Chapter 1330 New Upgrade of Gameplay

In the early morning of the next day after the SARS epidemic in Yanjing was announced, many people in Yanjing who were too sensitive began to flee from Yanjing. Stay in one hotel for a while, and if SARS is found locally, it will be replaced with another one.

Although such an approach is a bit overreacting, in front of Yanjing with a population base of 20 million, there are not a few such people.

Many people who originally planned to go to Beijing have temporarily changed their travel plans after learning of the epidemic in Yanjing. The tourism industry in Yanjing began to enter a cold winter period that lasted for several months overnight.

The traffic connecting Yanjing with other provinces and cities also immediately entered a "Spring Festival mode", with a sharp drop in the number of people entering Beijing and a sharp increase in those leaving Beijing.

In the past life, Haizhou carried a lot of panic people who escaped from Yanjing. At that time, only a few hotels and hotels in Haizhou were full, and a large number of Beijing-brand cars were running on the streets. These people were like a tide when SARS came. They poured into Haizhou and disappeared like a low tide after SARS ended.

In Li Mu's impression of Haizhou for decades, the spring and summer of 2003 was the time when Haizhou had the largest number of foreigners.

At a time when outsiders were shunned and locals fled one after another, Li Mu's parents drove off before dawn, heading all the way to Yanjing.

At the same time, Zhao Ziqiu's mother, Xie Yun, set off for Yanjing.

Xie Yun brought a nanny and two drivers from home. The last row of seats in the commercial car was full of daily necessities that she sorted out overnight. This time, she has made plans to stay in Yanjing until the second half of the year.

Although Zhao Xianliang was a little reluctant to leave Xie Yun, after putting aside the child-like irrational self-esteem in the old man's heart, he also recognized Xie Yun's decision. After all, Xie Yun's decision is indeed the best solution at the moment. plan, none of them.

This also made Zhao Xianliang in his 40s realize a truth. Although adult men are the main producers of society, they also have a more rational and comprehensive way of thinking, but the character of men is not as good at many critical moments. Women are more stable.

The most powerful thing about Xie Yun is that she is stable enough. She may not be able to achieve 10 points in everything, but she can achieve 8 points in most things. Zhao Xianliang can achieve 10 points in some aspects and sometimes. High, but sometimes he will fall into his own shackles, and he can't even get a passing score.

This incident also made Zhao Xianliang realize a truth. A successful man is inseparable from an excellent internal helper. If there is no strong error correction mechanism around him, a man is likely to be destroyed by his own personality and paranoia.

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Zhao Ziqiu had a happy night.

She was very distressed in the first half of the night, and she was so happy that she couldn't sleep at all in the second half of the night.

When her mother told her on the phone about her decision to come to Yanjing to accompany her, she was so excited that she yelled and woke up half the floor in the corridor.

Fortunately, Zhao Ziqiu's popularity is relatively good, otherwise the yelling in the middle of the night will affect so many people's sleep, and I am afraid that it will attract group hatred.

In the morning, Zhao Ziqiu kept sending text messages to her mother, asking where she was, whether she was eating, whether she was tired, whether she was blocked or not. She looked impatient and eagerly looking forward to it, making Xie Yun want to sit in the car for a while. Chance.

Li Mu was very busy this morning.

In order to give employees enough incentives, Li Mu went to Muye Technology early in the morning and brought the company's senior management to a meeting with all employees. The core purpose of the meeting was to let employees know that at critical moments, the company's senior management will stick to their posts with them. At the same time, the company has also made a lot of preparations for everyone's safety, so that everyone can reduce their fears as much as possible.

After the mobilization meeting for all employees, Li Mu immediately held a meeting with the company's senior staff such as Kong Lingyu, Chen Tong, and Fang Xudong to discuss the key tasks in the near future. The company's epidemic prevention and employee comfort have been determined. Next, everyone should try their best to concentrate Precipitated in business.

In the high-level meeting, Kong Lingyu reported the current global operation of "Plants vs. Zombies Online",

At present, the players of Plants vs. Zombies in the world have exceeded 100 million, basically 90% of YY users are playing this game, and because of this game, it has in turn provided 28 million new account growth for YY, This is due to the fact that "Plants vs. Zombies Online" is completely placed in YY's ecosystem. Anyone who wants to play "Plants vs. Zombies Online" must log in to the YY account, even in stand-alone mode, which forces everyone who has no YY players must register a YY account.

The biggest difference between social games and ordinary online games is that ordinary online games can still be played without "personal connections", but if social games do not have "personal connections", most of the game fun will be lost, "Plants vs. Zombies Online" and "" At this point, Paradise Town plays the exact same role: guiding game users to increase their network accumulation on YY in order to improve the game experience.

