Sitting at his workstation, looking at the computer screen in front of him, Meng Bin continued to be stunned for a while, and then whispered: "It's not easy to live another day!"

Of course, this is not that he lamented that every day is a new day, but that the magazine he works for is still alive.

As an editor of an IT magazine, Meng Bin is very confused about the attitude of the magazine he works for.

It's not that he lacks a sense of responsibility and professionalism, but it is his professionalism that tells him that this magazine is doomed to collapse and that this job is doomed to have no future.

Meng Bin thinks that IT paper media should be the saddest and most contradictory existence in the world, because the object of their attention, information technology, IT will one day kill all paper media, including them. This squeeze is now in place, and many magazines have quietly ended their subscription at the post office and the sale of newsstands, leaving the public eye.

The IT print media that are still alive now only have the advantages of being famous and having a large readership that appear to be viable, but with the popularity of the Internet, they have also become yesterday's yellow flowers and closed down one day.

Although the copyright page of their magazine is also written on a state-owned publishing house, and the organizer also has a provincial science and technology commission, those official media that have their backs to the big trees to enjoy the shade and enjoy the compulsory subscription of party newspapers and periodicals still have to be self-supporting and self-responsible. If there is no hope of turning a profit, the management will definitely choose to end his life.

As an industry insider who has been paying attention to the IT field on the front line, Meng Bin feels that every report on new developments and new events in the IT field written and sent out by these people is like adding words to the dissolution notice that will end his career in the future, and this notice will be finally completed one day in the future, and then posted at the door of the magazine.

Although its own magazine is also actively carrying out information construction, actively embracing the Internet, not only opening the official website and official forum, but also requiring each page editor to apply for a special mailbox, deduction number, honey chat number and publish it in the magazine, welcome readers to submit and discuss through the Internet, etc.

At one time, they also tried to publish the electronic version of the magazine on the official website for users to download for a fee, trying to rely on online subscriptions to increase readers and reduce costs to carry out the paperless transformation of the magazine.

If it is successful, it is only necessary to die newspaper printing houses and newsstands, and it is always good to die and not die.

But the project to transform the magazine into an electronic magazine was soon halted halfway through, and Meng Bin and his family had to provide jobs for printers, newsstands, and even scrap collectors and second-hand magazine dealers.

The official statement of the planned suspension is that the user experience is not good, and it will return with glory in the future, but in fact, Meng Bin and they all know that this is basically impossible, because the real reason for the planned suspension is that the number of subscriptions is too low.

After this transformation failure, everyone, including Meng Bin, understood that the end of their magazine going to the grave and ceasing to close down was doomed. The last effort was unsuccessful, and the management seemed to be dead, and the management and ordinary employees who had a way were transferred or simply resigned, leaving only Meng Bin and them, who had nothing to do with each other, and stayed in the society to live and die with the magazine. Of course, this coexistence is premised on the timely payment of wages and benefits in line with national regulations, and everyone understands it in their hearts.

Any day in the future, the organizers above will take a look at the circulation and say that it will be closed, and then their own magazine will close its doors silently, leaving only a suicide note called "Letter on Stopping the Subscription Notice for the Next Year".

For users who often surf the Internet, the articles published on the online version of the magazine are not fundamentally different from those published in the IT section of other IT websites or portals, except for fewer typos, more attentive promotional advertorials, and occasional in-depth investigations, and even lag far behind the latter in terms of timeliness.

After all, my own magazine is a weekly magazine, and a new issue of the magazine comes out every week, and the shortest events in the magazine are the "old news" three days ago.

Although the weekly magazine is fast enough compared to the monthly magazine, it still seems to be faltering compared to the Internet, which is only a few hours or even a few minutes "delayed". And if you don't pay attention to tracking the progress of the news, you will be slapped in the face by the latest developments updated on the Internet.

After all, periodicals and magazines are the closest form of media to books, and the relationship is so close that some people have to buy a book number one issue and use books to replace the journal because they can't get the periodical number.

However, the book number is easy to buy, but the issue number is not easy to get, and the national unified issue number of each magazine must be reviewed and approved by the edition before it can take effect. Similarly, if you have to wait for the approval of the transfer, it is better to re-apply directly. This is also one of the reasons why no landlord came to accept Meng Bin and his magazine, of course, another reason is that the new magazines are all in the field of humanities and social sciences, specifically magazines that publish various fantasy novels. This kind of fantasy novel learns the golden finger and unbridled imagination from online novels, and is less literary and serious than ordinary novels, but it has more sophisticated writing and rigorous layout than online novels, and the increase in the price of 1,000 words has also greatly condensed the length. In short, what makes Meng Bin envious and jealous is that this kind of novel has been very popular in recent years, with all kinds of new martial arts, as well as new fantasy and new romance.

