"Well, at that time, we just built a LAN within the company, and what players can do is only that, and even far less than what we can do, there are dozens of PCs to form a relatively speaking, still a huge LAN environment, but if the whole world is in this LAN, you think, with the playability of the game "Age of Empires", then how much of a sensation can it cause?"

Jester said with a smile.

"Whew!"

Hearing Jester finish speaking, Tamahide Yoshiro let out a big breath, he now completely understood what Jester meant.

However, he was still a little curious in his heart, can Sega really be able to play a large-scale network like a local area network? Based on his knowledge of the current technology and hardware, it may be possible in the United States, but in Japan, it is unlikely.

And it's much easier to do this with a PC than it is with a game console.

Therefore, Tamahide Yoshiro also directly expressed his doubts.

"As I've said before, the most likely way for them to do this is to do this by connecting to a satellite in guò, like a telephone line or just using a telephone line."

Jester simply said that this is not a random speculation, because this is itself something that Sega has done in history.

However, Jester continued to add: "However, although this method is very feasible, there are two most critical problems, one of which I have said before, that is, because of the problem of charging or delay, the problem of players not accepting it, and the second is the problem of price." ”

At this, Jester paused slightly.

"Of course, I also forgot one, that is, if you want to do what I said before, it is impossible to rely on their MD host, it must be a next-generation host, maybe, this news is Sega's discussion on the next generation console research and development plan."

After hearing Jester's explanation, Tamahideyoshiro also nodded again and again.

"And we?"

After nodding, Tamahideyoshiro immediately asked how to deal with it on his side, and Jester simply waved his hand: "We don't need to do this, add this kind of function to the host, in the next five or six years, I personally feel that the disadvantages outweigh the benefits, so we don't need to follow up, but there is one thing, and it is really this time that Sega reminded me." ”

"What's the matter!"

Tamahide Yoshiro also spoke involuntarily, almost without thinking.

"Battle.net."

Jester just said two words simply, and then fell silent, which made Yuxiu Yoshiro puzzled, what is this so-called battle network?

Tamahideyoshiro asked, but Jester just shook his head and didn't explain it to him, which made Tamahideyoshiro even more strange, because he knew Jester's character, and for Jester, if he knew, he would definitely not keep his mouth shut.

"I haven't figured out what to do with this."

Jester explained lightly, he really didn't think about how to deal with this matter, saying that it might not be accurate, to be precise, he hadn't figured out what kind of battle net he was going to create.

In his memory, in the world of the future, in the field of PC games, there are two game platforms in the form of Battle.net that have the greatest influence.

One is naturally the valve's unrepulsive STEAM, and the other is, of course, the world's first game Battle.net formed by Blizzard - Blizzard Battle.net.

These two types according to the future development,STEAM's potential is undoubtedly much greater,The future G fat is to rely on STEAM to make the entire valve not do business,And the valve will also grow into a giant with more and more games on the STEAM platform。

This is a platform that does not limit the power of the game.

And what about Blizzard's Battle.net?

It's that only Blizzard games can appear on Battle.net, which is very restrictive, but it also has a great advantage, that is, it can purify the player's faith, don't underestimate this, which is very important, especially for a game company.

In Jester's heart, he wants to establish STEAM, because the pattern of STEAM is big enough.

But now, with the current network conditions, it seems that it is a little too difficult to make such a platform.

And then, what about Battle.net?

Jester locked himself in a house, and even Claudia rushed outside, thinking seriously and carefully about the question, if according to the current conditions, can he make it to Battle.net?

Yes in the United States, Jester can confirm.

But it's only the United States, and it's only a PC, not only because Drembox2 was designed at the beginning, but it didn't take this into account, so it's impossible to change it now, even if you develop an external device, in Jester's opinion, it's a redundant move.

Because the current home machine does not use the function of network connection at all.

Sega's attempt in the mid-90s was enough to illustrate the problem, and the problem of using a home computer for network connection was far more complicated than using a PC.

"You can start with a small-scale application."

Pulling out a blank piece of paper and laying it on the table, Jester picked up a pen on the table and carefully wrote his thoughts on the paper, large-scale, network services for games are not so easy to do, and it can even be said that there is no company yet, except for those government departments in the United States, no company has gone back to do it.

Therefore, it is necessary to slowly accumulate experience in small-scale application.

Moreover, the current network situation is far inferior to that of later generations, and Jester has tested the mod that downloaded "Thor's Hammer" on the Internet, that is, "Thor Arena", and the effect is still good.

However, to support Battle.net, it's not just about making a server and putting the game for players to download, or storing data.

There are countless questions that are known or not known, and can happen all the time.

As far as Jester knows, after "World of Warcraft" was launched in China, there was a very heavy problem with the server in the southwest region, because time had passed, what went wrong, Jester also couldn't remember clearly, it seemed to be something like a rollback.

In short, this incident is very strict, and the personnel who arrived in Jiucheng can't solve it at all.

Even, even Blizzard's technicians can't solve it.

In the end, IBM or HP was invited, plus Oracle, these experts in the server problem or the number of library problems, the problem was solved, and now, although there are not many such server problem solvers, but IBM and HP are still trustworthy, of course, there must be a number of library problem solving companies, Oracle has been established.

Thinking of this, Jester wrote the words oracle bone on the blank paper.

Thinking of Oracle, Jester can't help but think of Larry, the creator of Oracle. Ellison, this one is the same as Jester, Bill. Gates-like dropouts.

To be exact, Larry. Ellison Bijester and Bill. Gates is still inferior, at least Jester and Bill. Gates is still a student at a prestigious school, and they drop out of school, not because they can't finish their studies, but because they have more important things to do.

And Larry. The reason Ellison dropped out was because he couldn't get a college degree at all.

The first thirty years of the founder of the world's second largest software company after Microsoft can be described as an incomparably failed thirty years, and at the age of thirty-two, nothing has been accomplished.

How can nothing be accomplished?

For example, he has studied in three universities, but none of them have a bachelor's degree, he has changed more than a dozen companies, and even his wife has left him.

When I started my business, I only had $1,200 and couldn't even afford to rent a garage.

But it was under such a start that in '77 that Larry. Ellison founded Oracle with a few friends, and he doubled the company's profits every year for 12 years.

Becoming the second largest software company in the world was also called one of the best and most profitable companies by the media, and he himself became the richest man in Silicon Valley. But only a few people know how long he has struggled in life during this period. At the age of 32, he has nothing, and by the time he becomes the richest man in Silicon Valley 20 years later, the outside world's evaluation of this business wizard is also mixed.

Jester thought back to what was going on in his mind about Larry. Ellison's qiē, for this man who is called the playboy of Silicon Valley, Jester still liked it when he was young, because Jester did not have a good academic performance before the crossing.

He once heard Larry. Ellison gave a very famous speech at Yale called Why I Was Successful.

In that speech, Larry. Ellison had just stepped onto the stage, and as soon as he opened his mouth, he looked at the Yale students sitting in the audience with a cold and arrogant expression, these were far more outstanding and excellent than his peers, and his eyes showed a look of disdain.

Jester can't remember the previous words clearly, but there is a passage in it that Jester remembers very clearly for Jester, who was still in the second stage of secondary school at the time, and even, he often takes it as his motto, as an excuse to escape from reality and avoid his bad grades.

Of course, when he got older, Jester himself was a little embarrassed to watch this experience. R1152