Chapter 236 Krypton gold, let’s go!
"Recharge failed, please check whether your phone bill is sufficient."
Looking at the prompt on the computer screen, Lao Zhang was startled. Not long ago, he had just recharged 100 yuan. The money spent was all spent in just one morning.
“Have I charged so much money?” Lao Zhang opened the calculator and started counting from the first ten yuan. After adding up the several recharges, he really made a charge of nearly a hundred yuan. money.
“I don’t have enough money for cigarettes for ten days. How about I smoke less cigarettes and beer this month? Don’t drink it every day. I drink a bottle every other day. I have to save this hundred yuan. Come out.”
Thinking of this, Lao Zhang reluctantly closed the screen of the Three Kingdoms web game. He was afraid that he could not control himself and would be tempted to top up money if he continued to play.
At this moment, a colleague from the Finance Department knocked on the door and walked in.
"Let me tell you some good news. This year's year-end bonus, the boss said that it will be paid out in advance so that everyone can have a good year. I will go to the Finance Department to get it soon."
Hearing about the year-end bonus Everyone in the office, including Lao Zhang, became excited.
After a while, Lao Zhang received the year-end bonus from the Finance Department. Looking at the red banknotes in his hand, Lao Zhang thought that he could buy some roast chicken and meat in the evening and drink some wine happily.
Lao Zhang, who was in a good mood, leaned on his chair and clicked on the interface of "The Legend of the Three Kingdoms" like a ghost.
At the top of the screen, a particularly eye-catching icon appeared in Lao Zhang's field of vision, with the words "limited time activity" underneath the icon.
"Limited time event?" Lao Zhang clicked on it and saw a new prop called the Gold Medal Recruiting Token. If you use the Gold Medal Recruiting Token, you will definitely get a blue general and a high probability of getting a red general. The event time is only Three days!
The next second, Lao Zhang stood up immediately and said to his colleagues next to him: "I'm going out for a trip. My mobile phone is in arrears. I went to the parking lot downstairs to buy a mobile phone recharge card."
A few minutes later, Lao Zhang returned to his position with two more mobile phone cards in his hand.
Recharge, buy gift packs, draw cards, and keep walking!
After accumulating several powerful generals, Lao Zhang challenged other players. The results were mutually exclusive, but overall he won more and lost less.
"The battle failed, you lost 5,000 grains and grass..."
Looking at the latest battle results, Lao Zhang was startled, and clicked on the opponent's lineup. Meng Huo, Gang Ya Chang, King Mulu, Wu Gutu, Dong Dana, A Hui Nan.
"How is it possible? The opponent only has one red general, Meng Huo, and his attack power is only 88. I have Lu Bu and Xiahou Dun here, how can I lose?"
Lao Zhang immediately looked through the battle records.
“The opponent has Meng Huo and five Nanman generals. The combination skill Nanman Invasion is triggered, and the attack power is increased by 20%! King Mulu exists, which triggers the Elephant Soldiers, and the opponent’s morale is reduced by 10%! Wutu Bone exists, Trigger the vine armor and increase the defense by 30%! You can actually play like this!"
Old Zhang suddenly remembered that when he read the game description before, he did see the description of the combination of skills, but he didn't pay attention to it now. Come on, this game explanation is very useful!
So Lao Zhang immediately clicked on the game description and checked various combination skills.
“The Five Tiger Generals’ combo skills increase their attack power by 100%. They include Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, Zhao Yun, Ma Chao and Huang Zhong. I don’t have any of them yet! The Five Tiger Generals’ combo skills increase their defense power by 80%. , I seem to have one Li Dian, but none of the other four, Yan Liang, Wen Chou, Zhang He, and Gao Lan. I only have one Wen Chou.
The eight generals are Zhang Liao, Gao Shun, Song Xian, Wei Xu, Hao Meng, Cao Xing, Cheng Lian, and Hou Cheng. Although there are eight people, only Zhang Liao has a red card, Gao Shun has a blue card, and the others seem to have green cards. Be a general! It's a pity that I don't have Zhang Liao. Otherwise, you can put this combination together. "
Lao Zhang looked for a long time and finally found a combination that he could put together.
