Chapter 345 System Changes

During the entire May Day holiday, Chen Li did not go out for fun because Liu Qingqing was studying.

This makes Chen Li seem a bit out of place. After all, long holidays like May Day are often a time for college classmates to travel together.

But in fact, no one cares about this at all, because Chen Li is usually not very gregarious, and everyone has long been accustomed to the "specialness" of "Brother Li"!

As for the little brothers in dormitory 402, except for Liu Jian who stayed in school due to part-time job, the others were divided into two groups and went out to play.

The reason why they are divided into two groups is also very simple. One group is for those who have girlfriends, and the other group is for those who do not have girlfriends.

At first, everyone originally planned to travel together, but with a large group of about ten people, it was not convenient to travel by car.

So in the end, under Chen Li's suggestion, they were divided into two groups according to whether they were single or not.

Those who have girlfriends take their girlfriends out early and come back late every day to visit some tourist attractions near Yanjing.

As for those who don’t have girlfriends, they spend their days and nights wandering between dormitories and Internet cafes.

By the way, because ADSL broadband services began to be implemented in China this year, the cost of Internet access has been greatly reduced, so Internet cafes, which were once high-consumption places, have become more popular this year.

From March to May, in just two months, four Internet cafes opened around the University of Foreign Studies.

The cost of Internet access has also dropped from fifteen yuan last year to three yuan an hour now.

And as the number of Internet cafes increases, the price will continue to drop, eventually falling to almost two yuan an hour, and the membership price is about one yuan.

This price is enough to attract people who originally did not go to Internet cafes because the price was too expensive, and this has indirectly caused the gradual prosperity of the domestic Internet industry.

It can be said that many domestic Internet industries actually benefited from the "dividends" of Internet cafes in their early days!

Such as OICQ!

When Chen Li went to an Internet cafe to find classmates in his dormitory, he saw someone using it in the Internet cafe, and then he discovered that this thing was actually on the market.

It can be said that if it were not for the rapid development of the Internet cafe industry, it would be impossible for something like OICQ to become popular across the country in a short period of time.

And not just OICQ, many early Internet companies actually reaped the dividends of the Internet cafe industry to a greater or lesser extent.

For example, those game companies, if there are no Internet cafes sprouting everywhere, how can those game companies make huge profits?

These few bachelors in dormitory 402 have recently become crazy obsessed with a local area network stand-alone game.

Red Alert 98!

However, in fact, Red Alert 98 is not a sequel to Red Alert 95, nor is it an officially released expansion pack. Instead, an unknown foreign player produced a MOD for Red Alert 95 and named it Red Alert 98.

This thing, like the later Glory of the Republic, is not official!

But don’t worry about genuine and pirated copies~it’s good to have something to play with these days.

Chen Li would sometimes go to the Internet cafe with these guys to play, but he didn't play Red Alert. He was tired of playing it on the computer in the rental house.

It's okay to show off in front of a few roommates occasionally, but Chen Li has no interest in playing with him all night long.

Chen Li has been playing Fairy Sword One recently and has almost finished it.

In his previous life, Chen Li had never played this game, but he had watched the TV series adapted from this game.

No way, Chen Li had not been to an Internet cafe when this game became popular. By the time he went to an Internet cafe and started playing the game, Legend had already begun to flourish.

If we really want to count, the first real netizen game played by Chen Li is Legend.

But before Legend, there were actually some other online games that were popular in China.

For example~Thousand Years, Magic Baby, King of Kings, etc.!

This is the impact of these games. Compared with the "Legend", it is somewhat inferior.

This also led many people to believe that Legend was the beginning of the domestic online game chapter.

But it was only 1999, and the legend hadn’t appeared yet, or to be precise, it hadn’t appeared in China yet!

In fact, Legend of Blood 1 was officially released in South Korea as early as last year!

It's just that the most popular game in South Korea at this time is the famous "Paradise". This game is quite popular in South Korea, and there is no place for "Legend of Blood".

This is probably the reason why Chen Tianqiao of Shengda was able to spend 300,000 US dollars to pick up "Legend of Hot Blood"!

Of course~ what Shengda picked up at that time was not Legend 1, but what Shengda picked up was actually Legend of Blood 2.

