The Rebirth of the Male God Starts From Playing Games Chapter 244

  Chapter 244 242. Unforgettable at a glance

  Although there was an urge to buy potatoes and create a station B, Cao Yang resisted it.

  The main reason is that Bomi now has too many products that burn money, and Cao Yang is afraid that the expansion will be too fast and it will easily be pulled into the hip.

  Now Bomi's products that burn money:

  First, the biggest head is definitely the mobile phone. The research and development of this piece is really bottomless. An operating system will kill people. If you can't get it out within this year, then it is very likely that you will be able to release your own mobile phone after Apple.

  So Bomi basically invested most of the funds in mobile phone research and development.

  In the future, this piece will continue to burn money. It is expected to burn for three to four years. Maybe in the future, it will rely on burning money to fight a price war with Apple.

  Cao Yang has prepared for the worst.

Second, the game platform is still burning money, spending more than 40 million yuan per month, but this situation should get better by the end of this year, with Liu Zhiping and the major U.S. game companies, as well as Xingyue and the major island countries. Of game companies talked about selling on the platform, so when there are enough products, the pressure on the platform will naturally be relieved.

  What's more, in the future, Bomi plans to open source X2. The news was released before, but it has not been implemented yet.

  Wait until X2 is officially open source, more and more small teams will continue to join the platform through X2 development of games, and the platform should start to make money slowly by then.

  I am not in a hurry yet.

Third, major game R&D departments burn money. For example, the newly established Bomi Country in the United States is working on two game projects at the same time. One is the path of exile, and the other is World of Warcraft, especially World of Warcraft, which requires development technology. Not difficult, all the designs are also very clear, that is, the amount is large, and a lot of manpower is needed to complete the work. It is expected to be able to meet the players in the second half of 2006.

  But this is definitely going to burn money for more than a year. Bomi expects to invest about 100 million US dollars.

The   Assassin's Soul project, with an increase of 400 people, will definitely burn money. It is estimated that it will burn 20 to 30 million yuan.

  The Warcraft project, currently developing the fifth race, will also burn money.

  The King's Glory Series...

Fourth, the film and television department burns money. A wandering earth needs to burn at least 300 to 400 million yuan. If Bomi can digest it, the cost can be reduced to less than 100 million yuan. If Bomi's technology is not enough, Then it may be outsourced to the Industrial Light and Magic of the United States, and the cost will be 300 to 400 million soft sister coins.

  However, Cao Yang still reserved 800 million yuan in advance for Ai Xiaomi's side. It shouldn't be a problem to save some flowers.

   Then the normal maintenance and expenses of each department require money. Liu Zhiping's strategic investment department also needs a lot of money to help acquire some valuable companies or products.

  So, even after counting, Bomi doesn't have much balance every year.

  If you buy potatoes now, there will be one more money-burning machine in the future, which is pure money-burning.

Because even in the previous life, no video site is profitable, whether it's Tudou, Youku, iQiyi, Penguin... Basically, they are losing money. The main reason is that the customer's payment rate is very low, and then the copyright fee is high. Especially the domestic bandwidth cost is really life-saving...

  According to the development history of Tudou, if it does not raise more than 10 million US dollars every year, then it will be on the verge of collapse.

This situation will not improve slightly until 19 years later, because the willingness to pay for post-95s is relatively higher, and the awareness of genuine is stronger. If there are no such people to pay for vip, then the domestic video market will be even better. awful.

   Even if it is the short video overlord like Bytedance, it will lose almost 10 billion yuan every year.

  Station B mainly monetizes traffic and makes games. With FGO support, this is only slightly profitable. Otherwise, station B will also lose money every year.

This is the reason why ByteDance is thinking about making games, because they have a lot of traffic platforms and there are not enough ways to monetize them. Unfortunately, the game is relatively late and the game market has been almost divided by major game companies. Therefore, if ByteDance wants to catch up from behind, the cost and price it needs to pay must be quite high.

  So for Bomi, there is no need for streaming media, a machine that burns money to buy traffic. When the time is right in the future, when the company's money burning department does not have so many money-burning departments, you can consider entering the market.

  Also, Cao Yang is very confident. With his vision and courage that surpassed this era, anyone can play as long as Douyin hasn't come out.

After    Douyin comes out, it should be possible to burn money.

  Tudou's user-edited video of Glory of the King successfully brought the brand into flames.

  Unfortunately, there is no popular TV series. It is true that many people want to rent a disc of glory of the king after watching the video of Tudou, but after watching it, everyone has a relatively bad experience.

  So the number of people renting discs became less and less.

   has never been able to drive the sales of TV series discs, and there is no other TV station to buy the right to broadcast the glory of the king.

  But the good news is that although the TV series of Glory of Kings has not been driven, the game has been driven.

  Many people even tried the game after watching the video of Tudou's Glory of Kings.

  Bomi's games are still doing a good job, so the reputation has been restored, a lot of new users have been added to the AIR platform, and a lot of Glory of the King series games have been sold at the same time.

