After discussing the future Pokémon development plan with Asano Lisa, Qing Zhiyuan felt that it was not stable.

Then he called Ken Akanishi into the office.

"President, are you looking for me?"

Ken Akanishi was visibly flustered.

7 years ago, he still liked to chat with Qing Zhiyuan, at that time the company was just starting, and everyone was poor and white.

Chat together, brag and imagine the future.

However, as the bragged bull was realized step by step, Akanishi Ken became more and more afraid of being called into the office by Qing Zhiyuan.

Because—

There must be nothing good about it.,Normally, it's related to game development.,Qing Zhiyuan this guy will always come up with some moths to increase the burden on the program department.。

And the requirements are even more bizarre than the other.

Ken Akanishi couldn't stand it.

Sitting on the sofa and glancing at Qing Zhiyuan, it could be seen from the expression on his face that there must be some important task to be entrusted to him to do.

Akanishi felt a sigh in his heart.

"President, we're busy developing the new Trailblazer engine right now, and there's probably no way to add additional requirements."

"This task, it's actually quite simple, Akaxi-san, don't be so nervous first, it won't take much time, and you can recruit again if you don't have enough manpower." Qing Zhiyuan said with a smile.

"Okay president." Ken Akanishi nodded.

In any case, as a program director, you still have to face what you should face, and you really can't have the president behind you.

Right now......

I don't know why.,Ken Akanishi always feels that the president doesn't look like a person who does original painting.,He's now trained in programming thinking quite well.。

even made Akanishi Ken suspect that Qing Zhiyuan was born to engage in program ape.

Otherwise, it is not always possible to come up with a program solution at a critical moment, and always be just right, no more and no less to put forward new program requirements.

It's a little bit more than the current technology mastered in-house, and it looks like it's half a step forward.

It's not completely impossible to do, it's not so easy to do, it will make you feel a little alarmist and whimsical at first, but when you actually implement it, you can land, and it will take you half a year to achieve the goal with a little effort.

The president who can do this is a fucking genius!

Ken Akanishi took a deep breath, then put his hands on his knees, and looked at the president calmly, "Tell me what the president needs, we promise to complete the task." ”

"It's very simple," Qing Zhiyuan smiled, and put the project plan he had written from the table in front of Akanishi Ken.

Akanishi Ken opened it and took a look, only to see that the cover of the project had a few big words written on it: [Game Community Platform].

This is followed by a passage below:

[Game Community Platform] is a virtual platform that provides and sells games and game-related services to players through the Internet.

In the future, players will be able to purchase and download games online on this platform.

"Huh?" Akanishi Ken's whole person was shocked, "Are we going to make this kind of thing?" ”

At the same time, a huge suspicion and fear surged in his heart—

Can we really make such a thing?

It doesn't look like a product of this era.

Qing Zhiyuan poured him a cup of tea and explained with a smile:

"The game platform itself can be seen as a virtual game electronic supermarket," Qing Zhiyuan gestured, "Think about it, in this game supermarket, we will make the games developed by Pokeni itself into digital products and put them on the shelves, and there will be a steady stream of new games added to this supermarket in the future."

It is equivalent to opening a platform that can be purchased directly through the Internet in addition to physical stores.

If it can be done, this is a very large sales network, a super powerful sales channel. ”

"Wow."

Akanishi's face was full of shock.

He chewed on the president's words, "So players don't have to buy CDs anymore, but can play our games through the Internet?" ”

"Yes," Qing Zhiyuan nodded with a smile, "Not only our games, but also more game manufacturers will be added to our platform in the future." ”

Yes!

Akanishi's eyes widened suddenly, and at this moment, his whole body trembled, and he finally understood the president's intentions.

This thing is like a spider web, if you can connect the world's networks, then through online sales channels, you can even directly bypass the physical store, there is no disc production cost, there will be no transportation and packaging costs, and the cost can be directly reduced a lot.

In addition, as long as the platform is large enough, it will become the world's largest video game sales channel in the future.

As long as there is this channel, which is equivalent to Sony's game console platform, any game manufacturer who wants to launch on Pokeni's game platform will have to pay a royalty.

This set of Akanishi Ken is very familiar and deeply experienced.

It is equivalent to seigniorage, the more games you join, the bigger the platform, and the bigger the platform, the higher the royalty charged.

As long as it is successful, Pokeni will be able to make money even if he doesn't develop his own games.

"That's amazing, president!" Akanishi Ken admired him so much that he threw himself to the ground.

Hahaha, Qing Zhiyuan laughed happily, it's not that I'm good, it's steam that's good.

"However, I only have one problem," Ken Akanishi said with a frown, "The concept of this game supermarket is actually quite advanced, but it may be difficult to achieve with the current technology, and you also know that the current network transmission speed is very limited, especially if you want to achieve a large-scale game transmission of more than 500M, it is almost impossible."

