The richest man starts with a blind box

Chapter 176 Downloads also have to queue up
Brother Ma, who has no money, can only watch Jiangnan's prosperous operation of the Warcraft 3 card, and soon it will be time for the pre-download to start.

As a result, a large number of aggressive players opened the OO game center at the specified time, and when they were about to pre-download the game, most of the players heard a ding, and then saw the following prompt.

[I'm very sorry, because there are too many players currently downloading, in order to ensure the user's downloading experience, the number of downloaders is currently limited, and a maximum of 2 players are available for downloading.

But we provide you with a queue number service. Your current queue number is 58741. You can choose to keep your computer in the current state and wait for the queue to be downloaded.

At the same time, you can also choose to make an appointment at the link below to reserve your download time, and you can download quickly without queuing.

Good guy, you need to queue up to download a game!

Seeing the prompt issued by the system, the players clicked their tongues. In fact, it was too early to queue up to more than 5 numbers. After an hour, the queued numbers had already reached more than 70 numbers.

Later, this was also written into the Guinness Book of World Records, becoming the record for the largest number of people queuing up to download online in history. It lasted for three full years before being broken by OO himself.

And all the colleagues who saw this were all black. At the same time, there were more than 70 people queuing up. I don’t know how many people have made an appointment. flow?
Wouldn't this wipe out all the game users in China?

This Nima is really terrible, especially Brother Xiaoma. When he saw this number, he could only comfort himself that these were Jiangnan's bragging. It is impossible that so many people are waiting to download the game.

Of course, this kind of waiting has also brought voices accusing OO on the Internet, but the Internet users of that era have not yet reached the point where good and bad people are mixed, and pigs and dogs can surf the Internet. The quality of Internet users in those years was still higher. I can understand the queuing thing. After all, it is a game with more than 500 MB, which consumes a lot of bandwidth. OO can provide downloads to 2 people at the same time. Such a server has crushed all Internet companies in the country.

And in fact, the speed of queuing is not too slow. For example, the guy who has a queue of more than 70 people has already queued up to about 10 people in just two or three hours.

Of course, it’s not that the download speed is fast, but that there are many people in the middle who can’t stand the queue, or have to turn off their computers and leave, so they chose to make an appointment.

But making an appointment is not a simple matter. In fact, from the 15th to the 20th, the appointment time is already full, including 24 hours a day after midnight.

Around the 20th to the 25th, there is still free time almost in the evening.

So if you want to make an appointment during the day, you have to start from the 26th, and if you want to make an appointment at any time of the day, you have to start from June 6.

And this time is still being pushed back. If we wait another day, it is estimated that we will have to wait until after June 6 to make an appointment.

Some people may be worried that if there are too many people queuing up, it will reduce the players' interest in playing the game.

Such worries are not unreasonable, but Huang He, who has been baptized by countless game queues in later generations, knows very well that a game never has to worry about queuing. On the contrary, the more people queue up, the more popular your game is, then More people will be attracted to queue up.

The simplest example is as if there are two adjacent dumpling shops on the same street, and the door of one is crowded with people, and the door of the shop is blocked by people queuing up.

And the other restaurant is empty, and there are only two or three people eating, so which dumpling would you choose to eat?
That's almost always the one you have to queue for, otherwise, where did so many online celebrity shops come from in the future.

Of course, if you keep queuing up like this all the time, the enthusiasm of the players will also be extinguished.But fortunately, this queue is for downloading games, not for logging in to games.

Huang He actually gave most of the server resources to the game operation, so Huang He is confident that there is no need to queue up when playing the game.

So queuing will not make players leave, on the contrary, it will stimulate more enthusiasm.

Soon, another day passed, and when the official upper limit of Warcraft 3 Reign of Chaos was reached, Huang He did not stay in Wenzhou at this time, but stayed in the network center in Cao County.

Wenzhou's network center has passed the test of time, and there is no problem with its stability. The key is the stability and reliability of Cao County.

Soon, after 10 o'clock in the evening, a large number of players poured into the newly opened Warcraft 3 section of the OO Game Center.

"10 people!"

"20 people!"

"30 people!"

"50 people, the current upper limit has been reached!" Cao County staff kept shouting, and finally the number of people online at the same time stabilized at around 50.

Well, the reason why it is 50 people is not because it can only accommodate 50 people, but because only 50 people have completed downloading so far. According to statistics, there are at least 300 million people waiting in line to download.

