My rebirth is different

Chapter 533 Blooming online and offline

Players all over the Internet are amazed at the various novel functions and thoughtful experiences of Facebook's official website, and companies in the entire industry are shocked by Facebook's incredible achievements in the first day of its launch. Nobody cares anymore.

"How's the result? Has the number of users exceeded 500 million?" Before getting off work in the afternoon, Brother Xiao Ma deliberately came to the game platform project department.

"A little bit..." The person in charge of the project department looked unhappy.

"How close is it? I've heard that there are more than 500 million simultaneous online users on Facebook Battle.net! Our number of registered users is less than [-] million?" Brother Ma was a little anxious.

"It's about a million..."

Brother Xiao Ma's heart suddenly became cold. The number of registered users is 400 million. If this number is placed in other new start-up companies, maybe the boss will jump for joy.

But they are Tencent, and QQ has nearly [-] million users!
Before the game platform was launched, it deliberately gave several pop-up windows on QQ. The publicity was definitely done well, but the result was only 400 million user registrations.

Tencent's game platform is also bound to a QQ account, as long as users use their own QQ account password to log in, and the friend list can be transferred there directly.

This function can be regarded as borrowing from Facebook, but it cannot be said to be plagiarism. After all, Facebook is not original to similar functions, and it has not applied for a patent.

After doing so much preparatory work and meticulously building the game platform, the whole company has high hopes. The results achieved so far cannot satisfy Xiao Ma.

Especially, in front of the 100 million simultaneous online users that broke out on Facebook Battle.net...

"How many people are online now?" Xiao Ma continued to ask.

"Well... more than 90 yuan." The manager of the technical department wiped the sweat from his forehead and replied with a guilty conscience.

Ordinarily, this result is already very good. Lianzhong and Wing Feng have been in business for so many years, and the number of online users recently has not reached this figure.

Of course, it’s still the same sentence, everything is afraid of comparison.

They are all game platforms, and they are all online today. Others have 100 online, but you have less than 100 million, how can you not feel guilty.

Brother Xiao Ma sighed and didn't say much. He also knew that everyone did their best.

The current results can't be said to be bad, but they are not good enough.

It's not that everyone doesn't work hard, but that the opponent is too strong.

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The launch of Facebook Battle.net, in a sense, can be said to have subverted the domestic game model.

Through the division of points and ranks, it networked stand-alone games, took out the most attractive "upgrade systems" in online games, made them into platform functions, and then applied them to high-quality stand-alone games.

Although it is such a simple "function transplant", the effect is surprisingly good.

In fact, in terms of game quality, how can an online game like Legend compare with stand-alone boutiques like CS, Diablo, and Warcraft!
Not to mention 2003, even more than ten years later, the real boutique 3A masterpieces are all stand-alone games.

The attractiveness of online games is due to a well-designed upgrade system, and even the introduction of psychology, using players' vanity and comparison to induce players to become addicted to it.

And this qualifying match on Facebook Battle.net, this division of ranks, is actually designed according to that set.

However, the conscience of Facebook Battle.net is that it does not lie to Krypton. As long as you spend a little money once to buy a genuine game, you can play it on Battle.net in the future, and you will not need to pay in the future.This point is too conscientious.

As a product maker, there is a "way" to get back to the basics, that is, as long as the quality of your products exceeds the expectations of potential customers, the enthusiasm that customers give you will also exceed your expectations.

After the Facebook battle network went online, it fully proved this point.

It brings an unprecedented game experience to the majority of players, and what everyone brings to it is the number of online games that shock people's attention!
Due to the limitation that Facebook Battle.net only allows genuine game players to log in, today's Ten Thousand Online has not yet tapped its true potential.

Many users and Internet cafes have not had time to buy genuine software yet.

Following word of mouth among players, the games that Facebook Games had just acquired were sold out!
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In HZ City, Xiao Wu is the store manager of the local Lianbang software store, and the store he manages is located in the university town.

Selling genuine software, the usual business can be imagined, and often one or two customers do not come in every day.

The main business is generally purchases from various units, and retailing only accounts for a small part.

So there are only two staff in this store, Xiao Wu is the store manager, and there is another clerk, and the two work in shifts.

On May [-]st, Xiao Wu took shifts.

At ten o'clock in the morning, he came to the store leisurely, tidied up slowly, sat down and turned on the computer, ready to play games.

He has recently become obsessed with Miracle, which is an online game that was just launched after the year. The graphics look much more beautiful than Legendary, and the game is on the rise.

