Within a few days of its launch, the number of users on Battle.net began to rise sharply, from the initial hundreds of thousands to hundreds of thousands.

Such a number of users is nothing, but the increase rate of this user is a little scary, of course, this reflects the sophistication of Blizzard's games from the side, in this era when the domestic Internet industry and the game industry have just started, to have such a user upgrade speed, it makes major companies have a bit of a headache.

And the real power of distant games is not only the rapid increase in game users, but more importantly, their income, Blizzard Battle.net has only been online for a few days, and selling various game services has earned hundreds of thousands of yuan for the distant network, and each player has provided the company with an income of several yuan on average.

This is the most powerful, I made hundreds of thousands of dollars in a few days, and this is still just launched, what if it has been online for a long time? What if there are more gamers? What if there are paid games in the future?

Everyone knows that the distant game is a good shot, and it is a real big start, and as long as the follow-up games can follow up, a real giant will soon appear in the game industry in the near future.

All companies that are interested in entering the game industry, or have already entered the game industry, have begun to focus on distant games, which have just entered the industry and have shown great potential. But unlike other companies, there is one company that is now in a state of depression from top to bottom.

"It's my fault that I didn't recognize the potential of the game industry and gave away our game team for nothing. ”

Guan Zhenguo stood in the office and said with a depressed face.

In fact, he was not optimistic about the prospects of the game industry at that time, but now it seems that the prospects of the game industry are obviously better than he imagined.

"I don't blame you. ”

Ding Lei shook his head, he rubbed his eyebrows, "The team can be reorganized, as long as there is money, I am not afraid of no talent." There is nothing in the country to dig in, and no one will refuse a higher income. Now the problem in front of us is that the distant network has occupied the position of the first line, and we are now entering the market, how to compete with each other, and whether we can compete with each other, this is what I am worried about. ”

Ding Ti is interested in games, but the domestic game industry was really average before. There are almost no online games, and the only few text-based online games are also very niche genres, and the only online game that can be called powerful is only a game from an island country called "Stone Age".

Not to mention whether this game is good or not, the popularity is indeed okay, and because of this, Ding Ti decided that his company would also make games, and also make this type of turn-based combat, because he felt that this thing had a head.

As a result, before I started to do it, I just formed the team, and it was taken away by the distant network. When Guan Zhenguo brought the news back, he also hesitated and struggled at that time, but in the end, why did he still agree to Zhou Fangyuan's request? Because his mentality at that time was that he wanted to enter the game, but he was worried about the market recession, and he was not 100% sure in his own heart.

And he also has his own ideas, how to say it, because at that time, the competition between the three major portals was the most intense, he really needed the diversion of the remote network, and at the same time, he didn't think that the remote network could quickly develop a good game with the game team, after all, in this era, the practitioners of computer games are still very simple, and when making games, they will also take out all their energy and focus, and strive to do a good job in the game.

Therefore, it is normal for the development of a game to be as short as two or three years or as long as four or five years. He thinks that even if the remote network has the intention to enter the game, from the successful formation of the team, to the determination of the project, to the development of the game, and finally to the completion and launch of the game, even if there are no detours, it will be useless in two or three years. What's more, whether the game can be successful or not is still two words, and because of the difference in the size of the company, he firmly believes that even if he joins in the future, he can quickly catch up - in a word, he doesn't take the remote network as a thing at all.

In his eyes, Zhou Fangyuan is a lucky person, if there is no Rausch sub-Internet café management system, the fart remote network is not enough to see.

But what are the facts?

As an industry insider, he is quite concerned about Internet-related things.

He sees a series of actions on the distant network, and comics in his opinion, it is completely a child's nonsense, and Alipay is also dispensable in his opinion, only an Internet café management system is a little interesting, but it's just a little interesting, so he pays the most attention to the distant game.

After getting his team, Far Away Games also bought a team directly from Treasure Island, which made him a little vigilant.

Then Yuanfang Games and Yingke directly bought 80% of Blizzard's shares, not many people know about this transaction in China, but he is one of them, what is Blizzard Game, he didn't know before, but later he found out after investigation that this game company is too strong, and its many high-quality games have a large number of players in European and American countries.

Even in China, there are pirated versions of those games flooding the market.

