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   Chapter 380 Fighting with people is endless fun

IGN is not yet a big website. It has only been established for less than five months, and there are less than 150,000 registered users. Basically, IGN is attracted to local game users in America, with a maximum of two or three daily active users. That's all, it's incomparable with the millions of daily active user websites like Yahoo and ICQ.

The IGN forum that Cameron usually sees has a maximum of hundreds or thousands of posts every day, but the IGN forum in front of him now makes Cameron's eyes widen, only to see that it was slow and refreshed every few minutes. The IGN forum where a new post is posted is like a splash screen at the moment, new posts are popping out, and the hottest post has more than 18,000 discussions under it...

And these posts are almost all "Diablo" posts. Cameron never thought that there would be so many diving forum users. Even because of too many posts, Cameron's screen even started to freeze. After refreshing a few more times, it finally flashed back. Looking at the IGN forum page that had collapsed, Cameron couldn't help but look sluggish. There will be too many users in the IGN forum and the server will crash one day? !

Don't say that Cameron didn't expect it, I'm afraid even the IGN website, he didn't expect that in just one day, IGN attracted more than 200,000 new users because of the popularity of "Diablo", just because of IGN The editor of , published a score of 9.1 for the game Diablo. After being reprinted by Yahoo News, the forum was directly bombed!

IGN Forum, established with the slogan, is to be the best game media in the world, and has invited many media professionals and professionals from the game industry to analyze the game's playability, sound effects, gameplay, and graphics. The editor gave "Diablo" a high score of 9.5, which is the game with the highest score since IGN was established!

"Subversive operations and subversive gameplay redefine ARPG games. Games are no longer stand-alone games, but can also be networked. There will be countless new games in the future, and "Diablo" is at the peak above!"

  IGN's editors gave Diablo a high score and hard to surpass, and will be imitated by many games.

  Xue Leshan did not charge IGN. In fact, such a small forum did not "have" access to Xue Leshan to gain insight. Lycos, Yahoo, AOL, Netscape and other big websites are the places where Xueleshan PR news.

Moreover, IGN has just been established, and it is when it is building word of mouth. It is impossible to talk nonsense with open eyes because of just eating. This evaluation, with a high score of 9.5, already shows IGN's optimism for "Diablo" .

   After finally entering the IGN forum again, Cameron looked at the web page on the computer screen, which were all forum users, comments on "Diablo", and various discussions.

   "This is the best game I've played in the past two years. Except for the map and certain settings, this is a game that can make me scream out of God!"

   "I broke out the dark gold equipment!"

   "How to assign attribute points?!"

Looking at the dazzling posts on the forum, there are all kinds of ways to play, playing all day, patronizing the task and killing monsters, I didn't even notice that there are so many ways to play, just assign one attribute point, and the game character increases by one point. Level, you can get five attribute points, attribute points can be assigned to the four attributes of strength, magic, agility, vitality, different attributes, can create different game characters, can make game characters grow according to different paths.

This set of attribute point distribution system, coupled with the "random combination of equipment" in the game, will also produce different results, almost increasing countless possibilities, so that many game users are completely addicted to it, and it feels better than brushing wild upgrades. Much more vigorous.

   In addition to these, Cameron has also seen other discussions, among which the hottest discussion is to download the Xue Leshan online platform, and you can "team up" on the Xue Leshan online platform to brush advanced dungeons.

After seeing this, Cameron knew what the "surprise" of the official propaganda meant, and many players were inviting people to form teams everywhere on the IGN forum, and even the prototype of the game "guild" began to appear, and games appeared one by one. Team composition.

It’s not uncommon to play on a single player for so many years, but forming a team on the Xue Leshan platform to PK with a real person makes many players feel excited. If you can't play the game, but you can PK with real players, that's "fighting with people is endless fun!"

Looking at the word "PK" floating on the screen from time to time, and players who specialize in popularizing PK results, every time you kill a player character in the game, you can collect an item "ear" that records the player's ID and occupation. Many players who are keen on PK are proud of collecting "ears" and regard them as loot!

Looking at the forum's full screen of discussion posts, as well as strategies, online PK, etc., Cameron, who was already hungry, re-opened "Diablo", and downloaded a Snow Leshan online platform by the way, ready to wait. Will form a team to PK, collect some loot, and show off on the forum...

Not only IGN, but another one, established almost at the same time as IGN, CENT, a news website established by Hamish Mina, launched GameStop, which also gave "Diablo" a high score of 9.7, which is considered to be the highest score this year. One of the good games!

