At noon, six people, including Wu Di, had already agreed to join Makino Technology on the spot at the dinner table. At the same time, Wu Di said that after returning to Zhu City, he would communicate with other team members and persuade as many people as possible to join.
However, beyond Lin Qingya's expectation, Wu Di called herself just after nightfall and told herself that six more people were clearly willing to join Makino Technology.
It turned out that he formed a YY group in the afternoon and invited six relatively core and trustworthy Xishanju members to join the group. Six people here persuaded six people there. In one afternoon, he persuaded all six people. Let them follow you and join Makino Technology without hesitation.
So Lin Qingya took down the entire core team of Xishanju in just one day. This efficiency made Li Mu speechless when he heard it on the phone.
After praising Lin Qingya's high efficiency without hesitation, Li Mu also began to think about the overall plan for the online game business.
In the future, under the overall structure of Makino Technology Game Business Unit, there will be two subdivided business groups: one is the self-owned game business group, and the other is the agent game business group. The latter is relatively low-tech, but requires a good eye. Being keen and quick in action, with the advantages of Li Mu's rebirth, it will be easier to advance this work. However, if you want to do the former well, the difficulty will be very high.
Xu Bo, nicknamed Lao Xu, should be able to handle the structure of the game "Fantasy Westward Journey", and the Xishanju team should be able to handle the structure and development of a martial arts or fairy-themed game. With Lin Qingya's experience from various companies, With the game development talents poached, Makino Technology can launch two game development projects in the short term, but these are just two online games that can make money in China.
When it comes to online games, Li Mu has always had a very big regret in his heart, and that is: China, as the largest online game market in the future, is a pure importer of online games. While it imports a large number of online games, none of its local online games can Really exported to the whole world!
Not to mention asking China Online Game Company to launch a game as popular as World of Warcraft, they don't even have a game that can be exported to the Korean and Japanese markets.
In Li Mu's view, China has many classic IPs in both ancient culture and modern literary works, among which the world structure is as grand as World of Warcraft.
However, domestic game companies really don’t want to make progress. Most of the domestic games are small and big. No one has ever really thought about investing enough manpower, energy, and material resources to create a truly masterpiece. A model of domestic online games.
China's online game industry has been accompanied by huge profit temptations from the beginning, so much so that many game companies adhere to one development philosophy: make quick money! Earning a sum is a sum! Take a shot and change the place!
Based on this background, Li Mu summarized the Chinese online game market in four words: "Three fast and one short"
That is: fast research and development, fast launch, fast money making, and short lifespan.
Compared with the research and development costs of heavyweight online games that often cost tens or even hundreds of millions of dollars, many Chinese game companies can use millions or even tens of millions of dollars to develop a game adapted from a popular IP.
More than half of the game research and development expenses are used to buy IP and promote it, and the remaining half is used for casual development. Then, the popularity of the IP is used to speculate and attract a large number of fans of the IP. In the first few months of operation, the game can make back its investment, and in the remaining time, it is almost pure profit.
Due to the shoddy production and low playability of the games, most domestic online games cannot escape a pattern: a large number of users gradually give up after playing for a period of time, and the rate of user loss will soon exceed the growth rate.
It won’t be long before the game will face the embarrassing situation of fewer and fewer people and lower profits. In contrast, online game companies invested less and less energy, and the game experience became worse and worse. In the end, the entire game was completely shut down and withdrawn from the stage, and the popular IP was completely destroyed.
Under this industry background, the possibility of developing a heavyweight online game in the Chinese market is almost zero.
Not to mention small companies, even companies like Tengxun that make huge amounts of cash from games every year may not be willing to invest a lot of money to develop a heavyweight online game. On the contrary, the more money they make, the more they become. Be cautious.
Representing successful overseas games and imitating successful overseas games. These two models with low error rates have become the mainstream of Tengxun and other game companies. The proportion of self-development is almost negligible.
In Li Mu's view, this is a great tragedy for China's Internet industry, and it is almost the same as the tragedy of China's domestic automobile industry. In China's future automobile market, most of them will be joint venture brands, and the remaining domestic brands will basically rely on imitation, Making a living by learning from others is depressing.
Li Mu has this ambition and hopes to have the opportunity to export Chinese culture to the world through online games in the future. The Japanese can integrate elements of "Journey to the West" into "Dragon Ball" and promote it to the world. Why has China never had a truly effective one? How to export "Journey to the West" to overseas markets? If there is a chance in the future, can we create China's "Journey to the West", as well as martial arts, fairy tales and even fantasy novels like Blizzard created World of Warcraft
Li Mu feels that as long as he is willing to let go of his utilitarianism and use ingenuity to create and polish products, this goal will definitely be achieved. He is afraid that all the thoughts of practitioners will revolve around profits and only want to make quick money. In that case, It will never be possible to make a game like World of Warcraft.
