Chapter 1319 "Plants Vs. Zombies Online"
"Plants vs. Zombies Online" is Li Mu's magical modification of "Plants vs. Zombies". On the basis of retaining everything in the original version of "Plants vs. Zombies", this game has been made online. Although it is online, Li Mu did not make it Develop in the direction of traditional online games, but make it a social game.
The whole gameplay logic is similar to "Happy Farm" and the later overseas version "Paradise Town". Friends can steal from each other or help each other, and in "Plants vs. Zombies Online", friends help and cooperate with each other The space is much larger than "Paradise Town". In "Paradise Town", friends can help each other on the farm, on missions, and with each other. In "Plants vs. Zombies Online" , friends can not only do everything that can be done in "Paradise Town", the most important thing is, they can also help friends resist zombie attacks, and even break through levels with teammates!
Li Mu firmly believes that the degree and depth of friend interaction in "Plants vs. Zombies Online" is more than one level deeper than that of "Paradise Town". This game will definitely play a stronger role in social promotion than "Paradise Town".
More importantly, history has proved that "Plants vs. Zombies" is far more fun than "Happy Farm", because "Plants vs. Zombies" has always been the most fun tower defense game in Li Mu's mind. In his previous life, this game came out At that time, it immediately became popular all over the world and became a phenomenon-level game in the true sense. If "Happy Farm" is compared to "Legend", which was once popular in China, then "Plants vs. Zombies" is comparable to "World of Warcraft". exist.
Therefore, Li Mu has absolute confidence that once "Plants vs. Zombies Online" is launched, it will immediately make global users madly obsessed with it, and immediately trigger a phenomenon-level game in the world.
Li Mu did not launch "Plants vs. Zombies Online" before because he needed to wait for the data processing centers in various places to take shape before they could provide enough bandwidth support for the global operation of the game. Li Mu put it at the bottom of the box again when it was released, and the reason why he didn't take it out was to take it out again during the SARS period to divert the attention of the world's people.
After all, he was reborn once. Li Mu knew how serious the foreign media’s negative reports on China were in his previous life. In his previous life, the damage caused by SARS to China’s international image was far beyond what many people imagined. This time, Li Mu couldn’t say anything. Foreign media seized the opportunity to discredit China's international image, so his plan was, didn't these media want to brainwash the people? Okay, I will use a more brainwashing game to make these media completely useless!
Imagine if the media said to a person who set an alarm clock to get up at 3:00 in the morning to collect vegetables: "Hey, an infectious disease broke out on the other side of the earth. It is very scary. You may be infected at any time, and the culprit is a certain country. ", what kind of response will this person give him? I can't even sleep because I want to steal food. If you tell me about things on the other side of the earth, can I fucking care about it?
Kong Lingyu and Fang Xudong quickly understood Li Mu's intentions. The governments of all countries like to divert the attention of the people. Take the United States as an example. Action, tell the people that they are defending world peace in Afghanistan and Iraq, and then tell them, look, China, far away on the other side of the earth, is now severely smoggy, how serious is it? You see, the reporter in front of me is randomly looking for a car on the street, and when I touch it with my hand, there is a thick layer of dust!
Surrounded by such information, the public can easily ignore what they are paying attention to, and turn their attention away from their surroundings to overseas. This is the standard operation of diverting attention, just like a warplane released when it is locked by a missile. The chaff scattered all over the sky will interfere with the focus of the missile, so that the main body of the fighter can escape from the threat of the missile.
As big as a country's government, as small as a cheating star, they are all well versed in this kind of operation to divert attention, and Li Mu is the same.
What Li Mu wants is to push this game to every user and let them indulge in it in a short time. Once they are addicted, they will focus on the rest of the time except for the daily necessary eating, drinking and work. When it comes to games, they don’t have the energy to pay attention to what happened abroad. By the time they recover from their addiction, the SARS epidemic may have been brought under control.
Moreover, there is another point that is somewhat metaphysical, but very reasonable, that is, games can make people feel relaxed and happy. When they are in a good mood, people will become more optimistic. In this situation, the possibility of instilling conspiracy theories and threat theories in them will be greatly weakened, and it may even cause rejection.
