Chapter 808 Why Don't You Develop the Game Yourself?

When it comes to domestic online games, Li Mu can think of netizens who can be regarded as high-quality works in the era when the game was born. There are only three in total, namely: Dahua Westward Journey, Fantasy Westward Journey and Swordsman Love series.

Among them, Westward Journey is the earliest, which was just launched last year at the end of 2001; the online versions of Fantasy Westward Journey and Swordsman Romance were both born in the second half of 2003, and the two “Westward Journey” themes are NetEase’s original games, Swordsman The love series comes from the Xishanju studio in Jinshan, and Xishanju is under the command of the leader of Lei.

These three games have all had a sensational effect, and the marketing data are also very strong, but only Fantasy Westward Journey has the strongest vitality. Until the rebirth of Li Mu, there are still many people playing this game, which can be called an online game. The one with the longest lifeline.

When it comes to "Fantasy Westward Journey", we have to mention Lao Xu. He is a well-known figure in the field of Chinese domestic online games. Constructive opinions, while Netease gradually gained a firm foothold, and Ding Lei was not optimistic about "Fantasy Westward Journey", but made "Fantasy Westward Journey" a hit, and finally let the entire NetEase turn to "Fantasy Westward Journey", in terms of ability , In terms of understanding of the current domestic online game market and online game users, Lao Xu should be a top talent, otherwise "Fantasy Westward Journey" will not be a big hit, and it will last for so many years.

Three years after "Fantasy Westward Journey" became popular, Lao Xu resigned from NetEase, and he came out to invest in a new way in a way that completely turned against Ding Lei. Although he also made several popular games, there is no one that can compete with Ding Lei. "Fantasy Westward Journey" on a par.

Li Mu didn't play much on the Internet. He couldn't even remember Lao Xu's name, but he had already heard the word "Lao Xu", and he had a little understanding of what happened back then. In fact, to put it bluntly, Lao Xu The reason for leaving is because of the uneven distribution of benefits in "Fantasy Westward Journey".

Li Mu has no intention of commenting on who is right or who is wrong, but he has always attached great importance to the enlightenment brought by similar events.

There are two kinds of bosses in the shopping mall. One is that when a meritorious employee earns 100 million for him, he immediately gives back to the other party with a profit of one million or more, and then further stabilizes the relationship between the other party and himself;

Another kind of boss is that when a meritorious employee earns 100 million for him, he still pays him the salary according to the contract when the employee joined the company, and gives him a year-end bonus of 10,000 yuan at the end of the year. The staff can be grateful to him.

Li Mu saw a lot of the latter type of people, so when he started his business, he was determined to become the former.

Thinking back to the time when Lao Xu left NetEase, he must have made a decision because of a similar situation. In Li Mu's own opinion, Ding Lei lost an extremely talented person due to money problems in that era, especially considering NetEase's most The core business is games. If you pay attention to NetEase’s financial report, game revenue accounts for more than 90% of the highest revenue. From this, it is conceivable that Ding Lei lost Lao Xu, and the loss was invisible.

Li Mu attaches great importance to the game business, but he didn't have the energy to build his own game development team before. His previous idea was more inclined to agency. For example, he now represents "Miracle Mu". Take down "World of Warcraft", and in the future, the popular games in South Korea will be eaten one by one, and then basically you will be able to support a big plate with an annual income of several billion dollars.

However, after seeing Lao Xu's resume, Li Mu suddenly had an idea.

Why not develop the game yourself?

In the future, Baofeng Entertainment can specialize in representing major games, but overall, Baofeng Entertainment is far less suitable for operating games than yy. After all, yy is a huge ecosystem. If nothing else, no one can do it based on the commonality of users. And, a yy number can quickly log in to all yy products, who can compare with this convenience?

If a game R&D department is established in Makino Technology,

If you dig people to make your own games, then the future development space will be very broad. After all, the additional blessing effect of yy's entire ecosystem is too powerful.

What's more, the profit margin of developing your own game is much larger than that of an agency game!

If nothing else, if you put "Fantasy Westward Journey" in the yy ecosystem, it will definitely make more money than NetEase.

And the key character of "Fantasy Westward Journey" is Lao Xu, as long as he is dug over and a team is built for him, won't it be ok? The research and development cost of a game is not much money for Muye Technology, which is completely out of the question. In this case, why not do it?

Thinking of this, Li Mu hurriedly looked at the remarks about Lao Xu on the intranet. The remarks showed that Lao Xu had already interviewed once, and the interview time was three days ago.

hr's detailed remarks to Lao Xu read: This person is good at online game planning, applying for the game planning position of yy games, with good eloquence and a certain understanding of online games, it is recommended that the game department re-examine.