China is a huge country, and there is a big gap between China and Western countries in terms of technology and industry. Li Mu, an ordinary person, cannot speak nonsense, but when it comes to the ability to tell stories, Li Mu feels that China is definitely one of the top nations, and there is no shortage of good people. What the story lacks is just the people who present it with their heart.
Li Mu is willing to cultivate his own game R&D team from now on, so that his team can continue to improve and be on par with the game R&D teams of Japan, South Korea, and Western developed countries. If Makino Technology has the strength in the future, Li Mu is willing to send out the people from his game team. Studying in overseas game companies is also willing to use high salaries to attract overseas game developers to join.
First build a top team, and then provide enough financial support. If you put aside utilitarianism and put your heart into it, you will be able to develop at least one heavyweight game that can be exported to the world.
Perhaps one day in the future, it will no longer be "World of Warcraft" that is popular around the world, but China's large-scale fantasy and fairy-themed online games. Perhaps in the future, it will no longer be the background of "World of Warcraft" that will amaze game fans all over the world. Architecture, but the grand background of Chinese culture...
This goal is still far away for Makino Technology at the moment, but now, Li Mu has regarded this as his highest pursuit of the online game business!
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The specific policy of "computers entering the city" has not yet been released; Makino Technology is working in an orderly manner, with blogs being developed and game teams being formed; Taobao's operations are on the right track, and Taobao Logistics has entered the procurement and logistics base construction and location selection stages , Liu Edong is traveling across the country with his logistics team; Zhao Kang has also begun to take over the Internet cafe chain project. The busy work in Yanjing can finally come to an end for the time being, and Li Mu finally has a chance to breathe a sigh of relief.
But it was only a temporary relief, because there was a big battle to be fought in every link. Li Mu was like a militant in the shopping mall. He had already planned countless wars against different enemies in his mind, and even fought against them. I can’t even count it on my fingers.
Because of his debt to Zhao Ziqiu, Li Mu deliberately asked Li Ziwei to book flights to Hangzhou for himself and Wang Yuanlang tomorrow afternoon. At the same time, he booked two large luxury suites in the best hotel in Hangzhou, one for himself and one for Wang Yuanlang. Give Wang Yuanlang and others time.
After giving instructions to Li Ziwei, Li Mu called Zhao Ziqiu.
It was already dark at this time, and Zhao Ziqiu received a call from Li Mu. His voice was particularly happy, and he asked: "Why did you remember to call me today?"
Li Mu smiled slightly and said, "I miss you, and I'm not very busy today. What are you doing?"
"I miss you too." Zhao Ziqiu's voice was full of joy and he said sweetly: "I just finished taking a shower and lay down, and I was about to read a book, and you called me."
Li Mu couldn't help but want to tease her and asked: "Tell me, what do you think of me? Let me see if you are the same as me."
On the other end of the phone, Zhao Ziqiu was quiet for a moment, his voice suddenly lowered, and he whispered: "I'm thinking about the night I spent your birthday with you..."
Birthday night? Wasn't it talking about the night when Zhao Ziqiu gave herself to him as a "gift"
Li Mu couldn't help but smile and said: "There is a little girl who seems to be thinking about... spring?"
"No way..." Zhao Ziqiu groaned, and after a moment he plucked up the courage to say, "I just thought about it. Who made you not come to Hangzhou to see me for so long? School will start in half a month."
Li Mu wanted to give her a surprise when he landed tomorrow, but he couldn't hold it in anymore. His tone was filled with guilt and love, and he said, "I'm sorry, I didn't do a good enough job. I booked a flight for tomorrow at 5 p.m. Arrive in Hangzhou around 0:00, and someone has already booked a room at the Hilton. Would you like to take me to taste the delicious food in Hangzhou tomorrow night, and then have sex with me in the hotel that night?"
The innocent Zhao Ziqiu asked subconsciously: "What does it mean to have sex?"
Li Mu chuckled: "Just two people hugging each other and rolling around on the bed..."
"Rogue..." Zhao Ziqiu muttered angrily, and then said seriously: "Mom has been saying that I should ask you to come to Hangzhou. She said that she would treat you to dinner. In addition, father has been saying that she wants you to come to Hangzhou to meet him. so… "
After Zhao Ziqiu finished speaking, without waiting for Li Mu's reply, he hurriedly added: "It doesn't matter if you don't want to see them, I'll tell them."
Li Mu said hurriedly: "Why don't I want to see you? Tell my uncle and aunt for me that I will go to Hangzhou tomorrow and treat them to dinner in the evening."
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(End of chapter)