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Chapter 217 Yao Qiguang is exposed (6k subscription required)

Lu Yao on the opposite side was full of confidence and hope, as if they could really defeat Penguin's business in the gaming field.

Yao Qiguang actually didn't understand Lu Yao's condition.

He didn't even know where Lu Yao's confidence came from.

But Yao Qiguang still reached out and held Lu Yao's hand, because the fighting spirit and youthful enthusiasm displayed by Lu Yao were so contagious. Coupled with the process of his coming to Shangnan and the arrangements Lu Yao made for him after landing, Yao Qiguang felt the attention he had never felt in his life.

Even for such attention, a veteran in the gaming industry like him is willing to burn his energy again.

Yao Qiguang held Lu Yao's hand tightly and said, "Then there is no time to lose. I can go to the project with you to familiarize myself with it and start working after I finish packing."

But Lu Yao shook his head and said, "Don't worry, settle down here first. After two or three days, when you are familiar with the environment here, we can start working. This place is not like Shenzhen. It's very cold."

Yao Qiguang still wants to fight for it again.

But Lu Yao comforted him, "Boss Yao, you will be of great use to me in the future. First, adapt to the climate and environment here, have a good rest, and then return to work in a better state. Your legs should have recovered a lot during your absence, right?"

Yao Qiangguang looked down at his legs. Without the heavy work and intense pressure of being a penguin, his legs had indeed improved a lot after more than a month of recuperation. Now he didn't even need crutches to help him walk.

It still hurts a bit though.

Especially after the long journey abroad in the past two days, his legs did show some signs of recurrence.

Yao Qiguang was touched by Lu Yao's concern. Since Lu Yao strongly asked him to continue resting, Yao Qiguang agreed.

When he first arrived in Shangnan, he did have a lot of trivial matters to deal with, and he even needed to take good care of his body to prepare for future work.

After Yao Qiguang came to Shangnan, the biggest stone in Lu Yao's heart finally fell to the ground.

Because of this great victory, he has been in a very excited state since he left Yao Qiangguang's residence. Later, when Wang Shu and Jian Xiaojie came back from abroad and Lu Yao went to meet them at the airport, Wang Shu and Jian Xiaojie asked him why he was so happy.

Lu Yao smiled as if he had eaten honey shit and said, "Of course it's a happy event."

However, Lu Yao did not tell them the details. After Jian Xiaojie and Sister Wang came back, Lu Yao stayed with them for two days, and then devoted himself to the next work.

……

On the fifth day after Yao Qiguang arrived in Shangnan, Lu Yao drove to the downstairs of Yao Qiguang's current residence and picked up Yao Qiguang to go to the company together.

After Yao Qiguang got in the car, Lu Yao asked, "How is it? Are you used to it these days?"

Yao Qiguang laughed and said, "I'm used to it! Although it's colder here than in Shenzhen, the scenic spots and scenery here are nice. It's a pity that it hasn't snowed recently, so I didn't get to see the charm of the ancient capital of the Six Dynasties."

Lu Yao started the car and drove to the company: "There will be plenty of opportunities in the future. If you hadn't kept urging me, I would have let you rest for a while."

Yao Qiguang shook his head and smiled, "I've rested long enough. It's almost March now. President Lu, you're not going to wait until my non-compete period is over in May before letting me join the project, are you?"

"how come!"

Lu Yao laughed and said, "To be honest, our project will be ready to go online in May. Now is the time when we need you to shine."

As for the non-compete agreement?

Lu Yao didn't care, he had the money to pay for it now.

After bringing Yao Qiguang to Guang'an Online Game Company, Lu Yao first called the executives from various departments and held a small but high-level welcome party for Yao Qiguang, and then took Yao Qiguang to the project team of the MOBA mobile game.

After arriving at the office area of ​​the MOBA mobile game, Yao Qiguang was a little stunned when he saw the busy technicians in the office.

Although Lu Yao had been trying his best to invite him to come and work with him, Lu Yao never said what he wanted him to do together. At that time, "She Le Ge She" was very popular, so popular that Penguin temporarily transferred a group of elite personnel to form a studio to replicate the game "She Le Ge She".

And "Shot the Shot" was even able to withstand the offensive from Penguin and is still doing well.

