Chapter 879 You can come and watch this grand event!
Gao Jin sat down at the main seat in the conference room, waved his hands, and everyone sat down. Jane and Sonia sat on the right side of Gao Jin, and Ruiz sat on the left.
Soon, Ruiz stood up and began to give Gao Jin a detailed report on Activision Blizzard's work.
The game held a player voting session on the value of the remake. Each account has one vote, and a compensation mechanism is provided. You can vote for or against based on your own opinions.
Only when the approval votes reach more than 60%, a comprehensive upgrade will be carried out to replace the server and the big map.
As a result, the number of votes in favor reached 68% in just one week. After the data was released, those players who disagreed also accepted the result.
New servers and new maps were opened, and players showed great enthusiasm and invested in them one after another.
Thanks to the upgrade of online game servers, World of Warcraft, a game that has been running for ten or twenty years, has been reset. This time it has a larger map, a larger game plot, richer props, and a new and more balanced power system.
The previous model that emphasized player interaction has been changed back, and cold and non-communicative modes such as automatic book scheduling have been cancelled. More importantly, the appearance and studio have been focused on.
Last year alone, more than 30 million accounts around the world were blocked for six months, and the gold coins and other materials in the accounts were completely wiped out.
Among them, China was the hardest hit area, with more than a thousand accounts blocked, accounting for more than half of the world's blocked accounts.
A devastating blow to Tianchao Game Studio!
Of course, the official has also launched its own mall, and players can conduct transactions in the official mall. Order has been restored, and the number of players has naturally increased.
The game World of Warcraft alone has created a net profit of 1.2 billion for Activision Blizzard.
Overwatch has also made changes, completely replacing the original garbage operation, reducing the nature of the league and adding players' happy attributes, and the number of active players has also been greatly improved.
Currently, the new StarCraft and Diablo are already being remade and are expected to be officially launched next year!
The staff at Activision Blizzard's headquarters has been reduced from more than 1,200 people to more than 700 people. The only ones left behind are elites, and those who hang around all day have been cleared out.
Ruiz knew exactly where Activision Blizzard's problems were, and he made drastic reforms to return the game to the essence of fun.
Less utilitarian, more happiness!
Not only does this change not keep players away, but it attracts more players. When the number reaches a certain level, it will cause a qualitative change.
After Ruiz finished his report, other senior executives also stood up to report on the areas they were responsible for. Gao Jin drank tea calmly and listened to everyone's reports.
After everyone finished reporting, Gao Jin looked at Ruiz and said "Ruiz", and Ruiz immediately stood up.
"I'm very satisfied with Activision Blizzard's current changes. You've done a great job, but..."
"You have not made up for Activision Blizzard's biggest shortcoming. This is your dereliction of duty. You need to think about it yourself and give me an answer before I immediately."
"If you can't figure out what Activision Blizzard's shortcomings are, your overall view is very problematic."
Gao Jin watched Ruiz say this calmly. Ruiz frowned. The biggest shortcoming is, does Activision Blizzard have a big shortcoming now?
If other high-level officials are also considering Gao Jin, no one would dare to be careless.
Who is Gao Jin? He is the richest man in the world, the founder of the world giant Xingling Group, and a globally recognized business master!
Since Gao Jin said this, it means that Activision Blizzard really has a big shortcoming, and this is absolutely true.
"Don't think about it now. You have plenty of time to think about this problem. I remember you told me that you wanted to give me a surprise. Now I really want to know what surprise you will bring me." Gao Jin looked at Ruiz and smiled.
Say this sentence.
"Boss, I will take the boss to see it in person after the meeting." Ruiz immediately said this respectfully.
"Okay, the meeting is over now, let everyone else go and do their work, Ruiz will stay." Gao Jin said this with a smile, and everyone else also laughed, slowly stood up and left the meeting room.
Not long after, Gao Jin and Ruiz also left the conference room. They left the office building and walked towards a large four-story building.
There were security personnel at the door, and they immediately gave up their positions when they saw everyone approaching. However, Ruiz still conducted verification according to the rules, and only after passing the verification did he take Gao Jin into the building.
Each floor required verification, and after verification three times, everyone arrived at the third floor.
The huge third floor was divided into several large rooms, and many people were busy. Ruiz led Gao Jin into the largest room. There were also many people busy here, and a lot of data appeared on the display.
"Boss, after Activision Blizzard joined the Protoss Group, we conducted technical exchanges with Starlight Games, and we each gained something."
"Today I asked the boss to see our latest achievements, which will further increase the number of players the server can accommodate."
