"Well, okay, I understand."
At Sierra Company, after Roberta Williams hung up the phone, Ken Williams, who was sitting next to her, smiled and asked, "What's the matter on the phone over there?"
Roberta smiled and said, "Ask us if we can arrange to launch "Minecraft" within two months. YU hopes to put the game online on the video game theme day of the annual conference."
"This is good news for us. The Deep Space Annual Conference is now very popular. If it can be launched on the video game theme day, it will also save us a lot of publicity expenses. And it should be fine if it is launched within two months.
Question?"
Roberta shook her head, "I heard that Blizzard will also announce the launch time of "Warcraft 3" on the video game theme day. I'm afraid that people's attention will be on "Warcraft 3" by then. And
Compared with "Minecraft", YU obviously pays more attention to "Warcraft 3"."
Ken wondered: "How did you come to this conclusion? YU is involved in "Minecraft", so it's impossible for him not to pay attention to it, and our competitor is not the game "Warcraft 3"."
"I heard that YU will ask about the progress of "Warcraft 3" every two months."
"Don't think too much, let's just follow YU's arrangements. YU will not favor one thing over another. Even if there is a situation where they favor one thing over another, we, as a subsidiary, should suffer some losses."
Roberta nodded. She knew her husband was right. They had always been taken care of in Snow Mountain before.
In fact, Roberta is not so nervous about switching to another game. The key point is that "Minecraft" has put a lot of effort into her. She believes that this game has unlimited potential and may not be as expensive as a big-budget game like "Warcraft 3".
It's not good, so she hopes that the head office can take it seriously and help them run this game well.
At the same time, in Blizzard's office, Mike Mohan, Alan Yardham and Frank Pierce gathered again in the cabin where they often discuss matters.
This meeting was organized by Mike Mohan. After everyone gathered, he was the first to speak, "The assistant from YU called us just now and said that he would have a video conference with us. The meeting will start in about fifteen minutes.
."
Frank Pierce looked at his watch and said angrily, "Why are you telling us now?"
Mike Mohan shrugged helplessly, "I only got the news ten minutes ago."
"Then you should have told us ten minutes ago. Now we have to open the meeting quickly. That thing is sometimes unstable."
Frank was talking about Microsoft's web conferencing application, which they used to use for video conferencing.
This program has been out for three or four years, and it is relatively simple to operate. Under the Microsoft
When the user wants to call someone, enter the IP address of the computer they want to call in the input box of the window, and press the phone icon next to it to make the call.
Because everyone uses Microsoft systems, this program still has advantages. As long as it is a computer using Microsoft systems, Mike Mohan and others used this program for video chats before.
Hearing that Frank was about to run the meeting, Mike Mohan smiled and waved his hand. He pointed to the computer and said, "No, we are using DD for video chat today."
"DD?" The other two people asked and looked at the computer screen at the same time.
There is a DD icon on the computer screen.
Frank stared at the DD icon carefully, and then said, "Have the wings of this pigeon gotten a little bigger?"
Mike Mohan gave a thumbs up, "Frank, your observation skills are really good. This pigeon is indeed bigger than the previous one. This is the latest internal beta version of DD. I just installed it."
"Internal beta version?"
"Yes, internal beta version. This version has not been officially released yet. We are also the first batch to use it. The biggest difference between the new version and the old version is the addition of a video call function."
With that said, Mike Mohan operated the mouse to open DD and logged in to his DD account. Then he found YU in the friend bar, clicked into the chat interface, pointed to the toolbar in the middle of the interface, "Look at this
The spherical icon is the symbol of video chat. Just click this button to send a video chat request to the other party."
The other two people laughed and said, "Although the new version has added functions, the screen is simpler, and the startup speed of the software seems to be faster than before."
Mike Mohan nodded and said, "That's true. Every aspect has been optimized. In the future, if we want to video chat, we can use DD instead of entering the IP address every time."
Alan Adhan asked, "When will this open beta be released?"
Mike Mohan shook his head, "I don't know about that. It should be soon. In fact, it doesn't matter whether it is a public or internal test. I heard that many numbers will be released when the internal test officially starts. It is no different from the open test.
."
"Get me some places for the closed beta later." Frank said.
"The qualifications for this internal test are based on the account number. You have to give me your account number and send it to Deep Space Computer so that they can give you a quota for the internal test."
"Okay, I'll send you a few accounts later." Frank looked at his watch again, "There are less than ten minutes left. Before the meeting starts, you can tell us what the main content of today's meeting is.
, don’t wait until the meeting starts later and we won’t know anything.”
"I don't know the specific content of the meeting. I only know that it was related to "Warcraft 3". YU should have played the game and may he have any suggestions."
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Alan Yardham scratched his head, "We have asked YU many times before, hoping that he could give some advice, but we didn't get any suggestions.
Now that the game is about to be released, it is difficult for us to make changes if you make suggestions at this time."
Frank smiled and said: "I don't know what the situation is yet. Maybe you just have a brief chat with us. Don't think too much about it."
"I hope you won't suddenly make any suggestions that require major changes." Alan Adham muttered.
Mike Mohan laughed and said: "If YU really wants to make suggestions that require major changes, it is actually a good thing. It is better than having problems after the game is launched."
"That's what I say, but no one wants to have any problems..."
The three of them were chatting when suddenly a crisp sound "ding dong ding" came from the speaker connected to the computer.
They can all hear this voice, it is the voice in DD that pays special attention to the online ones.
