Chapter 674 578 Qing Zhiyuan’s Conspiracy Is Unsolvable!

After the E3 electronics show this time, every day in the entire world looks the same as yesterday. Everything is the same as before, and everyone is repeating what they did before every day.

The Sun Also Rises.

But a lot of things seem to have been changed and become very different.

Although no one has said it explicitly, people in the industry can feel that something terrible hidden under the water is about to surface.

The whole world will become unstable.

And everyone believes that it will not be long before P Club will set off a storm, and this storm may sweep the entire game industry.

Especially for Sony and Rentian, everyone in the two families had their hearts beating fast during this period, and they couldn't sleep well. They always felt that something big was going to happen.

Sure enough, Pokeni announced a plan in August——

The second generation of Pokeni's self-developed game engine Pioneer is open source.

Once the news came out, it was like a bombshell that turned the whole world upside down.

It immediately caused a major earthquake in the industry.

"Oh my God! My scalp feels numb." Square's Miyamoto Masashi directly grabbed his hair, his whole body looked twisted.

"Pokeni is actually willing to let the Trailblazer engine be open source. What do they think?"

Open source means that all the source code of the Trailblazer 2 engine will be released to the outside world. The engine will not be encrypted in any way. At the same time, all development manuals, including explanations of each piece of code, will be released.

In other words, Pokeni has released its technology to the world without reservation.

Anyone can obtain the code of the Trailblazer 2 engine through the Internet, and can also use these codes to change the engine according to their own ideas.

With the Trailblazer 2 engine, game manufacturers no longer need to carry out game engine research and development on their own. They can completely liberate these talents and focus on game development.

For Square Enix, this is of course a good thing, because as soon as Pokeni's "Spirited Away" was released, the whole world saw the power of the Trailblazer engine. Without the Trailblazer engine, Pokeni would not be able to make "Spirited Away". "Qianxun" is such an awesome project.

According to Masashi Miyamoto’s own words——

The Trailblazer engine is at least 3 years ahead of contemporary engines.

And now, although Trail Blazer 3 has not yet been released, based on their understanding of Pokeni, they can at least push the technology back one or two years, almost 5 to 6 years ahead of this era.

For such a powerful thing, Pokeni is actually willing to share it with others.

Should we say President Qing is great?

Or stupid?

"are you crazy?"

"Is Pokeni crazy? Is President Qing crazy? Or are they so arrogant that they don't bother to keep their technology secret?"

People from other companies in the industry were dumbfounded.

"What is Pokeni doing with this move?!"

“I don’t understand, I don’t understand at all, I really feel like my intelligence has been insulted.

Anyway, if it were me, I would be reluctant to open source the company's engine.

Not to mention Trailblazer 2!

Oh my God!

This is Trailblazer 2! The fact that Trailblazer 2 made a game like Spirited Away already makes me feel incredible.

The boss of Pokeni is actually willing to open source this thing? "

"Yes, I also think that President Qing is really incredible. Is this person crazy?"

"It doesn't follow common sense at all. I find that only Qing Zhiyuan and women are the most difficult creatures in this world to understand."

"No, no, no, President Qing is much harder to understand than a woman."

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Although most colleagues don't quite understand Qing Zhiyuan's intention to open source the Trailblazer 2 engine.

But they all expressed support.

Because there is no reason not to support it, the Pioneer engine has always been pokeni's biggest technical weapon, and it has developed products like Harry Potter and Spirited Away, especially Spirited Away, which directly pushed RPG action games to the top A new level.

Spirited Away's in-game performance is now top-notch in any country.

President Qing is willing to open source the Trailblazer 2 engine, which is really what everyone wants.

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"Is President Qing aware of his conscience? He felt that he was too cruel to other competitors before? Why is he so good all of a sudden that he is willing to open source Trailblazer 2?"

"Who knows, anyway, I feel that every time President Qing gives up profits, there is a bigger conspiracy hidden behind it."

"Yes, the last time we launched a free game, it seemed that you could play the game without spending any money. However, after statistics, we found that the total amount spent by players seemed to be even higher.

The free ones are not necessarily the cheapest, and it is possible to make a fortune. "

“It’s not just about making money, several of P’s online games are making money every day every month, which is equivalent to releasing a million-level game masterpiece every month.

