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Mars Entertainment first made a lottery before the game was released so that only players who purchased it in the first three days could qualify for the Battle.net test.

How to draw it depends on a half-palm-sized card included in the game.

The card is made of plastic and is very hard.

There are red and blue cards, and what is written on them is very simple, which is the Battle.net Pass draw card. On the back of the card, there is a string of letters and numbers written in a consistent arrangement, and below the account number, It's a line sealed like a scratch-off lottery ticket.

In front of this sealed line is the password written.

In other words, the next extraction will be to extract the account number on the card, and how to enter Battle.net will probably rely on the unscratched password.

You know, many buyers are not interested in the game temporarily, but they are extremely interested in this card.

So, after Mars Entertainment just announced that they were temporarily out of stock, and there was no guarantee that they would be able to replenish the supply within three days, this picture represented the possibility of obtaining that mysterious Battle.net Cards for testing qualifications have become a hot commodity.

That is, it becomes a valuable commodity.

Moreover, the value is not low.

Soon, people began to ask for this card from those who had already purchased "Runestone Guardian", and the price continued to rise.

It has not been two hours since Mars Entertainment announced the news that it was temporarily out of stock.

The price of this card has actually exceeded the selling price of "Guardian of Rune Stones", reaching an extremely high price of sixty US dollars.

Jester didn't know about any of this. In fact, even if he knew about it, he wouldn't care about it because there is no way to care about it. And in his opinion, this is just a promotional method for him, and the number of places allocated to draw through this kind of card is only a thousand.

Selecting a thousand people from more than 600,000 people is not a high-probability thing.

Moreover, he went to the lounge to sleep after Mars Entertainment announced that the inventory had been sold out. After all, he had not slept for a whole day and night, plus a whole day. The consumption of energy is also very huge.

On a forum online.

There was still a lot of speculation, and soon, the news that Mars Entertainment’s first batch of more than 600,000 game floppy disks had been sold out appeared in the comments of fans from both sides, and was quickly criticized one after another. At first, it was the words of ridicule from Richard Garrett or other fans of American RPG games.

They didn't believe that "Guardian of Rune Stones" could sell so many sales in such a short period of time.

Geng He Kuan is also an RPG game known for its low sales volume.

But soon, more and more people got this extremely accurate news from their friends, classmates, or other places. Those American RPG fans suddenly fell silent. Even though Jester's fans were ridiculing them, they did not fight back as fiercely as before.

after all. The other party has sold such terrible sales, so what's the point of making sarcastic remarks.

Besides, this is a really fun game.

This is after many people secretly bought "Runestone Guardian" and wanted to play it. Players who ridicule and criticize American RPGs as useless have their most sincere thoughts after playing it.

On the second day.

When Richard Garrett's Ultima 4 was released. Although there are many players queuing up early in front of the many flagship stores of Wei Zhen, the situation pales in comparison to the launch of "Runestone Guardian" by Mars Entertainment yesterday.

Besides, today is in the Los Angeles area.

During the sale event of one of Virgin's largest stores, Richard Garrett also went to the site to sign sales.

Three hours before the time of sale.

But even so, the number of people queuing up early to come to this specialty store is far less than the average number of people queuing up in front of Mars Entertainment stores when "Rune Stone Guardian" was released yesterday.

This once again gave Richard Garrett, who had arrived early, an unspeakable sense of frustration.

This three-hour signing event can be said to be a torment even for him - originally signings should be a very exciting thing for developers, because you see so many people , everyone is rushing to buy your game. This is a great sense of recognition for the producer.

As for the wrist cramps and other pain caused by signing, I don't care.

In fact, there are quite a few people who came to buy today. Even people like Richard Garrett who like to hold autograph signing events when games are released are rare.

However, people are afraid of comparison.

Therefore, after completing the three-hour autograph signing task, Richard Garrett left directly without continuing to participate in other starting activities. He really didn’t want to be in that place, because every time he stayed there One minute was a torment for him.

He did not go back to Wei Zhen's headquarters, but went back home, and then fell asleep directly.

He hasn't slept since the night before yesterday. It's not that he doesn't want to sleep, but as soon as he closes his eyes, he will think of the sales of more than 600,000 copies of "Guardian of Rune Stones" on the first day. Not only that, according to what he learned, after this game is in the hands of players.

After trying it out, many people also gave very high evaluations.

Fun game.

In Richard Garrett's eyes, a fun game cannot be called a good game. A good game in his opinion must be like his RPG games, which are not only fun, but also deep. .

In his opinion, although the game "Rune Stone Guardian" is fun, it is really not good in terms of depth.

The short number of levels can only make up for the lack of gameplay by relying on randomness. For some lucky players, they can randomly get good pictures at the beginning, and it even takes less than 40 minutes to complete the game. The game, in Richard Gary's eyes, is really not a good game.

However, this kind of game has achieved sales results that he could not even hope for.

Of course, as an employee in the electronic game industry and a master of a game genre, he would not think that the quality of a game depends entirely on sales. However, generally speaking, if sales are not good, The game is certainly not of the highest quality.

Of course, many people say that it may also have a lot to do with the promotion of the game.

Of course, as long as it is a product, its sales volume needs to be linked to promotion, but if a game is really good enough, even if there is not enough publicity, then its sales will continue to rise, and the final sales volume It will be very good.

There are many such examples.

Even in Weizhen, where Richard Garrett is present, several such examples can be cited casually.

The next day, Richard Garrett felt a little refreshed after sleeping all day and night. Although the sales of "Runestone Guardian" still came to mind from time to time, he could soon put it aside temporarily. Pressing down, he casually ate some breakfast, said goodbye to his wife, and drove towards the company.

However, he had just parked his car in the company's parking lot downstairs, and on his way to the company, he met a reporter who had been prepared for it.

Not one, but several. Richard Garrett just took a casual look and could tell that there were at least five or six different game publications. He was familiar with these people. They were all the top sellers in North America. Those game publications and magazines.

Before Richard Garrett could come to his senses.

A male reporter asked a very offensive question.

"Mr. Garrett, "Guardian of Runestones" sold more than 600,000 copies in one day, while your "Genesis 4" sold 190,000 copies. What do you think of this sales volume?"

In fact, after Richard Garrett completed the book signing yesterday, he went directly home to sleep. He slept until morning, so this was the first time he knew that his game was on sale on the first day. number.

One hundred and ninety thousand copies.

To be honest, this number is also very good for him. It can be said to be the second-best first-day sales of the "Genesis" series in history.

But the problem is that when it comes to numbers, we are not afraid of anything but comparison.

Originally, in the field of PC games, one could brag about sales for a long time. The first-day sales of "Runestone Guardian" were more than 600,000 copies, and the inventory was sold out, instead of just buying these figures to compare. At that time, it would be a bit bleak.

It's like the difference between a god of learning and a master of learning that was often used to ridicule in later generations.

The top student scored ninety-nine points in the exam, while the top student scored 100 points in the exam. The top student felt that the gap between him and the god of study was only one point, but in reality? In the eyes of the God of Study, this is not the case at all. In his eyes, the reason why the top student can score 99 points is because his level is only 99 points.

The reason for getting a hundred points in the God of Study test is because this paper only has a hundred points.

The comparison of this gap is actually the most shocking. For those who have nothing to do with it, this comparison may not matter, but it is different for Richard Garrett. You know, he had ridiculed Jace beforehand. This game is special.

And his sarcastic words were extremely unpleasant.

At this time, such a question was asked. The humiliation for Richard Garrett was simply nuclear bomb level. (To be continued...)