Reborn to create a virtual world

Yang Ziqi has participated in the testing of "Infinite Time and Space" since the internal testing period.

In his opinion, "Infinite Time and Space" may not be perfect in design, but a technological innovation and progress is enough to make all other missing details completely insignificant.

This is not to hide its flaws, but the beauty and brilliance of the gem "Infinite Time and Space" has made all its flaws seem meaningless.

The game design is not friendly enough?The style on the screen is too realistic?The story in the plot is too restrained and not straightforward enough?Not to mention that these details are difficult to classify as disadvantages or advantages, even if they are all defects, who cares?

Facing the crushing and highly intelligent NPC reaction, who cares?

At least for Yang Ziqi himself, even if he didn't want to admit it, he still felt that the charm of "Infinite Time and Space" was irresistible.During the closed beta period, he has been regularly logging into "Infinite Time and Space", evaluating various parts of the entire game... When "Infinite Time and Space" officially started operation, many people in Beichen's company were trying to take some measures to restore Those users who have flowed to "Infinite Time and Space".

But it didn't work.

Although "Infinite Time and Space" is only a game on the surface, the game nature of the two modules of "Xianyin" and "Star" just forms a perfect competitive relationship with "Nine Heavens" and "Road to Stars", and the correspondence is very good high.This made Beichen's countermeasures very difficult to implement, and he always felt that no matter how he did it, he was far from it.

This is the technical gap.

Yang Ziqi didn't sleep much that night. The next day he went to the company with dark circles to inquire. Sure enough, the online rate of the two games was greatly affected. one third.This impact was quite large, the whole Beichen was in a state of desperation, and the atmosphere was particularly depressing.

Afterwards, an internal meeting was held to discuss countermeasures, and everyone felt that countermeasures must be taken to reverse the situation as much as possible.There are various specific countermeasures proposed.Some high-level executives said that the new expansion pack will be released in advance, and some people think that it would be better to directly carry out feedback activities with a sense of presence.

However, Yang Ziqi felt that no matter what kind of activities, the effect they could play would be very limited.

The gap between smart games and traditional online games cannot be made up by an expansion pack, some feedback activities, and some formal profit sharing.

In the end, Beichen decided to release a new expansion pack, but after Yang Ziqi thought about it, he didn't intend to release the expansion pack directly in advance, and even asked the technical department to make some online corrections and backfires, delaying the release time of the expansion pack.

"The opening of intelligent games is imminent." Yang Ziqi said, "The gap between "Infinite Time and Space" and other games cannot be caught up by us opening a few expansion packs. The future is definitely the era of AI."

"But the construction of an AI mechanism will definitely take a lot of time." Someone replied, "Xingzhe's technical strength and text writing ability are very strong, which is also well known. Their AI system took a little bit of time It was compiled and perfected a little bit, we are only now starting to work hard, and we will never be able to catch up with the development of the other party.”

But Yang Ziqi said: "If you can't catch up, you have to catch up!" He paused, relaxed his tone and said to the senior executives who spoke before, "We don't need to target Xingzhe, but the charm of the intelligent system itself can be seen directly by everyone. From the perspective of the future development of online games, intelligence is an inevitable process. After "Infinite Time and Space" comes out, Xingzhe will definitely not stop here, and will continue to develop. They have only released one online game so far, but this online game's Horizontal development space is very broad, I have no doubt that they will continue to add new parallel world expansion packs. I am not sure whether Xingzhe will release new independent online games in the future, but the current influence of "Infinite Time and Space" It's just the beginning, we can't sit still."

"It is imperative to develop intelligent online games."

In fact, the people Yang Ziqi mentioned are not unaware, but they still feel very reluctant to part with "Nine Heavens" and "Road to the Stars", which are still very popular.

Someone asked: "What about the "Nine Heavens" and "Ascension to the Stars" we have now? This is the focus of our current operations."

Yang Ziqi said: "No matter how powerful Xingzhe is, it won't be able to cover the entire domestic online game market, so we can continue to focus on "Nine Heavens" and "Ascending Stars."

"But for the new expansion, we'd better change the design direction." Yang Ziqi has been evaluating "Infinite Time and Space" during this period, so he is very clear about the strengths and weaknesses of "Infinite Time and Space".He has no intention of confronting "Infinite Time and Space" in this regard.Although he didn't want to admit it, he was indeed a bit weak towards Xingzhe, so he decisively chose to use his strengths and avoid his weaknesses at this time, "In terms of gameplay settings, the intelligent system has too many advantages over the non-intelligent system. We can’t compare with them in this regard. However, “Infinite Time and Space” generally takes a strong retro style, and even the non-retro world style is conservative—the style of our new expansion pack can be seen in the setting of characters. Have to be a little more open and sexy..."

