I just want players to save money, but I was made the richest man - Chapter 249

c241 League of Legends, start!

“Mr. ” also swept the major music charts one after another.”

year, last working week.

Qiao Yuan reported work as usual.

“In addition, the number of online reservations for “Dying Light” has exceeded 10 million, and the design of “Pokémon” is also coming to an end.”

“And then here’s our annual financial report summary from last year.”

As Qiao Yuan handed over the document, Ke Jin took it and glanced at it casually, and then said: “League of Legends adopts the Internet cafe promotion strategy, while Pokémon vigorously promotes peripheral products.”

“Uh…” Qiao Yuan was slightly startled when he heard this.

Internet cafe publicity strategy?

Promote peripherals?

Both of these are not conventional publicity methods…

The first one is that these days almost every household has a computer, so who still goes to Internet cafes…

When it comes to promoting peripherals, we usually wait until the game is famous and the characters are loved by everyone, then the peripherals can be slowly rolled out.

But what Mr. Ke is saying is that he is letting Pokémon peripherals drive sales of the main game in reverse?

This, this, this…

If he had just come to work, Qiao Yuan’s first reaction would be whether there was something wrong with Mr. Ke’s decision.

But it has been almost two years since I became the number one player, and I have seen all kinds of miraculous operations performed by Mr. Ke.

Qiao Yuan’s first thought now was whether there was something wrong with her own thinking.

There must be some link that I didn’t think carefully about, and I shouldn’t question the decision-making of the general manager.

“Okay.” He immediately nodded and agreed. Qiao Yuan thought for a moment and then said, “By the way, Mr. Ke, I have another question I want to ask you.”

“Let’s talk.” Ke Jin poured himself a cup of tea, then poured a cup for Qiao Yuan and pushed it in front of her.

This made Qiao Yuan feel very relaxed.

She stretched out her hands to smooth her butt-covering skirt, then sat with her legs crossed on the sofa beside her, holding up a delicate porcelain cup and blowing on it, taking a sip and saying again.

“The trend of “Extinction” is very good now. Logically speaking, we should maximize the time allocation of players.”

“Although players have time during the Chinese New Year, they probably don’t have as much time at their disposal as they think… If “League of Legends” is released not long after “Extinction” comes out, won’t there be a conflict?”

The implication is that Qiao Yuan actually wanted to remind his boss to see if he should consider delaying the launch of LOL.

This approach is very common. Many major companies are developing no fewer than ten games at the same time, and some are even in a state of completion.

However, based on comprehensive reasons such as market trends or the company’s current turnover situation, we will not do anything for the time being and will not make any publicity.

The purpose is naturally to maximize profits.

Ke Jin’s reply to this matter was much simpler and clearer.

“Don’t give Western capital markets a chance to react, just take advantage of the chaos and kill them directly.”

Qiao Yuan: “…”

What a simple and crude answer…

All right.

It turns out that my rank is really low.

I am still thinking about maximizing my interests here and care about these few taels of silver.

What people are always thinking about is how to overturn the gaming capital of the West in the shortest possible time. They are preparing to start grabbing the mineral veins.

If you quickly accumulate players, you will naturally need to establish your own company totem symbol.

Let players recognize the games produced by your company.

And how to quickly create your own company symbol?

Naturally, multiple games are released in succession, and all of them are sold out. This is the most ideal situation.

Even if “Extinction” sells well, its failure may only make some players who don’t know much about the game industry think, “This game is not bad.” ’

When I recommend it to my friends, I say, ‘There is a very popular game recently, why don’t you give it a try? ’

The name of the game company will not be mentioned throughout the process.

But if “League of Legends” is also released at the same time, it will sell out.

That will be the case.

“Brother, you know the popular game “League of Legends” recently, right?”

“I know, what’s wrong?”

“Last week’s sold-out album “Extinction” was also produced by them.”

“What the hell? Really or fake?”

