They’re all reborn, what’s wrong with being a little more almighty?

Chapter 236: Let’s go and spend the money!
"Recharge failed, please check if your phone credit is sufficient."

Looking at the prompt on the computer screen, Lao Zhang was stunned. Not long ago, he had just recharged 100 yuan, and it was all spent in just one morning.

"Did I recharge so much money?" Lao Zhang opened the calculator and started counting from the first ten yuan. After adding up the several recharges, he actually recharged nearly a hundred yuan.

"I don't have enough money for ten days of cigarettes. I should smoke less this month. And beer, don't drink it every day. Drink one bottle every other day. I have to save this hundred dollars."

Thinking of this, Lao Zhang reluctantly closed the screen of the Three Kingdoms web game. He was afraid that he would not be able to control himself and would not be able to resist spending more money if he continued playing.

Just then, a colleague from the Finance Department knocked on the door and walked in.

"I have good news for you all. The boss said he would pay out the year-end bonus in advance so that everyone can have a good new year. Go to the Finance Department to collect it later."

When they heard about the year-end bonuses, everyone in the office, including Lao Zhang, became excited.

A moment later, Lao Zhang received his year-end bonus from the Finance Department. Looking at the red banknotes in his hand, Lao Zhang thought about buying some roast chicken and braised pork in the evening and drinking some wine happily.

Lao Zhang, who was in a good mood, leaned back in his chair and somehow clicked on the interface of "The Legend of Three Kingdoms".

At the top of the screen, an especially eye-catching icon appeared in Lao Zhang's field of vision, with the words "Limited-time event" written below the icon.

"Limited time event?" Lao Zhang clicked on it and saw a new item called the Golden Recruitment Order. Using the Golden Recruitment Order, he would definitely get a blue general, with a high probability of getting a red general, and the event would only last for three days!

The next second, Lao Zhang immediately stood up and said to his colleague beside him: "I'm going out for a while. My phone is out of payment. I'm going to the parking lot downstairs to buy a mobile phone recharge card."

A few minutes later, Lao Zhang returned to his seat with two mobile phone cards in his hand.

Recharge, buy gift packs, draw cards, and keep going!

After gathering several powerful generals, Lao Zhang challenged other players. There were wins and losses, but overall he won more than he lost.

"The battle failed, and you lost 5000 grains..."

Looking at the latest battle results, Lao Zhang was shocked and clicked on the opponent's lineup: Meng Huo, Mang Yachang, King Mulu, Wugutu, Dongdana, and Ahuinan.

"How is that possible? The opponent only has one red general, Meng Huo, and his attack power is only 88. I have Lu Bu and Xiahou Dun. How can I lose?"

Lao Zhang immediately looked through the battle records.

"The opponent has Meng Huo and five Nanman generals, which triggers the combination skill Nanman Invasion, increasing attack power by 20%! The presence of King Mulu triggers the elephant soldiers, reducing the opponent's morale by 10%! The presence of Wutugu triggers the rattan armor, increasing defense by 30%! You can actually play it this way!"

Lao Zhang suddenly remembered that he had indeed seen the description of combination skills when reading the game instructions before, but he did not pay attention to it. Now it seems that this game description is very useful!

So Lao Zhang immediately clicked on the game instructions and checked out the various skill combinations.

"The combination of the Five Tiger Generals increases attack power by 100%. You need Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, Zhao Yun, Ma Chao and Huang Zhong. I don't have any! The combination of the Five Sons of the Army increases defense power by 80%. I seem to have a Li Dian, but not the other four. The Four Pillars of Hebei: Yan Liang, Wen Chou, Zhang He and Gao Lan. I only have one Wen Chou.

The eight generals, Zhang Liao, Gao Shun, Song Xian, Wei Xu, Hao Meng, Cao Xing, Cheng Lian, and Hou Cheng. Although there are eight of them, only Zhang Liao is a red card, Gao Shun is a blue card, and the others seem to be green card generals! What a pity, I don't have Zhang Liao. Otherwise, I could have made up this combination."

Lao Zhang looked for a long time and finally found a combination that he could put together.

"Liangzhou Iron Cavalry, Dong Zhuo, Li Jue, Guo Si, Zhang Ji, Niu Fu, this is good, except Dong Zhuo, the others are green card generals, this combination increases attack power by 20%, and burst power by 10%. I think I'm just missing Zhang Ji."

