"Mr. Yang, does World of Warcraft really need half a year to prepare?" Zhang Guoqiang was still a little reluctant on the plane back to Beijing: "We have been preparing for it for 3 years, and the technical reserves are very sufficient. We will test it in February, open beta in March and April, and officially launch it before May Day, May Day Golden Week is the peak season, and it won't take long to be the summer vacation, which is an excellent business opportunity! ”

Yang Yun shook his head: "There is no need to be in such a hurry, since it is an internal test, let those professional players fully feel the fun of the game, they are professional testers, and the chance of finding a bug is much greater, which is a good thing for us, and modifying the BUG is also more targeted." I know you're worried about player numbers and sales, but now we don't need to dwell too much on that. ”

Zhang Guoqiang was silent, he took a sip of coffee, and after a while he said again: "Mr. Yang, I think you have changed a little, just from the last time they came to Linkin Park, oh no, to be precise, from Microsoft's complete withdrawal from the video game market." ”

Yang Yun laughed, he knew what Zhang Guoqiang meant, on the twenty-eighth day of the lunar month, when he invited the management of Longteng to eat Li family food, many people's attitudes changed, not only him, big and small, but his change seemed to be the most obvious.

"Do you mean I seem to have lost my fighting spirit all of a sudden?" Yang Yun joked.

"Let's just say that there really isn't any game company in the world that can compete with us, especially video game consoles, all the markets are occupied by us, and PC games are also occupied by us. Do you think it's time to recuperate? ”

When Zhang Guoqiang said this, he gritted his teeth again: "Say something unpleasant." It's dangerous to have no goals, when we're the only company in the world making games. It's easy to get ourselves caught up in feelings of satisfaction, pride, confusion, etc. We must be prepared for danger in times of peace, and we must not be complacent and slack off because there is no opponent! ”

These words were a little ugly, but Yang Yun felt warm in his heart, on the twenty-eighth day of the lunar month, everyone talked a lot, talked a lot, and drank a lot. Celebration banquet, basically everyone is talking about auspicious words, compliments, and it is true that because there are no competitors in the world, Longteng people feel a little lonely and defeated.

Now that he has almost ruled the game industry all over the world, his super game empire has completed the first step, Yang Yun said that he is not proud and complacent, it is a lie, Zhang Guoqiang can risk offending him and pour cold water, that is called loyalty against the ear. is conducive to the sustainable development of Longteng in the future, Zhang Guoqiang's loyalty and straightforwardness, as well as his calmness, all make Yang Yun feel gratified.

"Yongping also told me that if you don't advance, you will retreat. He mentioned this issue when he came to my house to pay New Year's greetings on the first day of the new year, and you are really, and it is not easy to have a good New Year. Now it's just over the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, and I'm mentioning this matter again! Yang Yun joked: "The fifteenth day of the first lunar month is still the New Year!" ”

Zhang Guoqiang snorted. I don't know what to say with my coffee.

"Okay, I'll not hide it from you, I've always had a plan. I have always understood the truth of being born in sorrow and dying in peace. Microsoft is only temporarily leaving the game market, but Bill Gates has to deal with it for the sake of his operating system empire, and the current low-key period is his dormant period, just from the fact that the employees who jumped ship in the past have not been dismissed, and the Microsoft game department is just reorganized rather than disbanded, it is easy to see that they will definitely re-enter the game industry in the future, and will also enter the video game industry, our opponent is still terrible. ”

"And what are your plans?"

"Slow work to make high-quality products! That's the case with World of Warcraft, DC2 took six years to sharpen a sword, Diablo 2 took five years to develop, and Minecraft took at least three years to do it, because I had high hopes for all of these and didn't want to be shoddy and rushed. "World of Warcraft" has been in production for two and a half years, is it still half a year away? If you think about what the reason for the failure of Xbox360 is, you will understand my plan. ”

Speaking of Xbox360, Zhang Guoqiang suddenly realized, oh for a long time, and then sighed with emotion: "The reason for the failure of competitors is also the mistake we try to avoid." I'm sorry, I'm an insider myself, and I'm blindsided......"

It is undeniable that Xbox360 is a good game console, but how to say it, if Bill Gates, Robbie Bach and they calm down, as long as they give up last year's Christmas sales season, and seriously do half a year of testing, maybe they can still maintain a market share of about 10% now, although it is less, but the spark of hope is still burning, it is better than having to completely withdraw from the market now with a bad reputation.

