High School Belle Fell in Love with Me

Chapter 397 - 190: I Hope You Won’t Have Regrets

Li Yang asked, "So what are your thoughts, senior?"

Huang Jing was already confident, as this wasn’t his first exchange with Li Yang.

The two would often discuss game mechanics, summarizing the fun and competitive aspects of those mechanics because Huang Jing was preparing to start his own game studio to develop games.

Li Yang was his angel investor.

He immediately brought out the data and said, "I think the poison circle mechanism can be modified a bit, like slowing down the hit point deduction values of the poison circle. This way, players can explore gameplay that involves resisting the poison. Most game enthusiasts actually have an agrarian mindset; this mentality is globally ingrained in our genes, especially among Chinese people, where this mindset is even stronger."

Li Yang asked, "But have you considered that if everyone plays like this, the game’s competitiveness will hit zero? Without competitiveness, it’s equivalent to killing the soul of the game."

Huang Jing immediately explained, "This can also be resolved. For instance, you must stay within a certain meter range of the poison circle to maintain the health deduction values. Beyond this range, the hit point loss increases. Additionally, we can control the refresh rate of health packs on the map to ensure there aren’t too many health packs."

"Oh... that could work..."

Huang Jing, smiling, said, "This game mechanism was thought up by junior. How about junior names the game? I’ll start setting up the studio right away."

"How about we call it ’PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds’?"

"Great!"

...

Li Yang invested two million in Huang Jing.

Of course, two million is fine for developing simple games, but for something like PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, even twenty million might not be enough.

Map modeling is a huge project.

The budget must surely be pulled up to over a hundred million, but it’s just the beginning. Anyway, he owns 70% of the shares in this studio, ensuring absolute control.

The initial two million is only enough for Huang Jing to set up the framework. As long as Huang Jing does a good job, he will certainly continue to add more funds; naturally, his share will also increase.

Initially only taking 70% is merely to encourage Huang Jing; eventually, he’ll certainly want to hold over 90% of the shares.

Many projects at Jing University and Qing University are very worthy of investment.

Not to mention the lithography plant that will be especially popular in a few years; even intelligent driving with high application value has related projects at both schools, and coincidentally, he’s an AI algorithm veteran.

It’s just that there’s currently no suitable opportunity to enter the field.

Now, he’s teamed up with a group of students who play with algorithms, working on short video push algorithms.

The essence of algorithms, in fact, is tagging.

If a user spends a lot of time on beauty videos, the system will immediately tag them as LSP, subsequently pushing more related content to them.

Until they get annoyed and spend less time on beauty videos, this tag will drop from the top spot and be placed further back.

Algorithms are just like life, repeatedly tagging and constantly switching tags.

Li Yang asked Xiangnu to sign beauty streamers, primarily to provide content for the short video platform.

Although the 4G network has existed since 2011, the current data charge is still too high.

By next year, as mobile becomes the main battleground of the internet, data charges will drop.

Meanwhile, the widespread adoption of WIFI nationwide will mean even small restaurants will have signs claiming they have WIFI, creating fertile ground for short videos.

Currently, short videos have no soil for survival; the competition for internet traffic is mostly for PC.

The PC side is bound by hardware limitations; not many people have computers all the time.

Currently, playing mobile games is subject to ridicule...

But those old PC stubborns will suddenly find themselves turning into Qing Dynasty soldiers in a few years.

How much traffic does the PC side have? The mobile side has traffic all over the country!

Mouyu now has tens of millions of registered users, with peak daily traffic of only a few million, yet it’s already a big player, so to speak, rapidly growing.

However, in a few years, Mouyu’s registered users will exceed two hundred million, with peak daily traffic nearing tens of millions, yet it’ll be labeled as a sunset industry, with stock prices dropping beyond recognition to its origin.

Mobile traffic will leave PC traffic far behind.

The key is to focus on mobile traffic.

Mobile traffic relies on the support of strong algorithms.

Otherwise, the content individuals can watch will be quite limited.

After spending a day at Jing University, Li Yang returned home to cook and, after eating, started the live stream.

Jiang Banxia sat beside Li Yang on a small stool, munching on sunflower seeds and fruit, watching Li Yang play games.

Occasionally, she’d ask, "Can I give it a try?"

Each time, Li Yang would respond with just one word: "No way!"

And then Jiang Banxia would hand over a piece of fruit.

Everyone in the live stream could see that it was bitten by Jiang Banxia.

But Li Yang was focused on playing games and didn’t notice.

Every time Jiang Banxia succeeded, she showed a happy smile.

She was actually just leeching off traffic.

Because as long as she’s present in the live stream, the company’s subscription funds will definitely exceed a billion the next day.

Li Yang’s fan base far exceeds the visible numbers.

Even though his Weibo followers have gradually grown to over seven million, during his live stream, he can have over a million viewers.

This is an extremely terrifying exposure rate.

You could even see from the backend that each of Li Yang’s live streams attracts over eight million viewers.

Saving Wanliu Capital untold amounts on promotional fees.

"Move away, the guy in front of the camera! We want to see the rich lady play games!"

Suddenly, similar comments began to flood the screen.

Li Yang turned his head to look at Jiang Banxia and asked, "Did you hire online bots?"

Jiang Banxia retorted, "What bots, this is the will of the people! Let me play a round! If I lose, I won’t bring it up again!"

"Nonsense! If you play, could you even lose? Give everyone on the opposing team a few grand, and they’ll line up to let you win."

"No way, I didn’t think like that."

"Then what were you thinking?"

"I want to give everyone tens of thousands..."

After speaking, Jiang Banxia immediately addressed the stream, "You guys better hurry and kick this streamer off, let me play, and I’ll give out a million yuan in rewards per game..."

Li Yang, with no choice, got up and let Jiang Banxia take his place.

Jiang Banxia kept her word and immediately gave out a million yuan in rewards.

In total, two hundred people were drawn, each receiving five thousand yuan, by simply sending a chat message to enter.

In other words, a free draw.

Li Yang’s live stream instantly swelled with over a million viewers, and the number kept rising.

By the time Jiang Banxia finished a game, the live stream had reached eight million viewers, a height untouched by any other stream network-wide.

The next day, Wanliu Capital’s subscription funds reached twelve billion!

Li Yang watched Wanliu Capital’s scale grow from one hundred billion to two hundred and eighty billion in just a little over three months.

On December 5th, Wanliu Capital’s scale officially broke three hundred billion.

After Jiang Banxia had live-streamed a game, Li Yang closed the stream and turned around to ask, "We’ve already surpassed three hundred billion today; are you so eager to achieve the five hundred billion goal?"

According to the agreement, with a one-year goal of five hundred billion, it now seems the difficulty of achieving it is almost zero.

Jiang Banxia chuckled and said, "Who knows, if net worth starts losing value, many might want to redeem."

"Speak the truth."

Jiang Banxia earnestly said, "No one can control wins or losses, but if you lose, I hope you won’t have any regrets."