Chapter 495： Clear accounts

After the financial department settled down, Liu Huaxing rented several sets of servers with local operators, and then officially launched online patches. Online patches are sold in the form of "DLC", priced at five yuan. The price is relatively close to the people. Basically, if you buy the game itself, you won't mind using the five dollars to buy online DLC.

So after this DLC came out, the sales were quite terrible, and 100,000 copies were sold on the first day.

Of course, the purpose of DLC is not to make money, but to innovate the game. After all, this kind of simulated business game is more interesting to play with friends online, and the online game has both PVP and PVE attributes.

Players can build a colony with their friends or fight with players in other colonies. Of course, it is a simulated business game after all, so the operability of the battle is not high. It is more to see who develops better equipment and leads more technology, but that's enough.

The bad news is that because online DLC sold too much, the server exploded on the first day.

The server, which can only accommodate about 20,000 people, was besieged by more than 100,000 players. Even if not all players will cap it at the same time, it still brings a great burden to the server, so that Liu Huaxing had to temporarily increase the rent The three sets of servers expanded the number of players to around 50,000, and the servers finally managed to stabilize.

However, the number of players buying DLC ​​is also increasing, which means that the current number of servers is still only temporarily stable. As the number of players buying DLC ​​increases, the burden on the servers will also increase, and the operating costs will gradually increase. But the good news is that online DLC has also begun to slowly promote the sale of the game itself, attracting more players.

The original sales volume of the game itself has become very low, only one or two thousand copies per day, but after the advent of DLC, the sales volume began to pick up, and the daily sales volume increased to three or four thousand. Judging from this situation, the popularity of the game can be maintained for a while, the final sales of the game can at least break one million, and the sales of DLC will gradually keep up.

Although the price of DLC is not high, if it can sell 700,000 or 800,000 copies, it is also a few million in income. Liu Huaxing does not expect to make money from DLC, as long as it can maintain the cost of the server. After a week of DLC sales, Liu Huaxing tripled the original number of servers. Only in this way was it finally stable and able to accommodate most players' connections.

As the server gradually stabilized, the evaluation and reputation of the game continued to improve. At this point, Liu Huaxing felt that the game "Tomorrowland" has come to an end. The remaining shortcomings can only be made up by the players themselves with mods. .

And the cost of the server is about 10,000 per month, which he can also accept.

The time came in mid-April, and Liu Huaxing pondered that he was almost ready to plan the next game. So he gathered everyone in the studio to prepare a seminar about the next game.

"Well, today we are focusing on the next game." Liu Huaxing said, pulling Hao Qian in front of him, "First of all, let me introduce you to this beauty who will join us this time. Her name is Hao Qian. , Is the new partner of our next game, and will give some funds to develop the game with us, because..."

With that said, Liu Huaxing opened the blank on a blackboard behind him to let everyone see the above information: "Our next goal...will be a mobile game."

Hao Qian cleared her throat and stepped forward, waved to everyone and smiled: "Hello everyone, I am Liu Huaxing’s sister and my name is Hao Qian. According to market research, the current penetration rate of smart phones in my country is between 15 and 30 years old. The number of people has reached 75%, and this data will soar to more than 90% in one or two years. Therefore, the mobile game market is a market with great potential. Although it is not very popular now, it That’s why we will be the first to eat crabs."

Liu Huaxing continued to add: "The current market for mobile games is still blank, and there are not many excellent works. People generally have not realized the potential of the mobile phone market in the future, so we must seize this opportunity as soon as possible."

"What about game planning? Is there a direction?" Chen Ye asked curiously, holding his arms, Liu Huaxing snapped his fingers and smiled: "What is the current foundation of our studio? "Eating Chicken", "Tomorrowland", A shooting game, a simulation business game. Then I plan to combine the two in the next game."

"How to combine the two?" Zhang Chengfei asked puzzledly, "Shooting simulation business game?"

"Exactly." Liu Huaxing replied, "With the doomsday zombies as the background, players need to kill the zombies to collect materials and build their own base to defend against the zombies. Because it is a mobile game, we will develop it with the goal of online games. At present. It is tentatively set to be like this. After the specific game plan is made, I will show it to you, and you will know it naturally."

"However, shooting games on mobile phones is not easy to operate." Li Xuesong asked with some worry.

