Do you still have the fairy sword series?

Zhang Yijun, born in 197 1, is from Taiwan Province province. He was the head of the four or three generations of Xianjian and was named "Gong Changjun". 1996, after entering the game industry, has been planning in "Light Painting" and "Spectrum". 1999, Gong Changjun entered Daewoo. It was this year that Daewoo was faced with the great task of expanding its territory to the mainland, and this important task was handed over to Yao Zhuangxian.

When a commander can't have soldiers under his command, at a later meeting, Li Yongjin, the general manager of Daewoo, asked who would like to go to the mainland with Yao Zhuang first. Everyone was silent. For many people in Taiwan Province province at that time, the mainland only existed in history and geography classes. In their eyes, the mainland economy is backward, the climate and living habits are different, and the cultural and political differences are great. In this silence, only one hand is gently raised, so lonely, but so firm, and the owner of this hand is Zhang Yijun, who has just joined the company.

In this way, two "strong men" who are both 30 years old came together. Before leaving, my colleagues at headquarters practiced for them both. "It feels like we are going to die." Zhang Yijun later said with a smile, "But what we have practiced has also come to the mainland for development in two or three years."

From June 65438 to May 2000, Yao Zhuangxian, who had just entered Daewoo for one year, accompanied him to Beijing, accompanied by Mr. Mei, who was in charge of the network system. After two months' efforts with Chen Chaoxun, Shi Aihua and others who were in Beijing at that time, Soft Star Technology (Beijing) Co., Ltd. was formally established on August 14, 2000 after obtaining the business license of a wholly foreign-owned enterprise.

At the beginning of the establishment of Beisoft, the company had three projects going hand in hand, which were quite serious and nervous. Wang Shiying's Xianjian Inn is a derivative of Xianjian, Yao Zhuangxian's Monopoly VI is made by the old school, and Zhang Yijun's Han Dynasty Rome is slightly thin. Due to the problems of funds and manpower, coupled with Zhang Yijun's rigorous personality, the progress of the game is not fast.

In the summer of 200 1, less than a month after the release of Xianjian Inn, Zhang Yijun, who was still struggling, received an unexpected decision from Yao Zhuangxian, asking him to lead a team and go to Shanghai with major developers such as Joseph Chang and Wang Shiying to set up a branch of Beisoft.

So, Zhang Yijun came to Shanghai with several developers, and established Shanghai Soft Star, a place that kept creating miracles during his seven years of existence.

The situation of Shanghai Soft Star is quite special. Although it is a branch company, its real nature is only a sub-team. Yao Zhuangxian once asked Zhang Yijun to develop only the series of games "The Legend of the Sword and the Chivalrous Man", and to do it well. There is a reason for this. When Yao Zhuangxian put forward that Shang Ruan should be responsible for the development of the sequel to Xian Jian, it was rejected by Daewoo Headquarters. The headquarters thinks that Zhang Yijun has never been independently responsible for large-scale projects before, and his ability and experience are not enough for such a heavyweight product as Xianjian. In addition, he also expressed doubts about whether the technology of R&D mainland personnel can make high-level games. Under the strong guarantee of Yao Zhuangxian, the headquarters reluctantly released. Yao Zhuangxian insisted on taking Xian Jian II to a soft place, mainly to avoid too much interference from the headquarters. Faced with this trust and expectation, Zhang Yijun feels a great responsibility.

Soon, what worried Yao Zhuangxian and Zhang Yijun happened. Xie's "Fairy Sword II" was approved by the headquarters, which made Yao Zhuangxian furious. He thinks that there is something wrong with the practice of the headquarters and certain measures must be taken. Therefore, while urging the proposal of Xianjian II to be submitted as soon as possible, we actively contacted the headquarters to express our dissatisfaction, but in the end, Daewoo handed over the development right of Xianjian II to Xie, and the Xianjian II provided by Shangruan became Xianjian III.

Just when the situation was not very clear, news suddenly came from Daewoo headquarters that Xie's development team had left the company collectively, leaving the unfinished "Xian Jian Er". In order not to damage the reputation of Xian Jian, Yao Zhuangxian had to return to Taiwan Province Province to clean up the mess with several other producers. But at this time, there is less than one year before the end of the production schedule, and the completion of the game is not high. No matter how strong Yao Zhuangxian is, it is impossible to turn a fragmented game into a classic in such a short time. Therefore, Xianjian II was hastily launched without perfection, which naturally caused strong dissatisfaction among players and caused a lot of bad comments.

