She glanced at the next door and asked quietly: "What's going on with stealing food?"
"I don't know. I also found out this morning that I couldn't play. Maybe the company has blocked it." said my colleague.
shield!!
Cheng Ying's eyes widened, then she became discouraged, "Okay, okay."
While her resentment was rising, Tencent was holding an emergency meeting.
In the conference room, everyone's expressions were extremely ugly. Now it was clear that this was 99's revenge for the previous non-mainstream battle. The sinister surnamed Yao even sent wedding candies to Brother Ma, but he fell out after delivering them.
“According to data released by 99 itself, the number of active users of Maimai Space surged by 43.7% in one month, while the number of registered users of Maimai increased by nearly 10 million, and now there are 220 million, with more than 6 million online at the same time.
Maiwo Community has also launched a farm game, and its registered users have also grown significantly, now reaching 140 million.
As for our QQ's recent data, the number of registered users in the past month has dropped by 56% compared with the previous month, while the number of online users is still just over 10 million.
Obviously, 99 is using social games to fight us again, but this time it’s so unexpected, I didn’t expect “Farm Farm” to be so popular.”
"99 cannot be allowed to continue. What do you think?"
"..."
After a brief silence, one person said: "Stealing food and stealing food, when it is a game, it is entertaining, when it is a communication work, it is misleading.
It is said that many children in their teens and even younger are playing, so the target is the word ‘steal’.”
Everyone knows it, it’s the same old thing!
It affects the health of teenagers, parents are worried and opposed, and stealing food has no positive energy.
"It has only been a few months since we ended our war of words with 99. If it happens again, the public may become disgusted, and we are not sure of victory."
"That has to be done, public opinion is crucial."
"Don't steal the chicken and lose the rice, but instead promote it for them."
Opinions are not unified. Many people think that a war of words with 99 is too boring and impossible to win. The earthquake didn't kill them, so just steal some food?
"Then we might as well learn from it and launch a similar work as soon as possible."
"Yeah, I think there's nothing technical about stealing food, it's easy to do."
"Add some more functions and optimize the art. We have many users and we are not afraid of head-on confrontation."
This is a tradition in Goose Factory and is approved by most people.
But some people are worried that the company's reputation is already very bad, so will it continue to blatantly copy?
"Everyone..."
When the discussion was getting heated, a guy who was fiddling with his laptop suddenly spoke up and said helplessly: "I think today's topic can be put on hold and let's solve the immediate matter first."
Um???
Everyone was surprised, but the person turned the computer around so that they could see the screen.
That was exactly the game page of "Happy Farm". In the most conspicuous upper right corner was the pet house. Instead of a local dog, a silly-looking penguin with a rolling eye appeared inexplicably.
"This is their updated novice gift package, the second kind of housekeeping pet."
"That native dog can only bark, this penguin can talk..."
He pointed at the screen, and sure enough, the penguin walked back and forth in front of the house a few times, and suddenly spit out a dialog box that read: "Come and copy! Come and copy!"
"..."
Everyone was stunned at first, then furious, and then embarrassed.
Yao Yuan has been in constant litigation with Tencent since a few years ago, trying to dirty up its "borrowing" behavior to the maximum extent. After scolding him for so long, netizens have successfully been instilled with the idea: Ah! Penguins love to learn from others!
And "Farm Farm" did this, which directly put them in a difficult position.
Should I copy or not?
If you copy it, you will tear off your face and throw it away, and you will be stigmatized. If you don't copy it, you will see Mai Mai chasing after him all the way, which will make you even more frightened.
…………
"Ha ha ha ha!"
"This move is amazing, 99 is worthy of being a master of Gonghuo."
In the office of Five Minutes Company in Shanghai, Xu Cheng, one of the three founders, slapped his legs and laughed.
"The technology of "Happy Farm" is low and easy to copy. Counterfeiting by other companies is not a threat. Only Tencent is the mortal enemy. 99 made them unable to advance and retreat, and bought themselves time to develop. This is called operation!"
Xu Cheng serves as the company's COO, that is, chief operating officer. He has a great reputation, but in fact it is a mess. At this moment, he admires 99 endlessly.
Gao Shaofei was the CEO. Looking at the writing room with only four employees left, he sighed and said, "Can you still laugh at this juncture?"
"What can we do if we don't laugh? Can we bring the company back to life? We will pay the tuition this time. The difference is whether we die cowardly or make a slightly dignified exit?"
"You can think of it!"
After the failure of the first chess game, two more games were launched in five minutes, one was a puzzle game and the other was a racing game.
The effect is not very good.
When they started their business, they took 150,000 yuan from the city's support for college students to start their own businesses. Then they each borrowed some money from their families. Now that the company has no income, the money will be spent immediately.
It's just one step away from closing.
Xu Cheng, who has been playing with "Happy Farm", even used a pen to calculate, saying: "Let me explain as a player, the farm has launched paid props.
The first is chemical fertilizers, low-grade ones cost 0.5 coins a bag, and high-grade ones cost 1 coin. I use 2 bags a day on average. Watchdogs cost 1 coin a day, and dog food costs 0.3 coins a day.
1 coin is 1 yuan, which adds up to 3.3 yuan per day, which is 99 per month. But I have a platinum membership, which gives me a 20% discount, which is 79.2.
In other words, I spend 79.2 on wheat every month!"
"so much?"
Gao Shaofei was startled, but then shook his head and said: "No, no, it's not much. Elementary school students and middle school students can't afford it, middle-aged and elderly people don't want to pay, and there are many college students and office workers who pay 79.2 per month.
If 1 million people pay, that's 79.2 million!
No, no, it can’t be that many, 300,000 people pay, that’s 23.76 million, every month!”
Gao Shaofei was talking a little nonsense and his mind was confused. When he calmed down, he looked at Xu Cheng and both smiled bitterly, sighing: "People call it career, we are just like playing house."
"Yeah, it's too easy to think of starting a business."
"..."
Another founder, Cheng Yanhui, is responsible for technology research and development. He is usually taciturn. After listening for a long time, he suddenly spoke:
"How about forgetting it? There's no point in insisting on it. The asking price is 3 million for 99, and we'll get 1 million evenly. And if we go to a bigger platform, we'll have more opportunities to perform."
In fact, everyone has this idea, it just depends on who speaks first.
The three of you looked at me, I looked at you, and then lowered your heads, which was regarded as a silent vote.
…
Yao Yuan successfully acquired Five Minutes, laid off the employees, only recruited the three founders, and dispersed them to different departments.
Historically, in addition to "Farm", Five Minutes also has works such as "Little War" and "Little Paradise", which are also very good games.
These three are not considered high-level talents, at least they are considered average. It is worth bringing them back in a package worth 3 million.