Chapter Five Hundred and Fortieth: Ding Lei's Ambition

The year 2004 in China's Internet and online game circle is destined to be a year of great events that will go down in history.

Shortly after the beginning of the year, two major 3D online games have completed the packaging and testing.

However, the closed beta has nothing to do with most gamers.

Because this selects some elite-level players, there are not many players tested.

There are still countless people looking forward to how fun and how the two major games will be.

It's not the same as the previous era when activation codes were required.

At this time, most of the major game companies have cancelled the activation code strategy.

Especially after the emergence of two competing games, activation codes can only hinder the promotion of games.

Therefore, although the internal test is not a public test, it has become a battleground for major game manufacturers.

For major game companies, the closed beta is actually equivalent to the public beta.

It can even be said that the internal test is more important than the public test.

Because the internal test is hot, the public test can be hot.

If the internal test is cold, the public test is basically a foregone conclusion.

For the time being, there has not been a game that has been hit by the internal test, and the public test has been popular.

"Brothers, World of Warcraft and Kyushu are officially closed today, which one to play?"

"I don't know, it depends on everyone's situation."

"I'm going to play World of Warcraft."

"I'll go, aren't you a fan of Huanyu Technology, how do you play World of Warcraft?"

"I also want to play Kyushu, but some players in the beta test said that World of Warcraft is more fun and classic. I'll play it for a while and see. If it's not fun, I'll go back and play Kyushu."

"Uh, I'd better play Kyushu first."

I don’t know if it’s okay, but the two major game companies chose to conduct the internal test on the same day.

However, the timing is slightly different.

It's 13:00 noon on this side of World of Warcraft,

That is 1pm.

Kyushu OL is at 18:00.

The two major games have their own fans and their own game crowd.

However, World of Warcraft seems to be more popular than Huanyu Technology.

And this time, Kyushu is a few hours later than World of Warcraft.

Although a few hours late can't really tell the winner.

But when the two sides are so close in strength, and they have already launched a real sword battle, although one step later will not be fatal, it is definitely the first to lose the general trend.

...

"All departments are ready."

"The closed beta is about to start, and I don't want to know if anything unexpected happens."

"This time is the most critical battle for our NetEase. I believe everyone knows the seriousness of this battle."

NetEase headquarters, Ding Lei personally came to the World of Warcraft game department to sit.

all the best.

World of Warcraft itself is a very eye-catching super masterpiece.

Coupled with the good reputation of the packaging and testing.

In addition, under the urging of Ding Lei, the publicity of World of Warcraft is not bad at all.

As long as World of Warcraft is open for testing, the data is absolutely beautiful.

When the clock pointed to 13 o'clock, Ding Lei pressed the start button himself.

The World of Warcraft, which came back from Blizzard's agent, is officially closed.

"The test is open, brothers, come on."

"Open the service, go up and go up."

"Tell everyone, you must choose a mage, you must choose a mage."

"why?"

"Nonsense, the Mage has always been the son of Blizzard. No matter any revision, the Mage has always been the most damaging in the Blizzard Warcraft series."

Several players who have participated in the beta test guide everyone in the YY group chat.

Although YY is owned by Huanyu Technology, NetEase and Huanyu Technology are competitors. But even if they are competitors, they use YY very much. NetEase's side is not worried about what restrictions Huanyu Technology will impose on them, which is simply impossible. In addition to being inconsistent with Huanyu Technology's strategy, in fact, they used YY to increase the viscosity of YY.

NetEase believes that Huanyu Technology cannot suppress their other software because of games.

Especially the instant messaging of Huanyu Technology.

Ding Lei is very clear, although it seems that the most profitable technology of Universal Technology is games.

But the game is just about making money for them.

The real core, has always been their instant messaging.

"Where is the background data?"

"Mr. Ding, here, look."

The programmer called out the background data.

This data includes the number of registrations, the number of people online at the same time, the duration of the online ... and so on.

However, Ding Lei is most concerned about the number of people online at the same time.

Regardless of the number of registrations, if there are not many people online at the same time, he is also a poker game.

A successful game requires not only a large number of registrations, but also a large number of people online.

Otherwise, it is impossible for him to make much money.

Of course, the number of people online at the same time is also the most important indicator for major game companies.

"50000."

10 minutes.

World of Warcraft broke the record of 50,000 simultaneous online users.

This made Ding Lei's heart beat fiercely.

This number is the highest number since he has been running online games for so many years.

And, it's not over yet.

Because it's only 10 minutes.

But from the 50,000 simultaneous online records in 10 minutes, it can be seen that World of Warcraft is destined to become popular.

"100,000."

"150000."

"200,000."

as expected.

With the growth of the online time of World of Warcraft, more and more players have entered the World of Warcraft.

At the same time, the number of simultaneous online players in World of Warcraft has been refreshed again and again.

"My God, 200,000, 200,000."

Ding Yingfeng cried out excitedly.

"Mr. Ding, Mr. Ding, we have broken 200,000 online records at the same time."

Although the internal test broke the 200,000 simultaneous online record and did not break the record of Huanyu Technology.

But that's okay.

3D games are not the same as 2D games.

There is always a process of adaptation when 2D games are transferred to 3D games.

Of course, that's not the point.

The point is that he broke the 200,000 simultaneous online record on the first day of the test, or even before the first day was over.

Such a figure has far exceeded their expectations.

According to this situation, even the highest number of simultaneous online tests in the internal test is 200,000.

Once they enter the public beta, they can definitely double the 200,000 to 400,000-500,000.

What does 500,000 simultaneous online records mean?

Well, let's do the math.

World of Warcraft uses a point card system, 4 cents per hour, 9.6 yuan 24 hours a day.

Multiply 9.6 by 30 days per month, and then multiply by 500,000, and the monthly income is 140 million.

Of course, it is impossible for 500,000 people to be online at the same time 24 hours a day. With a 20% discount, there are also 100 million.

That is to say, the annual income is 1.2 billion, and after deducting the cost, it will earn at least 800 million.

In just one year, NetEase can earn back the agency fee to Blizzard.

As for the back, that is pure profit.

If you go a step further and operate World of Warcraft to millions of simultaneous online, that really...

"well."

Ding Lei's heart was turbulent.

Before that, he never thought that the game he created could break through millions of simultaneous online.

In his eyes, as long as he runs a game with millions of simultaneous online players, he will be able to run rampant on the Internet.

Just like Universal Technology.

Why does Huanyu Technology dare to do things in the east and west, and also engage in mobile phones.

Why can't NetEase do this and that? It's restricted everywhere?

How awesome is Universal Technology?

Is it Chen Yuduo, CEO of Universal Technology, who has an idea?

It's a dime.

no no no...

None of this is.

It's not how strong Huanyu Technology is.

It's not that Chen Yu is so arrogant.

He's totally because they have money.

If they don't have money, even if Chen Yu has the ability to reach the sky, his idea will not be realized.

Suddenly.

Ding Lei found that World of Warcraft gave him an ambition to attack other areas.