Chapter 1036: Full of Benefits

Since its inception, the zombie IP has enjoyed immense popularity worldwide.

No one knows why such an ugly and terrifying monster could be so appealing.

Perhaps it is the tense atmosphere of people struggling to survive after the apocalypse, or perhaps it is the exhilaration of handsome men and beautiful women slaughtering zombies.

In short, the theme of zombie films boils down to these two points, and Luo Quan has clearly presented them to her peers through movies and TV dramas.

However, few people can grasp the essence; although there are now many zombie-related films and TV dramas, only a handful are truly good.

Fans have come to realize that Luo Quan's "Resident Evil Universe" remains the most classic, and it can only be said that she truly deserves the title of pioneer.

The only regret is that the long-awaited "Resident Evil 3" has still not received any news to this day.

On the other hand, the spin-off TV series "The Walking Dead" is being broadcast with great fervor.

Both works are set in the same universe: the theme of Resident Evil is beautiful women battling zombies, while the other focuses on post-apocalyptic survival, with different emphases.

However, due to its sufficient length, many settings that could not be covered in the film are supplemented in the TV series, and with the production team being highly skilled, the TV series' ratings are even somewhat higher than those of the film.

Moreover, the second season of the TV series features cameo appearances by film characters, so "The Walking Dead" enjoys high ratings among both casual viewers and fans.

Calling it a national-level hit drama might be an exaggeration, but at least on Netflix, "The Walking Dead" Seasons 1 and 2 have no rivals.

In fact, Chinese fans have also been longing for it for a long time, but due to censorship, they clearly know it is difficult for any website to introduce it.

However, no one expected that Luo Quan, upon acquiring Bilibili, would announce this weighty news, which has led many to indulge in wild fantasies.

Currently, "The Walking Dead" has been introduced, proving that Luo Quan has connections at Netflix; can other popular Netflix series also be introduced together?

If achievable, this would harbor tremendous business opportunities.

There is no need to elaborate on how lackluster domestic TV dramas are—only a few per year are worth watching.

The rest are flooded with idol stars in romance dramas, where anything can lead to love, making viewing genuinely exhausting.

If outstanding foreign series could be introduced, they would undoubtedly cause a significant impact on the domestic market.

Just as before the Korean ban was lifted, when countless Korean idols came to China to make money, domestic idols and celebrities hardly had any room to shine.

Now that the Korean ban is in place, without those professionals delivering overwhelming blows, domestic idols have not improved; instead, having lost their competitors, they have collectively given up.

TV dramas are much the same: without foreigners competing for the rice bowl, one only needs to be slightly better than the worst domestic dramas to receive praise, and various metrics can also be decent.

Given such an environment, Luo Quan does not intend to change it.

But she herself has no intention of going with the flow; the introduction of "The Walking Dead" is merely a beginning.

Besides her own TV dramas, she first set her sights on the foreign series "Game of Thrones."

This TV series can be said to be the most popular in the past decade, without equal, enjoying considerable fame worldwide.

It has already been filmed up to the fifth season, with viewership ratings repeatedly reaching new highs.

In the United States, "Game of Thrones" is also a major rival of "The Walking Dead," and fans of the two sides have frequently argued over rankings, popularity, and similar topics.

Speaking of which, when the first season began filming, the "Game of Thrones" production team even approached her, wanting her to play the role of the Dragon Mother.

Originally, she was quite tempted, but after reading the script, she directly refused.

As the female lead in the drama, her instances of exposure are almost the highest, which she certainly would not accept.

Moreover, due to HBO's consistent style, "Game of Thrones" has been extremely graphic and violent for its five seasons, leading netizens to jokingly call it the "Song of Killing and Fornication."

Introducing such a series would certainly pose certain difficulties.

The good news is that even if the exposure shots were deleted or altered, it would not have too great an impact on the overall plot.

As for the bloody scenes, they can be appropriately modified.

Domestic also has many historical war dramas; if bloodshed is to occur, it will occur, if throat-slitting is to happen, it will happen, so there is no need to be overly extreme.

