The Daqian Company announced that all of its Daqian games would be released with the Hongmeng System. This decision sounded ordinary and not very useful.
However, the key point was that these games would have new content. That would be different.
Many gamers who were watching the livestream had their eyes lit up when they heard the news. Especially the loyal gamers. Their eyes were even brighter.
To these loyal gamers, even if their beloved game was only released with a small change, they would immediately spend money to buy downloadable content to experience it.
Therefore, they would definitely not turn a blind eye to the Hongmeng version of the game.
In fact, many gamers were already considering if they should install the Hongmeng System on their computers temporarily to play the new content.
In addition, the most important point was that among all the personal computers, although the main purpose was to work, there were actually quite a few people who bought computers specifically to play games. If these games could be played on the Hongmeng system, then the threshold for switching systems would not be so high. After all, they didn't need to work, so naturally, they wouldn't care so much about the Win system and couldn't bear to part with it.
"Other than that!" Boss Jia narrowed his eyes and continued, "We're communicating with other game manufacturers to release the Hongmeng version of various older games. At the same time, more importantly, we'll release the Hongmeng System version of all new games in the future. We'll strive to install all future games on the Hongmeng System directly! "
"At the same time, I'm very happy to announce that 60% of the game companies have accepted our invitation. In the future, all of their new games will be released with the Hongmeng version. Some of their older games will also be released with the Hongmeng version!"
Boss Jia's words shocked the audience even more. Bill Gates's body shook again.
"Are the bosses of these game companies crazy? Don't they know that releasing the Hongmeng version would cost a lot of money? " Bill Gates and other people in the industry were talking to themselves in a daze. They could not understand why these game companies would agree to such an unbelievable thing.
Many people immediately called their friends in the gaming industry to inquire about the situation. However, most of them said that this was the first time they had heard the news. It wasn't until someone called the top management of the gaming company that the truth of the matter surfaced.
It turned out that yesterday, the staff of Daqian Games had contacted the person in charge of this game company and told them about a new policy launched by Daqian Games and the steam game platform.
This policy indicated that in order to promote the development of multiple platforms in the game industry, Daqian Games and steam gaming platforms announced at the same time that they would provide the Hongmeng subsidy plan.
As long as they created a version of the Hongmeng system for all the newly released games, they would also agree to authorize Hongmeng Corporation to modify the old versions and let them create a version of the Hongmeng system for the old versions.
In that case, for the next three years, all games on the steam platform or the Thousand Machines Transformation platform would receive a cash subsidy of 10 units.
Simply put, if a game manufacturer obtained a million USD in sales through the steam gaming platform or the Thousand Machine Platform.
Then, according to this agreement, Qian Ji Platform will take 30% of the profits, which is 300,000 USD.
If the game was sold through the steam game platform, another 30% of the profits would be taken away, which is another 300,000 USD.
Of course, if the game was sold through the steam game platform, only 45% of the profits would be taken away, which is 450,000 USD.
However, if the game manufacturer sold the Hongmeng system version of the game at the same time, whether it was 300,000 USD or 450,000 USD, 10% would be refunded, which is 30,000 USD or 45,000 USD.
In the year 2000, this was already a very large number.
Moreover, it was normal for games that were popular all over the world to be sold for tens of millions of USD. Then, the rebate would not be 30,000 USD or 45,000 USD, but 300,000 USD or 450,000 USD. This was a shocking amount of profit that no game manufacturer could refuse.
This was especially true for large game developers. The bigger their company, the more they could not refuse this subsidy. After all, this was living money.
At the same time, Hongmeng Corporation also said that they would send professional staff to guide them and give them a special software package. This software package was specially designed for games.
This was because most of the code and files in the game were actually all kinds of materials such as pictures. These things could be used directly without any modification.
As for the program, it was actually very easy for Win to modify Hongmeng. As long as they were familiar with it, even if it was a gigabyte game, they would only need about ten programmers and half a month to complete the modification. In a month, they would be able to release a stable version.
En, ten employees' monthly salary was at most 20,000 USD or 30,000 USD, but the company would be able to make 300,000 USD in profits. This was a multiple-choice question that even an idiot would make!
Therefore, 60% of the game companies expressed their full support for the Daqian policy. Especially large game companies like EA and Ubisoft, they could not wait to support it.
Although they were not sure if anyone would play the red version of the game, the subsidy was real. Only an idiot would reject it.
In fact, there was a supplementary clause to this policy. If the game company promised to only release the Hongmeng version of the game in the future and never release the Win version of the game, then all the profits from the Great Thousand Channel would be returned to the game company.
Of course, 15% of the profits given to the steam game store distributors would not be returned.
This condition seemed even more tempting, but no game company agreed. After all, if the Win version of the game was canceled, it was still a question whether the game could sell for three digits in sales!
Therefore, almost all the large game companies ignored this requirement. Only a few small game companies found it interesting.
All in all, under the Daqian's strong subsidy policy, only 60% of the game companies agreed.
However, a week later, the Daqian announced to the public that 86% of the game companies agreed to participate in the Daqian subsidy policy. They would release the Hongmeng version of the game as soon as possible.
The remaining 14% of the game companies were smaller in scale and had smaller sales. They were worried that they would not be able to make ends meet after releasing the Hongmeng version, so they did not agree.
That's right, the 86% and 14% referred to the 86% of the game sales market, not the 86% of all the game companies.
This announcement meant that the Hongmeng system had directly opened up the entire game channel. The Daqian's position in the game industry had successfully allowed the Hongmeng system to have another advantage in addition to Pangu's Axe.
After all, Pangu's Axe could also be used to modify the game program. However, after the modification, it would be very sluggish. This was a fatal experience for the game.
However, with the release of the Hongmeng version, the sluggishness would no longer exist. This was indeed very important to the Hongmeng system.
It was as if the Ren and Du meridians had been opened.
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