231. The fifth race

So far, Bomi's internal restructuring has been completed.

The United States' Bomi Games subsidiary has also been established, and in addition to this, it also has:

Games, film and television, information platforms (portals and blogs), smartphones, music, engines...

The layout within the current capability scope has been completed, so the rest should be easier.

However, there is another question lingering in Cao Yang's mind—

That is the Warcraft project team in the Bomi Interactive Entertainment business group.

After the release of the Frozen Throne, the positioning of this project team became more embarrassing.

Li Lanyun once wanted to classify it, but found that it was also a headache, because in the interactive entertainment business group, each studio group actually has its own clear positioning.

The reason why it is called a studio group is because they are a collection of many studios. N studios can be incubated under a studio group, and each studio corresponds to a game project.

The penguins in their previous lives were divided into 4 studio groups: Photon, Tianmei, Northern Lights and Rubik's Cube.

In fact, there is another one, called next, which mainly focuses on incubating innovative products and studies whatever is weird. However, because there is indeed no output, it is not classified as a studio group.

Bomi's studio group now has:

King Studio Group: Focusing on King of Glory series, Dance Group, and mainly uses modern, urban and magical games.

It's a relatively international route.

Whether it is Honor of Kings or Dance Troupe, it gives people a more fashionable and future-proof feeling.

So it is especially popular with young people.

The Jin Dance Group has also cultivated a large number of Shamatt-style families, the most famous of which is the Burial Ai family.

Love, death and Shamatt are their eternal slogans.

Guofeng Studio Group:

This studio was brought up by Li Lanyun, and it must be somewhat tilted in terms of resources. With a Shanhai Jing explosion, it has become a very famous studio group in China.

Guofeng Studio focuses on games with Chinese style, or game products based on oriental culture.

The existing studios include:

Three Kingdoms Online, Mountains and Seas, Assassin's Soul

In the future, Shanhai Jing and Assassin's Soul will hatch more sub-projects.

But the first generation has not been fully released yet, so there is no plan for this.

Zhao Yunchuan, who was originally from the Guofeng Studio Group, has stopped developing, and the original members have been scattered into other projects of the Guofeng Studio.

Journey to the West Studio Group:

Currently, Ding Yingfeng is responsible for the research and development.

Although there is only one game called "Fantasy Westward Journey", Cao Yang is optimistic about it.

In the future, Journey to the West studio group will also produce many works.

The original "A Chinese Odyssey" and "A Chinese Odyssey" have been registered by NetEase. Fortunately, the name Fantasy Westward Journey does not exist, so it can still be used. Journey to the West is an old IP. As long as you don't use Stephen Chow's "A Chinese Odyssey", there will be no infringement.

Speaking of which, Boss Ding really recited it a little, and spent a lot of money to hire Stephen Chow to endorse it, but "American Journey" was still in decline.

Dache 2 and Xianlu Rituals have not been released either.

However, because there is no way to use the IP of "A Chinese Odyssey", many characters in the Fantasy Westward Journey now have to be changed. They can no longer follow the image route of the Supreme Treasure of the previous life, and the image of Zixia Fairy can no longer be used, and these must be repackaged.

It's actually a pity that I can't get the popularity of big talk.

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Therefore, from these studio groups, we can see that each studio actually has its own characteristics and positioning.

The characteristics and positioning of Warcraft are actually very distinct, because it is completely different from the styles of these studio groups, and it follows the Western magical set.

Because of this, members of the Warcraft project team were unable to integrate into a certain studio group. Now they were taken out by Li Lanyun alone to become a project team.

Even the studio doesn't count.

Because Liu Guangran was originally responsible for Warcraft, Meng Xiao was a numerical team leader in the planning team, and it turned out that the main planner and producer of this project was Boss Cao.

So when the Ice Throne completed its mission, Liu Guangran naturally transferred personnel to develop other more important and urgent projects.

Now there are less than 10 members of the Warcraft project team.

