Rebirth of the Wild Age

At the beginning of the 21st century, the four companies of "Great China" were still equally famous.

After the government decided to promote the adsL broadband technology, Datang, ZTE, and Huawei immediately followed up, and all used Texas Instruments chipsets. Among them, Huawei has invested the most, and even developed new access terminal equipment specifically for adsL, which has been opened for use in many cities such as Beijing and Shanghai.

Star Networks has launched adsL broadband cats, while Lenovo and Great Wall have launched adsL broadband pcI cards, all of which use Texas Instruments chips.

Great Wall's pcI card is the most popular. Today's broadband users are mostly telecommunications broadband, followed by Great Wall broadband. Lenovo Broadband has relatively few users, which may be due to unfavorable operations. Anyway, it was overwhelmed by the Great Wall inexplicably.

In addition to adsL broadband, Isdn, which began to develop in 1998, was once called broadband technology because its rate can reach 128k. Most of the Internet cafes in 2000 were connected to Isdn. It felt like the Internet was about to take off, because the dial-up Internet access through the telephone line only had a poor rate of 56k.

In the first quarter of 2000, 10,000 lines of adsL were installed across the country, and nearly 10,000 lines have been put into use at present-note that it is 10,000 lines, not 10,000 users.

Everyone knows that adsL broadband is about to explode, and the direct impact of technological upgrades is that the prices of existing backward technologies are drastically reduced.

In the second month of the launch of "War of Gods and Demons", 2911 (Isp service provider) suddenly announced "zero Internet fee surfing", dial-up Internet access only needs to pay 3.6 yuan per hour of telephone charges. In order to fight back against 2911, Jinling Telecom directly announced that "all Internet access fees are 1 yuan," that is, dial-up Internet access. The Internet connection fee and the telephone fee only cost 1 yuan per hour. 163 and other service providers immediately followed up and all significantly reduced Internet access fees.

While the phone dial-up Internet fee has dropped sharply, Isdn’s Internet fee has also been greatly reduced.

Ever since, Internet cafes across the country have also followed the price cuts, even on weekends and summer vacations, the hourly Internet fee has almost fallen below 4 yuan.

AdsL broadband is just emerging now, but there are a large number of service providers. Nowadays, the initial installation fee of Telecom Broadband is more than RMB 3ooo, and the initial installation fee of Great Wall Broadband is more than RMB 2ooo. By next year, Telecom will directly drop to more than 1ooo, and Great Wall simply jumped off the building price of RMB 5oo! The current broadband network fee is still expensive, and the price will be cut crazily next year. The monthly fee will be reduced to RMB 6o to RMB 2oo.

The price war has undoubtedly promoted the popularization of the Internet in China and also provided the ground for the development of online games.

As far as this summer vacation is concerned, due to the sharp reduction of Isdn Internet fees, more than 9o% of Internet cafes have upgraded their Internet to 128k, which basically meets the needs of people for email, QQ and chat rooms.

However, there are still very few Internet cafes to install broadband. The initial installation fee of two to three thousand does not matter, but the monthly Internet fee is a continuous investment. Internet cafe owners do not wear broadband, because even with a 128k network, there is still no shortage of customers, and there are people lining up to go online anytime, anywhere.

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Fei Xiaodong and his cousin are now night owls, because it is only in the middle of the night that the Internet of the Internet cafes can afford "War of Gods and Demons". Even in the morning, they only dared to hack monsters on remote maps, and they got stuck as soon as they returned to the city. There were too many players in the city!

Just after noon, my cousin drove the second-hand Poussin downstairs and shouted: "Xiaodong, get in the car and take you to a good place!"

Fei Xiaodong went downstairs with a yawn and asked, "Where are you going?"

"An Internet cafe equipped with broadband, the Internet is very fast," the cousin said proudly, "I only found out after asking a lot of friends."

Fei Xiaodong said: "What exactly is broadband? At the Internet cafe we ​​often go to, the network manager always says to install broadband."

"Pretending to be a broadband, he is bragging, the Internet cafe owner is very picky." The cousin said angrily.

The two arrived in a large Internet cafe by car, and were about to pay to go online, but were prompted to wait in line slowly. It was only one o'clock in the afternoon, and more than 2oo computers were already full, and several onlookers stood in front of each computer.

