It turns out that Warcraft III is really not bad, Mike, and Blizzard are not bad, not to mention not bad, they are simply quite good, quite powerful, and quite awesome.

Since the launch of Warcraft III, it has shown a strong ability to attract gold, and in just one week, global sales have reached 1 million sets, which is quite a powerful data.

You know, Warcraft III is not a small-budget game like plants, this game has poured a lot of effort and money into Blizzard, and it took several years to develop, so the price is not cheap. The price of ten yuan like a plant is completely incomparable, the price of Warcraft has reached 50 US dollars abroad, and in Huaxia, it also needs 100 quick money to buy.

Even so, Warcraft III still sold 1 million sets in the first week, 200,000 sets in Huaxia, and 800,000 sets abroad, directly generating tens of millions of revenue for Blizzard.

And this is just the beginning, with Zhou Fangyuan's stay in Blizzard, it has brought the concept of "service charges" to Blizzard, these fees are actually not high, and they can even be said to be very cheap, but they can't stand the service content, the hero in Warcraft III is the core, and the hero skin is very important. A beautiful skin that no one can refuse. Needless to say, how much money did the famous League of Legends make by selling skins?

The number of players in a single round of Warcraft III is difficult to reach the level of League of Legends, the difficulty of the game is different, the number of players is different, and the essence of the game is not the same, so it is destined that Warcraft III cannot have more than 100 million players like League of Legends, in fact, there are probably not as many as hundreds of millions of netizens around the world today, and there is a player of Warcraft III in an average of several screen names, which is incredible. Not to mention that Blizzard didn't think so, even Zhou Fangyuan didn't think so.

But even so, once Warcraft Trinity was released, it immediately caused a sensation in the industry.

All game media in all countries around the world are exclaiming the birth of "masterpieces", and the sales figures will continue to increase over time.

Of course, these are not the most important, the most important thing is that Blizzard has shown the world a near-perfect real-time strategy game, and it is almost impossible to find fault with it, and the only thing that can be found fault may be that the graphics quality of Warcraft III is not very good. But that's pretty good, okay? Today's PCs aren't too high, and Blizzard's game optimization has always been the best in the world. With the same configuration, the quality that Blizzard games can show is to surpass other games.

If nothing else, let's talk about World of Warcraft, which will appear in the near future, this online game can be said to be a milestone, and its game optimization has always been a topic of conversation in the industry.

At a time when PCs were generally low-end, Blizzard brought you 3D games that could run super smoothly, which was definitely the best in this era.

And after that, the picture quality of each expansion of Warcraft has basically improved. Although when Zhou Fangyuan was reborn, there were too many games with better graphics than Warcraft, but as a result, those games with good picture quality were all games with very high requirements for computer configuration, let's just say that Zhou Fangyuan was the most famous PUBG before his rebirth, and the general computer couldn't take it at all, let alone open high-level special effects, it was low-level special effects, and ordinary computers couldn't play it. As long as it's not a classic machine, the mainstream configuration can basically turn on quite high special effects, and the top configuration is even a bit of a waste.

It can be said that when it comes to game optimization, Blizzard is at the forefront of the world.

It's the same now, the picture quality of Warcraft III is also top-notch in this era, of course, some games can't be compared, or some special media, the effect can also surpass Warcraft, but in terms of computer games, there are too few that can surpass Warcraft, which can be said to be rare.

In this regard, Blizzard has always had a huge advantage.

Because of this, its games can be very wide in hand, even players who are relatively tight on hand and can't afford to buy high-end games, can enjoy Blizzard's games, just for this, Blizzard is a success.

And the market has also given Blizzard huge returns.

In the second week, the sales of Warcraft III exceeded two million, and in a month, nearly five million units were sold, which immersed Blizzard in a cheerful atmosphere.

And among them, Huaxia players can be said to have contributed a lot.

Background data shows that Huaxia players alone have sent more than one million sets of sales to Blizzard.

