378. Poor God's Way

On October 8, 2007, Cao Yang met the legendary icefrog.

Bingfrog is very tall, probably taller than Cao Yang, and may look like 188 or 190.

He has a thorny thorn on his chin, and he is a little thin. Although his facial features are three-dimensional, he is not blonde and blue-eyed, but brown hair. He doesn't look like a purebred American.

This time, Bingfrog was invited by Bomi Company and brought several of his friends to join the DOTA project team. She was actually very happy.

Moreover, Bingfrog is very interested in Chinese culture and has also learned some Chinese by himself, which can actually reach the level of barely communicating in Chinese, which is really beyond Cao Yang's expectations.

Cao Yang graduated from the Qing Dynasty and his English is also very good, so when everyone communicates, they basically use two languages ​​in a mixed manner, but everyone can understand and know what the other party is expressing.

This conversation is also quite interesting.

Bingfrog was invited by Bomi Company to come to China to produce DOTA independent games. All designs will perfectly restore DOTA content, but the picture and performance will be improved qualitatively.

In order to obtain the production rights of DOTA, Bomi Company also paid Bingfrog a considerable amount of copyright to purchase DOTA's game copyright.

Even if icefrog does not plan to come to Bomi to participate in DOTA production, he can still use the money to live happily for a while.

Bomi Company can certainly make DOTAs by itself after leaving Ice Frog, but it is definitely more gimmick and more legitimate without Ice Frog.

...

Bingfrog said that it is really a very happy thing to be able to come to the company he likes to make the game he creates.

There is nothing in the world that makes people happier than doing a job you like and promoting it to the world.

After several people met, Cao Yang asked him how he came to China.

"After I came to China, I went to see the crosstalk of Deyun Club," Bingwa said. "Although I don't understand it very much, I think it's funny. I always feel that the crosstalk actors don't speak much like Mandarin."

"Hahaha..." Everyone around laughed.

Cao Yang explained, "Maybe they are too straightforward? The Mandarin of crosstalk actors has a heavier Beijing flavor and some of them use dialects when performing on stage, so it sounds normal to have differences."

Everyone chatted with each other for a while. Bingwa said that after he came to China, in addition to watching Deyun Club's crosstalk, he also watched Sichuan Opera face change. He thought Sichuan Opera face change was really magical and his face change technique was really superb.

In addition, I also tasted Chinese mooncakes.

Bingfrog said he likes Chinese mooncakes, especially those with mango flavor.

This time, the members of the DOTA project team of Bomi Company, such as Meng Xiao, Lao Yang and Ma Tianyuan. They had been playing DOTA for a long time before and were very respectful to the DOTA.

I feel that this person's wild imagination makes the whole game full of fun and exploration experience.

After the transformation of Ice Frog, the number of DOTA players is increasing, and different hero combinations have developed different genres. Each of them has different tactical changes. They are relatively mature and are considered a qualified competitive game.

The most popular tactics in the game now are the 4-guarantee 1 tactics, which are also the most popular tactics in the beginning, such as 4 heroes protecting ghosts, or 4 heroes protecting Void Walkers... As long as ghosts, Voids or Phantoms can get up in the late stage, you can play 5 and get the game victory with one shot.

It is expected to develop into a dual-core system in a while.

Then to the global stream, three cores, double tours...

In short, as DOTA heroes and skills become more and more abundant, the more variable the tactics it can produce, the more interesting the game will be.

I believe that in another year or two, DOTA will become a large-scale competitive game that is popular all over the world.

Therefore, it is very correct for Cao Yang to choose to plan and develop in advance at this point in time.

After chatting for a while, Cao Yang asked him if he was used to coming to China and if he would feel uncomfortable or regretful about working at Bomi Company.

"I am really happy to be able to work at Bomi Company." Bingfrog said.

"I have also played Warcraft that Bomi Company did, and it feels very good," Bingfrog learned the panda sword in the game and gestured, "Chinese Kung Fu is really amazing. I have long wanted to come to China to take a look."

"That happens, this time you come to China and you can enjoy the customs and charm of China."

According to rumors, Bingfrog seems to have an Asian or Chinese girlfriend, so he is considered a Chinese son-in-law and is quite interested in Chinese culture.

"It's quite happy to be able to do the job I like," said Bingfrog. "Especially when I heard that Bomi Company was going to take out the DOTA map separately to make it into a game, don't mention how happy I was."

