[Mission: World of Warcraft players reach 10 million.]
[Congratulations to the host for completing the mission!]
[Obtain: 3 memory fragments, a golden mission card.]
When the number of World of Warcraft players exceeded 10 million, a light blue holographic window appeared in front of Hao Yun's eyes at the same time. If nothing else, he was probably the first person to know that the number of people online in World of Warcraft exceeded 10 million.
However, there is actually no difference.
Because soon, cheers like an earthquake resounded throughout the entire office area.
Before Hao Yun had time to confirm the reward for completing the system task, Li Zongzheng's excited shout brought him back to reality from the illusion.
"Mr. Hao! Mr. Hao!"
"I'm here, what are you shouting for?"
With an expression of joy on his face, Li Zongzheng grabbed his shoulders and shook him back and forth. It was obvious that he was so excited that he forgot everything.
"The number of people online at the same time in World of Warcraft has exceeded 10 million! Hahaha, we have broken the record!"
And this was achieved in less than 10 minutes after the game was launched!
Even if we look at the entire development history of Renlian video games, we can't find such an amazing precedent.
After witnessing this moment with his own eyes, and also participating in the development of the game, it is no wonder that Li Zongzheng was so excited.
In fact, it’s not just Li Zongzheng, but also other executives in the office.
Old Liu's face flushed with excitement, while Du Ziteng ran to the elevator, saying he was going downstairs to buy a bottle of champagne.
The art girls from the art department also hugged each other excitedly.
Victory not only belongs to World of Warcraft, but also to Yunmeng Games and all the players who love it.
They were not crushed by the all-round suppression by the Sea Lion Group, but stood up in the face of difficulties and withstood the pressure from the giants.
"Okay, I understand, please let go of your hand on my shoulder first..."
Finally noticing that his actions were a bit out of line, Li Zongzheng quickly retracted his hand and scratched the back of his head in embarrassment.
"Ah, I'm sorry, hehe."
Hey, what's your size
He complained in his heart, but Hao Yun did not blame him, but patted his shoulder encouragingly.
"Work hard, this is still the beginning. Now the beta test has begun. Every update we make will be available to all players. There are still many things that need your busy work."
"That's what I say, but World of Warcraft is run by AI, right?" Li Zongzheng looked at Hao Yun helplessly and said, "I feel like after the game is launched, we will have nothing to do."
Hao Yun smiled and said.
"Updating the material library, planning player activities... there are still a lot of things that need people to do. But as our 'Zero' continues to grow, maybe even these tasks can be handed over to AI in the future. "
Li Zongzheng suddenly sighed.
"To be honest, when I saw Zero, I was thinking that with AI technology so advanced now, we might all be unemployed in a dozen years."
"How is that possible?" Hao Yun said with a smile. "Although AI is very convenient, many creative tasks still need to be completed by humans."
Li Zongzheng asked.
“Isn’t operating a game a creative job?”
This is an interesting question.
Hao Yun thought for a while and gave an ambiguous answer.
"Both, not entirely."
Li Zongzheng said helplessly.
"That doesn't mean I didn't say anything."
"Because that's the truth," Hao Yun shrugged and continued, "Didn't I say before that the future of the world of Azeroth is determined by the actions of all players. It is probably similar to a DND rule. A team-running game. We are responsible for formulating the rules, and the AI conducts deductions based on the rules and player behavior, and decides the direction of the story... So I think this is more of a logical job than a creative job."
Of course, it's not entirely logical.
In fact, Hao Yun himself knows little about this AI from the "system". The intelligence it displays is far more than just running a game.
And according to Wu Fan's description, that update covered almost all the code in the original program, and even completely changed the structure of the entire program.
Not so much "optimization".
It’s better to say it’s a “rewrite”.
Hao Yun even had a feeling that its arrival seemed destined, that everything seemed to be designed...
However, he did not intend to think about these issues for the time being. After all, making any inferences without sufficient clues was no different from baseless conjectures.
At this time, there was a sudden explosion at the entrance of the elevator, which shocked everyone and thought it was something exploding.
As a result, I went over to take a look and found out that it was Du Ziteng who really went downstairs to buy a bottle of champagne. He also imitated the movie and shook it several times before pulling out the cork.
As a result, due to lack of experience, the bottle opener was blown out along with the cork, and the sprayed foam hit Jiang Lecheng's face as he just walked in.
Fortunately, the person is okay.
However, the clothes must be wet...
"Du Ziteng! Are you crazy!?"
Du Ziteng was stunned on the spot and put down the bottle in a hurry.
