On Sunday, Yang Fan came to the Sailing game. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Many IT companies have been affected by the bursting of the dot-com bubble a few months ago, but Voyage Games has not been affected because of its better financial situation......

Whether it is Legend, Q Journey to the West, or the Stone Age, although it does not have the previous rapid development, it is also steadily advancing, and the profit level is also rising, starting from April, the monthly profit of Sailing Game has exceeded 10 million per month, and it may reach 15 million in June.

In the first half of the year, the profit of the set sail game exceeded 60 million, but many of these profits were consumed by the investment in fixed assets such as servers, and in the first half of the year alone, the set sail game had more than 50 server expenses.

Zhu Hua, who was next to Yang Fan, continued to introduce the results of the first half of the game, "The highest number of people online in Legend exceeds 130,000, and the average online number exceeds 80,000, and the highest online number of people in Q Westward Journey exceeds 100,000, and even the Stone Age also exceeds 30,000 online." ”

Saying that, Zhu Hua also looked at Yang Fan with emotion and said, "Now that I think about last summer, we were still cheering for more than 10,000, I am afraid that there would be no current situation at that time." ”

Hearing Zhu Hua's feelings, Yang Fan smiled and did not speak.

Last year, Yang Fan really didn't expect the game to be so popular, mainly because he didn't know the specific situation of China's Internet at that time, but now, Yang Fan has a great understanding of the development of China's Internet.

One of the great tasks of the Strategy Department is to investigate this big picture......

When the Internet entered China in '94, there were hundreds of thousands of Internet users, and then the development was not fast, but on New Year's Day '99, there was a boycott of the Internet to protest the high network tariffs at that time, followed by two successive strikes on 10 and 17 January. Eventually, China Telecom began to reduce tariffs in March, and then upgraded from 56K dial-up Internet access to ADSL Internet access, and now, halfway through the 00 year, broadband has been basically universal in most cities.

The reduction of tariffs and the promotion of broadband have greatly increased the number of Internet users in China.

In '98, there were only 2 million Internet users in China, but by the middle of 99 there were more than 4 million, by the end of the year there were more than 8 million Internet users, and by the beginning of this year, the number of Internet users in China had already exceeded 10 million, and now it has exceeded 15 million, and it is estimated that it will exceed 20 million by the end of the year.

When Yang Fan saw this data, he was really shocked, he always felt that there were a few classmates around him who were surfing the Internet, and there were tens of millions of netizens there. In the end, Yang Fan can only sigh that China's population base is large, and there are few people around him who are online, but the total number of netizens has exceeded 10 million.

Thinking about it, Yang Fan said, "Now there are more than 15 million netizens, and our active players are less than one million, the proportion is very low, and there is a long way to go......

Think about it a few years ago, China's game population has exceeded the total population of the United States, with more than 150 million active players alone, accounting for a quarter of all online population, but now, even counting game companies such as Qichao, active players are only one-fifteenth of the online population.

It can be said that there is still a lot of room for development in the area of online games...... Of course, only if there is a game that is attractive enough!

It is with these data that Yang Fan is sure that the legend detonated the online game market not because of the geometric increase in China's Internet population at that time, but because the legend turned more non-gamers into gamers, which made Yang Fan more confident in the game.

According to the performance of Legend 02 and 03, under the current netizen base, Legend should have the potential to exceed 250,000 online users at most. Well, it can't be said that the online game market has been cultivated for a year or two......

Thinking about it, Yang Fan said, "Our goal this year is to increase the active players of the three games of Q Westward Journey, Legend, and Stone Age by 50%!" ”

"Fifty percent ......"

Zhu Hua muttered and repeated the number.

Last summer, when Q Westward Journey was first launched, it was still excited about the more than 10,000 online users, and even caused a sensation in the IT world. Last year's low, when the legend broke 50,000, the real IT industry went crazy, and countless IT companies set their sights on online games. In May, when the legend exceeded 100,000, and the monthly profit of Qihang exceeded 10 million in a row, it completely boiled the water of online games......

Only Zhu Hua knows, several major portals, as well as the original famous software companies have entered the online game industry, counting Qichao, Ye Yu's prosperity, Zhu Hua believes that by next year, online games will enter a state of a hundred flowers.

If by the end of the year, the number of legendary online users will increase by another 50%, and even the highest number of online users may exceed 200,000, what kind of sensation will it cause? I'm afraid it will attract more companies to covet it...... With so many companies competing, can Qihang still stand at the top of the online game industry as it is now, overlooking other online game companies?

Or next year's killer feature, League of Legends?

Just talking about the goal of setting sail for the second half of the game, there was already a cheer from the test team over there, this group of people is playing League of Legends when they have nothing to do, testing, optimizing, and balancing.

Yang Fan was itchy when he saw it...... He recalled that he took his sister to the double row, well, he was taken by his sister, which seriously hit his self-confidence as a self-proclaimed game master for more than ten years. I don't know what level it will be to play League of Legends more than ten years ago, when I was not yet at the peak age of the game.

Do what you want!

So, Yang Fan directly threw a tester off his seat.

Tester, "......"

Seeing this, the other testers had an idea in the hearts of the hostile side, a novice, although it is said that it is the boss, abuse is no problem, right?

The same team thought in their hearts, this is a game, come to a deep pit, don't talk about the pit, you can't spray it yet!

Yang Fan didn't have the time to pay attention to other people's thoughts, so he went directly to the computer, looking at the scum picture quality version of League of Legends in front of him, and the tester was playing Pan Sen. To tell the truth, this hero immediately evoked Yang Fan's memories of bringing his sister, so Yang Fan asked the tester who had just picked up, "Do you know who the hero Pan Sen is most afraid of?" ”

"Huh?" The tester listened to this question and thought hard, "Probably be cautious, you can't kill in the early stage, you can't beat in the later stage, you can fly him!" ”

Yang Fan patted him on the shoulder and said, "How can it be a kidney, it's obviously a cursed troll, think about it, Pan Sen fell from the sky, his ass hit the ground first, when Pan Sen didn't land, he found that there was actually a big pillar on the ground that was waiting for him, what do you say Pan Sen thinks, do you say Pan Sen can not be afraid?" ”

The tester was stunned when he heard this, thought for a while, and asked, "What do you mean?" ”

Well, this boy is too innocent...... Maybe the Internet in this era is too simple, and it is not yet an era when old drivers and all kinds of pollution rule the world! (To be continued.) )