"Currently, a group of servers can accommodate 33,000 players. We have made a breakthrough and will conduct an open test tomorrow."
"Challenge a server to accommodate 50,000 players!"
Ruiz was very proud to say this. Gao Jin was stunned, then smiled and gave Ruiz a thumbs up.
"Lin Zhentang told me that server research and development has reached a bottleneck. How did you break through?" Gao Jin asked curiously.
"Boss, Activision Blizzard has always had a project to develop large-scale servers. Unfortunately, we have tried a lot and still have no breakthrough. Of course, it is also related to the fact that we hired a bunch of mediocre people."
"After joining the Star Spirit Group, we conducted technical exchanges with Starlight Game Company, obtained their technology, broke through our original bottleneck, and fully understood the technology of large servers."
"After I became CEO, I cleared away all the people who were dawdling and recruited a new group of energetic and very talented young people to carry out research and development."
"Thanks to the technical foundation we have stored in the past, after last year's busy work, we made a breakthrough last month and conducted more than a dozen internal stress tests, all of which went very smoothly."
"We have issued a notice three days ago and will conduct an open test tomorrow. According to the reply from the official website, players are very enthusiastic."
"Boss, if you have nothing to do tomorrow, you can come over and watch this grand event!"
Ruiz explained to Gao Jin and then he understood what was going on. Gao Jin asked, "What time will it start tomorrow?"
"The test will start on time at 3:30 tomorrow afternoon"
"The reason why this time is set is because many players take a rest in the morning. They usually get up at 1 o'clock and then go to McDonald's or KFC to buy food."
"Most players in the United States are fat." After Ruiz said this, a smile appeared on his face, and Gao Jin also smiled.
Fat people in the United States are very famous, and they have even formed the largest fat people association in the world to fight for the interests of fat people.
"If my guess is correct, have you already arranged a hotel for me in Irvine?" Gao Jin asked with a smile.
Ruiz directly gave Gao Jin a thumbs up and said, "Boss is right. I have already opened a room for Boss with my own money. If Boss moves in, it will be transferred to the company's expenses."
"If the boss doesn't settle in, it will become my personal expense as the price for my wrong prediction!".
"You win!" Gao Jin said with a smile, then walked forward and started communicating with the staff.
Ruiz has already said this, and Gao Jin must give face to maintain Ruiz's authority as CEO.
Gao Jin talked with many people and listened to their ideas before he and Ruiz left the small building and began to inspect other departments.
Even though there are only a few hundred people in the headquarters, there are many departments. Today, no department is lazy, they are all sitting at their desks and busy.
After looking around, Ruiz led Gao Jin towards the chairman's office. There was an office specially decorated for Gao Jin. Even if Gao Jin couldn't come, there must be one.
That's the rule.
Moreover, this office was decorated according to Gao Jin's preferences after consulting Heidehir, Jane, and Sonia.
On the top floor of a seven-story building is Gao Jin's office, with a small garden on the roof and a swimming pool.
Knowing that Gao Jin was coming, Ruiz specially arranged for people to update the flowers and plants in the garden and clean the swimming pool.
Gao Jin came here for the first time. He walked around and gave Ruiz a thumbs up. This office was really nicely decorated, but unfortunately, he might not be able to use it even once a year.
Let Sonia and Jane prepare tea and put it in the small garden on the top floor. Gao Jin and Ruiz talked in the small garden.
"Ruiz, the company's layoffs are not because we are not profitable, but because we don't want to see someone doing nothing."
"Now Blizzard can definitely add some more manpower."
Through personal inspection and communication with employees, coupled with the judgment of the protoss, Gao Jin gave his own opinion. At the moment, Blizzard really does not have enough internal personnel.
Of course, it depends on what Ruiz means. After all, Ruiz is the CEO.
"I have already discussed this plan with the Human Resources Department. We will add more than 30 people to each department this year, which will be enough to alleviate the problem of manpower shortage."
"At this moment, Blizzard must change its previous lazy style. Only in this way can it completely change the lazy style of the entire company."
"It's too comfortable. If your lazy temper comes up, you'll go back to your old self."
Ruiz said this calmly, knowing very well the current staffing situation of various departments. However, it is not yet time to significantly reduce the workload.
Gao Jin nodded after listening and was about to speak when Jane came over with a kettle. Gao Jin started to make tea. After drinking the tea, he could talk to Ruiz about other things.
Soon, six small cups of tea appeared. Gao Jin made a gesture of invitation, and the two of them picked up a cup and drank.