At this time, players’ focus will shift from the game itself to the game company.

If you add one more sentence.

“Oh, by the way, the Pokémon is also theirs.”

By this time, even if you don’t play games, you are just a passerby who has heard the names of these three games.

I will also be in awe of the totem symbol “Ready Player One”.

For other companies to achieve this, it takes as little as three to five years and as long as more than ten years of accumulation.

And there is also the risk of failure in the middle. For example, after two games are completed, the third and fourth games all fail, which will reduce players’ recognition of your company’s symbol.

But Ready Player One has never lost its footing since its inception.

Let’s not talk about how the outside world evaluates it.

At least the employees within the company have indescribable respect and admiration for Ke Jin.

therefore.

When Ke Jin talks about ‘Multi-shot game is to beat them to death with random punches’.

Qiao Yuan’s first reaction was not ‘This can’t be done’

But ‘Okay, give them a two-punch! ’

“Okay, I’ll go down and make arrangements at that moment.” The tea was too hot. Qiao Yuan took a few sips and couldn’t drink it anymore. She put it back on the table, nodded slightly and left.

As the door clicked, Ke Jin leaned back on the chair.

In fact, the three consecutive rounds of the game this time brought a bit of Kejin’s personal emotions.

This task cannot be completed every time.

There was no outlet before.

If the player hinders and prevents him from completing the task, he can’t scold the player. After all, the player is innocent.

Then that little girl Yuan Qiaoqing also bothered me a few times.

I can’t say much more about this fan who wholeheartedly supports the development of Ready Player One.

But peers are different.

His peers were originally meant to bully Kuku!

Of course, there are deeper reasons.

As Master Shi Ke gradually grows older, his mentality towards completing tasks has gradually slowed down a lot.

For the three games this time, he didn’t even look carefully at what the missions were.

It doesn’t matter, just do it and it’s done.

If it can’t be completed, it can’t be completed.

With the development of Ready Player One, he no longer lacks money or fame.

Helping the entire gaming industry get rid of the current capital-ridden predicament and helping his hometown and country make achievements in the gaming industry is what Kejin values ​​more.

Of course, if you can do good things and complete the task at the same time, it will naturally be double happiness.

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Mead is in a good mood lately.

“Zerg” entered China very smoothly, and it even took less than a month to reach an agreement.

The final docking department is the Internet Information Company from China.

And they also cooperated very well with Blizzard to carry out large-scale publicity.

So much so that it has caught up with the golden period of China’s Spring Festival.

“Zerg” is already well-known around the world. Previously, it was not authorized for Chinese players. Those who wanted to play could only circumvent the wall and register an account overseas to play, and it was easy to get their accounts banned.

Now that I have come to China, I am showing favor to Chinese players.

This immediately made many players very happy.

Within just seven days of its release, a Spring Festival event was held to please Chinese players.

Revenue has skyrocketed.

It directly exceeded the 5 billion turnover mark in seven days.

It made Meade even more emotional, lamenting that the prospects of the Chinese market are so good now.

What does this feel more like?

The leeks that the number one player had painstakingly cultivated were all green, but they were reluctant to cut them, so they all were cut by themselves.

Oh, it’s very comfortable.

And Ready Player One seems to be on a roll lately.

But it was the same as what I had guessed.

Ready Player One’s ability to play online games seems to have declined.

The first one, “Extinction”, is a pure stand-alone game.

Even if it is linked to an offline game experience center.

But what does that have to do with Blizzard, who focuses on online games like me?

Mead even ate a bunch of melon on the side.

Looking at the fearless Desney next door, he was also hit hard by the number one player and suffered a heavy loss.

Especially when I was chatting with the senior management of Disney headquarters a few days ago, I saw the dejected look on his face.

Meade couldn’t help but laugh inwardly.

Don’t mention it, if you don’t regard the number one player as your opponent, Ke Jin is still quite awesome. He will beat whoever he catches.

