Rebirth of the Internet: Starting from Games

Chapter 95

In November 2002, the situation was turbulent.

First, Shanda announced two online games, "Legendary World" and "Crazy Tank".

When other companies saw that Shanda and Century Zongheng were making a lot of money through game agency, they all wanted to get a piece of the online game market and entered the online game industry one after another.

On November 2002, 11, the game company Chuangchi officially signed a contract with "Tears of God".

On November 2002, 11, "Magic Sword" agented by Tianren Interactive entered the internal testing stage.

In November 2002, "Legend of Oblivion" agented by Shanghai Yixing began testing.

In November 2002, Excellence Digital launched "New Journey to the West: Tang Dynasty" after "The Legend of Immortality", and the 11CN website entered the online game industry.

In November 2002, the first domestic portal entered the field of online games.Sina and NCsoft announced the establishment of a joint venture company - Sina Legu. Since then, the two giants in the Chinese Internet and Korean gaming industries have decided to join forces, and the giants have begun to emerge.

Sina announced that it has officially signed a contract with the online game giant "Paradise" and will officially start testing in January next year.

All of a sudden, the online game market was buzzing with contention, and the number of online game news in one month caught up with the number in the previous half year.

In addition to these company netizens gathering together to publish, there are also several non-online game news released this month that have attracted a lot of attention.

These three messages all come from the same company, Century Zongheng Network Technology Co., Ltd.

Just one day after Shanda announced Legend World, Century Zongheng announced that its subsidiary Century Investment has fully acquired the online game information platform 17173.

On November 11, Century Zongheng announced the establishment of a subsidiary, Century Hardware Services Co., Ltd., which will provide professional-grade computer rooms and network services to various Internet manufacturers in the future.

At the end of November, Century Zongheng announced the launch of China's first medical assistance platform to provide necessary assistance to families with terminal illnesses and financial difficulties.

One of the news that Century Investment invested 300 million to acquire Phantom Forum did not attract too many people's attention.

Major media outlets and friendly businessmen all lamented that Century Zongheng, a company that has suddenly emerged in the second half of the year, is quite capable of doing things.

"The Wolf of the Internet Is Coming", "The Ambition of the Century", "Not doing business or planning for the future?" 》.

A series of negative or optimistic news appeared in major portals, newspapers and magazines, with mixed reviews from all parties.

And the instigator of all this has the advantage of being a prophet and does not panic at all. Every one of these games in November is Xiaokarami.

As the boss of a company, you are more responsible for making decisions and controlling the company's development direction, rather than doing everything yourself. That is too inefficient, and letting the rocket builders tighten the screws will only reflect the boss's incompetence.

This is what Chen Hao has learned after becoming the boss in the past month or two. His purpose in showing off his tricks before was to win people over in the early stages of starting a business and let employees know that the boss is a person with outstanding abilities, not a mediocre person.

When this goal is achieved, he now has fewer and fewer things to do personally, and leaves them to the people below to handle them.

But it’s not like lying around on your laurels all day long, waiting to die. Rather, it’s about finally getting everything moving forward in an orderly manner before the end of November!

Chen Hao had time to take his girlfriend and bodyguard, and in early December, he took the step of not recognizing his relatives and boarded a flight to South Korea.

After getting on the plane, he closed his eyes and thought about the next route.

After these few days of thinking, trade-offs and decisions, we have focused on grasping the main contradiction and avoiding the mistake of being comprehensive.

Set two goals: World of Warcraft agent and self-development of the game!

The ultimate ideal is to use these two games to establish Century Zongheng’s dominance in the online game industry in one fell swoop!

<divclass="contentadv">Not to mention World of Warcraft, it is a classic among classics. Its durability for more than ten years is a testament to its quality. Blizzard's products must be high-quality products. Blizzard's brand has not been destroyed these days.

This is the focus of his 04 work plan. From now on, he has been preparing. The dedicated independent computer room built by my brother is one of them.

The second is the long-term goal. After all, there are many constraints on agent games. If you want complete freedom and full control, you can only take the road of self-development of games.

The road to self-research is long and arduous, but he believes that with his prophetic experience, it will be possible.

Self-research requires a long development cycle and a strong technical team, both of which require a large amount of funds.

His capital is still too small. Now Chen Hao is basically a moonlighter. One 17173, a national computer room plan, and a medical assistance fund, these three mountains have almost wiped out all his previous wealth.

Fortunately, the two cash cows Miracle and Taoyoubao provide a large amount of cash flow every month. They are really eating grass, and the milk they squeeze out can at least hold on for now.

But he couldn't bear to spend it like this, so that's why he went to South Korea to purchase goods this time.

The purpose of being an agent for games is just to accumulate capital. In fact, Chen Hao has already thought about a self-developed game. He plans to develop a WOW version of Jin Yong's Legend of Heroes. He has already thought of a name and called it Martial Arts World.

He has always been a fan of traditional martial arts. When he was a student, he basically read the novels of heroes such as Jin Guliang Wenhuang, Wo Longsheng, Shen Qingyun, Sima Ling and so on.

He is also a loyal fan of Jin Yong's Qunxia flyer game. Wangjin also played it for a few days, but he gave up in disappointment because it was far from the game he imagined.

There are only two goals for next year. Prepare to negotiate with Blizzard and win the agency of World of Warcraft. The second is to start the research and development of the world of martial arts.

Those who like martial arts style can play World of Martial Arts, and those who like Western fantasy style can play World of Warcraft.

From now on, I will hold both Eastern and Western MMORPGs in my hands, and I will own the world!

He wants to monopolize the player base in this field.

So in order to achieve this goal, the only prerequisite is that money is needed, a lot of funds!

"Hao, wake up, the plane has arrived." Xiaoran shook her boyfriend beside her.

Chen Hao opened his eyes with clear eyes, held Xiaoran's little hand, and went on a trip with his American office, feeling very good.

Since Xiaoran is proficient in Korean and English, he did not bring a translator on this trip.

A week later, perhaps the miracle of Century Zongheng’s agency was gaining momentum and its reputation had spread to this industry.Chen Hao's trip was extremely efficient and fruitful. He carefully selected and won the agency rights for two online games.

First, they spent a huge sum of 1200 million to sign the 2-year domestic exclusive agency rights for "Ragnarok RO" from South Korea's GRAVITY company. Competitors Zhiguan and Game Shinkansen, for the sake of safety, did not compete with Century Zongheng, so they settled for the second best. Agency rights for Hong Kong and Taiwan.

Although Chen Hao had never played RO in his previous life, he had heard of the name, so he went to RO's company for an on-site inspection and found that the unique style of 3D scenes + 2D characters was very good, especially with the cute painting style and awesomeness. music.

This game follows a different route from Miracle and Legend, and should have a certain market, so I decided to sign on the spot for Ragnarok RO, which later generations of players called the online game White Moonlight.After all, the names of online games he had heard were usually pretty good.

And the second one is the famous one.

"Bubble Hall"