Rewrite the Technological Landscape

Meng Qian has no idea about the fact that his actions will most likely make the entry of "Legend" into China a year earlier. What he is concerned about now is another matter. This summer, apart from China's obvious promotion of With the development of the Internet, there is another thing that is also being promoted rapidly, and that is online payment.

Before the game was launched, especially when he was working on the Internet cafe management system, Meng Qian went to understand the current online payment environment.

According to the understanding in May and June, only China Merchants Bank and China Bank had online banking before 2000, but China Bank was engaged in enterprise-side business. China Merchants Bank’s personal online banking "One Netcom" was officially launched in September 1999. However, other Banks seem to have no intention of following up immediately.

ICBC, the world's largest bank, did not launch an online bank until February 2000, and other banks basically do not have it until now.

This is why Meng Qian didn't consider the online purchase of point cards when he was working on the recharge function. Such an environment simply couldn't be done.

And at that time, Meng Qian went to run two online banks by himself, which was not as convenient as later generations, and more importantly, it was not safe.

Since there is no such a big environment, Meng Qian does not go to the single-plank bridge, just go offline with peace of mind.

But in this summer vacation, some things are changing. In July, China Merchants Bank launched the personal banking professional version 1.0, ICBC announced that it has started to optimize online banking, and many other banks have launched their own personal online banking services during this summer vacation.

At the same time, the government announced that it would increase the development of online personal banking. Obviously, Huaxia's online financial system is about to enter a critical node.

As for the development of this industry, one company seems to have played a very important role, and that is eBay.

The development of eBay is very fast, and Meng Qian has been paying attention to this company. EBay, founded in August 1999, became the most popular auction in China in the fifth "Statistical Survey on Internet Development in China" conducted by CNNIC in January 2000. website.

Of course, there are not many other websites at this time, but eBay’s development speed and development model still need to be affirmed. In February, it created the first 24-hour service in the country. In March, it reached a strategic cooperation with Sina. In May, it acquired 5291 mobile phone direct sales network. Rapidly promote the fashion of online shopping.

eBay is indeed a representative of the first batch of e-commerce in China. If eBay hadn't been controlled by eBay and started Western-style marketing that is not suitable for China, perhaps eBay's achievements would have been even greater.

And the fast-growing eBay has done a particularly important thing this summer, that is, eBay launched the personal online store business in July. What makes people more concerned is that within a week, the number of registrations exceeded 5,000.

Meng Qian, who reads newspapers and pays attention to the news every day, is sensitively aware that the era of online trading has begun.

So Meng Qian has been thinking about what he can do with this Dongfeng in recent days.

Now that eBay has launched the business of opening personal online stores, it is natural that his point cards can also be sold on eBay, but Meng Qian temporarily gave up this option after careful consideration.

Perhaps influenced by the ecological concepts of later generations, Meng Qian wanted to do another thing, a game portal.

The first is because there are no well-known later game portals such as 17173, and the market is blank. The second is because the forum of "Shen Zhuan" is very active. Meng Qian can directly graft the forum to the game portal now, and there will be The third reason is that Meng Qian wants to install a mall on the game portal. This mall is now used to sell point cards, and in the future, it can also sell peripherals and the like.

For Meng Qian, he is very clear about his position, and he cannot afford to be a comprehensive e-commerce platform like Taobao, but with the help of "The Legend of God", he uses a game portal and only eats e-commerce in game-related industries. can try.

As for whose name the point card will be sold in the future, it is natural to give it to the agent. For Meng Qian, he took the agent route because the agent route can help him spread the market quickly, because they have their own team, because they There are Internet cafe industry resources, because they can focus on a market, because they can wholesale in advance to help companies withdraw funds.

In short, the benefits of the agency model are obvious, which is why game companies in later generations adopt the agency model.

The advantages and disadvantages of direct marketing and agency are things on the stage. The advantages of direct marketing, that is, the disadvantages of agency, are more displayed in traditional industries. Point cards are different. There is no so-called product quality problem, and there is no so-called There is no price dispute, and there is no after-sales problem, so after verifying for a period of time, Meng Qian has not regretted his choice at least for now.

But the agent has helped the company so much, Meng Qian can’t just start plucking their wool just because online transactions have taken off. Doing so is not only ugly but also against ethics, so he decided to buy cards online. For agents, only the discount will change a little.

After determining the direction, on August 31, Meng Qian selected a few people from the technical department to prepare for the development of the game portal. At the same time, he asked the promotion department to send a message to the agents. The company will hold the first agent conference, and the time is set for September 19th.

On the morning of September 1st, Meng Qian started typing codes with everyone. At this time, everyone in Dafeng Science and Technology Innovation, including Meng Qian himself, did not know what would happen tonight.

