Chapter 10: Market Exploration

Seeing the lights on each server shine like stars in the sky fills me with a sense of accomplishment.

When I think about more than seven months ago, when I was still worried about my work, I couldn't help but feel a lot of emotion in my heart.

The so-called success is all about leaving opportunities for those who are prepared, and that's it.

I'm engaged in game programming by myself, I'm also engaged in 3D realistic texture architecture, and I also work on the structure of the game operation platform, and I'm in charge of the game engine testing.

In the course of three years, one person has been working almost with the workload of seven people for three years, and his sleepless efforts in the past three years can be regarded as seeing good results.

Perhaps for now, such a sudden high profit and unexpected successful operation of the game have aroused the jealousy and redness of peers, but whoever picks the peach on the tree first will taste the sweetness first, this is the rule of the market.

In the past, there were some minor problems with the game that kept me awake all night.

Yes, how to break through the bottleneck of domestic games in their own Chinese tastes is the biggest breakthrough.

Four years ago, because of a foreign stand-alone, interactive realistic game inspired me, so since then, I have fantasized about a virtual world, so that people can fully reflect their life value in it, some things that can not be vented in reality, show talent, are all shown in this realistic game world, so a sensational Chinese people and the world of the online game "Virtual Time and Space" appeared.

This game replaces the previous mainstream foreign imported games based on fantasy and martial arts, and has developed a new gameplay and content.

You can work hard in the real world, and you can still dominate in the game world.

And some people can't be scientists and scholars in reality, and some people don't want to be criminals, in this game, you can show your life again, although this is a highly realistic virtual life.

Fortunately, the game has entered a period of stable operation, and the team for the development and maintenance of the game has been established in the later stage, and I only need to guide and continue to supervise the new process of this large game.

When I came out of the telecommunications building, it was already three o'clock in the afternoon.

My plane is going to take off at five o'clock and I'm on my way to the airport.

The North American online game press conference will be held tomorrow, and I can't delay the plane.

The bosses of several large game companies in the United States are also eager to meet me.

It was also a great opportunity for me to get involved in the world of computer games.

I took Liu Qian, who can speak foreign languages, to help me collect a lot of information on foreign game programming and software development, and at the same time to see if I can merge and acquire a few better game companies and tap some senior IT talents.

When I arrived at the airport, six male and female bodyguards boarded the plane with me, and Liu Qian and I sat in a separate cabin.

I'm looking at tomorrow's work schedule, with a few bodyguards taking turns resting in the plane seats on one side.

Several heads of the North American branch will greet me at the airport, and I don't have any specific work arrangements at the moment, so I asked Liu Qian to find me a blanket and sleep beautifully on the recliner of the plane.

Thirteen hours later, when the plane landed at the San Francisco airport, I woke up and didn't realize that I was already an expatriate.

Although the bodyguards all knew some basic foreign languages, I still asked them to follow me closely and take care of the luggage of a few people for me.

It was nighttime on this side of the North American branch, and the next day it would be a press conference.

I'm going to have to take a look at my foreign language speech.

Although I am a level 5 foreign language and can speak some simple things, I am still very unfamiliar with the vocabulary in the industry that is too specialized.

Liu Qian read the manuscript to me twice, and I could barely make out the pronunciation of some words and sentences.

Fortunately, the press conference was dominated by me, I could speak slowly, and Liu Qian was responsible for answering questions, so I didn't have much concern.

At the Mark Hopkins Hotel in the United States, I chartered a presidential suite for five days.

So with a couple of regional agents, we went straight into the hotel and then had a short meeting at 12 o'clock at night after a late-night supper.

I made a few specific requests to the four main persons in charge of the North American office, in fact, I have said it through video conference before, and I think it is necessary to repeat it in person at this moment, after all, this game is also suitable for foreigners, my game just provides a realistic game world, and the North American version here is a realistic urban style that simulates San Francisco and New York and several large North American cities.

It's just that the players here are all from the United States, and the language is different from that of Huaxia.

It's closer to some of the potential content in the game, such as civilian areas and entertainment venues controlled by gangsters, and hidden underground arms stores.

The setting of the anti-drug and anti-terrorism special police agency of the United States is also a full set of open content.

As a citizen of the United States, you can take the SWAT school and be selected to become a professional SWAT officer in the real game, on the other hand, you are a real police officer, or you can blend into the gangsters in the underground world of the game and become the right-hand man of the gangster boss in the game.

So as soon as the "North American Continent" version of this "Virtual Time and Space" was released, it was snapped up by nearly eight million gamers in less than ten days.

I'm here right now to prepare the new versions of "Narcos West" and "Las Vegas East" and come up with development plans.

Here, it is not only necessary for the head of the branch to provide 3D realistic city maps of these large cities, but also to write the core program content of the entire game, and draw up a new version of the game operation and promotion plan.