"We will use an auxiliary aiming system similar to XBOX. This is easy to solve. After all, the game is based on PVE. There is no battle between players. This system will naturally not affect the balance." Liu Huaxing explained, "Currently The key is still the future goal, whether we plan to operate independently or cooperate with other game companies."

There was silence for a while, and then only one person spoke. Wang Zhao tentatively said, "I think, should we work with a big company? After all, we are just a few people and don't know much about game operations."

"Regardless of the purpose, let's talk about the game first. Only if the game is done well enough can we have the opportunity to cooperate with big companies." Chen Ye replied lightly, "So I think we programmers should also improve our own. The level of programming, don’t be overwhelmed by new programmers later."

"But this is weird?" Zhang Chengfei frowned, "We are partners, and we have contributed capital. Why should we continue to write programs like those programmers? We don't get a fixed salary, which is equivalent to writing for nothing..."

"Because the studio belongs to us?" Li Xuesong asked, "You said that, why did Liu Huaxing do this game project? Didn't he invest in the same way? The game is made by all of us, and those people work for us. ."

"Don't quarrel." Liu Huaxing clapped his hands to prevent everyone from arguing. "As Cedar said, games are our painstaking efforts. But I think it's better to understand a little bit in this respect. I will give myself a game plan. If you join programming, I will also give you additional programmer salaries, but if you just want to wait to receive the money, I’m not against it.”

"I think... it's better for everyone to do it together. Isn't it good to write and write programs when you have time to speed up the production of games? Just like before." Liu Chang suggested on Wei Nuonuo, "This is a studio, right? ?"

"I think we have an obligation." Chen Ye said forcefully, "This is our studio. If a company wants to acquire our studio in the future, what kind of capacity do you have to join this company with us? If only Investors, after the studio is acquired, if you take the money, it has nothing to do with you. You are not qualified to join, think clearly."

"That's true..." Liu Huaxing pondered, "It's good to make it clear in advance. If you are now a member of the studio and the studio is acquired in the future, then you can join the company and work together, but if you are only an investor , Our studio will no longer have your position when it is acquired in the future. I think everyone can recognize this condition, right?"

The scene continued to be silent. Obviously everyone felt that this condition was reasonable, but not everyone wanted to join.

"Even so, I don't want to work hard every day to write programs. I think it's good to be a partner..." Zhang Chengfei scratched his head and said, Wang Zhao also echoed: "Yes, I am just a personal student. It’s just my interest, I didn’t plan to engage in this business. Let alone compete with other professional programmers, so...I’ll forget it.”

Bai Renzong replied: "Then I will participate in programming, I still hope to be able to participate in game production myself. It just so happens that I have almost finished writing my graduate thesis recently, and then I will specialize in learning programming knowledge."

At the meeting, everyone carefully discussed some large and small details, and negotiated all the matters to be determined.

Then, Liu Huaxing drove Yang Xiaoxiao and Hao Qian home. Neither of them spoke much at the meeting. After all, Hao Qian was a collaborator, and Yang Xiaoxiao was just a financial officer. Although he was close to Liu Huaxing, it was inconvenient to give pointers.

"My star is so aura just now." Yang Xiaoxiao looked at him affectionately on the co-pilot and smiled.

"Really, after all grown up, the tone of the meeting was the same as that of the CEO of my dad's company." Hao Qian muttered in the back seat, and Liu Huaxing suddenly asked: "Your cooperation is your dad's company this time. In your name or yours?"

"In the name of my dad's company, how can I get so much money alone." Hao Qian curled his lips.

"Then you count as a fake public for private benefit?" Liu Huaxing smiled with interest. Hao Qian stretched out his hand and pinched his face and reprimanded: "How is this called a fake public for private benefit? I saw a business opportunity in your plan, OK? ? My dad only agreed to grant me funds to invest in your project after seeing the market research and the current results of your studio."

"Then I can't let you down." Liu Huaxing smiled, and Hao Qian smiled sweetly: "Yes, if I lose money, my dad will force me to join a business marriage. Then you will be conscious of it and marry me and apologize. Right."

"Dream you." Yang Xiaoxiao glared at her from the rearview mirror, "There is no door to steal a man from my old lady!"

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