"Boss, do you sell CS discs here?"

While fighting monsters and upgrading, suddenly a loud voice rang out, making Xiao Wu tremble with fright.

"What? What CS?" Xiao Wu raised his head and asked confusedly.

"CS! You don't even know about CS?" A tall boy asked with wide-eyed eyes, as if Xiao Wu didn't know CS is an incredible thing.

"What's the Chinese name?" Xiao Wu really didn't know what CS was.

The boy stretched out his head and glanced at the computer that Xiao Wu Gang was playing on, and there was a miracle on the screen, with a pair of big wings flickering behind Xiao Wu's character.

"Oh? You play online games, no wonder you don't even know CS." The tall boy was full of perseverance.

Xiao Wu felt offended!
What is playing online games, what is no wonder, are online gamers inferior?

But after all, he opened a shop for business, so he couldn't be serious with customers, so he held back his anger and asked, "What's the Chinese name of CS?"

"It's... yes, it's called Half-Life! Or... Counter-Strike?" The boy thought for a while before answering uncertainly.

This is normal, many players who play CS don't even know what the full name of the game is, they just call CS.

Hearing about Half-Life and Counter-Strike, Xiao Wu understood.

He glanced back and forth at the counter, pointed to a far corner, "Yes, that's it."

The boy's eyes lit up, he walked over, stretched his head to look at it, "This is it! Get me one, how much is it?"

Xiao Wu took out the cardboard box containing the game, checked it on the computer, and replied: "36, you are lucky to catch up. It was selling for 68 a few days ago, and the price has just been reduced."

The boy was overjoyed. In order to buy this game, he borrowed 20 yuan from his classmates before he came here. He thought it would cost 80 yuan, but it turned out to be only 36 yuan!

"Then get me another one! I'll bring one back for my friend." He said boldly.

The boy left with two CDs, and Xiao Wu Gang sat down, ready to continue playing his miracle.

Then someone came again, "Boss, do you have a CS? Get me one!"

Now that Xiao Wu has experience, he said without raising his head: "Yes, 36!"

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In this way, one morning passed, and Xiao Wu basically had no time to play his miracles, because customers kept coming in.

The game that everyone must buy is CS, and many people buy Warcraft, Diablo, and StarCraft.

This surprised Xiao Wu very much.

Because in his store, these genuine games are the hardest to sell!
Even the outrageously expensive WINDOWS system and OFFICE software suite are better than these genuine games.

Because of the system and office software, there are many units purchasing it anyway, who will buy this genuine game.

It's ridiculous to say that just outside his store, there are often a few vendors setting up stalls on the side of the road, selling all pirated game discs!

what is it today?
Don't buy the game discs that cost five yuan outside, and come to support the genuine ones one by one?

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This question is also shared by peddlers who sell pirated CDs outside Lianbang Software.

Usually, their business is still good, because it is close to the university, many college students know that there are pirated discs here, so they come here to buy games and movie discs.

As for Lianbang Software next to it, no one entered at all.

But today, all the college students in a hurry entered the Lianbang software store without looking back, and when they came out, they all held two game disks in their hands.

A peddler couldn't bear it any longer. He called to a student who had just walked out of the Lianbang software store, and asked, "Hey, big brother, let me ask you a question. Are you going to buy a genuine game recently? Are there any new games coming out?"

The college student replied with a smile: "I bought the original game, but it's not a new game, CS."

The business of selling pirated discs is obviously much more familiar than store manager Xiao Wu. Originally, the CS game is the best-selling game disc, so he certainly knows what game it is.

"No way! I sell this game for five yuan, but the store sells it for 68 yuan!" He widened his eyes and said in surprise.

"No, the price has been reduced now, only 36." The student raised the CD in his hand and said proudly.

"That's several times more expensive than mine, why don't you buy pirated ones?" the peddler asked puzzled.

"If you buy a genuine copy, you can go to Facebook Battle.net, but your pirated disc can't go to Battle.net."

"What kind of face? What kind of network?" The peddler couldn't understand now.

"Hey, let's just put it this way, no one will buy pirated CS discs in the future, I advise you, don't get into this game." Saying that, the college student left in a hurry.

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The same scene, on this day, is being staged in all major cities across the country.

All the players were asking about which Internet cafes could log in to Battle.net, and those with computers were looking everywhere for where they could buy genuine game discs.

The original game, which had been unsalable for a long time, became a bestseller on May [-]st!
(End of this chapter)