"Is this the place responsible for the operation of the game review network?"

On the second day after the end of the game novel essay contest on the game evaluation network, three polite young people came to the Walker Studio. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

"Yes, what's the matter with you?"

Li Juan was only going to go to the campus for recruitment in two days, and now she is also temporarily serving as the front desk of the Walker Studio. In general, it is rare for strangers to come to the company, after all, they are not very famous.

"That's right, the three of us are lovers of online novels, didn't your company organize an essay contest for game novels last time? We would like to talk to your leaders about cooperation. ”

Long Xiao, the slightly older of the three people who spoke, was no more than thirty-four or five years old, and he liked to read fantasy novels very much, and he usually wrote about them.

The other two are named Shi Ting and Xiao Jin, and the three of them met on a website called Dragon Sky, and they also participated in many operational activities of Dragon Sky at that time.

This era can be said to be the enlightenment era of online novels, and they are all groping for the direction of progress. In January 2001, four literary forums, including Self-Entertainment, Single-mindedness, and Hongchen Pavilion, announced their withdrawal from the Western Continent and established the Dragon Sky Original Alliance website.

It may seem like a lot of things to be taken for granted now, but after the dot-com bubble burst in 2000, most of the free space disappeared, and many individual websites were forced to close due to lack of income.

Relying on this stable space and the popularity left by the West Road BBS, the sky of the dragon gradually became the well-deserved boss of the fantasy book station at that time. At that time, Long Kong should be known to everyone in the online novel industry.

By 2001, due to the increasing traffic, and the server resources of Dragon Sky were insufficient, the access speed became slower and slower, resulting in a slow decline in popularity. At this time, the sky of the dragon was anxious to find its own path of development.

At that time, it seemed that the only way to generate economic benefits should be physical publishing, and in the end, Dragon Sky took such a path. At this time, the sky of the dragon and the abandonment of the dominant position of the online book station have the current phantom sword and point mother.

"Please be seated." Jian Hao happened to be in the office at this time, so he called the three of them to the conference room.

Long Xiao saw that there was a very young man sitting opposite him, and he even looked a little immature, which really surprised him.

"You're the person in charge of the game review network? It's really too young, more than I imagined, I really didn't believe it when I heard Cao Liang, the author of "The Return of the King", talk about you before. ”

Long Xiao also met Cao Liang through the sky of the dragon, anyway, Star City is so big, and he has gathered a few times offline. They all like fantasy novels like "Double Dragons of the Tang Dynasty", and the author has built another world that makes them so drunk in it. Later, Cao Liang also received encouragement from several of them when he participated in the game novel essay contest, but he didn't expect such good results.

In the course of a chat, Cao Liang talked about why he refused the invitation of Dianniang to be the editor, which made Long Xiao see a glimmer of opportunity. When they were in the sky of the dragon before, they were not core members, but they also participated in part of the work, and it can be said that they love the industry, and now they see such a plan for game evaluation netizens, and they are also the company of Star City, so there is this scene.

When Jian Hao heard Cao Liang, he knew a little why something came to him, so he said: "It turns out that you are friends of Brother Cao, I don't know if you came to my company on purpose, what is the matter?" ”

"I guess you're busy, too, so let's cut a long story short and see if you're interested. My name is Long Xiao, this is Shi Ting, and this is Xiao Jin. All three of us are very interested in online novels and want to start a Chinese novel website like Dian Niang and Phantom Sword. ”

"The three of us have all been in Dragon Sky for a while before, and of course we are only involved in part of the operation on the Internet, so we are relatively familiar with this circle. The previous conditions were not very mature, and now after seeing the development of Dianniang Chinese Network, coupled with the current form of your game evaluation network, we would like to seek cooperation with you. ”

Long Xiao told the purpose of the three of them coming here, and he didn't know what the other party, a young old man, always thought. According to them, it would be best if they could work with the game review network.

"Can you tell us a little bit more about the industry now? For example, the way to make a profit, and then there is your advantage. ”

Jian Hao also had plans in this regard before, but a person's energy is limited after all, and it is impossible for everything to be exhaustive, someone must do it. After all, the influence of this industry in the future is still very huge, and there is a great overlap between the reader group and the game group, which is what Jian Hao cares about the most.

"Let me first talk about the advantages of the three of us, Xiao Jin graduated from the computer science department before, studied programming, and it is not a big problem to be responsible for the website. I used to work as an editor in a magazine, and I have experience in this area, and Shi Ting's words have been wandering around major forums and knowing a group of authors. In fact, the most important thing is that we all love this industry, and now all three are unemployed, not that we can't find a job, but we are looking for suitable opportunities. ”

"If you make a profit, Dianniang has made a good start, that is, the current VIP fee model, readers read novels by paying, this model should work. Although the current point Niang and Phantom Sword have slowly developed, but it is just the beginning, if you use the popularity of your company's game review network, I believe we can still make a difference. ”

Since October 10, 2003, Dianniang officially launched the first batch of VIP electronic publishing works, and the subscriptions of Nian Niang's works have increased more and more. From 300 subscriptions for a single chapter at the beginning, to 500 subscriptions, to 1000 subscriptions later. That's a huge improvement when there were only about 30,000 readers at the time.

This also made Long Xiao and the three of them see an opportunity, and let them start to study the business strategy of Phantom Sword and Dian Niang. However, for them, what is most lacking now is the original capital, like the beginning of this industry to burn money is certain, only after doing it can the effect be seen.

As a reborn, Jian Hao certainly knows that the current Dianniang will start to take off in the future, especially after being acquired by Shengda Company, a capital predator, in October this year. Once Jian Hao also thought about what kind of situation he would be like if he went to intercept the cooperation of Hu Shengda Company now, and later learned through other people that a senior executive of Shengda Company had a very close relationship with a certain senior executive of Dianniang, which contributed to the cooperation at that time.