I am afraid that it may not be possible to pass it for dozens of hours.

Users don't get positive feedback, and they even complain that our platform is too slow.

It's not easy to solve this problem. ”

Qing Zhiyuan smiled.

It's time to be yourself Steam, but, as Ken Akanishi said, it's impossible to spread the stall too big at first.

It's almost impossible to download games online in one go, and support independent studios to upload games.

That's where the network speed comes in.

"This platform, I'm going to go in several steps,"

Now that Ken Akanishi has figured out the development intent, the rest of the explanation is much easier, and Qing Zhiyuan sat down and continued, "The current network transmission speed is definitely not enough to support large-scale game downloads.

However, the first step is to build the platform, and then let's not spread the stall so big, let's make it a base for a small game.

For example, on this platform, players can easily download games that are only a few megabytes in size and run them through the platform's own virtual machine.

In addition, we will provide some online multiplayer social games, operate the platform first, and wait until the future technology continues to progress and the network speed improves, and then expand step by step, until finally a large game supermarket is formed, whether it is a few G or dozens of G games can be downloaded. ”

"Uh-huh." Ken Akanishi nodded.

The president's consideration is still relatively comprehensive, and it seems that he knew from the beginning that he couldn't do that level, and he was just drawing a big pie for him before, so that Akanishi Ken knew what kind of towering giant tree this thing would grow into in the future.

But even the largest tree starts with a small seedling.

Now what Qing Zhiyuan said is to let Chixi Jian make the little seedlings first.

Realize network transmission, provide a few M small game downloads, and the game platform comes with a game emulator, so you can also play it on the computer.

At the same time, open up the game store function, as well as the in-game social module.

The gaming platform also has to integrate chat features, as well as community attributes, bulletin boards, and more......

Actually, it's quite a lot of work.

Even Ken Akanishi is not sure that he will be able to do a good job, and whether he can show the desired effect in the end, and how it is, is really hard to say.

Wait a minute.

Ken Akanishi became aware of several more fatal problems.

"President, how can we make a profit when the time comes?" Ken Akanishi asked, "How can players buy virtual products when they are placed in the game supermarket?" ”

With this step alone, Ken Akanishi couldn't figure it out.

"In brick-and-mortar outlets, players pay at the cashier and take their own items.

But there is no cashier on the online platform. ”

Ken Akanishi clasped his hands and thought with a sad face, could it be that the players are like worshipping the gods, and if they throw money into the void, they will have money to be transported to Pokeni?!

It doesn't exist!

What the hell is this?!

It's not about writing and playing in the wizarding world.

"You don't have to worry about this matter for now," Qing Zhiyuan smiled, "I'll solve it." ”

This problem has to be solved, without online banking and online payment functions, the game platform is just a castle in the air.

But online payment should be relatively easy to solve, and according to Qing Zhiyuan's knowledge, Son Masayoshi and they are already doing these things.

It's just that I have to find Boss Sun to have a meal and push more.

This point has to say that Son Masayoshi has a long-term vision, this guy has determined from the beginning that the future world will definitely be dominated by the Internet, so he has begun to lay out the Internet a long time ago, and has been leading the promotion of the next generation of network transmission technology two years ago, and ADSL should enter the market in less than two years.

The follow-up online banking and online payment functions are all promoted by Masayoshi Son's Softbank.

"Let's make a free game platform first." Qing Zhiyuan said.

"Huh?!" Akanishi's eyes widened.

That expression seemed to say—

President, are you crazy?

I know that the president sometimes has some wild ideas, and he will always come up with a moth.

However, this time was the craziest he ever heard.

"Have you ever thought that even RTT is free, so what's wrong with our game platform being free?" Qing Zhiyuan smiled.

"Where do we have so much money to burn?"

Speaking of RTT, Ken Akanishi now feels a little annoyed, RTT alone is the monthly service fee, loan fee, electricity and equipment loss...... It's almost going to be smashed into hundreds of millions.

It's the equivalent of a game for nothing.

In this way, Qing Zhiyuan still has to raise it, and so far Akanishi Ken has not seen what is good about RTT.

Yes, this thing has indeed brought convenience to countless netizens, making communication and exchange much easier, but the problem is-

It's a melting pot that only burns money into it, but doesn't give anything in return.

It is also thanks to Son Masayoshi who is willing to throw money into it, otherwise Pokeni would have already lost a lot at this time.

But that's not all, Qing Zhiyuan wants to make a free game platform again, have you seen that in the past, you bought things in the supermarket and took the goods away without paying?

What's the point of a supermarket like this?

"We can sell point cards offline at that time, so that players can buy physical point cards to recharge to and from the game platform."

Then buy the game you want through the gaming platform.

