Yang Ziqi has participated in the testing of "Infinite Time and Space" since the closed beta period.

In his opinion, "Infinite Time and Space" may not be perfect in design, but it is a technological innovation and advancement that is enough to make all other details completely insignificant.

It's not that it's flawed, it's that the beauty and dazzle of the gem of "Infinite Time and Space" have made all its flaws seem to be of no point at all.

The design of the gameplay is not friendly enough? The style on the picture is too realistic? The story in the plot is too restrained and not straightforward and sensational enough? Not to mention that these details are difficult to classify as disadvantages or advantages, even if they are all defects, who cares?

Who cares in the face of crushing high-intelligence NPC reactions?

At least for Yang Ziqi himself, even if he doesn't want to admit it, he still feels that the charm of "Infinite Time and Space" is irresistible. He has been regularly logged into Infinite Time and Space during the closed beta period, and has reviewed various parts of the game as a whole...... When Infinite Time and Space officially began to operate, many people in Beichen's company were trying to take some measures to save the user base that had flowed to Infinite Time and Space.

But it didn't work well.

Although "Infinite Time and Space" is only a game on the surface, the gameplay nature of the two mods "Xianyin" and "Stars" just forms a perfect competition with "Nine Heavens" and "The Road to the Stars", and the correspondence is very high. This leads to Beichen's countermeasures are quite difficult to deploy, and I always feel that what to do is a little worse.

That's the technology gap.

Yang Ziqi didn't sleep much this night, and the next day he went to the company with dark circles to ask, and sure enough, the online rate of the two games was greatly affected, the number of online users of "Nine Heavens" plummeted, and "The Road to the Stars" even decreased by one-third. The impact of this is quite large, and the entire Beichen is in a state of flux, and the atmosphere is particularly depressing.

After that, there was an internal meeting to discuss countermeasures, and everyone felt that they had to take countermeasures to reverse the situation as much as possible. And there are all kinds of specific countermeasures. Some executives said that the new expansion was released in advance, while others felt that it would be better to directly carry out feedback activities with a more sense of survival.

Yang Ziqi felt that no matter what kind of activity, the effect it could play would be very limited.

The gap between smart games and traditional online games is not something that can be made up by an expansion piece, some feedback activities, and some formal concessions.

In the end, Beichen still finalized the opening of a new expansion pack, but after Yang Ziqi considered it, he did not plan to release the expansion film directly in advance, and even asked the technical department to make some corrections and refurnaces, delaying the release time of the expansion pack.

"The opening up of smart games is imminent." Yang Ziqi said, "The gap between "Infinite Time and Space" and other games is not something that we can catch up with by opening a few expansion packs. The future will definitely be the era of AI. ”

"But it definitely takes a lot of time to build an AI mechanism." Someone replied, "Xingzawa has a very strong technical strength and text writing ability, which is also well known. Their AI system has taken several years to write and improve little by little, and we are only starting to work hard now, and we can't catch up with the development of the other party. ”

Yang Ziqi said: "If you can't catch up, you have to catch up!" He paused, relaxed his tone and said to the senior management who had spoken before, "We don't need to target Xingze, but the charm of the intelligent system itself can be seen directly by everyone." From the perspective of the future development of online games, intelligence is an inevitable process. After "Infinite Time and Space" comes out, Xingze will definitely not stop here, and will continue to develop. They've only released one online game so far, but this online game has a lot of room for horizontal development, and I don't doubt at all that they'll continue to add new alternate world expansions. I'm not sure if Xingze will release a new independent online game in the future, but the current influence of "Infinite Time and Space" is only the beginning, and we can't sit still. ”

"It is imperative to develop intelligent online games."

In fact, these people mentioned by Yang Ziqi are not unaware, but they still feel very reluctant to "Nine Heavens" and "The Road to the Stars", which are still very hot at present.

Someone asked, "What about the "Nine Heavens" and "Ascending Stars" that we have on hand now?" That's what we're focusing on right now. ”

Yang Ziqi said: "No matter how powerful Xingze is, it can't cover the entire domestic online game market, so we can continue to focus on "Nine Heavens" and "Ascending the Star". ”

"But with the new expansion, we'd better change the design direction." Yang Ziqi has been reviewing the game of "Infinite Time and Space" during this time, so he is very clear about the strengths and weaknesses of "Infinite Time and Space". He doesn't intend to fight "Infinite Time and Space" in this regard. Although he didn't want to admit it, he was really a little weak for Xingze, so he decisively chose to play to his strengths and avoid his weaknesses at this time, "In terms of gameplay settings, intelligent systems have too many advantages over non-intelligent systems, and we can't compare with them in this regard." However, "Infinite Time and Space" generally takes a strong retro route, and even if it is not retro, the world style is conservative - the style of our new expansion can be a little more open and sexy in the setting of the characters......"

