Chapter 594 Tokens

Linmu Studio launched a wallet function.

Although it is called a wallet

, the money in it is actually a token.

Because the money recharged in the wallet can only be used to consume Linmu Studio's own products.

It does not have circulation properties.

It cannot be traded with other players, and it cannot be returned under conventional means.

Rather than money,

it is more like a game currency.

This is why many players and some peers are confused about this.

Because they can't figure out what Linmu Studio is doing.

This high-profile update also sacrificed part of the revenue of the recently highly anticipated game just to promote such a function.

Although.

In this way, it is much more convenient for players to pay.

After recharging, WeChat payment purchases games, just click OK on the computer, and then confirm on the mobile phone.

But is it really worth making a fuss for this convenience?

Many people have a question mark.

Of course.

This is only a small number of people.

Most people with a keen sense of smell still realize something.

Of course.

How far you can think depends on the individual.

For example, some people just think that Linmu Studio wants to establish an ecosystem.

I think they want to use WeChat to connect all their products and use WeChat as the traffic entrance for their products, so they made such a decision.

Some people

think further and think of third-party payment.

Of course,

there are not many such people.

After all, the financial system is not a joke.

Using mobile software to replace bank card payment.

The risks involved are tantamount to gambling for Linmu Studio...or more precisely, for the huge group of companies in Linmu Group.

Many people put themselves in the shoes of others and thought about it.

Most of them think it is impossible.

Only a few people think that Linmu Studio is really likely to do this, and then

follow the gambling as if they have discovered a new continent.

The most active among them is Tianhu.

But when Mou Feng talked about this with Li Guangsheng, the latter also found it incredible. He

even hesitated and dared not make a decision.

It's not that Li Guangsheng didn't believe Mou Feng.

But he didn't dare to take risks...

but Mou Feng finally convinced him.

Mou Feng's reason is also very simple.

At least,

Tianhu should be prepared.

Even if it is to learn from Linmu Studio to make a wallet in the early stage, and then use tokens to operate the wallet first.

Without a payment system, it can also become a traffic entrance like WeChat.

Hearing this.

Li Guangsheng hesitated for a while, and finally agreed.

Then, they also got busy...

...

Linmu Studio.

"How is it?"

Lin Yao straightened her back, gathered her long hair, and then looked at Mu Wanqing.

Mu Wanqing replied softly: "About three million users have recharged their wallets. Most of them are game players, and most of them buy games immediately after recharging."

"Very good."

Although only three million users chose to recharge their wallets.

But Lin Yao looked very satisfied. She chuckled and said: "Then next, we should go to negotiate with the developers on Future Store and ask them if they are willing to connect to our payment system." Mu Wanqing was

a little puzzled: "Actually... there is no need to be so troublesome, right? Our Future Store itself is a platform. We are responsible for the payment end, and on the settlement end, we use real money to settle. Whether they are willing or not, we can promote it, right?"

This is the most puzzled point for Mu Wanqing.

This time the WeChat wallet function is launched.

In fact, Linmu Studio can do more.

Not only Future Store.

Even Vaporwave game platform.

They can fully support WeChat's payment system.

Because these platforms are in the hands of Linmu Studio.

Linmu Studio itself is the operator of the platform.

They can let users pay with WeChat tokens.

Then use real money to settle with developers.

But Lin Yao didn't do that.

"Ms. Mu."

Lin Yao thought about it, and probably understood Mu Wanqing's doubts, and explained with a smile: "Since we have to give competitors time to react, we can't press on from the beginning and leave no hope. Future Store and Vaporwave game platform support WeChat payment, the scope is really too wide.

In addition, I want to proceed step by step and let everyone accept the concept that tokens in WeChat wallets are equal to money, so we can't be impatient."

"If we directly announce full platform support, it will easily exceed the concept of tokens. When tokens can circulate so widely, are they really just tokens? There are actually risks here."

"Since this is risky, why don't we go slow? First, support our own first-party products and make them some kind of tokens. Then notify developers one by one and ask them if they are willing to access this payment system."

"First, start with developers and let them accept the tokens in the WeChat wallet, which is equivalent to money!"

"Mobile payment systems are easy to be accepted in our own ecosystem, but it takes a process for everyone to accept them."

"Developers are a good breakthrough point."

"When they accept the tokens in the WeChat wallet, which is equivalent to money, then whether Jiaming Alliance connects to our payment system or not, it is estimated that developers will open a WeChat payment window for us.

Even if it is not an application on the mobile phone, developers will provide interfaces for WeChat payment after accepting this concept." "

At the same time, this will also benefit competitors so that they will not be squeezed out by WeChat in the end."

