my return 2002

Chapter 180

In the United States, at midnight, the neon lights are flashing, and the lights are feasting.

At this time, Chen Tianqiao was not in the mood to appreciate the beautiful scenery outside the window. His mind was all on the computer screen, and there was a mobile phone on the desk, which was within reach of Chen Tianqiao.

Suddenly, the phone screen turned on, and the whole thing vibrated, making a "buzzing" noise.

Chen Tianqiao stretched out his hand, but suddenly it was suspended in the air. After a few seconds, he picked up the phone, put it to his ear, and pressed the answer button.

"Hey, old Tan, how's the situation?"

There was silence on the other end of the phone for a while, and then Tan Qunzhao said in a somewhat hoarse voice: "It is estimated that over there, the number of simultaneous online users has exceeded 20."

Chen Tianqiao's heart skipped a beat. He expected that Sword Rain Jianghu would be very popular, but he didn't expect it to be so popular. It's only been two hours since the server opened, and it's only twelve o'clock in the domestic time. It's far from the real peak period.

"Mr. Chen." Seeing that Chen Tianqiao hadn't responded on the other end of the phone, Tan Qunzhao was afraid that something might happen to the other party.

Chen Tianqiao's tone was unexpectedly calm: "Okay, I see, you can keep an eye on it first, and call back to report after an hour."

"Mr. Chen, it's already very late over there, why don't you take a rest first, and I'll report to you after dawn?" Tan Qunzhao worried.

"Do you think I can still sleep in this situation?" Chen Tianqiao said with a wry smile.

"." Tan Qunzhao had no choice but to hang up the phone after hearing the words.

Listening to the busy tone on the phone, Chen Tianqiao's eyes fell on the multiplayer game zone again. Posts about Jianyujianghu were constantly being refreshed. This scene was very familiar to Chen Tianqiao, but it was also very strange. It was when Legendary just launched its server. , There are also many players asking for help on the forum like this.

"Will Sword Rain Jianghu replace Legendary as the No. [-] player in the mainland online game market?" A terrifying thought suddenly popped up in Chen Tianqiao's mind.

As the owner of a game company, Chen Tianqiao, who started his career by playing games, actually doesn’t understand games at all, and he has never played games. For him, games are just a tool to make money.

He also rarely thinks about what kind of people the players are and what kind of games they need. These are the things that Tan Qunzhao and the others should think about. As the boss, Chen Tianqiao only needs to grasp the general direction.

During the internal beta of Jianyu Jianghu, Chen Tianqiao also tried it, but in his opinion, this game is not only better in picture quality and fancy skills, but also very fun.

However, it wasn't until today that he realized that he didn't seem to understand players or games.

From [-]:[-] noon to [-]:[-] noon, lunch time, the number of players should have decreased during this time period, but to Wang Tao's surprise, the number of players increased instead of decreasing, and a new wave soon ushered in.

What followed was that there were three more servers whose load exceeded 80%, and they could only enter the queuing state.

"Mr. Shen, why do I think this situation is wrong? Do we need to add more servers? I'm afraid the existing [-] servers won't be able to handle it." Wang Tao said to Shen Lang.

Shen Lang didn't expect that Jianyu Jianghu would be so popular. The remaining servers were originally prepared for YY, but now it seems that they can only meet the needs of players first.

"Connect all the remaining servers, make an announcement, and open five more servers at four o'clock in the afternoon."

After Shen Lang finished speaking, he called Lei Jun outside again: "I don't think even if we put all the remaining servers into it, we won't be able to withstand it. There will definitely be a wave of players in the evening. In this way, you should contact the server provider and ask them to be sure Send another batch of servers before the afternoon."

"Okay. But there is no money in the company's account." Lei Jun was about to leave when he stopped.

Shen Lang gritted his teeth and said, "I'll figure out a solution for the money, you first ask them to send the server over."

After finishing speaking, Shen Lang went back to the office, turned on the computer, logged into the futures account, gritted his teeth and closed the soybean futures contract worth 500 million yuan in advance, plus the 1000 million withdrawn before, Shen Lang now only has 2000 yuan in the futures market. Never before.

But all of this is worth it. With the cash cow of Jianyu Jianghu, the follow-up company does not need Shen Lang to keep throwing money into it, and the follow-up funds can slowly roll up. The pressure on Shen Lang It will also be much smaller.

