My rebirth is different

Chapter 829 How to spend money

For the launch of the charging system, Dong Xiaoxue is very confident.

This confidence comes from the financial data of the brother company, Facebook Games.

She went to Effie to inquire about "information" on purpose, and the recent revenue data of Facebook games really shocked her "titanium alloy dog ​​eyes".

World of Warcraft, launched for three months, already has nearly 5000 million paying users!

Because this game uses a point card system, all users have to pay.

The only difference may be that some users only buy point cards, while some users will also buy paid props such as mounts and clothing in addition to point cards.

And the monthly card of World of Warcraft is not cheap, it costs 60 yuan a month!
Calculated in this way, the monthly revenue is as high as 30 billion for point card fees alone!
And the various cool charging props launched are also quite popular.

The in-game store alone generates an additional $20 billion to $[-] billion a month for Facebook Games.

Calculated in this way, the game World of Warcraft generates [-] billion in revenue for Facebook games every month!

This game alone is enough to make Facebook Games stand out from all domestic game companies.

Shanda, the former overlord of the game, can only take the second place now, and can't compare with Facebook games at all.

This is also impossible, because World of Warcraft has just been launched, and it is the time when it is popular all over the world and is advancing by leaps and bounds. However, Shanda Legend has been in operation for several years and has begun to decline.

Moreover, the quality of the game World of Warcraft is indeed very high. In comparison, Legend is simply a representative of shoddy.

Anything is afraid of comparison. Only by comparing them together can you know how big the gap is.

Before World of Warcraft, Legend had no rivals. Miracle with higher quality than it did not complete its challenge due to the proliferation of plug-ins and numerous bugs.

However, World of Warcraft completely eliminates all cheats and gives players a level playing field. Blizzard's technical strength is the guarantee of game quality.

Therefore, it is only natural that World of Warcraft can become popular.

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You know, the Facebook game is not the only online game like World of Warcraft.

It also has another revenue-generating tool, CSOL, which has recently been dubbed "boy wallet harvester" by netizens on the Internet!

The predecessor of CSOL, CS, is a stand-alone shooting game that is popular all over the world.

CS has so many players in the world, no need to emphasize it again, it can be called a phenomenal hit!
The mouse dream of over [-] million players worldwide!
Now CSOL is an upgraded version of CS. After this period of operation, basically most CS players have transferred to CSOL.

Although this game claims to be a "forever free" model, if you really want to spend money, the upper limit is much higher than World of Warcraft!

In World of Warcraft, you buy a monthly card and then clear the in-game store, which is basically two or three thousand yuan.

No matter how much you want to spend money, you don't know where to spend it.

But CSOL, in this game, if you really have money and want to spend it, it is a bottomless pit!
Needless to say, the pass was just launched, and players who are not short of money must buy it.

And this pass is very conscientious, the price is not high, and it can be used for a few months. On average, it is only ten yuan a month, which is very cheap.

But there is a magical prop in CSOL, that is the "ammunition box", which game players call "opening the box" or "opening the box".

This is where game tyrants spend their money.

In the "arms box", you can get all kinds of out-of-print precious skin props, which are good things that cannot be obtained in the pass.

These props can also be resold through the props market of the Facebook game platform, which means that even if you open a skin repeatedly, you don’t have to worry about it.

It can be resold and "recovered blood".

That is to say, the existence of the props market, and the opening of boxes has become popular recently.

On Facebook, I often see various game big Vs posting pictures, claiming that once they got into the soul, a box was opened with out-of-print skins worth hundreds or even thousands, which made ordinary players drool with envy.

Driven by big Vs, opening boxes has become the most popular thing for CSOL players.

The box, when you open it, will be headless...

Some wealthy players can spend thousands or even tens of thousands of dollars in one go, and the purpose is to collect all the golden skins.

Perhaps, they can buy all the skins directly in the trading market with the money from opening the box.

But buying directly, there is no such fun as opening it yourself.

It can only be said that being rich is willful.

Do not underestimate the number of rich people in China at any time, even if it was only 2004.

Those who are familiar with the development of the game industry will understand that, in fact, from 2000 to 2010, the number of rich people in online games happened to be the most.

Because at that time period, there were relatively few entertainment methods, and many people in their 40s and [-]s were new to games, and they were very involved and enjoying themselves when they played.

Those people are really rich, and they are easy to get ahead when they play games. They really dare to spend money.

