Although this cheating incident has passed, I don't think "Miracle MU" can rest easy. This is just the beginning, and it broke out several times later, but it was quickly blocked by Fengrui.

Things have been going wrong for Fengrui recently. Not only did Haofang fail to win it, but "Miracle MU" also had problems. With frequent plug-ins, Fengrui had to update and upgrade accordingly.

Also affected by this, the number of online players in "Miracle MU" has also declined significantly, and the number of online players has dropped by 100,000. The highest number of online players has dropped from 1.2 million to 1.1 million, a decrease of nearly 10%.

On the one hand, this is due to the emergence of plug-ins, and on the other hand, it is also due to the cyclical nature of games. After all, "Miracle MU" itself is only a second-rate game, far from a 3A masterpiece like "World of Warcraft", and now there are more and more new online games on the market.

The more there are, the more choices players have.

Even so, Li Feng's tolerance for cheating is still banned.

Moreover, Li Feng also said to Long Xiaotian: "As long as it is a cheat, block it as soon as possible. If it cannot be blocked, upgrade the game version and add patches immediately. Now is not the time to care about the player experience. Once the cheat spreads, I can't imagine the consequences."

Long Xiaotian said: "I know, Brother Li, I will definitely keep an eye on this matter."

Li Feng said murderously: "Well, don't just work on the game itself, but also work on the players. For those players who use cheats, after two more warnings, if they don't work, they will be permanently banned."

After a while, Long Xiaotian thought for a while and then said to Li Feng: "Brother Li, is this a bit too much? These are all daily active users.

Once accounts are banned on a large scale, it will not only affect the operation of "Miracle MU", but it may also directly affect our reputation in the future."

Li Feng thought about it and felt that what Long Xiaotian said made sense. Once the account was banned, it would not only "kill one thousand enemies but lose eight hundred to oneself", it would also hurt the players' hearts.

So Li Feng thought about it for a while and said to Long Xiaotian: "Let's do this. For serious players who often use cheats, if they continue to use cheats after two warnings, they will be banned for one day.

If it is used again, it will be banned for three days; if it is still used, it will be banned for another week; then two weeks, one month, three months, half a year, and only one year.”

If it is really banned for one year, it is basically a permanent ban. A game's peak period is only two or three years, and at best it can reach four or five years. Even the epic game "World of Warcraft" has exceeded its peak period of five or six years.

Just like the United States does not have a life sentence, it directly sentences you to 99 years in prison. What is the difference between this and China's life sentence.

Then, Li Feng said to Long Xiaotian: "And if we really want to ban the account, we must make it clear to the players in advance. We don't want to leave any clues.

Even if it is really blocked, the gold coins, equipment, etc. in the player's account can still be traded through our '5173' game trading platform."

If plug-ins can still rely on game version upgrades and patches, then the defense of private servers is more troublesome. They are completely independent of official servers.

And because the cost of setting up a private server is very low, only more than a thousand yuan per month, and including the bandwidth cost, it is only two or three thousand. And for games like "Miracle MU" where even the source code has been leaked, some programming experts directly

Just take it and change it, it couldn't be easier.

Just like the previous game "Legend", the number of online users in major private servers once exceeded 300,000. If you include other types of game private servers, there are at least millions of active users among them. How much profit does this contain.

Destroying a person's wealth is like killing his parents. How could Li Feng turn a blind eye?

Fortunately, there was no large-scale outbreak in the private server this time, and Fengrui stopped it in time before it attracted the players' attention.

However, cracking down on private servers is a long-term systematic project that not only requires a large amount of manpower and material resources, but also requires persistent public relations and publicity. Even most of the time, companies must be prepared to make long-term losses and gain publicity.

This is mainly due to the fact that the current laws are not perfect, which makes cracking down on private servers difficult to discover, obtain evidence, and punish.

Just like Shengda adopted a high-pressure attack posture at the beginning, and even offered a high reward of "8 million yuan to eliminate private server cheats".

Later, we had to use methods such as privately acquiring private server companies to "recruit", and we built some "green servers" to share the benefits through legal private server publishing platforms and authorized private servers.