According to the design, the current maximum capacity of the server is 1 million people, so the 000 people are nothing more than sprinkling water for the entire server, and because of the opening of two network centers in Cao County and Wenzhou, one south and one north, let All players who enter have a brand new network experience.

"Little Huang, old man, there is something I don't understand. Since 50 downloads can be released in one day, and there are about 300 million people queuing up for downloading, theoretically it only takes 6 days to queue. That is to say, you can queue up to the 21st at most, why do you only queue up to the 25th to make an appointment, and they are all full?" Ni Guangnan, who stayed in the control room with Huang He, asked curiously.

"I did it on purpose!" Huang He laughed.

"On purpose?" Ni Guangnan's eyes widened.

"That's right. In fact, if downloading is fully released, there may be about 60 people at this time. If they line up at the same time, the original date of June 6 can be brought forward to May 4." Huang He laughed.

"You suppressed nearly half of the traffic, why?" Ni Guangnan was even more confused, he couldn't figure out why Huang He did what he did.

"First of all, for those who are queuing, there is actually no big difference between June 6th and May 4th. They both have to wait for a long time."

"Then, I need to ensure the experience of the players who are currently downloading!" Huang He said, "For example, it's not that I haven't opened up all the traffic, and I haven't opened up the maximum number of people. At present, the average download speed of players is about 40KB per second, and the average is 4 hours. The download can be completed, it has been very long."

"But if I completely open up the number of people, then the download speed may drop to about 25KB per second, and at the same time, there is a risk of disconnection at any time. Players also need more than 6 hours to download, which is too much time. It is too long, and it is very prone to network problems, such as the download is interrupted halfway, and then the download needs to be resumed manually again.”

"So, for our platform, the priority is not the number of downloaders, but the downloaders can complete the download smoothly, without waiting for an unacceptable time for them."

"In the end, it's about lowering the players' expectations!" Huang He laughed.

"I don't understand..." Ni Guangnan shook his head, he really didn't understand.

"Then let me give another example. Suppose you have two grandchildren who are both studying. One of them has a good grade and can usually get 90 points in the test, and the other has a bad grade. The two grandsons scored 70 points in the test at the same time, which one would you blame?" Huang He asked.

"Of course it's the one whose grades fell back..." Ni Guangnan subconsciously said.

"That's right, the two children have the same grades, but you favor one over the other. While blaming one, you praise the other. This is because you have different expectations of them." Huang He laughed.

"The same is true for queuing. If I open up all traffic now, tell users that you are queuing until May 5th. But there will always be some uncontrollable changes in this world, which will lead to queuing." The speed increased, so I told them, I'm very sorry, you are now delayed until May 24th to start downloading, what will they think of me?"

"Conversely, if I tell them first that you're in line for June 6th, and then I tell them that because of our hard work, you've moved up to May 4th, how will they feel? ?”

"... Profiteer..." Ni Guangnan was stunned for a long time before he snorted coldly and complained. Huang He chuckled and didn't say much.

After all, the older generation is impartial and selfless, and they really cannot accept this concept.

"But maybe only people like you can lead a successful company to survive!" But Ni Guangnan sighed in the end.

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"Come in, I'm coming in!" Accompanied by a burst of cool sound effects, Liu Chuanye entered the game.

He is now a loyal user of OO and OO game platforms, and at the same time he is looking forward to Warcraft 3, so even if he is about to face the college entrance examination, he has been stuck in time, becoming the first batch of players in the country to squeeze into the download channel, The queue number is very high, number 14710.

After waiting for about two hours, I successfully entered the download channel, and then spent another night to complete the download of the game.

Immediately afterwards, he kept guarding the time, waiting for the full opening of the game.

What, you asked how Liu Chuanye and his goddess are doing?

No more, because Liu Chuanye felt that he had a good chat with He Anrong on the Internet, and because high school was about to end, so he boldly confessed his love and revealed his identity. In the end, he was issued a good person card, and he almost said I I have always regarded you as my older brother.

However, Liu Chuanye did not give up on himself, gave up studying, went to be a gangster, or went out to work, or had a falling out with the family, or was pregnant or something like some youth movies... Oh, Liu Chuanye is a Men... Then change it to not falling in love with men.

Anyway, Liu Chuanye was depressed for at most three days, then put aside everything and started playing games, such as this Warcraft 3.

(End of this chapter)