Chapter 523: The rise of online games

Seeing the popularity of legends and miracles, many game companies have also discovered business opportunities. Rather than sell games to those game console manufacturers or make money by selling game discs, it is better to learn Zhiduoxing's network charging model, so you can make your own money in your pocket.
Legends and miracles have developed rapidly last year. After a period of decline, they have grown rapidly again this year, and it can be expected that the long-term paying users of Legends will exceed 10 million this year. Miracles also have hope.
For 10 million people, each person buys a 50-time card every month, then one year is 6 billion RmB in income.
What's more, according to estimates, there may be more than 10 million legendary paying players in the Chinese mainland market. Although the overseas market performance cannot be compared with the mainland, it is not difficult to have 10 million paying players.
I am afraid that the two online games will have a revenue of 3 billion US dollars a year, which is amazing!
Many game companies are not so ambitious. They also know that their promotion efforts are not as strong as Zhiduoxing, but one tenth of the head office is it?
Even if it is only in the mainland, that is, one million paying players, with a revenue of 600 million RmB a year, excluding R&D, promotion and operating costs, can you earn at least 100 million a year?
In their view, perhaps developing a large-scale online game does not require so much money at all, and a tens of millions is enough. Of course, for most of the game development companies at this time, they can't even get out 10 million yuan of funds.
Can be financed. Now many VCs like to invest in the software industry and the Internet industry. Their online games can also attract many investors, mainly Zhiduoxing's game Zhuyu.
Once you have an example, it's easy to invest.
Looking at other people's online games is not without fire. For example, in the Stone Age developed on the island side, after a Chinese enterprise agent, it was also full of money.
They thought about it, they didn't need to make too many changes themselves, as long as they imitated the plot of these online games, even the characters and equipment can be imitated.
In fact, in the mouth of many game developers, the planning department has designed a game character image, or game plot, those developers will be very impatient to interrupt the description of the planner, you directly tell me which game and where it is more like. Too.
Although it can't be copied, it is much simpler to make a few changes.
So there will be so many homogenized games in the future market, what kind of fire do you have, there will be many of the same type on the line, anyway, the market cannot be swallowed by anyone.
Where like now, there are not many game companies in the first place, and there are not so many templates in the second place. There are also some companies that want to imitate Zhiduoxing's online games, but do not have that strength.
The design of a map and monsters alone is not a small workload. At first, Zhiduoxing Group used hundreds of people and it took more than two years to complete.
Moreover, there are already companies under the Zhiduoxing Group doing other types of online games, and they have all seen the potential of online games.
In fact, the number of registered legends and miracles at this time has already exceeded 100 million, but there are not so many people willing to play every day, and the number of people online is also slightly less.
Zhang Yang knows that these two games still have great potential. As long as it is managed well, it will bring billions of dollars in profits to the company in the future.
The legend of the previous life really opened the era of China's Internet games. It has existed before, but it is far from the heat of the legend.
In this life, the legend came online earlier, better operation, and the game has been optimized. Moreover, the opening speed of China Internet cafes is also faster than in the previous life.
Some people say that the development of Internet cafes promoted by online games is actually related to the increase in Internet speed, the emergence of the Penguin, and the content of the web pages becoming more and more rich. It is also related to the fact that not everyone likes to play games.
But at this time in Internet cafes, at least more than half of the people are playing games, and more of them are playing online games, mainly legends and miracles.
Zhang Yang was fine today and ran to Jia Tao's Internet cafe. As soon as you enter the door and lift the thick curtain, you can hear the noise inside.
"Dry this fire ant first. The priest added blood and defense to me, and I could hardly carry it!"
"Fat trough, the eldest, you come to the mine. I dug out the black iron mine. Someone wanted to steal it. Let's kill him!"
"Hahahaha, I made a magic shield, and now I am rich!"
"Grass, will you play Tm? Three-to-two actually loses. You adjust the attack mode. Your fire wall burns to me. Do you know!"
"Boss, take a bottle of Coke, machine 23."
"Boss, a pack of Hongta Mountain, Unit 14."
"Boss, a braised beef noodle, with root ham and soaked, machine 8."
Some people play games, some chat, some ask the bar to send various things. Internet cafes are very lively, and all planes are full.
Originally, there were only 30 machines in this Internet cafe, and the place was quite empty, but at the end of last year, 20 more were added. This time it was full.
Of course, it can be more crowded, but Jia Tao, under Zhang Yang's suggestion, did not get that way. It's more spacious and convenient to go back and forth, but also makes those who are online feel better.
Moreover, the twenty machines are not placed in the lobby, but are separated into small boxes by boards. The boxes are more expensive to access the Internet, but many people still like to drill boxes, especially when staying at night.
"Zhang Yang, why are you here?" Jia Tao was serving him a bowl of instant noodles.
"Come and see your kid. Ye, I heard that you are not working overtime now? This Internet cafe looks very lively, full every day?"
"Hey~EbookFREE.me~ It's about the same, but there are fewer people in the morning. At noon, people will basically be full soon. The same is true when staying at night."
"I heard that a place not far away is also being renovated, and I seem to want to get an internet cafe too. But I'm a member here, so I don't believe they can still grab it."
There is a milk tea shop downstairs, and his internet cafe is upstairs. I heard that the bookstore on the other side of the partition was about to move out, and he also plans to rent it out and expand the internet cafe again.
Although it has invested 300,000 yuan and has not earned a dime so far, but a few days ago, some 500,000 people wanted to publish his Internet cafe, but he did not agree.
Now the running water proves that Internet cafes cannot lose money. He also plans to buy a car next year, which is more convenient wherever he goes.
"What are the fires of Internet cafes now? Can someone promote new games?"
"There are still a few of them, mainly Zhiduoxing. Some people are also promoting new games, but not many people play it. Who would have thought that online games are actually played by so many people, and there are so many people during the Chinese New Year."
"Zhang Yang, do you have any small business you can't see?"