The loss of Xianjian II has brought greater pressure to Zhang Yijun. Xianjiansan may affect its sales because of the player's rebellious psychology. Once Xianjian San also fails, the consequences will be very serious. Not only will the word-of-mouth accumulated by the first generation of Xianjian disappear, but the company may also go bankrupt. Even if you are lucky, you will be insulated from the fairy sword in the future. It can be said that "Fairy Sword III" has not yet been born, and it is destined to be a work that can only succeed but not fail.

In fact, since the "Fairy Sword" series was handed over to Shanghai Soft Star for development, there have been many doubts, including those from the headquarters. "At that time, Rourou didn't make any achievements, and she was really bombarded every day. Some people say that there is something wrong with Zhang Yijun's way of doing things, and the company will go bankrupt; Some people say that Zhang Yijun has never done RPG, and RPG will be rotten; Others say that the level of mainland developers is not good, and the fairy sword will be destroyed. " Talking about the past, Zhang Yijun is still a little aggrieved. Thanks to Yao Zhuangxian's assurance to the headquarters, Shanghai Soft Star will certainly be able to do "Fairy Sword III" well, and only in this way can it withstand the pressure from the headquarters.

Zhang Yijun and developers are aware of the seriousness of the consequences. Therefore, during the production of "Sword III", almost everyone worked overtime without pay, and Zhang Yijun worked more than 15 hours a day. They make full use of their limited financial conditions as much as possible to achieve the best results.

But some things can't be solved just by working hard and working overtime. Due to the low expectations of the headquarters, at the beginning of its establishment, the initial start-up capital allocated by the headquarters was only $650,000 (about 5.4 million RMB), and there was no additional capital after that. It may be enough to play a third-rate game on this scale, but it seems a little stretched to make such a masterpiece as "Xian Jian San". Not to mention that the RTS game "Han Dynasty and Rome" that Zhang Yijun has been developing in 2000 also entered the stage of eating money, which accelerated the consumption of funds. The development cost of Xianjian III is more than 3 million yuan. The previous "Han Dynasty and Rome" and two cancelled projects cost more than 6.5438+0 million yuan. Plus all kinds of expenses when starting the company, before the completion of "Fairy Sword III", the 5.4 million had been spent almost, and the decision of the headquarters to refuse to reinvest made Shang Ruan fall into an economic crisis. At that time, Zhang Yijun was particularly desperate. He thought of asking Yao Zhuangxian for help, but his pride prevented him from doing so. A month before the trial, Zhang Yijun was always on tenterhooks. At that time, there were many samples to be typed in art. One day, the financial controller suddenly ran into Zhang Yijun's office and said to him, "Vice President, the ink cartridges of the color inkjet printer have run out, and the company has no money to buy them." Zhang Yijun sighed and thought, "It's finally come to this." So he bought an ink cartridge with his own money. He paid for the company's utilities and other expenses that month. Seeing that employees will be paid at the end of the month, personal savings are almost spent, and an unprecedented despair hangs over him. Finally, I finally signed a contract with Global Star and got a deposit. That night, Zhang Yijun was so excited that he almost cried. It felt like fighting a strong enemy, and the ammunition was running out. At this time, several packs of ammunition were suddenly thrown from the rear. People who haven't experienced it can't understand it at all.

In July 2003, Xian Jian San was officially released, and Zhang Yijun, who should have breathed a sigh of relief, started another "battle" with the headquarters of Taiwan Province. In order to win more marketing budget and more active support, he fought hand-to-hand with the marketing department of Taiwan Province provincial headquarters for many times. "When I was in Daewoo that year, it was bright and dark. In order to sell "Xian Jian San" better, I am throwing caution to the wind and clamoring. Later, many people at the headquarters felt that my name was a nightmare. " Zhang Yijun said.

All these efforts were not in vain, and the quality of the game greatly exceeded expectations, conquering all players including the mainland, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan. The limited edition of the game was once fired to 12000 yuan, which swept away the haze of the failure of Xianjian II before and became the real sequel to Xianjian in the minds of players. Even many players who never knew what Xian Jian was were attracted by Xian San's unique China cultural background and good gameplay, and became loyal supporters of the series.

According to statistics, Xian Jian San sold more than 500,000 sets (pirated about 3 million sets), and the total sales reached more than 60 million yuan, which was definitely a miracle in the China game market at that time (it would be a miracle if there was no piracy). The revenue of 60 million yuan, after deducting the channel and sales cost of Taiwan Province Province, is about 6 million yuan for Shangruan, which has tied all the previous expenses and has a slight surplus. The success of "Fairy Sword III" not only made Zhang Yijun proud, but also made Daewoo headquarters dispel all doubts and left the independent development right of "Fairy Sword and Chivalrous Man Biography" in Soft China.