"I, I didn't mean it."
"Just wait for me!"
Jiang Lecheng gritted her teeth in hatred, glared at him fiercely, turned around and ran to the bathroom. Hao Yun asked the female employees in the art department to quickly come over to help, and then squirted Du Ziteng, who looked at a loss.
"You can't wait a moment! There will be plenty of champagne for you to enjoy at the celebration party... People will come back soon, so remember to apologize to them."
Du Ziteng lowered his head and said.
"yes… "
Although there was a small episode, it did not affect the festive atmosphere in the company.
But at this moment, Zhou Ruining suddenly jogged to Hao Yun's side and whispered.
"Mr. Hao, there's a call from Yunmeng Technology."
Yunmeng Technology’s phone number
Could it be that the server resources are not enough
Theoretically, this is impossible. In order to ensure that the game can run normally on the day it is launched, Hao Yun specially arranged for someone to upgrade the server to meet the requirement of 20 million players online at the same time.
The number of simultaneous online players has just exceeded 10 million now. Even if it grows a little longer, it won’t double, right
"I see."
Realizing that the problem might not be as simple as imagined, Hao Yun nodded and asked Zhou Ruining to greet the employees of the World of Warcraft project team for him and contact him at any time if anything happened, and then returned to the office.
"Hello?"
"Mr. Hao, it's me."
It was Wu Fan's voice that came from the other end of the phone.
No nonsense, Hao Yun went straight to the point.
"What's going on over there?"
"We did encounter a situation... Just now, our server suffered a DOS attack."
Damn it
Hearing these words, Hao Yun was stunned for a moment.
Although I expected that the Sea Lion Group might use any means, I didn't expect that this guy would even use such means.
His expression became serious, and Hao Yun asked immediately.
"Is the problem serious?"
"It's not so serious... It's better to say that the effect was so insignificant that we almost ignored it." With a strange expression on his face, Wu Fan explained to Hao Yun what happened at that time.
About a few minutes ago, the World of Warcraft server encountered abnormal data access.
The attacker sends ICMP echo request messages through ping, forcing the system to spend most of its time in useless responses, trying to reduce the network quality of the server in this way.
After discovering the problem, the technicians on duty immediately began to deal with it. However, to everyone's surprise, when they just opened the background management program and prepared to attack, the source of the attack was quietly cut off.
At first, they thought that the hacker who attacked the server gave up.
But what is puzzling is that the server later encountered several attacks with different postures, and classic methods such as fragmentation bombs and buffer overflows were all used.
However, the result was that these methods were noisy and did not even cause obvious network fluctuations before disappearing without a trace.
It wasn't until the staff on duty in the computer room retrieved the operation records through the server management program that they discovered that these attacks had been blocked by Zero.
Speaking of this, Wu Fan's tone was full of admiration and emotion, and he couldn't help but ask at the end.
"I didn't expect that you had already considered that our server would be attacked. I still can't figure it out. Mr. Hao... how did you do it?"
"Huh? Ah... me." Hao Yun's face showed confusion and embarrassment.
How should I explain this thing
He didn’t write this program!
"If it's not convenient to disclose it, forget it," Wu Fan sighed, and continued with a slightly straightened expression, "According to the investigation by our technical staff, the source of the attack is likely to come from the Sea Lion Group."
Does this thing still need to be traced
Don’t you know what’s going on?…
Hao Yun cleared his throat and asked in a deep voice.
"Can we collect evidence?"
Wu Fan said with an embarrassed look.
"It's a bit difficult. We can only say that we try our best... The other party's methods are very cautious and they use many IPs as a springboard. The IP with the highest correlation we can trace is also located overseas. If we continue to trace it, I'm afraid we can only hand it over to the police. It’s been dealt with... Do you need to call the police?”
Caution is to be expected.
It would be better to say that there was nothing wrong with the server, which was beyond everyone's expectations.
After thinking for a moment, Hao Yun said.
"There is no need to call the police. There is no actual economic loss. Even if the investigation continues, there will be no results."
"But… "
"Of course I don't mean to just let it go," Hao Yun continued, hearing the hesitation in Wu Fan's tone, "Since they have even used this method, they must be mentally prepared."
"what do you mean… "
"I didn't say that," Hao Yun smiled, "And if I did, it wouldn't be now."
"We have collected a lot of evidence during this period, and these accounts must be settled one by one. Now is not the time to make extraneous matters."
After pausing for a moment, he looked at the floor-to-ceiling windows of the office and continued in a very soft voice.
"Besides, I don't want them to blame the server for being attacked as the reason for the failure."