"Then... QR code payment can be truly accepted."

"This is why I did this."

Lin Yao explained very clearly.

To put it bluntly.

It is to pave the way for the entire third-party payment system.

As for whether other third-party payment institutions will surpass WeChat because of their first move,

this can be determined as long as WeChat's upward momentum continues.

Then it is estimated that no one can threaten WeChat.

So Lin Yao is not very worried.

"..."

Mu Wanqing barely understood and nodded gently.

"In fact, this is also a process. After asking, there will not be many developers who refuse."

Lin Yao comforted: "Just send emails in bulk, the workload should not be too large."

Mu Wanqing said gently: "In fact, even if you ask one by one, the workload is not very large, compared to you."

"Is this a compliment?"

Lin Yao looked at Mu Wanqing mischievously.

"Yeah."

Mu Wanqing nodded gently, then walked behind Lin Yao and gathered her soft long hair, as if she wanted to help her tie a new hairstyle.

But Lin Yao shook her head: "No, I have to go to Kaishan Research Institute later, so don't tie my hair."

"...Okay."

Mu Wanqing responded, but still combed Lin Yao's hair.

Lin Yao stopped struggling and let her comb her hair.

But after a while of silence, Lin Yao seemed to have thought of something and suddenly asked: "Ms. Mu, is it appropriate for me to have a short haircut?"

"?"

Mu Wanqing was stunned for a moment, then firmly replied: "No, it looks best this way."

"Really?"

Lin Yao turned her back to Mu Wanqing and suddenly said: "But one of us has to have short hair, right?"

"..."

Mu Wanqing paused, then froze in place...

At that moment, she thought a lot.

"Puff."

Until.

Lin Yao endured for a while, but couldn't help it anymore, and burst out laughing.

Mu Wanqing finally reacted, let go of Lin Yao's hair, pursed her red lips, and gently pinched her earlobe.

"No, no, no, I'm serious."

Lin Yao immediately got scared and said in defense, "How about short hair?"

Mu Wanqing didn't pinch Lin Yao's earlobe hard, but whispered, "We both have long hair! This is our business, I like your...current hairstyle."

"...That's right."

Lin Yao was silent for a moment, then shook her head gently, broke free from Mu Wanqing's hand that was pinching her earlobe, then stood up and walked straight out the door, "Let's go, let's go to Kaishan Research Institute."

Her tone didn't change much.

But I don't know if it was pinched just now. The tip of her

ear was red.

Mu Wanqing looked at Lin Yao's back, smiled, and then walked with her long legs in black stockings and hurriedly chased after her.

...

When Lin Yao brought Mu Wanqing to Kaishan Research Institute.

It had returned to normal.

As soon as the two entered.

They saw Li Qi, the head of Kaishan Research Institute, Bao Liangzhe, the head of the hardware department, and Kang Yi, the head of the mobile game department, gathered in a circle and were discussing something.

"What happened?"

Lin Yao walked up to them and asked.

The three of them reacted suddenly.

They turned around and looked at Lin Yao.

Then, Li Qi took the lead in explaining: "Boss, I don't know why, when the tablet is connected to the headset, the delay is different. The delay of the tablet is too high. We are studying the reason."

After that,

he handed the tablet in his hand to Lin Yao.

...Yes.

With the addition of the system.

The sample of the tablet has been made.

Even the game has been ported.

It is the card-drawing game that made Lin Yao hold his head when writing the planning book.

Lin Yao took the tablet handed over by Li Qi.

The tablet of Linmu Studio is very similar to the entry-level tablet of Lin Yao's previous life.

But there are no conspicuous buttons on the front.

The entire tablet shell is made of aluminum metal, 11 inches, which can be said to be a flat screen.

But due to the limitations of the times.

The black border is not small.

Compared with the black borders of those in her previous life that were said to be able to park aircraft carriers.

However.

From the perspective here, it is still amazing.

Because the tablet screen is really too big compared to the mobile phone.

Lin Yao woke up the screen.

On the screen.

It was staying on the main page of the game.

And the most eye-catching, of course, is the portrait on the homepage of the game.

An orc queen.

Wearing an elegantly tailored custom suit, paired with a high-slit long skirt, revealing a pair of long legs in black silk, and pointed high heels.

The style of painting is very... pleasing.

"Listen to it."

At this time.

Bao Liangzhe handed over the headphones.

It was a headset.

It looked no different from an ordinary headset.

But it was extremely beautiful.

This is Youmei's first noise-canceling headset.

It supports wireless and wired.

There is also a small Bluetooth headset.

These two products will be released at the same time.

Lin Yao took the headset and buckled it on her head.

