Chapter 565

Qiu Xin, leader of the third game development group of the "second world" game development department, hands Lin Feng a data sheet with an excited face.

From May 27, 2002 to today, September 2, 2002, 10 servers have been set up in "swordsman love: loyalty to the country", which can accommodate up to 2.14 million online players. However, although "second world" can hold 2.14 million players at present, it is still unable to meet the desire of all players to log in to the game for the huge game group. But now it's no longer like before, players have no online quota. Now they can log in normally during the day, but they are still full at night.

220000 people online (the back seven groups of servers all use K8 processor, each group can accommodate 220000 people) server, brand new but in line with the martial arts novel upgrade system, human mechanics system, and absolute freedom, so that every player with martial arts dream can't give up in the game. In particular, Lin Feng is now shooting "the hero", also in disguise to stimulate the passion of martial arts game players. Of course, it has also directly robbed the players of other large-scale 3D online games. Nowadays, the online rate of the rest of the 3D role-playing online games in China is less than one tenth of that of swordsman's devotion to the country, which makes people itch.

It is conservatively estimated that "swordsman love: loyalty to serve the country" has at least 10 million players in China. Taking Hong Kong, Taiwan and surrounding areas into account, the number of players will not be less than 15 million, and the maximum number of online players is expected to be about 4 million. In this way, "second world" has to set up 9 sets of servers. One set of servers is three supercomputers. Although the cost of one supercomputer has been reduced by 30% after the merger of "amd" and "ATI", the cost of three supercomputers, that is, one set of supercomputers, is about $20 million. Nine sets of super servers will cost 180 million US dollars.

According to some calculations, it will cost 180 million US dollars, which makes Qiu Xin feel uneasy. I don't know if the finance department will approve it. After all, now that the company has annexed "amd" and "ATI", it can't just support it, it has to develop. And development needs funds, or a lot of funds. I don't know whether the $3.2 billion cash on the company's account is enough for AMD and ATI. Besides other game development teams, Qiu Xin doesn't know whether his game development team can still get the funds. After all, the previous 10 groups of super servers have consumed us $230 million of the company's capital, which has become the company's biggest cash hole at present. In terms of profit ratio, "loyalty to the country in swordsman's love" is only average in the company.

Lin Feng glanced at Qiu Xin with a worried face and a smile.

"Mr. Wu, we will give the budget to Bruce and ask him to assemble nine more servers as soon as possible." Lin Feng said, looking at the eight team leaders of the game development department, "if you can, any game in our company must not let players wait, so that players can log in at any time and play smoothly. You know, no matter how good the game is, if you always let players wait for a long time, it will always hurt the hearts of a group of players, and it will not be good for the company's image in the long run. "

The crowd nodded.

Third, the game development department is still developing sports games, and there is no progress for the time being. However, its "go kart", although not much profit, but also for the company to bring a quarter of 1 million U.S. dollars in revenue.

The fourth game development department is still developing "World War". Minwu Li has been completely trapped in this "huge pit". Because maps and 3D models of cities are all outsourced cheaply, minwu Li and his team are developing the core of "World War", war weapons and human mechanics. In terms of weapons of war, minwu Lee has now included the weapons and equipment involved in World War in three aspects: sea, land and air. Almost all the weapons that can be seen in modern wars can be seen in World War.

Armed helicopters, bombers, aircraft carriers, destroyers, tanks, armored vehicles... And so on, everything in the game, including nuclear bombs. Moreover, in terms of weapon age, minwu Li set it from World War I. at first, players can only have weapons from the era of World War I. in the game, they can gradually upgrade to modern weapons and even future weapons by completing tasks.

In terms of human mechanics, minwu Lee has also made better improvements in "anti terrorist elite". The game characters controlled by players will show different adverse reactions when they are injured in different parts of the body. For example, dizziness, the screen will be dizzy, will become blurred; Left hand injury, will not be able to use left hand weapons, thigh injury, will affect running, and so on. Thanks to the development of 3D engine department director Jade's human mechanics system, the adoption of this human mechanics system not only brings a new game mode, but also adds new fun to the game.

