Chapter 208: Er Gou's product must be a divine weapon!
Wu Lingxi intends to learn and copy Lin Xiao’s Facebook journey to the end.
It's just bigger and more gorgeous.
Lin Xiao spent about a month organizing the campus beauties and campus hunks PK competition, and she also organized a PK competition on her side, which lasted about 20 days.
Lin Xiao was among the top ten male and female at the time and was able to participate in Facebook Night.
The top 100 men and women on her side can all attend Everyone's Night.
Moreover, their backgrounds are more extensive, not only do they have the support of the political and business system, but also the support of the Hong Kong and Beijing circles, so many more stars were invited to the first Renren Night.
Renren.com is also now promoting its own Renren Night.
There are dozens of stars who have confirmed their appearance, including big stars from Hong Kong, Taiwan and the Mainland.
Moreover, the rewards for this PK competition were much more generous than those of Facebook at the time.
After the CCTV Spring Festival Gala ended, with record-breaking visits and registered users, everyone was celebrating, except Wu Lingxi, who poured cold water on the party at a core high-level meeting.
“Out there, we can celebrate and publicize our success to our heart’s content!”
"But the next period of time is the most dangerous moment."
"We spent an astronomical amount of money to make Renren.com extremely popular, but it could cool down at any time."
"In terms of the number of users, for a long time, Lingxi Island's number of registered social users exceeded Facebook, but everyone knows the result very well."
“Forget the IP traffic on the day of the Spring Festival Gala, and forget the number of new users on that day.”
"User activity is the most important factor, and it is the moment that determines life or death."
"Lin Xiao spent 10 or 20 million yuan to organize a Facebook Night event and a campus beauties PK contest, but only gained a few hundred thousand users."
"We can laugh at him publicly outside, but in this core high-level meeting, we must admire him, we must learn from him, and ultimately eliminate him!"
“This is a textbook demonstration!”
"At that time, he used Plants vs. Zombies to gain hundreds of thousands of registered users, but there was no activity. People didn't know how to play social networking, so there were campus beauties and campus hunks PK competitions and Facebook nights."
"He spent 10 to 20 million to teach users how to play and how to be active."
"He succeeded. He built a brand new social system from scratch!"
"How similar is our current situation to his? We have spent much more money, and we have stood on the shoulders of many giants, which has brought us tens of millions of visits and more than 30 million registered users."
"Next, we must not let this heat cool down. The most dangerous moment has arrived, the most critical moment has arrived."
"Keep spending money and continue learning from Lin Xiao."
"Keep the heat up, keep it burning, keep it burning."
"It's like a nuclear reactor. Once it reaches a certain ignition critical value, it will react automatically without adding fuel to the fire."
"Everyone must not slack off, keep fighting!"
"Learn our enemies and kill our enemies!"
So, just when several investors behind the scenes thought they could relax a little, Wu Lingxi appeared in front of them again, and once again took co-CEO Chen Yizhou to lobby the board of directors.
Continue to increase investment and spend more money.
It is under her absolute will that Renren continues to burn money and heat up.
Got through the dangerous phase and the trough after the climax.
Although user activity and IP access volume declined in the following few days.
This is almost certain because peak climaxes are unsustainable.
But in her absolutely tense fighting state, in her continuous burning of money, and continuous stirring.
After the popularity and traffic of the entire website dropped to a certain level, it stopped directly and then gradually began to climb.
As a rich daughter from a Hong Kong family, she actually doesn't like to show up in public, and may even not be able to show up in public.
But in order to maintain her popularity, she has been at the center of public opinion almost all the time during this period.
After CCTV news amazed the whole country, the gimmick of being the number one beautiful CEO became even more popular.
Lin Xiao has made Ergou a powerful personal IP, and Wu Lingxi is also following this path.
And constantly strengthen your own personality.
Cool, elegant, powerful.
Not only does she frequently appear on various TV stations, she also appears at various charity dinners and various high-end occasions.
And every time there are popular stars around her to serve as a foil.
Every time, she lets celebrities play supporting roles to highlight her identity.
