Chapter 171 Three axes from friendly businessmen

Chapter 171 Three axes from friendly businessmen

"Magic Animation" is very ambitious.

It can be said that the launch of this software means that major manufacturers have set their sights on the "God's Grace Animation" cake and intend to replace it.

But it's a pity...

This market is not as simple as other fields. Spending money without thinking will not yield results, and the overwhelming publicity cannot hide the fact that this software is not worthy of mentioning the shoes of "God's Grace Continent".

Netizens’ comments hit the nail on the head.

"The NPCs in the Divine Grace Continent will give everyone the illusion of being real-life, but the characters generated by magic animations are simply mentally retarded!"

"Is this why you have the nerve to play "God's Grace Continent"?"

"I still remember that when I saw "The Adventures of Jayne" for the first time, I was yearning for that vivid and colorful other world. The Goose Factory... is not easy to comment on!"

"Just trying to imitate others!"

Goose Factory bought a lot of publicity in an attempt to build momentum for the software "Magic Animation", but after everyone went to experience it, they all gave fair evaluations of "a bunch of Xie Te".

The AI ​​is too weak.

After all, the characters generated by this software cannot be as smart and agile as the NPCs in "God's Grace Continent".

The action method and dialogue plot focus on an abstract and weird one!

Someone posted their own work.

He imported part of the script and dialogue from the classic disaster film "Titanic" and tried to use AI to run the animation to see what the software was capable of.

As a result, everyone saw that Jack pushed Lucy off the bow of the boat, and then turned around and hooked up with another noblewoman as if nothing was wrong.

An even more bizarre scene appeared!

Lucy was obviously pushed out of the boat by Jack, but she did not drown. Instead, she learned to swim and swam back to the boat.

She was very grateful to Jack. If Jack hadn't forced her, she might never have learned to swim, so the two of them stuck together again...

It really ruins your outlook!

You don’t need to think about it to know that this is a phenomenon caused by the AI ​​being too mentally retarded and lacking the ability to deduce the plot.

"This is not a software problem!"

Goose Factory seems to have noticed the public opinion turmoil on the Internet. The official announcement clarified: "The deduction and generation of AI animations require high computing power, and ordinary users' computers cannot meet the demand at all..."

If the computer doesn’t work, don’t blame the software!

It was okay that Goose Factory didn't speak out, but when he spoke up, everyone was happy.

Frankly speaking, this explanation is reasonable. This kind of AI calculation and deduction work is indeed very computationally demanding. If the computing power is not enough, various problems will easily occur.

But everyone has not forgotten that at the beginning of Goose Factory's promotion, the competing product was "God's Grace Continent".

So here’s the problem?

Why is it that with the same computer configuration, "God's Grace Continent" doesn't have so many problems and the plot can be deduced as it should be, but "Magic Animation" has frequent problems?

…

"Yes! Why is this happening?"

The ridicule and joking of netizens is actually a point that the programmers of Goose Factory cannot understand.

As a competing product, "God's Grace Continent", they must have studied it, but the more they studied it, the more they couldn't figure it out.

This kind of animation software that relies on code to generate characters and then deduce subsequent plots should be very configuration-intensive and require a lot of computing power!

However, "God's Grace Continent", an animation production software disguised as an "RPG game", can run smoothly on an old computer from five or six years ago, without any lag, and there are no obvious abnormal bugs in the plot.

Blanch!

Are they cheating?

Goose Factory has invested a lot of energy in trying to figure out why "God's Grace Continent" can use such a small size and such a low configuration threshold, but can render and deduce a series of high-quality alien world animations.

certainly!

They also knew that working behind closed doors would probably not work, so in addition to secret research, they also tried to find out the secrets of Tianba Studio through various insinuations.

"You mean...commercial espionage?"

"Roughly the same!"

Yang Dong nodded and said: "Anyway, it's always good to be careful. Our confidential documents and some source code information may be at risk of leakage."

Caution is the boat!

Under the premise of not knowing what tricks the friendly chamber of commerce will use, it is always right to be prepared. Although Yang Dong does not think there is a mole in the studio, he is not afraid of anything but 10,000.

"Besides being a mole, what I'm most worried about is actually being poached! Brother Ba, you probably don't know that Xiao Lu and I have both received inquiry emails from headhunting companies..."

Poaching?

Chen Ba, who learned about this for the first time, was slightly surprised and said: "You mean, many people in our studio have received invitations from friends, but I am the only one who has not?"