Then, a person in charge of yy's game planning department also left a note: this person has short work experience, lack of education, and is good at online games rather than chess and card games.

When Li Mu saw this note, he was a little annoyed instinctively. Is the person in charge of the planning department of yy games a sham? Lao Xu is such an awesome person, he actually rejected his resume without re-examination?

But when Li Mu calmed down a little, he felt that the person in charge of the planning department was right.

yy game is now a chess and card game hall. This kind of game has a big deviation from the orthodox online game. Lao Xu's resume does not meet the needs of yy game. Besides, Lao Xu's resume is really not good-looking. Insufficient education is also the biggest embarrassment of Cao Mang. Before success, it is always difficult to get a chance to prove one's strength.

Abandoning his anger just now, Li Mu thought carefully about why Lao Xu took the initiative to submit his resume to Muye Technology at this time. He is a smart person, and he should see that the entire Muye Technology has not expressed the signal that he wants to do orthodox online games. Even if the interview is successful, there is still a strong dissatisfaction, and the situation is not clear.

But after thinking about it carefully, Li Mu came up with a bold speculation in his heart: Lao Xu should have taken the initiative to find yy after seeing the trend of yy not doing online games at present.

Smart people are good at looking for opportunities, just like at the beginning of the sketch "Selling abduction", when Gao Xiumin commented on her husband's foolishness, there was a classic line: "I heard that the accountant Wang's family buys horses and sells car covers. They sell helmets on motorcycles, and I heard that Mrs. Zhang can’t sleep and sell sleeping pills.”

These lines seem to have a very small pattern, but the reasoning is very clear and clear. This is the way smart people take the initiative to grasp the market advance. It is very likely that Lao Xu saw the huge potential of yy in operating online games. When it came to yy's vacancy in online games, he had the same idea as "big flicker", and wanted to come over to look for opportunities. In his eyes, the desert in the eyes of others had the opportunity to become an oasis.

Thinking about it carefully, Lao Xu has not been working at NetEase for a long time now, and he definitely has no personal feelings for NetEase, and NetEase will not give him a chance to play a big role now, so under this situation, it is absolutely impossible to poach him over. Dig a quasi.

Immediately, Li Mu left a message to Kong Lingyu on YY, and said to him, "I'm going to build a game development team. Do you have any good suggestions?"

Kong Lingyu was invisible online, and quickly sent a message to Li Mu: "Boss, I agree with both hands!"

"Tell me why."

"Nothing else, the game is too profitable, and the cash flow is too good!"

"Nothing else?"

"Our ecosystem now lacks online games. This is a big cake. I always wanted to mention it to you, but I was afraid that you wanted to put the game business under the shell of Storm Entertainment, so I didn't say it. ."

Li Mu laughed at himself and tapped his fingertips on the keyboard: "Now I don't need to think about Stormwind Entertainment, I'm going to change the routine and set up a game division, which is completely separate from the 'yy game' division, which only serves as a client. Online games."

Li Mu originally hoped to use Baofeng Entertainment to make quick money, let "Miracle mu" become popular for two years and make a fortune, and then he had the capital to talk to Blizzard about the agent of "World of Warcraft", win "World of Warcraft" and make another big profit Pen, in the future, if you will represent some popular online games, the money will be old.

But looking at it now, Baofeng Entertainment can put it aside for a while, let it use "Miracle mu" to make money first, take the time to adjust its strategy, and start yy's game business, and still think about going public in the United States, the game business can be Bringing excellent revenue data will also greatly promote the valuation.

When Kong Lingyu saw Li Mu's words, he hurriedly replied: "Great boss! As long as you say a word, I can immediately devote myself to the game business!"

Li Mu replied: "In this way, I will work overtime tomorrow night, and let's touch the game business department together."

"no problem!"

After chatting with Kong Lingyu, Li Mu left a message to Lin Qingya, asking her to instruct hr and the headhunting company to collect the contact information of the core team members of the major online game R&D companies across the country, and formulate a plan to dig hard at all costs. A group of people came.

Now that the decision has been made, an old Xu is not enough, Li Mu also wants to gather other talents, especially the Xishanju of Kingsoft, while they are only doing the stand-alone version of Swordsman Love, and have not yet tasted it. The taste of making a lot of money, quickly catch them all, this will further block the future profit channels of Jinshan, and cut off the next step of Lei Cult Master.

If Lao Xu and Dahua Westward Journey's team can be poached to do Fantasy Westward Journey, and then the Swordsman Love team can be hired to develop a similar martial arts or Xianxia online game, the domestic game market in the next few years will be really interesting!

As for the scumbag "X Road" like Shi Yu's help, if nothing else, if there is oneself in this industry, would you still want to make money with such a product? Simply delusional!

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