This evening, Li Mu and Li Yawei ran around the National People's Congress. They searched several Internet cafes but could not find the machine. Every Internet cafe was full, and there were many people queuing up to start booking the night at ten o'clock.
In the end, the two found a small Internet cafe with more than ten shabby machines in a small alley two kilometers away from the National People's Congress, and played in the dirty and messy environment until one o'clock in the morning.
Li Mu mainly wanted to see how popular Legend is now. Not only are more than half of the people in Internet cafes playing this game, but players in the same area and server of the game are also very popular. Li Mu has created a novice account and is thinking about it near the novice village. It takes a long time to kill a chicken or a deer, because there are too many people, and the replacement speed of chickens and deer cannot match the extinction speed of a large group of newbies.
Li Yawei is a slightly higher level. Now that she has nothing to do, she just goes to the zombie cave to fight monsters and mine. There are so many people mining that sometimes the zombie cave is full of people mining.
In the game, except for the safe zone, PKs are constantly happening everywhere else. There are small-scale team battles. Some people are trying to grab resources and explode equipment. Some people are simply PKing just for the sake of PKing. They basically attack anyone they see, because in the Legend of Hot Blood, The PK mode of the game is too simple and direct. If you don't like it, you can just go to **** it. From the perspective of people's original impulse, the settings of this game are indeed quite enjoyable.
Because Li Mu was robbing a deer, he was hacked to death by a guy who was one level above him and holding an ebony sword. After he was resurrected, he went back, and was beaten to death by another magician with a fireball when he got there. However, he was not angry, mainly because he wanted to use the program. From the perspective of a player, you can experience the most primitive legend of passion firsthand, and also study the plug-ins by the way.
Paid plug-ins will still be in the legal void for the next two to three years. A conservative estimate is that there will be at least two years of legal life cycle. Moreover, plug-ins are about making quick money in the short term. This kind of business that can quickly replenish cash flow must still be done. However, Li Mu is also more cautious. Now he not only has 3321, but also Makino Technology. He can't do the plug-in work himself. It is most suitable to leave it to Zhao Kang.
Let Zhao Kang do it, and Li Mu will not let him take legal risks. He still remembers the time point when plug-ins were criminalized. As long as the "Notice on Carrying out Special Control of "Private Servers" and "Check-Ins" on January 1, 2004 was officially implemented. There is basically no risk if he stops. What's more, Li Mu is not prepared to do the cheating until that time. It may be one year or two years later. Even if all the cheating income in the country is given to him, he will not despise it. Take a look.
Although Li Mu only has a million in his pocket now, he definitely has this confidence.
Seeing Li Mu being killed in the wild, Li Yawei couldn't help but said: "Brother Mu, come to me in the mine. I won't mine anymore. I will form a team to help you fight zombies."
Li Mu smiled and said, "You'd better dig your mine first, and I'll just play around and get familiar with it."
At one o'clock in the morning, if Li Mu hadn't left, Li Yawei, who was addicted, wished she could stay up all night.
On the way back to school, Li Yawei was still sighing excitedly: "This game is so exciting! It's a pity that I found out too late. Many high-level players in the district came in as soon as the server opened. You see? Do you have the equipment for a level warrior? The God of War armor is so cool, and that purgatory, my God, when will I have that life!"
Li Mu recalled that when he was playing Legend in his freshman year in his previous life, he had a similar mentality to Li Yawei. Every day he was thinking about when he could level up again, when he could change to a new piece of equipment, learn a new skill, and... The appeal of legend is universal in this era and has huge influence.
Back in the dormitory, Li Ya spent the entire night thinking about Legend, and so did Li Mu, who slept on the bunk below him.
Li Mu felt that it was time to start developing a commercial version of the legendary plug-in.
The next morning, Li Mu made an appointment with Zhao Kang to meet at Yucheng Garden, and told Zhao Kang about his preparations for the legendary cheat.
When Zhao Kang heard that Li Mu was ready to take action, he immediately said excitedly: "I've been paying attention to the game Legend recently. It's so popular. Almost every boy in our class has an account, and more than half of them have to play it every day. Go play it, and every player will use our Legend Overlord 1.0. Although Legend has not yet charged a fee, I think a powerful plug-in should also have market potential for charging."
Li Mu nodded and said: "While other plug-in studios haven't started yet, I've been rushing to develop commercial plug-ins first."
Zhao Kang immediately said: "After you develop this plug-in, just tell me if you have anything to do. You explained the plug-in to me before. I still remember the metaphor you mentioned about selling ecstasy pills in a disco. This Things will break the law sooner or later, right?”
Li Mu smiled slightly and said: "It may be written into laws and regulations in the future, but it is not yet available, but this thing is not glorious after all."
Zhao Kang then said: "Let me step in and do it. You are so famous now, you can't be tainted with negative news."
