Chapter 1417 The original sin of free games
It is actually a very difficult thing to prevent the birth of free online games. Is it completely impossible to do it even with Boss Jia's current status in the world?
Because the most powerful thing about free online games is the grasp of people's hearts. Now all online games are charged, so free online games without thresholds will definitely attract a large number of ordinary players who have no income in the early days of the founding of China. This is a huge advantage of free online games.
Then, we will launch paid props in online games, allowing those rich people to enjoy the pleasure of slaughtering free players in one blow. This is the charging method for free online games.
Ordinary players who have no money enjoy the pleasure of free games, while rich players enjoy the pleasure of spending money to massacre free players. In fact, this is quite fair. If you don’t want to be slaughtered by RMB players and don’t want to spend money, you can play LOL!
This is a very perfect, very simple, and an effective routine. As long as you do it, you can make money. No matter how rich Boss Jia is, he can still stop others from making money!
So Boss Jia actually doesn’t have much disgust with free online games, but free online games also have original sins. This original sin suppresses the development of China’s 3A games.
One of the biggest regrets of the Chinese people has always been that China has never had its own 3A masterpiece, and from ancient times to the present, there has not been a single one.
It’s not a technical problem. Huaxia has actually crushed the world in gaming technology, but the key problem is that its 3A masterpiece is not profitable!
An ordinary 3A masterpiece has millions of sales worldwide and earns tens of millions of dollars. It’s almost the best. The top 3A masterpiece has hundreds of millions of dollars.
But even some low-level online games can make a profit of hundreds of millions of dollars a year, and the cost of these online games to replace skin is only one tenth or even one hundredth of the 3A masterpiece. This is a choice that any capital fool would make.
But the world is different. Under the leadership of Boss Jia, Daqian Games is already the most profitable game company in the world. It also proves that top paid online games are rich. In this way, the original sin of free online games may not exist.
"Well, let's talk about the situation. If it really doesn't work, just kill "Zhengtu" in the cradle!" Boss Jia muttered.
The first thing that the world has truly created the free online game model is "Zhengtu". It is said that from the release of "Zhengtu" to 2020, a game like "Zhengtu" has made more than 70 billion yuan in profits for Shi Yuzhu.
It is precisely because of the popularity of "Zhengtu" that countless game developers later entered the free mode. After all, before "Zhengtu", games such as "Legend" and "World of Warcraft" fully proved the success of paid online game mode!
Therefore, if "Zhengtu" is killed and then create a few huge successful cases of point-card paid online games, it will be completely feasible.
"Maybe, we can play that game!" Boss Jia muttered.
"What game?" Zhong Yu raised his ears and asked curiously.
"Fantasy Westward Journey!" Boss Jia smiled.
The game "Fantasy Westward Journey" is very profound in the influence of Boss Jia. First of all, this is the first online game Boss Jia played in his previous life, not "Legend".
I still remember when I was traveling to Fujian Province, because my parents and friends opened an Internet cafe and their parents were talking. When their friends saw Jia Yapeng being very bored, they took the initiative to ask the Internet administrator to drive a machine for Jia Yapeng, who was only 13 years old at the time, and then happened to catch up with the start of "Fantasy Westward Journey". The entire Internet cafe was promoted by Fantasy Westward Journey, so Jia Yapeng was exposed to online games for the first time.
Then Jia Yapeng couldn't extricate himself. He stayed at level 69 for two years and at level 89 for two years. He bought hundreds of millions of copper coins for buying points. He would cry if he talked too much!
Back to the topic, in fact, Boss Jia believes that the point card charging model of "Fantasy Westward Journey" is the most desirable model, which is to increase the official path for point card sales, and use the rich to buy a large number of point cards and exchange it for game coins to strengthen personal strength.
Ordinary players earn game coins through time and then exchange them for point cards, thus obtaining free game play.
In this way, the point card consumption of a game can be increased by more than ten times, but it avoids the unfairness of krypton gold games or the infamous reputation of free games, which is indeed an excellent way.
But then again, it’s too early to think about free games, because if you really want to dominate the world, you have to wait until online payment appears.
In this era when online payments still rely on postal services, free games have not been developed in the general environment.
To sum up, throughout 1997, Daqian Games created sales performance of US$15.12 billion, while its profits historically exceeded the 9 billion mark, reaching a net profit of US$9.172 billion, continuing to lead the entire Daqian Group's net profit list.
Well, the sales performance of Qianji transformed game handheld consoles is the largest.
Unlike the rich Daqian Games that have gained, Daqian Entertainment has suffered a heavy blow this year, with a total profit of only US$1.8 billion, a decrease of nearly US$2 billion from last year.
The reason is that Daqian Entertainment released too few movies throughout 1997.
According to the original plan, the three movies of "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone", "Fantastic Four" and "Pokemon 3" will be released in 1997.
However, except for "Pokemon 3" released on time, the other two movies had to be released until 1998.
Among them, "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" was caused by an accident, which had to be rebuilt the exterior site that had been built, delaying time.
"Fantastic Four" is a completely Marvel problem.
Because Marvel intends to go through his own movie, although "Fantastic Four" is filmed and distributed by Daqian Movie, Marvel's Galeries Stan Lee excessively interferes in the shooting process of "Fantastic Four", and even supervises the entire process, constantly putting forward many modification opinions, which has caused many conflicts between the entire crew and Stan Lee, and the director even quits.
The matter came to Boss Jia's hands. Boss Jia waved his pen and said that Marvel is the investor of "Fantasy Four" and that all the money was paid by Marvel himself, so respect Stan Lee's opinion.
Since the director has quit, let Stan Lee find the director himself, or just Stan Lee is the director himself. Just follow other people's orders with peace of mind!
This order made Daqian movie stunned. If a movie was allowed to interfere in this way, then there was no way out for this movie. Isn’t it obvious that it would throw money into the fire and burn it?
However, Stan Lee was very happy. He felt that Jia Yapeng was his confidant.
Of course, he was not as confident as to be a director, so he found a director who had filmed several commercials from his friends to take up his post. There was nothing to say. The filming period of the movie was delayed again and again, and it was difficult to release it in 1998.
Boss Jia said it doesn't matter. "Fantasy Four" was originally a movie that was planned to be smashed. If "Fantasy Four" is not smashed, Stan Lee will not give up his interference in the movie.
And Marvel is inseparable from Stan Lee's command, anyway, it's very conflicting.
Chapter completed!