As Wang Tao expected, the number of players increased in the afternoon, and soon 16 of the 80 servers exceeded [-]% load, and the number of players queuing in each area continued to increase.

This really took Wang Tao by surprise. He originally thought that opening five new servers at [-] o'clock in the afternoon would be enough to accommodate all players, but now it seems that this is far from enough.

However, with the release of the announcement, the phenomenon of players queuing up was indeed alleviated, and some players chose to go to the new server to start over.

At four o'clock in the afternoon, the five new sets of servers in Jianyu Jianghu went online, and it went from smooth to crowded in just 10 minutes. All the peers in the online game circle were stunned.

You know, Jianyu Jianghu has opened 70 servers before, and I thought the number of players had reached the peak. After all, the highest number of Legends online at the same time is [-].

Now it seems that Jianyu Jianghu is likely to break this record.

In the United States, at five o'clock in the morning, Chen Tianqiao was awakened by the ringing of his mobile phone. He glanced out the window, and it was already dimly lit. Then he looked at the time, it was five o'clock.

"Sorry, Old Tan, I fell asleep, how is the situation over there?" Chen Tianqiao shook his head, trying to wake himself up.

Tan Qunzhao's voice was a bit bitter: "Just an hour ago, Jianyu Jianghu opened five new servers. It is estimated that the number of concurrent online users has exceeded 70, breaking the legendary record for the highest simultaneous online."

Chen Tianqiao's hand holding the mobile phone suddenly loosened, and the mobile phone fell to the table with a muffled sound. Chen Tianqiao reached out with difficulty and picked up the mobile phone again.

"Okay, I see, you have worked hard, let's do this first, I will go to see the senior management of Goldman Sachs later."

After finishing speaking, Chen Tianqiao hung up the phone. Now that things have happened, he is calm. Since he is unable to change anything, he should do his own thing well. He has worked hard for so long to go public in Shanda, and he must succeed no matter what. It's gone.

When he arrived, Chen Tianqiao took a shower, put on a clean suit, and carefully shaved off the stubble on his face in front of the mirror.

At 07:30 in the morning, Tang Jun rang the doorbell of Chen Tianqiao's room with some concern. He had already heard the news of Jianyu Jianghu's explosion, which also cast a shadow over his grand listing.

The door opened, and Chen Tianqiao appeared in front of Tang Jun with his head held high, full of aura, as if he was not affected at all.

"Mr. Tang, let's go back and tidy up first, let's go." Seeing that Tang Jun's eyes were bloodshot and his suit was wrinkled in many places, Chen Tianqiao reminded him with a slight frown.

Tang Jun walked back subconsciously.

"You don't lose, Mr. Tang, even if the listing failed this time, I don't blame you. It's a big deal to start all over again, but we can't let the Americans look down on us."

Chen Tianqiao's voice was very loud, Tang Jun's heart was shocked, the gloom in his eyes was swept away, he nodded heavily at Chen Tianqiao, turned and went back to the room.

On the other hand, after five o'clock in the afternoon, Jianyujianghu ushered in a large wave of players. These players are basically office workers, and they go straight to the Internet cafe after work.

The 25 servers were full in an instant. Fortunately, at this time, the server supplier's new batch of servers had been debugged.

At six o'clock in the afternoon, Jianyu Jianghu opened five new servers again, which will meet the needs of players.

Wang Tao and the staff of the Jianyujianghu project team breathed a sigh of relief. According to past experience, the number of players will not fluctuate greatly in the future.

Of course, it doesn't mean that you can sit back and relax in this way. In addition to the main server, some derivative services of Jianyujianghu are also undergoing severe tests.

For example, the point card recharge system, many Internet cafe owners usually only recharge 2000 yuan in the Internet cafe management software as a backup. One charge is 51, and the little money they have in the Internet cafe management software is quickly exhausted.

There is no way but to continue to recharge, but there is a problem in this way. When tens of thousands of Internet cafe owners recharge at the same time, it is also a huge burden on the background server of the Internet cafe management software.

Many Internet cafes have been stuck, and the recharge has not arrived in time. The owner of the Internet cafe will naturally scold her. After all, they can wait, but players can't wait!
Fortunately, Shen Lang had prepared a backup plan in advance, accessing the backup server to share the workload of the original server, and finally did not cause large-scale losses.

In addition, there is a point card trading system. The reason why Jianyujianghu can attract so many players is largely due to the existence of this point card trading system.

