Chapter 083: Niche

At around ten in the morning of another day, Masayoshi Kishimoto led Ryui Miyazaki and Hidetaka Sato to appear at the NEXON computer game company.

Not only did he meet Managing Director Park, who had come to Tokyo to seek investment, but he also met for the first time the president of the company that would become the number one player in the Korean game industry in the future.

Instead of an internationalized handshake, both sides bowed to each other at a forty-five degree angle. Japanese and Korean etiquette do not like physical contact.

After exchanging polite pleasantries, Masayoshi Kishimoto was guided by the president of NEXON Computer Games to start his visit to the company. He is not a guest, but a host, after all, holding 40% of the company’s equity.

NEXON computer game company for Chinese people, very strange. However, it is the first Chinese players remember the game is not a network game, but the LAN online computer stand-alone game.

Counter-Strike, also known as CS, is a first-perspective shooter that will take China’s large and small Internet cafes by storm in the near future.

Even the pirated version of the game in Internet cafes has made this confrontational shooting game deeply imprinted in the memories of many people.

As far as Masayoshi Kishimoto is concerned, his favorite online game is “Rocky” by NEXON Computer Games. What kind of game is it?

At that time, after “Rocky” was officially launched, the whole online game can be divided into two categories, one is “Rocky” and the other is other.

Although “Rocky” didn’t fire above the mainland Chinese market and ended hastily, and even few people knew this online game, it performed amazingly above the European and American markets.

Its biggest feature is the gameplay, completely not the mainstream kind of simple, direct, brutal monsters and upgrades for the map, but with the adventure and exploration of the high freedom mode.

Players can engage in all the professions they want in the game, but also be able to interact with other players to improvise an open-air concert, similar to the Sims.

Because the game itself exists in the high freedom mode of gameplay, resulting in the first contact with the player has a kind of confusing feeling, can be said to be extremely unfriendly to newbies.

Especially those players who are impatient, will certainly be this one is regarded as a masterpiece by European and American players “Rocky” as a garbage network game.

In this regard, Chinese players are used to receiving quests, running quests, fighting monsters and upgrading to change maps. From the very beginning of the “Hot Blooded Legend” game mode into the “World of Warcraft” game mode, then after the full level is to go down to the copy, playing equipment, put together the current version of the requirements of a set of even if the graduation.

So, in that period of time in 2003, Iceland CCP computer company developed “Star Wars Eve”, also known as “EVE”, also suffered a Waterloo.

However, “EVE” is not popular with the masses in China, just a niche category, and it makes sense, after all, compared to other online games too hardcore.

It is likewise high on top of the freedom of gameplay, leaving newbies fresh to it at a loss. Not only that, but it’s particularly cumbersome.

There is a popular saying in EVE that it takes three months to get the hang of it, six months to get the hang of it, and a year to get the hang of it.

Once a ship explodes, there is no such thing as resurrection, it’s gone. Once the ship is broken, part of the broken hull will become someone else’s trophy.

Then, you will run away in an escape pod. If you meet someone else’s successful interception, you’ll be dead. Before that happens, make sure you don’t forget to take a clone with you.

That way, when you die, you will be resurrected at a designated place. If not, you will likewise be resurrected in a place. Only, characters without clones will have a certain level of learned attributes randomly deducted.

When Titan first appeared, such a cosmic ship inside an MMO was a Buick in reality.

Therefore, it was generally not used by various forces in skirmishes. Not only was it expensive, but the time consumed would take three months to make one in reality. During the manufacturing process, thousands of various parts and huge amounts of virtual currency were also needed.

Justice Kishimoto knew in his heart that whether it was NEXON Computer Games’ Rocky or Icelandic CCP Computer’s Star Wars Eve, they all belonged to the niche category of online games.

They are just like the types of network novels in the latter days of China have a similar development experience. For the general public, I just want to have fun, to have fun, nothing else matters, it’s useless to talk about that.

As for the minority, what I need is to learn something in the process of reading online novels. At the very least, it lets me know something I didn’t know in the past.

NEXON Computer Games has a certain popularity above the mainland Chinese market with “The Legend of Rocky Heroes”. Rocky” and “Rocky Heroes” are two different online games.

The former is a Q version of the 3D MMORPG game, while the latter is the mainstream 3D MMORPG. the latter is the most outstanding is the sense of combat in the game.

The best thing about the latter is the sense of combat in the game, which makes mainland Chinese players start to realize what is called the sense of combat in the game. Furthermore, the art is excellent, the characters do beautiful, cool skills. Computer requirements configuration is also high, resulting in not much fire up.

In addition, in mainland China market above NEXON computer game company most famous than the “Dungeons and Warriors”, also known as “DNF”, commonly known as powdered milk. The low computer requirements are one of the most important factors for its success.

Secondly, there are Chinese players familiar with “Bubble Church”, “Running Kart”, “Adventure Island”. At that time, if there wasn’t a computer playing one of these games in a large or small Internet cafe in China, it was possible to wonder if you were in a fake cafe.

Masayoshi Kishimoto’s decision to invest in this Korean computer company was incredibly wise and correct. Only, its early games in mainland China market above the poor profit, far less than in Europe and the United States market above the outstanding performance.

In fact, the main thing is that at that time the Chinese mainland players contact network game is still relatively soil, only to let the imitation of “paradise” “hot blood legend” fire to no good, as well as a number of masterpieces of the network game folded and sunk.

Justice Kishimoto knows that this deep-seated reason is still at that time China’s personal PC computers and network speed are relatively backward.

Even the Internet cafe computers, but also not very good. High-end Internet cafes are not absent in the big cities in the north, Guangzhou and Shenzhen, but they are also few and far between.

The mainstream pricing for an hour at a popular Internet cafe is at $1.50 or $2.00 nationwide, while high-end Internet cafes go up to more than ten, or even dozens of dollars an hour.

For the general public, it’s difficult to spend as much as this price. As for the student party, that becomes even more difficult.

Said a thousand, said a million, mainland China’s computer-related core hardware by others dead pinch inside the hand, resulting in the price will remain high.

This wants to have a high-performance personal gaming computer, need the average person does not eat and drink a year’s income. Even if many people play a lot of popular games, not really play one, two is called a masterpiece of the game is also derived from this limitation.