Chapter 133: Deceiving Talents

Lin Feng has had the idea of ​​multi-national Internet for a long time. The 21st century has entered the era of global Internet. Why are online games divided into various regions, such as Chinese servers, Taiwanese servers, European servers, American servers, etc. Why can’t there be servers in various countries?

Connect to the Internet, allowing players around the world to enjoy the game under the same Internet starry sky.

Of course, there are various reasons for this. Different agents, profit distribution issues, etc. are difficult to solve. However, since he has won the agent in Asia, Lin Feng wants to try this new idea. Multi-national Internet,

Lin Feng believes that this will definitely attract the interest of players.

On the other side of the ocean, on the same network, players of different nationalities fight in teams. There are too many things that can arouse the interest of players, and these things are enough to drive players who love games crazy.

After everyone heard about Lin Feng's idea, they thought about it secretly and realized that this plan is feasible. Once successful, it will definitely allow "Second World" to go abroad, enter the Asian market, and become a multinational online game company. However, the difficulty is not small.

There are many problems faced.

"Director Lin, this plan is feasible, but does Director Lin want to open servers in several countries at the same time?" Wu Zhaopu's question is also everyone's question.

"Three countries and one region. The most popular online games in Asia are undoubtedly China and South Korea, as well as Taiwan, China, which is also a popular area for online games. The Japanese video game market is developed, but the online game market has been sluggish, but it is worth developing.

," Lin Feng thought for a while and decided to open servers simultaneously in the four most popular regions in Asia. As for the Japanese market, it is not an ideal investment market, but Lin Feng will enter the Japanese market sooner or later, so he has the right to explore the way now.

Shi Hao. Not to mention the current global popularity of "Counter-Strike" and the online game of the same name, Lin Feng believes that he will definitely be able to carve out a bloody path in Japan.

Wu Zhaopu frowned. As the CEO of the "Second World", he knew more about the normal server load and resource allocation of each server than Lin Feng. The most difficult problem to solve in multi-country interconnection was the problem of asynchronous data transmission.

"Director Lin, the interconnection between the three countries and Taiwan requires too much on the server, and the problem of asynchronous data transmission is difficult to solve. I'm afraid our initial investment will be huge." Wu Zhaopu said, "And I don't know that Director Lin is planning to start a new project.

How many districts?”

"One zone allows players from all Asia to play in one zone," Lin Feng said.

Everyone's expressions froze.

A district, is this possible? Judging from the number of online people in "Legend", the highest online rate exceeds one million. Based on this ratio, if the other two countries and Taiwan are included, I am afraid that the number of online people will not be less than 2 million, 2 million

People are crowded into one area at the same time. This terrible data traffic cannot be solved by just adding servers. There are too many details, especially multi-national Internet, and the transmission speeds of different countries are also different. In short, there are many problems.

It is not that Lin Feng has not considered everyone's concerns. However, these are just technical problems that can be solved. However, the huge upfront capital investment is indeed a problem. Today's "Second World" and other companies under his

The maximum amount of funds you can withdraw from your account is 200 million, but if you want to complete a multi-country online game, this may not be enough.

"By the way, I also purchased a brand new software this time - bt. I think we may be able to use it to solve our technical problems, and maybe also solve our problem of insufficient funds." Lin Feng suddenly thought of spending 5 years ago.

The bittorrent software acquired for 10,000 US dollars. This multi-point transmission, the more people, the faster the transmission, the crazy download software.

Lin Feng quickly ordered people to print out the relevant information on bittorrent and hand it over to everyone.

Cui Mingze, Fang Zhihang, and Qiu Xin, the former chief programmer of Xishanju Studio, who is also the current deputy director of the development department of "Swordsman Love Online", when the three of them saw it, their eyes lit up.

"Boss, who developed this software? The concept is so creative. Under the p2p architecture, multi-point transmission, my God, once this software comes out, I believe it will definitely change the online world." Qiu Xin exclaimed.

"Haha, this was designed by an American named Cohen, but I bought the copyright completely." Lin Feng showed a slightly proud look.

The three of them even admired Cohen's mind and lamented that the IT world is changing with each passing day. If you are slow at all, you will fall behind.

Wu Zhaopu asked Cui Mingze and the others, and after roughly figuring out the purpose of the software, he said, "Director Lin, the purpose of this software is mainly for downloading data. It cannot bring us direct economic benefits. I'm afraid there will be more

There are a lot of copyright issues involved.” After all, Wu Zhaopu is an economic analyst, and he quickly caught the pulse of bittorrent.

"However, if this bittorrent software can really solve the problem of multi-country Internet connection, I have a suggestion. We will not bring this software that can only be downloaded to the market for the time being, and let this technology be exclusively owned by our company. I think, if it can really solve the problem of asynchronous

Transmission problems, other online game companies will definitely come to us to purchase licenses for this software in the future." Wu Zhaopu thought about the extremely far-reaching future, but if everything goes as he thought, what would this software bring?

