Chapter 434 Surprise on the first day of public beta
(The chapter was overhauled yesterday, sorry ORZ.)
At this time, in the Giant Network Company in Shanghai, a group of people gathered around the computer again.
Including Shi Yuzhu, everyone's expressions were solemn, and the atmosphere seemed more tense than on the campus network. It seemed that the open beta of "Warring States Online" launched today was not "Warring States OL" but "Journey".
Lin Haixiao stared at the computer screen, glancing at the time on the watch from time to time, quietly waiting for the game server to open.
He was very anxious. He felt that something was not right with the company since the online game "Warring States OL" appeared.
Today, a competitor's online game is in open beta, and it seems outrageous for everyone to come and watch.
Although "Sengoku OL" is indeed a powerful opponent, it would be a bit of a fuss if everyone from the boss to the senior executives came to watch.
Just when Lin Haixiao was distracted, Ji Xuewei suddenly said: "The server is on, it's on!"
Lin Haixiao immediately sat up straight, logged in to his account, clicked on the first server, quickly created a character and prepared to enter, and then saw the queue prompt.
"Huh?" Ji Xuewei was a little surprised, "The server is so crowded. It seems there are quite a lot of people."
"There are more than a thousand queues, and the server was full as soon as it opened." Shi Yuzhu frowned, "It seems to be very popular."
Lin Haixiao hesitated, "Should we change a server?"
Before anyone else could speak, a prompt popped up again on the queuing interface, "This server has a long queuing time. Do you want to change it to another server?"
Lin Haixiao glanced at Shi Yuzhu next to him, "Should I change it?"
"Wait a minute." Shi Yuzhu rejected the idea of changing servers. "The first server of the game is still very important. Wait slowly."
I don’t know if the other people in line had lost their patience, but Lin Haixiao quickly squeezed into the game before waiting for half a minute.
I started going through novice missions right from the start. I was already familiar with these processes during the closed beta. I had just taken the first mission and before I had even taken a few steps, Shi Yuzhu said again: "Wait a minute, there are numbers on the top of the character's head. What is it?”
Lin Haixiao took a closer look and found that there were some small changes in the game. There was a set of numbers above each character's head.
"Combat power?" Shi Yuzhu was stunned for a moment after seeing the origin of the set of numbers, "What does this mean?"
"Well, will it be the same as the Dragon Ball setting, where each character will be given a numerical value based on the strength or weakness?" Ji Xuewei hesitated and expressed his understanding.
"It should be like this." Lin Haixiao also quickly understood the concept of combat power. "You see there is an explanation here, and it changes according to the increase in the character's attributes. He must have a conversion formula, and each attribute increases accordingly. The combat effectiveness is different.”
"For example, the attack power increases by 10 points, the defense is only 5 points, and the constitution is 1 point. Then add them together and the total is the combat power."
Then Lin Haixiao quickly discovered something called a combat power ranking, which displayed the character ID and his corresponding combat power, arranged from high to low.
The top three in combat power directly show the images of the three characters, looking extremely arrogant.
Shi Yuzhu nodded, "This is a very intuitive comparison method. It is more scientific than level comparison. We need to learn this and put it into "Journey"."
Lin Haixiao hesitated for a moment, then looked at the ranking list carefully and found that there was not only a combat effectiveness ranking list but also an equipment points ranking list. There were also one for mounts and pets, but they were not open yet.
Why do so many rankings?
Before Lin Haixiao could understand the purpose of this design, Shi Yuzhu next to him urged, "Hurry up and go somewhere else to see if there is anything new."
Lin Haixiao could only continue to control the game character to run the novice process tasks until he reached the main city. Suddenly a window popped up, "Congratulations, you have obtained the gold VIP experience qualification. The experience time is two hours."
"Hey, what does gold VIP mean?" Lin Haixiao found the gold VIP interface and clicked to check it out.
Everyone was stunned when they opened it. "Warring States OL" not only has gold VIP, but also diamond VIP and supreme VIP. These three VIPs need to be paid to unlock, which are 10 yuan, 30 yuan and 50 yuan per month respectively.
VIPs will receive various privileges, such as experience bonus for killing monsters, game currency bonus, and free calls on the world channel.
What’s even more outrageous is that the privileges of these three VIPs can be stacked to gain even more convenience.
Everyone frowned. Unexpectedly, Qin Shaoyan was quite good at playing. He got a VIP qualification and widened the gap between paying players and free players.
But this was not what shocked them the most. When they found a first-time recharge gift package popping up in the middle of the screen, everyone looked at each other in silence for several minutes.
The first recharge gift package interface directly displays a purple-quality weapon and other supporting equipment, and the price of these items is even more outrageous, only costing one yuan.
Shi Yuzhu was the first to recover from the shock, "Quick, top up, let me see what's in this one-yuan gift bag?"
Lin Haixiao immediately clicked on the recharge page, recharged a hundred yuan very generously, and then clicked in the game to receive a one-yuan gift pack.
Just after receiving the one-yuan gift pack, an interface popped up, showing that Lin Haixiao could also receive a five-yuan gift pack, followed by ten yuan, thirty yuan, fifty yuan, one hundred yuan...