"Knock him to death, don't let him run away, the Taoist priest is going to make a fascinating formation!"

"Grab the boss, there is a trace of blood left."

"Fuck it, it's a big explosion, and there are weapons that you haven't seen before! Go grab it!"

"Grab a fart, I'm stuck."

"I'm stuck too, what's the matter?"

"It's all stuck, there are too many people, and the net can't afford it!"

"Fuck, didn't you mean broadband? Broadband is so fast too!"

"Network administrator, come out quickly. Another 4 yuan an hour network fee, you want 5 yuan here, why is it still a card?"

"..."

Fei Xiaodong and his cousin looked at each other and were shocked by this scene.

It may be that because of broadband, players who are far away come here to play games. With more than 2oo computers in the entire Internet cafe, two-thirds of them are playing "War of Gods and Demons", and the collaborative atmosphere of shouting and screaming makes people feel extremely excited at this time.

Unfortunately, even if broadband is installed, there are too many people or cards.

The boss seemed to be here. He suddenly shouted: "Don’t worry, everyone. It’s 512k broadband now. I can upgrade to 1m, but after the upgrade, it costs 7 yuan an hour to surf the Internet. Choose your own choice. It costs 5 yuan for 512k. , Or 7 yuan for 1m broadband?"

"7 yuan, quickly upgrade, don't talk nonsense!"

"I'm here specifically to play games with you, and the round-trip fare is 2 yuan."

"Upgrade the network soon, I'm stuck!"

"Damn, don't play anymore, let's talk about QQ after breaking the Internet."

"..."

The owner of the Internet cafe smiled and called the service provider. He was very willing to upgrade the Internet. Although there is no need for broadband and there is no shortage of customers, broadband can attract players from a radius of ten miles. Even if the Internet is more expensive here, these players will not be scared off, and they will always be full of machines in the middle of the night and in the morning. Moreover, "The Legend of the Gods and Demons" also gave Internet cafes a 10% point card commission, which actually makes more money.

By the way, there are now two online games in China. "The King of Kings" only sells monthly cards, not point cards. Each monthly card is 15 yuan. You have to buy a character card to build a trumpet.

The monthly card of "The Legend of the Gods and Demons" is 45 yuan, and the card is 5 cents per hour. The trumpet can be built at will~www.readwn.com~ Generally speaking, the "Knights of the Gods and Demons" is even darker. But look at the Internet fee at this time, it really is not black, the Internet fee is much more expensive than the card fee, and operators, including telecommunications, are the big monsters.

By the beginning of September, both games began to charge, and the number of registered players both exceeded 50,000. Due to the poor network environment, the large-scale team battles of these two games have been abandoned. Players choose places with few people, and the more people are displayed on the screen, basically they can't make any operations.

It is definitely possible to make money, but wanting to get rich with this is a dream.

Take "The Legend of the Gods and Demons" as an example. In the big cities of Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen, there are only a few Internet cafes in each city that have broadband installed. Only these Internet cafes can barely play, other Internet cafes can only play wild monsters in the middle of the night, plus some home computer players, the number of people online at the same time is the limit of 15,000 people, 8o% of the registered players are stuck and abandoned. .

Jinshan company just wants to recover the cost and make a little more money by the way. However, there are also some expectations. I hope that broadband will become popular soon and the game will be detonated by that time.

Even if China.com is not suitable for online games, even if "The Legend of Gods and Demons" and "The King of Kings" do not make much money, they still attract countless Internet companies. People now know that video games can still operate like this. This is an emerging market waiting to be opened.

Ever since, "Three Kingdoms on the Internet" was soon launched on Big 6, followed by "Dark Light" at the end of the year. By next year, games such as "Stone Age", "Millennium", "Dragon Race", and "Red Moon" will also be introduced to China, and the Chinese online game market will suddenly explode.

Song Weiyang is not afraid of competition at all. Xishanju is the only team with experience in online game development at this time, and at the same time, it is slowly accumulating experience in online game operations. These two experiences are brought together, and by the year 2oo2, broadband users will become popular, and there will be a big explosion.