Therefore, Yao Qiangguang has always believed that Lu Yao worked so hard and went to great lengths to invite him because he hoped to use him to fight against Penguin's plagiarism. After all, the gameplay of "Shoot" is very novel, and many of the game concepts in it are also very novel.

Yao Qiguang would certainly think that Lu Yao wanted to promote this game.

But after arriving here, Yao Qiguang discovered that things were not the same here in Shangnan Guangan.

Among Lu Yao's Guang'an online games, the project that consumes the most resources and uses the most manpower is not "She Le Ge She", but another project.

The main person in charge of this project, Yao Qiguang, actually knew them. They were the former producers and main artists of Penguin Quantum Studio - Feng Ji and Yang Qi!

When Feng Ji, whose face was greasy, saw Yao Qiguang coming over, he couldn't help but laugh and greeted him, "Boss Yao, we meet again."

Yang Qi, who was shy and taciturn, just nodded and greeted Yao Qiangguang.

Yao Qiguang, who was brought to the MOBA mobile game development site, only took a few casual glances and found that the project team here was mainly making MOBA mobile game-type games. Combined with the manpower and resources consumed here, Yao Qiguang suddenly realized it!
He said, “So what you’re really making is a MOBA mobile game?”

So what about "Shoot a Shot"?

Lu Yao laughed and explained, "Now that I have come to this, I won't hide it from you anymore. The game 'Shoot ' was originally launched as an emergency measure and as a smokescreen. I didn't expect it to be liked by so many people, nor did I expect it to be so popular."

Yao Qiguang sighed: "It's just a smokescreen... So you expected that Penguin would target your popular games, so you used a game to test the waters first?"

Lu Yao affirmed: "Yes."

However, Lu Yao had many considerations and goals in launching "She Le Ge She" first. Testing the waters was only one aspect. If this game was not popular, it would allow Penguin to relax its vigilance.

If it becomes popular and Penguin copies it, it will disperse Penguin's resources, delay their development of MOBA mobile games, and even disrupt their internal deployment.

At the same time, it can also establish the market reputation and future public opinion foundation for Guangan online games.

This is a tactic that kills five birds with one stone.

Although not every goal can be achieved, if even two or three of the so many expectations can be achieved, then it will not be a loss for what Lu Yao launched in the early stage.

just now.

"She Le Ge She" launched by Lu Yao not only became a hit and brought huge profits to Guangan Games, but also disrupted the deployment of Penguin. Even because Lu Yao brought "ByteDance" and "Xiaomi Group" into the game, Penguin felt like it was facing a formidable enemy.

Not only did it advance the launch of the Penguin account, which was originally scheduled for mid-2016, but it also allowed Penguin to invest more resources into "Legend of the Brave".

As a result, the resource allocation among the four major studio groups became extremely unreasonable. The future father of "Honor of Kings" was squeezed out internally, allowing Lu Yao to take advantage of the situation.

"Shoot a Shot" can be said to be an unexpected surprise in Lu Yao's plan.

It was as if he clearly wanted to pick up a fake imperial seal from a street stall to play a scam, but he didn't expect that in the end he would find out that it was a real imperial seal.

Who understands this kind of surprise?

At first, even Lu Yao was not optimistic about this exciting little game, but he didn't expect it to be so successful.

Lu Yao picked out some of the things he could say and told them to Yao Qiguang about his purpose and expectations. After listening to him, Yao Qiguang was completely numb.

"no……"

"Has this Mr. Lu been planning so far ahead since he started the company?"

Yao Qiguang was a little upset, so he remained silent.

He didn't know whether to praise Lu Yao's "far-sightedness" or to fear his "foresight". Considering Lu Yao's young age, Yao Qiangguang felt even more frightened.

This Mr. Lu is a bit scary.

After listening to this, Yao Qiguang said sullenly after a long while: "Boss Lu is really far-sighted. He actually arranged everything for Penguin, the big boss, clearly from the beginning."

Lu Yao heard the hidden meaning in Yao Qiguang's words, but before Lu Yao could explain himself, Feng Ji raised his finger and said with a smile: "Boss Yao, you made a mistake."

Yao Qiguang looked at Feng Ji in confusion.

Feng Ji raised a finger and said, "It's not that we have to plot against Penguin from the beginning, but as long as we make games, we have to compete with Penguin. Penguin doesn't care if the game is not good, but as long as you make it well, Penguin will come over like a shark smelling blood, and then use the scale effect to destroy everyone."

