How was Journey to the West born?

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There is a well-known server in "Fantasy Journey to the West", "Remembrance - Continuation of the Frontier", this server is still a large number of players to this day, and it is still lively at 3:30 a.m. when writing.

Talking about this server, many players may not know the history behind him, so prepare a beer and melon drink, and let's walk into this gradually forgotten history.

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Origins ---- a journey to the west

NetEase's earliest entry into the field of online games was through the acquisition of a company called "Guangzhou Tianxia Technology", just when NetEase was preparing to develop an online game with the theme of "Journey to the West", ready to be named "Big Talk West Journey Online"

Zhou Xingchi's film "Journey to the West", when it was launched in 1995, because the concept was too advanced, its nonsensical funny style, and bold adaptation led to a very poor reputation at the time, and was labeled with a hat of insulting classics, which is what someone said today: "Adaptation is not random, joke is not nonsense."

In order not to infringe, Ding Lei entrusted people to find Zhou Xingchi and persuaded Zhou Xingchi to become the spokesperson for the game "Journey to the West", and Zhou Xingchi also promoted the game many times, adding a considerable amount of heat.

"Journey to the West" was born in August 2001, and many of its gameplay is still a classic in today's "Journey to the West". For example, catching ghosts, mastering, digging treasures and other familiar gameplay.

But this game does not exist for a long time, the highest number of online people is 5,000 people, because not only the installation trouble, the network speed was particularly slow at that time, unlike today's download speed of tens of meters per second, so you need to buy a disc to install.

Secondly, this game has a lot of bugs, and the development team is not enough to solve it, so it can only take a solution that cannot be imagined today: if there is a bug, restart the server. Playing a day players have to collectively drop the line several times.

So it wasn't long before the game was on the verge of collapse, and Ding Lei was ready to disband the team and abandon the project, but at the insistence of the two big guys, he reconstructed the game and developed a new game based on "Journey to the West I", which is still alive today - "Journey to the West II".

At this time, some people have to ask: Are you talking about "Fantasy Journey to the West" for half a day and saying "Journey to the West"?

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Rebirth - Fantasy Journey to the West

As I said, "Journey to the West II" is completely reconstructed, that is, a brand new game, in which the players are also brand new, starting from scratch, so what about the previous player data? Is it also like today's online games, directly shut down the service and shut down?

No, the abandoned game is The Fantasy Journey to the West !!!!

Why did the abandoned "Journey to the West" come back to life? How did it become the "Fantasy Journey to the West" that is still popular today? What's the story? And listen to me one by one.

At this time, I have to mention a person --- Xu Bo.

Is this person a stranger? In fact, he is also a big guy, look at the following picture

Among the IT giants in 2017, Xu Bo ranked ninth. Xu Bo has also already achieved wealth freedom, and in 2020, Xu Bo ranked 186th in the "2020 New Wealth 500 Rich List" with a wealth of 15.71 billion yuan.

Xu Bo has been very smart since he was a child, playing games every day, and his grades have been among the best, but he did not study again, but ran to a famous company as a game network customer service, which is NetEase.

In 2002, when "Journey to the West" asked players for the opinion of the game, Xu Bo wrote a huge number of more than 30 pages of game experience and feedback on "Journey to the West", and was proposed as the head of planning.

When Big Talk One was about to be disbanded, Xu Bo insisted that the design of Big Talk One was stronger than Big Talk Two, and found the chief operating officer Jingdong to show that he did not want to give up Big Talk One and wanted to continue to develop.

DingDong took a look, anyway, he was ready to give up and let him play, so Xu Bo pulled a few people to continue to develop a big talk.

After Xu Bo took over, he took over and took a big step, changing the game to the Q version style and renaming the game "Fantasy Journey to the West".

On November 6, 2003, "Fantasy Journey to the West" was limited to testing.

On December 5, 2003, the official announcement "Original Big Talk I and Ben Ri, Wangyue Player Data Transfer Announcement"

The old players of big talk one also have a new place, that is, in the dream server "Remembrance - Dream Back to the Running Day", "Remembrance - Continuation of the Frontier", "Remembrance - Dream Looking Back at the Moon".

Continuing the leading edge is a relatively high-level character, and it is basically a core player of the big talk. The first full level 145 of the Fantasy Journey to the West server is also one of the batch of re-rotating players in the Frontier Zone.

After that, Xu Bo was well received by players. He often discusses the game with players in official forums, so he is affectionately called "Lao Xu" by players.

After developing the fourth expansion pack of "Fantasy Journey to the West", "Transformation", Xu Bo left NetEase in January 2006, when the number of online users of "Fantasy Journey to the West" had exceeded 1 million.

Regarding Xu Bo's departure, the explanation given by NetEase is "inconsistent in concept", but according to Xu Bo's own statement: "Dissatisfied with NetEase's distribution model, dissatisfied with a small number of people in NetEase who are incompetent, but concentrate on getting power"

It can be said that without Lao Xu, there would be no "Fantasy Journey to the West"

Lao Xu also once said that when the later planning of when the players who put the division, ghost hunting, and burning both were unwilling to brush, it was the time when the fantasy journey to the west collapsed.

Fortunately, to this day, these gameplay is still the first choice for players.

After leaving, Xu Bo decided to make a game of his own. As the soul of "Fantasy Journey to the West", after breaking up with Ding Lei, Xu Bo hugged Lei Jun's "thigh" and got Lei Jun's investment of 10 million yuan.

After founding the new company, the famous "Shenwu" was developed, but on September 15, 2016, the court ruled that Duoyi Network should immediately stop infringing netease's copyright; immediately stop the unfair competition involved in the case; and compensate NetEase for economic losses of 15 million yuan. Shen Wu was cold again.

The follow-up old Xu is also a scandal, rumors that he supports polygamy, and has twelve children.

It was also reported that he informed in the company group that "this year, the company's benefits are good, and the profits have increased greatly." So the company decided to allow employees to voluntarily apply for a 10% reduction in treatment per month... This time, I will not refuse, and all applications will be approved. "wait for news.

The specific insider is not within the scope of discussion, so I will not dig deeper, and leave it to everyone to discuss.

I don't know if everyone here has come from the "Journey to the West I", if there really is, it is a living fossil of the dream journey to the west.

The ups and downs of this game that we witnessed together, experienced the ups and downs, there have been peaks, can always stick to it, must be love, he is not simply a game, but a way of life, you can go fishing, you can go to the bar, this is a way of life, I play dreams, but also my way of life. Hobbies do not distinguish between nobles and lows, what I love, what makes me happy is the best.

I hope that "Fantasy Journey to the West" can also not forget its original intention, adhere to your promise in the public beta: release a unique light, give the majority of players a warm ray of sunshine, let everyone enjoy and run happily in the joyful and romantic "Fantasy Journey to the West".

May all fantasy Western players be healthy and fulfill their wishes.

Flying pancakes salute.