Beautiful, love watching it! I suggest you beat it a few more times.

As for the game “League of Legends”.

Judging from the content of Escort’s animated work “Battle of Two Cities”.

It looks like an action game.

The quality of the anime is really good. Even though I am quite old, I watched it all in one go.

However, action games have inherent multiplayer flaws due to damage determination issues.

Or go the stand-alone route.

Or just go for a two-person fighting style.

What else to do?

You want a group of people to fight together in the picture?

Then you can only do turn-based play.

The reason is simple.

There are many movies with action scenes, right?

But how were those movies shot?

The protagonist fights a group of monsters alone, and the focus is on the protagonist. This is no different from the traditional action stand-alone game, where the player fights a group of monsters or BOSS alone.

Or the protagonist is fighting with another protagonist/villain, and the two of them are fighting each other, using various overt and covert tricks.

Have you ever seen any movie where a group of people are all highly skilled in martial arts and then get into a fight?

In this way, the audience doesn’t even know where to look!

The same applies to games. Action games cannot be made into multiplayer online games!

Even if it’s Ready Player One’s hit work “Eternal Tribulation”, it’s one-on-one when it comes to group fights. I’ll take care of Ning Hongye, and you’ll take care of Hu Tao.

so.

Meade believes that “League of Legends” will most likely be a single-player game.

“Haha, when you see our “Zerg Hegemony” enter China, you will know what you are afraid of.”

“However, now I know it’s not too late to be afraid.”

“From now on, we will not be in conflict with each other. I will make my online game and you will make your stand-alone game. It’s not that we can’t each make money.” Mead believes that this wave of counterattacks should scare the number one player.

It turns out that this idea was just born not long ago.

I was informed by the secretary.

Ready Player One reveals the League of Legends genre.

It’s a multiplayer competitive online game!

After Meade learned the news, he was stunned at first.

Then my head was scratched, and I didn’t understand how the number one player dared.

No, Gravograph, are you serious?

How do you make an online game for an action game?

It’s a fucking competitive online game…

Aren’t you rushing to send me a comparison…

I’m afraid that our “Zerg Hegemony” won’t be able to take root in China, so we came here specifically to send a wave of support, right?

You said, you are here to celebrate the New Year, what gifts do you want to give!

Moreover, the latest news made Mead’s mouth almost grin to the back of his head.

He learned that Ready Player One did not take the usual path when it came to announcing “League of Legends” this time.

Instead, it went directly towards e-sports.

After all, the starting point of the announcement is still an Internet cafe…

Meade almost laughed out loud when he heard the news.

Who goes to Internet cafes to play games these days?

We Omi don’t even have the concept of an Internet cafe!

Even your country, China, with its economic development.

Internet cafe culture is also about to be eliminated.

Are you counting on Internet cafe culture to bring your game forward?

Don’t be too funny!

“The engraver is really delirious this time.”

“We don’t need to take action at all.”

“League of Legends will die on its own in less than a month.”

“At that time, we will reap the benefits and firmly grasp the Chinese market, so that the number one player will completely lose the possibility of resistance.” Meade said with determination, smiling hoarsely.

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“Let me tell you, did Mr. Ke really do something wrong this time…”

Meng Qun walked out of an Internet cafe dejectedly, still muttering under his breath.

This is already the third Internet cafe that has rejected him.

After “Battle of Two Cities” received a good response, Mr. Ke waved his hand on it and decided to implement an Internet cafe publicity system.

Ready Player One has specially recruited a group of new employees, approximately 500 of them.

After being recruited, they did not settle down in the company, but were directly assigned to various parts of the country.

Even during the Chinese New Year, there is no time for them to reunite with their families.

What are you going to do?

Yes, offline salesman.

Specially responsible for promoting the game “League of Legends” to Internet cafes in major first- and second-tier cities, and introducing them to the e-sports event system.

