Journey of a Thousand Miles

First, LDM is an imported product, not a local company, and it is normal not to follow the custom.Secondly, in a word, LDM has confidence.

LDM took 10 years to produce, and after 10 years of silence, it exploded.Before the official internal test, LDM's advertisements flooded the market. After 10 years, holographic technology has been widely used, but such a huge and complete holographic online game, LDM is still the first. LDM's momentum was very successful, and almost everyone knew about it for a while. It became a treasure in the online game world, and all the big guilds wanted to cooperate with it.

During the closed beta period, in the national server, LDM officials did give a lot of convenience to some powerful commercial guilds headed by the top ten guilds, such as precious internal test numbers, so almost the top [-] commercial guilds in China have participated in LDM internal beta.Unexpectedly, as soon as the public beta came, LDM immediately "changed its face" and cut off many privileges of commercial guilds. As a result, old guilds such as Haohanmeng, Zhanshen Dynasty, Zongheng, Zuixilou, etc., which are all-powerful in the traditional online game industry, due to bad luck, failed to log in. It wasn't early enough, and he was so unknown in the early stage of LDM.

LDM is not rich and willful, the official has its own considerations.The stages of closed beta and internal beta are testing period after all, and there are too many unstable factors in the game. They need more experienced and time-honored players as test subjects. Commercial guilds are really the best choice.The public beta is different, which is basically open to the whole world. At this time, LDM has to stick to one of their principles-fairness.Letting the commercial guild form a fixed power structure too early will take away the freshness and vitality of the game and dampen the passion of the players, which is definitely not what LDM wants to see.

Faced with this situation, the large domestic commercial guilds are very confused.They are used to being treated preferentially, used to having privileges, used to the big fish eating the small fish, and getting used to the biggest and tastiest piece of cake.

How much time and money they spent before finally firmly occupying the position of big boss in the online game industry. Now, LDM tells them that past achievements don't count. From now on, you must be on the same starting line as others .

Yarn!

The slander belongs to the slander, and the tempers of these old guilds have to be forced back.That's right, this is the big shop bullying customers, don't cheer if you have the ability.

No way, luck is also a part of strength, especially in the field of games.When a dragon encounters an earth-shaking huge wave, it is powerless to return to the sky.

However, no matter how hard LDM is to create a "pure" competitive environment, the unshakable fact is that business guilds still have incomparable advantages.The bosses of old guilds like Haohanmeng are dissatisfied because they have always had a high position on themselves. Once they fail to meet such "supposed to be" expectations, they will fail.Just like a poor student may score 60 points in the test, which is a breakthrough in life, while a top student who scores 90 points is considered abnormal.Generally speaking, the scale of development of these commercial guilds in LDM still overwhelms ordinary players.

But it's not enough, not enough, not enough.During the run, Dong Fengxing frowned while listening to everyone's intermittent discussions, and without saying a word, he clenched his fists unconsciously.Pressure, he has always felt invisible pressure, since the day he entered LDM... no, even earlier... since the day he became the president.

Unlike other "free riders" members of the guild, Dongfengxing is a true veteran of the Haohanmeng.He joined the Haohan League when the first president was still the president. At that time, he was still a primary school student, thousands of miles away from the core backbone, and he was basically a passerby.

In the next 10 years, Dongfengxing personally experienced and witnessed the reform and step-by-step development of Haohanmeng.

Today, Dongfengxing is the 4th president of the Haohan League. This is a relatively small number in the old guilds with a history of more than 10 years. Like the God of War Dynasty, it is already the 7th president. .The number of the vast alliance reflects their relatively stable guild status to a certain extent.

Relatively stable, compared to other guilds.In fact, with such a long road, internal disputes, contradictions, conflicts, and splits are inevitable, and no guild can be an exception.

More than ten years ago, the Haohan League was established in an online game. Because of its strong combat power, it dominated the game, and its popularity spread rapidly. It was almost named an undefeated myth, and it became the four major families in the online game industry at that time.At that time, the guild was still purely for entertainment, and there were not many real-world interest entanglements, but Haohanmeng already had a sense of discipline. Of course, this was also because of the influence of the first president. The longest among them, a total of 5 years, is almost one-third of the existence history of the Haohan League.The first chairman laid a solid foundation for Haohanmeng - one is combat effectiveness, the other is discipline.In the vast league, individual heroism is greatly suppressed, and unity and cooperation have become the highest criterion.