Only those companies that are immortal are worthy of becoming Penguin's rivals, or will be taken seriously by Penguin.

So from this perspective, it’s not that Guang’an Online Games wants to fight against Penguin, but that they have to fight against Penguin, they have no choice.

Yao Qiguang was silent again, because what Feng Ji said made a lot of sense, but he had just arrived here, and had not yet settled down completely in Guangan Online Games. When he learned that Lu Yao had planned so much, he subconsciously felt that he was a part of Penguin, and thus felt a little scared.

Anyone who is targeted and plotted against in this deliberate way would definitely feel uncomfortable. When Yao Qiangguang felt uncomfortable, he didn't even realize that he was no longer a member of Penguin, but a member of Guang'an.

Yao Qiguang sounded a wake-up call for himself in his heart.

Feng Ji's words made him re-examine the ecology of the gaming industry. He had never thought about this issue when he was at Penguin because he just wanted to climb higher within Penguin. Even though his "Tiantian Series" had created and killed many gaming companies.

But Yao Qiguang never cared.

Because as Feng Ji said before, those companies that were killed by them are not worth even glancing at their corpses. They are not even qualified to be Penguin's opponents.

Thinking of this, Yao Qiguang felt ashamed.

Is their image in the industry so bad? Now even he feels that what he did before seems to be a bit too much.

This reminded Yao Qiangguang of his trip to the other side, when he visited the giant sequoias and learned about the nature of these trees.

The giant sequoia is native to the other side of the ocean. It is a type of tree that can grow very, very large. One of the giant sequoias, named "General Sherman", is recognized as the world's largest tree.

This tree can grow to a height of 100 meters and be so thick that it takes 20 to 30 people to hug it.

So why is this tree evil?

Because giant sequoias rely on their huge height to attract lightning. When lightning strikes their tall trees, they can rely on their strong and sturdy trunks to survive, but the struck leaves will fall to the ground and cause forest fires.

This behavior seems to harm others and not benefit oneself.

But the giant sequoias themselves are extremely fire-resistant, and even their fruits have thick peels that require high temperatures to crack and be sown.

But other trees do not have such ability. Therefore, after a forest fire, all trees within thousands of meters around the crown of the giant sequoia will be burned out by the wildfire. The ashes and debris left by the burning of other trees and the vacated space will provide enough nutrients and space for the giant sequoia's subsequent growth.

Those seemingly motionless plants actually have such cruel and brutal, even evil methods in their natural survival rules.

What about penguins?

Isn't it the giant sequoia of the Internet world?
Such an existence really cannot be targeted too much.

After such a chat, Yao Qiguang was filled with admiration for Lv Yao and his team. A newcomer to the game industry, and a game team that was fired by Penguin, they dared to regard Penguin as their opponent when they were just established, and even made careful calculations... The key is that many of their expectations were met.

This suddenly gave Yao Qiguang an idea.

"If it's theirs, maybe it really can."

Next, Lu Yao and Feng Ji took Yao Qiguang to check the project progress of the MOBA mobile game project team.

After more than a year of frantic work and the stimulation of the neighboring project "Shoot It", everyone in the MOBA mobile game project team is also holding back their energy.

Although they benefited from the "Shoot" project team at the annual meeting and received money.

But holding that money in my hand felt particularly uncomfortable.

Obviously they have more resources and more people, but because the project is so big, they haven't been able to launch it for a long time. Sometimes the "She Le Ge She" project team next door will come to borrow resources.

How do you say that?

"Your technicians are treasures, but your machines can't be treasures too, right? We'll take them and use them when you're all off work. I'll definitely return them to you before work tomorrow."

What the hell is that?
This feeling of frustration is just like when the people from the kitchen squad in "Drawing Sword" rushed to the cavalry company to borrow their sabers to kill the Japanese. Do you think the cavalry company can bear this grievance?

Therefore, the MOBA mobile game project team also hopes that they can make a lot of money as soon as possible and then give it to other project teams.

With this ambition, the main structure of the game has been almost developed, and only the subsequent heroes are still being developed and tested.

MOBA games are different from "shoot a shot".

