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After the financial department settled down, Liu Huaxing rented several sets of servers from the local operator, and then officially launched the online patch. The online patch is sold as "DLC", priced at five yuan. This price is relatively close to the people. Basically, those who bought the main game will not mind spending the five yuan to buy the online DLC.

So after the DLC came out, the sales volume was quite terrible, and it sold 100,000 copies directly on the first day.

Of course, the purpose of DLC is not to make money, but to revolutionize the game. After all, this kind of simulated business game is more interesting to play online with friends, and the online game has both PVP and PVE attributes.

Players can not only build a colony with their friends, but also fight with players in other colonies. Of course, it is a business simulation game after all, so the operability of the battle is not high. It depends more on who has developed better equipment and is more advanced in technology, but this is enough.

The bad news is that the server exploded on the first day because too many online DLCs were sold.

The server, which can only accommodate about 20,000 people, has been besieged by more than 100,000 players. Even if not all players will be capped at the same time, this still puts a huge burden on the server, so that Liu Huaxing has to temporarily increase the rent Three sets of servers expanded the number of players to around 50,000, and the servers finally managed to stabilize.

However, the number of players who buy DLC is also increasing, which means that the current number of servers is still only temporarily stable. As the number of players who buy DLC increases, the burden on the server will also increase, and the operating cost will gradually increase. But the good news is that the online DLC has also begun to slowly promote the sale of the game itself, attracting more players.

Originally, the sales volume of the main game has become very low, only one or two thousand copies per day, but after the appearance of DLC, the sales volume began to pick up, and the daily sales volume increased to three or four thousand. Judging from this situation, the popularity of the game can last for a while, the final sales of the game can at least exceed one million, and the sales of DLC will gradually keep up.

Although the price of DLC is not high, if it can sell 700,000 to 800,000 copies, it will be a few million income. Liu Huaxing doesn't expect to make money from DLC, as long as he can maintain the server's expenses. A week after the DLC was sold, Liu Huaxing tripled the number of original servers, and finally stabilized to accommodate the connection of most players.

As the server gradually stabilized, the evaluation and word-of-mouth of the game began to continue to improve. So far, Liu Huaxing feels that the game "Tomorrowland" has come to a successful conclusion, and the remaining deficiencies can only be made up by the players themselves with mods .

And the cost of the server is about 10,000 per month, which is acceptable to him.

The time came to mid-April, Liu Huaxing thought about it, and almost started preparing for the next game plan. So he got the studio together for a workshop on the next game.

"Okay, today I'm bringing everyone together for the next game." Liu Huaxing said, and pulled Hao Qian in front of him, "First of all, let me introduce the beauty who will join us this time, her name is Hao Qian , is our new partner for the next game, and will contribute part of the funds to develop the game with us, because..."

As he said that, Liu Huaxing opened a blackboard behind him to let everyone see the information on it: "Our next goal... will be mobile games."

Hao Qian cleared her throat and stepped forward, waved to everyone and said with a smile: "Hello everyone, I am Liu Huaxing's sister, and my name is Hao Qian. According to market research, the current penetration rate of smartphones in my country is between 15 and 30 years old. The number of people has reached 75%, and this figure will soar to more than 90% in a year or two, so the mobile game market is a market with great potential. Although it is not very popular now, but It is precisely because of this that we are the first to eat crabs."

Liu Huaxing went on to add: "The current market for mobile games is still blank, and there are not many excellent works. People generally have not realized the potential of the mobile phone market in the future, so we must seize this opportunity as soon as possible."

"What about the game plan? Do you have a direction?" Chen Ye crossed his arms and asked curiously. Liu Huaxing snapped his fingers and said with a smile: "What is the current foundation of our studio? "Eat Chicken", "Tomorrowland", A shooting game, a simulation management game. Then I plan to combine the two in the next game.”

"How to combine the two?" Zhang Chengfei asked puzzled, "Shooting simulation management game?"

"Exactly." Liu Huaxing replied, "With the background of doomsday zombies, players need to kill zombies to collect materials and build their own bases to defend against the invasion of zombies. Because it is a mobile game, we will develop it with the goal of online games. Currently It’s tentatively set like this, I’ll show you the specific game plan after it’s made, and you’ll know it by then.”

