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The R&D cost invested by the partner company of "Online Game Master Template" is about 70 million yuan. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 info is only equivalent to the R&D cost of developing a high-quality online game.

If the original online game product is equivalent to a money printing machine. Then "Online Game Master", a template that can be used to make letter games in batches, is equivalent to a machine for making money printing machines.

Originally, the small partner company made an online game, which generally required a team of 100 people and an event of about a year to develop. The production budget of a game is between 5 million ~ 40 million yuan.

But if you are lazy to make it with a template, you only need to move the mouse to make an online game. Even if you are serious, you are working the game's art, setting, plot, and so on. As for the technology, it has become very simple, almost no programming is required, you only need to move the mouse, and you can make a game by skillfully operating the software "Online Game Master".

The emergence of game templates has allowed partner companies to develop low-end games, and the cycle has been shortened to less than two or three months.

The development cost of a game has also been reduced to an unimaginable level. It can be said that a team of 20 people can spend 1 million yuan to develop an online game that fools some less picky rookies.

The biggest amount of work to make a game from Template 6 is not even planning and producing, but - testing!

After the game is made, it is necessary to organize some employees to test it as players, detect some bugs, or development problems, and enhance the game experience.

Once you find the problem, it's very easy to modify the game program. After all, it was all made by the template of "Online Game Master", and the core source code is almost the same. Even if some programs were added later, different games were different. But at least more than 90% of the procedures are the same.

In this way, the programmers in the company are proficient in the game development tool "Online Game Master". You can carry out technical maintenance on most of the games produced by the company's templates.

It can be said that this is not only to save money and time in the development process, but also to make the technical maintenance and upgrading of subsequent games simpler.

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In November 2003, Buddy Game Network launched a new game in a low-key manner - the 2D version of the MMRPG online game "Adventures in the World of Rhoda".

For the game made by this template, can it be bought by players? Everyone's psychology is relatively suspenseful. In order to avoid bad games, the fanfare has affected the brand reputation of the partner company.

Therefore, the producer of this game is also launched under the name of "Roda Game Studio". Once the game is badly reviewed, just take out the vest of Rhoda Game Studios and carry the blame.

If the response is not bad, it is to admit that "Roda Game Studio" is owned by a small partner company.

"I never thought of it!" Wang Qinian couldn't help but touch it.

"Little white player, are you really that picky?" Lin Xiaoshu was also surprised.

The game "Adventures in the World of Rhoda", which was made in the template, was taken out by the company to test the waters. Players didn't think it was a shoddy game.

On the contrary, the test server attracted a large number of new and old players, so that "Adventures in the World of Rhoda" has a certain popularity base without much fanfare.

Due to the hasty launch of this game, even the official website was not built. Only a client download page and forum were set up on the platform of the little partner game network. Even, the little partner company has a ghost in its heart, and it doesn't dare to promote "Adventures in the World of Rhoda", which can be said to be the lowest-profile product ever launched.

But unexpectedly. This game is also more popular than you can imagine!

Due to the blank information of the game, countless players actually began to discuss the tasks and strategies of the game. Magic, bows and arrows, fighting spirit, magic arts. A variety of Western fantasy settings make some players feel very emotional.

It can be said that the popularity of a quick game like "Adventures in the World of Rhoda" is no worse than that of a boutique game. There are at least 30,000 players on just one set of test servers. It has been put into the game for trial in turn. Since the server of this game is also the lowest configuration, the maximum number of online users is only 2500. The partner company has only opened a server. And, be prepared to shut down the server at any time.

As a result, after the launch of "Roda", there was almost no publicity, and it became popular!

A large number of players have complained that Roda only has one set of servers, and there is a strong demand for the game to have a few more servers...... There are even hundreds of players who have deposited money in their Buddy Pass accounts in advance, and after waiting for the game to be charged, they will recharge their point cards.

This made Wang Qinian sigh - today's players are really not picky eaters!

Of course, since gamers are willing to buy it, the partner company has increased the number of "Roda test servers" to 4. It is expected that after three months of testing, "Adventures in the World of Luoda" will also be operated for a fee.

Motivated by the success of this game's test of the waters, the partner company invested 30 million yuan to launch 15 mass-produced versions of the crash game. The development cycle of these games is expected to be about 3 months, and in the first half of 2004, they will be put into market operation one after another.

It can be said that the development cost and cycle of the crash game are already very short. The main costs in the future should be server and network costs, as well as team salary expenses in the operation process.

Of course, the content of the small partner company's strategy is not only about these mass-produced games. Other high-quality games with their own characteristics are also a top priority.

To this end, Wang Qinian invested in a high-quality game masterpiece with a budget of 100 million yuan - "Song and Dance Youth OL" and "World of Tanks OL".

In addition, the Hong Kong branch of the partner has begun to negotiate with Wen Rui'an, and at a sky-high price of 50 million Hong Kong dollars, the exclusive game adaptation rights and exclusive movie adaptation rights of Wen Ruian's novels will be bought in one go. In the future, the game copyright and movie copyright of Wen Ruian's novel will be exclusively contracted by the partner company.

Because, Wen Ruian's novel, although adapted into a TV series. However, there has not been a large number of film adaptations, and there are few gamification adaptations. It is precisely because of this that the copyright of his novels has not been fully developed. So, once it is adapted into movies and games, at least there will be a sense of novelty.

Of course, the little partner company is not only interested in Wen Ruian's novel copyright, but also in the adaptation rights of the works of the once recognized masters of the martial arts era.

The copyrights of Jin Yong, Gu Long, and Huang Yi are also being discussed by the partner company, but they are not all at once. For example, like Master Jin Yong, he is not bad at all, after the Ming Pao Group went public in the 90s, Jin Yong cashed out the stocks, and it is conservatively estimated that he is worth no less than 1 billion.

Subsequently, although Jin Yong did not take the initiative to pursue the growth of wealth, no matter how he thought about it, his wealth could not stand still.

After all, Jin Yong's average copyright of each novel is adapted no less than 10 times. On average, millions of dollars are recorded every year by relying on copyright licensing.

Not to mention, Jin Yong also has a royal stockbroker Dong Wei, who is a very low-key investment and financial management master. Investing in stocks for more than 50 years, only a few wealthy people have been given financial management, but the yield is very amazing. Many rich people sighed that they took a small amount of money to Dong Wei to manage their finances, and as a result, the rate of return was much more powerful than the business he had run for a lifetime.

Since the 60s, Jin Yong, Run Run Shaw and others have been handing checks to Dong Wei and entrusting Dong Wei to manage their finances. As a result, Dong Wei naturally satisfied them, and he has been stable for decades, and he has never made huge profits. But...... A snowball of decades is enough to increase the value of the initial investment hundreds of times.

Not to mention anything else, Dong Wei helped customers buy stocks such as Cheung Kong Industrial, HSBC, and Wharf in the 70s, and the return rate was hundreds of times in the past 30 years, and he did not sell his long-term holdings. Coupled with the benefits of dividends from these companies, holdings can reach a thousand-fold rate of return. It can be seen from this that Jin Yong is not short of money. The stock assets that Dong Wei took care of for him alone have increased to an unimaginable height.

It is precisely because Jin Yong is not bad for money that he ...... Using money to buy the copyright of Jin Yong's novel, it seems, is not so smooth. Therefore, the person in charge of Hong Kong Blue Dream Company has adopted a long-term strategy, made friends with Jin Yong's family and friends, maintained a certain contact, and after gaining the favor of Mr. Jin Yong, it is easier to talk about business cooperation. (To be continued.) )

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