Chapter 36 [Li Xiaoyu's plea]
.A week later, as I expected, all the server operators changed their faces and found some reasons, and some of the customers who rented their servers suddenly returned the goods, and some of them just added some servers, etc. There are many reasons, so we naturally would not be stupid enough to expose them. We signed the contract with a big pen and handed the money away.
For a whole week, Pei Yingying, Lu Qingshan and others played the role of pilots in the sky, and traveled all over the country.
With the intervention of 100 million yuan from Feng's company, we were able to visit some cities and develop some of the second-level cities around us, with 300 more servers than the original plan. At this moment, everything is ready, and we are waiting to choose a good day to start the public beta of the "Gate of Depravity".
After discussing the time with Luo Zhong and others, we held a press conference on the "Fallen Gate" for a full public beta at the Jinling Hotel in Nanjing.
Although I had made sufficient predictions about this news release before, the popularity of the day was still stunning. The entire third floor of Jinling Hotel was surrounded by enthusiastic industry insiders. The so-called industry insiders refer to professional players, professional side reviewers and other relevant personnel. The media attending the meeting also reached an unprecedented 50, many of which were media coming from other places.
That night, after dealing with the reporters' questions, I held the microphone in high spirits and announced the official start of the "Fallen Gate" online game. For the purpose of publicity, Luo Zhong and I also had a friendly match on the spot. Each of us took an internally equipped warrior who had been upgraded to level 120, wearing top-level equipment with golden light and cool wind, and had a friendship for about ten minutes. Luo Zhong was obviously much more skilled than me in operation. I was a novice who could not play online games, so I lost to Luo Zhong without any suspense.
Then, Dai Wangcheng demonstrated the steps required to register an account, and emphasized the process of registering with a real name, which fully demonstrated the marketing methods that our game is prohibited from entering by underage players.
Next, Luo Zhong explained to you how this game monitors players' online time, and demonstrated how the player's account will be in a state after more than four hours of online time. Then, if you judge through various methods during the game, if you find that a minor player enters the game with someone else's ID card, what method will our network administrator use to persuade them to withdraw, and how will it be forced to kick them off the line if the persuasion is invalid.
After demonstrating all these functions, many reporters sighed, "I originally thought that Eleven plus nine was just a so-called anti-addiction gimmick to use the so-called anti-addiction to be a publicity gimmick, but when I saw such a complete monitoring system, I finally believe you are serious!"
At that time, a reporter immediately asked a question, "Are you really not afraid of profits being greatly affected?"
I responded with a smile, "Of course I'm afraid. But businessmen must also have the conscience of businessmen."
There was a silence in the venue, and after a long time, uniform applause came.
When I left the venue, I saw a familiar figure flashing at the door. I wondered if I was dazzled and didn't take it too much, but I felt something was wrong in my heart.
After the meeting, the arrangement was for those in the media to have a meal, which was always an indispensable part. Because Hu Zhi and Pei Yingying were greeting me, I was able to be liberated and took a few bites and slap them. Then I took a glass of red wine and walked to the corridor outside the restaurant to smoke.
Standing in the corridor, I looked back at the noisy restaurant, and a smile slowly appeared on my face. From today's press conference scene, I could see that the results of "Fallen Gate" after it was launched must be like a rocket, and will climb rapidly. And until now, under my deliberate concealment, Tongda and Eleven Plus Nine have not announced how this game will make a profit. Obviously, the traditional point-card sales. The profit model of allowing players to purchase game time must be unsuitable for us. This was raised by a reporter at the press conference just now. At that time, I just smiled slightly and did not answer the reporter's questions positively. I just warmly invited him to join our public side army and told him that our profit model will be related to the game itself, not the most common model.
In fact, our profit direction lies in the purchase and sale of game props, including the opening of the game map, and even the group and teaming and making shouting announcements, all of which need to be traded in game coins. The game coins are directly linked to RMB, and each hundred point game coins is equivalent to one yuan. For each newly created account, we will give away 1,000 game coins, and this thousand game coins are only enough to buy a set of novice equipment and some upgraded maps.
