An Expert Is actually By My Side

Chapter 34 This game is poisonous!

At the same time, the rice group headquarters in Shanghai City.

Xu Qianshi, who is the CEO of Rice Entertainment, is sitting at the conference table, turning the ballpoint pen in his hand, staring at the document in his hand intently.

Sitting in front of him was a middle-aged man with a neat suit, neatly combed hair, and a calm expression between his brows. However, it is not difficult to see the tension in his heart from the small movements of his constantly rubbing his thumbs.

It's not like he's nervous.

The competition in the video game industry has grown from a state of savagery to a pattern of vying for the throne.

Especially in the past two years, more and more electronics industry tycoons and Internet giants have begun to focus on this piece of cake, relying on their own resources and massive subsidies to seize territory in this blue ocean market.

Although the Dianqu platform is the largest game platform in China, it is only a game platform after all.

Especially in the past two years, as some small platforms have been incorporated by the regular army, even if the e-game platform still occupies the leading position in the industry, it is still in jeopardy.

Facing the fierce competition, the best choice at this moment is undoubtedly to find a backer for yourself.

As one of the giants in the domestic electronics industry, Rice Group is undoubtedly a seemingly reliable owner.

Especially recently, Rice Group has shown great ambitions in entering the video game field. Dianqu Group, which has a large reserve of game IP, is also an excellent investment target for them.

So, a business marriage kicked off like this.

If it can introduce the "war investment" of Dami Group and become a subsidiary of Dami Group, the dream of Dianqu platform to dominate the "full platform" for many years will undoubtedly be realized.

It is precisely because of this that Chen Jianwen, the chairman of the Dianqu Group, is so nervous.

The meeting room was silent.

At this time, the door suddenly opened.

A secretary walked quickly into the meeting room, leaned over and whispered something in Xu Qianshi's ear.

Looking at the two whispering, Chen Jianwen's nervous heart almost rose to his throat, fearing that the acquisition case that had been going on for a month would be stuck at the last juncture.

Fortunately, however, the changes he feared did not happen.

After listening to the secretary's whisper, Xu Qianshi just nodded lightly, and then gestured for him to wait aside first, then continued to look at Chen Jianwen who was sitting across the conference table.

"Mr. Xu, if you have anything else to do here, we can talk about it tomorrow morning." Chen Jianwen said with a warm smile on his face, pretending to be relaxed.

Xu Qianshi smiled lightly.

"I'm sorry to keep you waiting. There's no need to talk about it tomorrow. There is no problem with the price. The details of the cooperation have been discussed in the past half a month. I personally don't like wasting time on trivial issues."

After all, he picked up a pen and signed his name on the contract.

Seeing that the name was finally signed, a big stone in Chen Jianwen's heart was finally let go, and he stood up happily.

"President Xu is refreshing! Then wish us a happy cooperation!"

After handing over the contract to Chen Jianwen's secretary, Xu Qianshi also stood up, smiled slightly and stretched out his right hand.

"Happy cooperation!"

A merger and acquisition case with a transaction value of more than one billion has come to an end.

With the acquisition of a stake in Dianqu by a subsidiary of the Rice Group, the Dianqu platform has also officially merged into the "Dami Department" camp.

The cooperation matter was finished, and Chen Jianwen, who was happy in his heart, proposed an invitation to have a meal together, but Xu Qianshi politely rejected it on the grounds that "there will be a meeting later".

Back in his office, Xu Qianshi picked up from the corner of the table the research report that the secretary had sent here during the previous meeting, and carefully read it line by line.

What was written at the beginning of the research report was a mobile game called "Pineapple Speed".

Although the name sounds a little strange, but because it is different from the mainstream Q version with a small and fresh style of painting and an easy-to-understand operation mode, this game named "Pineapple Mobile" has won the entire platform as soon as it hit the market. Numerous good reviews.

As of the completion of this research report, the global downloads of this "Pineapple Speed" have exceeded 100 million, and the number of concurrent online users is approaching the one million mark.

This is definitely not good news for Rice Mobile or the group subsidiary Rice Entertainment.

To be honest, when the boss of the group mentioned this matter at the high-level meeting, Xu Qianshi was quite puzzled.

The mainstream of today's game industry, whether it is mobile games or end-game games, the taste of the market is favored by those large-scale productions with high-quality graphics, and the supporting hardware produced by Xia Guo's advanced electronics industry is also enough to easily support those game designers They use their wild imaginations.

As a result, there is now a Q-version game that requires graphics but no graphics, plot but no plot?

Xu Qianshi couldn't help but began to wonder if there was something wrong with the players' taste.

"Is it that fun?"

Putting down the research report, Xu Qianshi turned on his laptop and searched for some videos on the Internet.

His intuition from being a game planner once told him that the quality of this game itself can only be regarded as quite satisfactory, and more than half of the reasons for its popularity are marketing.

Points in the leaderboard, comparisons in the circle of friends, sinking into the social field...

Looking at the game commentary on the screen blankly, a solemn expression gradually appeared on Xu Qianshi's face.

Although whether a game is good or not is not enough to directly affect the sales of a mobile phone, it has to be admitted that fun and popular games are a plus for users.