"However, it may not be easy to operate a shooting game on a mobile phone." Li Xuesong asked worriedly.

"We will adopt an auxiliary aiming system similar to XBOX. This is easy to solve. After all, the game is mainly PVE-oriented, and there is no battle between players. This system will naturally not affect the balance." Liu Huaxing explained, "Currently The key is the future goal, whether we intend to operate independently or cooperate with other game companies.”

The scene was silent for a while, and then only one person spoke. Wang Zhao tentatively said: "I think, why don't we cooperate with a big company? After all, there are only a few of us, and we don't know much about game operations."

"No matter what the purpose is, let's make the game well first. Only when the game is good enough can we have the opportunity to cooperate with big companies." Chen Ye replied lightly, "So I think we programmers should also improve our own skills. Programming level, don’t be crushed by newly recruited programmers later.”

"But isn't this strange?" Zhang Chengfei frowned and said, "We are partners, so we have contributed capital, why do we continue to write programs like those programmers? We don't get a fixed salary, which is equivalent to writing for nothing..."

"Because the studio is ours?" Li Xuesong asked back, "If you say that, why did Liu Huaxing make this game project? Didn't he also invest in it? The game is made by all of us, and those people work for us .”

"Don't be noisy." Liu Huaxing clapped his hands to stop everyone from arguing, "As Xue Song said, the game is our hard work. But I think it's better to be clear about this aspect, and I will give myself a game plan If you join programming, I will also give you additional programmer salary, but if you just want to wait to collect money, I have no objection."

"I think... it's better for everyone to work together, write programs when you have time, and speed up the production of games, isn't it good? Just like before." Liu Chang suggested submissively, "This is a studio, right? ?”

"I think we have an obligation." Chen Ye said forcefully, "This is our studio. If a company wants to acquire our studio in the future, in what capacity will you join us in this company? If only Investors, after the studio is acquired, it has nothing to do with you if you take the money, you are not qualified to join the company, think about it clearly.”

"That's true..." Liu Huaxing pondered, "It's good to be clear in advance. If you are a member of the studio now, you can join the company to work together if the studio is acquired in the future, but if you are only an investor , when we are acquired in the future, our studio will not have your place. I think everyone can agree to this condition, right?"

The scene continued to be silent. Obviously everyone thought this condition was reasonable, but not everyone wanted to join.

"Even so, I don't want to work hard every day to write programs anymore. I think it's good to be a partner..." Zhang Chengfei scratched his head and said, and Wang Zhao also echoed: "Yeah, I only learn programming as an individual. It's just a hobby, and I don't intend to engage in this line of work. Let alone compete with other professional programmers, so... I'll just forget it."

Bai Renzong replied: "Then I will participate in programming. I still hope to be able to personally participate in game production. It just so happens that I have almost finished writing my graduate thesis recently. Next, I will specialize in learning about programming knowledge."

At the meeting, everyone carefully discussed some details, large and small, and settled all matters to be determined.

Then, Liu Huaxing drove Yang Xiaoxiao and Hao Qian home. At the meeting, the two of them didn't say much. After all, Hao Qian was a collaborator, and Yang Xiaoxiao was just a financial manager. Although she was close to Liu Huaxing, it was inconvenient to point fingers.

"My Xing Xing was so aura just now." Yang Xiaoxiao looked at him affectionately from the co-pilot and smiled.

"Really, after all, I have grown up, and the tone of the meeting is the same as the CEO of my father's company." Hao Qian muttered in the back seat, and when it came to this, Liu Huaxing suddenly asked: "Your cooperation is with your father's company. In the name of your name or your own?"

"In the name of my father's company, how can I get so much money by myself." Hao Qian curled her lips.

"Then do you count yourself as self-serving?" Liu Huaxing smiled with interest, Hao Qian pinched his face and reprimanded: "How can this be called self-serving? I saw business opportunities in your plan, okay?" ? My dad agreed to allocate funds to invest in your project after reading the market research and the current results of your studio."

"Then I can't let you down." Liu Huaxing smiled, and Hao Qian smiled sweetly: "Yes, if I lose money, my dad will force me into a commercial marriage, and then you should be conscious and marry me to apologize Bar."

"Dream you." Yang Xiaoxiao glared at her from the rearview mirror, "There is no way to grab a man from my old lady!"