The year 2004 is destined to be a major year in the annals of history for China's Internet online game circle.

Soon after the beginning of the year, the two major 3D online games have completed closed beta.

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

Because this is a selection of elite-level players, there are not many players who are tested.

There are still countless people's expectations for how fun and how the two games are playing.

This is different from the previous days when activation codes were required.

At this time, most of the major game companies have canceled the activation code policy.

Especially in addition to the emergence of the two major competing games, activation codes can only hinder the promotion of the game.

Therefore, although the closed beta is not an open beta, it has become a must for major game manufacturers.

For major game companies, in fact, the closed beta is equivalent to the open beta.

It can even be said that the closed beta is more important than the open beta.

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

If the closed beta is cold, the open beta is basically a foregone conclusion.

For the time being, there has been no game that has been tested in the open beta and hit the streets.

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

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

"I'm ready to play World of Warcraft. ”

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

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

"Well, I'd better play Kyushu first. ”

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

However, the timing is slightly different.

On this side of World of Warcraft, it's 13 p.m., which is 1 p.m.

Kyushu OL is 18 o'clock in the evening.

Both games have their own fans, as well as their respective gaming demographics.

However, World of Warcraft seems to be a bit more popular than Universal Technology.

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

Although a few hours late does not really tell the winner.

But under the strength of the two sides is so close, and they have already launched a real sword and gun competition, although one step later is not fatal, it is definitely the first to lose the general trend.

......

"Departments ready. ”

"The closed beta is about to begin, and I don't want to know if there are any surprises. ”

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

At the headquarters of NetEase, Ding Lei personally came to the World of Warcraft Game Department.

All the best.

World of Warcraft itself is an extremely eye-catching supermasterpiece.

Coupled with the good reputation shown by the closed beta.

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

As soon as World of Warcraft is opened, the data is absolutely beautiful.

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

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

"It's open, brothers, come on. ”

"It's open, it's up, it's up. ”

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

"Why?"

"Nonsense, the mage has always been Blizzard's own son, no matter what the revision, the mage has always been the most damaging in the Blizzard Warcraft series of games. ”

There are several players who have participated in the closed beta to guide everyone in the YY group chat.

Although YY is Huanyu Technology's, NetEase and Huanyu Technology are competitors. But even if it is a competitor, they like to use YY very much. NetEase, on its part, is not worried about what restrictions Huanyu Technology will impose on them, which is simply impossible. In addition to whether this is in line with the strategy of Huanyu Technology, in fact, they use YY to enhance the viscosity of YY.

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

In particular, Huanyu Technology's instant messaging.

Ding Lei is extremely clear, although it seems that the most profitable thing for Huanyu Technology is games.

But the game is nothing more than money for them.

The real core has always been their instant messaging.

"Where's the background data?"

"Mr. Ding, here, look. ”

The programmer called up the background data.

This data includes the number of registrations, the number of people who are online at the same time, and the length of time online...... Wait a minute.

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

Regardless of the number of registrations, if the number of people online at the same time is not large, he is also a street game.

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

Otherwise, he wouldn't have been able to make much money.

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

"50 thousand. ”

10 minutes.

World of Warcraft broke a record of 50,000 people online at the same time.

This made Ding Lei's heart beat violently.

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

And, that's not all.

Because it's only been 10 minutes.

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

"100,000. ”

"150,000. ”

"200,000. ”

The same numbers as expected.

As the online time of World of Warcraft grew, more and more players entered World of Warcraft.

At the same time, the number of people online at the same time in World of Warcraft has also been constantly refreshed again and again.

"My God, 200,000, 200,000. ”

Ding Yingfeng shouted excitedly.

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

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

But that's okay.

A 3D game is not the same as a 2D game.

There is always a process of adaptation when it comes to moving from a 2D game to a 3D game.

Of course, that's not the point.

The point is that on the first day of the test, or now the first day is not over, he broke the 200,000 simultaneous online record.

Such a figure is far beyond their imagination.

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

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

What does 500,000 simultaneous online records mean?

So, let's do the math.

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

9.6 multiplied by 30 days per month, multiplied by 500,000, the monthly income is 140 million.

Of course, it is impossible to be 500,000 online at the same time 24 hours a day, and there are 100 million at a discount.

In other words, the annual income is 1.2 billion, excluding the cost, at least more than 800 million.

In just one year, NetEase was able to earn back the agency fees it gave to Blizzard.

As for the back, that's pure earning.

If you take it a step further and operate World of Warcraft to a million simultaneous online, it would be ......

"Good, good. ”

Ding Lei's heart was turbulent.

Before that, he never thought that the game he was making could break one million online at the same time.

In his eyes, as long as he runs a game that is online at the same time, he will be able to run rampant on the Internet.

Just like Universal Technology.

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

Why is NetEase not doing this, not that, and being restricted everywhere?

Is Huanyu Technology awesome?

Is Chen Yuduo, the CEO of Huanyu Technology, having an idea?

It's a dime.

No, no, no......

It's none of that.

It's not how strong Huanyu Technology is.

It's not that Chen Yu is awesome.

He's meowing all about them having money.

If they didn't have money, even if Chen Yu had the ability to reach the sky, his idea would not be realized.

Suddenly.

Ding Lei discovers that World of Warcraft has given him an ambition to attack other realms.