The user base of "Plants vs. Zombies Online" is constantly increasing, and the number of die-hard fans is also increasing. At present, the number of HD wallpaper downloads of "Plants vs. Zombies Online" has exceeded 100 million times. , and more than 20 million different users have downloaded it, which proves that there are more than 20 million users who are interested in the peripheral products of "Plants vs. Zombies Online".

And YY has also launched the exclusive skin of "Plants vs. Zombies Online", and the number of times the skin is used is higher than the number of downloads of the wallpaper, more than 30 million times;

At the same time, the YY show with the theme of "Plants vs. Zombies Online" was also officially launched on the YY Show Mall. With the popularity of YY's promotion, in just two days, sales equivalent to 50 million yuan were created;

What sells better is the various skins in the game "Plants vs. Zombies Online". The super cute version of various plant skins can greatly improve the user's recognition and sense of superiority when fighting with friends, just like It is the skin of various heroes in "Honor of Kings" and "LOL". It has swept all the player groups at once. There are more than 300 kinds of skins in the game, and the cumulative number of purchases in a few days has exceeded 200 million times. The average price At around RMB 2.8, the overall sales reached a staggering 560 million.

The sales data of "Plants vs. Zombies Online" has completely subverted the current business model of the game market. There are not many demon moths in the current game market. There are basically two ways for game companies to make profits, either by selling games or by charging by time. , especially online games, almost completely follow the mode of charging by time, but suddenly a game is free for users. The key is that it can achieve such a high sales volume by selling "virtual images" Subvert the three views.

Even "Legend", which is still on the rise, has not reached the current scale of "Plants vs. Zombies Online". Under the impact of miracles and the troubles caused by plug-ins, the current daily net profit can barely reach two. The scale of 100,000 yuan, but compared with the scale of the net profit of more than 1 million yuan per day in the same period in the previous life, the combat effectiveness is more than a little bit weaker.

After Kong Lingyu reported the game data, he patted Lao Xu, who was in charge of the game architecture, and said to everyone, "Lao Xu came to me yesterday and showed me a prototype of a new game mode he designed. I think It’s very interesting, specifically, let Lao Xu introduce it to you.”

Lao Xu nodded and said modestly: "Leaders, our "Plants vs. Zombies Online" has indeed achieved very impressive results, but from my personal point of view, although our game is very good, the game mode is still Slightly not full enough, this may bring the problem that the game life is not long enough, everyone is crazy about our game at this stage, but it is likely that in a year or even half a year later, when the fun of the game itself is tapped It is almost the same as the consumption, and users will gradually lose, so I think it is necessary to upgrade and expand our game mode as soon as possible, especially when it comes to the issue of friends online and cooperative combat."

Everyone including Li Mu agreed with Lao Xu's point of view. After all, "Plants vs. Zombies Online" is a small game. It is easy to get started and spreads quickly, but it also has a lack of background and lack of energy. , In Li Mu's impression, such games are rarely able to maintain lasting vitality, so if you want it to have a longer lifespan, you must develop in-depth game architecture.

So Li Mu said to Lao Xu, "Lao Xu, if you have any good ideas, you can tell everyone in detail."

Old Xu said: "Mr. Li, you previously classified the core of this game as a 'turret defense' game. Gamers are born with a defensive mentality and a sense of achievement in defense success. I agree with this very much. It gave me great inspiration, and now I finally understand why when I play Red Alert online with my friends, I like to use France the most, and I like to build huge cannons, prism towers and anti-aircraft missiles around the base. User psychology has such a defensive mentality. In some cases, the sense of achievement of successful defense is more prominent than that of successful attack, so I unknowingly played the red police as a 'turret defense type' game."

"The reason why Red Alert is very playable to me is because it has a variety of maps and terrains, such as ice and snow, the Bering Strait, the Arctic Circle, and the eternal arena. The reason why these maps are It's fun because the terrain is changeable, islands, tidal flats, plains, mountains, passes, bridges, and many elements allow players to give full play to their organizational and coordination ability, and carry out different defense layouts for different maps. I believe everyone is playing white. When playing in the Strait and the Arctic Circle, most of them will interrupt the bridges on both sides of the island in the initial stage. When playing in the ice and snow, they will try to grab the gem mines in the middle, and in the Arctic Circle, they will try to grab more oil wells. , this huge free play space is the key point for the game to attract users for a long time;"

"So I think that our game copy must vigorously develop the game map in depth. It must not be just a fixed two or three scenes, and then simply adjust the number and difficulty of zombies in it. In this case, in the future It will cause users to be bored. We might as well learn from the diversity of Red Alert maps to develop more interesting and more playable new maps, such as why zombies have to walk in a straight line? Why can't it be a bigger map, a map with intricate roads , players can carry out different fortification combinations according to different roads, and even change the path of zombies by planting plants, in this way, the gameplay can be upgraded on the basis of the existing one!"