During the Spring Festival this year, Liu Yun was extremely busy.

There was an endless stream of people who came to his home to pay New Year's greetings, and his mobile phone rang non-stop during the Chinese New Year.

Compared with the scene of the family in previous years, it is a stark contrast.

During the Chinese New Year, he also accepted an interview with the media in his hometown, and the content was similar to the previous interviews, just a formality.

He was also named one of the top 10 youths in Tokai City and attended the award ceremony.

Years later, the hotel that Liu Yun funded for his parents began to open. The guesthouse is small and has more than 30 rooms.

As soon as his heart moved, the beautiful figure of his girlfriend Su Yuhan appeared in his mind, so he named this hotel Yuhan Inn.

Liu Yun's parents knew that their son had a girlfriend at Zhejiang University, and they also expressed support for the name of the inn, and always shouted to see the girl. He had to comfort his parents, and when it came to the Chinese New Year next year, he tried to bring Su Yuhan to his home.

According to the custom here, if the woman comes to see the man's parents, if there is no accident between the two, it will be counted as a success.

Now that his parents are not very old, they have not yet reached the point of retirement, and they stay at home with nothing to do every day, Liu Yun is really worried about being bored and holding back his illness. Now that there is this hotel, my parents have their own careers, and they are busy from morning to night.

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On the ninth day of the Lunar New Year, most students are still in the middle of the winter vacation, praying that time will pass slowly and the new semester will come later. Liu Yun had already embarked on the journey back to Ningjiang.

Whether it is Yoyo Network or Yoyo Holiday Network has started to work since the seventh day of the Lunar New Year, Liu Yun, as the boss, can go a few days late, but not too long.

In addition to the promotion of Yoyo browser, the high-profile epic online game "World of Warcraft" will officially start the closed beta registration on February 18, and the closed beta will officially start on March 1.

Throughout the first half of the year, the focus of Yoyo Network's work will shift to the preparation of World of Warcraft.

For this game, Liu Yun spent more than 10 million US dollars a year in agency fees, as well as tens of millions of yuan in promotion fees. All of Yoyo's operating income in the past year, deducting operating costs, was almost all smashed on this game.

Success or failure, heaven or hell.

Every time the employees of the company saw the young boss talk about World of Warcraft, their eyes lit up. Such a confident demeanor is also infectious to everyone in the company.

"Boss, the enthusiasm of the players this time is extremely high, and our closed beta accounts are in short supply. Chen Zhe, the leader of the World of Warcraft operation team, sat in front of Liu Yun and said excitedly.

Liu Yun listened to his report, frowned and asked: "Now that there are a lot of public beta numbers on Taobao, I hope that you, as the team leader, can strengthen supervision to ensure that no employees within Yoyo Network make profits by selling internal beta accounts." ”

Chen Zhe nodded and reassured.

Liu Yun continued: "If these closed beta accounts are sold by players online, we can't stop them, and we can only turn a blind eye. What's more, they will drive up the price by doing so, which will also help our company gather popularity for the game. ”

In this era, players register game accounts, no ID number, no real name, no mobile phone authentication, as long as the Ministry of Culture does not issue relevant documents, why should he be bored to do these thankless tedious things. What's more, the result of this is very likely to lead to the loss of players.

He was silent for a moment, and then continued to ask: "There is no technical problem, right? For example, the construction of servers and the testing of network lines." ”

Chen Zhe said: "There is no big problem. In terms of servers, we have spent a lot of money on servers designated by Blizzard, and these servers are running well in North America and Europe. The connection of the network line and the bugs in the game content can only be discovered after the internal test. ”

Liu Yun nodded and said, "The internal test is originally to find problems. It's not terrible to have a problem, as long as it is solved, and the problem must not be left to the open beta. ”

Chen Zhe looked at Liu Yun and hesitated for a while, then asked, "Boss, there is a question, I don't know if you have considered it? ”

Liu Yun was also stunned, thinking in his heart that for this game, is there anything missing?

"But it doesn't hurt to say that. He said.

"World of Warcraft has a bit of high requirements for computer configurations, and many families can't run computers today, including some Internet cafes. Chen Zhe voiced the worry in his heart.

Computer configuration problem? Liu Yun frowned slightly for a while, then quickly stretched out, and said with a smile: "This problem is indeed something I didn't consider, but even if I think about it, it won't change anything, don't you say?"

Chen Zhe was also stunned and said: "You are right, but this hardware condition is indeed a roadblock, blocking the front of our company, and it will also affect the number of people online in this game." ”

Liu Yun spread his hands and said with a smile: "You just need to do your job, and you don't have to worry about the rest." ”

In the previous life, someone once joked that after "World of Warcraft" landed in Huaxia, it also made these old computer hosts undergo a large-scale upgrade, and many computers with only 256M memory have been upgraded to 512M, which is also the minimum configuration requirement of "World of Warcraft".

Compared with many large-scale 3D online games with gorgeous graphics in later generations, World of Warcraft does not have too high requirements for computer configurations. It has corresponding settings for ordinary and high-end players with normal computer configurations.

All in all, the game's compatibility is pretty good in 3D games.

After Liu Yun sent Chen Zhe away, he couldn't help but feel a little excited in his heart, the long-awaited internal test is finally about to begin, so will the public beta and even commercial operation be far away?

This will definitely be an online game that will change the Internet landscape in China, and it will also be the best opportunity for him to leap into the dragon gate.

It's late February, and it's less than four months before the game's scheduled commercial launch, so the charging model should have been determined sooner.

When Liu Yun negotiated the contract with Blizzard, he had already agreed that this game must be charged for point cards. As for how to charge, he has a lot of autonomy.

In his previous life, Jiucheng Company used a 30 yuan point card as a CDK to activate the game account, and then gave you 1800 minutes, he was betting on the popularity of this game, enough to make those players pay more money.

Liu Yun also remembered the marketing strategy of NetEase in his previous life, exempting the activated CDK and playing for free to level 20. He was also ready to cancel the CDK, but shamelessly changed playing for free to level 20 to playing for free to play to level 5.