Li Mu said: "It's better to be a little more cautious, so you don't come forward directly, especially with money. You must not use your own real-name account to collect payments. When the time comes, let your team look for agents in offline Internet cafes everywhere. Every month We will withdraw the money immediately as soon as it arrives, and we will do it until the first half of 2003 at most. Starting from the second half of 2003, we will never touch the plug-in business again."
The relevant laws and regulations were promulgated by the state half a year in advance. Li Mu was absolutely sure that he would not be involved in the law again. The reason why he wanted to be more cautious was because he did not want others to use this matter to disgust him in the future. As long as he did this well, the plug-in would He will still eat a big fat piece of meat when he should.
Zhao Kang didn't understand why Li Mu put the plug-in business in the first half of 2003, but he didn't ask in detail. He had been working with Li Mu since the college entrance examination, and he had 11,000 trust in Li Mu.
Li Mu said: "I have recently started development and strive to have it online before the end of the month. However, this time we have to sell plug-ins ourselves, so we must have our own verification server."
Zhao Kang then asked: "How does this process work specifically? The last time we sold a plug-in, we sold it to the two guys in Yanjing in one package. I don't know the specific logic and process of monthly charging."
Li Mu smiled and said: "The logic is nothing more than an activation code. After the plug-in is developed, its functions are locked by a set of verification procedures. This is a necessary part of commercial plug-ins. Otherwise, if you only sell installation packages, you will be stupid. Yes, because if someone else takes your installation package, they can sell it to others, so no one with a brain would do this.
But when it comes to verification logic, the most appropriate thing is that we build a server specifically for verification, and then I design a set of activation code generation logic here to randomly generate a large number of long and complicated activation codes in batches, and then give the activation codes to the dealer , they sell it to users. Users open our plug-in, register a fixed account, and then enter the activation code to activate and use the plug-in. Each activation code can be activated for one month, and the function will be automatically closed after expiration. Until he purchases the activation code again to activate. "
Zhao Kang thought for a moment and understood the logic, and asked Li Mu: "Will users crack our activation code?"
Li Mu smiled slightly and said: "As long as it is an online program, it will inevitably be cracked. The most direct way to crack the password is the exhaustive method. No matter how long and complicated your password is, it is just a combination of letters and numbers. , I will definitely be able to try them one by one, but it is just a matter of time. If I imitate the method of a large company like Microsoft and use a twenty-digit letter plus number pattern to encrypt, then the possibility of the combination is estimated to be There are more than billions of activation codes, and I will only sell a few million activation codes in total, which is amazing. If millions are counted in billions of times, the chance is so slim that it can be zero."
As he spoke, Li Mu smiled again and said: "This exhaustive method is actually very easy to prevent. If you don't set a limit for it, an ordinary home computer can repeatedly test tens of thousands of combinations in one second, but if You can restrict him a little. For example, after the verification fails, resubmission is not allowed within one minute. Then the other party will immediately misfire. The remaining possibility is that the hacker has cracked it. However, this is basically impossible. It can be so Strong hackers will not be interested in plug-ins."
Zhao Kang nodded lightly and sighed: "You know so much, I also understand a general idea. Anyway, we will only sell this kind of virtual activation code to the dealer, and then record the total sold by him." Just as many as you need, right?”
"Yes, it's very simple. You take the time to find a server hosting company in the past two days. Now that server hosting does not require real-name registration, you can try to find the computer room with the most lax management."
"OK!"
Li Mu said: "This time we operate the net income of the legendary plug-in, you three and I seven."
Zhao Kang blurted out: "Let's just do the same as last time. There is a limit to what I can do."
Li Mu waved his hand: "This time I am responsible for all development, subsequent version updates and other behind-the-scenes work. The distribution and payment of the plug-in mainly depend on you, so the ratio is fixed like this. Don't be too dissatisfied. Too many. Even if we are brothers, we still have to settle accounts clearly when it comes to money-related matters. Only in this way can we go on for a long time. In addition, if you want to choose people around you to help you, you must be careful when choosing people. Be cautious."
Zhao Kang hesitated for a moment and nodded slightly.
Li Mu thought of Douban and said, "By the way, we will go to Makino Technology at noon on Monday. The contract template is ready. We will sign the contract on Monday. Douban will officially be fully owned by Makino Technology. You can use Douban to exchange 500,000 in cash and 50,000 yuan from Makino. % shares.
But brother, I have to make it clear first. In addition to the shares bought by Baidu and Song Liang with cash, the other options I gave out and the replacement shares of Douban will be held by me personally. I will cash out the shares. There are certain constraints on the investment. As for the reason why I hold the shares on behalf of others, the main reason is that there will be many rounds of financing in the future. Each financing will dilute the shares, so I have to ensure my right to speak. But don’t worry, the financing At that time, everyone diluted in the same proportion. "
Zhao Kang said without hesitation: "I listen to you."
I will strive for three updates today. Not counting the one in the early morning, this chapter is the first update.
(End of chapter)