In the last life, piracy was rampant in China, especially in the past few years around the turn of the millennium, foreign game masterpieces that could enter China were basically pirated copies, but few people bought genuine games, why? Are Chinese players reluctant to spend money? Or is it that the quality of Chinese players is not good? No, in later generations, Huaxia, as the world's largest game market, has an annual market size of hundreds of billions of trillions, so why were Chinese players willing to spend money at that time? Because Huaxia was rich? No.

In the final analysis, Huaxia players, like players from other countries, everyone supports the genuine version.

It's just that for various reasons, Chinese players can't get in touch with genuine games, they can only play piracy, and over time, piracy has become a habit, and even become high-sounding, but it seems that Chinese players have no quality.

Now Zhou Fangyuan has changed this form, he has taken the initiative to introduce genuine games, and stands for genuine games, and even holds various offline activities to attract players to participate in genuine games.

And the effect is also significant, although he is powerless to change the entire market, but as long as it is his obvious industry, all pursue the genuine policy. He can't control other games, anyway, his games are genuine, and he resolutely cracks down on piracy. Other things may be a bit more troublesome, but in terms of games, the game itself is not a gadget, and if you steal, you steal it. In the past, foreign manufacturers couldn't speak in China, and the state didn't have a hard plan, so they could only watch piracy run rampant. But now that Zhou Fangyuan has won Blizzard, all Blizzard games, as long as he sees pirated versions on the Internet, he will inevitably raise a legal weapon.

Yuanfang Group is now in China, and it can't be said to be a powerful group, but it is not a soft persimmon. At least some pirate dealers can't compete with a behemoth like the distant group.

Therefore, Zhou Fangyuan can guarantee that Blizzard games can only be genuine in China, and even with it, his games are all genuine, and even games like plants are difficult to pirate. And the game itself has certain social attributes, after all, no one wants to play alone all the time, everyone needs a little partner.

And how to get a buddy?

Playing genuine games, there are Battle.net, forums, and various offline activities that can help players find friends.

Playing games, the feeling of having a partner or not is completely different, even if there is a person who speaks, so Zhou Fangyuan's enterprises and games, the genuine implementation is very smooth, and consumers are basically able to accept it.

Of course, there are also a lot of objections on the Internet, some people say that distant games are too dark, a small game has to make money, a stand-alone game has to sell for 100 yuan, and there are various services, which is simply a vampire.

For this kind of argument, Zhou Fangyuan ignored it all.

How is the playability of plants? Is the game rich in content? Such a game only sells for ten yuan, and as long as it costs ten yuan, you can play it for free forever, where can you find such a good thing, do you need money to buy pirated copies, buy CDs? Since CDs also cost money, how good it is to use this money to buy genuine games, and you can find other players to play with. The price of Warcraft III is indeed a little expensive, but in the same way, the game content is all free, and all subsequent updates are also free, only when a relatively large update is launched, some money may be charged, but it doesn't matter, if you don't want to spend money, you can play the old version, after all, not everyone is willing to spend money to buy a new version, so play the old version directly, and the number of players will not necessarily be less.

As for those services, Zhou Fangyuan has always been very certified and is considering a problem, that is, the balance of the game, so all kinds of services will basically not change the balance of the game. 、

Let's just say that the service that increases the game experience,The increase is only the level of the Battle.net account.,The level is high.,It looks more handsome.,It doesn't cost much money a month.,And there is no such thing as a high or low level of the Battle.net account can't participate in a certain level of the game.,As long as it's a player,You can participate in various levels of games.,You can enjoy all the game content.,So these services are only launched for "local tyrant" players. People have that spare money and are willing to spend money to buy a happy one, so it's free.

As for players who are reluctant to spend more money, they can not buy these services, anyway, whether they buy these services or not, the game content is the same. It's all about the skill and level of the players, not their possessions. 、

So although these sounds are available on the Internet, there are not many of them, and they are basically sprayed by other players as soon as they appear.

After all, there are still most people with brains, and people who have no brains, or who are unreasonable, can only entertain themselves and are not accepted by the mainstream.