In short, the decision to introduce has already been made; Luo Quan's entrusted negotiator is Sevfurth.

She is not very familiar with HBO, but Sevfurth has a much broader network than she does, so the difficulty of reaching an agreement is not high.

On the domestic side, after obtaining the "Review Green Light Pass" from Director He, Luo Quan immediately submitted the already-broadcast content of Seasons 1 and 2 of "The Walking Dead" for review.

As for the review side, it was indeed as swift as lightning, taking only one evening to pass.

At noon the next day, Seasons 1 and 2 of "The Walking Dead" landed on Bilibili, supporting up to 4K quality.

Non-members can watch Season 1, but the highest clarity is 720p, while members can watch all series, with the highest clarity up to 4K.

Speaking of which, Bilibili's bitrate, among all domestic video websites, belongs to the most conscientious tier.

Similarly at 1080p, the data volume Bilibili requires for download is three to five times that of other websites, resulting in much higher clarity.

Moreover, the highest upload quality by users can also reach 4K, an advantage other websites cannot even come close to matching.

However, being conscientious means low profits; among the few paid membership websites, Bilibili's members should be the least profitable, and their numbers are also decreasing.

After all, Bilibili's videos, whether members are opened or not, contain no advertisements.

Of course, although Luo Quan has become the new boss, she still does not intend to overturn the promise Cheng Rui initially made to users.

Whether in the past, present, or future, Bilibili's videos will never have ads at the beginning, with the main focus being zero-delay playback.

"How about it, is this move fast enough?"

Luo Quan faced the camera, speaking in a tone of seeking credit, as if wanting me to praise her.

"Really awesome, saying introduce and then introducing it."

"This membership fee is worth it, tearful."

"I'm not in a hurry to watch now; I'll wait until the barrage accumulates a bit more, then go watch—reading the netizens' comments on the sand-digging forum is really interesting."

"By the way, what is today's gift? It was said that gifts would continue for the coming week."

"Exactly, exactly—can't it be announced in advance, instead of keeping us in suspense?"

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Seeing the fans so eager, Luo Quan laughed and said: "If I say today's gift is watching me stream all day, will you be happy?"

"If you wear a bikini, I'll be happy."

"Hahaha, if that were really the case, that would be great."

"Shocking, Bilibili CEO livestreams in bikini to please fans in bid to save stock price!"

"It's over, with you describing it like that, Miss Luo Quan and Uncle's figures have directly overlapped in my mind."

"Please stop, I feel nauseous just thinking of that scene."

"Uncle only did two good things in his life, created Bilibili, then sold Bilibili to Miss Luo Quan."

"Heartbreaking, bro, he's still Vice President, at least leave him some face."

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It could be seen that fans' resentment toward Cheng Rui was still quite deep, even though he had retreated behind the scenes they were still badmouthing him.

But this also showed just how outrageous his operations had been these past few years.

It was a group of old ACG fans powering it with love that made Bilibili grow big and strong.

Result: you got rich, then started purging your original providers, even with ten thousand reasons it's unjustifiable, getting cursed is only normal.

"Just kidding, how could the gift possibly be only this little."

Miss Luo Quan saw the fans roasting Cheng Rui but didn't pick up on it, instead saying: "Tomorrow's gift is a series of domestic classic film and TV dramas including 'Bright Sword' and 'Wu Lin Wai Zhuan'.

From now on everyone can watch the full versions on Bilibili, no need to search for one clip at a time anymore."

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"Holy crap, Miss Luo Quan, you really get us."

"Hahaha, our Old Li has finally returned."

"Second Battalion Commander, where the hell is your Italian cannon, drag it up here for me!"

"Yamamoto, I f*** your immortal."

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In an instant, meme barrage comments flooded the entire screen.

Rarely does a TV drama get this many people memeing together, but Bright Sword is one of the few, where even just a character appearing can trigger intense resonance.

No helping it, this drama is just too classic, contributed too many iconic scenes.

For the vast majority of Bilibili users, this gift was truly too delightful a surprise.

Perhaps they won't play it immediately, but at some later bored moment they'll definitely think of 'Bright Sword', and then watching with barrage comments will make the experience even more enjoyable.

