The server downtime really gave Huayi a headache.

Huang Hongbo flew directly from Wanwan to the mainland that night, and the supervision must solve the server problem.

In order to relieve server pressure, "Stone Age" quickly opened several more servers, and Huayi Company also increased its reserves of physical equipment.

In three days, due to the server downtime, the company's financial department estimated that it would cost almost hundreds of thousands of dollars.

However, from this incident, we can see how popular "The Stone Age" is.

After all, for now, this is the only MMORPG that has entered the Chinese market, and the development of this area in China is still blank.

The earliest online game in China, called "Peking University Xiakexing", was born on a server in Peking University's physics building in 1997. It is a text mud game. The so-called text mud means that it does not have any graphical interface and only creates a sense of game through text descriptions. (Similar to "I'm from Jianghu" launched on Steam in 2020)

This game has always been operated for free, mainly because some of the same people are playing on it. The circle is very small and basically few people have heard of it.

The legendary power generation with love lasted until 21 years.

In order to let colleagues who developed "Three Kingdoms Online" deeply understand the charm of the online game era, Cao Yang also organized colleagues from the Three Kingdoms Online project team to play "Stone Age" together.

After playing for about a week, everyone was a little awkward.

There was no way, Cao Yang could only give orders that he would not be allowed to play games during working hours.

And those who play games will have to give him a research report.

The Stone Age is very popular, but Liu Guangran, director of the program department, did not understand it very much.

Yes, Liu Guangran has been promoted to director of the program department.

Although the salary and benefits have not increased in essence, there is a title that sounds completely different.

It is mainly because Liu Guangran, as the second in command of the company, served as the head of the game hall project. Now he wants to be the main program for Guofeng Studio's "Three Kingdoms Online". In terms of organizational structure, it seems that he is one level lower than Li Lanyun.

The project can only have one brain, and Cao Yang must have appointed Li Lanyun, who was a planning background. In order not to have a clear sense of hierarchy, Cao Yang gave Liu Guangran the title [Program Department Director].

Although it is a false title, you can prevent the people below from gossiping.

As for Liu Guangran, he doesn't have much desire for power. He is just a technical mistress and doesn't have to care about things. He just needs to do his own technical development and he is also happy to cooperate.

Cao Yang still admires this very much.

With the ability and not greedy for power, Liu Guangran's path has gone wider.

In two years, if the company is bigger, Liu Guangran will be able to become a cto.

At the meeting, Liu Guangran asked in confusion, "Boss, why does the appearance of online games affect our stand-alone game sales? The products we sell are different. Can't players play Zhao Yunchuan of our company while playing the Stone Age?

Moreover, I see that the chess and cards we made, no, after the game hall was launched, it did not have much impact on the single-player game sales on the market."

Cao Yang sighed and stared at him with his eyes.

Li Lanyun, who was sitting next to Liu Guangran, smiled with a pursed lips.

To be honest, his thoughts were similar to those of Liu Guangran a month ago, and he was very dissatisfied with Zhao Yunchuan's early release. However, this month, with the popularity of the Stone Age and his own experience, Li Lanyun had many more thoughts in his mind and reflected on his previous behavior.

He now vaguely felt that Cao Yang was right. The forward-looking nature and keen sense of business displayed by this young man were simply terrible.

Seeing Zhuang Yurou pouring water beside her, Cao Yang raised his chin.

"My assistant to the general manager can answer you this question."

"ha?"

The little secretary and Liu Guangran turned around in surprise at the same time.

"Boss, I don't understand these..." Zhuang Yurou said.

"Why don't you want to have more than two boyfriends at the same time? Do you don't like it?" Cao Yang asked.

“…”

The evil light flashed in Zhuang Yurou's eyes.

Isn't this boss so angry at this stall?

If it weren't for the high salary that Cao Yang gave, she thought she should have left this guy early, and she was both sarcastic and arrogant.

Zhuang Yurou sighed and sarcastically said, "Boss, you don't know where I got my time to have a boyfriend? I get up at 7 o'clock in the morning and take a bus to work at 8 o'clock. I have to have a meeting with you in the evening. I can't take a bus home until after 10 o'clock.

Have you given me time to have a boyfriend?

Not to mention two, I have a boyfriend, and I will laugh out loud."

Cao Yang's mouth raised slightly, and he was very satisfied with Zhuang Yurou's answer.

He turned around and looked at Liu Guangran, "So you understand?"

Liu Guangran nodded solemnly, "I understand. Mr. Cao's example is vivid and interesting, amazing, and admire it."

What the hell?

The little secretary looked confused, how could he understand?

What do you understand?

"So, there are two aspects of the impact of online games on the stand-alone market. The first is what Yu Rou mentioned just now. Before the Stone Age, the domestic game market was actually very scarce. A stand-alone game, taking Dayu's Xuanyuan Sword as an example, will take one to two years to develop. Because the development cycle is long, the games players can play every year are actually only about ten.

So players have the time and money to consume these games.”

Cao Yang said, "But, the Stone Age is different. It has no end and takes up players' time without limits. As long as you want, you can go and immerse yourself in it for the rest of your life.

This is the first one—

Grab the player's time.”

Grabbing players' time will become a very important proposition in future games.

Even in 21 years, major game manufacturers will fight to the death just to seize the players' time.

Hearing this, the little secretary was suddenly stunned.

Neither Liu Guangran nor Li Lanyun spoke, but just lowered his head and thought silently.

"The second impact," Cao Yang continued, "is money. How much can Chinese people have average income now? A stand-alone game costs 68 yuan, hardcover version 100, and 168 version 18. Players may be able to afford two to three stand-alone games a year, but what about online games?

The charge for a card is 15 yuan, 300 points, and it takes 50 hours to play. This is two-way extraction. The more time the online game squeezes you, the more money you will pay.

In this way, how much money can the player leave to stand-alone players?”

"Uh-huh……"

Several people nodded at the same time, and Mr. Cao explained it in an easy-to-understand manner and was very easy to understand.

What's even better is that there is a faint sense of sadness.

Liu Guangran and the young secretary covered their faces uncomfortable at the same time.

This is probably the sorrow of being single.

The little secretary stared at Cao Yang with anger, "Boss, I understand, the reason why I can't get a boyfriend is because of you. You squeezed me out and monopolized me..."

"Ah! You can't talk nonsense." Cao Yang quickly interrupted.

The little secretary was confused, and the following words were not finished yet, "I mean, I have taken over my time and money..."

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