Old Zhang charged fifty yuan without hesitation, thinking that he must get Zhang Ji out.

……

In this kind of game that is claimed to be free but is actually a pay-to-win game, people like Xiaohaige who don't have money to recharge are lambs to be slaughtered. In addition to increasing their popularity, their purpose is to let those novice pay-to-win players feel the thrill of victory.

You may say that these people are not important. They do not spend money and indeed cannot bring any revenue to game manufacturers. But without them, the game will not be very active. At least those technology players will not find anyone to bully, and the experience will be greatly reduced.

People like Lao Zhang who have spent hundreds to thousands of dollars are the backbone of the game. They are very good at bullying weak players, but they are weak when facing the real big spenders.

However, in 2006, those who were willing to spend thousands of dollars to play a game could already have a good experience in the game. I wouldn’t say how strong the PK was, but it would definitely be no problem to complete ordinary tasks.

However, the core content of Weiguang Technology's Three Kingdoms web game is PK, and there are very few character links. So if you want to play it well, you have to be a krypton gold boss.

In the office of the boss of a decoration company, Jin Haitao, the big spender, was constantly clicking his mouse to draw cards.

"Drawing cards one by one is so slow. It would be great if I could draw dozens of cards at a time!" Jin Haitao said to himself.

The decoration industry still has huge profits, and business was pretty good last year. Jin Haitao, the boss of a decoration company, also made a lot of money.

Now that the Spring Festival is approaching, no customers would come to renovate their homes at this time, so Jin Haitao gave the workers a holiday and let them go home for the New Year, while he himself continued to stay in the company in case any customers wanted to make an appointment for next year's business, there would be someone to take care of them.

It was boring to stay in the office alone, so Jin Haitao turned on the computer and started playing games.

As a businessman, he is usually busy with social engagements and does not have much time to spend on online games, so Jin Haitao has not played any of the popular online games.

Even if he was playing, Jin Haitao didn't have enough time to level up his account. He was just a small character in the game who was bullied by others and had no gaming experience at all.

After all, he is the boss of a decoration company and has dozens of employees under him. Being bullied for playing a game is obviously not what Jin Haitao wants.

By chance, Jin Haitao saw an advertisement for "Free game, click to play". Out of curiosity, he clicked on it and discovered a new world!
This Three Kingdoms web game is exactly what Jin Haitao wants. He doesn't need to spend too much time or recharge money to become stronger.

It doesn’t matter if you don’t have money and population to build buildings. Just buy dozens of military farming cards and you will instantly have money and population to build buildings.

It doesn’t matter if the building upgrades slowly. Just buy a few acceleration cards and click the mouse to upgrade the building.

The most exciting part is the card drawing game, which is like a lottery ticket, giving you endless anticipation.

It doesn’t matter if you draw a useless card, you can still synthesize it. This synthesis is another process of scratching the lottery, so you can look forward to another wave.

For a rich boss like Jin Haitao, blue card generals are not even worth his attention. What he wants are red card generals. If they are not red card generals, he would be embarrassed to go to war.

With a group of red card generals, Jin Haitao quickly enjoyed the thrill of conquering cities and territories. He won a crushing victory over almost every opponent.

However, what made Jin Haitao depressed was that he was only second in the battle power rankings, and the first place was a player with the ID called Fight the Tiger Tonight.

"I have so many red cards, but my combat power is not as good as this tiger fight tonight? What is going on?"

Just when Jin Haitao was wondering, a message popped up on the computer screen: The player has challenged you to play Tiger tonight.

"I don't believe that with all my generals, I still can't defeat you! I have three Lu Bu cards now, attack them all together!"

Jin Haitao sent out his strongest lineup, but after entering the battle screen, Jin Haitao was shocked to find that his three Lu Bu were defeated by his opponent's single Zhao Yun.

"How is this possible? Lü Bu's military strength is 100, and Zhao Yun's is 99. Even if his building bonus is higher than mine, how can one Zhao Yun kill three Lü Bu? This must be cheating!"

Jin Haitao looked at the opponent's card in disbelief, and suddenly found that the opponent's Zhao Yun was a gold card. This was not an ordinary Zhao Yun, but a divine Zhao Yun.

"Gold card? Divine Zhao Yun? Is there any difference between this and the red card Zhao Yun?"

