My rebirth is different

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"Old Liu, what can I say about you, you are still confused! I just made it very clear that Mr. Fei is the chairman of the board of directors of Facebook Holdings, and Facebook is a subsidiary of Facebook Holdings, so Mr. Fei is still Facebook now. The top leader of the Internet. Hu Jingjing is the secretary of President Fei, and she is also the oldest one. Of course, she is eligible to get the shares, so don’t you think it’s inappropriate to use this example?”

Effie said earnestly, with an expression of hating iron but not steel.

Old Liu waved his hands again and again, "Yes, yes, I was confused. I was a little jealous when I saw people getting equity incentives. I really didn't think too much about it. I understand now, Mr. Ai."

"Do you really understand?" Effie asked, looking directly at him.

"I really understand! Don't worry, Mr. Ai, I will never discuss equity incentives anymore after leaving this office! You are right, there are still a lot of things on our side now, and I really shouldn't divide them. Think about other things." Old Liu assured, patted his chest.

Effie breathed a sigh of relief, nodded with satisfaction, and asked again: "How is the preparation for CSOL going online, don't be like World of Warcraft, making everyone in a hurry, buying servers and adding Set up a server. And let the players line up every day, everyone complained, almost ruined the word of mouth.”

When World of Warcraft was first launched, the employees in the Facebook game company were indeed exhausted. Not only the people in the World of Warcraft project team, but everyone in the company went into battle shirtless.

No way, the popularity of the game far exceeded everyone's expectations.

Although before the launch, everyone had great expectations for World of Warcraft and made corresponding preparations.

However, the situation after the launch has far exceeded everyone's expectations, and the preparations that were thought to be safe are still not enough.

The preparatory work for World of Warcraft is based on the legend of Shanda. Whether it is the server or the number of players, it is based on the legendary game of Big Fire.

Everyone thinks that World of Warcraft can reach the peak level of legend in the first two months of its launch, which is already an exaggeration.

But the reality is often more exaggerated than imagined!

World of Warcraft has been online for two days, and it has completely surpassed the peak data of Shanda Legend...

Whether it is the number of players online, the average daily online time, player payment rate, etc., it is completely surpassed!

Of course, some data that takes time to accumulate have not yet been surpassed. For example, data such as the total number of player registrations will not be able to catch up for a while.

But judging from the current situation, it won't take long.

World of Warcraft has become the most popular online game in China, and it is also the most profitable online game, bar none!

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In fact, the CSOL game has been prepared for a long time. The original plan was to launch the public beta a week after World of Warcraft was launched. Half a month late.

Now that World of Warcraft has basically stabilized, preparations for the launch of CSOL have begun.

For CSOL, Effie also has high hopes. Although in terms of the number of players, it may not be as good as the CS stand-alone version, but in terms of making money, it is several grades higher.

Because CS is a stand-alone version, although some gun skins have been added, but limited by the overall framework of the game, there are not many things that can be added, and many ways to make money cannot be used.

And because it has been out for several years, the technology, graphics, and game engine are actually a bit behind, so everyone agrees that the life of this game will not be too long.

That is to say, there is no strong competitor in the market, otherwise, CS would not be so popular.

In fact, many game companies have analyzed the CS game, and everyone can't understand why there are so many FPS games, but CS is the only one that is really popular all over the world.

No, CS can no longer be described as fire, it should be said to be a phenomenal game!

From 2000 to 2005, during these five years, the popularity of CS is unimaginable to those who have not experienced it.

If in those few years, you were a high school student or a young person who just started working, then you should have a deep understanding of how popular it is.

To be honest, to say that it is a mouse dream of [-] million players is a bit of a belittle to it. In fact, the number of players should be more, maybe [-] or [-] million.

And CSOL is an enhanced version based on CS!

The engine is more advanced, and the picture is much more refined. This time, not only the gun skin can be changed, but also the clothes on the player character can be changed!

What's more exaggerated is that the clothes on the body include "hats, masks (or masks), glasses, scarves, tops, pants (skirts), shoes", which can be described as varied and dazzling!

It can meet all the needs of players, allowing you to match the image in your mind!

Of course, the prerequisite is to have money.

If you don't want to spend money, that's okay, the basic set is still provided for free, and it doesn't affect your game experience at all. As long as you have good skills, you can still kill the Quartet.

In other words, this CSOL is a fully upgraded version without changing the CS core.

Moreover, it is presented in the mode of an online game, and the game comes with a rank system and a point ranking system.

When you want to show off your rank, you don’t need to go to the Facebook game platform to take screenshots anymore, just take a screenshot directly in the game, and in a screenshot, you can not only show off your rank of king, but also show off all kinds of out-of-print gun skins on your character and costumes!

Chapter 768 is free forever

Effie and Villefort discussed this game for a long time, and the final decision is that the game is completely free, and the guns and clothing skins in the game are charged!

Among online games, there has never been any game in free mode. Of course, there has never been a stand-alone game...

So this is a pioneering work!

In the beginning, Villefort was hesitant, fearing that the production cost of the game would not be recovered, but Effie showed the sales data of the commemorative skin box released before 2003 WCG.

After seeing it, G Fatty made up his mind. The Chinese region adopts a free model, and the pricing in other regions is also very low.

The reason why those areas in Europe and the United States are not free is because they are afraid of being sued by other game manufacturers. In case someone joins forces to sue you for "malicious competition", it will be very troublesome.

As for the mainland area, because there is an agent of Facebook Games, so you are not afraid of being sued, and there are no corresponding laws and regulations in the country that do not allow it to be free.

Because the sales data is used for WCG competitions and charitable donations, Villefort has no share.Moreover, commemorative skins were launched for several games at the same time, and the specific data of which game sold how much was not made public.

However, that shocking sales data still impresses many people, especially those in the game industry.

It can be said that if there is no such foundation, if Effie dares to say that CSOL is completely free, it is estimated that Fatty G will jump up and scold her.

It is not easy to develop a game. It takes a year or two at short time, or several years at a long time. Dozens, hundreds or even thousands of programmers work overtime.

Many people may think that there is no cost for software, games, etc., as long as there is a computer, isn’t it all right?

But they may not realize that the time and energy invested by so many top programmers are also very expensive.

Everyone knows that the average salary in the IT industry is very high. Even in 2004, even in [-], programmers from major game manufacturers had salaries exceeding [-] yuan!

Hundreds of such programmers, the monthly salary alone is several million, and it may be hundreds of millions in a year.

There are also investments in messy equipment, computers, art plots, etc., so it is normal for a large-scale game to have a development cost of tens of millions or even over [-] million dollars.

In the game industry, it often happens that a well-known game manufacturer went bankrupt just because a big-produced game was not done well...

So at the beginning, when Effie proposed to adopt the free model, the people at Villefort couldn't understand.

What a joke, although CSOL is not a super masterpiece, it took more than two years and the hard work of hundreds of programmers to create a game.

The total production cost is over ten million dollars!