   Although the volume is not large, it is estimated that there are almost 100,000 sets, which slightly recovered some of the losses of TV series failures.

   However, compared with Bomi's King of Glory, the Legend of the Sword and the Fairy of the Daewoo house next door is a bit miserable.

  In terms of special effects, it is definitely not better than the glory of the king, and the main casting is still a failure.

  Therefore, very few people edit the fairy sword on the potato, even if there is, it is a sand sculpture funny type, which has no positive effect on the ratings of the TV series.

  At the same time, the sales of offline discs did not increase.

  The 13 million invested by Sugar Man this time, even the cost has not been recovered.

  Compared with Bomi, losing only one or two million is actually nothing, but after all, the sugar man this year is a small company, and the loss is actually very uncomfortable.

  The frustration of the TV series also hit Sugar Man's self-confidence. Hu Ge was unable to get up because of this drama.

  So Sugar People are a little hesitant, do not continue to shoot the fairy sword series in the end.

  This is probably the so-called butterfly effect, right?

Cao Yang signed Liu Yifei in advance, which led to the failure of the heroine casting of the Legend of Sword and Fairy, which led to a decline in word of mouth. Then Hu Ge of Sugar Man did not become famous in a single battle. Tang Ren just entered the film and television industry and suffered such setbacks. Don't vote for Xianxia products.

  In addition, Cao Yang noticed that Immortal Sword was not the only one affected by him.

  In June, the Chinese website of Singularity, which was supposed to be the only one at the beginning of this year, was splitting the world with Huanjian, fighting to death and death.

When Cao Yang saw this, he was still very surprised.

   But when I think about it carefully, it seems that this is really the case.

  When Singularity developed to 2004, it was acquired by Shanda. Singularity itself has a number of outstanding authors and works, and also has a certain accumulation of users. Backed by the big tree of Shanda, it is equivalent to having unlimited funds.

  With the support of Shanda, funds have been continuously injected into Singularity, and the Magic Sword has been successfully defeated in a very crude and simple way. 80% of the authors and readers in the world are in their pockets.

pity…

  Shanda has been defeated two years ago.

  The legend of his own agency encountered Bomi's Three Kingdoms online market hegemon as soon as it went online in China. The number of legendary users in his own did not rise. Qiao Tianchen, who could not maintain it, could only announce the suspension of service.

  Without legend as a solid source of rear funding, Shanda has no ability to acquire Singularity.com.

  With no gold master behind, the singularity can only rely on itself and the magic sword to die.

  Speaking of which is also very emotional—

Originally in 2004, Magic Sword Club established a preliminary cooperative relationship with Tencent, opened up a special area for Magic Sword works on the well-known portal Sohu, organized Sina's “Absolute Live” column to interview the author, and cooperated with “Computer Business Intelligence” and “Games”. "World" co-hosted the "Nine City Cup" National Game Literature Competition, and co-hosted two mobile auctions with eBay."

  And through a one-year homepage, we will spare no effort to publicize and promote the contracted works.

  Therefore, a large number of excellent authors have been obtained.

pity-

  Even Penguin, the big gold master, has now been collected by Cao Yang.

  So, this kind of strange phenomenon has appeared in the world of online literature now—

  Singularity Chinese Network and Huanjian divide the world equally.

  As long as there is a push by any gold master father behind it, a domino effect can be produced, and it can completely overwhelm the other side.

  But it seems that no company is willing to act as the father of the funder behind it.

   Cao Yang was very willing to act as the father of the gold master behind him, so when he saw the news, he quickly asked Liu Zhiping to collect the singularity.

   is nothing else, mainly because online literature will become a very important platform in the future.

   is also equivalent to the original resource library behind Bomi.

  With the Singularity Chinese website, in the future, the authors and published books of Singularity will have the priority to purchase their copyrights to adapt them into games, movies, and animations.

  This thing is much more cost-effective than others.

  Liu Zhiping agreed with Cao Yang's view and immediately embarked on the acquisition plan.

  As for why choose [Help] Singularity?

  This is mainly affected by Cao Yang's personal subjective factors. Who made him read the most at Singularity in his previous life.

  In addition to the influence of the butterfly effect on the Internet world.

   What makes Cao Yang most emotional is—

  In June of this year, the software company Xunlei closed down.

  Gosh!

   Cao Yang was completely stunned when he saw the news.

  Do you dare to believe that Xunlei actually went bankrupt? !

   However, when I recalled later, Cao Yang realized that the pot had to be buckled back to him in the end.

  Because in the past life, before Thunder appeared, there was another download software in the Internet industry, which can be described as download hegemon.

This software is called Internet Express. As long as there is a person in the dormitory driving the Internet Express, then you will find that the download speeds of several other friends do not move. All Internet speeds in the entire bedroom are given by the person who drives the Internet Express. Take it up.

  In that year, there were several very powerful download software:

  Vagaa, Flash, Thunder.

  These are mainly made great contributions to downloading teaching videos.

  Internet Express was developed by Hou Yantang alone, but it has more than 2 million users all over the world, and it has become the largest download software provider in China, and it is the download software with the most users.