In order to speed up the flow of funds, The Legend of the Sword and the Chivalrous Man 3: Courtship was quickly put into research and development, which is a low-cost project with a limited development cycle of 10 month. The original design of the game was based on the technology of randomly generating a 3D maze developed by a programmer at that time, and the design direction was similar to the Legend series "Dressing Labyrinth". However, due to the resignation of this program, the game can only completely copy the engine and editor of "Fairy Sword III", and only set a new plot outside. The plot was hastily completed due to the change of the creator, which is one of the reasons for the shortcomings of "Fairy Sword III", such as pale and loose plot and huge and boring maze.

Although the great success of "Fairy Sword III" made many people breathe a sigh of relief, it did not actually bring many tangible benefits to Shangruan. Because Shanghai SoftStar has no independent financial right, Daewoo stipulates that SoftStar can only get the net profit from mainland sales, while the sales profits from Taiwan Province Province, Hongkong and Macau belong to the head office. In this way, there are only 5 million to 6 million left in Shanghai Soft, and there is not much left after this money fills the gap of the company. However, Shangruan needs to develop, Xianjian needs to develop new works, and Zhang Yijun also hopes to keep as much profit as possible as the foundation of the company's future development. But what's important is that the development team of "Shenzhou III" has worked hard for three years, and they also need bonuses to comfort them. After weighing, Zhang Yijun decided to focus on the company's development and stop giving out too many project bonuses. Coupled with the consistent high-intensity work of Shangruan, many employees don't understand and feel very uncomfortable. They feel that the fruits of their labor have created absolutely great economic value, but they have not been rewarded as they should. After Xianjiansan was completed, some key members including Yan Liang, Zhang Wei and Zhang Tianyi left. Although the number is small, they are all soft elders, and this departure has a great impact on team morale. Although Zhang Yijun was very sad, he couldn't get rid of these people.

In "Memories of the Sword for Twelve Days * Baidicheng is Really Clean", Wang Shiying wrote: "When I created this work (Editor's Note: refers to the Legend of the Sword and the Chivalrous Man), my mood was the lowest. After the completion of Kenzo, the company left a lot of people, no matter how much friction there is at work, but after all, it is a project that has been worked together, and fighting side by side will inevitably affect the mood. " It is out of this state of mind that Wang Shiying described many people's departure in The Legend of the Sword and the Chivalrous Man, except the hero Nangong Huang, and the most prominent one was Situ Zhong.

After the development of Xianjian Sanjian entered the testing stage, Wang Shiying also left Shangruan. Meanwhile, Jia Zhuolun, the producer of DOMO team, was stationed in Ruan, intending to take over the R&D team of Xianjian, but was forced to return to Taiwan Province Province soon because of family affairs. After the completion of The Legend of Fairy Sword, its distribution in Chinese mainland suffered setbacks due to the examination and approval, and finally missed the summer sales season, and it was not listed until four months later. Then, Shanghai Soft Star was pushed to the dock by Wang Shiying.

It turned out that in August 2004, when The Legend of the Sword was released in Hong Kong and Taiwan, Wang Shiying found that her title in the game had become "creative planning". So she hired a lawyer to write to Taiwan Province Daewoo Company, Shanghai Soft Star and Global Star respectively, arguing that "Master Plan" and "Plot Plan" should be added to her signature in the game, and asked the three companies to correct this mistake in the simplified version. In June 2004, 1 1, the simplified version of the three biographies of Xianjian was released with the same signature. Wang Shiying formally filed a complaint with the Haidian District People's Court, accusing Cosmos Star and Shanghai Soft Star of infringing Wang Shiying's right of authorship in Master Plan and Plot Plan, and assuming civil liability for stopping the infringement, apologizing and eliminating the influence.

A series of events made Shangruan face an unprecedented impact that year. Zhang Yijun had to appease the staff and ensure the progress of other projects. At this time, something happened at home-his mother in Taiwan Province was diagnosed with cancer, and Zhang Yijun, who has always been known as the "Iron Man", almost collapsed. The mother knows that her son is busy at work. In order not to worry him, she didn't tell him about the operation. Afterwards, she comforted her son and said that it was useless to tell you anyway, and your presence would not improve the success rate of the operation. One afternoon, Zhang Yijun was busy with her work when she suddenly got a call from her mother. They talked for a long time. Putting down the receiver, he suddenly felt a breath in his throat and his face was wet. He wanted to cry, but he was afraid that it would affect the morale of the staff. "Think about working overtime like this every day, and I can't take care of it at home. Being scolded by players online, but also being beaten by others. What is it for? " During that time, every time he called his mother, he would secretly hide on the balcony.

