Chapter 290: Changes in Internet Cafes
The electric door behind him closed automatically, isolating the noisy traffic and music outside, and the ears suddenly felt quiet as if he had walked into a café, but this was obviously impossible, thinking so, Yang Yue raised his head. Sure enough, it sounded quiet, and it seemed that there were many people sitting in the Internet café.
The reason why it is quiet is mainly because the rows of machines in this Internet café are quite sparse, the walls, floors and ceilings are also heavily used sound-absorbing materials, and the keyboard, mouse and chair are also silent models, and the ambient noise and operating noise are greatly reduced, so that the players in it will subconsciously lower their voices. Of course, if you pass through a door and enter the team arena separated by clear glass, you will hear excitedly shouting "Hurry up, open up, stun him, you should slow him down!" and so on.
The party area is only equipped with soundproofing materials on the walls and doors that share with other areas, especially the door is actually made into a double-layer isolation section structure similar to the space station, and the player needs to go through two doors to enter the team area, which is also to avoid noise coming out inside. In fact, the team area of this space station Internet café in Rongcheng has a separate side door and toilet, and many players who like to play games here will not take the soundproof door except for recharging and having to come to the cash register.
Looking at it from a distance through the transparent wall, Yang Yue found that the screen over there is basically a top-down view picture similar to Warcraft III, although there are very few people who play FPS, but the picture does not have CS's iconic earthy yellow wall and CF's iconic various grays, which means that there are very few people who play these two games here. The team competition area must be entered by several people together,The main selling point is that the circular circle of tables and chairs can provide players with connected seats to the greatest extent,It is convenient for everyone to open the black,And those games full of Warcraft III visual sense,There are both Dota and Dynasty Warriors from Warcraft III,There are also domestic Qifan heroes、Fengshen battlefield、Top of the Forbidden City,Of course, there are also Penguin agents,lol developed by the Americans。
These multiplayer battle games have become more and more popular recently, which also reflects the fact that players are starting to get tired of endless pile of attributes and power that depend on the amount of consumption for paid online games. This is undoubtedly bad news for the online game industry, but it is good news for the Internet café industry. Some people say that it used to be Dancing and CF to save the Internet café, but now it is Touch BA to save the Internet café. "Touch" is the abbreviation of multiplayer online battle competition, in fact, this kind of game should be called marts, multiplayer action real-time strategy games, all such games are derived from DOTA, and DOTA is derived from Blizzard's classic RTS game Warcraft III, and has not been separated.
The powerful Warcraft III map editor gives Dota the benefits of fast updates and easy access, but after all, this is an old game eight years ago, and the 3D engine is not strong and professional enough to fight online, which is why there are Qifan Games and Bees' Fengshen Battlefield, as well as the emergence of other Dota games, which are the core gameplay of porting Dota using a more professional online game game engine. Interestingly, the team of the game was previously the development and operation team of the famous LAN game battle platform Haofang,After they sold Haofang to SD,Another development of the game,The model is very similar to Haofang。 The developer of LOL is a former developer of Dota, and Dota's current developer, Ice Frog, has also cooperated with Valve, the company that produced CS origin, to use their Source engine to create a new Dota2 game, but it seems that it has not been smooth for more than a year and has not yet completed the porting work.
Walking through the team area that looked lively, Yang Yue swiped his card at the front desk, and by the way, he praised the "new" uniforms at the front desk, in fact, their uniforms have always been ACG style, but they used to be biased towards the aerospace theme, and the bag was relatively tight, but now it has become a sweet type with a hint of sexiness.
It can only be said that Yang Yue is not on the 2nd station, and he doesn't know that the space station Internet café specially registered an account in order to attract otaku to go out of the house, and regularly uploads videos of its beautiful waitresses dancing in the store, and their uniforms have also begun to change since then.
If Yang Yue knew this statement, he would definitely be aggrieved: I actually went to 2 stations, but I only went to the game area, it's not that I'm too busy with work and don't have time to go to the dance area to see the cute girls!
After a visual inspection, Yang Yue couldn't help but sigh slightly: On the whole, the attendance rate is only a little more than sixty percent, and the decline of Internet cafes is really the general trend, even if it is a space station Internet café, the attendance rate is not as high as before. It seems that they are doing that kind of cash giving away activity should also want to increase the attendance, but why doesn't it feel obvious?
As a reporter from Demon Mountain, Yang Yue has often been invited by online game manufacturers to go to all parts of the country to do interviews in recent years, and he has a deep understanding of the actual situation of Internet cafes around the country.
The recession of Internet cafes exists all over the world, and the reasons are very complex, including the reasons why the growth of the PC industry has entered a bottleneck and began to decline slowly, as well as the popularity of smartphones and tablets led by Apple's iPhone and iPad and the development of 3G and 4G mobile Internet have squeezed out the leisure and entertainment time of users.
Although the Bphone and BPAD of the domestic bee also have good sales and market share, they are nothing compared with the global sales of Apple's iPhone. Even because of the relationship between China Unicom iphone4 contract machine in the second half of the year and the large number of licensed fruits entering the domestic market, the sales growth of bee mobile phones and tablets has slowed down significantly, and the market share ranking has been easily surpassed by Apple.
