game trailblazer

Chapter 344 The eve of online game prosperity ([-])
Ge Minghui used a dial-up connection to connect to the newly installed ISDN, then clicked on the "King of Kings" icon on the desktop, entered his account number and password, and logged in to the game.He is a novice player, and he has actually only been in the world of "King of Kings" for about ten days. Strictly speaking, "King of Kings" is even the first computer game he played. He used to be a fan of video games , The reason why I came to "The King of Kings" has to start with the online gathering during the National Day.

Ge Minghui remembered that it was the third day of the National Day, and he was bored at the time. He happened to have a friend who was going to attend the "King of Kings" online gathering, so he picked him up, and he didn't know until later This is called "bringing the old with the new".The online gathering was held in a club of the Wangfujing Hotel. It was already 2 o'clock in the afternoon when Ge Minghui and his friends arrived. As soon as they entered the hotel lobby, they saw a pair of huge baby dragons at the door When welcoming guests, the chubby ones looked quite cute, walked inside the door, and saw two guys in silly red robes at the elevator entrance. It is said that these two guys are called gods and demon robes. It is said that These two are still GMs.

Led by the GM wearing the god's magic robe, Ge Minghui and his friends came to the Sunshine Club where the party was held upstairs. As soon as they entered the door, they saw a few beautiful girls who were dressed in Qing Dynasty costumes or dressed as the heroine of a certain stand-alone game. Looking inside, there are more beautiful girls. After asking someone, I found out that the organizer of the online gathering promised to give a plush doll of a baby dragon to the first 100 girls who entered the venue.

Hearing this, Ge Minghui couldn't help sighing: "Plush toys are really harmful to girls!"

When Ge Minghui and his friends walked into the Sunshine Club, the online gathering had already started. Several beautiful girls on the stage were singing beautiful songs and dancing, and immediately attracted the attention of the two of them. up.After listening to the song and watching the dance, Ge Minghui's mind was filled with the beautiful figures of the girls, so much so that he forgot what songs they sang and danced.

After the beautiful girls sang and danced, a guy dressed like a dog came to the stage to give a speech, but Ge Minghui and his friends were not interested in listening to this guy's nonsense, so they took advantage of this time to find a place to sit down.Next, Wangju’s activities continued, but not many left a deep impression on Ge Minghui. One was the beautiful woman who came on stage behind the guy who gave the speech. Although her voice was a bit hoarse, she was beautiful and generous, and her speech was gentle. Wen's, it looks very attractive, and I heard people say it is from Taiwan, the island of treasure.

Then there is the selection of the top ten players. It is said that only three of them are local to BJ, and the others came to BJ from all over the world.What pleased Ge Minghui the most was the grand finale of the lucky draw. I don’t know if it was a lucky star or what happened. His friend who played “King of Kings” didn’t get the prize, but he, who didn’t play the game, won the prize instead. And it is also a magic weapon in the game, so that he was a little embarrassed when he came on stage, and it was for this reason that he started playing "King of Kings".

After a low-handed process of killing chickens and sheep, with the help of his friends, Ge Minghui gradually became obsessed with "The King of Kings", and gradually grew from a low-handed person who couldn't find his way to one who could show up in the war. A quasi-expert with a small face, of course, most of the time he belongs to the category of being chased and killed. Occasionally, when he is lucky, he can kill one or two unlucky ghosts.

Today is a big day for Ge Minghui, because his friend is about to found a country and plans to let him become a minister. Waiting for news from friends...

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One day in mid-October, China BJ, the 10th floor of Block B, Sigma Apartment, No. 49 Zhichun Road, Haidian District...

Li Riyuan, the general manager of Tianxia Huacai, looked at the operation report of "King of Kings" in the latest newspaper, with a slight smile on his face. Compared with the extremely bad results some time ago, the current situation has improved greatly. The number of people has returned to the level of 1, and the number of new registrations per day has also climbed to nearly a thousand. Although there is still some gap with his expectations, at least it seems to be developing in a good direction.

However, in order to achieve such an effect, Tianxia Huacai still made a lot of money. During the National Day that just passed, they booked the Sunshine Club on the third floor of the Wangfujing Hotel under the pretext of celebrating the breakthrough of 10 registered users. A large-scale online gathering of "King of Kings" players was held.Originally, according to the plan, Li Riyuan planned to hold this online gathering after a while, so as to enhance the relationship between players and attract more loyal players, but the previous dismal results forced him to advance his plan, and the online gathering The content has also been adjusted to some extent.

