Chapter 70: Where to Go in the West Mountain (Part II)

Li Haoyu was silent, MOBA is the abbreviation of MultiplayerOnlineBattleArenaGames, which means multiplayer online competitive games, and the current extremely popular DOTA and LOL are the same type of games.

He had made up for this knowledge after the establishment of the Mythical Company, of course, he was not unfamiliar, he just didn't expect that the Legend of the Swordsman of the West Mountain would become this type of game unknowingly. This made him a little disappointed, and he regretted that Xishanju changed the game to this type when he saw that DOTA and LOL were very popular.

A game company that doesn't have its own unique style won't become a first-rate game company, and if you see what type of game is popular, you may be able to make good profits for a long time, but you will never have much room for growth.

When gamers and industry insiders mention this game company or studio, their first impression is that it is difficult to follow the crowd and become a big tool, such a company is not what Li Haoyu wants.

"No, this game can't be changed like this!" After Li Haoyu continued to play with this half-finished Six Realms for a while, he suddenly put down the mouse and said.

Li Haoyu's words startled both Guo Weiwei and Xu Qing, especially Xu Qing, who jumped up and shouted like a cat that had been stepping on its tail: "Li Dong, what did you say?" The game of the Six Realms is almost completed, how much manpower, material resources and energy have we invested, how can we say that we can change it?! If you want to change it, then you can drive me off, otherwise I will never let you change it! ”

Guo Weiwei also looked at Li Haoyu worriedly, after all, it has been exhausting to change the game of the Six Realms from the original Legend of the Swordsman of the West Mountain to this, and now it has to be changed back, isn't it all in vain in the past half a year?

Li Haoyu didn't expect that his words would cause Xu Qing and Guo Weiwei to rebound like this, and stretched out his hands to soothe: "Qingzi, Kris, don't get excited, listen to me first." ”

Xu Qing snorted and said, "I see what you can say, anyway, if you want to change my game, no way!" ”

Li Haoyu smiled bitterly, straightened out his thoughts in his mind, pointed to the half-finished game on the computer screen and said: "Keiko, Kris, ask yourself, what is the competitiveness of the Six Realms adapted from the Legend of the Swordsman of Xishan in the face of the two games of Dota 2 and LOL?" ”

Xu Qing thought about it, but he really couldn't think of any advantage that the sixth interface had over those two popular games, so he opened his mouth but said it. Guo Weiwei said: "The game of the Six Realms focuses on the Chinese style, which is more beautiful than the graphics of Dota 2 and LOL, and I believe it can still attract a large number of players who like the Chinese style." ”

"But compared to the number of players, after the launch of the Six Realms, it is still far inferior to LOL and Dota 2, do you recognize this?" Li Haoyu continued to ask.

Xu Qing said with difficulty: "That's true. ”

Li Haoyu asked step by step: "Well, you should also know that although there are many players in both LOL and Dota 2 at present, it is not too ideal in terms of profitability, let's take LOL and CF, which are also operated by Tencent, as an example." The number of online users of these two games is about the same, but it is said that CF's profit exceeds LOL by seven or eight times, LOL is the same, not to mention that your game has not yet launched the Six Realms of Lu, when the time comes, how many players do you think this game can bring to Xishanju and make a profit? Not to mention that there are other games of the same type in China, such as Dream Three Kingdoms, Hero Three Kingdoms, and Tianyi Duel, how many players do you think the Six Realms can let come over? ”

Xu Qing's face suddenly turned pale, his bloodshot eyes suddenly dimmed, and he muttered, "Could it be that what I did before was wrong?" ”

Guo Weiwei smiled bitterly, shook his head and said, "Haoyu, then what do you say should be changed?" ”

"Actually, your starting point is for the good of Xishanju, but you didn't think about it when this game was transformed, Xishanju is an RPG game-based workshop, from Sword Network One to Sword Network Two and Sword Network Three, Swordsman World, Legend of the Moon Shadow and other games are RPG games. Now you have suddenly transformed this Legend of the Swordsman of the West Mountain, and the problems of skills, talents, and operations, and most importantly, how many players will play and pay after the launch of the game in the Six Realms must be solved before the project can be started, otherwise it will be easy to become very embarrassing like the myth of the Nine Heavens. ”

Li Haoyu said that he felt a little thirsty for a long time, so he took a paper cup to the water dispenser to receive water, and waited for Guo Weiwei and Xu Qing to consume his words.

