Rewrite the Technological Landscape

Chapter 32 Closed beta

After returning from the team building this time, the company’s atmosphere has changed significantly. Sitting in the office, Meng Qian can hear a few conversations between the technical department and the art department from time to time. More importantly, everyone’s work is Communication becomes smoother and smoother, and work efficiency naturally follows.

On April 20, 2000, there was another news that attracted Meng Qian’s attention. China Mobile Communications Group Corporation was established.

Before and after the establishment of China Mobile, it became more and more obvious that Huaxia officials revealed their attitude to accelerate network development.

At this time, the U.S. is in a panic on the Internet.

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

On May 5, 2000, the sixth draft design of the Fine Arts Department was approved by the company unanimously. Two more people came from the Technical Department, and the number was expanded to 10.

On May 20, 2000, “The Legend of God” was tested for the first time in the company.

On May 25, 2000, “The Legend of God” was tested internally for the second time.

On May 28, 2000, “The Legend of God” was tested for the third time in the company.

On May 30, 2000, “The Legend of God” ushered in the first true closed beta player.

This person is Feng Yufei.

“Would you like so many people looking at me?” Feng Yufei, who was drawn by Meng Qian to the company for internal testing, raised his head and glanced at the fifteen people surrounding him, with an uncomfortable expression.

“Which so much nonsense, hurry up!”

Meng Qian urged, Feng Yufei only double-clicked to open “The Legend of God” on the desktop.

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

But with it comes safety hazards.

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

After registration, it is time to choose race and occupation.

Feng Yufei did not unexpectedly choose the Witch Clan, because the Witch Clan is a girl, and she is very beautiful, and she wears very little.

Then it was time to choose a name. Feng Yufei habitually typed FYF, the abbreviation of his name.

“You’d better think about it again.” Just when Feng Yufei’s main points were determined, Meng Qian stopped. “You are likely to become the first closed beta player of the most influential game in the history of China Game. You might be able to live and live by this name for half your life. I suggest you choose something meaningful.”

Feng Yufei couldn’t help but cast a blank look at Meng Qian, “Why didn’t I think you were so shameless before? It makes sense, right? It works.”

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

“Your uncle!”

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

In order to reduce the adaption time for players, after choosing a race, you can directly choose a profession. There are four professions for the Witch Clan to choose from, and Feng Yufei chose a mage.

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

But this novice tutorial is definitely not as exquisite as the later ones. After all, the five people in the art department can’t make it. It is more in the form of pictures and text.

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

After talking for a while, the character will directly start fighting in the wild. The most important thing in the game of this era is the battle, so you must quickly let the players feel the battle more.

As for the skills, it also used the most classic series of this era. The first was fireball, then big fireball, fierce fireball, flying meteor, and what tornadoes, ice storms, etc., of course, there is a very classic. His skill is the magic shield.

However, the art department has spent a lot of effort on the effect of casting spells and the effects of spells. Compared with the legend of the year, at least Meng Qian feels that it is on a higher level.

There is still a very classic thing from the legend of the year, digging meat. Those who have played the legend must know how boring but inexplicable it is to dig meat from chickens, ducks and sheep…

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

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

This kind of addiction is on the one hand the novelty of the game’s graphics and gameplay, on the other hand it is the desire to pursue a stronger one.

Feng Yufei has something that has not been released in the closed beta at this time. If it is released, it is estimated that he will be higher, that is the leaderboard.

Seeing Feng Yufei’s real status feedback, Meng Qian felt a lot more at ease. After all, this was the first time the game was played by outsiders, and Feng Yufei was definitely a game house, so he was right.

The next day Feng Yufei was in “The Legend of God”, and Meng Qian’s computer was taken over by him.

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

At this time, Dafeng Science and Technology Co., Ltd. has no reputation, and no one will take care of it in the online internal test. It can only rely on the existing strength to spread in a small area and find the BUG.

Fortunately, most of my friends in the technical department are people with computers and people who love to play games.

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

On June 1, 2000, Meng Qian arranged the first sales task for the only five people in the sales department of the company since the company was founded. It was also another project that Meng Qian had been doing before, besides Fengxin: Internet cafe management. system.

Why is the legend so popular? No one can interpret it completely correctly and clearly.

