"Okay, at that time, we just built a LAN within the company, and what players could do was just like this, and it was even far less than what we could do. There were dozens of PCs to form a relatively large LAN environment, but if the whole world was within this LAN, how much sensation would it cause with the playability of the game "Age of Empires"?"

Jester said with a smile.

"call!"

After hearing Jester say it, Yuhisuko Yoshiro suddenly let out a big sigh. He now fully understood what Jester meant.

However, he was still a little curious. Sega could really achieve a large-scale online game like a local area network? According to his current technology and hardware, it may be possible in the United States, but it is unlikely in Japan.

Moreover, it is much easier to do this with PC than to do this with a game console.

So, Tamahiro Yoshiro also directly expressed his questions.

"I said before that the most likely way they can accomplish their idea through communication satellites, like connecting to a telephone line or using a telephone line directly."

Jester simply said that this was not a random guess, because it was something Sega had done in history.

However, Jester continued to add: "However, although this method is very feasible, there are two most critical issues. I have already mentioned one of them before, that is, because of fees or delays, the problem of players not accepting it. The second is the price."

Speaking of this, Jester paused slightly.

"Of course, I also forgot one, that is. If you want to do what I said before, it is impossible to rely on their md hosts. You must have the next generation host. Maybe, this time the news is Sega's discussion on the R&D plan for the next generation host."

After hearing Jester's explanation, Tamahiro nodded repeatedly.

"So we?"

After nodding, Yuhihiro immediately carried out the problem of how to deal with it on his side, and Jester simply waved his hand: "We don't need to do this, add this function to the host. In the next five or six years, I personally think that the disadvantages outweigh the benefits, so we don't need to follow up, but there is one thing that really is Sega reminded me this time."

"What's the matter!"

Tamahiko Yoshiro couldn't help but speak out, almost without thinking.

"Battlenet."

After Jester simply said two words, he remained silent, which made Yuxiu Yoshiro confused. What is this so-called battle net?

Yuxiu Yoshiro asked, but Jaster just shook his head and did not explain it to him. This made Yuxiu Yoshiro even more strange because he knew Jaster's character. For Jaster, if he knew, he would definitely not keep silent.

"I haven't figured out what to do about this."

Jester explained lightly, he did not think about how to deal with this matter. It may not be very accurate to say that the handling may not be accurate. To be precise, he has not thought about what kind of battle network he should create.

In his memory, in the future world, in the field of PC games, there are two game platforms with the greatest influence.

One is naturally the Steam, which is always the Steam, and the other is of course the world's first game war network established by Blizzard - Blizzard Battle Network.

Judging from the future development, these two categories have a much greater potential. In the future, G-fat will rely on Steam to make the entire valve unemployed. Valves will grow into a giant as there are more and more games on the Steam platform.

This is the power of a platform that does not limit the game.

And what about Blizzard's Battle Network?

Only Blizzard games can appear on the Battle.com. This is very restrictive, but it also has great benefits, that is, it can purify the beliefs of players. Don’t underestimate this. This is very important, especially for a game company.

In Jester's heart, he wanted to set up steam because the structure of steam is big enough.

But now, with the current network conditions, it seems to be a little too difficult to build such a platform.

Then, what about Battle.com?

Jester locked himself in a house, and even Claudia rushed outside. He was thinking about this issue seriously and carefully. If he followed the current conditions, could he achieve the Battle.com?

It is OK in the United States, and Jester can confirm this.

But it is only the United States, and it can only be a PC. Not only did Drembox2 not take this into consideration when it was designed at the beginning, it is impossible to modify it now. Even if it develops external equipment, it seems to be unnecessary in Jester's opinion.

Because the current home computers do not use the network connection function at all.

Sega's attempt in the mid-1990s was enough to illustrate the problem. Moreover, the problem to be solved by using a home computer for networking is far more complicated than using a PC.

“It can be applied on a small scale first.”

He took out a piece of white paper and spread it on the table. Jester picked up a pen on the table and carefully wrote his thoughts on the paper. Large-scale, game-related Internet services are not that easy to do. It can even be said that there is no company at present, and no company has gone back to do it except the government departments in the United States.

Therefore, it is necessary to apply it on a small scale and slowly accumulate experience.

Moreover, the current network situation is far inferior to later generations. Jester had tested the mod that downloaded "Thor Hammer" on the Internet, which is "Thor Arena", and the effect is still good.

However, to provide support from Zhanwang, it is not just about building a server, then putting the game on for players to download, or storing information.

There are countless problems that you know or don’t know, and they are happening at any time.

As far as Jester knows, after World of Warcraft was launched in China, there was a very major problem in the servers in the southwest region. Because time passed too long, Jester couldn't remember what was wrong, and it seemed like something like a replay.

In short, this incident was very serious, and it was so serious that the personnel in Jiucheng could not solve it at all.

Even Blizzard technicians can't solve the problem.

Finally, I still invited ibm or HP, plus Oracle, and these experts on server issues or database issues, solved the problem. Now, although there are not many such server problem solvers, ibm and HP are still trustworthy. Of course, there must be a company that solves database problems, and Oracle has been established.

Thinking of this, Jester wrote the words oracle bone inscriptions on that piece of white paper.

Thinking of Oracle, Jester couldn't help but think of the founder of Oracle Larry Ellison, a withdrawal scholar like Jester and Bill Gates.

To be precise, Larry Ellison is still inferior to Jester and Bill Gates. At least Jester and Bill Gates are students from prestigious schools, and they dropped out of school not because they were unable to complete their studies, but because there were more important things that they needed to do.

The reason why Larry Ellison dropped out of school was because he couldn't get a degree from university at all.

The first thirty years of this founder of the software company second only to Microsoft in the world can be said to be an extremely failed thirty years, and at the age of thirty-two, he still accomplished nothing.

Why did nothing happen?

For example, I have studied in three universities, but none of them have a bachelor's degree, I have switched to more than a dozen companies, and even his wife has left him.

When I started my business, I only had $1,200, and I couldn't afford to rent a garage.

But at this beginning, in 1977, Larry Ellison and several friends established Oracle Company, and then he doubled the profits of the company for twelve consecutive years.

Becoming the second largest software company in the world is also known as one of the best and most profitable companies by the media, he himself became the richest man in Silicon Valley. But only a few people know how long life struggle he experienced during this period. At the age of 32, he had nothing, and by the richest man in Silicon Valley 20 years later, the outside world's evaluation of this business genius was mixed.

Jester recalled everything about Larry Ellison in his mind. For this man called the playboy in Silicon Valley, Jester liked him very much when he was young, because before Jester traveled through time, his academic performance was not very good.

He once heard Larry Ellison's very famous speech at Yale University, called Why I Successful.

During that speech, Larry Ellison had just appeared on stage and he was a little extraordinary as soon as he opened his mouth. He looked at the Yale students sitting in the audience with a cold expression. These top students who were far more outstanding than when he was the same age, and the expression of disdain appeared in his eyes.

Jester couldn't remember the previous words clearly, but there was one of them that was very clear to Jester, who was still in the second grade at the time. He even often regarded it as his motto, as an excuse to escape reality and avoid his poor grades.
Chapter completed!