Li Riyuan still remembers the situation that day. It was the third day of the National Day. The online gathering was arranged at 2 p.m. I went there just before 7 o'clock, on the one hand to check the layout of the venue, and on the other hand to express condolences to these hardworking employees.I originally thought that the party would start at 11 o'clock in the afternoon, and people would come around 2 o'clock. I didn't expect that before 1 o'clock, someone was already poking around at the club's entrance. When I asked in the past, it was really a player.

In order to attract new players to "King of Kings" to the greatest extent, this online gathering also arranged the activity of "Giving gifts with old ones", that is, old players introduce new players to receive the "King of Kings" game Client and novice card (you can enjoy 1 month of free games), and the new player has completed the registration of the account and logged in the game, then the old player can receive a free monthly card, and can also participate in the lucky draw. The prizes range from baby dragon dolls to Wanwang coins in the game, and even game monthly cards, can be said to be everything that one expects to find.

In the end, more than 10000 copies of the "King of Kings" game client and novice cards were taken away. Of course, most of them were picked up after the online gathering. It also brought this wave of "King of Kings" rising period. Unfortunately, because of the free monthly card, the sales of "King of Kings" game monthly cards have been affected a little bit, but Li Riyuan believes that as long as the number of registered After going up, the number of online users has remained at a relatively high level. After this month, there should be no problem in making profits in the future.

It's just that Li Riyuan was very upset when he thought that the main competitor "Legend" performed better. It is also an online game, and the data of "Legend" is at least four or five times that of "King of Kings". Ten times as much, he believes that as long as "Legend" starts charging, it will definitely make much more money every month than "King of Kings", which makes him very envious.After more than a month of investigation and research, Li Riyuan also learned some of the operating methods of "Legend" operator Fengyun Network. Compared with Tianxia Huacai, Fengyun Network seems to be more generous. They only deployed a few game servers in BJ , they have already started to distribute points across the country, and they only see those users who are playing games at home, and they have already started from Internet cafes, so he can understand such a big difference in results.

It’s just that it’s not easy for Li Riyuan to learn from Fengyun Network. Tianxia Huacai’s own funds are not so large that they can be squandered at will. Those who make rolling investments after earning money have already spent an extra sum of money to increase the server and network bandwidth. If a guy like Fengyun Network invests tens of millions to build server centers everywhere, Huacai will not need to operate any more games that day, because The company has gone bankrupt.Building a server center can't be learned, but Li Riyuan thinks that Internet cafe promotion can be tried. Anyway, there are so many Internet cafes in the country, and it is impossible for Fengyun Network to occupy them all. It should be able to find the living space of Tianxia Huacai.

"Who will be in charge of this matter?" Li Riyuan rubbed his chin, thinking about this problem distressedly.

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Courtyard No. 29, Shangdi East Road, Haidian District, in the office of Zhiguan Electronics BJ Company......

General Manager Feng Huazhu sat at his desk, slowly rubbing his temples. "Three Kingdoms on the Internet" has been online for a month.In this month, Feng Huazhu has almost tasted all kinds of tastes, such as ups and downs, sweet, bitter, spicy and salty. Relying on the resounding signboard of "Three Kingdoms", many players have invested in the world of "Three Kingdoms on the Internet", and then they were caught by the Internet. After all, the famous generals of the Three Kingdoms Their charm is still hard to resist.

Today is the third day that "Three Kingdoms on the Internet" started charging. A week ago, the monthly game card of "Three Kingdoms on the Internet" has been laid out through channels, and now it's time to test the results.Unexpectedly, the number of online players in the game dropped. It used to reach 8000 at the peak, but now only half of them are left.However, this is not too bad news for Feng Huazhu. At least it means that more than 4000 monthly cards have been sold. Calculated at 19 yuan per card, the ones that can be obtained are about 4 yuan, at least Enough for him to pay for the game server.

In fact, Feng Huazhu also knows that now is not a good time to start charging. After all, "Legend" is a temporarily free game there. Once "Network Three Kingdoms" collects money, many players will definitely switch to there. , and it’s not about letting other people’s ambition destroy his prestige, he once sneaked into "Legend" to read it, and compared with the rough and boring "Three Kingdoms on the Internet", "Legend" is much more interesting.

But Feng Huazhu didn’t want to take the money anymore. He couldn’t delay the things on credit anymore. If he didn’t pay, even the game server might be dragged away. In desperation, he had no choice but to bite the bullet and start charging. Fortunately, the players did not run away. From this point of view, the situation may be much more optimistic than his previous estimate.

