On the eighth day of the first lunar month, the day after Xuri Technology started working, the employees who had just come to the company were still a little confused and seemed to be still immersed in the festive atmosphere of the New Year. The company's top bosses have already started their first meeting of the year.
The first meeting was held by the game department. All the directors of the major game groups in the game department were present.
Last year, the total revenue of Rising Sun Technology's independent game department was 4.7 billion. Excluding various expenditures and development costs, the total profit was 3.1 billion, although it was impacted by the Demon Game before the end of the year.
Although they did not defeat Demon Realm later on, the game department's revenue has been very stable. Therefore, the profit increased by 123% compared with the previous year.
Among them, Fantasy and Swordsman generated the most revenue. Especially Fantasy, even though the game environment was invaded by the Demon Realm in the months near the end of the year, its total revenue was still as much as 1.6 billion.
Swordsman 1.1 billion, these two accounted for almost two-thirds of the entire game group's revenue, followed closely by Legend 800 million. Then there are more than 200 million from YY game hall and less than 400 million from various web games.
Qifan Hesitation has been making updates last year, as well as various efforts to improve its reputation to attract players, so its revenue is calculated separately and not included in last year's earnings summary.
Generally speaking, even though the Demon Realm is coming in the second half of the year, and the game department of Xuri Technology has had a hard time, the harvest is still full.
It can be seen from the big red envelope Yang Dongxu sent to the game department at the end of the year that the big boss still recognized and affirmed their achievements.
Of course, it’s definitely for sure, the game department is still under a lot of pressure. Ninetowns Company's senior management was well prepared beforehand. Whether they were facing cheats or private servers, they were very capable of taking action.
It can be said that both black and white methods are used. If you find a private server, you can directly sue without any hesitation. While suing, someone can also hack the private server. It can be said to be a two-pronged approach.
Then the person who created the private server spent money to connect to the server, but before the money was returned, the game was gone. When I looked back, I saw that the police had also blocked the door.
Not to mention plug-ins, no matter what kind of boss you are, no matter how much money you charge. As long as the plug-in is found and verified, the account will be blocked and never unblocked.
Anyone who wields this big stick is called a tiger, and anyone who dares to stick his head out will be hit directly with the stick.
With this method, the number of online players of the Demon Domain game has reached new highs.
It has only been a few months since the open beta of the Demon Domain game, and people are already opening the 38th service.
There are news reports that Ninetowns executives are very confident in this year's performance, and have announced that they will open 100 servers to meet the needs of the increasing number of players in the Demon Realm.
According to the current ultra-large-capacity server developed by Dongxu Technology, which can accommodate 20,000 to 30,000 people per district, 100 new districts will go straight to the peak of 3 million total online people.
How awesome is it to open 100 servers in a year? Let’s put it this way, Legend is still very strong. The total number of opened zones is only 132. The number of players has skyrocketed this year. Fantasy Westward Journey only has 188 zones and Swordsman 176.
The Demon Realm is equipped with rocket thrusters and is ready to take off. This gave Sunrise Technology, which was accustomed to being the boss, first the World of Warcraft pursuit and interception, and now the Demon Realm a wake-up call.
Although the game department received a big red envelope at the end of the year, the pressure on both the management and the coders below was generally high. There is always a sense of crisis that if you don’t work hard, you will roll up the quilt and leave immediately.
“After the beginning of the new year, the game department’s overall revenue and player traffic have reached new highs, and the revenue in the first quarter is expected to increase by 33 percentage points compared with the previous quarter.
At the same time, Legend, Fantasy, and Swordsman have begun to launch new chapters. It is expected that the revenue growth in the next quarter will increase significantly compared with this quarter.
At the same time, in addition to chess and cards, the leisure game hall has negotiated with the Frozen Throne for the copyright of many games. It will be put on the shelves gradually in the next six months.
The newly developed game Bubble Hall is ready for public testing in three days..." Sun Yang sat and reported, while the others sat attentively, looking at the overall big data of the game department and the individual data of the game group they were in charge of.
After Sun Yang finished his report, the conference room fell silent, and Yang Dongxu tapped his fingers on the table.
"Let's all talk about our opinions. Changhao, you go first."
"Okay." Chang Hao nodded, "Let's talk about Legend first. Because Demon Realm and Legend game are similar, Qun Nian Legend game has a greater impact on Nine Cities.
So after discussions within the legendary game group, in addition to launching new maps and small fun gameplay. Legend is preparing to raise the level cap, raising the original level cap from 45 to 50, and launching new weapon and equipment sets. "
"Will this impact be huge?" Yang Dongxu raised his eyebrows.
It has to be said that increasing the character's upper limit level is a good way to ignite players' enthusiasm for the game. But this method is a double-edged sword. While it gives players new motivation, it can also cause the game to crash if they are not careful.
For example, those who spend the most money in the game must be the high-end players. Not only are these high-end players not short of money, but also because they spend a lot of money, it can be said to drive the price transactions in the entire game area.