Zhang Yijun said that he believed that "one good turn deserves another, and one evil turn deserves another". Ruan finally survived the most difficult time, and his mother's handiwork was also very successful.

After a bumpy year, Shanghai Soft Star focused its research and development on Tom, Dick and Harry 2 and Legend of the Sword and the Chivalrous Man 4 in 2005. This year, I plan to modify the original plot of "Sword IV" more perfectly, and the program begins to learn the RenderWare engine that I have never touched before. After the completion of Tom, dick and Harry 2, most R&D personnel who are good at making RPG were transferred to the project of Xianjian IV, and Xianjian IV entered the rapid R&D and production period.

On August 1 day, 2007, after two years of hard development, "Fairy Sword IV" was officially released. This is something to celebrate. I didn't expect many good things to happen. On the day of listing, due to the influx of certified users, the authentication server was congested, which made it impossible for players to complete the game startup authentication in the first time. After finally entering the game, the player finds that no matter how the machine is configured, the game screen will stop or not be smooth.

"In the beginning, some players reported that the game was very stuck, and our first reaction was impossible. Did the players deliberately make trouble? We have tested it with the old GeForce 3 graphics card, CPU and memory machine, and it will be stuck in the later stage of the game, but it will not be stuck at all in the front. Later, players complained more and more, and we vaguely felt that something was wrong. "

Zhang Yijun immediately urged the Star of the Universe to provide the game disk. After the offer was issued, the employees of the company had a set and started testing. As a result, the game reported many errors during the installation process. After Kaspersky and Rising Kaka uninstalled, they finally entered the game smoothly. After playing, I found that I did encounter strange cards, kill strange cards, divide experience cards and change scene cards as the players said. "We didn't expect StarForce to be so violent. Seeing this, I suddenly felt cold all over, thinking that everything was over. "

Zhang Yijun immediately contacted the Taipei headquarters. With the help of Wu Dongxing, the main program of Xuanyuanjian, he made the patch of 1. 1 overnight and released it the next day. Everyone is relieved.

On August 3rd, the first signing ceremony of "Shenzhou IV" was held in Beijing, and Zhang Yijun was present as scheduled. During the activity, some players expressed their willingness to donate money to Shanghai Soft Star to support the research and development of "Fairy Sword". After being declined, he said enthusiastically, then I will buy more sets of genuine xianjian. Zhang Yijun tried to dissuade him and told him that "making money is not easy". Back to his residence, Zhang Yijun turned on the computer and boarded the game website of Bahamut, Taiwan Province. He found the forum full of curses. It turns out that the hardcover version of "Xian Jian Si" in Taiwan Province Province has been listed, but the quality is poor, the fragrant fan is damaged, and the raiders are out of page, which attracts complaints from players.

"There has never been such a bad hardcover edition in the history of Xianjian, which can be said to be the best in history. They don't ask for or respect our opinions. For so many years, we have been insisting on making the fairy sword better and better. As a result, a hardcover version over there is like this. " Zhang Yijun said angrily, "think about the enthusiasm of the players just now, and then look at the practice of the headquarters. I said to myself: It's time to leave. "

When talking about the reasons for leaving the company, Zhang Yijun made no secret of his conflict with the headquarters of Taiwan Province in the concept of "Xian Jian". "I'm preparing to leave. I've been preparing for this for five years. Many times I feel that I have had enough. " Zhang Yijun feels that the headquarters has not given Soft Star due support for so many years, and its marketing in Taiwan Province Province is not active. More importantly, although the "Fairy Sword" series has been independently developed by Shanghai Soft Star since the third generation, Shanghai Soft Star can only get the sales revenue of Chinese mainland, while the income of Taiwan Province Province is taken away by the headquarters. Generally speaking, the number of sales sets of Xianjian series in Chinese mainland is four times that in Taiwan Province Province. However, due to the high price in Taiwan Province Province, the income of Taiwan Province Province often accounts for more than one third of the total sales revenue of Xianjian.

