The richest man starts with a blind box

Chapter 178 Pirates are very upset [Additional]

Warcraft 3 exploded, and there is no doubt that it exploded in the Chinese market.

This was unquestionable in the previous life. Just find a male player born in the 90s and ask him if he has played Warcraft 3, and 90% of the people will give the same answer.

Warcraft 3 can be said to have changed the entire Chinese gaming environment.

It was Warcraft 3 that triggered the wave of e-sports in China, and it was also Warcraft 3 that gave birth to Dota, and then King-level games such as League of Legends and Dota2 were born.

At its peak, 2/3 of the boys in an Internet cafe were playing Warcraft 3, and when the Warcraft movie was released in China in the future, the box office could exceed 1 million on the first day, breaking the domestic first-day box office record .

After that, the box office was close to 3 million for three consecutive days, making people all over the country think that he was the first domestic movie with a box office of 20 billion.

Of course, because the Warcraft movie is inherently bad, the stamina of this movie is very insufficient, and the box office plummeted.

Many people like to say how powerful the Marvel Universe is in China, how many fans it has, and how it is the number one foreign cultural brand in China.

But this is completely farting. The so-called Marvel Universe concept in China, even before 2015, was just a hobby of a small group of people. It can really be said to be the first cultural universe. In fact, the former World of Warcraft universe, That is the cultural universe with the most fans and lovers.

It's a pity that later, with Blizzard's own death, there was no development and utilization of the universe for World of Warcraft, which made the World of Warcraft universe go from bad to worse.

Up to now, although there are still many middle-aged people who are obsessed with the universe of Warcraft and cannot forget it, the new generation from the post-00s have no sense of the universe of Warcraft at all. Instead, the Marvel universe that accompanied them has gradually grown bigger .

In the previous life, Warcraft 3 gradually became bigger and stronger without any pre-heating, and even spread completely by piracy, relying on word of mouth, which is equivalent to taking off from flat ground.

In this world, under the operation of our boss Huang Hehuang, Warcraft 3 took off directly on the top of the Himalayas. In just one day, the reputation of Warcraft 3 exploded in all relevant domestic forums and circles.

Everyone is discussing the unimaginable game experience of Warcraft 3, and sincerely praise how fun this game is, and everyone is an outstanding tap water.

As a result, the people queuing up to download actually queued up until June 6th, a full month of queuing, which shocked all the domestic game manufacturers.

This is no longer wolf, this is Godzilla.

At the same time, because there are too many people trying to download, many home computer users who have been queuing up have gone to Internet cafes to try their luck.

As a result, they were surprised to find that these Internet cafes had fully installed Warcraft 3. According to the owners of these Internet cafes, the OO salesperson had actually installed Warcraft 3 in the management system of each Internet cafe three days in advance, so players We can play Warcraft 3 in Internet cafes.

Soon, the players posted the news to various forums. Those players who were still waiting in line gave up their computers at home one after another and rushed to the Internet cafe to play games.

All of a sudden, the entire Internet cafe was full of people playing Warcraft 3, and many of the Internet cafes were originally playing other games, such as Red Alert, CS, Thor's Hammer, or users who had completely dominated the Internet cafe industry before. They were surprised to see a large number of Warcraft 3 users entering their territory.

They first glanced at other people playing this game curiously, and then those who played single player immediately shut down the game they were playing, and turned to play Warcraft 3.
The people who played Legend of Blood hesitated for a while, and after being beaten to death in the wild PK, exploding a lot of equipment, they also went to play Warcraft 3 angrily.
Then Shanda Chen Qiao became depressed.

2002 was one of the hottest years for Legend of Blood. The Legend of Blood that he launched last year, after a year of fermentation, made him the most popular boy in the entire game industry, generating 4 million net profits a year. It made everyone drool over the panties with envy for Shanda.

And the number of his hot-blooded legend online is also rising steadily. Before the release of Warcraft 3, this number reached an astonishing 100 million people, which made all online games at that time unmatched.

However, with the release of Warcraft 3, Chen Qiao discovered that the number of active players and simultaneous online players, which had been increasing every day, actually began to drop, and the drop was miserable. On the first day, more than 1 players dropped in one breath Ten thousand.

It turned out to be even worse on the second day, with only 2 people remaining from 100 million, Chen Qiao was so angry that he dropped his dragon sword.

