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Chapter 466 3721 Online Game Modifier

"If we implement this feature, our game still has a chance to break through the encirclement." Just as Cheng Yi was pondering how to maximize the profits of Shengda Legend, Lei Jun and a group of programmers were working diligently to optimize a software at Jinshan Software Group in Yanjing City.

Lei Jun has been under a lot of pressure lately, and his hair is falling out in clumps.

"JX Online" is his first battle since becoming the group's president.

What upset him was that just when the game was finally developed, the Momo Group overturned the table for RPGs.

Months ago, they touted it as the pinnacle of domestic martial arts online games, with various developer interviews, detailed revelations, and scarcity marketing tactics, maintaining the hype for months on end. They used every trick in the book, only to get this result?
How could Shengda have voted? How could he have voted?
With Shengda's investment, the RPG game industry was completely wiped out; it was all taken over by Momo Group.

Although Lei Jun was very troubled, he was not the kind of person who would back down when faced with difficulties.

He carefully compared his strengths and weaknesses with those of Du Yusheng.

He's more handsome than Du Yusheng.

He has a higher level of education than Du Yusheng.

He understands marketing better than Du Yusheng.

The advantage lies with him; he has a chance of winning this round.

The RPG market is currently dominated by one game, and it's hard for "Honghuang Zhanji" and "Legend" to shake its dominance. However, apart from these two games, there is still some room for development in the game market.

For example, games like Jin Yong's Heroes, Gu Long's Heroes, Showdown, Elf, Paradise, Destiny WYD, Miracle, Breaking the Sky Sword, Cola 8, and Klose, which first launched cross-server battles between domestic and international players, were all severely damaged by games like Honghuang Chronicles and Legend, but they managed to survive. Together, these games had a peak concurrent user count of over one million.

Since they've already been through so much, wouldn't they mind torturing themselves a little more?

Lei Jun has carefully analyzed the differences between their game and games like Honghuang Zhanji and Legend.

To be fair, the graphics of their Swordsman Romance game absolutely crush the Legend of Mir, and to some extent, it can rival the Primordial Era. In addition, it has extremely rich martial arts elements. As long as those half-dead RPG games are eliminated and the market is cleared, they are confident that they can stand out as one of the three major games.

To achieve this goal, he must improve the existing software.

Commercial version of "The Wandering Swordsman of Jinshan".

They not only want to improve the software, but also want to make it free.

Anyway, they only sold tens of thousands of copies of this software, so making it free didn't result in a significant loss.

As long as it's not a self-developed game, they are confident that they can teach these game distributors a lesson with "Jinshan Ranger".

However, if it were free, it wouldn't be called Jinshan Youxia.

After careful consideration, Lei Jun decided to name the software "3721 Modifier" and then release it to Huajun Software.

Leaving aside the dozens of minor functions of this software, its two major functions alone, such as speed-up and equipment duplication, are enough to throw online games on the market into chaos.

The core team responsible for developing this software has been working tirelessly to upgrade Jinshan Ranger since July.

“Mr. Lei, I feel the functionality is almost complete now. I tested it in the Legend game, and the speed gear works, but the equipment duplication function doesn’t work in Legend. After all, Legend is a popular game with billions in revenue, and their technical team has already rebuilt the backend program,” a programmer said.

"What about other games?" Lei Jun asked again.

"Miracle and Kolos cannot duplicate equipment, but the rest of the game can," the programmer said.

"Alright, that's about enough." Lei Jun nodded slowly, then suddenly asked, "Have you tried the Primordial War Chronicles?"

“The Primordial Era is no good; even the speed-shifting mechanism doesn’t work,” the programmer said. “The game’s architecture is completely different from other games on the market, and even different from all games in the world. I suspect the main program for this game is from aliens.”

"Hahaha, alien? You might as well just say he's Xiang Shaolong." A programmer with a cigarette in his mouth laughed.

The six people in this room are all top programmers at Jinshan Software.

Just as Lei Jun was about to give a few instructions, his phone rang.

"Mr. Lei, your guests have arrived." The voice of assistant Chen Rui came from the other end of the phone.

"Okay, you entertain them first, I'll be right there." Lei Jun put away his phone and said to the six programmers, "Scramble the UI of the program, then rename it '3721 Online Game Modifier,' and release it on Hua Jun's download sites. Remember to release it anonymously, so there won't be any problems. Your six tasks are to keep it updated and stick to those online games."