"Yes, with the exception of you!"

The headhunters who come here to poach are not stupid. It is impossible for anyone to poach Brother Ba. After all, if Brother Ba changes company, that's not called job-hopping, that's called acquisition!

Therefore, Chen Ba knew nothing about this matter, and no one came to him.

"Ouch!"

Chen Ba clicked his tongue and said in surprise: "I didn't expect that our humble little workshop would receive such attention."

Nothing surprising.

Tianba Studio has risen so suddenly, and many of its games have considerable influence, so they will definitely be targeted by major companies.

The first choice is to copy!

Only games that cannot be copied or copied will start the second plan, which is poaching.

After recruiting the core team members and game creators from the other side, are you still worried that you won't be able to make the same game?

If you can't dig it out, you can only resort to the third step and negotiate for a shareholding or acquisition. Many potential game studios and teams basically fall into this step.

There's no way, I'm short of money!

Developing buyout games, especially single-player games, is actually very expensive, and it is difficult to recoup the investment. The payback cycle is long and the future is uncertain. Accepting foreign investment is one of the ways to ensure survival.

Tianba Studio is quite special.

Chen Ba receives several letters of intent for investment and acquisitions every month, but this is the first time he has experienced core employees being poached.

"Okay, if you want to leave, just leave!"

"I'm not the kind of mean boss. If you really feel unhappy at Tianba Studio and hope to have a better future in a big company, then let them go."

When Chen Ba said this, he said helplessly: "Brother Dong, the same goes for you. If you have the opportunity to get a higher salary, you can leave if you want. I won't delay you..."

It's also a good story to get together and part ways easily.

Tianba Studio is limited by the size of its team, and its various benefits are indeed not as good as those of big companies. The only advantage may be that the "bonus dividend" is relatively high!

If a big factory really offered a sky-high price that was hard to refuse, he actually wouldn't mind letting Dong Ge, Xiao Lu and others go.

Water flows to lower place, man goes to higher position.

Others have better prospects, so why do they have to hold them hostage because of their morals? After working together for a while, when it was time to break up, Chen Ba would not hesitate.

"Don't worry, I won't leave."

"Do you think I'm stupid? They paid a lot of money to poach me, just because they want me to help them develop a game like "God's Grace Continent"..."

Yang Dong rolled his eyes and said, "I don't have the ability. I won't be able to earn this money for a long time, and I won't be famous if I go to a big factory. I might as well follow you!"

Yang Dong saw it more clearly.

People pay a lot of money to poach people, but they don't poach bastards. If the people they poach can't produce results, I'm afraid they will be marginalized or even relegated to the sidelines in a short time.

If he really had that ability and could get away with it no matter where he went, then it wouldn't matter.

But is Yang Dong so capable?

Do not make jokes! He blushed when he said this, remembering that a few years ago, he was still having a headache looking for a job!

"Then what do Xiao Lu and the others think?"

"Xiao Lu is like me, he can clearly understand how many pounds he has, but Zhong Shengwei seems to be hesitating whether to go to a big factory..."

Zhong Shengwei’s situation is quite special.

He has been dating his girlfriend for a long time, but has never gotten married. Ultimately, it is because the girl's family has better conditions, her vision is higher, and she looks down on him.

You can get a higher salary if you change jobs, and working in a big factory is more respectable than working in Tianba Studio, and you will have more face when speaking out.

So he is still hesitating.

"Actually, I would say that he just didn't understand one thing, that is, the salary is different from the money he received."

Yang Dong said speechlessly: "Although the basic salary in our studio is not high and not comparable to the benefits offered by big factories, the bonus is high!"

This has to talk about a concept.

The benefits and benefits enjoyed by the operation and development teams of popular games are very different from those of the operation and development teams of unpopular games.

Take the goose factory as an example.

Tianmei Studio, which has developed the king of pesticides, has one year's dividends and bonuses that are higher than other people's salaries in four or five years, and its year-end bonus easily exceeds one million.

Being able to enter a studio like this is definitely much better than entering a studio where unpopular games belong.

The basic salary of Tianba Studio is indeed not high, and it is definitely dwarfed by that of major manufacturers, but additional income such as bonuses and dividends can completely compete with the King Pesticide Team.

"Zhong Shengwei must understand what you are saying. But what he should be thinking is that bonuses and dividends are not stable enough. This year's game is much more profitable, but what about next year's poor efficiency?"