The profits will be huge.

Wu Zhaopu's words reminded Lin Feng. Lin Feng remembered that the "Counter-Strike Online" later launched by Valve was based on a distributed system called something derived from bittorrent. This system can greatly reduce the load of data traffic on the server and reduce the load on the server.

Dependence on the server.

"Then can you use this software?" Lin Feng looked at Cui Mingze and the others.

The three of them looked at each other and smiled bitterly, "Boss, although we are also programmers, we are specialized in the art. If possible, it is best to invite the programmer who developed this software. If he is in charge, I believe that

This technology transition should be much easier."

"Okay, leave this to me." Lin Feng decided on the company's future development plan.

The multinational Internet "Counter-Strike Online" will definitely be the most anticipated game in the second half of 2001. However, Lin Feng is not prepared to reveal the news immediately, which will cause players and the industry to go crazy. Of course, if it were changed to

Shi Yuzhu, a mad genius in the marketing world, must have been hyping this concept for a long time. However, Lin Feng is Lin Feng after all, not Shi Yuzhu. Lin Feng does not want to launch satellites when everything is still unknown and important technical issues have not been solved.

Lin Feng doesn't want to be scolded by players because he failed to overcome technical difficulties. Lin Feng hopes to build his "Second World" into a high-quality online game company with a reputation like Blizzard.

After the meeting, Lin Feng called Valve's CEO Newell.

"Newell, I am Lin Feng from the 'Second World'. I have something to trouble you about. There was something wrong with the bittorrent software I bought from Cohen last time. I hope I can ask him to come to Shanghai for guidance.

My programmer." Naturally, Lin Feng would not poach Newell's role openly, otherwise the other party might be wary and not let him go. Besides, poaching people like this would not look good on the other side. It would be better to let him go first.

Invite the person over, and then keep the person there so as not to leave. Then give Newell a gift, so neither party is embarrassed.

Newell didn't expect this, so he naturally agreed. Who would have thought that the programmer he had just hired would be gone forever. He also personally brought Lin Feng's "Second World" to the throne of the gaming empire.

When Cohen learned that there was a problem with his software, he was also anxious. He was a straightforward person, how could he know so much. When he thought that he had received $50,000 from Lin Feng, but the software had a problem, he became anxious. He went home and hurriedly packed it up.

, and got on the plane.

When Cohen arrived in Shanghai, he was flattered by Lin Feng's grand welcome ceremony. At this time, he realized that something seemed fishy. When Lin Feng explained later, he immediately understood that it was not his software that had a problem, but the other party's attempt to

He wanted to poach people. Regarding this, Cohen was both amused and helpless. Now that everyone was in Shanghai, what else could be done? In addition, Lin Feng's idea of ​​using bittorrent software to interconnect online games across multiple countries deeply attracted him.

He, coupled with Lin Feng's promise that his annual salary would rise to US$500,000, also stimulated the heart of Cohen, who had always been poor.

After some thought, Cohen agreed to Lin Feng's request. As for his home in the United States, it was originally a temporarily rented apartment. There were not many valuable things, and it was not worth going back. At that moment, Cohen called his friends in the United States.

, and after asking him to help pay off the rent, he settled down in Shanghai.

When Newell received a call from Lin Feng, saying that there was something wrong in Shanghai and that Cohen would be loaned out for a while, Newell, no matter how stupid he was, understood what was going on. However, he did not point out that the two companies were currently in a

In a cooperative relationship, there is no need to break up over such trivial matters. Besides, Cohen is only a staff member he has recently recruited, and is not a core employee of the company. It does not matter if he is poached.

What's more, Newell also guessed that it should be related to the bittorrent software newly designed by Cohen. Lin Feng did not want to steal the company's core code for "Counter-Strike Online". Therefore, Newell generously told Lin Feng that Cohen would follow Lin Feng.

Use wind.

However, Newell had a secret feeling in his heart that giving up on Cohen this time was probably the biggest mistake he had ever made in his life.

Due to Newell's generosity, Lin Feng naturally understood that he already knew about this and did not tell the truth. Under the tacit understanding of both parties, Cohen became Lin Feng's "Second World" special adviser, responsible for the network communications of the technical department.

Everyone is happy!

In order to launch "Counter-Strike Online" in Asia as soon as possible, Lin Feng temporarily transferred the Cui Mingze working group that was originally responsible for the development of "Audition" and the Xishanju working group that had been developing "Swordsman Online". Under the leadership of Cohen

Next, priority was given to overcoming the technical difficulties of "Counter-Strike Online". The thought of having to allocate people to develop "Zhengtu" gave Lin Feng a headache.

There are too few talents and we still need to recruit people - Lin Feng is thinking about where to go to recruit more gaming talents.

At this moment, Wang Hai, who was responsible for tracking down the hacker, got news.
Chapter completed!