The expected income of Xian Jian Si is NT$ 200 million to NT$ 300 million (about RMB 45 million to RMB 70 million). After deducting the channel cost, it will bring about 6.5438+million yuan to Daewoo, of which only 6 million yuan can stay in Shanghai Soft Star. Six years ago, when Shangsoft developed "Fairy Sword III", it started with 5.4 million RMB, and finally almost ran out of ammunition. After so many years, I still have only 6 million in my hand, but I have to face such masterpieces as Sword Five and Sword Online II. Zhang Yijun believes that the head office is actually diverting the income of Xianjian to other projects, regardless of the future of Xianjian. "The gap between the level of Xianjian and foreign countries is getting bigger and bigger. Now the next generation of games has also come out, and the environment of piracy has not been solved. If the development funds are still so much, developing a "Fairy Five" two years later will definitely be badly scolded by players. Therefore, I think it is a better choice to leave now. "

Extremely limited funds, bearing the expectations of countless players, can not tolerate any perfunctory and sloppy; Pay several times more labor than ordinary people, but hold wages below industry standards; The games made with heart are accused and reviled by people who use pirated games for no reason. This is the pressure on the soft employees headed by Zhang Yijun.

The dialogue between many characters in "Sword Four" strongly reveals a kind of vicissitudes and bitterness, and it is difficult to guarantee that this is not the producer's voice. In a hidden location of the game, the developers of Xiansi incarnate into small monsters, telling the players their ideals and grievances. After reading these, people feel that it is not a taste, as if these endings have already been doomed, just a matter of time. No wonder many players said with emotion after playing, the story of Xian Si is actually a story of softening themselves.

In Qiansi's original manual, Zhang Yijun wrote an intriguing preface. It tells the bitter course of seven years and the trouble of not being humane. "Maybe everyone who leaves has their own reasons, but the most regrettable thing is that some comrades who can't stand the abuse of players and leave are disheartened. If they work too hard, they can still have fun! Looking at the results of high sales and low profits, we can continue to struggle! While playing European and American masterpieces, in the case of financial constraints, you can still keep your hope by looking at your own works! However, whenever faced with malicious criticism, it often falls to the ground. "

Seeing this, I don't know if those so-called "players" are waiting for the game to come out, asking around on the Internet whether they have downloaded it, and after only playing for the first time, they ran to the forum to curse "garbage" and "nothing compared with FF and DQ". What do you think now?

Zhang Yijun wrote in the preface, "After a hundred years, the fairy sword itself is not important, nor how much you earn, nor how much you pay, because everything will eventually return to dust ... What is important is that the game is driven by human nature, and it doesn't know how to operate, grasp or persist, just waiting for other cultures to brainwash them. The younger generation can't bear to remember what traditional culture is. Won't they feel sorry for China people? "

It can be seen that Zhang Jun didn't just play "Fairy Sword" as a game. He hoped that "Fairy Sword" would become the carrier of China's traditional culture and penetrate the vast 5,000-year-old Chinese civilization into the hearts of every player. Therefore, the soft team headed by Zhang Yijun has excavated many traditional cultural elements. Take Xiansi's character decoration, sword and costume art for example. That kind of beauty also embodies precious sweat and efforts. The soft work group absorbed many things from the traditional Hanfu and the style of the Tang Dynasty and merged them together. No matter how small the characters are, they will emphasize both beauty and textual research. To this end, these people once became frequent visitors to many museum databases. Many online players question why Kenji's clothes look like Japanese. What I want to say is that it is a Tang suit, let alone a Japanese one. Gong Changjun also clarified this. Imagine what a positive impact this game, which permeates the Chinese civilization to the players, has on this era of such disregard for traditional culture! Although Xianjian may not be as good as those foreign masterpieces in all aspects, they never have this cultural background, because Xianjian is a game developed by China people. If one day the Fairy Sword and Xuanyuan Sword cease to exist or exist in name only, it will be a very sad thing for China players.

However, piracy and malicious slander by players cannot defeat the powerful Zhang Yijun. As mentioned above, what made him make up his mind to leave was resentment against the headquarters. The profit of Xiansi in mainland China is about100000 RMB. Most of the funds that should have been used for the development of Shangruan and Xianjinwu have to be diverted to other projects, leaving only 6 million for Zhang Yijun, which is the same as that of Xiansan seven years ago and Xiansi three years ago, but the difference is, what are the human and material costs now? What is the development scale of the game now? Many people like to compare Fairy IV with Final Fantasy-well, the pure development cost of Final Fantasy 7 is 45 million US dollars, which is equivalent to 360 million RMB at the exchange rate at that time. Those who criticize Xiansi all day long for not being as good as foreign masterpieces might as well calculate, how many times is this figure about the soft development fund?

