Chapter 1265 – Tencent gas
“Manager Ma, why are you here?”
Tencent’s Pony Ma sat opposite Feng Yu in the latter’s Shanghai Office. Pony Ma is soone Feng Yu respected in his previous life.
“I had co over to do so paperwork and drop by to take a look.” Pony Ma smiles.
“Paperwork? Are there any problems with the company?” Feng Yu frowned as Zhong Qingxian had not told him anything.
“No,... we had just added a new service. Tencent will be entering the gaming industry.”
“You are going to start QQ gas?!” Feng Yu asked excitedly. But did QQ gas appear so early?
“How do you know I am going to na this service QQ gas? Oh, you must have guessed it from QQ. That’s right. It’s QQ gas.” Feng Yu did not even need to explain himself as Pony Ma ca up with an answer.
“What do your QQ gas include?” Feng Yu asked curiously. It would be great if the gas he likes are available now.
In Feng Yu’s previous life, QQ gas are extrely popular. Every QQ account is also a QQ gas account, and there are more than 200 million active players. The most number of online players playing concurrently is more than 8 million.
“Currently, we only have two types of gas. One type is chess and card ga, and the other is a type of electronic pet rearing ga. The chess and card gas include poker cards, mahjong, Chinese chess, Chinese checkers, and Land Battle Chess. There are many ways to play poker cards and mahjong gas, and the electronic pet ga is a virtual pet rearing ga. Players can rear an electronic pet and play simple gas with the pet. Its target audience is the female players.”
Feng Yu is not interested in QQ pets but loves card gas. He played long hours in his previous life, especially Dou di zhu. Dou di zhu is China’s most popular ga, and the craze even spreads overseas.
“Not bad. What is the future plan for this? I can tell there will be new gas coming out from your tone.”
“Of course. We will be introducing recreational gas. These are single-player gas converted to online gas. For example, Connect it, Tetris, Spot the differences, etc.”
In Feng Yu’s previous life, he had played Spot the differences on QQ gas. But it was later turned into pictures of pretty girls to attract players. Of course, the pictures are fully clothed won.
“Good idea. These classic gas are boring when played alone, and it will be more fun if players can challenge each other. But can your server cope with the sudden stress? Do you all have enough engineers to handle it, and have you tested all the gas?”
“We intend to introduce a QQ gas lobby, which is our gaming platform. In this lobby, players can choose the gas they want to play and enter that room. Their accounts and passwords will be the sa as their QQ accounts, and we used a simple mirroring technique for this. We have also recruited more engineers and should be sufficient to handle the additional workload. Of course, if Sina, Lenovo Kingsoft, etc., are willing to lend us so of their engineers, it will be great.”
“We have basically tested all the gas internally and will be launching the Beta testing now. These gas will be available for free.”
Feng Yu rolled his eyes. You want Lenovo Kingsoft, Sina, etc., to lend you their engineers? Dream on. But he doesn’t mind lending so of his Wind and Rain Gas’ engineers to him as they have plans to develop card and chess type of gas.
But Feng Yu also have so worries. The gas had only gone through internal testing, and there should be many undiscovered bugs. If anyone developed external plug-ins to exploit these bugs, it would have a devastating impact on QQ gas.
“You an there will be plans to charge fees for QQ gas in the future? If that’s the case, you must be wary of external plug-ins. If external plug-ins appeared in the market for free, it would affect QQ gas.”
For example, Dou di zhu’s mbers will be given 50,000 points every day. But if soone can use an external plug-in to get 5 million points, who will buy the mbership?
Players with mbership might lose their points, but others can just get free points to level up. This will cause the ga to be imbalanced and collapse.
“We have thought about this, but if we don’t go into public testing, we will not discover the bugs. We will put lots of resources into this area, especially after we introduce Q coins. Q coin is a type of virtual currency used to buy products on our QQ platform. This will also increase our inco, and we know we will suffer heavy losses if soone can generate Q coins illegally.”
Q coins are already available? This is the most important virtual currency in Feng Yu’s previous life, and he did not expect it to appear so early. The biggest advantage of Q coins is to raise funds quickly.
Many people will buy Q coins but will not use everything at once. If soone wants to spend 5 RMB on Q coins, he might buy 10 RMB for the discount and save the additional 5 RMB worth of Q coins. To Tencent, they had sold 10 RMB worth of product.
Tencent will use other thods to entice the user to spend the 5 RMB worth of Q coins he saved. For example, if you see a product selling for 10 Q coins is selling for 8 Q coins now, the user will top up to get it. Tencent will profit from it again.
Tencent Group is one of the top companies that made full use of topping up services. They provided lots of free products to the users and let the users feel the gap between them and those paid mbers to stimulate them to spend.
Of course, the users can choose not to spend money, and Tencent can still profit from them. For example, Tencent can show their users’ volu to the advertisers and charge them higher fees.
Many people had been discussing the best advertising thod in Feng Yu’s previous life. It was later agreed that QQ’s pop-up advertisent is the best. The number of QQ users online concurrently had exceeded 400 million, and there are more than 1 billion registered accounts.
Tencent can beco one of the top internet technology companies in the world because of its user volu.
“Are there many people buying Q coins now?” Feng Yu asked curiously.
“Not a lot, but it is increasing. I believe the number of paid users will exceed one million within a year.”
One million paid user is too low compared to the resources Tencent poured into it.
“Have you thought about introducing other products to stimulate Q coin’s sales?”
“Yes. I have thought about adding a blogging feature, but this blog will be different from Sina and the other companies.”
Feng Yu raised his brows. Could it be Q Zone?
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