The basic requirement I put forward is that as soon as the game is introduced, the first feeling for players in the United States to enter the game is to be able to find their own doorstep smoothly, and there is no strangeness but a familiar feeling, even if it is a tree at the door of the player's house, the seat of a mailbox cannot be misplaced.

Hearing this, the four responsible persons were basically not scared to death, and immediately collapsed on the office chairs.

Liu Qian got up with a smile and handed the four responsible persons the personal gifts I brought.

The four persons in charge of program development and network operation opened the small gift package and saw that it was a platinum diamond ring worth 30,000 yuan, with the logo of our Stone Lida Network Media Company on the ring.

Undoubtedly, as a region with many gamers, it is very difficult for the four of them to develop the market independently here, and besides, this is a foreign country, and what kind of people and things may be encountered.

There was once a robbery gang on the way to rob the truck that was being transported by my North American division. But fortunately, with advance preparation, the truck temporarily changed its route, and it set off two hours early to arrive at the store that sold the game, and the same truck, which belonged to another company, was robbed by this gang.

The robbers dragged them to the outskirts and saw that it was actually a cartload of potatoes.

It seems that the robbers in the United States are robbing the truck that transports my account client as a cash truck.

In fact, a car worth nearly 10 million dollars worth of game client accounts is far more than tens of millions of black market transaction values.

When it comes to releasing new versions of virtual games, you have to be very careful.

If necessary, I plan to sell the player's account through the pre-order method of online real-name registration.

In this way, the burden on them is reduced, and there is no need to ask the police in the United States to be responsible for escorting the car.

The four North American directors left, and I returned to my hotel room with a sense of relief.

During this time, six bodyguards and many plainclothes police officers from North America followed me all the time.

After I entered the room, I asked Liu Qian to ask the bar to send a box of good wine to these police officers who had worked hard for a long time, and explained the past five days and took care of three meals for them.

After taking a bath, standing on the balcony of the hotel building, wearing pajamas and looking at the night view of the seaside, I thought it would be good if I brought Lu Xiaoqin over before.

It's just that Xiaoqin's passport can't be done in a moment and a half this time, so I have to wait for the next time.

The female bodyguard and Liu Qian took a shower in my bathroom first, and the three of them squeezed into the big bed in the small room and fell asleep first.

The four male bodyguards took turns sleeping on the sofa in the living room after taking a shower.

The next day, reporters from more than a dozen media outlets and tens of thousands of gamers poured in front of the hotel.

It feels like President Xi is visiting the United States.

Is there any mistake?

After the bodyguards squeezed through the crowd, Liu Qian and I drove to the press conference site in Optics Valley.

There were a lot of players shouting slogans to me along the way.

I couldn't hear the bird language they spoke very well in the car.

The next day, my bodyguards got a pistol from somewhere.

This country is really rich and can buy planes.

However, Liu Qian said that it was for my safety, at least the real guys were prepared.

There are not a few rich people kidnapped in the United States, and I can't help but break out in a cold sweat on my head.

At the game launch, I announced to the 20,000 players and dozens of media outlets that the game has officially and stably operated, and also announced the latest news of the release of two new maps in three months.

When players heard the news that the new versions of "Narcos West" and "Casino East" were about to be released, the audience cheered, and I saw that a woman's underwear was thrown in the air.

It's just too wicked.

Bringing my own game development team into the conference room on the second floor, I will be meeting with seven game companies in the United States.

Here Liu Qian will be the interpreter of the talks, and I will come up with several cooperation intentions to attract several major game companies to join.

Making money on other people's turf and not putting some oil and water out, I am afraid that there will be changes in the future.

It's also a strategic question in the mall.

So the real intention of coming to the United States this time is to win over a few, step on a few, and then fool a few.

The reason why I say this is not without careful consideration.

The development of at least two new versions of "Narcos West" and "Casino East" must be strongly supported by the game developers in the United States.

People are familiar with the human, geographical, military, and political arenas of their country, so it is absolutely necessary to make use of these resources.

Therefore, I divided the development content into three parts, the game realistic graphics modeling was handed over to a company, the game operation and promotion was handed over to a company, the game runtime engine software development was handed over to a company, and I was responsible for the programming of the core software, the maintenance and expansion of the server.

To put it bluntly, it's the bones for you to gnaw, and I still eat the meat myself, but everyone takes the soup to drink.

I promised that the three winning bidders would each receive a 5% stake in North America after interviewing for the new version of the game.

Moreover, the game conducts public bidding for these three fast games every year, which also makes other companies that did not intervene in the first round have a second chance.

And the promise that once there is an updated game development plan, the rest of the companies will become the preferred companies, which is a fool.

After that, Liu Qian gave a copy of several bidding materials to each company present, and their bosses and agents left with a treasure, and went back to prepare for the bidding meeting three days later.

At the end of the bidding, I will also end my trip and return to China.