Even if it was covered by hair.

But the moment I put on the headset.

The noise disappeared instantly.

The noise reduction technology awarded by the system is really powerful.

This head-mounted noise reduction headset

is

even better than the noise reduction headset Lin Yao had in her previous life.

It can only be said that the algorithm is superior.

Of course,

Lin Yao has experienced it before. In fact, she tried the first sample.

So she was not too surprised.

Instead, she immediately listened to the sound effects of the game.

After listening for a while,

the sound effects of the game are indeed delayed.

The delay is about one second.

It is very obvious.

"..."

Lin Yao took off her headphones: "There is indeed a delay. Even for software like games with high video and audio bitrates and more complex software, there shouldn't be such a high delay."

"Well, so we are discussing whether it is a problem with the game itself buffering data."

Kang Yi said: "Because the same situation has never occurred on mobile phones, only on tablets, and both headphones have this problem.

Later, we tried other applications and found that other applications were within the acceptable delay range.

It is probably a porting problem, and we will solve this problem as soon as possible."

"It's normal to have such a problem when porting the game to a tablet for the first time."

Lin Yao smiled and handed the tablet back to Li Qi: "Don't worry too much, it can always be solved."

There is really no need to worry.

There should be no decisive difficulties in the related projects.

"Yeah."

Kang Yi nodded.

But he still frowned and had begun to wonder where the problem was.

After all, the new product launch at the end of the year is very important.

It is not only to expand the production line, but also equivalent to a big test after Youmei's financing.

Although Lin Yao never put pressure on him.

But they all knew.

Seeing Kang Yi like this, Lin Yao was thinking about what to say.

However.

Li Qi, who was standing by, spoke first: "Boss, last time you said that some of the apps on the Future Store platform on mobile phones could be ported to tablets, but there are really not many suitable apps.

If most apps are just stretched, the user experience is not good."

"Then just filter out some of them. If they are really not suitable, forget it."

Lin Yao hesitated for a moment and replied: "Let's start with our own apps. The establishment of an ecosystem is not achieved overnight."

Li Qi nodded.

Then,

Lin Yao and the three responsible persons continued to talk about the new products.

Although in general,

the development of new products is going smoothly.

There is definitely no problem launching new products at the end of the year conference.

However,

it is easy to launch products, but there are still many problems in establishing an ecosystem for users to really use.

At the beginning,

Linmu Studio, the first party, can only work harder.

So,

although the overall progress of the project is smooth, Lin Yao kept his head down and pondered all the way

after leaving the Kaishan Research Laboratory

, thinking about the plan after the hardware was released.

Until, when

he walked into his office, Lin Yao

came back to his senses and found that he had brought back the noise-canceling headphones.

He was a little amused.

"Why didn't you remind me?"

Lin Yao looked at Mu Wanqing.

Mu Wanqing replied, "I thought you were going to use it."

"The office and home are both quite quiet, so I can't use them for the time being. And it's not suitable to use noise-canceling headphones when commuting by car, not to mention that this new product can't be leaked."

Lin Yao shook her head: "Forget it, I've already taken it, let's go back and let Lin Xi try it out. I wonder if she has used it before..."

After that,

she took the headphones and fell into deep thought again.

It's still about the tablet.

She suddenly thought.

Maybe.

Some games on the Vaporwave game platform can serve as a surprise weapon.

After all, tablets are different from mobile phones. The former has a much larger screen.

There is also more room for operation.

Thinking more deeply, the two first-party studios of Linmu Studio Xihan and Conglong seem to be able to take on this work...

Lin Yao was a little lost in thought.

Thinking about it, she sat back in her seat.

Mu Wanqing stood aside, smiled, and was a little helpless.

Sometimes Lin Yao would be like this.

She walked lightly, picked up Lin Yao's cup, left the office quietly, and went to pour her some water.

...

The next day.

Just as the R&D department of Linmu Studio was scratching their heads over the headset delay problem, and Lin Yao was scratching her head over the issue of establishing an ecosystem after the new product was released.

The pre-sale of the game "Resident Evil 1" was opened.

After a few days of coldness,

the enthusiasm of players is still very high.

That night.

The pre-sale of the game "Resident Evil 1" exceeded Future S1, which has

been dominating the charts during this period. It directly topped the list.

There was no surprise.

I don't know when it started.

As long as Linmu Studio launches a new game, it will top the list almost as soon as it is pre-sold.

This is probably the dominance . It

is really enough to make all traditional game manufacturers despair...

This may also be the reason why so many domestic peers choose to switch to mobile games.

Because they really can't beat it.

And the next day.