"Liangzhou Cavalry, Dong Zhuo, Li Jue, Guo Si, Zhang Ji, Niu Fu, this Yes, except for Dong Zhuo, all the others are green card generals. This combination increases the attack power by 20% and the explosive power by 10%. I seem to be missing Zhang Ji. ”
Lao Zhang spent fifty yuan without hesitation, thinking that he must get Zhang Ji out.
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In this kind of game that claims to be free, but is actually a money-making game, those who have no money to recharge, like the kid brother, are all lambs waiting to be slaughtered. In addition to boosting their popularity, they are just to make those junior people earn money. Players, feel the thrill of victory.
You have to say that these people are not important. If they don’t recharge, they really can’t bring revenue to the game manufacturers. But without them, the game will not be very active. At least those technology players will not be able to find it. For people who can be bullied, the experience will be greatly reduced.
Those like Lao Zhang who have spent hundreds to thousands of dollars are the backbone of the game. These people are very good at bullying, but when faced with real krypton gold bosses, they are just cowards.
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 can’t say how strong the PK is, but it is definitely no problem to complete ordinary tasks. .
However, the core content of Weiguang Technology's Three Kingdoms web game is PK, with very few character links. So if you want to have fun, you have to be a krypton gold boss.
In the office of the owner of a decoration company, Jin Haitao, the money-making boss, was clicking the mouse to draw cards.
"It's so slow to draw cards one by one. It would be great if I could draw dozens of cards at once!" Jin Haitao thought to himself.
The profits in the decoration industry are still very large, and business was very good last year. As a decoration salary boss, Jin Haitao also made a lot of money.
Now that the Spring Festival is approaching, no customers will decorate at this time, so Jin Haitao gave the workers a holiday and asked them to 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, and someone can greet you.
Being alone in the office was boring, so Jin Haitao turned on his computer and started playing games.
As a businessman, he is usually busy with social activities and does not have much time to spend on online games, so Jin Haitao has not played any of the popular online games.
Even when playing, Jin Haitao doesn't have that much time to practice his account. He is just a small character in the game who is bullied by others, and has no sense of gaming experience at all.
He is the owner of a decoration company and has dozens of employees under his command. To play a game and get bullied is obviously not what Jin Haitao wants.
Occasionally, Jin Haitao saw an advertisement for "free games, click to play". He clicked on it out of curiosity, and he discovered a new world!
This Three Kingdoms web game is simply too appealing to Jin Haitao. He does not need to spend too much time and top up money to become stronger.
It doesn't matter if you don't have money or people to build buildings. If you buy dozens of farmland cards, you will have money and people to build buildings in an instant.
It doesn’t matter if the building upgrade is slow. Buy a few accelerator cards and click the mouse to upgrade the building.
The most exciting thing is the card drawing game. This thing is like playing a lottery ticket, giving you endless anticipation.
It doesn’t matter if you draw a waste card, you can still synthesize it. This synthesis is another process of scratching prizes, and you can look forward to another wave.
For a wealthy boss like Jin Haitao, blue card generals are simply out of his sight. What he wants is red card generals. If not, he would be embarrassed to go to war.
With a group of red card generals, Jin Haitao quickly enjoyed the pleasure of conquering cities and territories. Jin Haitao defeated almost every opponent like a crushing victory.
However, what makes Jin Haitao depressed is that in the combat power rankings, he is only second, and the first is a player whose ID is Tonight's Tiger Fight.
"I have so many red cards, but my combat power is not as good as this one to fight the tiger tonight? What the hell is going on?"
Just when Jin Haitao was wondering, something popped up on the computer screen A message: Players challenge you to fight tiger tonight.
"I don't believe I can't defeat you with so many generals! I have three Lu Bu now, let's go together!"
Jin Haitao sent out his strongest lineup, but after entering the battle scene, Jin Haitao suddenly discovered that three of his Lu Bu were defeated by his opponent's Zhao Yun.
"How is this possible? Lu Bu's force value is 100, and Zhao Yun's force value is 99. Even if his building bonus is higher than mine, how can one Zhao Yun kill three Lu Bu? He must be cheating!"< br>
Jin Haitao looked at the opponent's card with a look of disbelief, and suddenly discovered that the opponent's Zhao Yun turned out to be a gold card. This is not ordinary Zhao Yun, but God Zhao Yun.
"Gold card? God Zhao Yun? Is it any different from the red card Zhao Yun?"