As for the more complex profit methods, it is the result of Hu Zhi and Luo Zhong's research for a long time. In short, when I saw Hu Zhi's profit model report, I was very satisfied with his plans. Although it is very different from the traditional methods, it may have a certain impact on players' consumption psychology. However, because it saves point card sales channels in various places and recharges our game coins through online banking, this greatly saves the share cost of dealers at all levels, and the overall profit rate may even exceed the traditional model. In fact, since there is no need to make point cards, the links of intermediate point card dealers have been completely removed, we have been able to save a lot of manpower. We only need to cooperate with UnionPay to do an online banking transaction page. This aspect of encryption and other technical work will be responsible for UnionPay, which directly leads to almost zero cost in the entire link of game revenue.
In addition, in this way, since bank cards are processed, you also need to register with your ID card, so you can use another means to increase the difficulty for underage players to enter the game, thereby more thoroughly responding to the slogan we proposed before to minimize the entry of underage players into the game.
I was thinking about the details of the entire subsequent marketing strategy. While my eyes were floating, I saw the familiar figure I had just seen... It turned out that I really didn't read it wrong, and the faint uneasiness that emerged in my heart also became a reality.
I tried to make a smile on my face, looking at Li Xiaoyu who lowered his head and walked towards me slowly, "Hello, why are you here too?"
Li Xiaoyu had a sad expression on his face and looked up at me, "Shi Lei, congratulations, great success!"
I smiled, but my heart ached faintly. When I saw her reaching out, I also stretched out my hand and held it with her. What's strange is that in such a hot summer, her hands were so cold.
"Are you okay recently?" Li Xiaoyu obviously had nothing to say.
"Haha..." I pointed to the crowded voices in the restaurant, "It depends on how you look at it if you are so good or not!"
Li Xiaoyu nodded, "Yes, how could it be so lively, why would it be bad?"
"Yes..." I sighed. "How could it be wrong? Everything is pretty good. I found that my ridiculous persistence in the past was really inexplicable. This kind of life is actually very suitable for me. Being so busy every day makes me very fulfilled."
"You have changed!" Li Xiaoyu raised his head and said, his voice still soft and weak.
I yelled, "Ha, how can I get to where I am today if I remain unchanged? Speaking of which, I think I should thank you."
When Li Xiaoyu heard my obviously sarcastic words, his expression was a little sad.
I lit another cigarette and sucked it deeply, my eyes drifting from the corridor to the downstairs, not feeling like I had anything to say.
After a while, Li Xiaoyu's mouth moved, as if she was making some decision. Finally, she coughed lightly, "Hey, I'll ask you something..."
I smiled, "Tell me!"
"Why do you remember to make this game?"
I picked up the wine glass at hand and took a sip, "Oh? This question is very strange. A normal business decision. What a businessman, do whatever you make money!"
Li Xiaoyu gently bit her lower lip, "Do you know that Xu Hao is also making a game?"
My eyebrows raised and a sneer came out in my heart. Sure enough, she came for this, "Oh? Is he doing it too?"
"You really don't know?"
When I heard her tone, I suddenly felt a little bored. Why would she dare to do such an aggressive tone to me? Not to mention Xu Hao, even if he was with his family and Li Xiaoyu's own family, I could force them to leave the mall with those money in one year and go back to retire.
She dares to talk to me in such a tone now. Do she think I am still the same as me two years ago?
I took a puff of the cigarette and said calmly, "What's the point of knowing?"
"Shi Lei, I remember you are a very real person. You can't lie, right?"
Ha, I was happy, Li Xiaoyu, Li Xiaoyu, why has it been two years since I changed so much, but you haven't changed at all? Do you think that I, Shi Lei, is the one who used to be obedient to you and omnipotent to you, even though you know that you can't do it, but you want to help you pick the brightest star in the sky? You are wrong!
