Revisiting Future Path

057 round after round of hype

Some legendary players scolded the street: "This guy is too stupid and loses a dime! We spend a lot of time, energy, and money in the legend. Who will lose us? The garbage company is so profitable. In order to make money, they don’t care about anything. The last little bit of the merchant’s articles are all exposed. If I were to lose money, letting the garbage company go bankrupt would be a “circle of heaven and retribution.”

"The same scolded the garbage company. After opening the 17 and 18 servers in July 2002, they almost set up new servers in a crazy manner. Looking at their public report, in June 2002, the total monthly income was 3.7 million US dollars; by January 2003, The total monthly revenue is already US$7.4 million, which is a full double. It is clear that the Korean developers have fallen out, but they are hiding from our players, desperately setting up servers to make profits. At the same time, they don’t care about the maintenance of the servers that have been opened. Regardless, it is clear that I want to get the last one. The legendary world, the world’s wool, the garbage company is going to close down quickly."

Some legendary players are curious about the details: "What is the name of the private server this guy set up? And the so-called game studio, is it a plug-in? Vivid plug-in, extreme wind plug-in, or rising star's overlord plug-in, Chiyue plug-in, cheap plug-in, simple Plug-in?"

"I'm going, there are so many plug-ins in Legend?"

"A joke, no plug-in, no legend, not knowing the latest plug-in, how do you play the legend."

More netizens are curious about where the money comes from: "Where does this guy get the money if he earns 1.3 million yuan and compensates 2.6 million yuan?"

"Operating Legend Private Server earns 1.3 million yuan. I can still understand. After all, Legendary is so popular that it monopolizes 70% of the market share. However, where did the doubling of the 1.3 million yuan in compensation for Shanda Network come from?"

"Yes, this news is strange. Isn't it fake news?"

Not only netizens talked about it on the Internet, but also benefited from the eye-catching key words of "high school first-year students", "March time", and "earning 1.3 million yuan". The print media began to cite this news on a large scale. , So that more people marvel at the popularity of the online game market and the huge profits.

In order to keep the topic hot, Wei Dongsheng directed Chunqiu Software and Chunqiu Network to promptly set off a second round of hype, and further revealed his identity through online media: "Breaking news, the strongest high school student in history, turned out to be the developer of the seed download artifact."

Wei Dongsheng positioned the seed download artifact as a free software, with a clean interface, no ads, and an efficient download speed. Although the seed download artifact sometimes hacks occasionally to ensure the download speed of rare resources, it has attracted protests and dissatisfaction from the file publishers, and generally still has a good reputation.

Seed download artifacts are eroding the opponent's market share all the time. The time has moved to early June, and the market share has rapidly risen to 63.7%. In other words, of the ten download tool users, six have installed the torrent artifact. This unprofitable product brings huge intangible capital to Chunqiu Software and Seed Network. When the official website of Chunqiu Software, Chunqiu Network, and Seed Network successively released announcements, when the seed download artifact bullet box news article, one after another confirmed that the first-year high school students who earned 1.3 million yuan through the operation of the legendary private server turned out to be the production of the seed download artifact In addition, the hype progressed smoothly to the second stage, and countless netizens began to pay attention to who this first-year high school student was.

Someone suddenly realized: "It's no wonder that the seed download artifact has no ads. It turns out that I made a lot of money by relying on Legendary Private Server."

Seed download artifact users maintain the idol’s reputation in a timely manner: "Don’t talk nonsense, look at the announcement time node. The author runs Legendary Private Server to raise research and development funds for the seed download artifact. It is a last resort. The seed download artifact has been successfully developed and transferred to Chunqiu Software. After that, the author stopped the operation of the legendary private server. This time he came out to expose the black history, purely supporting the anti-plug-in movement of the online game industry to self-clean and self-discipline."

Someone expressed doubts: "What is he doing in this fun?"

The navy of Chunqiu Network promptly guided the topic: "Everyone hasn't noticed other announcements of Chunqiu Network. Chunqiu Network joined the anti-plug-in activity as a game operator a few days ago. The author of the seed download artifact must be cooperating with the Spring and Autumn Network hype. "

The navy of Chunqiu Network immediately asked and answered questions: "The online game that Chunqiu Network will operate soon is "Ten Kingdoms Spring and Autumn", and the secret closed beta will begin in April."

Soon, the players who came to the internal test took the initiative to disclose: "The internal test of "The Spring and Autumn of the Ten Kingdoms" has ended. The internal test players are all invited by the seed download artifact, and signed a two-month non-disclosure agreement to secretly test. I I received the invitation on April 3 and played until the end of the closed beta on May 31, so I should have some say."

"The Ten Kingdoms Spring and Autumn Period" seems to be a national online game independently developed by Chunqiu Software. The background is selected at the boundary point of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. The three schools are divided into Jin. In other words, I don't understand history. I only learned about Zhao, Han and Wei after playing the game. Divide the Jin; only then did I know that when the three families were divided into Jin, Jin did not die immediately, but continued to exist for several years. It was only after the Jin Jinggong era that it was completely divided up: it was only then that Qin Shihuang was not surnamed Ying but Zhao."