Not only that, she also frequently attends various high-end occasions, and is always surrounded by bigwigs.
In short, she is not only creating an atmosphere that Renren is far superior to Facebook, but also creating an atmosphere that the goddess CEO is more noble and surpasses Ergou.
It has to be said that she still achieved some great success.
Because in this world, three views follow the five senses.
She is so beautiful.
In just over ten days, he gained a huge number of fans.
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Lucas has already reported to Shanghai. He moved very quickly and brought his entire core team, about thirty people.
Tom over there was cursing, and of course the other side also breathed a sigh of relief.
Because Yangyang.com and Yangyang Live Broadcast Room have grown and become one of the most successful SPs, but this world was conquered by Lucas and he has established a firm foothold in it. As long as he doesn't leave, no one can drive him away.
Now that he is gone, this cash cow can be taken over smoothly.
"Little Superman Li from Yingke hates you to the core now." Lucas said with a smile.
Lin Xiao: "I have never met him. His wealth and status far exceed mine. There is no reason for that."
Lucas: "Because he feels you are looking down on him."
"He wanted to invest in Facebook and you rejected it. He wanted to invest in Jiayuan.com and you also rejected it. Now you have poached his key generals."
At this time, Wu Lingxi's figure appeared on the TV screen again.
She was wearing an evening gown and attending a very high-end party.
And next to her at this time is this year's richest man, Huang Guangyu of Gome.
This is a political and business evening, and all the guests are bigwigs. The cold and exquisite Wu Lingxi stands out among the crowd.
“This woman is amazing.”
Lucas: "If it were someone else, I would even think that Facebook would definitely lose. The number one social networking site would really be taken away by her."
"The ten days after the CCTV Spring Festival Gala were actually the most dangerous for Renren. It was like a huge red-hot iron ore. Once it cooled down, it would be difficult to heat it up again. At this time, the entire team was most likely to be carried away by victory, but she didn't. She forced the board of directors to continue to give money and keep burning."
"So now Renren is much more successful than I imagined."
"Besides, she also has the talented Chen Yizhou behind her, so the combination is impeccable at the moment."
"She is following your path, she is learning from you, copying you."
Lin Xiao asked: "Do you think her behavior is right?"
Lucas: "That's absolutely right. You struggled to go from 0 to 1, and then the process from 1 to 100 was actually a process of plagiarism, competition, and surpassing."
“This is true not only for individuals, but also for businesses and even for the country!”
Lucas is also a great talent, and he hit the nail on the head with one sentence.
Lucas: "However, Renren still has one shortcoming, which is that it has not built the social gene of semi-acquaintances."
"Of course Wu Lingxi knows this very well, but there is nothing she can do. Time does not allow her to build it."
"She can only spend money, expand, and build at the same time."
Lin Xiao said: "Then do you think he has a chance to build this semi-familiar gene?"
Lucas: "Yes, if you destroy Facebook, this gene will be born. Because destroying Facebook is like taking over someone else's body."
Lin Xiao: "Then how do you think it will destroy Facebook?"
Lucas: "Drag Facebook into her race, the money-burning race, the political race, the capital race."
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Ever since Lin Xiao expressed his stance on Shanghai TV, there has been no further action.
On the contrary, Renren is still building momentum.
And it's getting worse.
It's as if there is a feeling that it is heating up and every day it is solidifying the fact that it is the number one social networking site.
Although Lin Xiao has already said it, everything will be revealed at the second Facebook Night.
There are still countless fans who are eager to see Facebook take action. Renren cannot be allowed to continue to expand and grow at the expense of Facebook.
But there was no action.
Oh, one day.
Someone discovered that there was a new software, Qvod, in Facebook’s app.
What is this? Many people download it and find that it is just a video player.
This... this has nothing to do with the battle between Facebook and Renren, right?
Is this a counterattack weapon?
Of course not, Lin Xiao said that Facebook will always maintain its own pace.
This Quick Broadcast should have been released at this time, and it would not be released with much fanfare, but quietly.
Just like Qian Qian Jingting at that time, it was also released quietly.