But Li Feng was not prepared to compromise with the private server, "Do you think that if you take what belongs to me and give it to me a little more, you still want me to sing praises?" This is not the same as China in the feudal era. After winning the war and getting married, they still had to pay a small sum of money.

Princess, what's the difference?

Moreover, the reason why Li Feng vigorously cracked down on private servers was, on the one hand, to combat the arrogance of private servers, and more for the promotion of YY in the end.

Therefore, Li Feng also said to Long Xiaotian: "For private servers, we must use deterrence. Don't be too troublesome. Just find the developers of the private servers.

Don't worry about anything, don't argue, and don't be afraid of spending money. Just send a legal action sheet first. Then Cheng Lan will cooperate with you. Give them a hard beating and let them go to jail.

In other words, to scare the monkeys, just hold on until YY launches in December.

But looking at the current situation, if there are really professional teams from other Internet companies doing cheats and private servers, then we will not be able to prevent it. It will be a bit difficult to persist until December, but no matter what, we can prevent it as much as possible. By then

Let’s talk about it based on the situation.”

Long Xiaotian promised: "Brother Li, I will definitely do my best."

Li Feng patted Long Xiaotian on the shoulder and said, "I believe in you and have always believed in you."

"A scholar dies for a confidant." Long Xiaotian was also moved and said to Li Feng: "Brother Li, thank you! I just graduated from a vocational technical school, let alone a university, not even a junior college. Without you, there would be no me.

Long Xiaotian’s today.”

Li Feng said calmly: "Don't say that. The most important thing for your current achievements is your own efforts, and I just provide you with a platform. As long as you don't mind me scolding you often."

At this time, Li Feng suddenly remembered something and asked Long Xiaotian: "By the way, Xiaotian, how are the negotiations with Blizzard about "World of Warcraft" going now?"

Since "Miracle MU" is destined to decline, Fengrui must quickly find the next cash flow project. Now Fengrui's other products can also make money.

But these, how can online games make huge profits? Revenue from just one game, "Miracle MU", can account for more than 80% of Fengrui's total revenue.

Moreover, Li Feng also said to Liu Zhiping: "Once "Miracle MU" is over, Fengrui must also be prepared to tighten his belt."

Regarding the agency of "World of Warcraft", Long Xiaotian couldn't be more clear, and he had exactly three interviews with Blizzard's Mike Mohan.

Long Xiaotian said to Li Feng: "Brother Li, basically the only three companies left now are Shengda, NetEase, and us, but Blizzard's conditions are particularly harsh.

The initial signing fee is 3 million U.S. dollars, and the subsequent copyright fee is 51.3 million U.S. dollars. This can be paid in the form of 1.6 million to 3.7 million U.S. dollars every quarter. There is also an investment of 6.8 million U.S. dollars in the early development of "World of Warcraft" and 13 million U.S. dollars in promotion and sales.

From this alone, I calculated it to be 74.1 million U.S. dollars, plus a 22% profit commission. Moreover, Blizzard also requires the use of the most advanced servers, including separate backup storage of user operation data, and we do not have the right to modify it.

, not to mention the source code."

After saying that, Long Xiaotian felt that Blizzard had gone too far and the conditions were too ridiculous.

Thanks to Blizzard's father, Blizzard has come up with such harsh agency conditions even before "World of Warcraft" has become a big hit, and it is probably planning to make a huge profit.

Although China's online game market is currently booming, there is still no successful example of a European or American online game.

Although large-scale games such as "Ultima Online", "Sword" and "EverQuest" (EQ) were popular in Europe and the United States, they all encountered waterloo in China and fell into the embarrassing situation of "acclaim but not success".

Therefore, the same type of European and American online game "World of Warcraft" is not favored by the Chinese market. Moreover, this game is slightly similar to EQ. Some people even think that Blizzard "borrowed" EQ and merged it with "Warcraft" to become "World of Warcraft".

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But Li Feng knows the brilliant achievements of "World of Warcraft" in the future, and it seems that the conditions for the nine-city agent in his previous life are almost the same as what Long Xiaotian said, and the time is not much different. He won it in the first half of 2004, and it was launched in 2005.

