3 is also going to be released this year, and we are starting to promote it now, so the profits in the first quarter of this year will not be handed in, and they will not be handed in in the second quarter. The game is under development."

"I plan to use two years to complete the development of that game, because the game is relatively large, so the time cannot be particularly short."

"Yes." Zhang Yang interrupted Allen.

"What? You agreed?" Allen couldn't believe it. He didn't explain it properly, but Mr. Zhang agreed?

"That's right, as I said before, Blizzard's management is entrusted to you. I trust your judgment. If the funds are not enough, I can invest another sum of money."

"No need, the funds are sufficient. Thank you Mr. Zhang for your support. I believe this online game can sweep the world!"

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