Chen Ba guessed something.

High bonuses, high dividends, and high year-end bonuses may sound good, but they are too unstable. The difference may be hundreds of thousands in different years between good and poor results.

How stable the salary is!

If you get a real salary, if you say the annual salary is one million, then it is a real one million. It is impossible for you to lose a penny because of the difference in project income.

And there’s one more thing…

There is more room for promotion in large companies. It is still very promising to combine positions such as project leader, team leader, etc., after all, there are many positions.

Staying at Tianba Studio is different.

There are only this few people in the studio. Do you want to be the project leader? Have you ever asked Brother Ba for his opinion?

"maybe!"

Yang Dong shook his head: "Forget it, instead of talking about this annoying topic, let's talk about the game "Don't Leave After School"."

"What's wrong with this game?"

Chen Ba, who was making tea, couldn't help but wonder when he heard this: "Didn't a wave of cross-server PK just be updated?"

"That's right! Cross-server PK..."

"As soon as this model came out, the national server suffered a lot! Although there are many people, it still can't compare with the unified environment of the four districts."

Yang Dong sighed and said: "Everyone is united and united to fight against foreign enemies. As a result, in these districts of the national server, not to mention uniting together, the enemies have come to attack and are still fighting in the nest."

"Haha, it's an old tradition."

Chen Ba thought of the ancient dynasties recorded in the history books and suddenly laughed out loud: "To fight against foreigners, you must first pacify the country, and to govern a country, you must first govern your family. Guess where this saying comes from?"

it does not matter!

After all, it is a game. If you lose, you will not lose a piece of meat. At the worst, you can learn from Durant. If you can't beat it, join it and directly switch to the tyrants of the fourth district.

The main thing is to never go against the wind!

"Speaking of which, there are no powerful players in the national server who want to buy marbles and dominate the whole region by spending money?" Chen Ba asked curiously.

This shouldn't be the case!

There should be no shortage of Shenhao in the national server. Why is there no one asking for permission marbles to stand up and carry the banner?

"Actually, there is..."

Yang Dong explained: "There is a player in the three districts with the most players posting in the community, willing to spend money to buy permission marbles."

But this thing is not something you can just buy if you want. On the one hand, it is difficult to negotiate the price. Many people will still hesitate to spend so much money on a buyout game.

On the other hand, there are only one or two, at most three, in each area. If you want to buy it, there’s nothing you can do if they don’t sell it to you!

Anyway, the empress didn’t sell it.

[Cherry Pie Jam] This player doesn’t know if he is short of money, but there is a high probability that he is not short of money.

Up to now.

This empress has served as the principal of "Tianba Third Primary School" for 20 days, becoming the longest-lived ruler in the history of District Three.

All I can say is, the black stocking photos are so awesome!

Relying on the assistance of the licking dog and the little fan girl, [Cherry Pie Jam] is not far away from unifying the three districts. After all, there are fewer and fewer players opposing her, and there are few forces insisting on rebelling.

"It's magical!"

When Chen Ba learned about the situation in the third district, he couldn't help but complain: "There are so many careerists in the third district, are they all tempted by a black stocking photo?"

You guys are going to rebel!

A man was born between heaven and earth, how can he live in a state of depression for a long time? A black stocking photo quelled the rebellion. Do you want to be such a clown?

"Don't be embarrassed!"

"Of course a black stocking photo won't quell the rebellion, but what if she posts it every day and doesn't look the same?" Yang Dong asked rhetorically.

"Really? Then I will be the servant of [Cherry Cookie Jam]!"

Chen Ba laughed loudly.

No wonder the civil unrest in the third district subsided so quickly, and all the careerists have lost the support of the people. So why is [Cherry Cake Jam] so popular?

Don't say anything!

Just because she posts photos every day, and does not repeat them, which benefits all players in the server, her throne is guaranteed to be useless to anyone.

careerist?

Why support these careerists? In addition to being able to draw big pie, what other benefits can they provide? Can you also send everyone a black stocking photo?

cut!

Players in the third area are very sensible and know who is a good ruler for them. The empress who can wear black silk stockings is a good emperor and support her unconditionally.

This position is very secure!

Chen Ba has no doubt that if things continue like this, all the hundreds of thousands of players in the three districts will become loyal fans of [Cherry Pie Jam].

A real internet celebrity...