Of course, when the full version of Plants vs. Zombies was released, it was also silent.
Nothing happened on Lin Xiao's side, but Wu Lingxi ended the event early and returned to the company immediately.
This fast broadcast has been carefully studied and tested to its limits.
Because she had long discovered that Lin Xiao was extremely restrained in his use of Facebook.
Up to now, only "Plants vs. Zombies" and "Thousands of Listening" have been released.
Both of these things caused a huge uproar.
Needless to say, the former attracts Facebook's largest user base.
When the latter was released, no one took it seriously. But now it is... a monopoly.
It’s not that no one has tried to make competing software, but after making them, they found that they were not as good as Qianqian Jingting, and they were falling further and further behind.
The most important thing is that this thing doesn’t make money at all, and most companies have no motivation to update and maintain it.
But Qianqian Jingting is different. It evolves every once in a while.
Now, it has become a must-have software for all Internet users to listen to music, and even Wu Lingxi herself is using it.
Renren's software engineers spent several hours conducting various tests on Qvod.
“It works very well. Very, very well.”
"The current player market is dominated by four softwares: Windows Media Player, Super Player, RealPlayer, and the recently launched Baofeng Player."
"This Qvod is smaller in size, has a prettier interface, is easier to use, and has strong enough decoding capabilities, but I don't think these features alone are enough to stand out."
“I don’t know why Facebook released this app!”
Another hour passed.
All the engineers' faces flushed, their eyes were filled with excitement, and even shock.
Because they found that Qvod actually supports P2P.
As long as you pull a BT seed into Qvod, you can download and play it at the same time.
Fuck!
This... this is invincible!
This directly hits the sore spot of countless otakus.
This, this is destined to become the dream software of countless men.
Leader Ergou, you really deserve to be the leader of the LSP religion. You worry about what we worry about and think about what we think.
Everything is for the sexual happiness of brothers.
"Boss, I take back what I just said. This Qvod software will definitely sweep the entire player market."
"It will definitely go viral in a short period of time, just like Qianqian Jingting."
"No, its spreading power will be more fierce than Qianqian Jingting."
"I know that Facebook's applications will never be unknown. Facebook's applications are still golden and still the dream team of Chinese software."
As soon as these words came out, the engineer realized something was wrong and quickly covered his mouth.
Because I accidentally said what was in my heart.
Many men, especially software engineers, regard Ergou as their idol, even those who work at Renren.com are no exception.
"Show me the most powerful function of this software." Wu Lingxi said.
Software Engineer A: "Boss, this will be a little jarring..."
"Hurry!" Wu Lingxi said coldly.
Software Engineer Si Jia immediately went to find a BT seed and directly uploaded it to the QVOD software.
And then… a video appeared.
Some particularly fiery images appeared on the computer, along with some exaggerated sounds.
Good taste, Woodpecker's work.
All the men in the audience lowered their heads and dared not look, but Wu Lingxi watched very seriously.
She immediately knew the lethality of this software. He agreed with the judgment of these engineers that this software would definitely sweep the entire Internet.
It has become a necessity for countless men on their computers.
After watching for a while, she bent down and turned off the video.
Her figure is top-notch, a typical combination of Chinese and Western styles, and she is at the level of a supermodel.
With this bend, the curve becomes even more magical.
All of a sudden, all the men present took a look and immediately turned away, not daring to look again.
"This is a very amazing software, but... does it have anything to do with our Renren?" Wu Lingxi asked.
Product Director: "This software can continue to enhance the godhood of Ergou, continue to deepen Facebook's moat, and continue to increase Facebook's reputation."
“Everything produced by Facebook is of high quality.”
"Ergou's product must be a masterpiece!"
"But it's a very long-term effect, a very long-term permeation."
"But now we have a large army on the way and are about to take down Facebook. I don't understand why Facebook is releasing this software at this time? It has no ability to fight back."
Wu Lingxi: "If you were Lin Xiao, what would you do?"
Product Director: "We should close the battle line, give up expansion, and use all our resources to fight Renren with money, compete for users, and compete for the reputation of the number one social networking site."
