The 055th enemy general had a total of eight members

Among the four products, Credit Treasure and Security Steward have not yet been officially launched, especially the Credit Treasure project, Lu Binqi is using Jing Minqiang's political and economic resources and the influence of the Gong family to negotiate cooperation conditions with various banks, and there is no profit margin for the time being.

The only thing that has really been launched and recognized by the market is the torrent download artifact.

After three or four months of fermentation, the market share of torrent download artifacts has steadily increased, and the market share of the old-timer FlashGet has been backlogged to 19.5%, ranking first with a market share of 58.5%. At the same time, the British version of the torrent download artifact, SeedDonload, is also invincible internationally, winning 39.1% of the market share, which can be said to be out of the limelight. At this moment, the torrent download artifact is the business card of the staff of the Spring and Autumn series of companies, and when communicating with the outside world, they often hear similar words: "Oops, it turns out that the torrent download artifact is your company's product." ”

However, torrenting is a free software and can't make a profit.

If you want to make a profit, if you want to make money, if you want to maintain and develop the Spring and Autumn series of companies, you have to count on the online game "Spring and Autumn of the Ten Kingdoms". If the operation of "Spring and Autumn of the Ten Kingdoms" fails, the capital chain is broken, and the credit treasure, security steward, and seed download artifact are all rootless, and they will inevitably die of rapid blood loss.

"Spring and Autumn of the Ten Kingdoms" is only allowed to succeed, not to fail.

In order to ensure victory, Wei Dongsheng chose to fight conservatively and try to consider the consumption psychology of contemporary players. Wei Dongsheng's experience of making money in free games after the journey, and the experience of collecting money in mobile games in full swing, Wei Dongsheng listed them in an iterative table, and then moved them to a future version update.

"Spring and Autumn of the Ten Kingdoms" takes the journey mechanism as the core framework, but it is not just a journey.

In terms of program structure, thanks to the support of the computer intelligent life orange algae from the bottom, the "Spring and Autumn of the Ten Kingdoms" client runs smoothly, and the skill effects can also perfectly squeeze the performance of the computer hardware. The 256M RAM machine is better than other games running on the 512M RAM module. When it is officially put into operation, the computer intelligence life orange algae will also sneak into the servers around the world to release subsystems and continuously optimize the network, so that players can experience the charm of multiplayer interaction in online games to the limit. In the underlying rules of the network that players cannot directly feel, Orange Algae or Spring and Autumn Network has a super high technical background that crushes global game operators.

More intuitive optimizations are improvements to art and music resources.

The experience of the torrent download project verified Chang Mingxia's ability, and Wei Dongsheng immediately transferred her to the Spring and Autumn Project of the Ten Kingdoms, and the product manager seemed to be responsible for some of the functional design and market positioning of "Spring and Autumn of the Ten Kingdoms".

As mentioned earlier, Chang Mingxia graduated from the Central Academy of Fine Arts. Chang Mingxia's switch to the Internet industry is not because of her poor artistic potential, on the contrary, she has a unique paranoia about artistic aesthetics. Chang Mingxia's artistic route is popular art, but it is not popular art in the usual sense.

Popular art, as the name suggests, is a form of dance, literature, music, drama or other art form that is primarily accepted and appreciated by as many people as possible.

This is the conventional definition of popular art.

Chang Mingxia's artistic aesthetics are not like this.

Chang Mingxia's so-called popular art is only for the public. For example, Chang Mingxia does not paint Van Gogh's starry stream of consciousness, but depicts the most common flowers and landscapes. Chang Mingxia depicts reality but does not abide by the dogma of realism, but pursues the beauty that ordinary people can understand. For example, her previous pencil sketches of Wei's father and Wei's mother can make Wei's father and Wei's mother, who have no artistic aesthetic foundation, feel that she is very good at drawing. At the same time, she will quietly inlay her unique charm in vulgar pictures. In a previous life, someone commented that Chang Mingxia's paintings are like Go, the rules are simple but difficult to master; Chang Mingxia's style is like Bai Juyi, so simple that the old woman can understand, but she can reminisce for thousands of years.

Chang Mingxia's artistic pursuits were not recognized at the Central Academy of Fine Arts, and it was very difficult for her to develop, so she retreated to the Internet industry she liked. In her previous life, Chang Mingxia became famous in the first half of her life with commercial operations, and then someone deliberately studied her works, and her artistic achievements gradually attracted universal praise and won several art awards in a row.

Chang Mingxia is responsible for the art and music resources of "Spring and Autumn of the Ten Kingdoms", and with the support of Wei Dongsheng, she strictly implements her artistic aesthetic of "facing the public and being higher than the public". The character design and scene design of "Spring and Autumn of the Ten Kingdoms" are all artist-level, which can not only make players feel the unpretentious beauty for the first time, but also do it for a long time, and the longer you appreciate it, the more you can feel the power of endless aftertaste. The music resources are also of the same high standard, all of which are carefully prepared by Chang Mingxia through personal relationships with friends from the Yenching Film Academy and the Central Conservatory of Music.

In all of this, players most intuitively feel that in terms of art resources and music resources, "Spring and Autumn of the Ten Kingdoms" crushes "Journey" in all aspects, and the two are not at the same level at all.

Orange Algae ensures the underlying technology, Wei Dongsheng ensures the core gameplay, and Chang Mingxia ensures the player experience.

