Chapter 808 (1/2)

When it comes to home-made online games, Li Mu can think of the netizens who were high-quality works at the time of the birth of the game. There are only three of them, namely, the western tour of big talk, the western tour of fantasy and the series of swordsman love.

Among them, dahuaxiyou was the first one, which was just launched at the end of 2001; dreamy Xiyou and swordsman love online version were both born in the second half of 2003, among which two ”Xiyou” themes are original games of Netease, swordsman love series are from Xishanju studio in Jinshan, and Xishanju is under the leadership of Lei.

These three games have had a sensational effect, and the marketing data is very strong, but only dream westward travel has the strongest vitality. Until Li Mu's rebirth, there are still many people playing this game, which can be called the longest online travel lifeline.

When it comes to dream westward travel, I have to mention Lao Xu. He is a famous figure in the field of domestic online travel in China. He is definitely a group born in a rash way. He joined Netease in the era of boastful westward travel, because he gave a lot of constructive opinions to boastful westward travel. However, when Netease gradually took a firm foothold and Ding Lei didn't look forward to dream westward travel, he put《 Dream journey to the west is popular. Finally, let Netease turn to dream journey to the West. In terms of ability and understanding of the current domestic online game market and online game users, Lao Xu should be the top talent. Otherwise, dream journey to the west is unlikely to catch fire, and it has been so many years.

Three years later, Xu left Netease and made a complete face change with Ding Lei. Although he also made several popular games, no one can be compared with dream westward.

Li Mu doesn't play much online games. He can't even remember Lao Xu's name. However, he has heard about the word ”Lao Xu” for a long time, and he also has a little understanding of what happened in that year. In fact, Lao Xu left because of the uneven distribution of interests in dream journey to the West.

Li Mu has no intention to comment on which is right or wrong, but he always attaches great importance to the enlightenment brought by similar things.

There are two kinds of bosses in the mall. One is to give a million or more profits back to the other party immediately when a meritorious employee makes a hundred million yuan for him, and then further consolidate the relationship between the other party and himself.

the other is to pay the salary according to the original contract when a meritorious employee makes a hundred million yuan for him At the end of the year, I gave him a 10000 yuan year-end bonus, and I felt extremely generous. I hope that the staff can thank him.

Li Mu saw the latter kind of people, so when he started his business, he was determined to become the former.

If you think about Lao Xu's decision to leave Netease at the beginning, it must have been made because of the similar situation. In Li Mu's own opinion, Ding Lei lost a very excellent talent because of the problem of money in that time, especially considering that the core business of Netease is game. If you pay attention to Netease's financial report, the proportion of game revenue at the highest time is more than 90%, so you can think about it See, how much loss does Ding Lei have in losing Lao Xu.

Li Mu attaches great importance to the game business, but he didn't have the energy to build his own game development team before. His previous ideas are more likely to be agents. For example, now he acts as the agent of ”miracle Mu”. After accumulating strength, he will take ”world of Warcraft” in 2004. In the future, South Korea's hot games will be eaten one by one, which will be basically the time It can support a market with an annual income of several billion dollars.

However, after seeing Lao Xu's resume, Li Mu suddenly had an idea in his mind.

Why not develop your own games?

In the future, Blizzard Entertainment can act as a special agent for all major games, but as a whole, Blizzard Entertainment operation games are far less suitable than YY. After all, YY is a huge ecosystem. In addition, the commonality of users alone is beyond our reach. A YY number can quickly log in to all YY products. Who can compare the convenience?

If game R & D department is set up in Muye technology and people are dug to play games, the future development space will be very broad. After all, the extra support effect produced by the whole ecosystem of YY is too powerful.

More importantly, their own development of the game, its profit margin is much larger than the agent game!

What's more, if you put dream westward in YY's ecosystem, you will definitely make more money than Netease.

And the key character of dream journey to the west is Lao Xu. Just dig him up and build a team for him, isn't it OK? The R & D cost of a game is not much money for Muye technology. It's nothing at all. In this case, why not?

Thinking of this, Li Mu hurriedly looked at the notes about Lao Xu on the intranet again. According to the notes, Lao Xu had already had an interview, and the interview time was just three days ago.

HR's detailed remarks to Xu said: this person is good at online game planning and applies for the game planning position of YY game. He has a good eloquence and some understanding of online game. It is suggested that the game Department retest.

Then, a person in charge of YY game planning department also left a note: this person has short working experience, poor education, and is good at online games rather than chess and card games. At present, we do not have online game planning, so we do not make retest arrangements.When Li Mu saw this remark, he was a little annoyed instinctively. Is the person in charge of the planning department of YY game a straw bag? Old Xu is such a bull. He even refused to take a second interview without looking at his resume?

But when Li Mu calmed down a little, he felt that the head of the planning department was right.

YY game is now a chess and card game hall. There is a big deviation between this kind of game and the orthodox online game. Lao Xu's resume does not meet the needs of YY game. Moreover, Lao Xu's resume is not good-looking, with insufficient experience and education. This is also the biggest embarrassment of his careless origin. Before he succeeds, he always wants to get a chance to prove his strength It's more difficult.