However, this is the patent of other humanities and social science magazines, as a weekly magazine with the word "computer" on the top of the head, Meng Bin and his colleagues can only dabble a little, but they dare not forget the homepage. For example, the game version often publishes game novels, and the news section reports on industry events that are not of much concern to ordinary readers, as well as other hot news that is barely related to IT.

However, if you often walk by the river, how can you not get your shoes wet? This kind of dabbling will trap people if you are not careful.

For example, the national attention is on the Zhenglong shooting tiger incident, the colleague in charge of the news commentary section chose this popular topic, and then spent several days collecting materials from the incident, and then lit the lamp and boiled oil and worked overtime to write analysis and commentary articles, trying to explain the ins and outs of the matter and the statements of all parties involved. As a result, before the magazine came out, there was a new development in things, and the plot changed so much that the colleague was very caught off guard.

At the end of June, the relevant authorities of Qin Province held a press conference to announce that the tiger photos were fake, and that the hunter Zhou used the Year of the Tiger to take fake tiger photos in order to deceive the relevant units of the reward, and also used wooden tiger claw molds to imprint fake tiger claws in the snow to deceive. He has also been reported by the public security organs to the procuratorate for approval of arrest on suspicion of fraud.

Although the political axe staff who jumped up and down and used their heads as a guarantee did not lose their heads because of the oath, they were also punished to varying degrees, some were dismissed without pain, and some were really removed from their posts after making a fuss.

However, what is interesting is that before the official determined that Zhenglong was actually a paper tiger, netizens all shouted in unison, "Clear-eyed people are fake at first glance, and they have added stunts!" and held a press conference in Qin Province, announcing that Zhou's confession was indeed cut out of the New Year's painting and posing for the tiger, netizens' tone immediately deflected. From chasing the paper tiger before, it has become "Lao Zhou is just a scapegoat, how can he be proficient in photoshop retouching as a farmer? There must be accomplices and technical supporters, seeking to dig deep and proliferate!"

The tone changed so quickly that the editor, who was doing the special news, almost flashed his waist.

The colleague told Meng Bin about this incident afterwards, his mouth was full of fear and happiness, saying that he was fortunate that his ideas and themes were impartial, and he just listed and refined other people's views, which escaped a catastrophe, otherwise his face would have been swollen.

Regarding the sad complaints of his colleagues, Meng Bin could only try his best to comfort him, "You're all right, the online game version of Brother Qiang is depressed, and he is always complained by readers that the strategies and secret techniques in the magazine don't work." Alas,A generation of patches and a generation of gods tossed him a lot!Who is in our magazine is a weekly,It just so happens that most of the online games except for the hairy beast are also weekly updates?Some players have found loopholes,Summarize the strategy,It's usually three or four days after the submission arrives here.,Wait for us to publish the strategy cheats.,It just so happens that the official update has blocked the content that players love with small input and high output.。 ”

However, it is difficult to avoid the problem of risks caused by such inadvertent topic selection, after all, as a magazine for ordinary consumers, they cannot only focus on the industry, so that fewer people will read it, and maybe the day of closure will come earlier.

Therefore, although weekly magazines are not suitable for reporting hot news due to poor timeliness, the comments they write or edit are not in-depth interpretations by experts, and they are not much more advanced than popular comments on the Internet. But they still have to make it difficult to do it, and if any editor encounters a problem, they can only sigh that they are unlucky.

In the entire magazine, only Brother Bao, who is in charge of the stand-alone game layout, is the most leisurely, which makes Meng Bin and them all kinds of envy, jealousy and hatred. No way, who said that there are no Chinese stand-alone long-term games on the market, and players don't like the original foreign language games very much?

Brother Bao's stand-alone game version fried the cold rice of Daewoo Double Swords, and then sent some Chinese strategies for overseas masterpieces that released the Chinese version or Chinese patches every three to five times, which is basically considered a mess. There are always people who are too lazy to look up information on the Internet, and Brother Bao's strategy is still very marketable.

His daily work is to open the submission mailbox.,Look at the pitiful submissions and the thousands of delayed appointments.,Mainly all kinds of fairy sword strategies and fan-articles.,Especially last summer's gorgeous listing but still couldn't save the fate of the soft disbandment of the immortal four.。 In the past six months, Brother Bao's stand-alone game version is almost about to be brushed up by various strategies about Xiansi and fanfiction stories. But there's no way around it.,Who made the most famous domestic stand-alone games in the last year there are only two.,One is the "Daming 3D stand-alone version" with a weird charging model.,The other is the fairy four as the last work of the soft.。

The stand-alone version of Daming launched by Bee Technology is not a pure stand-alone game,Its game itself is free,As long as the computer configuration is only enough, you can download, install and play。 At the same time, it is updated every two weeks to release new patches or DLC content, and at least half of the DLC is charged, which is the result of the official malicious splitting. It is said that there are at least 10 costumes in the paid DLC for the same costume, and there is only one costume in the free DLC. If you combine the free version of the DLC with the paid version, the free DLC will become less than 5%.