  Just when Xunlei's business has been suppressed by Internet Express and gradually lost the market, something that could change history happened—

Hou Yantang, the founder of Flash Express, was obsessed with World of Warcraft and was unwilling to work, which led to the fact that Flash Express has not been updated for more than a year. Therefore, within this year, the users of Flash Express were snatched by Xunlei, and Xunlei used frequently and well. The update gradually occupied the download software market.

  Even the founder of Xunlei mentioned this when talking about his entrepreneurial history—

  Thank you to World of Warcraft, it is precisely because of Hou Yantang, the founder of Internet Express, who is obsessed with World of Warcraft, that gives Xunlei the opportunity.

  Now, World of Warcraft, which was supposed to be in the domestic public beta at the end of 2004, has not been launched because Bomi has not developed it for a long time.

  So Hou Yantang, the founder of Internet Express, did not pause the update because of indulging in the game.

  The current Flash Express has a very fast update speed. Many versions have been released very quickly, and the latest p2p technology has been updated. It has become the overlord in the download field and has gradually squeezed into Thunder.

The so-called p2p technology is actually resource sharing. After each user downloads, this machine will automatically become one of the seed nodes. The user closest to this machine can download the resource from the user who has downloaded the resource. .

  Over time, a resource sharing network organized by users has been formed.

  At the same time, Internet Express has also introduced a breakpoint resuming function, which makes many people who have bad networks or temporarily have things to leave have more convenience and download space.

The so-called resumable downloading means that you download this resource down to 35%, and you have to shut down the computer because of temporary problems, then next time you come back to continue downloading, you can start the download directly from 35% instead of 0% conduct.

  This function may seem to be an ordinary function in the future, but in this era, just resuming the download is enough to open the gap with other downloading software.

  So—

  Because Bomi did not develop World of Warcraft, the founder of NetExpress did not stop the software because of his addiction to World of Warcraft, so NetExpress killed Thunder.

When Cao Yang saw the news, he couldn't help covering his face.

Hey.

  This is called—

  I don't kill Boren, but Boren died because of me.

  Now, Cao Yang has not thought about them.

  Among these Internets, the only thing he wants is the singularity.

  Download software this thing, sooner or later will be submerged in the long river of history.

  The reason why it can rise at the moment is because the domestic network speed is not developed enough, so the speed-up function of downloading software is very useful for players.

  Wait a few years later, the bandwidth will increase to 10m, and when the optical fiber is released, when it can increase to 100M, users no longer need to download software to speed up.

  Time slowly passed and entered June.

  On this day on June 1, Bomi announced a blockbuster:

  Bomi's self-developed game engine X2 will officially open source to the outside world.

  As soon as the news came out, all personnel in the industry exploded immediately.

   "Fuck! Bomi's X2 engine is about to open source!"

  "This Nima, I have been waiting for this day for half a year. It's great. It must be quite good to be able to use the X2 engine."

  "Of course, think about it, the game picture quality and performance of the mountain and sea classics a year ago was made with X1, and now X2 is released, I don't know how much we will lead."

   "Yes, looking back now, Shan Hai Jing can still give me a sense of impulse surging in my blood. Every time I look at Shan Hai Jing, I feel tears in my eyes.

  In addition to the fact that Shan Hai Jing is really doing well, it also thanks to the X engine developed by Bomi.

  This engine is really too powerful. "

   "Bomi is really a great company. When it comes to open source, it is open source. It is not afraid of competitors. He is not afraid that after open source, others will stand on their shoulders and develop more powerful engines, and finally defeat them?"

  Seriously, Cao Yang is not worried about this problem at all.

  The reason why I chose to open source X2 at this time is mainly because of the company's internal, Deng Peiqiang's X2.5, that is, the upgraded version of X2 has been completed.

  The company uses X2.5 internally, so I am not afraid to open source X2.

And there is another advantage of open source, that is, the problem of the game engine can be thoroughly exposed. After all, there are more companies used, and the big cows in the industry will also put forward their own improvements and insights on the open source website. What have been used? The problem can also be fed back in time.

  In this way, Bomi's X2 can also absorb the experience and wisdom of all parties and achieve faster growth.

When X2 is free and open source, it is equivalent to adopting a dimensionality reduction attack or dumping method to destroy all game companies' self-developed engines. Unless there is really someone who can withstand the temptation and choose their own self-developed engine, otherwise In the future, Bomi will become the biggest tool supporter of game companies.

  No money, but I stopped you at the technological level.

  When used to Bomi's X-series engines, it is actually difficult for game companies to leave Bomi.

  In addition, when Bomi made the X2 open source, it also released a demonstration video of the X2 engine.

  A blockbuster.

  A video that seems to demonstrate the performance of the X2, in fact, has laid a foreshadowing, allowing people to see the shadow of a game in it.

  There is no game shadow on the market, but after seeing the X2 engine, people are particularly looking forward to the existence of this game.

  Because, this demo video is so awesome, it's the kind that people can't forget just by looking at it.

  There is no update today.

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  (End of this chapter)

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