Jin Haitao immediately looked at the attributes of gold card god Zhao Yun, although the physics of gold card god Zhao Yun is also 99, but it has an extra skill that ignores 50% of the opponent's defense when attacking!
At this moment, Jin Haitao finally knew why he lost. It turned out that his Lu Bu was completely defenseless in front of Jinka Zhao Yun.
"Holy crap, it turns out that gold cards have extra attributes? No, I want gold card generals too!"
Jin Haitao spent another sum of money and drew three hundred cards in a row , my hands were tired from drawing, but I still didn’t get the gold card.
"By the way, it can be synthesized! Ten red cards can be synthesized into one gold card!"
Thinking of this, Jin Haitao entered the card synthesis interface and gritted his teeth. , put ten red card generals into the synthesis slot, and clicked synthesis. "The synthesis failed and the red card Xu Zhu was lost."
"The synthesis failed, and the red card Taishi Ci was lost."
"The synthesis failed, and the red card Zhang Liao was lost."
"The synthesis was successful, congratulations on getting the gold card, God Lu Bu.”
Jin Haitao immediately clicked on the golden card God Lu Bu. The additional attribute is that it can attack three enemy targets at the same time.
"This is equivalent to being able to fight three at once! It feels stronger than Zhao Yun's defense that ignored 50%!"
With Jin Kalubu, Jin Haitao immediately found a top ten player on the ranking list Players launched a challenge.
The result was of course a crushing one. A golden Kalubu defeated all the opponent's red card generals in just a few attacks.
"Jinka is really awesome!" Jin Haitao's confidence greatly increased, and he decided to challenge the first place player to fight tiger tonight.
Pressing the challenge button, Tiger Tiger tonight accepted his challenge, and this time Jin Haitao was even better. Even if the opponent had the gold card Zhao Yun, he was still no match for Jin Haitao.
"Oh yeah! Victory in the battle!" Jin Haitao immediately clicked on the combat power list. This time, he indeed rushed to the first place, but tonight he was knocked down to the second place in the tiger fight.
“I am number one in the whole server!” Jin Haitao hummed a ditty triumphantly.
However, it didn’t take long before Tiger Fight tonight challenged him again.
"Boy, are you still not convinced? I have the gold-card god Lu Bu, so I am afraid of you!" Jin Haitao immediately accepted the challenge.
Entering the battle screen, Jin Haitao suddenly discovered that in addition to the gold card Zhao Yun, the opponent actually had a gold card Zhang Fei!
"He has two gold cards!" Jin Haitao felt bad. He realized that he was going to lose again.
As expected, the lineup of God Lu Bu is far from the opponent of God Zhao Yun and God Zhang Fei.
Jin Haitao immediately checked the attributes of Shen Zhangfei. The critical hit rate was 50%. After triggering a critical hit, he would attack once more. In other words, if you can trigger critical hits continuously, you can attack continuously.
“This skill is awesome, it’s equivalent to unlimited combos!”
On the combat power list, Jin Haitao fell into second place again.
"Just wait, I'll gather three gold card generals now and kill you!"
Jin Haitao chose to increase the intensity of krypton gold without hesitation.
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At the same time, a college student is sitting in front of his computer. He is the one who is hunting the tiger tonight.
Before the holidays, he saw an advertisement for a part-time job during the winter vacation at the school gate. The position was an online game tester.
He usually likes to play games, so he chose to apply. The other party hired him after letting him try out a web game.
The game company gave him several accounts of different levels, and his job was to act as a player in the game and find other players to challenge him.
Ever since, he started his summer part-time career, spending more than ten hours a day in front of the computer, operating several accounts, and challenging players of different levels.
Today, he seemed to have met a very stubborn player, the second in the power list.
This player has challenged him many times in a row, and with each challenge, the cards in his hand will become much stronger.
"He got another gold card for Sima Yi, which increases the group's defense and health! He already has eight gold cards, which must cost tens of thousands of dollars!" the college student thought to himself.
It costs one yuan to draw a card. The Recruitment Order you buy with money must get a green card. To synthesize a gold card, you need one thousand green cards. Not counting the chance of failure, the cost of the gold card is also one thousand yuan. money.
If you include the chance of failure, just synthesizing these eight gold cards must cost over 10,000!
After all, this was the beginning of 2006, and I had the courage to say that I was a RMB player even if I spent 1,800 yuan. It only took a few hours and cost tens of thousands of yuan. This is definitely a wealthy person.