Lin Haixiao watched numbly as gift bags fell into the character's backpack one after another, clicking on them one by one to unlock various gifts.
From weapons to mounts, from pets to mount skins, all kinds of items stimulated everyone present.
Ji Xuewei took a deep breath, "This Qin Shaoyan is too poisonous. He is luring people to pay step by step, from one yuan to one hundred yuan."
"And those three VIPs, the money was spent before I knew it."
Shi Yuzhu frowned and kept staring at the game screen. He was silent for a moment and said directly: "This is a very good way to attract payment. Copy it into our game immediately."
What else could Lin Haixiao say, he could only nod and agree.
"Qin Shaoyan still has something." Shi Yuzhu said slowly, "He actually thought of a one-yuan gift package to attract people to pay. In fact, it is quite difficult for players to pay for the first time. As long as they overcome the psychological barrier of paying, they can continue to pay. It will be much easier.”
Shi Yuzhu greatly appreciated the design of this bad street in later online games. Although he did not know the official name of this "ice-breaking payment", it did not hinder his appreciation of this design.
Its purpose is to seduce players to make the first payment. After the first time, the psychological barrier will not be so strong when making subsequent payments.
Moreover, after paying, it is equivalent to increasing the investment cost, making it difficult for players to give up their accounts.
Lin Haixiao continued to play and found that the more he played, the more frightened he became, because he discovered that the game contained various payment points, and that each character's growth system had a payment pit. Although he did not know the depth of payment How much, but he could feel it was a deep pit.
"Hey, what happened just now?" Shi Yuzhu suddenly pointed at the screen. Everyone took a closer look and found that a player seemed to be riding a dragon and walked past.
"F*ck!" Ji Xuewei cursed next to him, "This dragon is so beautifully designed. Where did it come from?"
"Maybe it's the effect of the upgrade of the mount?" Lin Haixiao said uncertainly, "I seem to remember that the shape is different every time it is upgraded."
Shi Yuzhu immediately said: "Upgrade the mount immediately. Let me see what each of its forms looks like."
"This..." Lin Haixiao hesitated, "I'm afraid it will cost a lot of money."
"It doesn't matter, just take the company's account." Shi Yuzhu waved his hand, "Give me ten thousand yuan to go in."
Lin Haixiao was a little speechless, but he opened the recharge page again without any slow movement.
Because the maximum recharge level is 1,000 yuan, he had to recharge ten times. Just after recharging once, a page prompt suddenly popped up. "Dear VIP customers, your dedicated customer service will contact you to answer your recharge questions, please leave your contact information."
Less than a minute after filling in his mobile phone number, Lin Haixiao's mobile phone suddenly rang. He frowned and hung up, but the other party still called relentlessly.
Shi Yuzhu said impatiently: "You handle it."
Lin Haixiao immediately answered the phone, and a charming and graceful female voice came from inside, "Are you a player with the game ID Giant Platinum?"
"It's me." Lin Haixiao immediately pressed the speakerphone and put the phone on the table.
"Hello, I'm from Hattori, a visitor of "Sengoku OL". My name is Nana. I noticed that you just completed a large recharge of 1,000 yuan." Nana's pleasant voice came from the mobile phone, " Our game has a recharge promotion. I wonder if you want to know about it. Our discount is very strong this time." "I'm sorry, I'm not interested," Lin Haixiao said directly.
"Hello sir, you will get 200 yuan when you recharge 1,000 yuan. In addition, you will also receive three months of supreme VIP."
"Huh?" Lin Haixiao was stunned for a moment.
Nana continued: "If you recharge more than 3,000 yuan, we will give you an additional 900 yuan worth of ingots and six months of supreme VIP. If you recharge 5,000 yuan..."
Shi Yuzhu immediately interrupted and asked: "How much will you give me if I recharge 10,000?"
Nana's voice paused and she immediately replied: "Recharge 10,000 yuan and get 5,000 yuan, sir."
"Then I'll recharge 10,000 yuan." Shi Yuzhu patted Lin Haixiao and motioned for him to recharge.
"Wait a moment, sir." Nana added, "We have a special offer for big customers today. If you recharge more than 100,000 yuan, we will give you a high-end weapon with an exclusive name. You can name this weapon yourself. ”
Shi Yuzhu was also stunned for a moment and frowned, "What else is there besides weapons?"
"There is also a high-end mount skin." Nana's voice was full of temptation. "In addition, we will also give away a number of ingot props to help you become the first in the server."
"Then give me 100,000!" Shi Yuzhu said without hesitation.
Lin Haixiao beside him couldn't sit still. Why was he spending more and more money?
"Thank you for your recharge. I will be your exclusive customer service from now on." Nana looked a little excited. "If you have any questions, you can contact me at any time. I will serve you 24 hours a day."
"Yeah." Shi Yuzhu didn't say much, just urged, "Immediately increase the recharge amount. Recharging one thousand, one thousand is too troublesome."
"Wait a moment, I will open the largest recharge slot for you right away." Nana replied excitedly.