Speaking of special attention, Mike Mohan and others were very emotional. Although DD has far fewer functions than icq, every time DD comes out with functions, they can capture the hearts of users, and they are all small functions.
In addition to this special attention, there is also the invisibility function that was released before. After that function was released, it was strongly sought after by young people, causing many young people to give up icq and switch to DD.
It is these ingenious little functions that helped DD quickly win the instant messaging market in Europe and the United States. Now DD's global market share has completely surpassed ICQ, which means that in North America, ICQ can still compete with DD.
, it is simply unmatched in other countries.
The current situation is not only related to DD's own advantages, but also related to ICQ's development strategy.
There are two fatal problems in the development of icq. The first is the single language. Although they became popular at the earliest, they did not pay attention to the market in other countries and only launched the English version, which gave DD an advantage in other countries and regions.
machine.
Non-English users in many countries reluctantly used icq. Later, when DD appeared, they abandoned icq directly.
Second, as the version is updated, ICQ has integrated too many useless functions. Now ICQ is no longer like an instant messaging software, but more like an operating system. In addition to chatting, it also adds IP phone services.
A search engine is installed, a multi-functional schedule is installed, etc.
In their view, the more complete the functions of a software, the better. It is best that one software can meet all the users' Internet needs. But in fact, many functions in it are not used by ordinary users, and the software installation package is added in vain.
size.
Later, DD became popular. In order to follow the trend, ICQ would copy the popular functions in DD. Many functions were not difficult to implement, but there were big differences in the implementation process.
Deep Space has been developed for a long time and has been optimized many times, so the path selection is the simplest. But it is different when it comes to ICQ. To achieve the same function, they need to consume more code, and the installation package will naturally
Just bigger.
Moreover, there are a lot of small functions in deep space. After stealth was released, there were also invisible ones, only invisible ones, etc. In the past two years, ICQ spent a lot of energy just copying dd. In the past two years,
They have no intention of copying anymore because the software is almost overwhelmed.
Both are instant messaging software. The installation package sizes of DD and ICQ are ten times different. This alone can make users choose DD over ICQ. When they download the software, their purpose is just for online chatting.
Several people will choose ICQ because ICQ has more search engine functions than DD, because they usually have the search engine they are used to.
Maybe ICQ has also realized the problem, but now it is hard to get rid of, and it is very difficult to change, unless they start over, but it takes a lot of courage to start over.
"YU is online, should we take the initiative to say hello?" Frank said.
Mike Mohan looked at his watch, "It's not the appointed time yet. Maybe he has other things to do, so we'd better wait until the time..."
Before he finished speaking, the computer's external speaker rang again.
"YU proactively sent a video request."
"Hurry up."
Mike Mohan didn't hesitate and clicked to answer. Then they saw the three of them on the computer screen, but the picture of the other party was completely black.
"Is there something wrong with the new function?" Frank couldn't help but muttered.
Opposite me, Yu Dong smiled and said, "No, there is something wrong with my camera, please wait a moment."
"Okay, okay."
The three of them said nothing, waiting for Yu Dong to repair the camera.
After a while, the screen finally recovered, and Yu Dong appeared on the computer screen. Next to Yu Dong, assistant Jiang Yueming stood.
Yu Dong waved and greeted Mike Mohan and others, "Good morning, everyone."
Mike Mohan and the other three replied, "Good evening."
Yu Dong nodded, "The video conference was held at short notice, which should have affected your work. I want to apologize to you first."
"No, no, we were planning to have a small meeting together this morning. Yesterday, Ren communicated with us about the annual meeting and we need to confirm it," Mike Mohan said, referring to Ren as the Game Division.
of Ren Hongfei.
"Well, there are two reasons for holding a meeting at short notice. One is because I tried out the new game "Warcraft 3" today and came up with some ideas, so I am anxious to tell you about it. The other is that DD's video chat function has come out, and I
I also want to try out the effect, and now it seems that it is relatively smooth."
"It's really smooth, and the images of both cameras can be adjusted. It's very good to use." Mike Mohan praised it with a smile, and then asked, "What are your thoughts on "Warcraft 3"?"
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Yu Dong said with a smile, "The game is very well done, especially the role of hero is highlighted, which allows me to see the difference between this version and the previous version, and the difference
"Warcraft" series and "StarCraft". What we talked about before has basically been realized. I think next year our wcg can definitely include "Warcraft 3" in the competition."
Mike Mohan looked at each other and saw surprise in each other's eyes. When they heard Yu Dong say he had some ideas for a new game, they were worried about something going wrong, but they didn't expect to give them such a good idea.
information.
When making "Warcraft 3", their goal was to strive to make the game a WCG project. Now their goal has been achieved. They know whether "Warcraft 3" can become a WCG competition project, YU
It's totally fine to take it.
When Deep Space Corporation had just taken over Blizzard from Vivendi, Mike Mohan and others, like ordinary people, believed that Yu Dong was just a shareholder of Deep Space Corporation with some say.
But as time went by, Blizzard had more and more connections with its parent company, Deep Space, and Mike Mohan and the others realized that Yu Dong was not just a shareholder with some say, he was at least on an equal footing with Jimmy.
Mike Mohan said excitedly, "We will definitely assist the electronic marketing company to complete the creation of this new competition project and ensure the excitement of the project."
"Well, you can just contact the electronic marketing company about this. I have something else to tell you."
"Something else?"
Chapter completed!