The impact of different hero mechanisms on the overall situation, the effectiveness of different equipment on heroes, and even the role played by heroes in different positions all have an impact on the overall situation. Once there is something wrong, it will affect the overall gaming experience and lose the basis for fair competition.

In the future, domestic MOBA mobile games will basically have a complex and labor-intensive out-of-game hero development system, the purpose of which is to allow players to recharge and then kill all opponents in the game.

If you want to avoid being killed in one blow, you must spend time to increase your combat power, or you must spend money to increase your combat power.

This really makes many wealthy players very happy. All-People Superman has done a very good job in this regard, so in the early stage of the MOBA mobile game market, it relied on the empowerment of the Penguin social system to dominate the market.

But he was soon defeated by the revamped "Honor of Kings".

the reason is simple--

It’s not as fun as Honor of Kings.

In other words, "King of Glory" is not as good as "Honor of Kings" in making more people happy.

Netizens’ choice of games is that simple.

Therefore, Lu Yao set the tone for the MOBA mobile game from the beginning, and then focused on the hero mechanism, game quality and game optimization on this basis.

Following the tone set by Lu Yao, Feng Ji and Yang Qi continued to strive for perfection in the game's art style and visual expression. Sometimes, in order to achieve an action or particle effect within the game, they would lead a small team to work on it for more than ten days in a row, and they would stay in the company for more than ten days.

So, when Yao Qiguang came over, what kind of game was presented to him?
Not an exaggeration.

The quality and effectiveness of the game that Feng Ji and his team have polished now are no less than those of "Honor of Kings" in mid-2017.

2017 is a relatively important year for Honor of Kings.

Because in that year, Honor of Kings released a lot of heroes, among which "Nezha", "Zhuge Liang", "Huang Zhong", "Da Qiao" and other heroes are still popular heroes even four or five years later.

Later, "Kaihuang", "Baili Shouyao" and "Baili Xuance" were also once the masters of special skills and the favorites of the jungle kings.

It was also in this year that Honor of Kings finally found its own unique gaming style.

"Kai" of The Great Wall Watch is the first original background story hero of Honor of Kings. Kai's entrance with his ultimate skill made countless elementary school students scream with his explosive hero. It was also in that year that Honor of Kings truly became a national-level game.

Playing a game anytime and anywhere has become a new social activity for many young people.

So it is no exaggeration to say that 2017 is the real starting point for Honor of Kings to reach its peak.

The quality of Honor of Kings in mid-2017 alone was the result of the original Timi Studio working overtime, updating it again and again, and racking their brains to develop and iterate it.

Many of these techniques, and even the refinement and fusion of aesthetic styles, are the result of accumulation over time.

And Lu Yao used his future perspective to steal the future and hold it in his hands.

Lu Yao and his entire team are confident that after this game is released, even if Penguin wants to copy it, it will not be able to do so in a short period of time.

Something copied out in a short period of time will definitely not reach the quality that they have worked hard on for more than a year.

If Penguin conducts reverse research and development of competing products for a long time, it will lose the most precious time. By the time they come up with competing products of similar quality, the market opportunity will have been lost.

Even if Penguin has economies of scale, Lu Yao has already reached an offensive and defensive alliance with ByteDance and Xiaomi Interactive Entertainment, so Penguin's economies of scale cannot easily crush them.

After Yao Qiguang followed Lu Yao, Feng Ji and Yang Qi to take a general look at the overall progress of the project team, he was a little confused.

As an old game player, he highly agrees with the quality of the game developed by Lu Yao and Feng Ji.

This MOBA game has its own world view background. Heroes from different backgrounds also have their own background stories, and there are even interactive stories between different heroes.

The story of this MOBA mobile game is surprisingly remarkable.

After all, Feng Ji himself is a person who is particularly good at telling stories. Whether it is the story of "God of War" or the future story of "Black Myth", they are all remarkable.

This lays a good foundation for the future gaming ecosystem.

Just like the current League of Legends, there are already a lot of secondary creative contents, and these secondary creative contents have also attracted quite a lot of passers-by to enter the game.

In contrast, the overall world view and plot of Honor of Kings did not complete the origin of the world view until 2018.

In addition to the world view and hero background, the art effects and special effects of this game are also very good. The young, fashionable, light, beautiful and unique hero design can win favor at first sight.

For example, the hero called "Kai" that they recently developed and released.

