Reborn on the Internet: Starting with Games

Chapter 253 Penguin’s Stress Response
How can anyone think of limiting the number of words in a post?

These people reported the problem to the official with dissatisfaction, thinking it was a system bug. As a result, the official replied that the dynamic is just a place to record an event, a mood or a recent situation. According to scientific research, 140 characters are enough to meet the above scenario. If the user If you want to write an article, you can publish a blog.

There are also many people who are not very good at using it. They see a lot of posts from young ladies in the square, accompanied by beautiful scenery and photos, which is very eye-catching.

I also tried to post some selfies and landscape photos, along with some copywriting.

After a while they noticed that they had received many likes, comments and friend requests.

At first, the netizens who came to this website were all for Century Farm, but as they played around, the entire Century Friendship Network began to become lively.

Unlike the excitement of Century Youyuan.com, YY2.0 social version has experienced sluggish growth since its launch.

Those who play games continue to chat on the YY game channel. Many people have only tried the social section because there is nothing to talk about and no friends.

In 5 days, the number of YY social users will exceed , which made Zhang Xiaolong so worried that he couldn't sleep for several days.

The functions are almost the same as QQ, so why are there so few people?

In fact, he also understands the root cause. The functions are similar. My people are all on QQ, so why should I use your YY? I don’t play games.

He knew the boss’s idea, which was to divert traffic to YY when Century Friendship Network developed to a certain scale.

That belongs to the boss, and he must reflect his value. Otherwise, anyone can lead a team to build an instant messaging software. His pride does not allow him to be so mediocre.

During this period, Zhang Xiaolong dragged several product managers every day to discuss YY’s new features.

Thinking about how to grab a piece of meat on QQ’s territory.

Shenzhen, Tencent headquarters.

The recent news about the popularity of Century Friendship Network has attracted Xiao Ma's attention.

He knew everything about Century Zongheng's actions in the stock market after its listing.

Century Zongheng finally extended its claws from his gaming empire to Penguin.

After Tencent's recent listing, market expectations fell short of investors' expectations, which limited his decision-making.

However, fortunately, the car turned around quickly before, and reduced its reliance on unlimited value-added services at the end of last year. Last year, QQ successively released new functions QQ Show and QQ Game Hall, and obtained revenue that exceeded expectations. The overall profit is still reduced, and it is still a passing answer.

So with this, he just cleared out the old guys who were thinking about retiring on the board of directors some time ago, and finally they were able to free up their energy to deal with the attack of the century.

Brother Ma is not one to sit back and wait for death, and of course he is not unprepared.

As early as last month, when it was discovered that there were no new actions, the game division was re-established. The previous technical leaders and technicians were employed for the second time, and the "Fengshen Online" project team was restarted. This game directly benchmarked Century Interactive Entertainment's "Three Kingdoms Online".

But now seeing the opponent's menacing posture, it seems that just relying on being a god is not enough.

Amid the opposition from the board of directors, Xiao Ma fought against all opinions and expanded the Tencent Game Division again less than a month after its establishment. The number of people in the department was unprecedentedly strong, reaching as many as 300 people.

It’s not over yet. Only one game can reflect the courage of a listed company.After he spent a few days trying out the online game products under the Century Series, he finally set his sights on two of the more popular online games on the market.

The game division is divided into three, and the Fengshen project team is just one of them.

Two other project teams were established to start planning and developing new games respectively based on Century Interactive Entertainment’s “Bubble Hall” and “Three Kingdoms Online”.

In fact, there is another popular online game of the century called "Martial Arts Online". Xiaoma played it for a while and fell into silence while looking at the character's skill rendering special effects. Sorry, I'll put this game away first.

There are ready-made answers that can be used for reference. The cost is low, the return is high, and the risk is small. Why do you need to do something original and thankless?

What's more, he inquired with the company's legal department that the gameplay cannot be patented, as long as the characters, skills, names, etc. are different.

Then it's easy, just change the skin, change the name, and change the skills. However, because the company previously lacked experience and talent in game software development, everything still needs to be considered in the long term.

Xiaoma said hello to the human resources department to increase recruitment efforts for a series of game research and development positions. School recruitment starts from 985 and 211. Social recruitment can be appropriately relaxed for those with certain experience in game research and development. In addition, Century Interactive Entertainment has come out. People can join the job without taking the test, and the salary can be relaxed as appropriate. The upper limit of salary increase is 50%. If the salary increase exceeds 1 times, special talents can ask him for special approval!

After all the tasks were arranged, he began to discuss the construction of the QQ social networking site with the heads of the platform and content divisions.

One trick is popular all over the world, so learn from it or learn from it!

Century Youyuan.com is a ready-made version of the answer. Aren’t the characters in it borrowed from the QQ show? They were transplanted directly. It’s simple and convenient, and then you can log in with your QQ number.

Logs, updates, photo albums, and mini-games are all developed according to the same principles.

A few days later, the prototype of the QQ version of the social networking site came out and was named QQ Space by Brother Ma. Even the mini-game of farming and stealing vegetables was named QQ Farm.

After hearing the feedback from the person in charge of the platform's content division that it would be online from the end of September to the beginning of October, Xiao Ma frowned in a rare way and looked very serious.

"I can't wait to leave. Why don't you let me go as scheduled?"

Hearing the boss's instructions, the person in charge was speechless. This was already the fastest time he had compressed the construction period based on a certain amount of overtime work.

Xiao Ma turned the notebook around and showed the other party the data on the screen.

According to statistics from a third-party data platform, it only took more than ten days for the number of registered users of Century Youyuan.com to go from 0 to 1000 million, and the number of daily active users to 100 million.

而QQ呢？1999年2月诞生，到2000年6月份，注册人数从0到1000万，整整花了1年零4个月。

Time is money, and a large number of users register and log in to play Century Friendship Network every day.

This is the source of his sense of crisis. He knows very well that the one that can defeat QQ cannot be another QQ-like product, but what he has no confidence in is precisely this unknown new thing. Now it is coming openly.

In order to get QQ Space online as soon as possible, he made an almost arrogant decision. 80% of the developers in the platform and content business group were transferred and divided into two shifts, one-on-one for seamless team research and development, 1 hours a day, 1 days a week. Development rhythm.

After special evaluation, this research and development model will advance the QQ space by a full month.

Testing can be completed and launched before the end of August.

(End of this chapter)