Gossip aside, in short, Warcraft III is a success, which is recognized all over the world.

For Zhou Fangyuan, the most direct experience is that there are many people around him who play this game.

He had been in the United States for less than a week, and when he returned to school, he found that his roommate was actually playing the game Warcraft III.

Of his three roommates, Zhao Peng's family is in the best condition, he has a notebook, and he has brought it to school.

When Zhou Fangyuan returned to the dormitory, he saw three heads gathered in front of the computer.

He walked over and smiled, Zhao Peng was playing Warcraft III, there was no network in the dormitory, fortunately, after downloading the game on Battle.net, he could play even if he didn't have a network, but he couldn't log in to his account, and he couldn't get experience even if the game was over. And you can't play against other players online, but it doesn't matter, you can also play on the Internet. No matter how bad it is, it's okay to play stand-alone content directly.

He watched Zhao Peng play games, how to say it, Zhao Peng's skills are very average,

Controlling the Terrans, he was beaten by a computer man of the Night Elves and couldn't find the north.

The first hero summoned by the altar is the archmage, but unfortunately there is only three levels, and it is a little difficult to deal with a small soldier, and the night elf computer man on the opposite side is obviously a simple level computer man, but even so, Zhao Peng has almost no power to fight back, the other party is a non-stop soldier, that is, he keeps attacking his base, but he can't stop the other party at all.

"Blizzard, blizzard!"

"Oh, I know, I'm getting ready. ”

"Run, run, run, where are your soldiers, musketeers, and infantry......",

"I didn't make it, don't talk, let me fight well. ”、

"If you can't do it, if you can't do it, you can replace me, it's so stupid. ”

"I can't do it, you can do it, and how do you know that I can't, you wait and see, I can definitely win!"

Although Zhao Peng said this, he still lost, because he didn't know the so-called micro-manipulation at all, he didn't even remember the shortcut keys of the skills, all of them had to be clicked by the mouse, but he clicked very slowly, and when the heroes put their skills, they all stood stupidly in place and put their skills, and directly became a live target. Except for an iron crow, the Dark Night Computer Man on the opposite side beat his archmage so much that he couldn't even return to the city, and he died in the wild countless times. The result is that a game is directly defeated, and there is no one who can be embarrassed like this in the face of computer people.

In the end, Zhao Peng was driven down, obviously it was his computer, but he didn't have a temper at all.

The person who fought was directly replaced by Zhou Fang, this Ludong man, but don't look at this person who looks rough and rough, but the operation is still good.

He directly chose the undead clan, the first hero is the death knight, the computer man is random, with an orc clan, the hero is actually the old cow, the old cow has rough skin and thick meat, it's not good, but the old cow has almost no long-range attack means, and it looks very clumsy in front of death entanglement. And Zhou Fang's operation is still remarkable, at least he is not stupid enough to be pressed and rubbed on the ground by the other party. And he actually knows how to upgrade technology, and he also knows how to restrain the troops, and finally directly created a soldier dragon, three ice dragons, with five spiders, a gang of ghouls, plus his death knight, not only repelled the many attacks of the computer man, but also directly counterattacked the past.

Of course, in the end, he still failed, in terms of development speed, he is still not as good as the computer, although he has been together, but the orcs have the flying dragon knight, there are self-detonating bats, and wolf cavalry, the ice dragon basically did not play any role and was dragged down by the wolf cavalry, and then cut melons and vegetables and was generally strangled. The spider itself is not a high-armor and high-blood creature, and in the face of the attack of the orc army on the opposite side, it can't withstand a few rounds at all.

On the contrary, it was the group of ghouls who finally bit the hero on the other side, but unfortunately, at the same time as biting the old cow, the ghoul also died almost. In the end, the Death Knight could only be beaten to death by a group of orcs, which was quite miserable.

Zhou Fangyuan stood behind, watching the three roommates playing and shouting, and laughed happily.

Warcraft III, a great success!