"Among the three sects of magic that will be released in the new expansion pack of "Nine Heavens", the Moon Demon Sect will be released first, and the Acacia Sect will be released."

The executive was stunned for a moment, and then said: "At the previous meeting, Mr. Yang, didn't you say that the setting of Hehuanzong is a little subtle, and it's not easy to grasp the proportions. You have to save it for a later design before it can be released in the game?"

Yang Ziqi said: "Is it the same as before? The styles of "Nine Heavens" and "Xianyin" are too similar, but "Xianyin" came out later, and the art and animation are more refined. We have been unable to catch up with each other, if we want to maintain the original popularity of "Nine Heavens" and reduce the influence of "Xianyin" on us, we must first distinguish ourselves from each other in terms of style."

"We have to have our own unique characteristics. No matter how popular "Xianyin" is, it can still allow us to retain a certain characteristic of players." Yang Ziqi said solemnly, "I have been thinking about it for a long time. From the perspective of the plot system, Combat system, job system has always considered dungeons and PVP systems... To be honest, I think there is still a big difference between "Nine Heavens" and "Xianyin", although this difference is not so big that it can offset "Infinite Time and Space" advantages, but it will not be completely replaced by "Infinite Time and Space" in the short term."

"After all, we are one of the most popular big game companies in China. It's just that the emergence of a new online game doesn't require us to react like a group of panicked ants, but it doesn't work if we don't prepare any countermeasures at all. Next, the progress of the technical team It is still proceeding as scheduled, but the release of Hehuanzong is mentioned earlier. Xingzhe’s combat system is very different from ours. Let’s discuss the issue of adjusting the PVP system. It is a one-card-one-number system, and can only participate in one game world at the same time. Their "Dawn" world's combat method is indeed very happy, but the combat system of several other worlds is slightly weaker, and Moyu is even more unsatisfactory. Get combative."

"Now everyone go to a meeting with me-let's discuss the future design and development direction of "Nine Heavens" and "Road to the Stars."

This meeting of Beichen lasted for a long time. At the end, most people looked a little tired, but the atmosphere was no longer as gloomy as in the morning. Most people seemed to have a reassurance and a stable mentality a lot.

Then, when Beichen ended the meeting, Yang Ziqi got the news that starting in the afternoon, the entire Xingzhe official server group had been severely hacked.

Yang Ziqi was taken aback, and a senior technician took the opportunity to say to him: "The technical level of this group of hackers is not high, and they mainly focus on data stream attacks, but the number of bots mobilized is not very large. The technical level of Xingzhe We all know it, and it is estimated that there will be no results."

Yang Ziqi asked, "Have you been in contact with it?"

"It's almost an attack method full of loopholes, and it doesn't look like it's all a wave." The technician said, "I don't think they can cause damage to Xingzhe. The role of... Do we want to do it?"

Yang Ziqi was a little speechless: "Since it's useless, why do you want to do it?"

The technician said: "Can't you vent your anger?"

Yang Ziqi said: "Don't make any messes. The level of "Infinite Time and Space" itself is very outstanding. The age of intelligence has come, and there will be others if it is not Xingze. Sooner or later. We just need to make our own games. The method has no other effect other than venting anger, it is meaningless."

When Yang Ziqi said this, Lin Shu actually knew about the attack on the server.

This wave of attack seems to have three different forces, but in terms of scale and technology alone, they are not on the table. The technicians of Xingzhe basically dealt with it relatively easily.As of this year, with the development of security technology, the effects of many original hacking activities are getting smaller and smaller, especially for some large-scale electronic systems. The means of hackers are increasingly relying on the use of Trojan horses and internal breaches.

Xingzhe's system security level is relatively high, so these waves of attacks did not have any impact on the operation of the game. Instead, Xingzhe found out the little tails one by one through anti-tracking and information deciphering.

Bai Chiwen said: "Two large studios and a large game guild. It seems that there are no other online game companies involved, but it's not necessarily... The studio and the game guild are probably because of the one certificate one number system on our side and the Dissatisfaction with the identity recovery process."

These two systems of Xingzhe can be said to have basically eliminated the room for the studio's activities.Although some studios can still use some ID cards on hand to open a small account, as time goes by, the room for various maneuvers will only become smaller and smaller.

Lin Shu said to Bai Chiwen: "Thank you for your hard work. Recently, try to strengthen the manual scanning of plug-ins."

Bai Chiwen agreed.

Then at this time, Liang Zhongxi began to urge Lin Shu: "Lin Shu, come quickly!"

Lin Shu turned off the communication software and said, "Here we come."