"Mr. Lei, if those online games implement large-scale account banning policies, then there will probably be very few people willing to use it," a programmer said.

Lei Jun laughed and said, "Isn't our goal to get them to ban accounts? If they start banning accounts on a large scale, I'll give you credit for it."

"I see." All six programmers suddenly realized.

Lei Jun hurried back to his office, where a man and a woman were sitting on the sofa. Upon seeing them, Lei Jun immediately greeted them with a beaming smile, saying, "Chairman Xue, President Mi, welcome, welcome!"

"Hello, Mr. Lei." Xue Man stood up, shook hands with Lei Jun, and smiled, "Mr. Lei, you're still as dashing as ever."

Lei Jun laughed and said, "What do you mean by still looking as good as ever? I'm anxious every day now."

Mi Jingyan smiled and said, "President Lei is worried? One-tenth of the well-known programmers in China came from your Jinshan. Which company doesn't have your protégés?"

In response to Mi Jing's compliment, Lei Jun humbly replied, "That's all just empty talk. In the internet age, money is the only thing that matters."

Lei Jun respectfully invited Xue Man and Mi Jing to return to their seats, then smiled and said, "Chairman Xue, the main reason I invited you here today is for the game we are currently developing."

"The graphics of your game are really good," Xue Man said. "It's just a pity you chose the wrong genre."

As soon as Xue Man said this, Mi Jing subconsciously glanced at Lei Jun. Seeing that Lei Jun's face was still full of smiles, Mi Jing admired Lei Jun's composure.

In Zhongguancun, Lei Jun was known as the most diligent CEO. Xinlang and Souhu invited Lei Jun to serve as their group's CEO multiple times, but Lei Jun declined each time.

Which chairman wouldn't love such top-notch talent?
Lei Jun smiled and said, "Chairman Xue, there's no going back now that we've chosen the wrong genre. What I'm thinking about now is how to make this game gain a foothold in the market. The reason I invited you two here is to discuss the possibility of our game being released on your group's distribution channels."

Xue Man said, "Login to our channel is no problem at all. I will then display your game on the homepage of the management software."

"Thank you, Chairman Xue." Lei Jun personally poured Xue Man a cup of tea and said with a smile, "With Chairman Xue's support, our game will have at least 100,000 online players."

Xue Man sighed and said, "Our support is useless. We're just dabbling. If you really want your game to become popular, you'll have to go and ask Cheng Yi of Momo Group for help."

Lei Jun said, "Chairman Xue, I've known President Mi for many years, and we're not strangers, so you don't need to test me."

He took a sip of tea and said, "Chairman Xue, let's be honest, do you think Momo Group can go far?"

Xue Man looked directly at Lei Jun and saw that Lei Jun's eyes were extremely serious. He also became serious and said, "It's hard to say. They shouldn't have annexed Shengda."

Lei Jun slowly said, "I have actually been paying attention to the battle between Momo and Shengda. To be honest, I never expected Momo to acquire Shengda. If I were to manage the Momo Group, I would turn this into a protracted war to lull those IT giants into a false sense of security."

Xue Manzhi picked up his teacup with a smug look and said with a smile, "President Lei's vision is truly remarkable. He is destined for great things. You are right. Momo Group's acquisition of Shengda has exposed their true intentions. As far as I know, Microsoft has already begun to pay attention to Momo Group's next move. I heard that Tang Jun from Microsoft China is preparing to go to Momo Group for negotiations."

"Negotiation?" Lei Jun was taken aback.

Xue Man said, "Yes, I heard it's about the Momo system. Given Microsoft's domineering style, it's highly likely they'll force Momo Group to abandon its self-developed system."

"Chairman Xue, if Momo Group doesn't give up, do you think Microsoft will really make a move?" Lei Jun asked.

"It's hard to say." Xue Man took a sip of tea and continued, "Microsoft's energy is currently tied up in the Linux system, so they probably don't have much energy left to deal with Momo Group. I guess Tang Jun will most likely focus on negotiations this time."

"Peace talks?" Lei Jun was slightly surprised.

However, Xue Man is very familiar with the major American corporations, and his guess is almost certainly correct.