Later, games became more and more popular, and other forms of entertainment also increased, and many people lost interest in games.

Moreover, the main force of playing games has also changed from adults to children, and their spending power is naturally incomparable to before.

These, reflected in CSOL, means that the revenue of the game has begun to grow by leaps and bounds!
Last month, that is, in March, CSOL's single-month revenue exceeded [-] billion!
Although it has not surpassed World of Warcraft, the growth momentum is much stronger than that of World of Warcraft.

World of Warcraft has been in operation for three months, and the number of new players has slowed down.

However, CSOL's player payment rate is still increasing rapidly. Even if the revenue reaches 20 billion, the player payment rate is actually only [-]%.

There's still plenty of room to grow!
It's also because CSOL has too many players...

Basically, all high school boys or college boys, including those who have just graduated, do not play CSOL.

If you choose a national game, legend is definitely not eligible, and World of Warcraft is almost there. Obviously, only CSOL deserves it.

Coupled with the popularization of Lenovo Huimin computers and the accelerated construction of domestic broadband network infrastructure in the past year, the number of online game players has skyrocketed.

Companies in the Facebook family have benefited a lot, and of course CSOL has also benefited.

Its number of players has reached [-] million, which is far behind games such as World of Warcraft and Legendary Miracle.

Of course, it is also because of CSOL's permanent free mode that there is almost no threshold for this game. As long as you want to play, you can find an Internet cafe to play.

No need to spend money.

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Seeing the revenue data of the Facebook game in recent months, Dong Xiaoxue's eyes were red because she was too envious.

From this, she also saw that domestic netizens have no money!

But too rich!

Oh, you spend a lot of money when you play games, and the money is not worth it.

I put up an advertisement on this video site to subsidize "household use". You jump so high and say that a 30-second advertisement is a waste of your life.

When you spend hours playing games every now and then, why don't you shout that you are wasting your life?

Why don't you say that you have no money when you spend a lot of money in the game.

After all, it’s all about getting used to it!

Facebook videos and Facebook music must be charged, and I am sorry for the netizens if they don't charge...

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In fact, Dong Xiaoxue didn't know yet, but she only saw the tip of the iceberg in revenue from Facebook games.

Domestic Facebook games, in addition to the two major online games, also have a Facebook game platform and a Facebook game store.

Stand-alone game sales should not be underestimated.

Although it is not as dazzling as online games, as Facebook Games distributes more and more stand-alone games, many excellent stand-alone masterpieces have been introduced into China.

The stand-alone game market is also slowly being cultivated.

Also, don't forget about Facebook Gaming North America!

Although it is just a subsidiary company, the most valuable assets of Facebook Games are actually there.

The shares of Blizzard and Valve, as well as the global distribution rights of these two companies, belong to Facebook Games North America.

In China, World of Warcraft and CSOL are so popular, but abroad, they are even more popular than others!

It can be said that in 2004, as far as the game industry is concerned, it belongs to Facebook games.

In the history of games, it can be named "The Year of Facebook"!
After the launch of World of Warcraft and CSOL, they swept the global online game market. In any country, basically more than [-]% of the online game market share belongs to these two games.

With the exception of Japan and South Korea, they are because their game industry is relatively strong and there are many excellent games.

But World of Warcraft and CSOL can still occupy more than [-]% of the game market share.

It can be seen from this that Facebook Games North America will produce a stunning financial statement by the end of the year!

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Although it's not yet the end of the year, Effie is very confident about the company's revenue this year.

Regarding how to spend the money, she has already made a special trip to discuss with Yu Wenfei.

"Mr. Fei, should we pay back Softbank's money first? I always feel burdened when I owe money." Effie said with a smile.

In order to acquire Facebook Games, it also borrowed an interest-free loan of US$[-] billion from SoftBank Capital, which is also one of the conditions for allowing SoftBank to raise capital for shares.

The money has not been repaid yet.

"Interest-free loan, why are you in a hurry to repay it? Softbank is not short of money now. At the end of this year, let's pay him [-] million first, and don't worry about the rest." Yu Wenfei responded.

"By the end of the year, Continental and North American companies will have a lot of money in their hands. Where should we use the money? Of course, those necessary investments, such as data centers, must be invested. But That won't cost that much money." Effie asked again.

"Hehe, do you still think there is too much money? Let me tell you, there are many places to spend money on Facebook games, and no amount of money is enough to spend!" Yu Wenfei shook his head and said.

(End of this chapter)