Ice Frog is really a very serious and responsible map author. In his previous life, even though he was invited to make DOTA2, he did not forget to update DOTA.

VS has been developing dota2 in 2009 and went online in 2011. While Bingfrog was involved in the production of dota2, it has also updated DOTA1 to 2017.

Although there are certain business reasons, everyone still admires his professionalism.

It is just that you either don’t take over. If you take over, you must be responsible to the end and do it carefully.

This attitude is quite worth learning.

...

Everyone chatted for a while, and then Meng Xiao took the Bingfrog team to visit the company to make them familiar with the company environment.

Cao Yang sat alone in the office and smiled foolishly.

He was really happy to invite Bingfrog to come back to serve as the DOTA producer.

The ice frog in his previous life was very mysterious and basically did not appear in front of the media. The photos of him on the Internet were basically replaced by pictures of the ice frog.

Now that I can see the real person, after talking, he found that the ice frog is quite easy to communicate with.

Before, Cao Yang was a little worried about what if Ice Frog was unwilling to come to work in China?

Should we put the team in the United States at that time, or should we just abandon the Ice Frog and just get the copyright.

Now all these problems are solved, and everyone is really happy.

Next is when DOTA's independent game will be launched.

...

After they left, Cao Yang turned on the computer himself and started working.

It was at this moment that his phone rang, and it turned out that it was Liu Qiang who called him.

"Hey, boss, have you read the financial report of the mobile phone department last month?" Liu Qiang asked.

"Um?"

After checking a bunch of emails, he found a report sent by the financial manager of the mobile phone department before.

Cao Yang took a look and bounced off the chair.

"One hundred million yuan? So much?"

This billion yuan does not refer to the expenses caused by Bomi’s smartphone sales, but the share income brought to Bomi by third-party application software.

Last month, Bomi smartphone sales reached 900,000 units.

As of October this year, in almost three quarters, Bomi Company sold a total of 8 million smartphones. Basically, the phone was snatched up as soon as it was shipped. The rest can only wait until the next time Bomi mobile phone is in stock.

Now it can be said that supply is in short supply.

What is the concept of 8 million mobile phones?

This means that Bomi smartphones' global sales have reached a very terrifying 36 billion figure.

If it weren't for Bomi mobile phones to be mainly supplied to domestic regions, but were sold abroad first, this number would have increased a lot.

Because the country has given very good policies and a five-year tax exemption period, Bomi can make its net profit just up to 7 billion with a smartphone.

It is equivalent to US dollars, which is almost 900 million US dollars.

It's already an exaggerated number.

The most important thing is that Cao Yang saw a piece in this financial report—

The revenue from third-party software sharing can actually be as much as 100 million yuan.

In other words, many third-party software has begun to make profits on Bomi smartphones, and the number is quite large.

This is equivalent to the market for mobile platforms that has been opened and will become more and more popular in the future.

...

After the emergence of Bomi smartphones, it has a huge impact on the third-party software market on the entire mobile platform.

Now many domestic manufacturers have begun to add new applications to Bomi smartphones.

The mobile application market is also becoming hot.

The third-party application software developed by Bomi, which was the first to join Bomi smartphone, was Gaode Map. However, in less than half a year, Baidu also launched its own Baidu Map.

In addition, Baidu also put its Baidu APP and Baidu Tieba APP on Bomi smartphones.

Because these software are free to use, Bomi Company cannot make a penny.

At the beginning, those who entered Bomi smartphones all had basic applications, such as Meitu Xiuxiu, which appeared one year earlier than in the previous life.

And when Meitu Xiuxiu came out, it had already made dual platforms for PC and Hongmeng system, so users were able to modify their photos to a certain extent on their mobile phones.

Although Meitu Xiuxiu has relatively few functions now, it can meet the needs of a considerable number of girls to love beauty.

Meitu Xiuxiu has been ranked first in the Bomi App Store for many days after being launched. The mobile version of the mobile version was launched in June this year.

The mobile version of Meitu Xiuxiu was updated in October, and the "art" classification special effects were launched.

Because the [art] photos made by Meitu Xiuxiu are very funny, such as relief, blackening, big heads, etc., it made many users' emoticons popular online, so Meitu Xiuxiu, which has a widespread dissemination, has also become popular.

In addition, there are fitness, recipes, and book reading software... These software that do not require high mobile phone traffic and have relatively small packages have been born one after another, and have gradually entered the Bomi smartphone app store, making the mobile phone's functions more and more powerful.
To be continued...