In fact, if some players still have memories, they can remember that when this legend entered the country, it was called "Legend of Hot Blood 2", but domestic players are accustomed to calling it "Legend"!

But it was only 1999, and there were no online games in China.

Of course, if some text-based chat games are also included, then it cannot be said that they are not available.

But generally speaking, the domestic game world these days is still at the stage of stand-alone games.

After all, compared to those so-called online games with rough workmanship, some classic stand-alone games are much more fun.

Later, the Internet cafe industry boomed, and online games found an opportunity to rise in China.

So, the gaming industry has actually reaped the dividends from the Internet cafe industry.

If it weren't for the rise of Internet cafes, Mr. Chen from Shengda, Ding Sanshi from Wangnan, and Xiao Ma from Tengxun, these three would probably not be able to sit on the throne of the richest people in China in the future.

Rounding it off, it means that the Internet cafe industry has created three richest people?

Uh~ Okay! Although it’s a bit reluctant to say this, it can’t be said to be unreasonable.

Anyway, these three guys started their business thanks to the prosperity of Internet cafes.

Even though the number of domestic Internet users counted every year is in the tens of millions, the water content of this thing is definitely quite large.

In fact, before 2005, domestic personal computers, that is, home computers, were not very popular.

It wasn't until after 2005 or even around 2008 that home computers really became popular.

In his previous life, Chen Li bought his first personal computer in 2008. It was not a brand-name computer, but an assembled computer.

At that time, the computer seemed to have cost less than 4,000 yuan, and its configuration was considered to be relatively mainstream on the market at that time.

Anyway, from 2008 to 2009, those online games that were popular on the market basically ran without any problems on that computer.

But in 1999, that would not be possible.

Chen Li had asked the system before that if he could start the sub-career "game designer", then corresponding game products would also appear in the system mall.

In other words, if Chen Li is willing, he can even move "World of Warcraft" to 1999.

But that doesn't make any sense, because computer hardware from 1999 simply doesn't support running this game.

In addition, Chen Li has never thought about making money from games, otherwise he could have intercepted Mr. Chen from Hu Shengda in advance.

But playing games in China basically doesn’t have a good reputation.

A large number of netizens are playing games and scolding game developers at the same time.

From Chen Tianqiao, to Ding Sanshi, to Xiao Ma Ge, which one has not been criticized by gamers?

Among them, Chen Tianqiao was the one who was criticized the most~ because the influence brought by "Legend" was so great at the time.

Even the later King of Pesticide and League of Legends cannot be compared with "Legend" in terms of their social and industry influence.

Probably because he was criticized too much, Chen Tianqiao always wanted to change careers.

TV boxes, online literature, etc. In short, as long as it is not a game.

Perhaps it was precisely because of these reasons that Shengda subsequently plummeted, turning from the industry leader into nothing.

Therefore, Chen Li felt that he could not play games, at least not directly.

In other words, he can invest in Tencent and Wangnan, but he can never open a game company.

After all, although the money in the gaming industry is easy to make, the reputation is really ugly.

Of course ~ these are all things for later.

Right now, the most important thing for Chen Li is to control his nervous heart.

In fact, starting from the 5th, Chen Li became a little dazed.

He was not focused on his work and had no energy. Even when he was studying with Liu Qingqing, Chen Li was listless.

In Liu Qingqing's opinion, Chen Li was too busy and tired recently, but only Chen Li himself knew what he was worried about.

Yes~ Chen Li is indeed worried!

He was worried about whether there would be any deviations in the system customization service this time!

Although it was a service that he spent more than 50 million yuan to customize, because the system has been in a state of upgrade, Chen Li still doesn't know what kind of services the system has customized until now.

So~ Chen Liu is in a bad mood recently.

This mood lasted until the 7th. As the May Day holiday was coming to an end and the incident in Chen Li's memory was about to happen, Chen Li finally heard the voice of the system in his mind.

"Ding~ The system upgrade has been completed!"

Chen Li entered the system space immediately, and then he was shocked.

The system space after the upgrade is completely different from before.

If the previous system space looked like a grassroots team, then the current system space is quite similar.
To be continued...