However, some of the games, I decided to be free to play, and the game platform is also free to download.

You know what I mean, right? ”

The plan that Qing Zhiyuan said is actually the point card payment method used in the early days of Chinese online games in the previous life.

The principle is also very simple, the company has its own point card database, automatically generates the corresponding number of points of the activation code, and then prints these activation codes on the corresponding point cards, and puts them in the physical market in the form of scratch tickets.

In this way, even without online banking and online payment functions, players can buy point cards and recharge by entering the corresponding activation code in the game platform.

In other words, the server needs to do all the validation functions.

"I see."

Akanishi nodded, and the doubts in his heart disappeared.

I even have more admiration for the president.

Qing Zhiyuan, this guy is too scary, right? How did his brain grow?

I was able to think of such a strange way of paying.

"So in this way, it is equivalent to selling the game to a physical dealer, but in the form of selling cards, right, so why should players buy the game online instead of buying the physical disc directly offline?"

"Yes."

Qing Zhiyuan snapped his fingers and smiled very happily.

Being able to ask such a question shows that there is something about this program director of the program.

"So, we want to provide unique value online."

"Huh?" Ken Akanishi looked at the president in confusion.

"Sparrow soul."

Qing Zhiyuan clasped his hands, thought for two seconds, and finally said such a word.

"Huh?!" Ken Akanishi was even more confused.

"Do you know how to play mahjong?" Qing Zhiyuan asked.

"Hmm. Mahjong is still good, but it doesn't play well. ”

"I didn't mean to invite you to my house to play mahjong," Qing Zhiyuan waved his hand, dispelling Akanishi's unrealistic illusions, "I mean, make a game of playing mahjong online."

The name of this game is Sparrow Soul, and players can freely use the two-dimensional avatars and character portraits that we have set.

The whole game rules are the same as playing mahjong.

On the game platform, players can redeem the point cards they recharge for the currency in the Sparrow's Soul, so that they have a long-term demand for point cards. ”

"As for making money," Ching Zhiyuan mused, "we charge for the room and the rake, for example, at the end ......of each hand, we take 10% or less to 5% of the water.

Naturally, players will spend their currency. ”

This set of processes is actually a side game, as long as the game can also provide cash exchange, it is a complete gamble.

Therefore, Qing Zhiyuan said that it can only be made into a game that only enters but does not leave, which means that players can only recharge into it, and cannot withdraw cash, and the official of Pokeni will not provide any rebate behavior, even if it is a physical exchange reward.

You will be able to avoid legal risks.

But in fact, it doesn't matter if it is made into a gambling game, because the fishing and pachinko in the neon game machine hall are actually blatant gambling machines.

It's just a gray area, and it's not written into the law, and everyone seems to have accepted it, so it's not banned.

And the official horse betting is even more legal.

Of course, Qingzhiyuan does not want to make it a real gambling game, this is just the first cornerstone of the gaming platform.

We pokeni win with content, and it is not necessary to do that to that extent.

"What? In other words, we not only want to develop a game platform, but also make an online mahjong game? ”

Ken Akanishi wanted to give himself two slaps in the face.

Each time, it was because I asked questions that I shouldn't have asked, which led to more workload.

Ken Akanishi, Ken Akanishi, can't you just stop at the game platform?

Now it's okay, not only to make a game platform, but also to do the activation code recharge function, and the corresponding development point card.

In addition to these, an online multiplayer game has been added.

Damn you.

Ken Akanishi cursed himself deeply.

Fortunately, the development of the Sparrow Soul is not difficult, mahjong games are a very common type in neon, and it is not complicated to make, the only thing that takes some time is nothing more than the interaction on the network.

But they also had a certain amount of accumulation when they made "Border" before, and it was not difficult to do.

Thinking about it carefully, Akanishi couldn't help but feel a huge fear in his heart.

Coming to this point, it seems that everything has been arranged clearly by Qing Zhiyuan, every step is a preparation for the next step, and the transition is so silky.

You don't even think the game would go this far at first, but somehow it just came step by step.

It's terrible, if all this is planned by the president, in his calculations......

Akanishi Ken can only say that this guy Qing Zhiyuan is too terrible.

Will he be able to see the future in 10 years?

……

It took the two of them another few hours to sort out all the contents, and Ken Akanishi breathed a sigh of relief.

At first, I thought it was quite difficult, but in fact, after clarifying it, it was not as complicated as I imagined.

And according to their final plan, the development time of the game platform and the soul of the bird is about more than half a year.

The details will have to wait until the development process to understand later, and I can't think about that much yet.

"Well, what's the name of this platform?"

Ken Akanishi asked one last question.

"Granny Tan." Qing Zhiyuan said with a smile, "Dandelion game platform, I hope it can fly around like a dandelion and take root." ”

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There is one more chapter in the evening

(End of chapter)