At present, this set of "human body mechanics system" is only developed to the second stage. The first stage is that the game characters controlled by players have all kinds of action elements; The second stage is that the characters controlled by the players will produce all kinds of bad states that normal people should have. There are five stages in this system.

In this regard, Lin Feng has to admit that jade is really beyond what he is referring to, and is also a beauty. Surprisingly, in the computer game department, there will be a beauty who is proficient in computer programs and human physics. Fortunately, I was caught by my own company.

Of course, minwu Lee's new improvement of the whole game also resulted in the extension of the game development cycle. However, the complete outsourcing of the game map and 3D city model will not affect the public beta of the world war game, which is expected to be officially launched on January 1, 2005. Today is September 2, 2002, with two years and four months to go.

Gabriel, director of the fifth game development department, is also excited at the moment《 Half life 2 is finally finished and will be on sale soon. And this time, the language version of six countries, including China, Britain, France, Russia, Germany and Spain, is launched in September 8th. The Chinese mainland game player can also book through the "Jingdong net" and avoid postage through the "second world" official website. It's $20.

"Lin, I think half life 2 will sell at least 10 million copies this time." Gabriel said excitedly. Half life 2, which took 13 months to develop, is finally coming on the market, which greatly eases the pressure on gable.

After all, seeing that the rest of the online game development teams can bring the company nearly ten million US dollars in net profit every quarter, his stand-alone game development team is a bit shabby. Now half life 2 is finally on the market, which can prove his name. Of course, even if you sell 10 million copies, it's only $200 million in sales. Except for the salaries of the members of the game development team and the final dividends in the past 13 months, the net profit is up to $100 million, which is not as good as the online games that can continue to operate.

Every time he thought of this, gable sighed, but he didn't believe that the stand-alone game would decline. He believed that the stand-alone game must have its glory. After all, compared with online games, the screen and plot design of stand-alone games have more room to play.

Lin Feng highly appreciated gable's idea. After all, online games only represent a part of the players, there are still many players still like stand-alone games, like a person immersed in the game world alone, to explore the plot“ Second world is a game company, not just an online game company.

Then Joe Wan kanheim, the leader of the sixth game development group, reported on the development plan of "invincible hero 4", which will finally be released in the internal test in October.

The leader of the seventh development group, Nishiyama Longzhi, reported the development plan of "the strongest on the ground", which will be officially tested in December. Moreover, in order not to conflict with "quanhuang online", Nishiyama has made some modifications to it, which no longer defines it as an online fighting game, but an online action online game. Added more upgrade elements in it.

The newly established eighth game operation Department is mainly responsible for the online competition of nine games in the "Second World E-sports Champions League", and adopts the same charging standard. Like "king of boxing online", they all adopt the "loser pays" system. By purchasing the "second world" virtual point card, players can choose to fight against the computer alone or challenge their opponents on battle. Net.

In the battle. Net challenge, the negative side needs to pay the game fee of this game, and different charging standards are adopted according to different games《 Boxing king online, 0.1 yuan per game, StarCraft, 0.5 yuan per game. Only in the battle. Net challenge, can we get battle. Net points, participate in all kinds of official online competitions, and get the draft of 18 clubs in the e-sports Champions League at the beginning of the season, and become a professional player. In addition, according to the points and rankings, as well as various winning and losing rates, the official will give cash rewards every month. The top 50 of all kinds of game battle. Net rankings have awards, ranging from 10000 yuan for the first place to 100 yuan for the 50th place.

The points system and rewards, as well as the qualification of the Champions League draft, greatly stimulate the enthusiasm of all players, and through the battle. Net game, you can stay at home, whether you are in China, or in the United States, or in Antarctica, as long as you can play online. In particular, the "loser pays system", as long as you don't lose, you can play free games, plus a high bonus, so that all players are eager.

Naturally, wool is also fished out from sheep.

"Boss, our amd hardware development department will officially launch a new CPU performance standard this month, telling all consumers that the higher the CPU frequency, the better." Rudz, head of AMD's hardware development department, vowed.

Lin Feng was stunned when he heard this. Then he remembered what happened and shook his head（ To be continued, if you want to know the future, please log in www.qidian.com , more chapters, support authors, support legitimate reading!)