Originally, a group of fresh college students who had heard about Ready Player One for a long time wanted to join this company.

After Meng Qun learned that he was hired, he posted about it in a large group at school, which immediately shocked the one or two hundred people in the group.

Even some buddies who majored in game design expressed angrily: “Why is this? I have won awards for my graduation projects before. When I went to interview them, they said that I was too good and they didn’t dare to hire me??? ”

“This damn reason for rejection sounds fake at first sight! How can any company refuse to hire employees because they are too good?”

“But bro, you’re a civil engineering major, why did you get the interview? This is simply more uncomfortable than killing me, damn it!”

Meng Qun was in the group at that time, looking at the envious and jealous eyes of a group of buddies, you can’t say anything in your heart.

What a cool idea!

The result didn’t last long, and he didn’t even get through the gate of the number one player headquarters.

He was transferred to Jianghai City next door.

What to do?

You’ve come, so what do you do?

Mr. Ke also said that this is considered a probation period.

As long as the promotion is good, they can be hired as regular employees of the number one player and enjoy benefits that far exceed those in the same industry.

At first, Meng Qun was full of confidence.

When I walked into the first Internet cafe.

As soon as the boss heard he was an employee of Ready Player One.

Even though he talked about the probation period for several times, the Internet cafe owner still enthusiastically served him tea and water, and even wanted to give him a VIP.

As a result, when he talked to his boss about whether he could install the game “League of Legends” in the Internet cafe.

The boss fell silent immediately.

Then he pointed behind him.

That group of guests were all playing “Zerg”.

“Brother, it’s not that I don’t want to pretend, it’s just that there are not many people playing online games nowadays. Your League of Legends is an action game…it sounds weird. And “Zerg Conflict” is very popular in China recently. Even if it is installed, basically no one will buy it, and we will have to bear additional bandwidth costs, so forget it.”

“The e-sports league you are talking about… I know that e-sports has developed well in recent years, but the Internet cafe league… it sounds too low, and no one is interested. Which team would want to start from an Internet cafe? A professional player who emerged from…”

“No, boss, just add another “League of Legends” to your main server. It’s really effortless.” Meng Qun insisted.

“Brother, why don’t you ask other people about it? I’m getting older too, so I don’t want to go through too much trouble. I’m really sorry.” The boss declined Meng Qun politely and sent him out.

That’s it, he still has a good attitude.

When consulting the third company.

This boss seems to have a grudge against Ready Player One.

He believes that Top Player ruined the previous game market. Five or six years ago, many players from Tengjing and Netcom came to his store to recharge their cards, and he made a fortune.

Ever since the number one player drastically reduced Huaguo’s recharge limit, fewer and fewer players are willing to recharge large amounts of money.

Coupled with the rise of the stand-alone market.

Internet cafes are becoming increasingly difficult to operate.

When he heard that Meng Qun was an employee of Ready Player One, he immediately became cold-faced.

“Don’t pretend, don’t pretend! Let’s go! What’s “League of Legends”, something I’ve never heard of, how can this insignificant thing become popular? You don’t know how long your company can stay popular, sooner or later it will be destroyed by “Zerg”!”

Faced with the boss’s attitude, Meng Qun was also a little unhappy.

Although I am not officially a staff member, I can still be considered a half-ready player.

So he bit the bullet and choked back.

“Extreme speed Internet cafe, right! You will regret it! If “League of Legends” becomes popular by then, if you ask for a dress, our company will not let you dress!”

Of course, Meng Qun himself didn’t have much confidence when he said this.

Not surprisingly, I was ridiculed a few times by the boss.

“Go away, you regret it, hahahaha. If this stupid game becomes popular, I will give this Internet cafe to you directly!” The boss with a mustache pushed Meng Qun out of the door and sneered on the ground without mercy. He took a sip of saliva and cursed: “There is an Internet cafe across the street. Go and bother the other side. Don’t fucking disgust me!”