   Comments on "Diablo" are also constantly being released. There are professional game comment forums such as IGN and GameStop, as well as some professional news media. Generally speaking, the reputation is still quite good.

   Until evening, Nielsen was the first to announce that the offline sales of "Diablo" on the first day were 83,000 sets!

This achievement is quite good in the game industry. After all, "Diablo" is not a sequel to a well-known IP, not a game like Mario or The Legend of Zelda, which can sell millions of copies as soon as it is released. .

   "Diablo, released by Xue Leshan, the game division of ICQ, sold more than 80,000 sets of offline sales on that day, with a daily revenue of more than 4.8 million, setting the best record in the American game industry in recent years!"

The Wall Street Journal also reported on "Diablo" and believed that "Diablo" performed well on the first day, but... that's all, you must know that the release date of a game is the same as that of a movie. The first week was hot, and then sales began to fall off a cliff.

"Diablo" sells 80,000 sets a day. Whether it can maintain this kind of sales tomorrow, no one can guarantee it. If the sales volume does not exceed 500,000 sets in the first month, then Snow Leshan is actually a You may lose money, after all, the cost of development and promotion is close to more than 30 million US dollars!

   There are also media, who directly pierced, thinking that "Diablo" may be an epic rout, and Xue Leshan may become the second Atari.

"According to sources, Snow Mountain Games has reserved more than 4 million sets of production capacity for Diablo, while Snow Mountain's single-day sales volume is only 80,000 sets. In 50 days, Leshan has maintained a sales volume of 80,000 sets..."

CNN's TV news media sneered at Xue Leshan, thinking that Xue Leshan had won this time. After all, the daily sales volume of 50 days was more than 80,000. This kind of thing has never happened before. once.

The **** decides the head, Song Yang's ICNC news TV station is under preparation, the direct target is CNN, and the two sides will be direct competitors in the future. It is strange that CNN can say good things about Xue Leshan. It must be the disgusting Song who seized the opportunity. Yang here.

   "The offline game channel dealers and game stores have basically completed the statistics. Nearly 60,000 sets have been sold locally in America, and nearly 20,000 sets have been sold overseas!"

Ken Williams reported that according to the statistics, the executives of Xue Leshan and people from Blizzard did not show any joy on their faces. This kind of sales seems to be good, and it is likely to sell millions of sets. , has become another representative work of Blizzard, but now I really can't laugh. After all, there are still millions of sets in the warehouse that have not been sold...

   "Actual sales are much higher than media reports. Amazon has sold more than 7,000 sets, eBay has sold 3,000 sets, and Yeadex in Eastern Europe has sold nearly 800 sets!"

  Compared to the worried senior executives of Xue Leshan, Song Yang's face was as usual, he waved his hand and asked, "What about Xue Leshan's online platform?"

When it came to this, Ken Williams was a little distracted, "The Xue Leshan online platform has more than 110,000 download users today, and also sold 3,000 sets, but only less than 1,200 sets were actually paid for by recharging US knives. , the rest are exchanged..."

  Xue Leshan Online seems to be in full swing, selling a lot of activation codes, but most of them are doing activities, pulling people to exchange for game currency.

   "Continue tomorrow, don't stop the promotion, ICQ will provide another publicity fund for Xue Leshan to continue the promotion!" Song Yang said to the crowd in front of him.

Hearing that Song Yang was going to spend more money on promotion, Ken Williams couldn't help but hesitant to say anything. At this time, if it was a film promotion company, it would have started to stop the loss quietly, and there is no reason to continue to spend money. , but Song Yang seemed to be going all the way.

Reports on the sales of "Diablo" on the first day continue to appear, but the game's reputation score and sales seem to be somewhat polarized, some "applaud but not popular", and even some media directly put the title of "niche game" on, The number of media who watched the jokes between Xue Leshan and ICQ also began to increase, and even the CNN website directly posted the famous scene of Napoleon Waterloo on the next day's report, implying that "Diablo" means Songyang Waterloo. Don't take it too seriously. obvious…

  But the total sales of "Diablo" released by Nielsen data on the second day was 180,000 units, which was somewhat unexpected by many people, that is, not only did it not drop on the second day, but it increased to 100,000 units per day against the trend!

   On the third day, Diablo sold more than 300,000 copies.

   On the fourth day, Diablo’s global sales exceeded 510,000 sets, and overseas sales began to equal that of America…

   (end of this chapter)