In addition, Wei Dongsheng also regarded "Spring and Autumn of the Ten Kingdoms" as a small society, and set up a rigorous economic system for it. For example, the depreciation rate of equipment, if a player recharges 10,000 yuan, how much should it depreciate after one month, and how much should it depreciate after a year; For example, the income of a free player, suppose a free player who is not willing to recharge at all, he works hard to farm monsters and do tasks, how much should the daily limit income be; For example, how to reasonably adjust the ratio of top-up players to free players can not only affect the core mechanics of the game, but also stimulate players' consumption...... Wait a minute. Wei Dongsheng even hired several sociologists and economists to help him improve the economic system of the Spring and Autumn Period of the Ten Kingdoms.

In short, Wei Dongsheng poured countless efforts into the Spring and Autumn Project of the Ten Kingdoms.

"Spring and Autumn of the Ten Kingdoms" can only succeed.

Only by knowing oneself and knowing one's opponent can one not be defeated. During Wei Dongsheng's efforts to improve the "Spring and Autumn of the Ten Kingdoms", he did not forget to investigate the hostility of friends and merchants.

In the Chinese online game market, the first place is "Legend", which dominated 70% of the market share in 2002, or should be accurately called "Legend of Blood", although it has suffered from the legendary copyright incident, it is still a well-deserved top spot; The second place is "Miracle MU" operated by the Ninth City Agency, although it is affected by the flood of plug-ins and private servers like the legend, it firmly holds the list; The third place is "Ragnarok", which has just been on the market for a few months, and is operated by the game Shinkansen agent; The fourth place is "Magic Baby", which was launched last year, and is operated by net star Square Enix; The fifth place is NetEase's self-developed "Journey to the West 2".

Among the top five, only NetEase's "Journey to the West 2" is a purely domestic online game. Moreover, the position of "Journey to the West 2" is not stable, often fluctuating between five and eight. "Legend 3", which is operated by Guangtong Agency, has been eagerly awaited by countless legendary players, and when it is officially launched in public beta, it will inevitably easily drive "Journey to the West 2" out of the top five rankings.

In these years, domestic online games are simply a joke.

However, Shanda Network replaced the legend's new project, that is, the name was changed from "New Legend" to "Legend World", because of the fantasy imported by legendary players, this pseudo-domestic game has become the pillar of the domestic game expectation list.

"Legend of Blood", "Miracle MU", "Ragnarok", "Magic Baby", and "Journey to the West 2" have been put on the bright side, and "Legend 3" and "Legend World" are potential competitors.

In addition, there is another game that needs to be guarded against, which is "Triumph", which Tencent has released for the first time in the online game market. "Triumph" has been announced to be in closed beta on May 20. In the previous life, "Triumph" was Tencent's life-saving work, and it was also Chang Mingxia's first battle in the online game industry, "Triumph" seemed to predict Chang Mingxia's triumphant return. Today's Tencent, although it also focuses on the core product QQ, is obviously different from the previous Tencent, without Chang Mingxia's birth, can Tencent's "Triumph" still be able to overcome obstacles and triumph?

Wei Dongsheng was not sure.

However, it must be taken seriously.

"Legend 3", "Legend World", "Triumph", and the top five on the bright side are all competitors of "Spring and Autumn of the Ten Kingdoms".

Players have inertia, and after playing a certain game for a long time, they will always get used to this way of playing, or they are too lazy to try other ways to play, or they are not used to other ways of playing, and even form a chain of contempt, thinking that the game they play is the best, and they will despise players who play other games. Therefore, Wei Dongsheng will definitely not launch the "Legendary Shabak City Lord Recruitment Event" like Sina Legu to compete for the core players of the legend. Wei Dongsheng has a clear understanding of this, and the vast majority of legendary players who can mix with the Lord of Shabak City have already liked and are accustomed to the legendary gameplay, and they must be uncomfortable when they come to "Spring and Autumn of the Ten Kingdoms".

The target players of "Spring and Autumn of the Ten Kingdoms" are shallow players and potential players who have not yet been converted.

With the current popularity and channel depth of Spring and Autumn Software, it can only continue to play gimmick hype and attract the attention of novice players.

In that case, let's hype!

In the first round of hype, Wei Dongsheng decided to hype himself.

Before hyping yourself, first clean and whitewash yourself, so as not to be caught by others and fried into a dark mess.

On May 18, Wei Dongsheng took the initiative to contact Gao Yongqi, the leader of the Cavalry hacker group: "Cavalry, I'm quitting. ”

Gao Yongqi was taken aback: "What do you mean?" ”

Wei Dongsheng gave a clear answer: "I am ready to withdraw from the private service industry chain. ”

Gao Yongqi quickly tapped the keyboard: "Why?" ”

As mentioned earlier, the income of the private service industry chain has grown steadily although the starting point is low. For example, Wei Dongsheng's monthly profit was 2.692 million yuan in November 2002, but in April 2003, it had risen to 3.878 million yuan, and in May, his income had exceeded 4 million yuan.

Gao Yongqi's income is far inferior to Wei Dongsheng, and his gross profit in April was as much as 370,000 yuan.

Negative growth rate and positive growth rate are two concepts and two mentalities.

The members of the game studio of the Internet café sigh all day long, at a loss for the future development; The vast majority of the members of the Cavalry organization who live in the private server industry chain are satisfied with the considerable profits of operating private servers, and not only open up the "Miracle MU" private server market very energetically, but also sharpen their knives to "Legend 3".