It has been officially operational for half a year.

Now it is the end of August 2003, and Li Feng is also preparing to quickly win "World of Warcraft" before domestic Internet companies respond, without delaying the competition with Tencent.

Of course, Li Feng is not a fool, and the conditions cannot be so high. Even if it turns out to be the case, he has to find out from other aspects.

So, Li Feng said to Long Xiaotian: "You can help me contact Blizzard's president Mohan in the near future. Then I will talk to him personally and win "World of Warcraft" as soon as possible. This matter cannot affect the promotion of YY.

"

Long Xiaotian nodded and said, "Okay, Brother Li, I will contact you as soon as possible."

"Well, don't forget, we must protect the operation of "Miracle MU", this is also the overall situation!"

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"We must destroy "Miracle MU" as soon as possible. This is related to the life and death of our Tencent! Ren Yu, since Fengrui is already ready to upgrade the game, it will no longer work to develop plug-ins specifically.

In the end, we have to rely on private servers, so let’s find a few reliable people and go to Xiangjiang to set up a few private servers." Zeng Liqing said to Ren Yu seriously.

Ren Yu said: "Brother Zeng, do you have to do this? Is there no other way?"

Zeng Liqing also thought that Ren Yu was unwilling and had a "heroic" plot, so he said to Ren Yu: "Isn't this a helpless thing? Besides, isn't it true that in the mall, the use of any means is unscrupulous?

Look at Microsoft's Bill Gates. Didn't his graphical user interface system also get stolen? In the end, it's not the same and it doesn't affect the greatness of Microsoft!

If you don't want to, I will replace you with someone else, and you don't have to feel guilty about it."

Ren Yu continued: "No, Brother Zeng, as long as it is for the development of Tengxun, I can do anything, but... I just didn't expect that our Tengxun would use this method now."

Zeng Liqing patted Ren Yu's shoulder and said, "There's nothing we can do about it. Who told Fengrui to be so powerful? Otherwise we wouldn't have made such a move.

When the time comes, when you go to Xiangjiang, I will find someone to receive you. When you have set up your private server, remember to tell me,

To be honest, I will also promote it personally when the time comes. I will use small advertisements on some websites or certain platforms, and even secretly publish it on QQ.

Hey, there's nothing you can do about this. It's all for Tengxun, so hurry up and take care of it. I have something important to tell Pony, so I'll go over there first."

When Zeng Liqing found Ma Huateng, Ma Huateng was also discussing "QQ Space" with Zhang Zhidong.

There were still leftover lunch boxes on the desk, and before he had time to put them away, Ma Huateng rubbed his temples and put two drops of eye drops on his eyes with dark circles.

Somewhat tired, he said to Zhang Zhidong: "Brother Dong, thanks to you, the general framework of QQ Space has finally come out."

Zhang Zhidong also stared at the two dark circles and said tiredly: "Everyone is the same, but they just figured out the structure of QQ space.

Compared with Fengrui Renren, there are still many things missing. The 'Q Bar' alone will have to be busy for a few days, but to be honest, this Fengrui is indeed great, and the design of Renren is indeed great. In the end, we still have to go to the end

Nothing has changed.”

Ma Huateng said: "Well, it is very powerful, otherwise I would not have achieved what I have achieved now. Moreover, I did not expect that a small social game, 'Friend Buying and Selling', has such great charm, it can almost surpass it."

Our QQ game has achieved great results this month.

Brother Dong, when we promote QQ Space, we will also launch a few small games like this. Then we will all think about whether there are any other good games."

Zhang Zhidong replied: "Yes, I will. By the way, pony, will our QQ space also be registered with real names by then?"

Ma Huateng listened and said nothing. He just came over for a long time and said: "No, we still register anonymously, because our QQ itself is registered anonymously.

If we insist on real-name registration in our 'QQ Space', we will have to go through real-name registration the day after tomorrow, which is more troublesome. It is better to log in directly through QQ.
To be continued...