Guo Weiwei suddenly said after a while: "I understand, I used to take it for granted, and I wanted to make a game of the same type when I saw that LOL was so popular." I was wrong, Haoyu, I really want to thank you, if it weren't for you, we don't know how many people in the industry would laugh at this game when we cast this game! ”

Li Haoyu said modestly: "Where, I'm just a bystander." As for this game, my personal suggestion is to change it back to MMORGP games, and don't worry about the funding, I will allocate 50 million to you later, and I will further increase the funding if necessary. ”

Xu Qing's eyes lit up, he took Li Haoyu's hand and said excitedly: "Li Dong, what you said is true?" ”

Li Haoyu said with a smile: "Xishanju is now my property, how can I not believe it!" ”

"Great!" Xu Qing's decadence just now disappeared immediately, and he became energetic again, pacing back and forth in the office, and said to himself: "With this money, I am confident that in a year and a half, I can make a game that is better than Sword Network III, and not even inferior to Tianya Mingyue Knife!" ”

Guo Weiwei said with a smile: "Qingzi, you are comfortable now, we didn't have as much money as you when we developed Sword Network III before, if you can't develop a good game, then you just go and buy a piece of tofu and die!" ”

Xu Qing scratched his head embarrassedly, and laughed a few times, his expression was indescribably proud.

Li Haoyu looked at his haggard face and said: "Qingzi, I see that you haven't rested for a few days, so let's do it, today you and your production team will all have a day off, and tomorrow you and your colleagues will sum up how to start production." But I said ugly in the front, this money I will send someone to supervise, the place that should be used is used, but the place that should not be used should be as economical as possible, if I find that you spend this money indiscriminately, then you don't want to mix in the West Mountain, from where to go back and forth! ”

Xu Qing patted his chest and made a military order, "Dong Li, don't worry, I will definitely use this money carefully, and I will definitely not spend it indiscriminately!" ”

When he came out of the seventh floor, Guo Weiwei was in a very happy mood, and with a smile on his face, he suddenly said as if he remembered something: "Haoyu, since you have more funds, why do you want to buy a literary website?" ”

"Literary sites?" Li Haoyu's heart moved slightly, "Which website are you referring to?" ”

"Zongheng Literature Network, what do you think?" Guo Weiwei said.

Li Haoyu thought for a while and said, "Is that the Zongheng Literature Network under Yanjing's Perfect Time and Space?" ”

Guo Weiwei said: "Yes, that literary website is still very powerful, in the past two years, a lot of great gods have been dug from the starting point, and now the momentum can barely compete with the starting point." Now our large domestic companies all control one or more literary websites, Shanda has Qiqi, Tencent has Chuangshi and Tencent Reading, Baidu How Cool and 91 Reading. Now Baidu is said to be interested in buying this literary website, and Perfect Time is also interested in selling it, so if you really want it, you have to hurry. ”

Li Haoyu was suddenly moved, he used to read online novels in addition to playing games when he was in college, of course, a large number of gods such as Dream into the God Machine, Fang Xiang, Liu Xia Wave, and Liulang's Toad under the Zhilu Dao Zongheng Literature Network are all in this literary website, and the popularity brought by these gods is also considerable. The most important thing is that after he acquired the shares of Xishanju and Huanju Times, there were still five or six billion yuan left, and I don't know how to use it, and this time it happened to be used to acquire this website.

"I'll talk about this tomorrow, and today it's only right that we appease the players of Sword Net Three first." Although I was moved, the most important thing at the moment was to appease the three players of the Sword Network who were uneasy, and other things would be talked about later.

Fortunately, the players of Sword Network Three are very tolerant, and after hearing Li Haoyu's repeated assurances and Guo Weiwei will continue to be compatible with the main planning of Sword Network Three, they quickly and reasonably said that they will continue to support Xishanju and Sword Network Three as always.

After discussing with Guo Weiwei for a while, Li Haoyu assured the players of Sword Three that after Xishanju officially moved out of Jinshan's headquarters building, all the value-added services of Sword Network Three would be half price, and in the future, the price would never increase and sell fashion higher than the current highest price.

As soon as this decision came out, all the Sword Three players immediately cheered and cheered for Li Haoyu and Guo Weiwei in unison, and some people even think that it is a great thing that Xishanju was acquired by Mythical Network Company.

"Kris, look at it, what a lovely group of players, the players of Sword Net III are the most tolerant group of players in China now. This is our biggest wealth in Xishanju, in the future, when we are facing the problem of fees, as long as we can maintain operations, we would rather charge a little less, and never let them abandon us because of the problem of fees! Li Haoyu said with a lot of emotion.

(On the evening of December 27, 2013, Perfect World announced today that it had sold its Chinese online reading business entity, Beijing Fantasy Network Technology Co., Ltd., to Baidu for a transaction amount of approximately RMB 191.5 million for the acquisition of Perfect Literature's equity and the repayment of Perfect Literature's borrowings.) This book is still a little different from reality for the sake of the story)