Chapter 184 Cooperation
A week later, the virtual world product "Second Life" in the United States was also announced to the public, and the registration was open to users all over the world. The concept of the virtual world promoted by "Second Life" and the "Six Degrees Space" are just a little different in some details. In addition, the second life also announced a policy similar to that of the Six Degrees. The ownership of the items created by residents belongs to the residents themselves, and the virtual currency inside can also be directly exchanged with the US dollar.
Although "Second Life" is accused of being a "crazy replica" of "Six Degrees", because the character settings in the Second Life can take off all the clothes, so they can be completely exposed. In terms of policy, compared with the Six Degrees, many activities that are not allowed in the "Second Life" are allowed to be carried out in "Second Life", so it has attracted many players to settle in and occupied a lot of markets.
However, the tone of the second life at the beginning was basically set. The characters in it were exposed in their clothes and were full of pornography and violence, which was criticized by people.
Two days later, Blizzard Entertainment Company came to Liudu again. This time, Mr. Mick, the representative of Blizzard's parent company, is also with Ruobo.
Han Feng knew without asking, that the other party must have gone to find a second life before, and now he came back to the door. It is very likely that they were disappointed there. In addition, the platform of the second life is not mature enough now.
After the release of the Second Life, Han Feng experienced it as soon as possible and carefully studied their entire network architecture. He found that the other party had referenced six-degree space in many aspects, but did not learn it. For example, although he also used p2p technology, it was not complete and only used this technology locally. In fact, a large number of servers had to be used to support the entire network, and there were also problems in terms of security.
In Han Feng's opinion, the second life's innovative ability is quite poor, and he almost only knows how to copy it. The products he made can be described as rough. Although it is still in its infancy, some problems can indeed be avoided.
In fact, even Han Feng himself couldn't believe this. Logically speaking, Americans have outstanding innovation and imagination. How could this happen? It gives people the feeling that developers have not put any effort into crafting this product carefully, and they just deal with it.
After Mr. Mick came to meet Han Feng, he first expressed his intention to acquire Liudu. This time, they increased the price by more than twice and directly offered $1.5 billion. As expected, he is worthy of being the wealthy and powerful Prestige Di Global Group. He is extraordinary when he takes action. Unfortunately, Han Feng still did not agree.
Seeing this, Mick couldn't help but sigh: "I've never seen a young man like you who is not moved at all against a billion dollars. Chinese style, you won! We agree with your cooperation plan, you will discuss the specific matters with Ruobo in detail, and he is responsible for this matter. In addition, I would like to ask, does your company still need to absorb financing?"
Han Feng smiled and said, "No need for the time being. I am worried about how to spend this large amount of money in my hand."
"Ok, remember to call me when you need financing."
Mick just came and made a move, and then handed over the next thing to Ruobo who came with him and was fully responsible.
Ruobo and Han Feng are both technical personnel, and they are very skilled when talking about this. Ruobo was very surprised by Han Feng's technical level. He was surprised to see the young president discussing the specific details with him personally. He thought that he was a bit sloppy in doing this, and at least he should have to think that the technical assistant was there to help. However, after the conversation, he discovered that Han Feng was very proficient in game programming and many techniques that can only be learned in actual development. As long as he mentioned the principles, he could learn from one example and learn from other aspects, and instantly he could think of the implementation method.
Ruobo sighed: "Chinese style, if you are not the president of Liudu Network, no matter how much you spend, you will have to dig into our company!"
Where can I find such a technician? A key technician often plays a decisive role in a project. Although it is not essential, if there is one, the time period of the entire project may be greatly shortened. Maybe with the addition of Han Feng, Blizzard can break the curse of often quitting votes.
"Haha, it's rare to see talents like you. If you are interested, our six-degree door will be open to you at any time."
Seeing this, Yang Xiwen and Ruobo's assistant next to him couldn't help but show helpless expressions on their faces. The two of them discussed the details of their cooperation, but they dug up each other's corners.
Han Feng also realized at this time that Blizzard had another team of developers. This team was secretly developing a new game platform. Its nature is indeed similar to "Six Degrees Space", but they only focus on the game field. Through this platform, all games developed by Blizzard can be integrated into one piece. Based on this platform, new games can be developed in the future, and can be carried out on this basis to truly realize user information and data sharing.
However, during the development process, we encountered many headaches, or in other words, they had gone wrong in their previous direction. According to their ideas, the final developed platform would be astonishingly large. Even if it was successfully developed, not many users could tolerate that their hard drives occupied so much space by the game.
It was not until they saw the emergence of "Six Degrees Space" that they found that their research direction and ideas were problematic. A client of the virtual world is only a few dozen megabytes in size, but it can also complete most of the functions of 3D games. However, there are several major problems that need to be solved, so they are still wondering whether using the virtual world method can achieve the effects that can be achieved in the game.
Before they could prove the result, at this time, the new version of "Six Degrees Space" appeared and solved several fatal problems they thought were solved. This news made them overjoyed. Before they could prove it themselves, others had already told them the answer with practical actions. Just as they were about to make drastic changes to the original plan, the company's senior management came to the news that they asked them to suspend the plan.
It has to be said that Blizzard's senior management is quite keen to grasp the game. As soon as the Six Degree Space appeared, they realized the hidden threats, and they were still considering whether it would be cost-effective to redevelop such a platform by themselves. The final discussion resulted in two plans. Plan a was to directly acquire Liude Network and acquire the entire platform, including technical personnel, while Plan b was to take a step back and seek cooperation when Plan a did not work.
The reason why I have been talking about plan B after so long is that on the one hand, I give Liudu a few days to think, and on the other hand, I am waiting for the result of the second life. If the second life can also meet their requirements, they will choose to acquire the second life.
After understanding, they found that the second life platform could only barely meet their needs. Of course, this was the beginning and there was room for development. They still sent representatives to contact Second Life, but the other party also refused their acquisition.
So, Blizzard came back to Liudu, and this time he asked someone from his parent company and wanted to try another acquisition by raising the price. However, Han Feng still replied that he had to adopt the B plan. Moreover, before that, they also heard that Westwood had reached an agreement with Liudu, so they felt that they could not wait any longer.
Now, some transactions have begun to occur in the Six Degree Space. The way the Six Degree Network generates income is in addition to renting land, which is a transaction fee between residents, which is a tax-like fee. Now, once the corresponding online game is successfully developed, Six Degree Space will generate a new profit model, and this profit method may become one of the main profit methods of Six Degree Space.
The most important thing for Liude Network now is to formulate the standard interface for online games in Liude Space as soon as possible. After it comes out, game developers can transplant their games based on this interface. However, this process is not something Han Feng can do alone, nor can it be completed in a short time. According to convention, a corresponding strengthening group was established, and some major game development companies such as Blizzard were even asked to participate in the formulation of this standard.
After finishing all this, Han Feng finally had his own time and it was time to return to China.
Chapter completed!