It has to be said that this is indeed one of the invincible weapons of the Haohanmeng, and it is also the reason why Dongfengxing and the others especially disliked Qianli and Wujiu's rampage.The concept is fundamentally different.

In the fifth year of the development of the Haohan League, the four major families have become the top ten families, which are the predecessors of the current top ten guilds, but the members are not the same. During the long-term competition, due to external or internal reasons, some guilds did not persist. In the end, the back waves of the Yangtze River pushed the front waves, and the front waves died on the beach.

It was also at this time that the online game world ushered in a major turning point—the entertainment guild was beginning to transform into a commercial guild.Don't look at the current business guilds in full swing, a sea of ​​red, at that time, this was an extremely controversial topic.Many guilds have experienced severe pains in the process of transforming into commercial guilds. Each guild is full of different voices. Some say that commercialization makes money, some say that commercialization goes against the original intention of the game, and some say that commercialization can only Continuous development, some people say that commercialization will destroy the guild... There are no exceptions, such as Zuixilou, which belongs to the guilds that transitioned and transformed relatively smoothly, but such examples are rare.

In some guilds, the president wants to transform but is resisted by members, and in some guilds, the president doesn't want to transform at all, like Haohanmeng.During the tenure of the first president, they have always been a complete player guild. The first president's belief is that the game must not be desecrated by business.

At that stage, most of the guilds were very embarrassed. Some guilds lost some members because they transformed into commercial guilds, and some guilds also lost some members because they were unwilling to transform into commercial guilds.The vast alliance belongs to the latter.Unexpectedly, the persistence of the first president was not passed on. As soon as the second president took office, he immediately carried out drastic reforms. Relying on the solid background that Haohanmeng had originally, it quickly embarked on the road of commercialization.

I don't know whether to say this is a sad story or an inspirational one.

The third chairman in the future is the current boss. He has retreated behind the scenes. In terms of other things, and so on, anyway, Dongfengxing is the first chairman of the Haohanmeng who was "listened to politics behind the curtain".

The influence of the first president has been left to this day. Among the top ten guilds, the Haohan League is almost the most disciplined commercial guild. In the Haohan League, it is really "military orders like a mountain", with strict internal hierarchy, clear responsibilities, and everything is in order Orderly and methodical.In addition, the slogan of Haohanmeng is very simple, that is, unity.

This is the accumulation of "corporate culture", which is related to team cohesion. This aspect is often the weakness of emerging guilds.

Calculating carefully, compared with other fields, the commercial guild industry has appeared in a relatively short period of time, and it can be said to be very young. However, the development speed of the Internet age is not the same as in the past. In such a short period of time, today's The business guild model of China is already extremely mature, which has led to the emergence of new business guilds. The most eye-catching one is the light of God. It only took more than two years, and its scale has reached a height that is no less than that of the top ten guilds.The predecessors planted trees, and the descendants took advantage of the shade. The road that the predecessors of the previous generation worked hard to explore step by step has greatly facilitated the successors.

What kind of president do I want to be?

Dongfengxing asked himself more than once.

He struggled in Haohanmeng for 8 years before he finally sat in this coveted position. He no longer looked at the president who made everyone obey his orders with envy and longing, he became this role himself.In the past, he didn't just worship his own president in his heart, and he often complained, "If I were the president, I would..." Thoughts like "If I were the president, I would..." came up from time to time, but now, he doesn't have to dream, he has to do it Done.

Only to find that it was far easier than imagined.

It's never easy to be a leader. They have to think about everything and arrange everything, and the people under them just need to follow orders.As the guild leader, he takes the lead when necessary, takes responsibility when there are risks, and faces responsibility when there are responsibilities. Whenever there is any problem in the guild, everyone's eyes will be directed at him immediately. Because he is the president.

He originally vowed to lead Haohanmeng to a higher level. Only by surpassing his predecessors can he highlight his ability and value, but now... let alone higher, he should be grateful for being able to maintain the original state.Where is the grandeur of the Haohanmeng that once looked down on the common people?It disappeared in his hands?

There are many factors for Dongfengxing's misfortune. First, he is the first "sandwich layer" president of Haohanmeng. There are bosses on top and people on the bottom. Some things can't be done with full hands and feet. Second...meet LDM , an unconventional online game that indirectly gave birth to "upstarts" in the eyes of established guilds like Light of God, Miracle, and Clan of My Name.Dongfengxing is not the only one who is in such a predicament. It can be said that among the top ten guilds, except for God's Light, there is no guild that is not in a hurry right now.