Rebirth in the Golden Age of Gaming: I Become the Crown Prince of Sega
Chapter 861

Tomonobu Itagaki's "Ingenious Idea"

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Over the past half-year, Silicon Valley Online had accumulated a massive amount of valuable online testing and operational experience relying on Dungeons & Dragons Online.

These underlying architectures, concurrent processing technologies, and even the preliminary anti-cheat logic were directly packaged and shipped to Blizzard Headquarters in Mountain View.

Logically speaking, with Sega North America and Silicon Valley Online providing dual technical backing, the Tokyo headquarters did not need to worry too much.

However, Nakayama Takuya knew better than anyone just how avant-garde and crazy the concept of was in 1996!

At a time when the vast majority of players were still agonizing over LAN IPX Protocol settings and could not even figure out what TCP/IP was, Blizzard was actually attempting to build a free matchmaking platform based on a wide area network, forcibly challenging the physical bandwidth limits of the dial-up internet era.

This was simply building a rocket in a primitive tribe!

Therefore, Nakayama Takuya had to master firsthand, absolute intelligence.

"Last week, just completed its final large-scale closed beta." Looking at the data on the report, Hisao Oguchi spoke in his usual steady tone, yet it carried thinly veiled amazement. "The server load capacity test completely met standards. In security testing, several patches against data tampering have already been applied. What's most incredible is the smoothness—under a turtle-speed modem environment like 28.8kbps, the latency when players teamed up to enter dungeons was actually suppressed within an acceptable range! The team of engineers dispatched by Silicon Valley Online helped rewrite some of the network communication function modules. They were of tremendous help."

Nakayama Takuya nodded with satisfaction.

The strong intervention of Silicon Valley Online allowed Blizzard to bypass several years of technical detours.

As long as succeeded, Blizzard's throne in the PC gaming industry would be

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