So, do players now know why Xiansi's animation is few and ugly, the picture is a bit outdated, and the characters' movements are a bit dull? Well, if you understand, I don't want you to know what to say and what to do. Just know clearly, and feel your conscience when you want to scold next time.

The birth of Xiansi is somewhat tragic. Originally a good game, it was frequently stuck by Starpower encryption software; Genuine authentication is understandable, but it can't be authenticated because there are too few servers causing congestion; It's also a good thing that Taiwan Province saves the hardcover edition, but it's because of the poor quality that it discourages the enthusiasm of players to collect genuine copies.

Players who don't know the truth scold Xiansi for being soft-hearted, which is what Zhang Yijun is worried about in the preface. Looking at these unreasonable abuse, recalling Daewoo's cold shoulder to Shanghai Soft Star for so many years, and facing Wuxian and other "impossible tasks" in the future, Zhang Yijun really felt a little tired.

From the preface written by Zhang Yijun for The Legend of the Sword and the Chivalrous Man IV, we can clearly feel his helplessness: "Recently, I often think of Forrest Gump running endlessly, and suddenly one day I don't want to run. However, whenever I see malicious criticism, rather than substantive suggestions, I still take the last spirit and smile and accept it seriously ... "

Although producers Zhang Yijun (Chang Jun) and Joseph Chang (Laughing Dog) attended the release ceremony of Fairy Silk in August, 2007, players who bought the game still queued up.

Although this kind of situation generally only appears when Japanese masterpieces such as Final Fantasy and Dragon Fight are on sale.

Although some players expressed their willingness to donate money to Shanghai Soft Star to support the development of Xianjian, they were refused to leave after buying several sets of games.

Although a female player aged 15 flew in from Guangxi, she cried excitedly after receiving Zhang Yijun's blessing.

Although at the premiere of Shanghai Xiansi Deluxe Edition, some players waited for 13 hours at the gate of Shanghai Grand Theatre, just to buy a limited edition Dream Glass Edition.

Although the sales volume of Xiansi reached 200,000 sets a week, this is already a big number in the shrinking stand-alone game market.

Although ... Gong Changjun still chose to leave, leaving only this sad sentence: I hope my successor will create another brilliant fairy sword, which is worthy of the music of the sword of surging waves. ...

On August 22nd, 2007, Yao Zhuangxian arrived in Shanghai. In his view, the ideal result is to comfort and retain most of the backbone, and the worst result is reorganization. However, the result? ...

"Shallow water can't keep the big dragon." He sighed.

In September 2007, he and Joseph Chang resigned, the official forum of Shanghai Soft Star was closed, and Shanghai Soft Star Company announced its dissolution. The remaining work of Shanghai Soft Star, including R&D and operation, will be taken over by Beijing Soft Star. The official statement is that "Shangruan will be merged into Beiruan", but none of the employees of Shanghai Soft Star joined Beiruan.

For his departure, Chang Changjun felt the sadness of a lonely hero. In the middle of his hand was written: "I worked in Daewoo for eight years, watched too much Cang Sang, and took care of Xianjian for six years. Although I worked hard, I didn't do better, but I didn't fear or regret it! "

Yao Zhuangxian was not surprised by the departure of his former comrades. He understands Zhang Yijun's idea that if Shangruan can keep all the money earned from "Fairy Sword", it can buy a better 3D engine, recruit more and better talents and do more projects, otherwise Zhang Yijun's cautious personality will not be willing to take risks and expand. But he also understands the practice of the headquarters. Daewoo has been adhering to the financial concept of "centralization" for so many years. Although legally speaking, Beijing Soft Star and Shanghai Soft Star are both subsidiaries, they have never had independent financial rights. The headquarters only regards SoftStar as its R&D department in Chinese mainland, not as an independent company, so SoftStar is not required to be responsible for its own profits and losses. Their losses are made up by the headquarters, and the excess profits are taken away by the headquarters.

After learning the news of the dissolution of Shangruan, many players are full of helplessness and sadness.

Because they know that they have lost not only a production company, but a team full of spirituality, blood and personality, a game producer who deeply understands China's traditional culture and insists on independent style. There may be a fairy sword in the future, but it is not necessarily the fairy sword of the commander in chief. It may not be the fairy sword with some vicissitudes and some self-mockery, but it reveals a kind of unruly and China's dignity in its bones. It may not be the fairy sword that makes players cry. The author always believes that the form of a game can be copied, but the soul can't be taken away anyway.