In order to ensure that "Plants vs. Zombies Online" can achieve the desired effect, Li Mu asked Fang Xudong many times whether he can ensure the global stable operation of "Plants vs. Zombies Online" at this stage. Fang Xudong gave Li Mu a very clear answer :
"Mr. Li, our data processing center has begun to take shape, and it is no problem to deal with the data requirements of this game. Moreover, the bandwidth and servers of our YY, YY.com, and YY game hall are all independent, and each has certain capabilities. If the number of users of "Plants vs. Zombies Online" is too large, we can also immediately use the redundant bandwidth of other products, in short, we can definitely guarantee the normal online and stable operation of the game!"
Li Mu was completely relieved now, and said: "This game is of great significance, all departments must cooperate closely, and there must be no problems in the game. This is our second game that has become popular all over the world, and it is a For an explosive game with at least a three-year peak life cycle, if this game is operated to the extreme, Makino Technology can be listed on NASDAQ!"
Li Mu's ambition made other people a little unbelievable. "Plants vs. Zombies Online" is indeed a very good game. It can be said that it has created a new game mode, and it closely integrates the game with YY, Combining with friends, however, this game is not a real online game after all, the core of its operation is free. In this era when most games rely on point cards for profit, the profit margin of "Plants vs. Zombies Online" is really difficult to give Human imagination is huge.
For Li Mu, he is very clear about the future development trajectory of games. The games that really make money will gradually become those free online games. Free games can greatly reduce the entry threshold for users. First, use zero threshold to install a large number of users. Then use the game itself to strengthen the stickiness of a large number of free players. After the stickiness of free players is cultivated, use some paid additional products and corresponding operations in the game to attract users to pay.
Although both Glory of Kings and League of Legends are free games, they sell more than 100 million skins every day. This is Li Mu's development plan for "Plants vs Zombies Online". Therefore, in Li Mu's "Plants vs. Zombies Online" , users can not only play the game for free, but in the online mode, the planted plants can be accelerated by purchasing various props.
In addition, Li Mu also launched a variety of decorative skins in this game. For example, users can decorate their own villas and backyards for planting plants, and plants with various functions have a large number of different types. Skins, even the most common pea shooter has more than 30 different skins and decoration modes. These skins are completely free for users to choose, just like the YY show.
Li Mu believes that through the refined operation of "Plants vs. Zombies Online", as well as continuous upgrades and innovations in the future, this game will definitely be able to inject super strong and long-lasting vitality into this game, and upgrade Makino Technology to another level.
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March 20th.
Overseas users have received pop-up prompts from YY.
In this pop-up window, YY launched various language versions of the SARS-related pages, and published all kinds of accurate and proven information collected, allowing overseas users to get a very important piece of information:
Although the current situation of SARS is relatively serious, it is by no means distorting the facts as reported by their own media. YY.com has published the latest and most detailed development status of the epidemic. Users can use these data to objectively think and judge.
Moreover, the current Chinese government has attached great importance to the SARS epidemic, and is doing its best to curb the development of SARS in China, and is looking for a way to completely eliminate it, so overseas people don't need to complain and hate China because of this, but should let go of everything We hope that this epidemic will be completely overcome.
In this special page, Li Mu recorded a short video. In the video, he sat in his office and said to the camera in English: "I hope that YY users and people all over the world can look at it with a correct perspective. This epidemic occurred in Asia, in Asia, the governments of China and surrounding countries are actively responding to the epidemic, and are doing their best to prevent the possible harm the epidemic may bring to the people;”
"At the same time, I also believe that in the face of diseases, people all over the world should stand on the same front. After all, any disease is not an enemy that a country or a nation faces alone, but all mankind must face together. enemy of
"In the long history of the past, mankind discovered antibiotics, found a method for organ transplantation, and finally defeated smallpox. These are victories that belong to the people of the world, and people all over the world are enjoying the fruits of this victory;"
"At present, there are still many diseases in front of mankind waiting for the joint efforts of all mankind to overcome them, whether it is cancer, AIDS, or various diseases that are still afflicting mankind and taking away human health and life. The outbreak of SARS, medical workers all over the world are working hard to overcome SARS, let us look forward to their victory in this war in the near future."
Having said that, Li Mu paused, his expression became relaxed, and he said with a smile: "Muye Technology has prepared a brand new social game for YY users all over the world. This game has more features than "Paradise Town". It has a more fun and exciting game mode. It also has a more in-depth and interesting friend interaction experience than "Paradise Town". Please pay attention to YY all the time. This game will be officially launched at 21:00 Yanjing time on March 20! "