On April 20, Tencent's leisure and entertainment game "QQ Tang" officially stopped the operation of Chinese mainland. The game will shut down the server at 11 o'clock today, when players will not be able to log in to the game normally.
In December 2021, the operation team of QQ Tang said that due to the strategic plan of the QQ Tang project team, it is officially announced that QQ Tang will stop the operation of the Chinese mainland on April 20, 2022. At 11 o'clock on the same day, the game server was closed, and the game's official website, forum, and exclusive customer service were closed.
The operation team of QQ Tang stressed that after the game server is shut down, unless otherwise stipulated by laws and regulations or otherwise agreed in the agreement signed by Tencent and users, all account data and character data in the game will be deleted.
Launched on December 29, 2004, QQ Tang is Tencent's large-scale game debut, which has been in operation for more than 17 years and has been the childhood of many people.
In December 2021, QQ Tang issued a suspension announcement due to the strategic plan of the project team. As soon as the news came out, it rushed to the hot search, and many netizens shouted directly, "My youth is also over." ”
According to the official website, the creativity of QQ Hall comes from the Bomberman gameplay. When the game starts, all players are divided into two parties, each controlling a character, the arrow keys control the movement, pressing the space to put the sugar bubbles, and the sugar bubbles will explode after 5 seconds. Characters will be trapped if they touch the syrup and suffocate "death" after 5 seconds. At this time, if the companion walks by, he can be rescued, and if the other person walks by, he will immediately "die". When all the players on one side die, the game will end.
It is worth mentioning that "QQ Hall" was sued by Shanda and Korean developer Nexon because of the similar name and gameplay of the "Bubble Hall" game represented by Shanda, but it ended in Shanda's defeat.
A number of classic games have been discontinued one after another
Not only QQ Hall, in recent years, a number of old games have been discontinued. On September 15, 2018, QQ Pet was officially shut down, and at the end of that month, the game's official website, forum, and exclusive customer service were closed. In December 2019, QQ Sonic stopped operating and shut down the server, according to the announcement released by QQ Sonic in November 2018, the game developer has disbanded the development team, and the game agency agreement ended in January 2019.
Although the service is closed, qq pets and QQ sound speed have found another way out. In November 2021, the QQ Music App was redesigned to add a pet function, which is called M-PETS. Different from the previous QQ pets, M-PETS is more similar to the gameplay of "Traveling Frog", for this change, some netizens said "no inner taste".
QQ Sound Speed also separated from Tencent, renamed "R2Beat: Speed of Sound Awakening", and recently launched the Steam platform, at present, "R2Beat: Speed of Sound Awakening" retains the classic gameplay of QQ Sound, and has been updated, and the clothing and pet collocation of the Q version of the image have also been retained.
Moving into mobile was also an option for early PC-side games. In 2017, QQ flying car mobile game is online, based on the development of terminal games, basically retained the game content of QQ flying car; QQ dance for the transformation has also made a variety of attempts, in November 2013, QQ dance client embedded live broadcast platform "dance dream factory" online, the main horizontal version of the live video show, slogan is "to open the era of national entertainment", catch up with the outlet of live broadcasting, in 2018, QQ dance and launched mobile games.
Another well-known old game Moore Manor was also launched on the mobile phone in June 2021, with more than 7 million new users in 12 hours, more than 30 million new users in the first month, and many times on the hot search, but due to the follow-up problems of "Moore Manor", the long-term performance was not good. However, the financial report of Moore Manor's agent Gigabit shows that as of the end of 2021, Moore Manor has not generated financial profits.
Source: Xiaoxiang Morning News, Global Network
Editor of this issue is Feng Zhanpeng