Jin Haitao immediately looked at the attributes of the Gold Card God Zhao Yun. Although the Gold Card God Zhao Yun's physical strength was also 99, he had an additional skill that ignored 50% of the opponent's defense when attacking!
At this moment, Jin Haitao finally understood why he lost. It turned out that his Lu Bu was completely defenseless in front of the gold card Zhao Yun.

"Damn, gold cards have extra attributes? No, I want gold card generals too!"

Jin Haitao recharged some money and drew 300 cards in a row. His hands were tired from drawing, but he still didn't draw a gold card.

"Oh, by the way, you can combine them! Ten red cards can be combined into one gold card!"

Thinking of this, Jin Haitao entered the card synthesis interface. He gritted his teeth, put ten red card generals into the synthesis slot, and clicked "Synthesis failed, loss of red card Xu Zhu."

"Synthesis failed, loss of red card Taishi Ci."

"Synthesis failed, loss of red card Zhang Liao."

"Synthesis successful, congratulations on obtaining the gold card, God Lu Bu."

Jin Haitao immediately clicked on the golden card God Lu Bu, whose additional attribute was that it could attack three enemy targets at the same time.

"This means I can attack three at once! This is stronger than Zhao Yun's ability that ignores 50% of defense!"

With Jin Kalubu, Jin Haitao immediately found a player ranked in the top ten on the leaderboard and launched a challenge.

The result was of course a crushing victory. A gold-card Lu Bu knocked down all the opponent's red-card generals with just a few attacks.

"The gold card is really powerful!" Jin Haitao's confidence increased greatly, and he decided to challenge the first place player, Fighting Tiger Tonight.

After pressing the challenge button, Tonight’s Tiger Fighter indeed accepted his challenge, and this time Jin Haitao was better. Even though the opponent had the gold card Zhao Yun, he was still no match for Jin Haitao.

"Yeah! We won the battle!" Jin Haitao immediately clicked on the battle power list. This time, he really rushed to the first place, while he beat Tiger to the second place tonight.

"I'm the number one in the whole server!" Jin Haitao hummed a little tune proudly.

However, not long after, Tonight's Tiger Fighter challenged him again.

"Boy, are you still not convinced? I have the gold card of God Lu Bu, I am not afraid of you!" Jin Haitao immediately accepted the challenge.

Entering the battle scene, Jin Haitao was shocked to find that in addition to the gold card Zhao Yun, the opponent also had a gold card Zhang Fei!
"He has two gold cards!" Jin Haitao felt something was wrong and realized that he was going to lose again.

As expected, a lineup of God Lu Bu is far from being a match for God Zhao Yun and God Zhang Fei.

Jin Haitao immediately checked the attributes of God Zhang Fei. The critical hit rate was 50%, and after a critical hit was triggered, an additional attack would be made. In other words, if a critical hit could be triggered continuously, then continuous attacks would be possible.

"This skill is awesome, it's like an infinite combo!"

On the combat power list, Jin Haitao fell to second place again.

"Just wait, I'll gather three gold card generals right now and kill you!"

Jin Haitao chose to increase his spending without hesitation.

……

At the same time, a college student was sitting in front of his computer at home. He was the one who was going to beat the tiger tonight.

Before the holiday, he saw an advertisement for a part-time job during the winter vacation at the school gate. The position was an online game tester.

Since he liked playing games, he decided to apply for the job. After letting him try a web game, the other party hired him.

The game company gave him several accounts of different levels, and his job was to play the role of a player in the game and look for other players to challenge.

So he started his part-time summer job, spending more than ten hours a day in front of the computer, operating several accounts and challenging players of different levels.

And today, he seemed to have met a very stubborn player, who was ranked second on the battle power list.

This player has challenged him many times in a row, and with each challenge, the cards in his hand become much stronger.

"He got another gold card for Sima Yi, which increases the defense and health of the group! He already has eight gold cards, which must have cost him tens of thousands of dollars!" the college student thought to himself.

It costs one dollar to draw a card. You will definitely get a green card if you buy the recruitment order. It takes one thousand green cards to synthesize a gold card. If you don't consider the chance of failure, the cost of the gold card is also one thousand dollars.

If you take into account the chance of failure, the cost of synthesizing these eight gold cards would definitely be over ten thousand!
After all, this was the beginning of 2006, and anyone who spent yuan could call themselves a RMB player. In just a few hours, they spent tens of thousands of yuan, which was definitely the level of the local tyrants.