I looked at Li Xiaoyu coldly, without saying a word, and looked down from her head with my cold eyes, and saw her straight toes.
"As a successful person... Oh, maybe I'm not very successful today. Then, as a businessman who desires success, lying or concealing skills must be learned. Otherwise, I will not be able to survive in the quagmire of the mall for a day! Isn't it?"
Li Xiaoyu bit her lip hard, suddenly raised her head and looked at my eyes, but soon, it was pressed down by the coldness in my eyes.
"Haha, it seems that Xu Hao's guess is correct. You know that his company's games are almost online at this time, and they deliberately want to suppress him. I had argued before that you wouldn't be like this. I think this is just a coincidence. You happened to take over a game project, and you also need to use it for the media we can do to promote. So wherever our advertisements appear, your advertisements will definitely appear in the same place, but the layout is better than us and the publicity is greater than ours... It seems that I was wrong. Xu Hao is right. You are targeting him!"
I looked at Li Xiaoyu with disdain, "Even if that's it, then what's wrong? His game, even without my intervention, may not be much better. Why is the eldest lady, or your eldest young master Xu Hao, still so naive? This industry has long changed from a single web browsing to the interaction between client and server, but he is still doing single page things, and his profit model actually relies on small gambling in the mainland. Not to mention that this game cannot make money, even if it makes money for him, as long as someone is stronger than him, make some complaints to the Internet monitoring department. Do you think his game will not be forcibly banned? As long as one is suspected of gambling, it is enough for him to eat a pot..."
"In other words, you have been trying to defeat him all the time?" Before I could finish speaking, Li Xiaoyu interrupted anxiously.
At this time, I calmed down completely. I looked at the woman in front of me with a little pity, who used to make me so obsessed with, but now, I am completely disappointed with her from the bottom of my heart.
"Even if it's right, but this is just the beginning, just the beginning..."
"Why? I chose him because I was not with you?"
I smiled and shook my head. "Li Xiaoyu. Your self-feeling is still so good. To be honest, the reason why I intervened in Shangyin at the beginning was probably because of your components. However, that little bit of attachment to you has long disappeared. Now I have a thousand times better than you. Wang Qian is really a thousand times better than you in any aspect. She is smarter than you, capable than you, has vision, better background than you, and has better figure than you. What else do you have to be proud of? You overestimate yourself."
"Then why do you target Xu Hao like this?" Li Xiaoyu was obviously hit by my words, and his face turned pale, but he still gritted his teeth and asked.
I smiled contemptuously, "Haha, this is a mistake he made, he must bear it. The reason I will do this today is entirely because I want him to know that Xu Hao, whether it is his own ability or Qian, relying on the protection of his family, in this unfathomable business world, he is just an unbearable little character. Don't put his family's assets too heavy, less than 100 million, the reason why he was so domineering like a prince in the past
Other people's girlfriend is not because of how capable he or his family is, but because no one is stronger than him willing to deal with him. I want him to understand that whether it is himself or his so-called background, it is just a piece of cake in front of people like me who are not very successful. He, he, he, he, is just a grain of rice, a drop in the ocean... I want him to know that what he relies on will one day make him unable to rely on anything..."
Li Xiaoyu was attacked by my storm-like words, her face was pale, and her body swayed slightly.
I looked at her with a sneer, "Do you hold your heart again after a while and say that you have been heartbroken since you were accused of? Well, then I'll be more kind and don't continue to hurt you. When I go back, I tell you Xu Hao, the mall is so cruel. A failed investment and a failed mind, the result of one plus one is equal to a negative number."
After saying that, I did not hesitate, drank the remaining red wine in my glass in one gulp, turned around and walked towards the restaurant.
When I walked to the restaurant door, I heard Li Xiaoyu ask behind me timidly, "Shi Lei, actually... Actually... I'm here today, Xu Hao wants me to ask you..."
