Chapter 183

Meng Qian waited patiently for two days, observing his opponent's movements. Both Steam and "Warcraft 3: Reign of Chaos" were released in 2002, but obviously not on January 1st, they were both ahead of schedule. As for "Half-Life 2", it went online 2 years earlier.

However, the biggest change is the combination with Battle.net. According to overseas news, Vivendi directly swallowed V Agency.

On January 2, 2002, both Valve and Blizzard held their own press conferences. At the Blizzard press conference, they introduced the specific game changes of "Warcraft 3 Reign of Chaos", which was released earlier than "Warcraft 3 Frozen Throne". The game has been online for a year, and the difference from the Frozen Throne is not small, but it has indeed made a lot of changes on the basis of Warcraft 2, especially the game quality and playability.

As for the V agency on the other side, "Half-Life 2", as a product launched two years in advance, seems to have changed very little, just adding some maps and weapons, that's all.

However, the steam of V agency has attracted the attention of players all over the world, because under the operation of Vivendi's capital power, V agency has basically won the games of all game manufacturers of Omi. In this way, Steam and Kyushu just formed a situation of confrontation between east and west.

But different from Kyushu, everyone in Kyushu has not seen his intention to enter Omi so far, but steam said at the press conference that it will achieve global simultaneous online launch, and declared that it will cooperate with Korea, Russia, India and other Asian countries. Countries complete negotiations and will host servers in those countries immediately.

As for Huaxia, just like the previous life, Steam cannot be settled through normal channels. After all, Omi Games thought that Huaxia's review was too difficult, and excessive bloody violence and pornography have always been a taboo in China.

But this didn't help Meng Qian, instead it caused a round of protests from online netizens, which led to an online quarrel.

"Why don't you let Steam enter Huaxia? This is to protect Kyushu, right? If you can't beat them, they will use such indecent means?"

"What does this have to do with Kyushu? The Omi manufacturer has no bottom line in making games by itself, and no one is allowed to review it? Isn't it confirmed on the Internet that it's because Steam doesn't cooperate with the review? If you cooperate with the review, who will stop you?"

"Don't explain the ones upstairs. That kind of statement is just a fool like you. Kyushu has the ability to really release some decent games. If I don't have the ability to rely on the protection of the state, it's rubbish. I'd rather play LAN for the rest of my life. I will not touch Kyushu either!"

"You all say that the country is to protect Kyushu. Do you have evidence? Open your mouth and come? Your mother didn't teach you to be responsible for speaking?"

"Evidence? Find out who Meng Qian's uncle is. He is an absolute boss. There are still a bunch of idiots on the Internet who really think that Meng Qian is a myth of counterattack by ordinary people. He is just a second generation experiencing life."

"Hey, a group photo posted on the Internet is Meng Qian's uncle? Get to know the industry of Dafeng Science and Technology Innovation. Gaming is just one of his many industries. It is nothing surprising for Meng Qian to meet a few big shots!"

"Yeah, let's take a good look at what Dafeng Techchuang is doing. Lithography machine, this is an industry that ordinary people can do? Go to the official website of the state to see for yourself. Meng Qian has just received 300 million support from the state.

Even the dean of the Chinese Academy of Sciences wants to give Meng Qian face, think about Meng Qian's background for yourself, so although Kyushu is trash, but he is a related family, no matter how good Steam is, you want to mess with related parties? "

"I don't want to worry about Meng Qian's identity, but I just want to say, have you ever played games on Kyushu before calling Kyushu trash?

I think "Three Kingdoms", "Freedom and Glory 2" are very fun, not much worse than Blizzard's games, and I think role-playing games like "Xuanyuan Sword", "Heaven and Earth Tribulation" and "Xianjian" are also very fun, This is the real thing. "

"My friend, I have played all the games you mentioned, and I have to say that there are a few domestic games that are good, but they are only good. If you compare them with Blizzard, they are rubbish.

And you tell me, which domestic game is not copying foreign countries? Which game quality is better than Omi games? The investment in game development alone is not at the same level. How can domestic games compare?

If Kyushu really wants to survive, it can only rely on the games of the Neon Kingdom. Do you want to rely on such a few domestic games to carry the banner? I'm afraid you don't know much about the game industry.

Even if these games are doing okay now, look at the assets of domestic game manufacturers, what is the current valuation of the target software? How much is Blizzard worth now? How many domestic companies can sustain long-term competition? "

"Almost all companies' products will go through a process from domestic development to foreign development. I used to say that domestic games are not doing well and you don't want to support them. Now you find that domestic games are doing well, but you still don't want to support them because they don't think they are good enough. To put it bluntly The point is that you are willing to support domestic games only if they are very good, and you still do well without being supported by your own people.