Sword Rain Jianghu starts charging after level [-], and players can get a lot of copper coins for doing tasks before level [-]. These copper coins can be exchanged for point cards, which is enough for players to practice until level [-].

During the upgrade process, no matter how unlucky you are, you will still drop some materials and equipment. If you are lucky, you will also drop gems, set forging blueprints, top-quality equipment, etc. These are the favorites of rich players.

The prostitute players move the bricks, and the rich players pay the bill. This forms a virtuous circle. The prostitute players can also continue to play, and the point card players also have a certain sense of accomplishment. Naturally, the rich players are the most beautiful wherever they go.

However, because of this, the frequent transactions between players also put a lot of pressure on the point card trading system. Whether it is point cards or copper coins, in the game, it is actually a set of data. The interaction process between these data, It will also take up a lot of server computing power.

Fortunately, the data between servers is not interoperable, otherwise, with the current server computing power, it may not be able to handle it.

When the time came to ten o'clock in the evening, the number of players had dropped slightly, and Shen Lang also got the accurate background data of Jianyujianghu.

Lei Jun and Wang Tao rushed over eagerly. The heads of the three of them were crowded together, and they almost made the same movement, their jaws seemed to fall off one by one.

"Mr. Lei, pinch me to see if I'm dreaming."

"Ah, you are really pinching."

In fact, it was no wonder that Lei Jun and Wang Tao were so excited. Shen Lang didn't expect that Jianyujianghu would hand over such an answer sheet, which could be called perfect.

On the first day of the open beta without deleting files, the maximum number of concurrent online users was 92, the average online number was 78, and the average online number of players often exceeded 2.5 hours.

The most important thing is that the point card sales in just one day have exceeded 200 million. If this momentum continues, this game alone will be enough to challenge the entire Shanda.

Of course, the point card sales on the first day of the game will generally be high, and will drop later, but even so, such data is shocking enough.

Wang Tao put his hand on Lei Jun's shoulder excitedly and laughed: "Mr. Lei, tell me, if we publish the data, how many people will be shocked?"

Lei Jun's excitement is over now, and it's more of a kind of embarrassment. Back then, Jianxia Qingyuan broke through [-] online concurrently in a week. At that time, he was still a little complacent, thinking that he was a genius.

But now compared with Jian Yujianghu, that achievement is really not up to the mark.

Lei Jun calmed down, and said to Shen Lang: "The number of simultaneous online users is only 100, and it will break [-] million. Do we want to make art for publicity?"

Shen Lang waved his hand: "There's no need, we hit 92 on the first day, and it's only a matter of time before we break one million, so why bother to cheat."

Lei Jun shrugged his shoulders and didn't mention it again. In fact, even he himself didn't realize that when Shen Lang said it broke a million, he didn't doubt it at all.

0 points in the early hours.

Duowan.com and Jianyujianghu official website updated an announcement, announcing various data of Jianyujianghu internal test without deleting files.

There was an uproar immediately.

Players of Jian Yu Jiang Hu began to run around to tell each other, or grabbed their friends around for a burst of output, or posted online to celebrate.

In general, there is a kind of mentality: Look, I play a lot of games, so many people are playing, do you want to mess with me?

It can be summed up in two words: pretense.

For the vast number of online game manufacturers, this is not pretense, but real criticism. Originally, they thought that with the development of the online game market, a hundred flowers bloomed, and the grand occasion of 70 legendary online games at the same time would become a legend.

However, I didn't expect that the record would be broken so soon, and the record was raised by 10,000+.

There are also some businessmen outside the online game industry who, after seeing the data of Jianyujianghu, suddenly realized that online games are so profitable?People can earn this money, why can't I earn it?
Among this group of businessmen, there is a businessman who likes to play games and has a large amount of cash in his hand.

His name is Shi Yuzhu.

In 2003, Shi Yuzhu had just sold his brain gold, and then he took a long vacation for himself to enjoy life. During this period, he became obsessed with online games. In order to buy the highest-level account in his server, he let Wenzhou The general manager of the branch went to the Internet cafe and finally bought the 3000-level account for 70 yuan.

In fact, Shi Yuzhu had participated in the closed beta of Jianyujianghu before, but unfortunately, the closed beta was over before he could understand it. The popularity of the public beta made him more convinced that online games are a brand new market.

(End of this chapter)