Chapter 53 NetEase Comes From
Two days later, Temple Run for Android was launched on Google App stores around the world.
The number of downloads exceeded 200,000 within half an hour of launching.
Exceeded 500,000 in two hours.
One astonishing statistic after another is born today, and it can be said that Temple Run has been a huge success on both Android and iOS platforms.
And for the first time, gamers and users around the world have realized that the ancient country of the East also has a studio that can make crazy games.
This is good news for Zhang Cheng, and another good news is that Zheng Qiuyun has returned to China and brought three partners who used to start a business together.
Before returning to China, Zheng Qiuyun sent Zhang Cheng the resumes of the three of them, which can be regarded as letting Zhang Cheng know in advance about the staff who is about to become him.
Fan Cheng, a native of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, is 29 years old this year, and chose to study abroad after graduating from Renmin University. With his love for games, he resolutely chose to study computer science.
Shi Xinran, a native of Yanjing, is twenty-seven years old this year, a native of Yanjing, a bold person, originally worked for Microsoft, but has been dissatisfied with the status quo.
Jim, born in Arizona, is an avid admirer of the hackers, and is more skilled than the other two, but more playful.
It can be said that Jim is an unstable factor, their kind of people only obey people who are stronger than themselves, whether they can make Jim change from an unstable factor to a stable factor, it is up to Zhang Cheng to do it.
These words had already been said to Zhang Cheng before Zheng Qiuyun returned to China.
To be honest, Zhang Cheng has a bit of a headache, although he can be regarded as a relatively senior programming ape, and he has been in the industry for more than ten years, but in the face of such a person who worships hacker swords and goes sideways, he doesn't think that he can conquer him by strength alone.
Of course, Zhang Cheng doesn't think he's better than Jim.
In the absence of a good solution, Zhang Cheng's solution is to walk first and watch.
Because of the existence of the Internet, the distance between countries on the earth is constantly shortening, and the distance between countries is just a wall.
While the exodus from temples abroad is all the rage, it is a different scene at home.
The price abroad is 1.99 US dollars, about 14 yuan of the person's name, but because it is paid, the number of downloads has been in a state of unpopularity.
For such a situation, Zhang Cheng attributed it to the fact that the Chinese people have not yet developed the concept of paid downloads.
Because of the strict review of the iOS platform, there has been no piracy, but piracy has appeared on major Android platforms in China.
Zhang Cheng has a headache for this, because where is the national situation, Zhang Cheng has almost no way to change the status quo.
To sue?
It was a long process, and perhaps when the results came out, the temple fled without knowing that it was thrown into that corner.
Zhang Cheng is ready to completely abandon the domestic market, at least at this stage, stand-alone games like Temple Escape are so, rather than letting piracy run rampant, it is better for them to choose to download it for free to increase their popularity in China.
On this day, Zhang Cheng sat in the studio in a daze, and Li Zihao has been running around looking for suitable candidates to fill the vacancy in the studio for the past two days.
Just as he was pondering Yixin's detailed plan, two men in suits and leather shoes walked in, and Zhang Cheng looked at the two in surprise.
The first feeling is that it is expensive, and that suit is at least five figures, which is not something that ordinary white-collar workers can afford.
"Hello, this is a private studio, I don't know who you're looking for?" Zhang Cheng stood up and greeted him.
This is not because Zhang Cheng is polite, but because there are a lot of Zhang Cheng's plans for the future planning software layout and other planning books in the studio.
He didn't want to leak it out like that.
"Hello, is Mr. Zhang Cheng here?" led by a middle-aged man, with the momentum of a regular superior. But it still feels quite kind.
Zhang Cheng frowned and looked at the two, and then nodded: "I am, I don't know what the two of you are looking for me?"
Now it was the turn of the other two to look at Zhang Cheng in surprise, in fact, they did come to Zhang Cheng.
But they don't know much about Zhang Cheng, except that he is a man, the head of Zhang Cheng's studio, and the founder of the temple fugitive and flappybird, nothing else is known.
So the surprise they had when they saw Zhang Cheng was no more than the surprise they were when they knew that such a cutting-edge game studio had appeared in China.
"Hello, hello, Mr. Zhang Cheng, I really didn't expect you to be so young, you have been looking up to your name in foreign magazines for a long time, and I only know what it means to be young and promising when I see it today. ”
The middle-aged man was the first to react, put away the surprise on his face, and said eagerly holding Zhang Cheng's hand.
Zhang Cheng was a little uncomfortable by his eagerness, but Zhang Cheng still heard something from his words.
For example, foreign magazines!
Zhang Cheng's appearance in foreign magazines is limited to various game magazines, so it is clear that they know Zhang Cheng's identity.
"I don't know who the two are?" Zhang Cheng still looked at the two of them with a puzzled expression.
The middle-aged man realized that he hadn't introduced himself yet, smiled apologetically, took out a business card from his briefcase and handed it over.
"Contemptible Xie Donghai, affiliated to NetEase Games, is a department manager. ”
Zhang Cheng took the business card and looked at it, and sure enough, the business card was written on NetEase, and the position was just like Xie Donghai said, department manager.
"Hello Manager Xie, I don't know if you have any advice for this visit?" Although Zhang Cheng looks young on the outside, he is actually an old fritter.
Knowing that the other party is very big, even if Zhang Cheng knows why the other party is here, all he can do is to be polite and entertaining.
After all, Zhang Cheng would not be stupid enough to wrestle with an old Internet company like NetEase after gaining a little achievement.
"Mr. Zhang is polite, I don't dare to say it, now Temple Escape is a very popular game in the world, but we can only settle for a corner and have no chance to develop outward. Xie Haidong didn't mention the purpose of coming this time, but praised Zhang Cheng as if he didn't want money.
Zhang Cheng pursed his lips and smiled, completely unmoved, and the scene was very embarrassing for a while.
It was as if Xie Haidong was slapping the ball and passing it to Zhang Cheng, but Zhang Cheng didn't seem to see it, and walked to the side to drink tea.
Xie Haidong changed freely, and his embarrassed expression disappeared in a flash, but the young man behind him saw Zhang Cheng's reaction, and his expression was a little resentful.
Looking at Zhang Cheng's performance, Xie Haidong has a long way to go until this task.
(The dog went to see Wolf Warrior II at night, and the code word was late, forgive me!)