Wu Lingxi nodded, then turned and left.
After she left, all the engineers present breathed a sigh of relief.
This BOSS is cold as ice and extremely beautiful. She really brings great pressure to everyone when she is present.
Software Engineer A whispered to his friend beside him, "Which female star do you think is prettier than our boss?"
"No!"
"Have you ever fantasized about her?"
"No."
Software Engineer A: "Actually, I had a wet dream last night. Did I dream about my boss?"
Several people around immediately turned around.
Software Engineer A: "But, the male protagonist of the dream is not me, but... Ergou Jiaozhu! He is riding our goddess BOSS."
Everyone was shocked. You...you are a little perverted?
Then, all the engineers present downloaded Qvod silently.
I also logged on to QQ and told my closest friends.
“I found a magical software, Qvod, in the Facebook app, go download it now!”
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Je Sawyer, who was once one of the soul figures of Obsidian Entertainment, the core planner of "Fallout: New Vegas", and could be called a gaming genius to some extent, came to Lightning Group with a confused look on his face and appeared in front of Lin Xiao.
what the fuck?
The moment Sawyer saw Lin Xiao, he was stunned again.
So...young?!
Such a young boss is going to spend $15 million to make Fallout 3? Is he going to build a new studio with me as the core?
Lin Xiao: "Sawyer, how many copies of Fallout 3 do you plan to sell?"
Sawyer was stunned. Don’t they both introduce themselves to each other?
The latest novel is published first on Liu9shuba!
Sawyer thought for a while: "My goal is 2 million copies."
It was very bold of him to say this number, because Fallout 2 only sold a few hundred thousand copies.
The games based on this IP are currently considered very niche.
Lin Xiao said: "My goal is... 10 million copies!"
what the fuck? !!! Sawyer even felt like he had entered a cult.
Young Chinese BOSS, do you know what 10 million copies means?
Astronomical figures!
Only the top IP works can reach this number.
Sawyer shuddered, "Do you know what 10 million copies means? This is not only an astronomical figure, but also a completely unattainable goal for many established large companies."
"Do you know the popular World of Warcraft 3? Its sales so far are far from reaching 10 million copies."
"Do you know the world-famous StarCraft II? It has been on sale for many years, about five or six years, and it has not yet exceeded 10 million copies."
"And you're setting a sales target of 10 million copies for Fallout 3?"
As much as he wanted to revive Fallout 3, he really didn't want to work with a lunatic who talked big but didn't have any real purpose.
Lin Xiao handed over a document: "Please sign a confidentiality agreement."
"Then, I will let you review our preliminary planning, scripts, and related art designs for Fallout 3."
"Of course, first of all, I would like to invite you to visit the 3D game we are making."
Sawyer took a look at the confidentiality agreement. There was nothing special about it. It was just an ordinary and simple confidentiality agreement.
He signed it without saying anything.
Then, Lin Xiao took him to the target studio.
Sawyer took one look and was once again surprised.
So many people?
Because the current target studio has expanded again and now has 169 people.
Game development today is not as good as it will be many years later when there will be development teams of one or two thousand people.
With one or two hundred people, it is already a very large studio.
In Sawyer's mind, China has always been a gaming desert. How could such a large studio appear in China now?
Can this make back the money? A director from Target Studio stepped forward, opened a demo of Zhu Xian, and handed the computer to Sawyer.
At this time, he was truly full of pride and confidence.
Under the almost crazy demands of Leader Ergou, with huge amounts of money piling up, and with the support of the world's most advanced technology.
The graphics of "Zhu Xian" have reached a level that they had not dared to imagine before.
The most important thing about games in this era is the graphics!
As for the gameplay and the like, that will come a little later.
Because these were the years when gaming technology made the most rapid progress, by around 2015, the improvements in gaming graphics were not so obvious, and it was difficult to use them as a gimmick.
But in this era, game graphics are the primary productive force.
Sawyer opened the game DEMO, performed some simple operations and took a tour.
Once again I was stunned.
