Chapter 164: April Fool's Day to Tell the Truth
The Lakers are indeed very stable, and after back-to-back defeats over the Miami Heat, the Purple and Gold returned to Atlanta after a day of rest and defeated the Hawks again without danger. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
The Hawks are a civilian army with no superstars or even All-Stars, but there are several quasi-All-Stars on the team, who are good at group battles, good offense and defense, and have no obvious shortcomings, a style that seems to have been maintained in Atlanta.
How to say it, the two teams played back and forth in the first three quarters, and the Lakers were even at a disadvantage for a while.
But in the key round of the fourth quarter, the two cornerstones of the Lakers, the old and the new, are too reliable, no matter who the basketball goes to, the Hawks fans will be scared for a while, but Lakers fans can feel the sudden drop in their heartbeat, because they know that these two will not let them down, even if they don't score points, they can threaten the opponent with passes or fouls.
Zhang Qi and the magician can use their personal abilities to make their opponents feel depressed at critical moments and boost their morale. They can always make all your efforts come to naught in an instant when the fans feel that they don't have a chance and the defenders feel that they should be able to defend the attack.
The Lakers are so strong now because they have reliable executors in key moments, they know how to play, who to give the ball to, and what to do with the supporting characters.
In this way, the Lakers become terrifying.
Quasi-all-stars like Fan Maniac, all-stars like Sebaros, and players like Campbell and Finley who can play the main role anywhere, if they can all play supporting roles with peace of mind and cooperate around the two protagonists, then even the simplest tactics can exert their power.
This seems to be exactly what Show· The Lakers were the best at performing during the Time period, when the Lakers were using two supergiants + two All-Stars to play the simplest tactics, but their combat effectiveness exceeded that of more tactical teams in many cases.
However, no matter how well the Lakers play this season, they can't be the protagonists, and the eyes of the world are focused on the Bulls at this moment.
Although the Lakers have begun to shine their light, the Chicagoans are like the midday sun, and anyone who stands next to them will be buried by their unprecedented performance of 70+ wins this season.
The Lakers played well, but they were still better than the supersonics, but these two teams together couldn't steal the focus from the Bulls, and the Bulls were too IMBA at this time!
"It's better if no one pays attention to us, it's called muffling and making a fortune!"
Zhang Qi said this, but he was still very envious and jealous in his heart.
However, "hate" is not to talk about, his performance in the rookie season is not inferior to Jordan that year, and even surpasses it, although these achievements are overshadowed by the Bulls' unprecedented record, but they will definitely be dug up in the future.
At the end of March, the Lakers defeated the Toronto Raptors again on the road.
But the game itself wasn't the point, the point was that Zhang met his personal assistant, or personal secretary, for the first time after the game.
Lin Zhiling will officially start working in May, and Zhang Fu came to Toronto to play this time, so he naturally wanted to meet his future subordinates first.
At this meeting, Lin Zhiling left a deep impression on Zhang Fu.
First of all, this sister Lin has a better figure and a higher appearance, Zhang Yu is ready to buy a platinum-level [Lily Laraka], ready to have a bloody love triangle story of "Shuanglin One".
However, he didn't dare to go too far in this contact, because this sister Lin has not appeared in his fan list, and even his performance in the game against the Raptors in only three and a half quarters of 36 points, 6 rebounds and 5 assists failed to impress this sister Lin.
In this way, maybe people don't like basketball.
This made him a little painful, because he found that in addition to playing basketball, it seemed that he would only play with women, which was basically no different from other NBA players, so how did he use to get this beautiful young lady?
Zhang was a little distressed, and the Lakers' March game ended with the victory over the Raptors.
With the exception of the Bulls, SuperSonics and Spurs this month, the Lakers' 12-3 record is the highest win percentage in the league.
"We don't have a goal, as long as the eye in front of us can see the goal, that's our goal."
This is Zhang Fu's interview after defeating the Raptors, and many reporters want to ask him when they hear this, what is the "eye in the back"?
Unfortunately, in the end, no one was embarrassed to ask.
Zhang Zhu, this bastard, is a reporter who wants to play a trick and dares to ask such a question, so it is better for them not to humiliate themselves.
The next day, when leaving Toronto, Zhang Fu still had some regrets in her heart.
He has a very good feeling about this Sister Lin, but unfortunately he couldn't let the other party appear in his fan system, and he doesn't even know how this Sister Lin can be attacked.
But it doesn't matter, the coming days will be long, and in May, they will have a lot of time to face each other, and then they will slowly cultivate their feelings.