If pokeni is not open source, you will fight others if you don’t use the Dandelion game platform. "

"But having said that, Qing Zhiyuan's profit offer this time is really too tempting. I don't know what others think, but our company will definitely use it anyway."

"My boss is probably asking for it. He will definitely let us use the Trailblazer 2 engine. It will also save a lot of manpower."

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In short, although the industry is calling President Qing crazy, it is also looking forward to Pokeni to release Trailblazer 2 as soon as possible.

And countless small teams who want to work in the game industry, but suffer from too high research and development costs, have begun to gear up and get started because of the open source issue of Pokeni Trailblazer 2.

"To be honest, I have had the idea of ​​making a game for a long time, but I was fooled before by saying that the cost of making a game was too high, so I didn't try it. Now pokeni has given us a great benefit. After Trailblazer 2, I feel like we can give it a try.”

"Yeah, to be honest, I admire President Qing. People with high skills are bold. Others treat game engines as treasures. President Qing dismissed it and threw this weapon to the poor with his backhand.

Now all the heroes in the world are about to rise, and it is not necessarily the era of big factories. "

"Anyway, I've already assembled a team, and I'm just waiting for Trailblazer 2 to be open source."

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From Trail Blazers to Trail Blazers 2 is simply a qualitative leap.

According to Qing Zhiyuan's evaluation of it, in the previous Trailblazers, players played the first generation of Monster Hunter. Now in Trailblazers 2, players can play Assassin's Creed.

In this generation of engines, the number of faces has increased, the triangles are almost 10 to 20 times that of the original Trailblazer 1, and the graphics are more refined.

The rendering effect is stronger.

The functions are richer and more complete.

It can almost reach the level of the original Unreal 3.

Again, if there were no hardware limitations, pokeni could now directly jump to a few more versions based on Qing Zhiyuan’s needs.

However, Nvidia is also a powerful company. It releases and upgrades graphics cards every year. Starting from the Geforce 4th generation, it will enter a period of leaps and bounds in image quality.

Nothing is more intuitive than the display of the work itself. Once the "Spirited Away" game shells were blasted, the whole world already knew how powerful Trailblazer Engine 2 was.

At first, everyone was very envious of pokeni’s R&D capabilities.

But I didn’t expect that P Club would actually open source it! ! !

This time, a big wave of sugar was spread to the whole world, and third-party game manufacturers were all laughing from ear to ear.

After open source, it means that you save a lot of research and development steps, you can directly get other people's research results, and you can also modify it on the basis of the Pioneer engine.

There is a saying that goes well——

Standing on the shoulders of giants, you can see further.

Is it possible to counterattack life through Pathfinder 2 if you don't have all the guarantees?

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Before pokeni, it was equivalent to every company building its own technical barriers in order to generate strong enough competitiveness and maintain a leading position.

In other words, the person who got on the car first had the door welded shut.

So sometimes it’s not necessarily because you don’t have design capabilities or the art team isn’t strong enough. It’s possible that you don’t have as much accumulation as others, you don’t have good technology, and you’re blocked, so it’s difficult to produce a strong enough latecomer effect.

What now?

pokeni is equivalent to distributing a batch of the most advanced weapons to all game developers around the world who want to participate, even individual studios and teams.

There is no difference in weapon generation between everyone, and all that is left is to see who plays the game better based on their abilities.

What is foreseeable is——

The competition in the future will become increasingly fierce, and there will be more and more emerging companies and even individual small studios taking the lead.

This is both good and bad for those established game manufacturers.

The advantage is that they can also use P's most advanced tools, but the disadvantage is that there is not that big a difference in technology between them and other small manufacturers.

Then you can only rely on other things to build new barriers.

For example, around the company's star projects, we can consolidate the territory we have successfully occupied, or we can make more efforts at the publicity and design levels.

Generally speaking, pokeni's open source development of Trailblazer Engine 2 is conducive to the development of games around the world, promotes healthy competition, and also gives countless game producers more opportunities to prove themselves.

This can be regarded as Qing Zhiyuan’s huge contribution to the entire game industry.

However, although pokeni is open source, open source also has certain conditions, which are similar to the conditions of illusory open source in the previous life:

When your income is less than $5 million, you do not need to pay any fees to pokeni.

For purchases over US$5 million, pokeni charges a 10% royalty.

