"Luckily, we bought a server that's strong enough, otherwise it would have crashed." James looked at the data and said to Zhao Hao.

Since EVE was officially opened to players, there have been more than 5 million players around the world, and the online rate has been maintained at 4 million.

And over time, this number of people online will only continue to rise.

The average charge of 1.5 yuan per hour, although the point card charge seems to be a one-time buyout charge, it seems high, but in fact, the long-term profit will definitely exceed as long as the game has always existed.

At the same time, because it is an online game, in addition to China, including other countries and regions, there are online game agency manufacturers who want to act as their agent.

It's just that they were all rejected by Zhao Hao.

Because there is no need for a so-called agent, all countries can choose only their own region after entering the game.

Moreover, all the servers of the space gate have almost no network latency problems.

Of course, this is for domestic players, and foreign players basically have about 5 times the network speed of domestic players.

Even without the so-called proxy, there is no delay at all.

"The current server, I'm going to buy another one, it's not enough." Glancing at the data, Zhao Hao shook his head gently, according to this data, it will not be long before players pour into EVE, I am afraid that this server will not be enough.

"It's already being processed, by the way, BOSS, we are almost finished with the development of the new engine." James said to Zhao Hao.

"So fast?" Zhao Hao was a little surprised.

Because almost all of the employees were transferred to focus on EVE, it was actually for the employees who developed the engine. It is pitiful that it can be used very little, so Zhao Hao thought that it would take at least a month or so to complete the development.

"Everyone is working very hard, and I've seen the new engine, and it's definitely not inferior to any of the mainstream game engines on the market today." Nodding, James puffed up his chest and said to Zhao Hao.

Able so far. This is something James didn't think about.

In the past, he was just an ordinary programmer in Valve, but now James is not to mention the rest of the place, and the salary alone is much higher than his previous self.

And James, who has developed 'Fallout', 'Riding & Slashing' and 'EVE', is still as famous as Hideo Kojima in the game world.

In fact, it's not just James, today's space door can be said to be a giant in the industry.

Although the 'Killer' developed by Hideo Kojima is not a 3A-level masterpiece, when it comes to killers, others only think of Hideo Kojima.

But the emergence of EVE, which was jointly developed with Google, can be said to be the most wanted shot of Space Gate.

When you mention EVE, you bring up the space door. And the most impressive thing about the space gate is the sandbox game.

It has led to a new direction for games, and even almost all games on the market today are moving in the direction of sandboxes.

Degrees of freedom, whether it's fighting games, shooters, role-playing and action games, or even simulation games, all painstakingly study the so-called degrees of freedom.

"Take a break and work out the script for the game and so on. When the time comes, we'll go straight to the Grand Theft Auto series. Zhao Hao opened his mouth and said to James.

Today's studios are arguably not bad for money at all, although investing in the production of EVE-related aspects. Nearly 110 million dollars have been invested.

And through point card charging, now excluding taxes and Google's share, there is still a period of time for the cost to be recovered, let alone profitable.

But the finances of Spacegate have always been in a healthy state, fully able to support the development of new games, and with the presence of EVE. There will also be a steady stream of funds recovered.

And if there is a real rupture of funds, Zhao Hao can also personally invest in the development of space doors.

After all, the current Space Door Studio is no longer Zhao Hao's own company.

Including some of the company's stocks, which have been rewarded to employees by Zhao Hao.

Now, although Zhao Hao is still an absolute holding, he is not 100% holding.

It can be said that the employees in the door of the space. They are all shareholders of Space Door.

"Google also wants to continue to develop new types of games on VR devices with us." James continued towards Zhao Hao.

Although EVE has just been developed.

But the results are promising, especially for VR devices, which Google is very optimistic about.

Although the price of a VR device is as high as $1,500, even using VR requires improving the hardware of your PC.

But after the launch of EVE, more than 20,000 copies of Google's VR devices have been sold worldwide.

It may seem like a small number, but considering that the global VR market currently sells only 130,000 copies a year, you can know that this is actually a big number.

However, this is only a personal purchase, and if you count the VR experience game centers around the world, it can be said that VR games are booming.

"No, but for games like 'Minecraft', we can support VR devices and optimize them." Zhao Hao shook his head lightly and said.

There are too few people, and if Google's request is to be agreed, then it is clear that Grand Theft Auto's plan will definitely be postponed again.

In fact, Zhao Hao no longer wants to postpone this plan.

And Zhao Hao didn't want Google to participate in the project.

So rejection is the best way to go.

However, at least from the current point of view, Zhao Hao's cooperation with Google is quite pleasant.

From Google, Zhao Hao also received a lot of technical support.

Otherwise, the production progress of EVE and the new engine will not be so fast.

Part of the credit for this is due to the technical guidance provided by Google.

And the current EVE, this game is even more popular all over the country.

It can be clearly seen from the domestic game review website, and I don't know how much more EVE has more attention than the second place.

The various online games in China can also be clearly seen, and their numbers are shrinking.

But a game is a game after all, and there have been some scripts about EVE on the Internet, as well as studio leveling and so on.

For scripts and other things that disrupt the balance of the game, the space gate has always maintained a blocking attitude.

But for the studio, although the space door will also make a blow, but for this, Zhao Hao does not have any special emotions, as long as it does not affect the balance of the game, Zhao Hao will not make any means of attack. (To be continued......)