Moreover, he doesn't believe that there will be girls who don't have feelings for him, and even the little radish shreds with bigger farts have appeared in his fan system, and this sister Lin can still run?
This is not a mystery of self-confidence, he has systematic help, plus his three views are extremely incorrect, and his quality is very low, there should be few girls in this world who can run out of his clutches.
March is over, and April 1 is April Fool's Day, which can drive a lot of people crazy.
Zhang Wei took the opportunity to use ICQ to send a lot of ambiguous news to all the young ladies, and the attributes of the scumbag were completely exploded on this day.
Dragonborn also released a data on this day, "Resident Evil 1" has now sold more than 8 million copies worldwide, which far exceeds the Dragonborn's own expectations, and has caused a lot of sensation in the industry.
However, the fact that Dragonborn deliberately chose to release its sales figures on this day naturally made many people feel that this data was not true.
However, this is a real figure, and it is even underestimated. Because at present, the original game disc of "Resident Evil 1" is still out of stock around the world, and it will take a week for most stores to get it in stock.
This is a credit for the Dragonborn's anti-piracy program, which is a generation ahead of its peers in terms of anti-piracy measures, as the Dragonborn's predecessor started with technology.
Dragonborn's encryption system is so advanced that it can design unique keys for specific hardware on the system.
But the specific working principle of this key, except for its own designer Zhang Mo, basically no one knows.
At present, according to the posts made by some hackers in the junior forums of this era, Resident Evil 1 has been on sale for a month and a half, but no one in the global hacker community can really "crack" the encryption, but many people have published methods that use the vulnerabilities of the encryption program itself to simulate the genuine environment.
Although there are ways to crack it, it is a long and boring cracking cycle, and the workload will increase by a hundred times.
Everyone knows that the encryption program of the Dragonborn Company will eventually be cracked, but the encryption's anti-tampering technology has been considered an unprecedented success by the industry in the past month and a half, and it has not been cracked for so long, and it has greatly extended the time between the release of the game and the cracking.
Moreover, as long as the Dragonborn company fixes these cracked vulnerabilities in the latest factory game discs, or in the upgrade patches provided by the official website, these hackers will have to spend a lot of time to crack again, unless they continue to use the old version, or do not upgrade, but this will greatly affect the game experience.
That's why the industry is so sure of this encryption program, if a game is completely cracked in a quarter or even half a year after its release, then the game company's losses will be minimized.
In an earlier interview with the magazine, Zhang Mo also expressed the possibility of selling the encryption system, which he named "Dragonborn Encryption", an anti-piracy technology that could be used in games made by other companies.
Of course, these are not the biggest surprises released by the Dragonborn Company on April Fool's Day, but also the fact that the Dragonborn Company has quietly established another studio - "Origin Studio".
The studio is led by Mike Harington and Victor Antonoff, two former elite programmers at Microsoft and a prodigy who specializes in designing shooter games, and the addition of these two people allows Dragonborn to form a new studio for shooting games, which is also a plan that Zhang Mo has prepared for a long time.
After the establishment of "Origin Studio", the Dragonborn will have three studios, namely "Dead Studio", which focuses on horror games and uses the Dead Silence engine; "Infinite Studio", which uses the infinite engine and specializes in the development of drama-based RPG; and Origin Studios, which focuses on shooters and will develop the Source engine.
However, the surprise of the Dragonborn Company is not over, and there is more to the news they have released on April Fool's Day......
On April 1st, ICQ ushered in its biggest update since its launch - the latest version of ICQ will add the "ICQ Space" feature, as well as the "ICQ Membership Feature", and the "Dragonborn Forum" will be officially launched.
Among them, the most interesting thing for peers is the "ICQ membership" function, and Dragonborn will be the first company to charge for its instant messaging software.
Of course, given that other instant messaging apps at this time have not been around for a long time, there is not much comparison.
But in any country, when it comes to fees, especially in this emerging field, it is likely to be a strategic mistake and give others the opportunity to catch up.
Once the Dragonborn's "membership business" is not played well, this fee function is likely to force a large number of users to other camps, and this is a great opportunity for these companies to pounce and eat away at ICQ.
It can be said that after the Dragonborn company has occupied an absolute first-mover advantage, if these companies want to catch up, or replace ICQ, then they can only expect the Dragonborn company to make its own mistakes, otherwise even an IT giant like Microsoft will be difficult to pose too much threat to ICQ, which currently has more than 8 million registered users.