Looking at the operation report of "Three Kingdoms on the Internet" again, Feng Huazhu comforted himself in his heart: "Perhaps the number of online users will increase again in two days..."

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Room 9072, Jing'an Center, North Third Ring East Road, Chaoyang District, BJ Huayi United Software Development Co., Ltd. office area...

General manager Zhou Chenghu stood by the window, looking at the high-rise buildings outside and the vehicles passing by on the ground, he couldn't help but feel a complicated feeling in his heart. BJ Huayi United Software Development Co., Ltd. was jointly invested by him and Huayi International. It was established with 500 US dollars in order to use his connections to open up the mainland's online game market.

Zhou Chenghu still remembers the situation when he met Huang Bohong, chairman of Huayi International, five months ago. At that time, the Internet company he opened had closed due to another financing failure. He was looking for new ways to make money. As a partner, one party has a wide range of contacts, and the other party has goods in hand, so the two hit it off, and now BJ Huayi United Software Development Co., Ltd. is established.

"Mr. Zhou, you know that there are only 2200 million people in Taiwan. It is already a remarkable achievement for an online game to reach 10 people online, but the mainland has more than 12 billion people. The market potential is huge, and online games are different from stand-alone games, there is no need to worry about piracy, and it is not a one-off sale..."

At that time, Huang Bohong was advocating this to Zhou Chenghu. He still knew a little bit about stand-alone games, because he had a friend who made D-version discs in the south. He had heard about the game discs that went on the market, so although he was quite interested in games, he didn't dare to touch stand-alone games at all. Instead, he chose the fashionable Internet company last year. In fact, he just found a few people to build a website. Then he went to fool the foreigners' money. Who would have thought that after his website was completed, the foreigners would not be so easy to fool, and the company also collapsed.

Zhou Chenghu didn’t know what online games were. When he first heard Huang Bohong talk about them, he thought that online games had something to do with websites. At that time, he was like a flasher. He had already played it once and there was no reason to try it again. Yes, after listening to Huang Bohong's explanation, he realized that the so-called online games are games like "Lianzhong Game World" and "Online Genesis".

Now Zhou Chenghu figured it out. He had played both "Lianzhong Game World" and "Online Genesis". In order to play better, he even rushed through the membership card of "Lianzhong Game World", but he didn't understand how it works at that time. Yes, after Huang Bohong's explanation, he understood that the original online game is to set up the game server first, and provide the game client to the player, and then collect money through the charging system, just like China Telecom, as long as the player continues to play If you go down, you have to pay the fee continuously, but even if you lie on the bed and do nothing, the money will keep coming.At that moment, Zhou Chenghu felt that he had finally found his future career, and what could be better than making money while lying in bed.

Now that BJ Huayi has been established for almost three months, the online game "Stone Age" strongly recommended by Huang Bohong is in progress in Simplified Chinese culture in an orderly manner, and the debugging of the game server has also started. The version number and so on, he has been running all over the place, and the mainland online game market has gradually become prosperous as they expected. In addition to "Lianzhong Game World" and "Online Genesis", there are also new New games such as "King of Kings", "Legend" and "Three Kingdoms on the Internet" have been added, especially "Legend" is extremely popular. It is said that the number of registered users has reached 230 million, and the number of concurrent online users has exceeded 6. The number of users is still increasing rapidly.

Zhou Chenghu is not worried that "Legend" will grab the users of "Stone Age", because the game styles of the two are completely different. "Legend" is somewhat similar to "Diablo" and "Legend of the Black Stone". It is passionate and passionate, and it is suitable for men. Struggle, while "Stone Age" is a Japanese-style Q-style turn-based game, refreshing and cute, with a wide variety of pets, and is more suitable for female players to experience. According to Huang Bohong, the two target user groups are completely different.

Although there is no need to worry, the preparations for "Stone Age" are still very troublesome. Zhou Chenghu thought it would be done in a week before, but who knew it would be so troublesome. According to the current progress, at least it will be completed in December. Start the test of the game.Now Zhou Chenghu can only call to urge him every day, and then watch other people's bustle and bustle every day, and imagine the scene of lying on the bed counting money until his hands cramp in his mind.

"What kind of car should I buy first?" Zhou Chenghu, who had nothing to do, rested his chin on his desk, daydreaming...

(End of this chapter)