One is Meng Xiao, the original numerical team leader of the planning group, and the other is Zhang Mohuan, the head of the copywriting team. Although it is known as the copywriting team, there is only Zhang Mohuan in this project.

Then there are two plans responsible for adjusting the numerical values, one is called Zhou Chen, a war3 athlete, nicknamed magicyang, and the other is Ma Tianyuan.

In addition, there are two programmers who are engaged in daily maintenance.

After all, the development of the Frozen Throne has been completed, the project has been released, and there is no development plan, so the job of programmers is nothing more than to fix bugs. If no one reports a bug, programmers are the easiest profession.

Now this project team does not even have any art. If there is an urgent need, they will second one from another department.

The Frozen Throne Project Team can be said to be the most leisurely department of the entire Bomi Interactive Entertainment and even the entire Bomi Group. Everyone comes to check in every day at work, then start playing games for a day, or watch movies, chat, and leave work on time at 6 pm.

It is simply the job that many people dream of.

However, Boss Cao was deeply worried about this.

It’s not that capitalists don’t stand workers being lazy. The main reason is that if this continues, the fighting spirit of these employees will be wiped out, there is nothing to do, and they will be retired from their 20s. How terrible is this kind of life?

It still has to make this project team run.

Logically speaking, in the past life, the Warcraft was Blizzard, and the entire team of Blizzard was very smooth. After War3 was developed, when no one was needed, the personnel would support other departments, so that the personnel would not cause vacant personnel.

But if you say that you can throw Bomi’s current frozen throne employees to other departments, it doesn’t feel realistic.

Those who can throw them into other projects have actually been lost long ago. What remains is the minimum configuration and the smallest personnel unit that must be maintained.

And it doesn’t mean that this project doesn’t require them. After all, every year, war3 players play on it every day, and some subtle numerical balances have to be adjusted. This is a long-term process.

But if you throw them to the United States, you will be pitiful and unable to adapt to life.

So Cao Yang’s mind now has two solutions.

The first is to disband the project team of Warcraft China, and then hand over Warcraft back to the United States for maintenance to the former Blizzard in the North.

Another way is to continue to develop new products based on the existing ones.

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So today, Cao Yang called Li Lanyun and Meng Xiao to his office to discuss this issue.

To be precise, there are two problems:

First, stay or leave of the project of Frozen Throne.

Second, if you stay, how is the Frozen Throne Project belonging?

Cao Yang threw out the problem, and told some of his thoughts and analysis, and then looked at the two of them.

"What do you think? What choice is better?"

While asking, he pushed the teacup in front of the two of them.

Meng Xiao was a little nervous when he came to the boss's office for the first time, and when he came in, he encountered such a big problem. He just lowered his head and placed his hands on his thighs without moving.

Instead of asking what to do in the future of this project, the boss is actually asking what to do in the project staff.

Meng Xiao felt very hurt inside.

He has only been to Bomi for less than a year and is a fresh college graduate. He was in the Department of Mathematics at Tsinghua University and was originally planning to develop in the financial field or go back to teach.

Unexpectedly, Boss Cao finally dug up to serve as the main numerical value in this project.

He also loves games, especially war3, so for Meng Xiao, he was extremely excited when he heard the news.

Is there anything in this world that can be happier than engaging in a career you love?

No.

The frozen throne is his life.

Now that Boss Cao is going to take his life away, Meng Xiao feels a little bitter.

Although there is no direct statement, Meng Xiao can also feel it-

The current positioning of the Frozen Throne team is a bit embarrassing.

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Everyone was silent for a long time.

Finally, Li Lanyun broke the deadlock, saying, "Femalely, I definitely support the retaining of this project team. But rationally, I would recommend sending Warcraft back to the United States.

Originally, this game was developed by the Blizzard team. Although Blizzard in the North and Blizzard in the South are different, it is always more suitable to leave it to them.

The team of Bomimi has made games in this area, which is more professional than us, and can do better in the future.”

"Yes." Cao Yang nodded.

In theory, this is the case.

Although it's cruel, this may be the best solution.
To be continued...