I turned around suddenly, looked at Li Xiaoyu with a fierce look, and forced her back to the half-word.
"Is it that I would like to ask if I would like to acquire their company in full and take over his rag?" My voice suddenly became very gentle, and it made me feel a little too ridiculous.
Li Xiaoyu nodded weakly, "Yes, he just wanted to ask you... He has found many companies, and no company is willing to take over..."
"Then why do you come and ask me? Why do I take over the mess that others don't want to take over?"
"Because...because...it seems that now you are the only one who can come back to life after taking over..."
"Ha, you really look down on me! But I really have no interest. Doing business requires making money, not giving money, right?" I was about to go.
Li Xiaoyu called me again, "You can't count on our past relationship. Can you do me a favor? I really don't want to see him failing in the first time he did something by himself..." Li Xiaoyu's voice became lower and lower.
I stood up and turned to look at her, with indifference in my eyes. It was really hard for me to understand this state, why did she have the nerve to tell me...
"The love of the past, haha, the love of the past! That's really good! Well, what is his total investment in this game at present?"
Li Xiaoyu's eyes lit up obviously, "Ten million..."
"His parents seem to love this son very much. He actually invested 10 million in such a project that was obviously failed. If no new games were launched at the same time, maybe he could barely keep a capital. It depends on when the new games appeared. His parents dared to give him 10 million to play. Is this the standard style of a playboy?"
"In fact, you may not lose money after taking over. This game occupies very little server resources. You can completely use your existing server to save development costs. The two games are interoperable with game coins, which saves operating costs and advertising costs are almost negligible. The second set of products from the same company is advertised in your current "Depravity Gate"... We have calculated that as long as it can attract 100,000 players, this game will definitely be able to protect the capital!" Li Xiaoyu may be worried that I would not want to take over, so he said such a thing.
I smiled slightly, "Ha, do you know that the number of online players in an online game can reach 200,000 to 300,000 is enough to be in a very advantageous position in the industry? Hundreds of thousands, and these 100,000 people have to consume more than 100 per person... Haha, these words are taught to you by Xu Hao, right?"
Li Xiaoyu was stunned for a moment, but nodded slightly. "Are you willing to help me? It depends on the rewards and our past relationship..."
I suddenly felt angered. She mentioned the so-called love between the past for the first time just now, and I had already answered her in a very sarcastic tone, but she actually caught her again.
I sighed in my heart and shook my head, "To be honest, let alone ten million, even five million, no one will want it. This is just garbage and a mess. Why not do this? You ask Xu Hao to go out and find another company and offer a price of one million to see if anyone is willing to take over it! If there is still ten million, do you really think that your so-called love in the past can be worth ten million?"
A trace of despair flashed in Li Xiaoyu's eyes, but she still insisted on saying to me in a pleading tone, "Shi Lei, you really can't think about it anymore? After all, we...we have also..."
I didn't let her continue talking because I didn't want to disgust myself anymore, "Okay, stop talking. Haha, I really didn't expect that you were very determined when you left me? Why is it so tender now that you have become so tender when you are in this fat man? You are not married yet, are you? Leaving him, you can find a man who is better than him. If it really doesn't work, it's okay for me to introduce one to you."
Li Xiaoyu obviously felt that I was teasing her, or that I was talking to her in a condescending tone now. She seemed to be a little confused on her face, and she opened her lips several times, but she didn't say anything.
Looking at her now, I couldn't help but be with her. The scenes of being with her in the past surged into my heart again. I remembered my acquaintance with her and the time when I once felt happy.
In the end, I felt soft-hearted and I sighed, "Oh... Forget it, this is probably fate. Let me ask Xu Hao to come to me by myself. Remember, this is his business. If a woman stands up, he is worthy of calling a man! If you ask him to come to me by himself, maybe there is still a chance!" After that, I turned around and walked into the restaurant without hesitation.
Chapter completed!