Moreover, pokeni makes money through technology. If you are willing, while using the Pioneer Engine products for free, you can also obtain P Agency's technical services through payment.

To put it bluntly, the main body is free, and personalized DLC and various after-sales services require charges.

While benefiting the entire industry, pokeni has also retained a certain degree of back-up. At the same time, the company is still iterating internally. Don’t look at the Trailblazer Engine 2 released now, which is pokeni’s most advanced engine.

But the company has already upgraded to version 2.5.

It is equivalent to P Company creating a new game engine before making the engine that has been eliminated internally public.

This is also what Qing Zhiyuan asked Ken Akanishi to do and used it to maintain the lead.

With Qing Zhiyuan's technology and vision that is 20 years ahead of the times, he is confident enough to be far ahead in engine design.

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Someone soon noticed something was wrong.

The first to react was naturally the game company Epic Games, which produces Unreal Engine.

When founder and current president Tim Sweeney saw the news,

His face was ashen.

It felt like a thunderbolt from the blue, with a roar that struck him completely.

Too cruel!

pokeni is so cruel!

Qing Zhiyuan’s move is really vicious!

It's all about driving everyone out.

It can only be said that it was born at the wrong time. The EPIC company, which was all-powerful in its previous life and should have played the role of pioneer of pokeni engine now, faced disaster not long after it started.

Because once pokeni's engine is open source, it will cause a dimensionality reduction blow to its own Unreal Engine.

Since you have made it free and released the code, most game manufacturers will definitely give priority to using the Trailblazer engine to develop games.

Unless EPIC's Unreal series can surpass Trail Blazers...

but! is it possible? !

Tim Sweeney put his hand on his forehead and felt like the sky was falling.

He has been to the E3 electronics show and felt the power of pokeni technology at the scene.

Once Spirited Away is released, no one in the world can beat it.

Sweeney's own estimate at the time was that Unreal Engine was at least 3 to 5 years behind, roughly 1.5 to 2 versions of content.

It's really hard.

The basis for research and development is to have sufficient funds. The basis for having sufficient funds is that you must have enough customers and sales.

Originally, Sweeney planned to continue iterating by selling Unreal Engine to make money.

Now it seems as if this route does not exist and is basically blocked by pokeni.

so……

"Ahhh! Fake pokeni! Fake Qing Zhiyuan!!"

Sweeney wanted to hack Qing Zhiyuan to death.

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In fact, Sweeney was not the only one who wanted to kill Qing Zhiyuan.

Ren Tiantang and Sony both wished that something unexpected would happen and take Qing Zhiyuan away. They wished they could eat his flesh and drink his blood.

This wave of pokeni's operations has completely hit the sore spots of many competitors and deeply poked their weaknesses.

"It's over, it's over."

On the Rentian side, Miyamoto Shigeru's heart felt so cold.

Rentiantian's software and hardware technology is not as good as pokeni, and now it has open sourced its engine.

So should Rentiantian join or not?

If you join, if you use an open source engine and modify it yourself, it doesn't seem to be a big problem, but if the profit exceeds 5 million US dollars, you will have to pay royalties to pokeni, which is very uncomfortable.

Moreover, Rentian was the former overlord!

Why does it feel the other way around now? !

I can't save my face at all.

Even if pokeni's engine is to be used, Shigeru Miyamoto must first convince Chairman Hiroshi Yamauchi.

Although Hiroshi Yamauchi no longer holds the position of president and has handed it over to Shigeru Miyamoto, it is only a matter of minutes before he wants to take over.

Miyamoto Shigeru is now completely in a dilemma, and he is angry both front and back.

Qing Zhiyuan really deserves to die!

Do it like this!

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On Sony's side, Ken Kutaragi has almost a similar mentality.

In the past, everyone was fighting in a melee, each claiming their own territory. Good guy, pokeni's open source engine directly gave other game manufacturers access to weapons.

The most important thing is that originally Sony only had to deal with pokeni.

Now it becomes a matter of fighting against pokeni and the game manufacturers who are bewitched by pokeni...

It’s painful to think about it.

Qing Zhiyuan, Qing Zhiyuan!

Although I had known for a long time that this guy was as clever as a fox, I never expected that he would do something like this!

The key is still a conspiracy, and there is no solution!

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...(End of chapter)