Rewrite the Technological Landscape

After returning from the team building this time, the atmosphere of the company has changed significantly. Sitting in the office, Meng Qian can hear people from the technical department and the art department talking to each other from time to time. The communication is getting smoother and smoother, and the work efficiency will naturally follow.

On April 20, 2000, another piece of news attracted Meng Qian's attention. China Mobile Communications Group Corporation was established.

That is, around the time when China Mobile was established, the Huaxia government increasingly revealed its attitude of accelerating the development of the Internet.

At this time, the United States is in the midst of Internet panic.

On April 25, 2000, the game development progress was much faster than planned, and Meng Qian asked Sun Xiaojing to speed up the recruitment of sales staff.

On May 5, 2000, the sixth draft design of the art department was unanimously approved by the company, and two more people came to the technology department, expanding to 10 people.

On May 20, 2000, "Biography of God" conducted its first test within the company.

On May 25, 2000, "Biography of God" conducted its second test within the company.

On May 28, 2000, "Biography of God" conducted its third test within the company.

On May 30, 2000, "The Legend of God" ushered in the first real closed beta player.

This person is Feng Yufei.

"Do you want so many people to look at me?" Feng Yufei, who was dragged into the company by Meng Qian for internal testing, looked up from time to time to scan the fifteen people around him, with an uncomfortable expression on his face.

"There's so much nonsense, hurry up!"

After Meng Qian urged, Feng Yufei double-clicked to open "Biography of God" on the desktop.

After opening, the registration interface is directly displayed. At this time, mobile phones are not yet popular, and registration naturally does not require a mobile phone number, account password, and it is very convenient to register an account.

But with that comes security risks.

So after the game is launched, Meng Qian plans to directly make things like security cards, because considering the current network environment and user habits, account hacking will definitely become a big problem in the future.

After registration is to choose race and occupation.

Feng Yufei did not surprise Meng Qian at all by choosing the Wu family, because the Wu family is a girl, and she is very good-looking, and she wears very little.

Then came the name, Feng Yufei habitually typed FYF, the abbreviation of his name.

"You'd better think about it again." Meng Qian stopped Feng Yufei just when he was sure of his point, "You are very likely to become the first beta player of the most influential game in the history of Chinese games. You might be able to live comfortably with this name for half your life, so I suggest you choose something meaningful."

Feng Yufei couldn't help giving Meng Qian a blank look, "Why didn't I think you were so shameless before? It makes sense, right? All right."

I saw Feng Yufei deleted FYF and changed it to four words: Meng Qian's father.

"Your uncle!"

The two chatted nonsense for a while, and finally Feng Yufei still used the name FYF.

In order to reduce the time for players to adapt, they can directly choose a profession after choosing a race. There are four professions for the witch clan to choose from, and Feng Yufei chose the mage.

Then enter the novice village. After this time, there will be a novice tutorial. Players can choose to watch it or not according to their own situation.

But this novice tutorial is definitely not as exquisite as the ones made by later generations. After all, five people in the art department can't do it, and it is more in the form of pictures and text.

Skip or read the novice tutorial, and then follow the task prompts to enter the main task.

After a short conversation, the characters will go directly into the field to fight. The most important thing in games in this era is fighting, so it is necessary to quickly let players feel more about fighting.

However, the art department has put a lot of effort into the effects of spellcasting and spell effects. Compared with the legend of the year, at least Meng Qian feels that it is on a higher level.

A very classic thing in the legend of the year is still preserved here, digging meat. Those who have played legends must know that digging meat from chickens, ducks and sheep is a boring but inexplicably addictive thing

When players gradually like the gameplay, the difficulty of the game gradually increases. At this time, the level system, weapon system, and skill system begin to appear one after another and reflect their importance.

Feng Yufei, who originally came here with the mentality of being a guinea pig for Meng Qian, found himself addicted after playing for an hour.

On the one hand, this kind of addiction is the novelty of the game's own graphics and gameplay, and on the other hand, it is the desire for stronger pursuit.

There is one thing Feng Yufei has not released in the closed beta at the moment. If it is released, it is estimated that he will be higher, and that is the leaderboard.

Seeing Feng Yufei's real status feedback, Meng Qian felt a lot more at ease. After all, this is the first time the game has been released to outsiders, and Feng Yufei is definitely a gamer, so it's just right to let him get ahead.

For the next day, Feng Yufei was working on "The Legend of the Gods", and Meng Qian's computer was taken over by him.

Meng Qian immediately issued a new task to the company's employees, to play by himself, and at the same time mobilize friends who have computers around them to play together.

At this time, Dafeng Science and Technology is not well-known at all, and no one will take care of it when it is put on the online internal test. It can only rely on the existing strength to spread it in a small area and find bugs.

Fortunately, most of the friends in the technical department are people who have computers and love to play games. They spread the word and gathered a group of internal beta players.

At the same time, Meng Qian gave the target time for the game to go online, July 5th.

