"Boss, this is the latest information about the game industry you want, these game magazines that have just been shipped from the United States. Wang Mengyao gently put a stack of materials on Zhang Lexing's desk.

Zhang Lexing nodded, waved at Wang Mengyao, and said, "Okay, you go get busy first." ”

After speaking, Zhang Lexing reached out and took the latest information in the game industry and flipped through it, and after reading it for a while, he put the latest information in his hand back on the table, and then reached out to get the game magazine below. As soon as he picked up the first book and opened it, Zhang Lexing's eyes were attracted by the game advertisement on Feng Yi. The content of the ad is simple, a knight with a broadsword stands in the middle of the frame, behind him is a door that opens a gap, and above the knight's head is a large line of words "The beginning of a new legend - UltimaOnline", and on the right side of the screen is written in smaller font "September 25, we are leaving for Britannia". Although there was no game screen in the whole advertisement, the words "UltimaOnline" alone already made Zhang Lexing's heart surge.

UltimaOnline (UO) is a 17-year-old game series called UltimaOnline, which is a truly graphical online game that is completely different from the previous text muds. Of course, strictly speaking, "Cyber Genesis" is not the first graphical online game in history, and there has already been a beta version called "Meridian 59" on December 15, 1995, which was officially released by Hawkins' 3DO last fall. Although "Meridian 59" really occupies a lot of firsts, in terms of influence, "Meridian 59" still can't compete with "Network Genesis", and the number of loyal Genesis players cultivated in the past 17 years alone is completely incomparable to "Meridian 59".

Zhang Lexing remembers that he had never heard of the game "Meridian 59" back then, and after the MUd game, the first graphical online game he came into contact with was "Network Genesis". Zhang Lexing still remembers how excited he was when he first saw the news about "Internet Genesis" from a magazine, and those pictures with more than 160,000 colors of true color, 800×600 resolution, and the continent of Britannia with 3,000 players at the same time made him feel extremely yearning, and it happened to be 1997.

Since then, Zhang Lexing has been paying attention to the news about "Cyber Genesis", looking forward to one day experiencing it for himself, but there is more and more news, but he is more and more disappointed in his heart.

"The UO game interface is all in English, and there are no agents in China. ”

Zhang Lexing thought at the time: "It's all in English, what are you afraid of, I can look up the dictionary, anyway, the English in the game comes and goes, that's it, it shouldn't be too difficult." It doesn't matter if you don't have an agent, there happens to be an old classmate who has gone abroad, can I ask him to help......"

"UO? That thing is out of the country, and our network speed is not enough at all, and the Internet fee is so expensive, ordinary people can't afford to spend that money. ”

Zhang Lexing still remembers that the international export of CHINANET (China Telecom's Internet) at that time was only 2M, and he used a 14,400bps kitten shared by several people in the unit to access the Internet at home.

"UO, it costs money to play that, and you have to have a VISA, which is impossible for ordinary people......"

Yes, Zhang Lexing can endure a full screen of English, a big deal to flip through the dictionary, he can endure the difficulty of buying a CD, at most pull down his face and ask someone for help, he can also endure the inconvenience of surfing the Internet, he can really get off work late in the afternoon, but this last VISA completely dashed his hopes, and he can't even ask foreign classmates to help with this. So Zhang Lexing had no choice but to give up, and drove a number of 14400bps kittens to the Origin website, grabbed the game-related information, copied it to his computer with a floppy disk, and studied it while gnawing on the dictionary, while also fantasizing about the game scene in his heart.

This kind of days lasted for a long time, Zhang Lexing could see the news about "Network Genesis" from magazines and the Internet from time to time, or in 1997, during the beta test of "Network Genesis", there was a shocking assassination incident, the founder of the Genesis series of games, Richard Gretel's character in the game, the "King of Britain" with an immortal body, was burned to death by a wandering thief Rainz with a stolen wall of fire scroll, which is probably the most famous PK incident in the history of online games.

In April 1998, five Genesis players and their lawyer, George Schultz, who is also a Genesis player, sued Origin and its parent company, EA, for dissatisfaction with certain aspects of Genesis (poor internet speeds, unreasonable payment methods, etc.). At the end of 1998, the first expansion film, "Cyber Genesis: A New Era", was released, and in February 1999, the lawsuit between George Schultz and Origin ended in an out-of-court settlement, and in April 1999, Cyber Genesis set up servers in Europe.

However, there has been no shadow of China in many news, even if EA has been in China for several years, but there has never been news related to "Network Genesis", Zhang Lexing's heart gradually became numb, although he has never forgotten "Internet Genesis", but there is no initial expectation, and even the habit of flipping through "Internet Genesis" on the Internet after work has become a game of poker or two games of chess on Lianzhong.

But life is always so wonderful, many times when you don't have hope for a thing, often this thing will happen, when Zhang Lexing has basically died of "Internet Genesis", one day he suddenly saw a colleague was holding a disc that he didn't know where to get the game to install the game, he curiously leaned over to take a look, but his eyes could no longer move, a pair of eyes stared at the huge title on the installer "UltimaOnline".

On that day, in the summer of 1999, Zhang Lexing finally played the once haunting "Internet Genesis" for the first time, although he used a colleague's account, but it was the first time he set foot on the British continent. In the days that followed, Zhang Lexing would log in to the free "Network Genesis" server every day, and at that time he would not consider why this "Network Genesis" server did not require VISA as he had heard before, until much later, he knew that this was the game's private server.