On the other side, Nana's hands were shaking, and she immediately contacted the operation and maintenance department on QQ, "First server, game ID Giant Platinum, recharge of 100,000!"
"Received!" The operation and maintenance department replied instantly, turned around and shouted, "Server 1, Giant Platinum, focus on it!"
At this time, Shi Yuzhu had taken Lin Haixiao's place and started operating in front of the computer himself. After spending nearly 20,000 yuan on props, he finally upgraded the mount to the highest level currently.
Lin Haixiao frowned, "This mount doesn't seem to increase its combat effectiveness much, does it?"
"It's really not much, but I think it's pretty good-looking." Ji Xuewei interjected.
After admiring the cool "Wandering Dragon" skin, Shi Yuzhu also nodded, "It really looks good, copy this one too."
Shi Yuzhu took out another exclusive weapon that he had obtained by recharging 100,000 yuan. This weapon was named "Giant Network Journey" by him, and he even sent it to the World Channel to show off.
Then he opened the strengthening interface and started the journey of strengthening with krypton gold. After failing countless times, he finally reached the level of strengthening by ten.
"This enhancement system is well done. We can copy it." Shi Yuzhu looked at the shining golden weapon and was very satisfied. "The enhancement attributes have also doubled. Let's continue to strengthen it and see where its limit is."
Shi Yuzhu, who was very interested, put the strengthened weapon by ten on the strengthening interface again, and then clicked the strengthening button.
"Bang", a crisp game sound effect sounded, and Shi Yuzhu watched in shock as his weapon shattered into pieces.
Shi Yuzhu was stunned and didn't react for a long time. He hesitated and asked, "Where are the weapons?"
Lin Haixiao: "..."
Ji Xuewei: "..."
Wu Lian, who had been silent next to him, said carefully, "It seems to be broken."
"Broken?" Shi Yuzhu repeated subconsciously, and then it took him two seconds to react, "Fuck! Qin Shaoyan, you bastard!"
Shi Yuzhu was so angry that he cursed directly.
Lin Haixiao glanced at Ji Xuewei and whispered: "Qin Shaoyan's design is quite dark."
"That's right." Ji Xuewei was convinced, and the weapons he got for free by recharging 100,000 yuan were gone.
Shi Yuzhu, who had been scolding for a while, suddenly said, "Let's copy this design too."
Lin Haixiao: "..."
……
The campus network operations department has fallen into a sea of joy at this time, and everyone is as crazy as if they were drunk.
"The running water has exceeded three million!"
"Five million!"
"Eight million!"
Xiong Xiaoge and Zheng Nan, who were originally sitting in the reception room drinking tea, couldn't sit still when news of good news came. They rushed directly to the operations department, and then saw the recharge data in the background beating continuously.
Every second, the recharge data was constantly changing, and they seemed to see a large amount of money pouring in crazily.
Qin Shaoyan stood beside him with a smile, and said calmly: "In less than nine hours since the server was launched, there have already been nine million transactions. The peak recharge period is after eight o'clock in the evening. Today, the total transaction amount exceeded one There is no doubt about it.”
Before she finished speaking, Fan Xiaoqian shouted excitedly: "American gamers have recharged more than one million US dollars!"
Everyone present was shocked. Zheng Nan from Sequoia took a breath, "Do you have overseas users?"
"Well, I didn't expect that either." Qin Shaoyan said with a sigh, "Sure enough, a game with good quality can conquer the world."
Xiong Xiaoge was also very excited, "It seems that Mr. Qin's goal today is a bit low."
Zheng Nan laughed, "I think it's easy to make over 20 million today."
"As long as it can reach 15 million." Qin Shaoyan said modestly, "Just looking at today's turnover data is of little significance. What we have to do is how to ensure the subsequent recharge turnover. We hope that the turnover in the first month can reach 5,000." Wan is very satisfied.”
"I believe in Mr. Qin's strength." Zheng Nan was in a good mood at this time and began to flatter Qin Shaoyan, "He is indeed China's number one game designer, and he truly deserves his reputation."
Xiong Xiaoge nodded, "I think there is no need to look any further. There is no suspense about the IPO of Campus Network."
Zheng Nan immediately agreed, "I think there's no problem. Let's go have a drink today. It's an early celebration."
"Well, let's forget it today." Qin Shaoyan didn't plan to open the champagne at halftime, "How about we drink it after the first month is over."
"That's fine." Zheng Nan didn't take it seriously and said with a smile, "Then I'll prepare a few bottles of good wine and save them for you first."
The two parties agreed to meet again at the end of the month, and Zheng Nan happily left with the people.
Xiong Xiaoge and Qin Shaoyan returned to the reception room talking and laughing. As soon as the door closed, the smile on Xiong Xiaoge's face suddenly disappeared and he stared at Qin Shaoyan closely.
"Qin Shaoyan, tell me the truth, what happened to the one million dollars?"
"Hey, Mr. Xiong, you actually discovered it." Qin Shaoyan sat on the sofa very calmly, as if nothing had happened.
Xiong Xiaoge was shocked, "You actually asked someone to recharge your own online game!?"
(End of chapter)