"It's not long history. The protagonist of the game is the surviving royal family after the three divisions and promotion. When it reaches the 20th level, the ten-nation camp will be opened. The protagonist chooses "the general trend cannot be violated" and will be free as a descendant of the royal family. Serving in other countries; if you choose to “go against the sky” and stick to the Jin Nation camp, there will be a very cheating random probability screening. According to the internal test player analysis, this random probability screening is a control mechanism for the number of camps. If the Jin Nation camp has a large number of people To a certain extent, if you choose to stick to the Jin Nation camp, you will inevitably fail. Fortunately, the camp can be changed. If you want to join the Jin Nation camp and rejuvenate the big Jin, you can try every week if the Jin Nation camp lacks people..."

"The disadvantage of "Ten Kingdoms" is that the balance mechanism is very poor, and the equipment is enhanced. A high-end player can kill a group of ordinary players. For example, I joined the Wei camp. In the current version, the top equipment of the fighter is Wei The soldier's suit has been strengthened to ten stars. It is invincible during the national war. The real opponents are only a few high-end players from other countries' camps."

"The advantages of "Ten Kingdoms" are the graphics, music, skills and special effects, especially music. It is strongly recommended that you buy a good sound system. The background music during the National War is almost uncontrollable excitement. It is not other games at all.' "Eh, oh, oh," the voice of killing monsters is comparable."

"The special effects of skills are even more obvious. Compared with "The Spring and Autumn of Ten Kingdoms", the "Legend" and "Miracle MU" are all scum. Just for example the fireball skills of the mage, the basic spell skills that can be seen in countless games have been "The Spring and Autumn of the Ten Kingdoms" is the ultimate. Guess how exquisite is the fireball technique? Not only does it look pleasing to the eye, but also it can change its form instantly according to the external environment. In the city, in the desert, in the woods, the same fireball Skills, not only the damage is different, but the form is also different. At the beginning of the closed beta, the mage’s favorite is to release the fireball by the wide river in front of the main city of Quwo. Standing by the river is a kind of Form, standing in the middle of the river is a form, diving into the bottom of the river is another form."

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"In general, if you have a full score of 5, I will give you a score of 2 for balance, and the picture, music, and special effects of skills are all full scores."

In this way, under the interference of the computer intelligence life orange algae, and under the guidance of the Spring and Autumn Network Navy, "The Spring and Autumn of the Ten Kingdoms" planned to start the pre-propaganda.

Due to the early end of SARS, the Internet and online game industry in May and June also resumed the noisy early. The legendary game dominates 70% of the market share in 2002, and is honored by the prestige of the online game player community. Its every move is far more eye-catching than the yet-to-launch "Ten Kingdoms". The vast majority of legendary players and more other game players are more willing to enjoy the close-up of the tension between Shanda Networks and Guangtong Communication.

On March 20, Guangtong Communications signed a contract with Wemade to obtain the agency rights of "Legend 3";

On March 27, Guangtong Communications launched the official Chinese website of "Legend 3".

On April 7, Shanda Network's new legend naming event ended. The new legend was named "Legend World", and the internal beta started immediately.

On May 25th, Optical Communications’ "Legend 3" was officially tested, attracting a large number of legendary players to explore the authentic sequel.

On May 27th, Shanda Network released version 1.75 of "Unlimited Rivers and Mountains", launching four maps of Cang Yue, Bone Demon, Bull Demon, and Zombie Demon, and three new equipment for each profession, including Anger Slash, Dragon Tooth, and Xiaoyao Fan. Tungcom launched a fierce battle for legendary players.

In this round of tearing, "Legend of Warmth" barely kept the basic disk, and the overall number of players ushered in a significant decline for the first time; while "Legend 3" ushered in a prosperous era of fire and cooking, and the free public test was blustering. Both the highest number of concurrent users and the average number of online users surpassed "Legend of War" and became the most powerful online game at the turn of May and June.

Another online game that Wei Dongsheng pays special attention to, namely "Triumph", which is distributed by Tencent, is relatively unfavorable. Tencent originally announced that it would conduct an internal test on May 20. Unexpectedly, the complexity of the localization of the program exceeded expectations, and the operation team was forced to post an announcement on the postponement of the internal test on May 16.

In the previous life, when Tencent acted for "Triumph", I was depressed to find that the 3D technology used in "Triumph" had very high requirements for computer configuration and network bandwidth. Tencent’s technical team has optimized it many times and still cannot guarantee the smooth running of the game. At the moment when "Triumphal" is about to become a tasteless product, Chang Mingxia volunteered to come forward, using small skills and strategies to select players, and successfully rescued the game "Triumphal" and laid the foundation of Tencent in the online game industry.

Wei Dongsheng stared at Tencent's delayed internal test announcement, thinking about it, and wondering who will jump out in this world to help Tencent in crisis.

"Triumph" has become an uncertain project, "Legend 3" has firmly occupied the top of the online game industry.

In order to keep the topic hot and to promote "Ten Kingdoms Spring and Autumn", Wei Dongsheng can only use his age advantage to hype himself round after round.

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