Tokyo Video Game Tycoon

607

On the facebook video site on the Internet, some strange-looking games have appeared.

At first glance, these games seem familiar, as if I have seen them somewhere, but when I look closely at the game models and maps, I have never seen them before.

People wonder what new game this is and why they haven't seen it before.

It stands to reason that such an unconventional game should be well publicized.

But there is no news about this game.

With such curiosity, people click to enter the video pages of these strange games.

Then, through introductions, they learned that these games were derived from the mods that were modified by Counter-Strike.

But what is this mod?

In the video, the person who made the video narrates.

"Dear viewers, you are very welcome to watch my channel. I am ***. If you are interested, you only need to click on the care and attention options a little bit. In this way, it will be meaningful for me to make this video."

It started with a very brief self-introduction, and then he began to formally introduce the mod he was playing.

"Everyone paying attention, you should have also seen the general appearance of this game. This is a brand new mode just launched on the Battle.net platform. It is a mode called Creative Workshop, where you can freely download interesting modules created by other players. Then transform the original game, and eventually it can even be transformed into something completely irrelevant to the original game. First, let’s take a look at a mod that is quite popular in the creative workshop: Farm Defense Zombie Edition.”

"This mod is produced by an independent game production team. The game they originally produced is called Farm Defense, which is also a very interesting game in my opinion. In this zombie version of Farm Defense, the original Farm Defense The gameplay is preserved, and it also increases the tension of the game, which is really a rare mod.”

"In addition to the Zombie version of Farm Defense, there are also officially launched counter-strike biochemical modules, hide-and-seek modules, etc., which are really interesting."

Watching this video, people can't help but want to know the next gameplay content.

"It's interesting."

According to the introduction in the video, the new functions of this mod seem to be completely free, that is to say, as long as you have purchased open source games such as Counter-Strike, you can freely access any gameplay in the creative workshop. free.

This is not equivalent to playing several games for the price of one game.

And it seems that I can also create my own gameplay at will.

Soon people clicked on the Battle.net platform.

The creative workshop is now arranged in the most prominent position. There is a very complete recommendation system in this brand new creative workshop. If it is a module with a high enough score and a high enough popularity, it can be placed in a more conspicuous position. The location makes people experience playing.

This time, in order to promote the brand-new creative workshop function, the Battle.net platform simply held a seven-day free trial event for several open source games.

In other words, if you are a slightly more aggressive player, you can completely play the main content of these trial games in a week.

Stardew Valley, Counter-Strike, StarCraft...

A variety of open source games quickly poured in a large number of players in just one day.

According to normal estimates, the number of PC players should hover around 10 million.

This is really incomparable to the scale of hundreds of millions of players on home consoles.

And the Battle.net platform monopolizes 70% to 80% of the current PC market, so naturally fewer people are willing to snatch this small market.

As a result, after more and more players become PC players, they have only one choice, which is to download a Battle.net platform and play the games in it.

Three days later, the number of online players of these open source time-limited free games all broke the previous online record when the game was sold.

Among them, the number of concurrent online users of Counter-Strike broke through a new high, reaching 730,000.

This is the number of people online at the same time, and this number is still rising rapidly. The same is true for other StarCraft and Stardew Valley. The number of people online at the same time is increasing rapidly, reaching 3.3 million.

In order to attract more traffic, the Battle.net platform disclosed a lot of data to the public. This is slightly different from the rules of Yuxing Electronic Entertainment in the headquarters, but it may also be because Yuxing Electronic Entertainment has no rivals in the PC market. On the contrary, it can bring more benefits to yourself.

Because if the number of players you announce is more, then those developers who are interested in developing independent games will be more willing to launch their games on the Battle.net platform, and will not consider other platforms.

After all, the player base is here.

On a small platform with only 10,000 to 20,000 players, your sales will be 10,000 to 20,000.

But a game platform with a base of millions of players, even if the production level is slightly lower, will definitely have a higher exposure rate than a small platform.

3.3 million, this is the number of players online at the same time, which surprised many game manufacturers.

So there are so many PC players?

I didn't notice the PC platform at all before.

Generally speaking, the number of players who are online at the same time is more than ten times the number of registered players, but this time it is a bit of a special case, because several popular games are free for a limited time, out of the desire to prostitute for free, players are willing to spontaneously Play games more actively during this time period.

This data also surprised the executives of Su Rui Electronics.

Ueto Hayakawa also suddenly realized that he seemed to underestimate PC players.

Their love for games is also very high.

Still, that's the allure that comes with being free.

But free does not bring any benefits.

Especially the thunderstorm of YOO in the previous year caused most of the capital to realize the existence of the Internet bubble.

They are now very distrustful of the so-called simultaneous online numbers or registered numbers on the Internet.

The same is true for Ueto Hayakawa. He also thinks that this is probably just a flash in the pan, and there is nothing to prove.

But the Battle.net platform is enjoying itself.

With so many people online at the same time, the pressure on the server is also great, and the demand for the server is also increasing rapidly.

For this reason, Youxing Electronic Entertainment had to temporarily deploy some GS1 network servers.

At the same time, Zhu Youxing immediately ordered people to expand the server capacity, and Zhu Youxing was very concerned about network services.

Players are very sensitive. A slight network delay in games like Counter-Strike will greatly affect the game experience, not to mention the crash due to network service fluctuations, which will greatly damage the players' trust in the Battle.net platform.