This attitude of asking for money makes the vast majority of single-player players who are accustomed to piracy and cracking stand-alone games very unhappy, they don't play and don't like the stand-alone version of Daming, and completely ignore it. Of course, another reason is that Bee Technology's strong encryption technology has made this game unsuccessfully cracked. There is no piracy without cracking, which makes single-player players who are used to playing for free and casually are very unaccustomed.

So in the places where many stand-alone players gather, the stand-alone version of Daming was expelled from the stand-alone team, for example, in Meng Bin's magazine, it was put in the online game version and put together with the online version of his brother Daming.

However, this kind of resistance to hostilities has not affected Bee Technology, more bee statistics, Daming stand-alone version easily defeated Xiansi, with more than 1.2 million sales to become the highest selling domestic stand-alone game.

This figure is calculated by dividing the total sales of the paid DLC by the retail price of the regular version of the Immortal Four, and if you talk about the number of activations and the number of paying players, the sales figure is more than that, not to mention two million, three million is possible.

Most of the players who helped it achieve this achievement were bees from online game players.

In fact, after a few years, the domestic online game industry has cultivated tens of millions of players who are willing to pay for games, and digging up one-tenth of them is 3 million sales.

It's just that in the past, single-player game developers didn't pay attention to the tastes and consumption tendencies of online gamers, and their eyes were always fixed on single-player gamers, of course, even if they did, it was difficult to satisfy them.

The domestic stand-alone game industry, which has no sense of existence for a long time, can be described as seriously stunted, lacking both people and money, and its technology, capital, manpower, and creativity are not as good as its online game peers.

Even the 800,000 genuine sales record achieved by Xiansi last year included the dissolution of Shangsoft, which caused players to discuss and feel nostalgic for the factors.

Interestingly, in the sales of Xiansi, there is also half contributed by bees.

Bee's Bee Wisdom Center software store has quietly become the leading genuine software and game sales platform in China, but I think that Bee is still undoubted for the time being, because this wisdom center seems to be a little childish, and there are not too many genuine masterpieces in the platform, which makes Meng Bin regret.

Last year, Meng Bin published an article on the software edition of their magazine dedicated to the Bee Wisdom Center, and the editor in charge of writing the article pointed out that this software store was a bit too small, and the large software and games on it were only owned by Bee, and other third-party software and games were all kinds of small and exquisite, and there was no PS, office, 3dmax and other large software in the software, and there were few foreign masterpieces in the game.

However, it seems that the bee company did not see the article, or that it saw it but turned a blind eye. In short, a year has passed, and most of the rankings on the classification efficiency rankings of the Bee Wisdom Center have been dominated by the products developed or represented by Bee's own products.

In fact, the criticism of the wisdom center has been a long-standing argument, and it is clear within Bee Technology, but neither Atletico nor Zhang Yuexuan are willing to invest energy and resources to promote this change.

After all, although the wisdom center has learned to imitate ihips and other online software stores and game stores, Atletico Madrid understands that the national conditions are different and cannot be completely copied. The reason why bees have not actively introduced well-known large-scale software and large-scale games is because their cracking and piracy have been everywhere on the Internet. For bees, agents basically don't make a lot of money by introducing them, because convenient and fast piracy has met most of the needs. Even if you need to use genuine to satisfy the sense of honor, it seems better to choose a physical box. In addition, the introduction of large-scale games has to run through the review process, and this matter will not be over, so so far the works other than the bees themselves on the Bee Wisdom Center are basically uploaded by various enthusiasts.

For Meng Bin, who did not know the truth, this result greatly strengthened the existing impression of willfulness and maverick left by bees.

As an editor in the direction of running hardware, Meng Bin first interviewed Bee Company on CJ a year ago. As a digital interactive entertainment exhibition, CJ has a strong local characteristics and only focuses on the exhibition and promotion of online game products. As for the legendary CJ during the showgirl package night, Meng Bin is just a small editor and an occasional part-time reporter, and he is not running an online game line, so he has not had the opportunity to kiss Fang Ze so far, so he can only say that he doesn't know the truth.

At last year's CJ2007, in addition to the official release of "Daming OL", and announced that it had entered the official public beta, it also unexpectedly released a tablet product with a color, a black and white screen that can be folded in half, and a toy robot series with a novel way to move the ball. It was precisely because Bee announced on the eve of CJ that it would release hardware products on CJ that Meng Bin had a reason and opportunity to get permission to go to CJ for an interview.

And this time, the maverick Bee Technology just sent him a cardboard box.

"Looking at the box is quite big, could it be this year's new generation of bee tablets?" tore open the express plastic bag, and inside was a white cardboard box, like a thicker pizza box, but there was no attractive pizza pattern on the white lid, only a huge sunflower pattern, which was already a blue and white bee mascot on the petals. For mobile phone users, please visit http://m.piaotian.net