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Time continued to flow slowly, and in the blink of an eye, more than ten days had passed.

On December 20, 2007, the official website of Geek Computer Company suddenly released a new announcement.

This announcement declared that Geek Computer Company had officially reached an agency agreement with Valve Corporation (V社), signing a 20-year agency contract.

During these 20 years, games on the Steam online game platform would be licensed to Geek Computer Company for distribution with a 6:4 revenue split.

Among these, Geek Computer Company would take 40%, and Valve and the game developers would take 60%, with Geek Computer Company responsible for the operation and service support of the games.

In general, Geek Computer Company's profit sharing seemed somewhat disadvantageous, but compared to long-term benefits, it wasn't too bad, just earning a little less money.

And most importantly, Geek Computer Company could use its own name to establish the Geek Games Online Platform and operate its own game platform.

Their games were merely to fill the game library of their Geek Games Online Platform, so in the future, the Geek Games Online Platform might very well turn the tables.

When the influence and number of users and players on the Geek Games Online Platform exceeded those of the Steam online game platform, they could naturally renegotiate the agency contract.

Therefore, with the release of the announcement, Geek Computer Company officially established the Geek Games Online Platform, announcing that it would be launched on December 25, 2007, at 8:00 AM.

Actually, not many people paid attention to this news, after all, the domestic market was dominated by online games.

The games on the Steam online game platform were mainly some games similar to single-player games, in a country where pirated single-player games were popular.

At this time, domestic game manufacturers and players naturally didn't pay much attention to this matter.

So, very few people cared about the announcement released by Geek Computer Company.

In addition, there was actually another noteworthy event that occurred.

This event was that a week ago, Geek Computer Company spent 3 million US dollars to successfully acquire 60% of the shares of Riot Games.

Thus, 'League of Legends', a game that would become a global phenomenon in the future with billions of players, was officially snatched up by Geek Computer Company in advance.

However, at this time, 'League of Legends' had not yet been fully developed and naturally had no reputation, so the outside world did not know about this matter and did not care about it.

… …

Time passed quietly, and on December 25, 2007, at 8:00 AM.

Geek Computer Company launched the 'Geek Games Online Platform' as promised, and then 25 million Geek Computer Security Manager users across the country who were turning on their computers or had already turned them on.

Quietly discovered that their Geek Computer Security Manager software had a pop-up notification with a red title.

It was written above, 'For security considerations, it is strongly recommended that users update Geek Computer Security Manager with one click'.

Faced with this red-titled pop-up notification, domestic netizens naturally instinctively clicked 'Update with one click'.

Then, in just a few minutes, a brand-new interface of Geek Computer Security Manager appeared in front of them.

This new Geek Computer Security Manager was completely different from the previous streamlined style.

At this time, in addition to the antivirus function, there were also very practical junk cleaning and system patch repair functions.

In addition, the most conspicuous thing was the addition of a 'Geek Software Store' and a 'Geek Games Online Platform' option!

Of course, these were not the most special things.

The most special thing was that after this upgrade of Geek Computer Security Manager, whether you wanted to scan for viruses or open anything, you had to log in to use it.

You should know that the old version of Geek Computer Security Manager didn't require logging in at all, you could use it after downloading it.

And now it actually required logging in, which made many users who were used to using Geek Computer Security Manager complain.

They could only helplessly register an account called 'Geek One Account'.

The registration rules for this 'Geek One Account' were quite strange.

Because it actually started with any letter, followed by a combination of 6 digits.

The registration process was a bit like registering a QQ account, but the difference was that it needed to add an optional letter in front of the beginning.

Of course, people felt a little strange, but they didn't think too much about it. After they completed registration and logged in.

Next, they naturally explored the new version of Geek Computer Security Manager.

When they opened the 'Geek Software Store', it was naturally 100% praise.

Because there were many common and uncommon software on it, users could completely download the corresponding software through this 'Geek Software Store'.

This was simply a gospel for many users who were worried about getting viruses by downloading software through a browser.

So they gave 100% praise to this 'Geek Software Store' that provided secure software download links.

With a feeling of pleasant surprise, they then clicked on the last 'Geek Games Online Platform'.

As a result, they quickly discovered that a new icon had appeared on the desktop, and the icon was written with the name 'Geek Games Online Platform'.

Then the interface switched, officially entering the interface of the store.

Many well-known or unknown genuine games were displayed in front of the users.

'Counter-Strike CS1.6', 'Half-Life 2', 'Team Fortress 2', 'DOTA1', 'Portal'… …

The games above were all genuine games with sales prices.

However, in order to lower the threshold, all games provided a trial version, and each game user could play for a few hours or a few days, etc.

Faced with this situation, especially seeing the introduction writing that 'CS1.6' could be played online with countless people across the country.

People who liked to play games immediately clicked install, and then started the journey of playing the game.

And the number of such people was obviously not small, so as they started playing the trial, they gradually became addicted to it.

In this era, there were also game platforms that provided online battles for games such as 'CS1.6'.

Such as Haofang Game Battle Platform, such as VS Game Battle Platform… …

But these game battle platforms were just simple single-player game battle platforms, and there was no way to save game data in real time and provide data for users to query like online games.

Therefore, every game played by game players was completely recalculated from the beginning.

And the current Geek Games Online Platform was completely the opposite, because it was a genuine game, every game data of the user would be saved.

The experience this brought to consumers was completely different, and the most special feature of the Geek Games Online Platform was in the game social aspect.

In addition to providing voice dialogue and communication functions for each round of the game, this game social aspect also provided a chat interface function like QQ.

And because they had previously registered a 'Geek One Account', this account was universal in every game, which made game social interaction more convenient.

For example, after you played a game of 'CS1.6', at the end of each game, a prompt interface would appear asking whether to add teammates or enemy players as 'Geek Friends'.

In this case, if you like the other person, you will definitely choose to add the other person as a 'Geek Friend'.

Then your 'Geek Friends' list will have an extra game player who has played the game with you, and next time you can continue to play the game with them or play other games.

Even after adding the other person as a 'Geek Friend', what game you play and what game he plays can all be displayed in the friends list, making it convenient for you to continue playing the game together.

So at this time, Tencent Company had no idea that a terrible competitor was about to attack.

I don't know how I suddenly got shot while playing well.