However, it is said that the bees are holding back their big moves, and it is said that they plan to hold a press conference at the headquarters of the bee group on November 11, Singles' Day, to release a revolutionary new product to break the decline. Speaking of which, Yang Yue is also looking forward to the press conference in a month, but although the bee mobile phone company sent an invitation to the press conference to Youqi Mountain, he didn't get it, so he could only watch the live broadcast on the Internet at that time. He also has a good impression of the genius boy he once interviewed, and he can always come up with some new achievements and practices to surprise the eyeballs, whether it is a user or a media person, Yang Yue has benefited greatly from this, and he is naturally full of good feelings.
However, although there is a good feeling, Yang Yue has not touted Bee and Atletico Madrid, after all, Bee Games and Demon Mountain's parent company Sou Fox in online games, input methods, browsers, micro 'blogs and other businesses have a direct competitive relationship, Bee Games is too lazy to open a large amount of advertising costs, their games will inevitably be treated differently by some discrimination and provocation in Demon Qi Mountain.
However, the score and evaluation of the bee's game on the Demon Mountain are not too low.,The reason why this is the case.,Speaking of which, I have to thank the "own" people of the Demon Mountain of the Demon Mountain of the fox game.。
In Yang Yue's opinion, the gang of people who search the raccoon game are really not angry, and it seems that they will suddenly not be able to make games after Tianlong, and the performance of new games is worse than one another, and the games of the agent are also all kinds of street hits. Although relying on Tianlong's excellent performance to successfully list overseas, there is only this one profit point so far, and it is completely dependent on Tianlong's one leg to walk, and I don't know how far it can go. The most important thing is that the Tianlong game has no picture, no technology, no technology, no discipline, and no discipline, so that the demon mountain must lower the standard intentionally or unintentionally when evaluating domestic games, otherwise it will hurt the friendly army by mistake and smash the big boss's job is not good.
On the other hand, although the performance of the past games of Bee Games is average, the technology is powerful, the picture is exquisite, and the player loyalty is very high.
Although they launched "Daming Overlord" after this year's "enlightenment", there are several mobile online games that have also lost their discipline, becoming more "money-oriented" and losing their previous beliefs, but after all, the old foundation is still there, and the high-quality graphics and powerful AI of Bee Games are still there, which is nothing more than more direct consumption points. But now which online game company doesn't design the charging system like this? Therefore, Yang Yue and they have nothing to hack, so they can only continue to give a high evaluation. And Yang Yue, as a person in the industry, also knows very well that the Bee Group seems to have an extremely professional and huge team of water army, no matter how waterproof and anti-brush the website technical department The game of the bee home can always get the most reviews and scores, most of which are praise and high scores, fortunately, they also seem to be slaughtering the list (a monopoly on the list of most or even all the rankings) is not good-looking, the scores of each game are just right, and there are several places distributed at intervals on the leaderboard, which does not look obvious, but the actual presence is full.
As a media,Some necessary neutrality and independence,Demon Mountain still has to be maintained,So they have no way to beautify their own products within the rules of the bee game,At most, they continue to upgrade the captcha system,But with little effect,On the contrary, because of the mistake of the sub-car、"Scourge" other companies' water army,Resulting in a decline in the activity and praise of their game,The ranking of bee games has risen a lot。 If you hadn't modified the algorithm in time, you might have been slaughtered by bees.
Therefore, as a "neutral game media", in the various evaluation drafts of Demon Mountain, the significant advantages and disadvantages of bee games on the bright side will be put forward, but the shortcomings are emphasized, and the advantages are not deliberately portrayed.
It is also because it has not completely turned into bee black, so the demon spirit mountain can get the invitation to the new product of the bee mobile phone. Although everyone was very strange about why the game media was invited to participate in the launch of a new product of a mobile phone company, everyone still had a fierce competition with great interest, and Yang Yue was unlucky not to get the invitation. Although he also wants to visit the Bee Garden, the gardening and leisure office of bees is very popular on the Internet.
However, before going to the bee garden, he went to the Rongcheng Space Station Internet Café, which he hadn't been to for a long time, and Yang Yue felt quite good in his heart. At the beginning, he was the first batch of members of the space station Internet café, and he activated the membership on the first day of the opening of the first space station Internet café in Rongcheng, and often came here to do trial reviews of new online games. The hardware environment here is too buggy, even the garbage games like the Blood Lion, which is said to be a supercomputer that can't run well, can run smoothly and flexibly, not to mention various online games at home and abroad. As for the screenshots and videos with full open special effects to induce players to enter the pit of new online games, and so on players download and install into the game and find that what they are playing is not a game at all and ask their mother's questions, in front of Yang Yue's urgent need to recharge the balance of the festival, it is not a problem at all: Who called your computer bad? This is like a lonely island crisis, not a bad program card with a bad game screen, it is completely your computer scum configuration is optimized!