This hero is a transformation hero, he has silver-gray with blue hair color, blue as the main color, Chinese style but simple and modern armor, and a domineering appearance after transformation... Needless to say, this thing will definitely attract quite a lot of young players.

They also did a very good job optimizing the game itself.

So after Lu Yao showed him around, Yao Qiguang was confused: "Boss Lu, your game is very well done. What do you want me to do here?"

Lu Yao smiled and said, "Of course, it is to create happiness with heart."

In the MOBA games being developed now, many heroes are copied from the future Honor of Kings and League of Legends, but Lu Yao himself is not a game fan after all. The only heroes he can remember are those that are so popular that everyone is familiar with them.

Of course he has also played League of Legends. He loved playing it whether he was in school or just one or two years after graduation.

But even when he was studying abroad, he hardly played this game after 2018.

He also plays Honor of Kings, but he does it more to accompany and flirt with girls. In order to lead girls, he practiced hard on a few of the easier jungle king characters, and his understanding of the others was only superficial.

But Yao Qiguang is different.

During Lu Yao's study abroad, he has always been the president of Timi Studio. Before 2018, many contents were finalized and conquered by his team.

It is no exaggeration to say that he single-handedly built up the Honor of Kings after making every effort.

This shows that Yao Qiguang himself is passionate about games, and even has faith in them. However, in order to make money, Penguin later stuffed a lot of weird planners into Timi Studio, so that within a few years, the reputation of Honor of Kings quickly became Penguin-ized.

A main skin planner was even scolded by players and stepped down.

But this is not Yao Qiguang's fault.

What if we gave him a better stage with fewer restrictions, allowing him to give full play to his enthusiasm?

Yao Qiangguang was stunned for a moment when he heard Lu Yao's answer, then shook his head and smiled bitterly, thinking that Lu Yao was teasing him.

But Lu Yao said seriously: "I'm not kidding. Make the game better, let more players experience happiness, let this game itself become the creator of content, and even give birth to one famous scene after another... That's what I need you to help me accomplish."

What Lu Yao said was very idealistic, but as a senior practitioner in the gaming industry, Yao Qiangguang naturally understood what these words meant.

This requires that the game itself is well balanced and interesting, and that the lower limit of the game is low enough, but the upper limit is also high enough, while giving normal or even high feedback to players who seriously hone their skills.

Only in this way can we achieve the goal given by Lu Yao.

The future described by Lu Yao immediately made Yao Qiangguang feel pressured, but under this pressure... his spirit, which had been slack for a long time, also began to flicker because of this pressure.

Then-

Go create happiness with your heart!
Yao Qiguang took a deep breath and said, "I will definitely live up to your expectations, Mr. Lu."

Lu Yao laughed and said, "Okay, your eyes look pretty good now. Let's set up a decision-making group in the future. Any proposal ideas can be brought to the table. Only after the group reaches a consensus after discussion can the plan be passed."

Feng Ji and Yang Qi are not good at operations, and Lu Yao has too many things on hand, so he certainly cannot focus on the project all the time.

Now with Yao Qiguang joining us...all the shortcomings have been made up.

……

After reaching a consensus with Yao Qiguang, Yao Qiguang began to actively integrate into the progress of the project, but in the early stages Yao Qiguang just watched and did not speak.

He had been in the project team for more than half a month without putting forward any suggestions or ideas. Just when everyone had gone from watching, being curious, and doubting, and later almost forgetting about Yao Qiangguang, he began to make suggestions on some problems that existed in the project.

These suggestions were so original that they triggered a strong reaction from Feng, Yangqi and other senior executives, who then quickly formed a meeting for a vigorous exchange of ideas.

In this exchange of ideas, Yao Qiangguang convinced most people, and even those who disagreed also followed the majority.

It was also through this intense exchange of ideas that Yao Qiguang began to formally integrate into the team.

Now Yao Qiangguang is full of energy all day long. Even though he has to use a cane again due to heavy work, his energy is completely different from when he was in Shenzhen.

There is light in his eyes.

The news of Yao Qiguang's frequent appearances in Shangnan Guang'an online games soon reached the hands of senior executives at Penguin Interactive Entertainment Group. After being stunned for a moment, the executives who received the news quickly began to confirm the news, and finally formed a report and submitted it to the desk of Mr. Ren, president of the Interactive Entertainment Group.

(End of this chapter)