That's right, ICQ's global registrations exceeded 8 million in March, accounting for more than 95% of the industry's market share, and no one can compete with such a huge first-mover advantage, even if they combined.
The Dragon-Descent Company is not yet a listed company, but if Zhang Mo chooses to go public, the Dragon-Descent Company will immediately become a significant giant in the technology field, and now I don't know how many people are optimistic about the development of the Dragon-Descent Company.
Zhang Mo made so many moves in the same day, which shows that his ambitions for the Internet are becoming more and more obvious, especially the new features of the "ICQ space" have caught many peers off guard, which is obviously to compete with the various instant messaging software that has sprung up in recent months, especially Microsoft's MSN.
With the new version of ICQ, he wants to continue to consolidate his dominance in the field, while also wanting to attack new heights.
Dragonborn's "ICQ Space" doesn't have many features at the moment, and you can only write logs, upload users' personal pictures, music, and show yourself in a way that is not many at the moment.
Although these functions are not many, but we can't look at the present with the vision of the future, the "ICQ space" at this time, its degree of innovation is not much worse than the birth of ICQ itself, he has built a bridge for his eight million users.
If you consider that ICQ has 8 million users, the potential of this space to communicate and share with each other is limitless, and it can tie these users to itself even more firmly.
In the eyes of Microsoft, Yahoo and other companies, this is the real power of this space function.
A large number of ICQ users can set the background, small pendants, pictures, etc. of the space according to their personal preferences, so that each space has its own characteristics, which is equivalent to creating an exclusive space for these eight million people and creating a virtual network space, which can not only connect with each other, but also make them have a greater sense of belonging, which greatly increases user stickiness.
However, it should also be noted that this time ICQ has opened a charging function for the first time, and these new functions that can show personality basically need to be opened as an ICQ member to have the right to use.
That is, if you want to be individual, if you want to communicate with others, if you want to share your characteristics, you have to spend money.
Dragonborn's price for "ICQ Membership" is $2.49 a month, which is not too high because there was no similar charging feature before, and 80% of ICQ users are in economically developed areas. As for the charging methods, there are many ways, the most convenient of which is to recharge with the phone bill, and send a text message is OK.
But the question is, will these 8 million members recharge and spend for the sake of this space function?
Zhang Mo attaches great importance to this update, he knows that the "ICQ Space" will be successful, but he is not sure whether the "ICQ Member" will be successful? It depends on whether they can launch more unique exclusive functions for members in the future, and whether they can use these special functions to impress users' desire to consume.
In order to lure these users to buy membership, Dragonborn will give a free one-month ICQ membership service to new and old users who register before April 10, hoping to take advantage of the temptation of this trial period to enable these 8 million users to take the initiative to renew their subscription after one month.
If this fee-based service can be successful, ICQ will no longer be a pure cash-burning business, and Dragonborn will have the opportunity to gradually turn from a loss-making state to a profitable state.
This is very important for the Dragonborn company, ICQ burns money too fast, Zhang Yu currently invests all of his endorsement income into his father's company, and his mother in Australia has also invested a lot of money in it, but it still can't keep up with the speed at which the Dragonborn company burns money.
Last month, the Dragonborn Company burned all the previous more than 100 million funds, which made Zhang Wei can't believe it.
If there was no big sale of "Resident Evil 1", so that the Dragonborn Company could go to the bank for a loan to make an emergency, Zhang Mo would really have to prepare for listing now.
In the past six months, the stall he has spread out is too big, and if there is no cash injection of more than 200 million yuan this year, the Dragonborn company will definitely fall into the dilemma of poor turnover.
This reality of the crisis led him to create the "Dragonborn Encryption System", in order not to let piracy ruin his only source of income at this stage.
The Dragonborn Company is now counting on "Resident Evil 1" to bring them funds for subsequent operation and development, otherwise they will definitely be cut off by those predators, and those people have long wanted to force him to share a big piece of the cake.
Zhang Mo personally designed the "Dragonborn Encryption System" because he knew that Microsoft and other companies would definitely do everything possible to crack his game.
Therefore, he didn't feel at ease about who to do this matter, and in the end he could only complete it by himself.
Now that the "Dragonborn encryption system" has not been quickly cracked, "Resident Evil 1" has also successfully sold well around the world, and it is possible to exceed 10 million sets in the next month.
In this way, after the funds are withdrawn one after another next month, the Dragonborn company will no longer worry about money in the short term, and they can enter a relatively stable development period to improve the three main tasks at this stage: "Dragonborn Forum", "ICQ Space" and "ICQ Membership".