"Among the three gates of the Demon Dao that will be released in the new expansion of "Nine Heavens", the Moon Demon Gate will not be out of the Moon Demon Gate first, and the Hehuan Sect will be released."

The senior management was stunned for a moment, and then said: "At the previous meeting, Mr. Yang, didn't you say that the Hehuan Sect was a little subtle in the setting, and it was difficult to grasp the proportions, and it had to be left for a good design in the back before it could be released in the game?" ”

Yang Ziqi said: "Is it the same situation now as before? The styles of "Nine Heavens" and "Xianyin" are too similar, but "Xianyin" came out late, and the art and animation are also more refined, and we can't catch up with each other in terms of intelligent systems. ”

"We want to have our own unique characteristics, even if "Xianyin" is popular, it can also allow us to retain a unique feature of players." Yang Ziqi said solemnly, "I have been thinking about it for a long time, from the plot system, combat system, and career system, I have always considered the dungeon and pvp system...... To be honest, I think there is still a big difference between "Nine Heavens" and "Xianyin", although this difference is not big enough to offset the advantages of "Infinite Time and Space", but it will not be completely replaced by "Infinite Time and Space" in the short term. ”

"We're one of the most popular game companies in China, but the emergence of a new online game doesn't require us to react like a swarm of panicked ants, but it's not okay to be completely prepared for any countermeasures. Next, the progress of the technical team is still going according to the schedule, but the release of the Hehuan Sect is mentioned in front. Xingze's combat system is very different from ours, so let's discuss the issue of adjusting the PVP system - as I have seen before, Xingze is currently set up with a one-card-one-number system, and can only participate in one game world at the same time. The way they fight in the world of Dawn is indeed very pleasant, but the combat system in the other worlds is slightly weaker, and the Demon Domain is even less combative. ”

"Now everybody come with me for a meeting – let's discuss the next steps for the design and direction of Nine Heavens and Path to the Stars."

Beichen's meeting lasted for a long time, and at the end of the meeting, most of the people looked a little tired, but the atmosphere was no longer as gloomy as in the morning.

Then when Beichen ended the meeting, Yang Ziqi got a message, saying that starting in the afternoon, the entire server group of Xingze officials was hacked by Yan zhòng.

Yang Ziqi was stunned, and a senior technician took the opportunity to tell him: "The technical level of this group of hackers is not high, and they are mainly based on digital attacks, but the number of broilers that are really mobilized is not very large. We all know Xingze's technical level, and it is estimated that there will be no results. ”

Yang Ziqi asked, "Have you been in contact with it?" ”

"It's almost a porous attack method, and it doesn't seem to be all a one-size-fits-all approach." The technician said, "I don't think they can do any harm to Xingze, and even if we take advantage of the situation, it won't be of much use...... Shall we do it? ”

Yang Ziqi was a little speechless: "Since it's useless, why do you want to do it?" ”

The technician said, "Isn't it okay to vent your anger?" ”

Yang Ziqi said: "Don't make some mess. The level of "Infinite Time and Space" itself is very outstanding, the era of intelligence has come, and if it is not Xingze, there will be others, sooner or later. We just need to do our own game, and these private means have no other purpose than to vent our anger, and there is no point. ”

When Yang Ziqi said this, Lin Shu actually knew about the attack on the server.

There seemed to be three different forces in this wave of attacks, but they were quite unsuitable in terms of scale and technology alone, and Xingze's technicians basically dealt with it relatively easily. By the end of this year, with the development of security technology, many of the original hacking actions can produce less and less effect, especially some large electronic systems, hacking methods are more and more dependent on the use of Trojan horses and internal breaches.

Xingze's system security level is relatively high, so these waves of attacks did not have any impact on the operation of the game, but were deciphered out one by one by Xingze Tongguò anti-tracking and information decipherment.

Bai Chiwen said: "Two large studios, one large game guild. It seems that there is no interference of other online game companies, but it is not necessarily ...... On the side of the studio and the game guild, it is probably because of the dissatisfaction with the one-card-one-number system and the ID card recovery procedure on our side. ”

These two systems of Xingze can be said to have basically eradicated the studio's room for activity. Although some studios are still able to use some ID cards on hand to open small accounts, as time passes, the leeway will only get smaller and smaller.

Lin Shu said to Bai Chiwen: "It's hard work. Recently, the manual scanning of the plug-in has been strengthened as much as possible. ”

Bai Chiwen should go.

Then at this time, Liang Zhongxi began to urge Lin Shu: "Lin Shu, come quickly!" ”

Lin Shu turned off the communication software and said, "It's here." ”