Xue Man put down his teacup and said, "Well, I think Microsoft will offer Momo Group a very good deal. We have a huge market of over a billion people. In order to capture this market, Microsoft didn't even investigate the rampant piracy problem in our country. Their goal is to seize the market. With such a huge market, if an operating system with hundreds of millions of users emerges, it could very likely affect Microsoft's global dominance plan."

Seeing Lei Jun remain silent, Xue Man smiled again and said, "Actually, my thoughts are similar to yours. I've also fantasized about Momo Group rejecting Microsoft's offer, which would anger Microsoft and cause a fight between the two sides. If that happens, both our Time and Space Internet Cafe and your Jinshan Software will benefit from it."

“I don’t think that way,” Lei Jun said slowly. “I’m really conflicted right now. After all, I’m a programmer by training, and I really hope that a commercial operating system will emerge in China. But Momo Group is meddling in everything. If we let them grow and expand, we companies might not even have a chance to get by.”

“That’s inevitable,” Xue Man said with a smile. “Our priority now is to survive. Sentimentality can’t put food on the table, Mr. Lei, don’t you agree?”

“Hmm.” Lei Jun nodded slowly and said, “This is also why I didn’t talk to Momo Internet Cafe about joining. I feel that Momo Group will soon decline from its peak. There’s no need to risk my prepaid cards being discounted by 30% just for their more than one million internet cafe computers.”

Xue Man lowered his voice mysteriously and said with a smile, "I actually have an even more explosive piece of news. If this news is revealed, it will be enough to turn Lianxiang Group and Momo Group into enemies."

"Oh?" Lei Jun was surprised to hear this.

If Lianxiang Group and Momo Group were to become adversaries, wouldn't Momo Group be doomed?

Lei Jun asked with a curious look, "Chairman Xue, would you mind telling me about it?"

Xue Man shook his head and said, "This matter is of great importance, and I cannot reveal it yet. It is the talisman of our Time and Space Internet Cafe."

Lei Jun laughed and said, "Chairman Xue's methods are indeed extraordinary. This time, our game will rely entirely on Chairman Xue."

"Of course, we're friends, hahaha!" Xue Man laughed heartily.

Lei Jun and Xue Mans chatted for more than half an hour, and the three of them drank two pots of tea before Xue Mans and Mi Jing took their leave.

After seeing Xue Man and Mi Jing off, assistant Chen Rui strode into the office and said, "President Lei, are we really not going to join the Momo system?"

"I can only say that we won't move in for the time being. If their business returns to normal in a few months, it's still possible that we'll move in." Lei Jun didn't tell Chen Rui the truth.

The biggest reason he doesn't join the Momo system is that it's a closed system and can't run the 3721 online game modifier. Even if he joined the Momo system, without the help of the modifier, their game wouldn't get many users.

Moreover, by then, those online games that have been thoroughly messed up by game modifiers will focus all their efforts on developing the Momo system's channel servers, using this method to gain a little breathing room.

At this moment, Xue Man and Mi Jing also walked out of the Jinshan Building.

Now that Shengda, this big tree, has fallen, all the pressure has fallen on Shikong Culture.

The most fundamental difference between their Time and Space Internet Cafe and Momo Internet Cafe is that they lack control over each other.

Momo Internet Cafe has absolute control over all its affiliated internet cafes, while Shikuang Internet Cafe only grants authorization and does not participate in the operation of the internet cafes at all.

"Chairman, putting aside the pressure from Momo Internet Cafe, I think we need to slow down. We've authorized too many internet cafes, and I always feel uneasy about it." As soon as they got into the car, Mi Jing said worriedly, "If we only authorize without managing, it will cause big problems sooner or later. Now that we've accumulated enough funds, shouldn't we take back some management authority?"

"How can we not be managing them?" Xue Man frowned. "Didn't we install internet cafe management software for them?"

Mi Jing said, "How can just an internet cafe management software be enough? Most of the internet cafes we authorize are illegal, and those people might do something outrageous."

"Don't overthink it. Just deal with problems as they arise." Xue Man sneered. "A person who's afraid of everything will never succeed. Besides, how much trouble can those internet cafe owners cause? They'll just stab or beat someone up."

Looking at the confident Xue Man, Mi Jing already had the idea of ​​backing down.

Perhaps it was a woman's intuition, or perhaps the downfall of Shengda instilled fear in her heart.

She felt that something was not quite right.

(End of this chapter)