Once again, I let out an inner cry of surprise.
what the fuck? !!! This? This is a Chinese game?
Is this made by a Chinese company?
Was this made by the makers of the mini-game "Plants vs. Zombies"?
This picture, these details, are too amazing, right?
Distant view, close view, texture details, flames, water effects...
This... This is top-notch even in the United States.
Moreover, this is actually an MMG game?
The frighteningly beautiful female boss said that her company was making a game costing 20 million US dollars, and he thought it was a fantasy.
Now, he believed it.
This is a crazy boss, this is a crazy company.
In this way, he was immersed in this DEMO for more than an hour.
Using his most professional perspective, he conducts extreme exploration of various visual effects.
An hour and a half later, he appeared in Lin Xiao's office again.
"The game I'm making is called "Zhu Xian". What do you think of its graphical performance?" Lin Xiao asked.
Sawyer: "It's world-class, but it will be a very severe test for computer hardware."
Lin Xiao: "And in my goal, the graphics of Fallout 3 need to be even better and more extreme!"
Bethesda's "Fallout 3" is really awesome! It can be called a world-class masterpiece, the kind that can enter the hall of fame of games.
Even "Fallout 4" is still very awesome. Although its reputation may be slightly weaker than "Fallout 3", if you play Fallout 4 first, you will not hesitate to regard it as a masterpiece.
Bethesda's level of open world games is absolutely perfect and master-level.
But... it’s really hard to describe Bethesda’s performance in the game graphics.
Not to mention that it is not as good as Rockstar and CDPR, even compared with Ubisoft, it is still far behind.
Especially the graphics of "Fallout 4", which are really worlds apart compared to the contemporary game "Uncharted 4".
Lin Xiao continued: "You have never heard of my name in the United States."
“But in the country, everyone knows that anything produced by Master Ergou must be a masterpiece!”
"If it's not a masterpiece, no matter how much money I spend, I would rather keep it sealed than let it be released."
"I hope that Fallout 3 will be a gift from Master Ergou to game fans all over the world."
"It's like me saying hello to the whole world!"
"My goal is to conquer the world."
“So, what I want to make is a world-class product.”
"So your Van Buren Plan is far from reaching this level."
"If such a world-class product is really made, then I would like to ask, is sales of 10 million considered high?"
Je Sawyer was speechless for a long time.
He thought that this crazy atmosphere would appear in the United States, in Bethesda, Ubisoft, Rockstar, and Blizzard.
But I didn't expect such a young Chinese to appear in a Chinese company.
But at least the Black Isle Studios before him, or the current Obsidian, were far from having such ambitions.
It's so fucking provocative.
It's really fucking exciting.
“Even if you make a world-class game product, you still need a world-class publisher…” Sawyer said, “A Chinese company probably doesn’t have that capability.”
Lin Xiao: "Is Sony Entertainment enough? Microsoft, is it enough?"
Fuck! That's enough. That's fucking enough.
Although the two companies are rivals, either one is completely sufficient.
Lin Xiao: "Sony Entertainment and I are strategic partners. We will collaborate on several projects in the future, with a total investment of more than $300 million."
"If you stay for Facebook Night, you'll probably meet someone big from Sony Entertainment, the boss of Columbia."
There is one good thing about Lin Xiao. He only thinks about cultural exports and conquering the world. He doesn't care about others making money and is willing to give up huge profits.
Sawyer continued, "But, for a top-level game, it's not enough to just have graphics. It also requires complete game planning, art design, game scripts, and so on..."
Lin Xiao pressed the phone: "Come in."
Then, the staff pushed in several carts.
The various information above is piled up like a mountain.
An absolutely complete game script, even the lines are clear and detailed.
Thousands of game designs.
Hundreds of guns and monster designs.
Dozens of robots.
There are also relevant design drawings of the shelter.
The game script exceeds hundreds of thousands of words.
Sawyer took out the blueprints and flipped through them quickly, then slower and more carefully.
He looked at Lin Xiao in disbelief again.
Who is the father of radiation?
Although, the Fallout IP was developed by our Black Isle Studios.