"Xbox360 made an irreparable mistake in the race for the Christmas sales season, and that was their biggest flaw. I take back what I just said, there is no need to grab the peak sales season of the May Day Golden Week, as for the peak season of summer vacation...... Forget it, summer vacation is the battlefield of WCG, I'm really worried about it......" Zhang Guoqiang finally untied the knot, he let out a sigh of relief, leaning on the back of the soft seat.

"That's right, our Longteng management team is the strongest marketing team in the world, these little things have already been figured out, you concentrate on the technical side, although Blizzard is independent, I trust you more." Yang Yun's sweet jujube made Zhang Guoqiang laugh embarrassedly, and the depression just now was swept away.

Yang Yun smiled, pressed the VIP indicator bell, and a beautiful flight attendant came over, smiled respectfully and asked, "Mr. Yang, what service do you need?" ”

"Help me get two glasses of red wine that I saved here last time, mine is going to be added with ice, what about you? Hey, don't you drink coffee to make yourself nervous? You just continue to be nervous, Miss trouble you, a glass of red wine is ready! ”

The flight attendant turned around to get Yang Yun's wine, Yang Yun looked at the scenery outside from the window, the blue sky, the large white clouds, and the vast world as far as the eye could see, he thought of his Longteng Entertainment Game Company, and felt like the plane he was in, the pattern was still too small, and the outside was a bigger world.

Without other big game companies to compete with themselves, then the biggest enemy in the world should be Longteng itself.

The most difficult thing for people to defeat is themselves, and if Longteng wants to break through himself, he must make huge changes.

After Qin Shi Huang unified China, the first thing he did was to unify weights and measures, and Longteng should follow suit, and he wanted to introduce a standard that the world game industry must follow.

DC2, or Longteng's TV game console platform, can be said to have achieved the development of standards, the next should be the weights and measures on the PC, the PC's Microsoft dominates the entire operating system, then Longteng should work with Apple, strive to use the game as a breakthrough, promote the MAC computer to the world, and spread the Android operating system and OS-X operating system all over the world smartphones.

The OS-X operating system is fully enclosed, Longteng can control which functions to open, which excuses to open, all game companies, general application software companies, if you want to release software on DC2, you must use Longteng's software platform, Longteng can supervise all imports and exports, decide which software is not good, and decide which software is favorable, this is the standard.

Some people may say that this is obviously autocracy and a hall of words, and Longteng is flaunting fairness but still focusing on its own interests.

But Yang Yun doesn't care about this statement, the unification of the game empire is for autocracy, otherwise what did he fight for more than ten years? In the future, he still has decades of good life to live, the life of this super game empire is definitely not just such a few short years, in the era of information explosion, maybe an idea can create a super huge enterprise out, Facebook, Google, You-Tu-be, who can guarantee that no game company will use the shortest time to fight a bloody road?

Back in the capital, Yang Yun drove to Zhu Shuguang's house alone.

He didn't stay in Shanghai for a few more days, and deliberately flew back to the capital, just for Zhu Shuguang.

Generally, there will be three fires when a leader takes office, and several leaders in Yang Yun's memory are like this, in the past few years, they have cleaned up people who are not in their own camp, and slowly concentrated power, and the next thing is to put forward their own policies and guidelines, do business, grasp people's livelihood, and summarize their own set of ideas.

Zhu Shuguang has come to the end of the seizure of power, and now he is at an important juncture in expanding economic development, he has taken the lead in people's livelihood, infrastructure and other aspects, and he wants to carry out major changes in the IT industry, reform education and sports, which are more or less related to Longteng, and even led by Longteng.

"Mr. Zhu, I came here in a hurry, I didn't bring you any gifts, these bottles of red wine were originally stored on the plane by me and had a chance to drink again, who knew that the people of their Air China didn't know how to save them at all, so I simply brought them all down and put them here for you!"

Yang Yun will not come empty-handed every time, these bottles of red wine are all flown from France, and the price is expensive, but he will definitely not say.

Zhu Shuguang accepted the wine with a smile, asked Zhu Qianqian to store it carefully, and then took Yang Yun to the study.

"I want to tell you two things, first, the promotion of education reform needs to rely on your strength, is there a problem?"

"No problem, Mr. Zhu, but our Longteng is a small role, at most we can only be the fulcrum of the pry board, not the main force."

"I knew you were a little slipper! Okay, let's start by acknowledging your gaming education platform. Education reform is a long-term process that will probably last until the end of my term, but I have to start with it. ”

The first thing was such a blockbuster news, Yang Yun smacked his tongue, he didn't dare to think about what the second thing was, it was estimated that the picture was too beautiful, he didn't dare to look at it. (To be continued......)