Silicon Valley

90% of Internet cafes in the United States have downloaded the Firefly game platform, and "Doom" and "Warcraft 1" have become standard in Internet cafes. Without these, it is embarrassing to call it an Internet cafe! Whenever you walk into an Internet cafe and look around, you are either playing Warcraft 1 or Doom.

In the Internet cafe, the voices of shouting, one after another!

"Send troops, let's go together!!!"

"Kill the boss!!!"

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The Internet cafe was crowded with people, and Weiwei had two or three people standing behind a camera, to be exact, waiting for the other party to get off the plane! In Internet cafes with a lot of traffic, there are long queues even at the door.

The Firefly gaming platform, overnight, rose to fame.

"Warcraft 1" and "Doom" suddenly swept the world!

Because these two games can only be played through the Firefly game platform at present, it has actually led to a surge in the number of Internet access in American households. According to incomplete statistics, the next day, there were as many as 500,000 new Internet home users in the United States! Experts say that the subsequent explosive growth of Internet home users will continue until Firefly Games releases game CDs!

"Los Angeles Times": "July 1st can be called American Game Day, on this day, Firefly Games released two new games - "Warcraft 1" and "Doom", these two games instantly swept the world , has become the most popular game of the moment! On this day, the players who played computer games surpassed the players who played video games for the first time, breaking the long-term dominant position of video games, which is a milestone!!!”

"Wall Street Journal": "According to the data released by Firefly Games at 1:00 a.m. on July 2, the number of people who downloaded the Firefly game platform that day was as high as 4.5 million, the number of registered users was 3 million, and the number of purchased registration codes was as high as 5 million. Most users buy registration codes for two games! A registration code of $20 means Firefly's first-day revenue is as high as 100 million US dollars! The registration code is only written by a program. Compared with traditional game discs, its manufacturing and The cost of sales is almost zero. It can be seen that Firefly Games will capture high profits through these two games! According to the comprehensive evaluation of many Wall Street evaluation agencies, the market value of Firefly Games is at least 10 billion US dollars!"

"USA Today": "The U.S. economy has suddenly accelerated in the past two days, and the reason is actually because of one game platform and two games! July 1. Firefly game platform and "Warcraft 1" and "Doom" "After the release of the two games, they quickly became popular throughout the United States. Subsequently, the number of Internet access and the sales of computers, beverages and food have increased to varying degrees. It has driven the development of the American economy!"

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Recently, the computer system administrator of Carnegie Mellon University issued an online notice: "Since the release of the Firefly game platform, the school's network has been abnormal. A new game has overloaded the network... All Doom and Warcraft 1 players, please be careful not to play online. That will bring a lot of traffic to the network. Our campus network is nearly overloaded. If If it doesn't change, we'll be forced to disconnect from the internet! Again: Do not use internet mode when playing Doom and Warcraft 1!"

The computer room administrator of Stanford University's Department of Computer Science said: "Since the release of "Doom" and "Warcraft 1", students have queued tens of meters outside the computer room to play these two games. This situation has seriously affected It was time for the students to study. So I decided to write a little program that would go through every machine and delete Doom and Warcraft 1!"

Intel Corporation.

"Report to the supervisor, found the network abnormal!!!"

"What's the situation?! Why is the network abnormal?" the supervisor asked in shock and confusion.

"Report to the supervisor, after some inspections, we have found the reason for the abnormal network! According to our tracking findings. It is because a large number of company employees are playing "Doom" and "Warcraft 1"!!!"

When the supervisor heard this, his hand shook, and the cigarette butt fell to the ground. At the moment, "Warcraft 1" was running on his computer.

"Okay, I get it, immediately ban employees from running "Doom" and "Warcraft 1" in the company!!!"

"Understood, supervisor, I will immediately issue a notice to everyone!"

"Um!"

At this time, an ally on the computer screen typed out a line of words: "Robinson, what's the matter with you. Let you send troops, you are so uncooperative, all my soldiers were killed by the computer!"

"I'm really sorry, I was just answering the phone!" the supervisor explained, "I'll send troops there now!"

The supervisor transferred the soldiers over, and a notice of banning the game was sent to the ICQ enterprise group of Intel Corporation.

At this time, the supervisor saw the other person typing: "Paralyzed, the supervisor asked someone to issue a notice that they are not allowed to play games in the company!"

When the supervisor heard this, he couldn't help but be surprised, oh, is the other party also at Intel? !

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EA Games Inc.

"Firefly Games is amazing, the 3D graphics and staggering speed of Doom is simply awe-inspiring! The Warcraft 1 game is real-time, not the turn-based strategy game often seen .And by dispatching troops, this macro operation can make it easier for people to experience the pleasure of operation!"

"Firefly Games will definitely rise this time, and our opponents will be stronger again!"

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Nintendo of Japan.

"Immediately send someone to contact Firefly Games and ask them to port "Doom" and "Warcraft 1" to our SFC home game console!" Nintendo President Yamauchi held an emergency meeting and said with a serious expression!

"Hi!!!"

Henry came to the ID-software game company at this time, and he said to the CEO John Carmack: "John Carmack, what do you think about us developing an editing tool for "Doom" so that players can create their own levels?"

When John Carmack heard this, he pondered for a while, and said, "Chairman, your idea is very good, it will definitely attract more people to become Doom players, and it will generate a large number of loyal players!!! "

John Carmack paused and said excitedly, "Oh, the thought of being able to play a game level made by yourself is simply amazing!"

"That's right!!!" Henry nodded, and immediately said to John Carmack, "This modifiable program, I call it MOD, is the abbreviation of modification, which can be used to convert props in computer games. , weapons, characters, enemies, things, modes, storylines, etc., or add new props and things!" Henry said this, and paused again, "However, we need to pay special attention to one problem!"

"If the MODs made by players are popular and generate commercial value, then how should this profit be distributed! Therefore, we should first make a formal statement to avoid lawsuits later because of these commercial disputes!" Henry thought for a while , said, "In order to encourage and stimulate many players to make MODs! I think it can be written in the statement that if the mods made by players have commercial value, we can sign with them and give them a part of the benefits, eh? For example, the 1% of the income earned by the mod..."

John Carmack smiled in surprise: "Chairman, in this way, I can already imagine that there will be a lot of players involved in the production of MOD!"

Henry smiled and said: "Hehe, this is the best, they are helping us develop the game, enrich the game content, and increase our popularity! Anyway, if you don't sign a contract, you won't have any money for them! As for whether to sign a contract or not, it's entirely up to us. , and we will only sign MODs with obvious commercial value. In the final analysis, we still make a lot of money!"

"In addition, if a game constantly has players making MODs, then the game will endure for a long time and continue to bring profits to the company. However, we can save a lot of manpower and resources on this game, so that we can concentrate on carefully and carefully. Create another brand new game!"

John Carmack heard the words and nodded again and again. He couldn't wait to develop the MOD editor, "Chairman, then I will develop the MOD editor for "Doom" now!!!"

Henry smiled and said, "Well, you go!"

"Okay!" John Carmack responded excitedly, and hurried out!

(To be continued ~^~)