Almost overnight, the official strategy guide site of Warcraft 3 was established. This is a website called Azeroth Fengwuzhi, which gathers a lot of strategies about Warcraft 3, especially some The strategy of the campaign, the way to pass in the difficult mode, and some hidden easter eggs and so on, became very popular as soon as it went online, and became a game treasure for many players.

All in all, Warcraft 3 harvests players at an unimaginable speed, and because playing Warcraft 3 must log in to the OO game platform, then these users are naturally converted into OO game platform and OO users, and All are very active Internet users.

Then, the people who lined up went directly to July, which made many players wait for the direct MN.

So, on May 5th, the fifth day of the game's release, OO announced an important news, that is, OO made another difficult decision, urgently spending hundreds of millions of dollars to buy servers to improve the download speed of players, The appointment time of all players has been advanced by about half. Players who have already made an appointment can go to the website to check their appointment time again.

Then those players who made an appointment to go in July found that they had already advanced to around June 7th, and the players before June all advanced to within 6th.

All of a sudden, the entire network's dissatisfaction with 0O disappeared a lot in an instant.

But that's not enough, soon, OO released the second announcement, but this announcement is not aimed at players, but at those pirates.

OO issued an announcement stating that OO will develop the right to reproduce the Chinese version of the Warcraft 3 client. All individuals and collectives can reproduce their own Warcraft 3 clients on CDs or other storage devices, and then donate them to friends, Or conduct commercial activities, all are legal, with the consent of Jiangnan Group, OO will not pursue the legal responsibility of these people.

Finally, OO thoughtfully provided a packaged installation package and put it in a separate place for downloading. This installation package is directly prepared for the CD. After downloading, it can be directly engraved on the CD. It is very convenient and considerate. To the extreme.

"Is this the official permission for us to pirate?" The pirates who saw the news exclaimed with wide-eyed eyes.

"Give up, the authorities have allowed us, we are not pirates, we are genuine game dealers!" Another pirate with a smarter head said righteously.

"But I feel very uncomfortable!" Another pirate said, "We have always pirated other people's products, but now someone is urging us to pirate, it's like someone is pressing my head and making me eat, I am very upset! "

"Hold your head, it's your mother who made you eat!" The clever pirate rolled his eyes and said, "Forget it, I don't care about you, I'm going to burn CDs now!"

"Yes!" Many pirates suddenly realized, and then started their long-hungry equipment one after another. Almost in the second day, a large number of pirated copies... Oh, no, the officially authorized Warcraft 2 game discs appeared in batches It was on the market, and then was snapped up by a large number of players queuing up. The sales volume was astonishing, which made the pirates earn a fortune after all.

But the more they earn, the more unhappy these pirates feel. At the same time, they swear in their hearts that they will never touch Jiangnan Group's games in the future. It's too fucking uncomfortable.

Soon, with the support of these methods, on May 5th, OO Games announced again that it would completely open the game download, users can download the game directly without queuing up, and those who originally made an appointment before July, Around May 25th, they were so happy to download the game successfully, they were full of praise for OO, and all praised OO as the best game operator in the world.

At the same time, on May 5 in Shenzhen, Guangdong, OO Games, the Shenzhen Station of the National E-sports Championship City Competition kicked off in Shenzhen.

This time the competition started to promote and build momentum more than a month ago, but the popularity has not been very good, because the competition currently has three different events, namely CS, StarCraft, and Warcraft 3. These three The popularity of games in China is actually not very high. If you remove the halo of winning glory for the country, there are not many people interested in it. For example, until the release of Warcraft 3, the total number of players who signed up did not exceed 100 people.

But with the release of Warcraft 3, after a large number of players were conquered by the high-quality game experience of Warcraft 3, the popularity of this game became unimaginable. From the 15th to the 22nd when the registration deadline, there were more than 1500 players in one go Players signed up to participate in the competition, and almost all of these people are players of the Warcraft 3 project, which shows the enthusiasm.

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This is to kill someone!

Brother Xiaoma looked at the crowd under his building, probably tens of thousands of people were watching the match scene, and bit his lip tightly.

Tencent's office is located in Shenzhen's SEG Technology Park, where many computer technology companies in Shenzhen gather.

This SEG Science and Technology Park is next to SEG Plaza, and this time the competition of Shenzhen Station of the City Competition was held in the open air on SEG Plaza, that is, it was held under the nose of Little Ma, our little Ma looked His lips were about to be bitten.

(End of this chapter)