This phenomenon seems to exist in all domestic products. I really don’t understand. Neon people and Korean people can support domestic production as much as possible without affecting themselves. Why are we Chinese people so unwilling to support it? Let's make it domestically.

Don't you think it's strange that you don't support domestic production, but at the same time require domestic production to be better than foreign countries? "

"If something is not well done, it is not good. Why should I support it? My money and time are blown by the wind? How do you surpass others? That's your business. Why should we consumers be responsible? If you feel wronged, don't do it. Start a business!"

"It's really boring to talk so much. Anyway, I think domestic games are very fun. I will support it. Whether you like it or not."

"Blizzard is the belief of our generation. I have been loyal to Blizzard all my life. Compared with Blizzard, domestic games are rubbish. I will hang V to play foreign servers. I will never play domestic rubbish!"

"I've only played the game for a few years, so I believe in it. You have to lick yourself, don't bring our generation with you!"

The louder and fiercer the Internet, no one can convince anyone, and no one can stop anyone.

Meng Qian is also paying attention to the development of the situation, especially the overseas situation. To be honest, there are still many people in China who support Kyushu and Meng Qian, but the overseas situation is even worse. Knowing that Steam and the more inclusive Battle.net are coming, There was a lot of anticipation.

After all, Kyushu has just launched overseas, and everyone hasn't had time to get in touch with it. The former Omi game players haven't started to try new games. This time, Vivendi's reaction speed is indeed faster than Meng Qian imagined.

On January 3, the steam platform and new games were launched in the United States and seven European countries, and quickly received a lot of praise. Naturally, Vivendi did not forget to exaggerate the good market response, and the expectations of players in Asia once again increased.

On January 7th, the steam platform and new games entered the first market in Asia. The country of Korea, the platform and the new battle network went online for a day, and the highest number of online players exceeded 250,000. More authentic feedback.

After all, the platform and the game are driven out, and they are not as perfect as the western media boasted. There are even bugs in Warcraft 3, but the overall player reaction is still preference. After all, there are so many loyal players, and at least compared to other games, the foundation is That.

On the day when the steam platform was launched, the highest number of online users in Kyushu, Korea was less than 10,000 people, which is very embarrassing.

Sure enough, some media immediately came out to hype this matter and mocked the Kyushu platform.

Coupled with the fact that Dafeng Entertainment has been inactive for the past few days, there are more and more voices on the Internet that are bad-mouthing Kyushu and even Dafeng Entertainment.

"It seems that Kyushu is really going to be abolished this time."

In the office of the chairman of Dafeng Science and Technology Innovation, Meng Qian saw this popular post as soon as he opened the Kyushu Forum.

"Boom, boom, boom." Just then, someone knocked on the door.

"Come in." Seeing the person who came in, Meng Qian got up to greet him, "Come back."

"Yeah." Xiao Boshi put the salute aside, walked quickly to Meng Qian and put the prepared report in front of him, and talked about work without any nonsense, "Fortunately, Nintendo was tied up in advance, otherwise once Nintendo joins Steam camp, we have to face another big trouble."

Meng Qian couldn't help laughing, "Actually, even if Steam finds Nintendo, Nintendo will most likely choose to cooperate with us. Compared with our little enemy who chose Sony, Nintendo and Omi game manufacturers have a bloody feud."

"That's right, Steam contacted Koryo State early, but they haven't come to the Neon Country for activities, so you can tell a thing or two." Xiao Boshi noticed where Meng Qian was looking, and made a supplementary explanation according to the location he saw, "This time we bought a 35% stake in SQUARE, and Sony bought a 36% stake."

"It doesn't matter, what I want is SQUARE's technology and talents, Sony wants control, let him control it."

SQUARE was once one of the largest game software vendors in the Neon Country, and its most classic work should be the "Final Fantasy" series, but because SQUARE betrayed Nintendo at the beginning and caused Nintendo to retaliate, coupled with subsequent decision-making mistakes, at this moment is facing closure.

What Meng Qian liked was naturally SQUARE's development capabilities accumulated in the game software industry, and Sony agreed to let SQUARE's team come to Dafeng Entertainment for technical guidance, which is why this acquisition came about.

Xiao Boshi followed his own report and reported to Meng Qian the situation in the Neon Kingdom. Basically, Kyushu had won most of the games in the Neon Kingdom. Batch of technical force.

However, after the emergence of steam, Kyushu is also not very optimistic in the neon country, and it has affected further market expansion.

"Are you ready for the next countermeasures?" After finishing the report, Xiao Boshi couldn't help asking.

"Boom boom boom."

At this moment, Gu Junhui came to Meng Qian's office.