Cheng Ran sometimes feels that it is difficult to achieve success if you plant trees intentionally, but it is difficult to achieve success if you plant willows unintentionally. It is just like the virtual character "Avatar" that was originally highly anticipated. The creation of a virtual community, the passion within CQ is surging, just to witness the popularity and experience its **, and they are eager to see it. For Cheng Ran, it is the same.
After all, there is a precedent. In the previous life, something called QQ Show was a huge success, so why doesn’t it work now
Cheng Ran knew that "Avatar" on the Internet was first launched in South Korea, and later became popular in Japan. It was very popular among young people in Japan and South Korea, which proved the feasibility of this model. Only later did things like QQ Show appear in China. To be frank, their CQ "Avatar" should be the most advanced frontier at present, but what it encountered was the Siberian cold wave.
Thinking about the time when Cheng Ran proposed this plan, how to launch it and how to charge for it, and the CQ senior executives' response of "Are you a devil?", Cheng Ran now felt embarrassed as soon as he stepped into the CQ meeting room. After all, a wrong decision made by a company decision maker would damage his prestige.
As a high school student boss, he has some dignity, so he has to maintain it even if it's just a small flame.
If the short-term failure of the Avatar Project is attributed to the concept being too advanced, then the traffic between CQ and Lianzhong platforms did not form a "1+1>2" situation. It is probably that ideals are full and reality is very skinny. It can be said that this taught Cheng Ran and his team what "different user groups have different positioning needs."
Human joys and sorrows are not the same, and similarly, the things that people from different worlds care about and pursue are not the same.
People who add strangers from all over the world as friends on CQ, type a smiley face saying "let's make friends" and then start chatting, may not necessarily like to give up the current chat and run to Lianzhong to play chess and cards, or settle down to play a game of Go, such as killing the horse, flying the sun, and walking the field, or arranging the troops to form the army, division, brigade, battalion, and company formations for the Four Nations War.
There was an invisible barrier between the two softwares, which shouldn't have happened. Because according to Cheng Ran's memories from his previous life, the integration of the two softwares was not a problem.
Everyone can agree to play chess and cards in a room during a chat. This kind of thing is common in later generations, but it has not been successful at the moment.
Cheng Ran felt that the problem might be due to the culprit of being "too advanced".
First of all, online chatting itself is a new thing, and everyone is quite enthusiastic about it. That is, when chatting, they just want to chat and get information from strangers to achieve the communication function of social activities. After all, humans are social animals, and socializing and obtaining knowledge and information from others is a very important nature.
So when chatting, we are more experiencing the act of "chatting" itself.
When one person gets bored chatting, he or she will immediately look for the next person to make friends with. Moreover, the Internet access fee is relatively high compared to the general salary in society. People who chat online don’t have the spare time to make appointments with friends to play cards on Lianzhong.
Secondly, due to technical constraints and network bandwidth limitations, CQ and Lianzhong cannot be seamlessly connected. Cheng Ran thinks that the problem with the Avatar Project lies here. The graphics are not very good. Even with 2D rendering, it cannot reach the exquisiteness of virtual characters in later generations. It cannot get the empathy of many people, so the Avatarization will be neither hot nor cold.
Therefore, everyone must learn lessons, even those who have been reborn are no exception. In the TV shows I have seen, things that were brought out in advance and became a huge success, and the protagonists have since reached the pinnacle of life, are actually not that easy in reality.
The three strategic elements passed down from ancient times, namely time, place and people, any neglect of any one of them may cause systemic risks.
It is said that heroes are made by the times. In other words, heroes are also the result of fate. It is not this person who creates history, but history that prepares rice, flour and seasonal vegetables at that point in time and appoints a skilled woman to prepare a sumptuous feast.
It is not uncommon for the lucky ones who did not touch the hem of the goddess of fate's flowery skirt to be favored by her to eventually fall into the flood, and a closer look would reveal corpses everywhere.
Fortunately, Cheng Ran did not bet on one place. The difference between gamblers and business planners is that gamblers mostly like to go all out, trust their vision, and pursue a win-win situation, while business planners are about striving for stability and marching in multiple directions. Even if a few routes are lost, there are still soldiers to attack the city.
Hitting the spiritual realm of web page graphic MUD games did more or less save Cheng Ran's face among the CQ executives, but this thing made money quickly, but have you ever heard of any online game that could last in the fierce competition? World of Warcraft was unique. Games before World of Warcraft were all popular for a while, driven by the advanced technology engines of the time, and then quickly went downhill.
Therefore, CQ's Lingyu is currently in a good momentum and is in the starting stage. It will usher in a wave of revenue as expected, and making a fortune every day is not a problem. However, if some senior executives of CQ are not sober and think that they should vigorously develop along this route, then Lingyu, which is inherently deficient, will be surpassed by latecomers within one or two years. Once games like "Legend" come out, the phenomenon of Lingyu dominating the Internet cafes will decline rapidly.
So making money is one thing, but the most urgent task now is not to delve into the game in depth, but to continue investing in the "Avatar Project" and continue optimizing the access points of CQ and Ourgame platforms.
Cheng Ran was very pleased that CQ could make some money. But this was just the comfort of "at least I could get some blood back after taking a lot of damage". Just a few days ago, CQ Li Mingshi told him the good news that CQ had officially exceeded one million users since its release at the end of November last year!
What does a million users mean in today's market? This millennium, China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) will release a report on the development of the Internet. The report states that in 2000, the number of Internet-connected computers nationwide was approximately 6.5 million, and the number of Internet users nationwide was 10 million.
We currently have one million users, which means that one in ten people uses CQ.
The number of online computers and Internet users will increase with the improvement of the national economy and China's communication network infrastructure. In the function coordinate system with 10,000 people as the unit, the number of computers and Internet users will increase in a smooth upward curve with tens of millions of people as the order, showing a trend of slow growth at the beginning and steep growth at the end.
The growth in CQ users will also increase as China's Internet penetration rate increases.
When the number of users reached one million, CQ's monthly operating costs reached RMB 400,000.
Therefore, this news that made the CQ team collectively excited was like a story of an old father who had worked hard all day hearing that his son who attended an aristocratic school had to pay tuition again.
It feels like I'm feeding a money-eating beast.
A few houses and a luxury car a month.
It hurts.
(Who tipped me again? I'm so scared, don't you know if I still owe you more?)