When Yuanfang Network invested in Blizzard, Ding Lei felt that something was wrong. It's just that he has no better way to stop it, after all, there is the youngest son of Li Shoufu's richest man among the partners of Yuanfang Network, and it is said that Zhou Fangyuan has a good relationship with the other party, which can be seen from the fact that the two jointly held an e-sports competition.

Therefore, Ding Lei can only hope for the shortcomings of the distant network itself, and he hopes that Zhou Fangyuan will have problems by himself, so as to miss the advantage of his hands. This situation is not rare, since the development of Huaxia Internet, I don't know how many companies that were once smash hits have collapsed, and Ding Lei hopes that Zhou Fangyuan is also one of them.

But what was the result? When Blizzard Battle.net went online, cooperated with the Internet café management system, and forcibly knocked out the pirated games in the Internet café, Ding Ti shouted in his heart that it was not good. Now the distant network has changed the paid games to free games, plus a series of new services, as well as the invitational tournament held at the end of the year, Blizzard Battle.net and that series of games have completely gained a foothold in the domestic market in just a few days.

Coupled with the assistance of QQ and Ali, the status of distant games has suddenly stood in the position of the boss of the domestic game industry, even "Stone Age", which has been online for a year, has been stolen by the distant network, and all kinds of ideas in Ding Lei's heart were instantly shattered, leaving only stunned and unbelievable.

"Mr. Ding, what should we do now......? Do you still do it?"

Guan Zhenguo asked softly after some self-confession.

"Why don't you do it? Now a fool can see that the game industry is going to grow a lot, why don't you do it now, when will you do it?

Ding Lei glared at Guan Zhenguo, then remembered that his behavior was a little out of shape, and immediately sorted out his expression, "Ahem, how is the team formed? I remember that I handed over this matter to you." ”

"Yes," Guan Zhenguo nodded, "I've been busy running major universities recently, and now our game team has been formed, and the director is poached from Jiucheng, who has also been an executive of a game company abroad, and has a lot of experience." ”

"Very good," Ding Lei finally nodded with satisfaction, "Now that the team has been formed, let's start developing our first game." ”

"So, what kind of games are we going to develop?"

Guan Zhenguo asked cautiously, "Now the game development team has come up with a few plans by themselves, and I have also looked at them, but they all feel very average......

"All of them, you can show them to me. ”

Ding Lei said noncommittally.

"Good!"

Guan Zhenguo immediately turned around and went out, and after a while, he returned to Ding Lei's office with a stack of copywriting.

Ding Lei picked up one of them and began to look through it.

There were more than ten copies of the copywriting that Guan Zhenguo brought, and Ding Ti spent more than ten minutes reading it, and finally screened out three that he was more satisfied with, and after reading it for a while, he finally selected the plan that he approved the most.

"Just do this. ”

"It's ...... Mr. Ding, that Zhou Fangyuan and they are doing online games like Journey to the West, let's do it too, isn't it ......?"

"What do you want to say?"

Ding Lei raised his eyelids and glanced at Guan Zhenguo, "Are you worried that we can't compete with them, or are you worried that others will say that we are plagiarizing?"

"Uh, no, I was wondering, should we make a ...... with other themes?"

Guan Zhenguo wiped the sweat from his forehead and said cautiously.

"No, just do Journey to the West, they do it, we do it, now let them take the lead, but I don't believe it, a big fart network company, just a little money all over the world to invest indiscriminately, such a company, such a leader, can I still be afraid of him? Just do Journey to the West, I decided. ”

Ding Lei finally clapped his head and said.

"That'...... All right. ”

Guan Zhenguo couldn't stop Ding Lei, after all, the current situation can also be said to be caused by him, it was he who made the company lose the opportunity, although it was also Mr. Ding's last decision at that time, but can he put this responsibility on his boss? No, so he can only carry it himself.

So three days later, Wangyi released a news release, announcing that Wangyi had also set up a game department, and would start developing a game that was also themed on Journey to the West, with an estimated investment of 30 million soft girl coins.

As soon as this news came out, the entire Internet was in an uproar.

The online game with the same name as Xing Ye's "Journey to the West" has now received the attention of many netizens, and now Wangyi has also announced that it will join in, and it is also an online game with the theme of Journey to the West, an old powerhouse and a new dark horse began to compete in the same field, which instantly attracted the attention of countless people.

And when Wangyi released the news, Zhou Fangyuan was sitting in a café, discussing the media company with Sun Jing.