On June 1, 2000, Meng Qian assigned only five people in the company's sales department the first sales task since the company was founded. It was also another project that Meng Qian had been working on before: Internet cafe management system.

No one can fully understand why the legend is so popular.

But in order to do a good job of "The Legend of God". Meng Qian needs to constantly analyze and dig deep into the success of the legend. He constantly increases his control over the details by combining his current understanding with the memory of future generations.

During this process, Meng Qian noticed a very important thing, that is the Internet cafe.

Under Meng Qian's continuous analysis, he found that whether it was the influence of the original legend or the popularity of the legend driven by the private server, especially the fact that the private server defeated the genuine one, there was a shadow of Internet cafes in it.

In fact, the relationship between the popularity of private servers and Internet cafes is obvious to everyone, because the main force behind private servers was the owner of the Internet cafe.

As for the relationship between the popularity of the genuine version and Internet cafes,

People who have experienced that era also know that Internet cafes can sell point cards. At that time, they could make a lot of money selling legendary point cards. It is said that the company gave a high share of points at that time.

However, the owner of the Internet cafe is willing to promote Legendary to earn some card points. He should be more attentive after seeing the signs of Legendary popularity. Looking for a more direct reason for Legendary popularity, Meng Qian can't find it.

But since he knew the importance of Internet cafes to the promotion of games in this era when personal computers were not popular at all, Meng Qian wanted to focus on Internet cafes from the source anyway.

That's why he started preparing for this Internet cafe management system early on. On the one hand, it is because Meng Qian doesn't have a lot of funds in his hand now, and he certainly can't afford to spend money, but it will be much easier to build an Internet cafe management system, and this thing For Internet cafe owners, it is money.

He went to understand the Internet cafe management system in 2000. There were many problems, such as frequent errors in timing and billing, system crashes, complicated management, low automation, and employees hiding money in private.

So Meng Qian is going to use the Internet cafe management system as an opening, and give them this system for free, in exchange for a certain amount of game promotion and publicity, and the company will also bear the relevant materials.

Because there is not only no Alipay and WeChat in this era, but even online banking is almost non-existent, so players who want krypton gold must have something that can be exchanged for cash payment.

Although there is no need to point cards to play games, players still need to buy divine cards of various denominations if they want krypton gold.

And on the issue of the Legend of God, the advantages of the Internet cafe management system are once again reflected, because Meng Qian made a recharge system exclusive to "The Legend of God".

Meng Qian still remembers one thing, that is, the legendary point card was not available in small cities, which led to a large loss of customers.

But now as long as this system can be popularized, even if the Shenchuan card is sold out, the owner of the Internet cafe can apply for recharge online for them.

However, Meng Qian will not make this recharge method a mainstream, and even deliberately restrict it, because there is no perfect online payment environment in this era, and the company does not have its own payment platform.

This recharge system is actually just a number, and you have to go to the Internet cafe to collect money from the boss later, but in this era, many Internet cafe bosses actually have some black backgrounds, in order to save less money and less trouble, and also to reduce the cost of employees collecting money. Just a supplement in case the point card is sold out.

Once there is an application for online recharge at an Internet cafe, the company will immediately ask the other party to wholesale point cards and send them over.

So to put it simply, Meng Qian is using the Internet cafe management system to add commissions to exchange for the promotion of the Internet cafe. To be precise, it is the early promotion, because Meng Qian believes that once the game becomes popular, the Internet cafe owner will be eager to promote it every day.

After clarifying the sales target and sales purpose, Meng Qian asked the salesmen to go out to the market.

Now the company does not have the strength to spread it across the country at the same time, so he plans to focus on Jiang Province to create a template first. As long as "The Legend of God" can become a big hit in Jiang Province, it will be much more convenient to push it out later.

On June 29, 2000, at 10:32 p.m., all the problems found during the internal testing of "The Legend of God" were resolved.

But Song Zhenluo's expression was not happy, "Mr. Meng, there is a problem that we can't solve now, and that is the problem of network speed. The disconnection rate is a bit high during the internal test."

"If my speculation is correct, there should be an upgrade of the national network during this period." Meng Qian can only comfort everyone in this way now.

But in fact, he does remember that there will be a large-scale Internet speed-up this summer vacation, because when he went to the Internet cafe to play that summer vacation, many people were discussing this issue, and he had a little impression.

The network environment of Huaxia from 2000 to 2001 changed quite a lot, which caused Meng Qian to make large-scale online games more than a year in advance, and he would definitely face the problem of network speed.

But one reason he wants to go online during the summer vacation is that he remembers that there will be a large-scale Internet speed increase this summer vacation.

Seeing that they were still a little frustrated, Meng Qian showed a determined smile, "Cheer up, everyone must have confidence, and believe that our game is good enough that this little problem won't affect us too much.

In my opinion, the real problem we are facing now is that there may not be enough servers at any time.

Because after July 5th, we will definitely detonate this summer. "