The pineapple phone doesn't even need to engage in platform exclusives, and directly provides pineapple phone users with limited skins or virtual products such as exclusive treasure boxes, which can add points to their phones in the hearts of consumers.

"...you merchant has something."

Touching his chin, Xu Qianshi's thoughts turned quickly.

A long time ago, the Pineapple Group, which was registered across the sea, was actively deploying in the field of mobile games, trying to take a slant to achieve cornering overtaking.

At the beginning, Xia Guo’s mobile phone manufacturers didn’t pay much attention, but as the mid-to-low-end models of pineapple mobile phones have gradually expanded in overseas markets in the past two years, and even began to encroach on the domestic market, after all, it still attracted the attention of Xia Guo’s natives like Rice Group. Watch out for electronics giants.

This strategic investment in the Dianqu platform is a decision made by the group's top management.

The executives of Dami Group hope to use the rich IP resources of the Dianqu platform to counter the advantages that Pineapple Mobile has gained in the game field in the past two years.

At the same time, Rice Entertainment also issued a military order to the head office to create at least one explosive game with over 100 million downloads within a year!

For this reason, the game production teams acquired by Rice Entertainment are almost working overtime. However, it has been half a year and there is still no progress. On the contrary, the PC market has shrunk by a few percentage points.

Leaning on the office chair, Xu Qianshi had a troubled expression on his face.

"If we want to compete with the Pineapple Group in this market, we must create our own hot products."

"The size of this game must be small enough so that it can penetrate the low-end and mid-range models in overseas markets. The gameplay should not be too complicated. It is better to have a few simple operations, which can make people unable to stop and even become addicted. "

"In the end, it is necessary to mobilize the comparison psychology of users and sink into the social circle..."

Simply put, it is small and beautiful.

But how can it be that simple?

After more than ten years of development, the gameplay of the game has almost been developed to the limit. Even if another Q version of the racing game is copied, it is impossible to surpass the "Pineapple Speed" that has already occupied the high ground.

Xu Qianshi shook his head when he thought of the game production teams acquired by Rice Entertainment last year.

It’s true that when it comes to asking for money, one is more active than the other, and when it’s time to get the results, there is no one who can fight.

or……

Make a mobile game version of "Oracle"?

However, this idea only existed in Xu Qianshi's mind for a second before he was vetoed by himself.

The operator of "Oracle" is the domestic instant messaging giant Haishi Group, and its influence in Xia Kingdom is not lower than that of Rice Group. How could it be my turn to adapt such a high-quality IP...

In contrast, it is more reliable to look through the electric fun that has just been bought.

Thinking of this, Xu Qianshi opened the store on the e-fun platform, and searched down the sales list of the whole site, trying to find an IP that is suitable for adaptation into a mobile game.

However, to his disappointment, none of them met his expectations.

After he continued to turn down two pages, his eyes suddenly stopped on a strange game.

The reason why I find it strange is that among the brightly colored game screenshots on the screen, this game with only a few monotonous numbers on the cover is simply an alternative.

In other words, wonderful!

Looking at the price again, Xu Qianshi became more interested.

"It's only sold for one yuan... Can you sell it back?"

Other games sell for one hundred, and there are twenty or thirty cheap ones. You only sell one yuan here, and you have to sell 10,000 copies to be equivalent to the sales of dozens or even a hundred copies of others. You should not be on the sales list.

It's better to say that the platform didn't block you from the list and recommended positions, that's all for charity!

With curiosity, he clicked download.

In less than a second, the game is now on his laptop.

Open the game, and the extremely simple screen appears in front of you, and a short explanatory text pops up at the same time.

[You only need to press up, down, left, and right to add adjacent numbers together. 】

"This gameplay is really simple enough."

Smiling and shaking his head, Xu Qianshi thought that he would be off work soon anyway, so he tried to finish it.

It was quite simple at first, but as the numbers got bigger and bigger, he gradually realized that he was thinking too simple.

"...you have to move the big numbers to the side as much as possible."

Staring at the screen, Xu Qianshi touched his chin, thinking to himself.

"It was me who was careless... Do it again!"

Time passed by every minute and every second.

The repeated failures did not discourage him, but aroused his desire to win.

Even he himself didn't notice that he was obsessed with this little game.

The sky outside the window turned from dusky yellow in the evening to completely dark, until the hour hand of the wall clock on the wall touched the edge of eight o'clock, and the prompt pop-up window for clearing the game finally popped up in front of Xu Qianshi.

Seeing the hard-won victory, Xu Qianshi's mouth finally stretched into a smile.

However, before he was happy for two seconds, a leaderboard and the following option of [whether to continue] made his expression freeze on his face.

Fuck?

2048 is just the beginning?

I thought it was over...

Staring blankly at the ranking list of immortal fights, and the score that was over 60,000, Xu Qianshi suddenly swallowed unconsciously, and subconsciously muttered something.

"This game is poisonous!"

Without the slightest hesitation!

Stretching out his right hand that was trembling with excitement, he grabbed the phone on the table, dialed the number and called his secretary.

"Here's a mission for you."

"I have a game here, and the link has been sent to your work email."

"Three days! I want to see its research report appear on my desk!"