It's a pity that less than a month, the free "Network Genesis" server can't be logged in, and I don't even know the reason, but fortunately, Zhang Lexing heard a new "Network Genesis" from a colleague soon The server, which is said to be located in Shenzhen, was set up by a player named Wolf, and when he first logged into Wolf's server, he happened to encounter a black-armored knight on a horse who slowly walked out of the flames, and the feeling shocked him on the spot, even more than the feeling brought by many single-player games.

But after all, these are still private servers, and they can't make money, and they are game servers set up entirely by the interest of the gods, so it is not so strange when the Wolf site suddenly closes after two or three months, but fortunately, there are a little more people who will set up their own "Network Genesis" servers at this time, and soon several new "Network Genesis" sites will emerge, especially Shenzhen's Jarry, AC and Shanghai Sunshine Continent SunLand are the most famous, and they have also won the nickname of a UO triumvirate.

By 2000, there were more people playing the private server of "Network Genesis", such as Sichuan Renaissance, Beijing UnionPay, Guangzhou Exotic, Artten (Rose Century), Zhejiang Awakening, Dream Heaven, Hexiang, Jiangxi, Xi'an, Chongqing Noah, Demon Taoyuan, China Unicom, Ice Continent, and hundreds of "Internet Genesis" Free sites popped up, because there were too many choices, and the number of people that each site could accommodate was limited, Zhang Lexing also wrote a small pre-login device by himself to reduce the trouble of manually selecting a server and entering an account.

The rise of the free site of "Online Genesis" has brought a lot of changes to China, such as bringing a large number of UO fantasy literature lovers, and giving birth to the first batch of fantasy novel writers in China, such as the birth of the first batch of online game plug-in writers, such as inspiring many developers who are confused about how to graphically transform text Mud......

For Zhang Lexing, "Online Genesis" can be said to be the leader of the online game palace, experiencing a lot of surprises, happiness, sadness, and indignation in the middle, and since the rise of other online games, he rarely returns to the British continent, but he has not forgotten this life of Genesis, and he can't imagine that after such a long time, he actually saw the game advertisement of "Online Genesis" from the magazine again, and his heart was full of wonderful emotions about life for a while.

Put down the magazine in his hand, Zhang Lexing recalled the latest information in the game industry that he had read before, the above part about the country mentioned the latest trends in many domestic game industries, what made Zhang Lexing a little disappointed was that under a "Blood Lion", there were still a number of unreliable games, what claims to catch up with and surpass "Thor's Hammer", but in fact the FPS game full of screen mosaics, what to create a new pathos and new martial arts, but in fact, it only takes three hours to clear the customs, Even the relationship between the characters is a little ambiguous RPG games, but fortunately, there is a benchmark of Fengyun Interactive in front, and the quality of most of the games that can be listed is not too bad, so this batch of garbage has not set off any waves, but has made players value the brand of game publishers and developers more.

Under Zhang Lexing's special explanation, this latest information also includes a survey of the development of domestic online games, but so far what can be played and related to online games is still only some text Mud, and the future glory of a period of time has not yet appeared, which can be said to be good news for Zhang Lexing, which means that he still has plenty of time to layout.

At present, the development of the Internet in the mainland is not fast, although it has been officially connected to the Internet since 1994, and soon after ChinaNet and other Internet projects were launched, until the end of 1996, there were only 200,000 users who had access to the Internet, and the vast majority of them were unit users, and there were still very few users who were really willing to pay for Internet access at home. At this time, the Internet is not used in China Telecom's 163, but through an ISP like Inhaiwei to connect to the Internet, at this time, the mainland Internet including the backbone network bandwidth is very low, but it complements the scarce number of Internet users.

Zhang Lexing remembers that in two or three years, the Internet bandwidth in the mainland will be greatly improved, and even ISDN and ADSL will appear in some cities, which are more convenient and bandwidth-widening access methods, and then there will be a period of great development of online games. According to Zhang Lexing's original plan, he will start to consider the development of online games before the end of next year, so that he can just catch up with the period of great development of bandwidth. However, after seeing the game advertisement of "Network Genesis" today, and remembering a lot of the past, Zhang Lexing's mind has changed a little bit, although the development plan of the online game will not be advanced, but he feels that some things can be considered now.

The official server of "Cyber Genesis" has never entered China, according to the official explanation of the publisher EA: "Because his European religious and cultural connotation is too strong, it is difficult for domestic players to accept". There may be some truth to this statement, but it can't erase the love of many domestic players for "Cyber Genesis". "Network Genesis" used to be a pity for Zhang Lexing, but now there should be a chance to make up for it, with his status as a major shareholder of EA, although he may not be able to monopolize the operation of "Network Genesis" in China, but at least he can intervene in it and not let the official Chinese version of "Network Genesis" become an eternal legend.

Of course, Zhang Lexing doesn't plan to make any money from this if he wants to operate "Internet Genesis", with the current living standard in the mainland and a lot of Internet fees, even if "Internet Genesis" is not free, it will only charge a few yuan a month at most. Zhang Lexing's main purpose is to cultivate a group of talents in online game operation for himself through the operation of "Network Genesis", master the setting up technology of game servers in advance, and develop a charging channel by the way, so as to lay a good foundation for officially entering online games in the future.

In addition, Zhang Lexing also plans to go to South Korea when the time is right to remove some necessary obstacles for the development of his online game.

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