But in order to make “The Legend of God”. Meng Qian needs to continuously analyze and dig into the success of the legend. He has continuously increased his control over details by combining his current understanding with the memory of later generations.

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

Under Meng Qian’s constant analysis, he found that whether it is the influence of genuine legends or the legends driven by private servers, especially the subsequent defeat of genuine ones by private servers, there is a shadow of Internet cafes.

In fact, the relationship between the popularity of private servers and Internet cafes needless to say, everyone knows in their hearts, because the main force of private servers at the beginning was the owner of the Internet cafe.

As for the relationship between genuine hotness and Internet cafes,

Anyone who has experienced that era also knows that Internet cafes will sell point cards. At that time, they could make a lot of money by selling legendary point cards. It is said that the company gave a high share point at that time.

However, the owner of the Internet cafe is willing to promote the legend to earn some credits. It should be more attentive after seeing the signs of the legend’s fire, and then go forward to find a more direct reason for the legend’s popularity, and Meng Qian can’t find it.

But now that he knows the importance of Internet cafes to the promotion of games in this era when personal computers are completely unpopular, Meng Qian wants to start from the source and grab the Internet cafes to fight.

That’s why he started to prepare this Internet cafe management system early on. On the one hand, because Meng Qian doesn’t have much funds in his hands now, he definitely can’t afford to spend money, but it’s a lot easier to be an Internet cafe management system. For Internet cafe owners, it’s money.

He went to find out about the Internet cafe management system in 2000. There are many problems. Timing and billing often make mistakes, the system is prone to crashes, the management section is complicated, the automation is low, and employees hide money privately. All of these problems seriously drag down the benefits of Internet cafes.

Therefore, Meng Qian intends to use the Internet cafe management system as an opening. He will give them this system for free in exchange for certain game promotion and publicity. The related materials will also be borne by the company. At the same time, Internet cafes can also make money by selling their gods.

Because in this era, not only there is no Alipay and WeChat, but even online banking is almost no, so players who want krypton must have something that can be paid in cash.

Although there is no need to point cards to play the game, players still need to buy various denominations of magic cards for krypton gold.

And with regard to the issue of the transfer point, the advantages of the Internet cafe management system are once again reflected, because Meng Qian has made a recharge system dedicated to the transfer of the gods.

Meng Qian still remembers one thing, that is, the legendary point cards were not available in small cities at all, which caused a lot of customers to pass away.

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

But Meng Qian will not make this recharge method a mainstream, and even deliberately restrict it, because this era does not have a perfect online payment environment, and the company does not have its own payment platform.

This recharge system is actually a number. When you look back, you have to go to Internet cafes to collect money from the boss, but in this era, many Internet cafe owners actually have some black backgrounds. In order to reduce the money, it is also to reduce the cost of employees to collect money. It’s just a supplement in the case that the point card is sold out.

Once there is a recharge application on the Internet bar, the company will ask the other party to wholesale the card and send it to the other party as soon as possible.

So to put it simply, Meng Qian is using the Internet cafe management system to add magic points to exchange for the promotion of the Internet cafe. To be precise, it is the early promotion. UU reading www.uukanshu. com because Meng Qian believes that once the game becomes popular, the owner of the Internet cafe will be anxious to promote it every day.

After explaining the sales goals and sales objectives, Meng Qian asked the salesmen to go out and run the market.

Now the company does not have the strength to spread 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 be fired in Jiang Province, it will be much more convenient to push it out later.

On June 29, 2000, at 10:32 in the evening, all the problems discovered during the internal beta of “The Legend of God” were resolved.

But Song Zhenluo’s expression is not happy, “Meng, there is a problem that we can’t solve now, that is the network speed problem, the drop rate during the internal test is a bit high…”

“If my guess is correct, there should be an upgrade of the nationwide 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 increase this summer, because many people discussed this issue when he went to Internet cafes that summer, and he was a little impressed.

Huaxia’s network environment from 2000 to 2001 has actually changed quite a bit. As a result, Meng Qian made large-scale online games more than a year in advance, and he was bound to face network speed problems.

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

Looking at them, they were still a bit dejected. Meng Qian showed a firm smile, “All cheer up, everyone must have confidence, and believe that our game is good enough that this small problem will not have much impact on us.

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

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

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