September 1, 2000 was the day when school started across the country, but this year's September 1 happened to be a little special because it was Friday.

A dormitory at Hangzhou University of Science and Technology.

"You all don't know about "The Legend of the Gods"?"

"As soon as I got home, my mother arranged to work part-time. How could I have time to go to Internet cafes?"

"Since I found a girlfriend, I have never had any money on me. I used to think that a girlfriend is used to drain my body, but now I understand that a girlfriend is used to drain my wallet."

"I've advised you not to fall in love a long time ago. Wouldn't it be good to play "The Legend of God" with that money? Isn't it more interesting than women?"

"Is this game really as fun as you say?"

"After listening to the secretary's speech in the afternoon, I will take you to the Internet cafe to experience it. If it's not fun, I'll sleep with you tonight!"

He County High School, recess.

"You guys have been chatting about "The Legend of God" all day, are you so energetic?"

"Those of you who haven't played before won't understand. At night, we plan to wait for our parents to sleep and sneak out. Why don't we take you to experience it? Later, everyone can get together and play the ten-person book."

"Okay, anyway, tomorrow is the weekend."

Similar scenarios are happening in universities, high schools, junior high schools and elementary schools across the country.

On the evening of September 1st, in Hangzhou, the Internet cafe, which was a bit cold because of the start of school, ushered in the first batch of people. After arriving at the Internet cafe, everyone clicked on "The Legend of God" tacitly.

At ten o'clock in the evening, several large Internet cafes in Hangzhou were already full of people, and there were at least two or three people standing behind each seat.

"Why are there so many people today?" Even the owner of the Internet cafe was a little surprised.

"You can't beat Diablo Bear with this configuration, at least you need to bring another healer."

"Bringing such a small amount of medicine will definitely kill you."

"Go and snatch the ancient beasts. Now that everyone is going to collect secrets, it's better to go to the ancient beasts to try their luck."

"Damn it, there are only a dozen pink outfits in the whole server!"

Although many people didn't grab a seat, they stood on the side watching and chatting, and they were actually very harmonious.

Hangzhou has always been the hottest city in "Biography of God", so the popularity of this night is easier to accept.

But in some small cities, many Internet cafes usually do not have very good business at night, but this night, the same scene is staged all over the country, even in a fourth- and fifth-tier city, as long as there are Internet cafes, there will be a large number of Internet cafes Veteran and new players of "The Legend of God".

At four o'clock in the morning, Dafeng Science and Technology Innovation was in chaos.

"President Meng, all the backup servers are up, but it won't last long!" Wei Pengtian frowned tightly.

Meng Qian grabbed the phone and said nothing, he was waiting for the call.

At 4:30 in the morning, Li Qi brought a truckload of servers to the downstairs of Dafeng Techchuang.

"Mr. Li, thank you so much this time." Meng Qian sincerely thanked Li Qi.

Li Qi waved his hand nonchalantly, "My friend happens to be doing server rental, otherwise I wouldn't have a chance to help you. Let's go, and I'll help, move it up quickly."

Meng Qian wanted to stop him, but Li Qi started directly, and Meng Qian couldn't say anything.

At 8 o'clock in the morning, after a busy night, the eyes of everyone in Dafeng Science and Technology Innovation were shining with passion.

"Mr. Meng, the latest data. Last night, the number of game registrations was 1.13 million, and the highest number of simultaneous online users reached 370,000!" Song Zhenluo looked at the backstage with obvious tremors in his tone.

At this moment, Chai Qian from the promotion department came to the company, "Mr. Meng, from last night to now, the total wholesale amount of agents across the country has exceeded 1.5 million!"

The one who came in after Chai Jing was Sun Xiaojing in high heels.

At this moment, everyone in Dafeng Technology was staring at Meng Qian, they were waiting for Meng Qian to say something, including Li Qi who was sitting on the side.

From the start of the "Biography of God" project to the present, everyone is waiting for the game's explosion and the company's profit. The game has been developing steadily this summer, but it may be too stable, and it has never let everyone feel the stone in their hearts. lay down.

It wasn't until this night that everyone finally confirmed in their hearts that "Biography of God" was a success! Your own efforts will not be let down!

Looking around, Meng Qian said slowly, "Are you happy?"

"Cool!!!"

"Are you still sleepy?"

"Not sleepy anymore!!!"

"Keep working if you're not tired."

"Cut~~~~~~"

Everyone showed all sorts of disgust, but in their hearts, they firmly believed that Meng Qian would give them what they deserved.

Perhaps due to various reasons, although many forums discussed everything this night, it will not be reported by the official media, and the social impact is not too great, but it is only in the game, which is not accepted now. shined.

But many years later, September 1, 2000, will be talked about by hundreds of millions of people, who call this day:

The night when the gods came.