There was no rush to contact the management of the Internet café, Yang Yue first went up and down in the Internet café, after all, professional habits, wherever he went, he would subconsciously pay attention to what everyone liked to play, although the online game rankings of Demon Mountain were not managed and updated by him, but he still habitually took a look, maybe he could get some new topic inspiration.
To Yang Yue's feeling, the biggest difference between the space station Internet café and other Internet cafes is that there are the most and second most people playing Bee's own online games and stand-alone games here. For the former, after all, this is its own territory, and Bee's own online game can be optimized by God and has some small benefits, so players naturally like to come here to play.
For the latter, it is because of the influence of the space station Internet café that is still unique in the world wireless expansion virtual host (EVC) technology, this technology can instantly improve the performance of the client, the effect is immediate, players do not need to worry about a variety of foreign stand-alone masterpieces to eat hardware card configuration, no matter how many resources the game needs, the system can be instantly satisfied, bringing players the most enjoyable game experience. It is said that even Microsoft was keen on this technology and wanted to buy it, but it was sternly rejected by Bee Group.
Because as long as you have money in your pocket, you can enjoy the super host that is so powerful that you have no friends at will, and slowly the space station Internet cafes around the country have become a place where a large number of "picture parties" and "superior parties" gather, and it is natural to become an exhibition of all kinds of graphics card killers. Whether it's the 2007 graphics crisis (the nickname of the Crysis game, referring to its exquisite graphics test graphics card), as well as the graphics crisis: warheads, and this year's new hardware killer Metro 2033, as well as GTA4, The Elder Scrolls IV, and Empire: Total War, which put forward higher hardware requirements due to the size of the game and the scale of the battlefield, they can all be easily found on the computer screen here.
But of course, they all failed in the space station Internet café, failed to kill the "virtual hardware" here, and were successively achieved with the highest special effects smooth and even full frame operation.
Speaking of which, the EVC technology here can "subdue" the hardware killer, in fact, it depends on the big to bully the small, and then the hardware killer, the game company also has to set a target configuration when designing the game, and it is impossible to launch the game only for the hardware that is unique in ten thousand, so it is a rhythm of loss to death. Therefore, when the space station Internet café uses EVC technology to greatly improve the performance of the client, to the extent that it even exceeds the top flagship models on the market, the vast majority of hardware killers will be tamed.
Even if there is a problem with the program itself, the optimization is too scumbag, and the inferior or even garbage games that are stuck everywhere, such as the Blood Lion, there are also magical bosses like Atletico Madrid to help them cheat, and the "Blood Lion FOREVC" version is specially designed to allow players to play the legendary "truly completed version of the Blood Lion".
Of course, the performance of the host is automatically or manually enhanced to the point of surpassing the professional graphics workstation and defying the dual-card crossfire of the flagship graphics card, and the Internet fees generated are naturally rising with the tide, but in general, the "picture party" is more willing to pay for the game screen than the "can play party". They are relatively less sensitive to price, and the money that Internet cafes make from them is much higher than that of ordinary online game players, so the space station Internet cafes are actually not too worried about the attendance problem, and they actually hold this "play games and get gold coins" event for another purpose.
Along the way, Yang Yue saw Crysis on several monitors, and the island forest scene and unique interface that looked very real made Yang Yue recognize it at a glance after playing this game. There are a few players who play The Elder Scrolls Four next to Crysis, it seems that they have installed an online touch d, and now one person controls a character to team up to play skeletons, and the interesting thing is that the characters they control are obviously playing the role beautification and touching d, and they have all become the image of the Japanese anime Sailor Moon, and the degree of restoration is very high, with the running golden double ponytail jumping and jumping should be a generation of goddesses who have occupied countless post-80s stationery boxes, notebooks, and schoolbags.
Yang Yue didn't see other famous stand-alone games such as Fallout, Mass Effect One and Two, Call of Duty Four, Five, Six, Seven and Battlefield and other shooting games, but after a little thought, it is clear that it is impossible for these popular shooting games to be unplayed, and there is only one explanation that the people who play should be in the boxes, where there are the magical dream suits of the Bee Family, and it is the best to play these shooting games.
In addition to playing stand-alone games, there are also people who watch TV and movies, and chat with people, Yang Yue glimpsed the coquettish eyebrows of the slut Zeng on several screens from a distance.
The TV series "Love Apartment" is super popular on the Internet, so much so that Yang Yue, who has not watched a domestic TV series for a long time, is also addicted to it, and spent a weekend watching all 20 episodes. Although he didn't catch up with the premiere, he could watch all the episodes at one time on the computer, and there were no annoying sheep sheep and brain silver ads, of course, he watched all 20 episodes in two days, which also made Yang Yue a little stunned, just like Zhu Bajie ate ginseng fruit and ate it before he had much aftertaste, and finally he could only go to the online drama sponsored by Intel to satisfy his hunger, but somehow, maybe it was the lack of relationship between the original team and the outside that didn't feel good for him, and he was even a little worried about the quality of the second season being filmed。
Walking to the end, near the office on the second floor, Yang Yue saw the manager of the Internet café and several players with special devices on their heads.
They are playing a 3D version of the building block game against the screen, and they all have a blue plastic headband on their heads, which looks a bit of a fantasy feeling.
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