I finally spent hundreds of thousands to get a dragon-slaying and warrior set, and it's great to kill people here. You suddenly came to upgrade the character level and launch new suits. The dragon-slaying knife in this hand will definitely lose its scent in an instant.
After all, no matter how awesome these level 45 weapons and equipment are, they are definitely not as powerful as level 50 weapons and equipment, right?
I'm having a hard time getting the stuff today. It suddenly lost more than half of its value. It would be weird if these high-end players don't blow up. And once high-level players quit the game, the game will not be far away from crashing.
"The impact is indeed great." Chang Hao nodded, "But it is imperative to upgrade the level and launch new weapons and equipment. However, in order to slow down the impact of upgrading the level and equipment on the value of weapons and equipment for high-level players.
The current solution to this problem from the Legend Game Group is a two-pronged approach.
First of all, universal equipment like the first step ring cannot be upgraded. A good paralysis ring is worth half of the entire equipment. In this way, the ring will not be upgraded, and only the value of the weapon and suit will depreciate. This will reduce the impact on the equipment market by half.
Step 2 – Smelting. Level 50 weapons and equipment are not directly obtained by killing monsters. The high-level BOSS in the new map only explodes materials for making high-level weapons and equipment.
Then use these materials to smelt the original level 45 equipment to upgrade the equipment level to level 50 and increase the corresponding attributes.
In this way, those valuable weapons and equipment currently at level 45 will no longer need to be sold and exchanged for a new set when they are upgraded to level 50. Instead, it can be smelted directly.
Moreover, weapons and equipment with better basic attributes will have better attributes after being smelted than ordinary smelted ones. In this way, level 45 equipment is a necessary smelting consumable, and its value will not drop too much. "
After listening to Chang Hao's words, Yang Dongxu couldn't help but nodded. This method is indeed good. As long as the price drop of level 45 equipment and weapons is not too serious.
New maps, new levels, new equipment. High-level players who originally felt that they had nothing to do except PK instantly became motivated to continue fighting, and the popularity of the game will definitely increase.
Changhao breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that the big boss seemed satisfied with the plan.
To be honest, even if I got a big red envelope at the end of the year, I also got a wave of stock dividends. But this Nian Changhao is not living a very good life. After all, the one who has the greatest influence on the Demon Reconciliation Realm is Legend, and he is the person in charge of Legend.
Now that the solution is finally out, even though all members of the Legendary Game Team will have to work overtime for some time to come.
But with the solution, everyone can work together and be happy even if they work overtime.
Then Xu Youzhen, the person in charge of Fantasy, Ma Fang from the leisure and web game group, and Qi Changwei from Qifan Platform all gave speeches.
On the whole, while maintaining their respective game advantages, they also proposed relatively targeted and novel game upgrades or modification plans.
This made Yang Dongxu very satisfied. Compared with the previous lifeless game department, with the catfish of Demon Realm swimming by, everyone instantly became full of fighting spirit.
The details were discussed with the heads of their respective game groups, and then the heads of these game departments left to do their work. Qiu Bosong and others came in to start the second round of meetings.
In addition to the game department, YY and 361 are also important parts of the company.
Among them, after 361 handed over the web game to the casual game group, in addition to the video website business that will continue to expand this year, there is also a Weibo business waiting for Qiu Bosong.
Not to mention YY, CC and MM are now grasshoppers. The above are very entangled in this market, because anyone who is not blind has seen the ability of instant messaging software to attract traffic and attract money in the Internet industry.
Many people above are worried that this area will be monopolized by Xuri Technology, which will have a negative impact on the industry.
Therefore, the market in this area has been very restless during this period. The higher-ups are hesitating, and many people are gearing up to enter this area.
Therefore, YY must now step on the accelerator and start racing. This will prevent other competitors from taking advantage of the vacant market after CC and MM leave.
It has even been rumored recently that Shengda wants to acquire CC’s domestic business, and Baidu seems to be very interested in MM’s domestic business.
One is the current absolute giant in the Internet industry, the richest man Chen, and the other is an Internet super upstart who launched a satellite last year and is still shining brightly this year.
It is a big challenge for YY that these two companies want to take root on the corpses of CC and MM and enter the instant chat industry.
So if we say last year was the result of Yang Dongxu’s deliberate cold treatment in the game department to test the pressure, everyone felt so stressed that they didn’t have a good year. But now that the New Year has just passed, the game department has come up with a solution to the current predicament and finally heaved a sigh of relief.
Now the employees at YY are starting to feel their breathing getting heavier, and they are ready to face the winter-level challenge.
The country's hesitant attitude towards monopoly and the two big bosses' eager eyes on this industry are unbearable for one person, let alone three at once.
Four people gathered together for a mahjong table, and the other three played Xuri Technology. If things go wrong overnight, Rising Sun Technology is likely to lose and lose its pants.