Linmu Studio announced the pre-sale of "Resident Evil 1" as usual.

The same pre-sale time.

"Resident Evil" is even 400,000 higher than "Dark Soul 2" with the bonus of the previous work.

This is just a new IP.

The power of multimedia planning was fully revealed at this moment.

The pre-sale sales of the game were nearly 3 million.

The box office of the movie has now exceeded 600 million.

Although it came a little late,

Linmu Studio really killed two birds with one stone and blossomed on both sides...

Many people did a little calculation.

Such a new plan

is estimated to bring Linmu Studio more than 1 billion in revenue.

This is no longer the most profitable game company.

They can also make money from movies!

When Linmu Studio announced the pre-sale situation, it also specifically explained that 80% of the players chose to use the new WeChat wallet to buy the game.

This data accounted for 80%, and it was specifically stated.

It was not a hint.

It was a direct statement.

Tianhu, which has a unique advantage over other peers,

reacted very quickly at Mou Feng's request.

It immediately started to spread the word and asked people to come forward to say that "communication software can also be used to pay for Tianhu's products."

Became the first follower.

At the same time.

Linmu Studio began to send emails to developers of Future Store and Vaporwave game platforms, asking them if they were willing to connect to Linmu Studio's WeChat payment system.

Including

the developer Tianhu.

Of course, most of the developers who received the emails were confused.

No.

Why are you asking me?

Do you still want to use WeChat Wallet to settle with us?

But didn't you make it clear that the settlement will remain the same?

Then why ask? Just pay the money, I don't care what you pay with.

So most developers agreed without hesitation.

There were very few developers who hesitated.

However,

a small seed

was indeed planted...

Everything

is developing in the established direction.

However,

there were also some things that were beyond Lin Yao's expectations.

That is... the popularity of the movie.

After the pre-sale of the game started.

The movie box office, which had already begun to decline, has once again rebounded.

The box office has long exceeded the break-even line and started to make money. From now on, it can be said that every ticket sold is a profit.

The two production companies that cooperated with Linmu Studio also applied for a key extension.

Because they think that after the game is officially unlocked, the movie box office will have a large increase.

There is still a wave of profit!

They can see it.

Of course, other film companies can see it too.

Linmu Studio used a multimedia plan to tell them how to operate IP and how profitable IP is...

and they are like sharks that smell blood. They

immediately forgot the disastrous failure of the producer of "Shadow".

They began to focus on other more well-known IPs of Linmu Studio.

What "World of Warcraft", "Breakout", "Heroes"...

In their eyes, all became Jinshan.

Film and television companies waved money and began to swarm with Linmu Studio to negotiate IP adaptation rights.

Even.

Some popular IPs, they also scrambled for them on their own.

The bids were higher and higher.

Some wanted to acquire the IP adaptation rights and make them themselves, and some wanted to cooperate with Linmu Studio.

Anyway, it was like, I have the resources, you have the IP, and we can all make a lot of money together.

Later,

Linmu Studio even received an offer from an overseas film and television company.

The marketing department of Linmu Studio was stunned.

It was outrageous!

The movie "Resident Evil" also made another person completely famous.

That is Qi Jianhua.

Although before that, he was also well-known in the gamer circle. He

was famous for his poor performance...

But this time, he was not famous for his poor performance. He

became famous because of his status as a new director.

A fledgling director who directly entered the billion-dollar club.

His creation of the atmosphere of the film was witnessed by all the audience.

This made many film and television companies

not only want to acquire the IP adaptation rights of Linmu Studio's games, but also want to poach Qi Jianhua.

Poach him to make a movie...

It sounds really magical.

So,

when Qi Jianhua received a call from a headhunter, saying that he wanted to poach him to make a movie,

he was dumbfounded.

After a long time,

he reacted and said, "Sorry..."

"Are you dissatisfied with the treatment?"

However, he just started.

The headhunter on the other end of the phone interrupted him and advised: "If you are not satisfied with the treatment, we can still talk about it."

"It's not about the treatment."

Qi Jianhua did not shy away from his subordinates in his department and spoke directly from his position: "It's that I have never considered changing jobs."

"This... water flows to the low places, people go to the high places! Director Qi!" The headhunter was still unwilling to give up.

"This sentence is true."

Qi Jianhua nodded: "But... if you were an employee of our company, you probably wouldn't think so. Before I prepared this movie, I was not called Director Qi. More people still called me Qi Caibi. Although I don't mind this name, but..."

Qi Jianhua paused, then chuckled: "Sometimes, I am really unwilling... This unwillingness can be seen here, I think... and only here can it be seen, so I'm sorry."

Headhunter: "???"

(End of this chapter)