"This is tomorrow's gift preview, as for the third day's, I can only say don't rush, wait for my livestream tomorrow."

After the preview, Miss Luo Quan became tight-lipped about tomorrow's surprise.

Dumping all arrangements at once might feel great for fans, but the heat couldn't be sustained long-term.

So suspense needs to be kept, a steady trickle is the right way.

"Right, Miss Luo Quan, after you take over Bilibili will there be any changes to creator benefits?"

At this moment, a paid barrage comment pinned to the top of the screen.

The commenter was just a small UP with tens of thousands of fans, one of the main victims of the previous creative incentive weakening.

Originally tens of thousands of fans could still earn a bit of money making videos, now it's simply miserable.

And questions about creative incentives are basically what the vast majority of UPs care about most, after all it relates to their income.

"Everyone rest assured, the creative incentive readjustment will start soon, I promise, original UP creators' creative income will definitely return to peak levels.

As for those non-original UPs doing reposts, earnings absolutely won't be lower than now.

Bilibili's future will definitely encourage everyone to create original content more, especially high-quality original videos, income will definitely satisfy everyone.

Of course, exactly how this rule will be implemented, I can't explain clearly in a sentence or two.

But I'm also a Bilibili user myself, I know where users' pain points are.

Repetitive meaningless content, indiscriminate reposts from external sites, and piracy turning reposts into originals, these are all severely damaging user experience.

After I take over Bilibili, the first thing to handle is this problem.

Other things I dare not promise, but from now on if you mark a certain type of video as not interested, then that type of video will absolutely never appear on your homepage again."

"Good!"

"Been waiting for you to say this."

"Bilibili's algorithm is simply too outrageous, marking not interested is same as not marking, few days later it pushes it to you again."

"Also that hot search list, can you fix it, any broken thing gets on."

"Especially those traffic fresh meats, not saying don't let them come, but at least to get on hot search they should rely on their own ability, why do a few ten thousand views get on hot search?"

"Looks like Miss Luo Quan's heart is with us old users, this series of measures are all really crucial."

"Miss Luo Quan's here, Bilibili's at peace, Miss Luo Quan's here, blue sky's here————"

"So, days without Cheng Rui are the good days!"

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Cheng Rui got whip-corpse'd again, Miss Luo Quan couldn't help laughing seeing it.

Who knows if he's watching his own livestream right now, if he is, his heart probably feels awful.

But no helping it, after all this is his own doing.

"Right, about those games Bilibili agents, I'll also adjust operations, especially FGO."

Miss Luo Quan thought of another thing, continued: "However you put it, FGO players are also great contributors, we can't discard them after use.

From now on Bilibili's ACG atmosphere will get thicker and thicker, more new and old anime will come to Bilibili, everyone please look forward to it."

Miss Luo Quan's final words thoroughly moved a bunch of old users hiding in the dark.

It's truly fortunate that someone still remembers their contributions these days—honestly, if it weren't for hearing that Bilibili had a new owner, they likely wouldn't have come back at all.

After all, the series of operations by the game's operators back then were truly inhumane, treating them purely as cash-cow sows.

Endless revisions, secretly lowered drop rates, forced spending—it can be said that the crimes are too numerous to record.

The good news is, with the new owner now in place, they can finally have better days ahead.

But the bad news is, their passion for the game can never be rekindled.

Still, no matter what, Miss Luo Quan, the new owner, at least appears to treat them more humanely than Cheng Rui did.

As the saying goes, a new official sets three fires upon taking office: the first fire is introducing new film and television dramas, the second fire is overhauling Bilibili's environment and operational strategy.

So far, both have been very good.

As for this third fire, if there is one, everyone is still very curious about what it will burn.

Hopefully it will bring enough surprises.

That evening, Miss Luo Quan received a call marked as Da Wei Ge.

"Boss, the real-gameplay video has already been recorded—when are you planning to hold the launch event?"

Upon hearing this, Miss Luo Quan broke into a pleased smile: "Great, I'll find a time to arrange it—when the time comes, you'll host."