But... our settings and game designs are far, far less rich than yours? It's good to have money, and there will be many people to serve you.
It can put what is in your mind on paper in the shortest time possible.
Lin Xiao has played Fallout 3 and Fallout 4 dozens of times.
But even so, it is impossible to remember. So he asked the company to present a better and more extreme Fallout 3 in his mind.
No wonder the beautiful female boss said so little to me and just sent me to Shanghai with a plane ticket.
Because she knew that this young BOSS would definitely be able to conquer her.
In just a few hours, Sawyer had only one feeling.
Kneel down!
I serve my new master.
I was conquered by you just like that! Although they had very little communication and didn't even discuss remuneration, there were really only four words in his mind: spiritual leader! Firgas Urquhart, the founder of Black Isle Studios, was nothing.
Brian Fargo at Interplay is a piece of shit.
The young Chinese man before us is the real spiritual leader.
"What should I call you? My new master?" JE Sawyer asked.
He wanted to say the new boss, but he felt that the new owner had more of a sense of ceremony and play.
He tried his best to get a mere one million dollars to develop Fallout 3, but the budget ended up increasing by more than ten times.
Moreover, it directly opened up a whole new world for him.
Lin Xiao: "Second Dog Leader!"
JE Sawyer: "I am willing to serve you, Master Ergou."
"Can I make a first request?"
Lin Xiao: “Of course.”
JE Sawyer said: "Can this game studio with me as the core be named Ergou Studio?"
This time, it was Lin Xiao's turn to be surprised.
Who says Americans don’t understand the ways of the world?
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Facing this first Internet war, facing Renren and the powerful political and business groups behind it.
Spending money and relying on backers?
This is impossible, Lin Xiao cannot defeat the opponent.
No need! What is the core of this war? In fact, it is public opinion and reputation.
Compete for the title of the nation's number one social networking site.
So what Lin Xiao pursues is a dimensionality reduction attack.
Faced with the enemy's overwhelming attack, what he needed was to increase his altitude.
Combine personal sense of mission with national sense of mission.
Assisted by a small technological revolution.
For example, Musk is a powerful personal IP, and he likes heights the most.
Conquer Mars, colonize Mars? How fantastic, how unrealistic? But it made him a pillar of character, with countless fans all over the world.
Leader Ergou would not promote such an illusory sense of mission; his sense of mission is more real.
Culture conquers and culture goes abroad.
Build China's own Internet sphere of influence and build China's own cultural sphere of influence.
Although it won’t be said so directly, everyone should feel it.
Therefore, he will not fight with Renren.
The following Facebook Night was his clarion call for Lightning Group to go global, and his declaration to go global.
It's not enough to just shout slogans, there has to be something very practical.
Facebook is going overseas, movies are going overseas, TV is going overseas, games are going overseas! "Ding-ling-ling..." Lin Xiao's cell phone rang.
The person on the other end of the phone was the female president of Columbia.
"There's going to be a new guest of honor attending your second Facebook Night, and he's interested in programming for Got Talent."
"David Wain, Creative Director of ITV, the second largest television group in the UK!"
ITV, British Independent Television.
Is this the inertia of history? "Got Talent" was originally born on this TV station, but the producer is Simon Cowell.
And historically, this TV station has had very close cooperation with Chinese TV stations in the many years that followed.
"Who's the Millionaire?", "Strictly Come Dancing" and "Fame" are all products of collaboration between domestic TV stations and the UK's ITV.
Of course, domestic TV stations are the ones being imported.
This time, Lightning Entertainment wants to be the output party.
The arrival of this ITV will enable Lin Xiao's overseas strategy to proceed more smoothly.
The female president of Columbia said: "Not only me, but also Sony Entertainment behind me, Mr. Masayoshi Son of SoftBank, and Merrill Lynch are all looking forward to your performance at the second Facebook Night!"
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Note: I finally finished writing. I'm so hungry that I have low blood sugar. I'm going to eat quickly. Benefactor, do you still have monthly tickets? Can you give me some cakes? Please.
(End of this chapter)