Reborn on the Internet: Starting with Games

Chapter 239 A world is waiting
When players enter the official website, the first thing they see is a large banner picture, surrounded by darkness. Between the two statues standing with swords is a huge dark door, inside which appears the lush image of the continent, full of vitality.

At the top is a slogan: A world is waiting.
The second half of the page is a promotional CG for World of Warcraft. There is nothing else, not even some strategies and information. It is very concise.

The first thing that comes into view are the two continents of World of Warcraft: Kalimdor and Azeroth. The two continents are separated by the endless sea.With the sound of the opening Bible
"Four years have passed since the Alliance and the Horde fought side by side to resist the invasion of the Burning Legion. Although they successfully saved the continent of Azeroth, the fragile agreement between the Horde and the Alliance has long since disappeared. Today's shocking The war drums sound again."

The sound disappeared, and then an epic low and murmuring soundtrack sounded. Countless players watching the video got goosebumps when they heard the soundtrack.

As soon as the scene switched, there was a dwarf hunter standing on a snow-capped mountain, with a tall brown bear beside him. Following the dwarf's gaze, Ironforge could be seen in the distance.

The sky was full of wind and snow, and the scene suddenly came to a dark and quiet forest. A female elf was sizing up a dagger, and then looked around to sense something. She dropped the dagger and started running at high speed. With a jump, she transformed into a black cheetah jumping from the cliff. It fell down, splashing water.

The scene changed again. A bone-like foot trampled down the barren ground, and the surrounding weeds were corroded. A withered undead holding a staff in his hand, behind him was a hellfire servant with green fire all over his body. Looking up to the sky and roaring, the power is fully displayed.

Then the tauren shaman, the orc warrior in front of Orgrimmar, the human mage on the castle and many other characters appeared one after another.

As the soundtrack gradually reaches its climax, the dwarf hunter fires his musket, and the battle begins.

The hunter's brown bears and beasts joined forces to fight fiercely against the tauren shaman carrying a huge stake on his shoulders.
The human mage held a fireball in his hand and fought condescendingly against the undead warlock Hellfire.

On the plains, the orc warriors held wooden clubs and singled out the elf druids.

When the fight was at its most intense, the scene suddenly stopped, and the four characters "World of Warcraft" slowly appeared.

Countless Blizzard players were shocked after watching the WOW promotional video.

It turns out that there is such a vast sky besides Zhanfa Dao.

The likes below the video have exceeded , and the number of comments has reached over .

The first one is an analytical comment: combined with some foreign Warcraft blue posts and news, and from the promotional video, it is currently known that World of Warcraft is divided into two camps: Alliance and Horde.

The races are divided into two sides, the alliance side: dwarves, elves, and humans. The tribe side: orcs, tauren, and undead.

Occupations are divided into: warrior, mage, warlock, druid, hunter

The specific situation will not be known until internal testing or public testing.

Many people watched this animation in an Internet cafe, and there was a lot of discussion. Some said they wanted to play a human mage, some said they wanted to play a tauren warrior, and some said the undead warlock was the most awesome. The hellfire in the video was simply amazing. .

It would be great if the time lapse volume in Three Kingdoms Online could be purchased in real life, and time would be accelerated directly to the day of the public beta of "World of Warcraft".

Their wallets are already hungry.

In fact, historically, the Nine Cities of "World of Warcraft" officially announced the agency news on the same day, April 4.

在2005年3月21日开始进行限量内测，在4月26日进行公测。

It is almost half a year later than North America.

Nowadays, Century Interactive Entertainment is much more prepared than the original The10. Blizzard informed that the public beta of World of Warcraft in North America will start in October, and the public beta will begin in November.

Century Interactive Entertainment is required to conduct internal and public beta tests together.

Chen Hao replied that Century Interactive Entertainment also wants World of Warcraft to meet players as soon as possible, but now there is nothing to do and a lot of work needs to be done in advance. They can only try their best to rely on Blizzard's public beta time, and the results cannot be guaranteed.

With his goal in mind, he couldn't wait to immediately start preparing for the internal beta of the World of Warcraft project.But before that, he still needs to sort out and control the general direction of the group and finance.

After all, he is not the head of a business unit, but the person in charge of a group.

At present, Century Zongheng has 4000 employees.

The Guomao headquarters in Beijing already has nearly 3000 people. It rented another half floor on the 27th floor and moved all the customer service staff there, including Taoyoubao.

Chen Hao also boldly organized and reorganized the organizational structure according to project size and revenue.

Because some of the original agent games have gradually become daily operation and maintenance updates, there is no need to invest such a large labor cost.

The team size of project teams such as Miracle, Legend 3, Wonderland, and Bubble Hall has been reduced and transferred to project teams with higher priorities.

After three days of planning, Chen Hao finally determined the HC (number of positions) for each department and held a meeting with all senior executives of the group to confirm.

世纪互娱下面网游事业部，奇迹项目团队保留100人、传奇3项目团队50人、仙境传说50人、泡泡堂50人。

There are 100 people in the Social Business Department (Century Friendship Network).

北斗事业部旗下，天枢工作室（三国OL、三国杀OL）200人、天璇工作室（武侠OL、武侠世界）300人、天玑工作室（魔兽世界）300人、摇光工作室（flash游戏：开心农场、抢车位、好友买卖等）50人。北极工作室（北斗引擎）100人。

淘游宝公司200人、世纪传媒（17173咨询站、世纪门户网）300人、世纪巨硬300人、世纪网盾（企业卫士）100人、世纪济安（100人）、广研中心（世游平台、YY、foxmail）150人、世纪影业20人。

Others (finance, administration, human resources, supervision, etc.) totaling 100 people

Overall customer service team: 1000 people.

Offline promotion team: 500 people.

In fact, after the Chinese New Year, Chen Hao began to think about whether to change the management and conduct job swaps, that is, job rotations!

The benefits of job rotation are obvious. It cultivates generalists, flexible positions, and different responsibilities. The higher the management level, the more familiar it is with the company or the group as a whole. If you can't get involved in one business line, you won't be able to get out.In addition, tap the talent potential of management.Every new position is a new challenge. Survival of the fittest will also bring new things.

Of course, the most important point is that job rotation can effectively prevent and block the chain of interests and avoid the growth of corruption problems within the company. Although there are supervisory departments to take care of the situation, as the company gets bigger, there will be more or less economic problems.

However, after thinking about it for a long time, I still feel that the time has not come yet. First of all, the current self-developed business lines are in the start-up stage rather than the mature stage.

The changes in the leadership during the start-up period had a huge impact. The leader with strong business capabilities was transferred away and replaced with a stranger and unfamiliar person. On the one hand, the team running-in was not good, but on the other hand, it was also very detrimental to the development of the business line. .

Job rotation can only be implemented in the mature stage.

Chen Hao finally gave up on this idea.

It was just that the proportion of personnel in each department of the company was allocated and agreed upon at the meeting. Any excess quotas would be allocated to other departments. If there are special talents who need to be retained, you can ask him for special approval.

If there are not enough places, let the manpower continue to recruit people.

After a week of adjustments, all the companies and departments of the group began to act and operate in accordance with the latest instructions of the group.

(End of this chapter)