And this wealthy man must be rich in money now!
Since he is a rich man from above, he must serve him well!
Ever since, the college student immediately clicked the mouse, synthesized two more gold cards, and then launched a challenge to the rich man.
Anyway, the money for drawing cards is given by the game company. To put it bluntly, it is just a bunch of data, and it doesn’t hurt at all to use it.
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"We've made money! We're going to make a lot of money!" Yao Xiaogang stared at a form and then asked: "How much do you think we had yesterday? One million. ! The turnover exceeded one million in one day! ”
Looking at Yao Xiaoguang's exaggerated expression, Zhang Wei smiled indifferently. In later generations, some web games that copied the legend could even achieve a turnover of tens of millions a day. Compared with this, two million a day is indeed not a very outstanding achievement.
But in Yao Xiaoguang's view, a million dollars a day is already outrageous.
If it is a card game, assuming it charges 50 cents an hour, and a player plays for five hours a day, the income is only 2.50 cents. A million turnover is equivalent to 400,000 players. Play five hours a day.
At that time, an online game was considered very successful if the number of people online at the same time exceeded 100,000, and if the number of people online at the same time exceeded 200,000, it was considered a popular online game.
Ordinary people play online games for an average of about two hours a day. If you calculate it this way, one million turnovers is equivalent to the data that only 800,000 to 1 million online game players can contribute.
Online games with a daily active rate of 80 to 1 million were definitely considered top online games in 2006.
Of course, free games are different from point card games. What free games pursue is krypton gold for a short period of time. Tens of thousands of dollars can be spent quickly. Unlike point card games, tens of thousands of dollars can be spent on points. It was enough to make the game go bankrupt.
Yao Xiaoguang started his career in Dianka online games. He never expected that a simple web game could generate millions of revenue per day. This was a miracle to him!
Zhang Wei then said: "It's just the beginning now. I believe that after two or three months, we will earn more!"
"Yes, one million a day. It’s 30 million a month, 360 million a year, we’re rich!” Yao Xiaoguang was still excited.
"Brother Xiaoyao, you are overthinking. Our game itself doesn't have much connotation. I'm afraid it won't last that long. I estimate that such a high turnover can only last three to five months at most. If it can last half a year, I will Thank God." Zhang Wei said.
"Based on the current flow of money, I won't be able to survive for half a year!" Yao Xiaoguang said.
“Our game design is so simple, do you think no one will imitate it? Fortunately, the Spring Festival is approaching and everyone has gone home to celebrate the New Year. After the Spring Festival, I guess there will be many game companies imitating us. If we produce similar games, it will be impossible for us to maintain such revenue if the market is full of homogeneous products!”
“That makes sense!” Yao Xiaoguang said suddenly. He nodded: "After the Spring Festival, we have to calm down and focus all our energy on the DOTA2 project! This is our long-term plan."
Zhang Wei continued: "So while now, There are no competitors yet, so we need to make more money quickly.”
"How to get it?" Yao Xiaoguang asked immediately.
“Isn’t the Spring Festival coming soon? Hold a Spring Festival event and draw cards to get the special general Sun Shangxiang. The chance of this Sun Shangxiang is a little lower, but as long as you draw 888 cards, you will definitely get one Sun Shangxiang."
"The probability is lower, I can understand, but why does it have to be given to Sun Shangxiang if you draw 888 cards?"
"Think about it, if you draw 500 cards? , I didn’t draw, and I wanted to give up, but now I tell you that as long as you draw 888 cards, you will get Sun Shangxiang, so you only need to draw 388 more cards.
And if you are lucky, you won’t have to draw 388 cards. , maybe you can win the next card. But if you don’t continue to draw, then the previous five hundred cards will be in vain! Do you want to continue to draw?”
"No wonder you can go to Tsinghua University. These tricks of yours really play into the minds of players! It's a good thing that I'm not a player, otherwise my wallet would have been emptied by you." Yao Xiaoguang let out a long sigh.
“It all depends on the support of my peers!” Zhang Wei smiled, but in his heart he remembered the painful scene when he played “Fantasy Westward Journey” in later generations and drew the auspicious Chinese Valentine’s Day limited edition.
Win 99 times, only give it after 98 are drawn. Is there any other method? Is there any justice?
(End of this chapter)