Moreover, this rich man must be obsessed with spending money now!
Since he is a rich man at the top, of course you have to serve him well!

So the college student immediately clicked the mouse, combined two more gold cards, and then challenged the rich man.

Anyway, the money for drawing cards is given by the game company. To put it bluntly, it’s just a bunch of data, and you don’t feel bad about using it.

……

"We're making money! We're going to make a lot of money!" Yao Xiaogang stared at a table and asked, "Guess how much our turnover was yesterday? One million! The turnover in one day exceeded one million!"

Looking at Yao Xiaoguang's exaggerated expression, Zhang Wei smiled indifferently. In later generations, some web games that copied Legend could even achieve a daily turnover of tens of millions. Compared with this, two million a day is indeed not a very outstanding result.

But in Yao Xiaoguang's opinion, a daily turnover of one million is already amazing.

If it is a point-and-play game, assuming the charge is 5 cents an hour, and a player plays for five hours a day, the income is only yuan. A turnover of one million is equivalent to players playing for five hours a day.

At that time, if an online game had over 100,000 simultaneous online players, it was considered very successful, and if it had over 200,000 simultaneous online players, it was considered a popular online game.

The average person plays online games for about two hours a day. If calculated in this way, a turnover of one million is equivalent to the data contributed by 800,000 to one million online game players.

Online games with daily active users of 2006 to million were definitely considered top online games in .

Of course, free games are different from point card games. The purpose of free games is to get temporary pleasure from spending money. A few tens of thousands of dollars can be spent quickly. This is different from point card games, where tens of thousands of dollars in point card money is enough to last until the game goes bankrupt.

Yao Xiaoguang started out by selling online games with payment cards. He never imagined that a simple web game could generate a daily turnover of millions. To him, this was simply a miracle!

Zhang Wei said: "This is just the beginning. I believe that in two or three months, we will earn more!"

"Yes, one million a day, thirty million a month, and three hundred and sixty million a year. We are rich!" Yao Xiaoguang was still excited.

"Brother Xiaoyao, you think too much. Our game doesn't have much substance, so I'm afraid it won't last that long. I estimate that with such high turnover, it can only last for three to five months at best. If it can last for half a year, I'll be thankful." Zhang Wei said.

"Based on the current cash flow, it shouldn't take more than half a year to last!" Yao Xiaoguang said.

"Our game is so simple, do you think no one will imitate us? Fortunately, the Spring Festival is approaching and everyone is going home for the New Year. After the Spring Festival, I guess there will be many game companies imitating us and making similar games. By then, the market will be full of homogeneous products, and we will not be able to maintain such revenue!"

"That makes sense! I was too excited!" Yao Xiaoguang nodded as if he suddenly understood. "After the Spring Festival, we have to concentrate and focus all our energy on the DOTA2 project! This is our long-term plan."

Zhang Wei continued: "So now, while there are no competitors, we should quickly make more money."

"How to fish it out?" Yao Xiaoguang asked immediately.

"Isn't the Spring Festival coming soon? Let's have a Spring Festival event. You can draw a card to get the special general Sun Shangxiang. The chance of getting this Sun Shangxiang is a little lower, but as long as you draw 888 cards, you will definitely get a Sun Shangxiang."

"I can understand that the probability is a little lower, but why does it have to be Sun Shangxiang when you draw 888 cards?"

"Think about it, if you draw 500 cards and don't get it, and want to give up, but then you are told that you only need to draw 888 cards to get Sun Shangxiang, so you only need to draw 388 more cards.

And if you are lucky, you don't need to draw 388 cards. Maybe you will win the next card. But if you don't continue to draw, then the previous cards will be in vain! Do you want to continue to draw?"

"No wonder you can get into Tsinghua University. Your tricks really take into account the players' psychology. Fortunately, I'm not a player, otherwise my wallet would have been emptied by you." Yao Xiaoguang sighed.

“It’s all thanks to the support of my peers!” Zhang Wei smiled, but in his heart he recalled the miserable scene when he drew the limited edition auspicious item for the Qixi Festival when he was playing “Fantasy Westward Journey” in later generations.

99 times you will definitely win, but you will only get it after 98 draws. Is there still law? Is there still justice?
(End of this chapter)