In March 2007, in addition to the launch of "Zhu Xian", the first expansion pack of "World of Warcraft" "Burning Expedition" was also updated, this time the version is almost synchronized compared to the American and European servers, and it is also half a year earlier than the nine cities in the previous life.

The level of the game has also been upgraded from level 60 to level 70, and Liu Yun has also taken advantage of this expansion update to upgrade the free trial from level 5 to level 10.

This change is only for the new influx of players. After all, netizens who are accustomed to the automatic pathfinding system of domestic online games, even if there are plug-in prompts, there is still a possibility of committing a road idiot for this game.

Level 10 is about the level at which players get out of the novice village, they are about to face a new and unknown world, and if they want to continue exploring, they have to choose to buy point cards.

The player base of Warcraft is placed there, even if you don't do too much publicity, but people spread the word of mouth, and the major portals are competing to report, there will always be a steady stream of newcomers pouring in.

The plan given by Liu Yun is that the new server will continue to open, and if the old server is sparsely populated, it will choose to merge the server. Such an expensive server should be fully utilized.

The expansion was generally popular and very successful, but he vaguely remembers that it was also from level 70 onwards that the number of players in the Horde and Alliance factions began to become unbalanced. For example, in the previous life, the server that Liu Yun played on, at level 60, the number of people in the two camps was basically balanced, but after level 70, players in the alliance became as rare as giant pandas.

If you're able to see Alliance players in the wild, some will even shout excitedly on the World Channel.

The Warcraft expansion is just a small episode for Yoyo, and this month the company's attention has basically focused on "Zhu Xian", a self-developed and heavily invested game that will determine whether Yoyo can be transformed successfully.

One is his own child, and the other is a foreign monk, and the importance of the two is self-evident.

Blizzard may be dissatisfied. But so what?

……

On the way to Yanjing, Liu Yun received a call from Li Hui, which surprised him slightly.

It turned out that he had just adjusted a policy that new players of Warcraft could try to play for free up to level 10, which gave Ctrip inspiration. World of Wonders uses the same strategy, free to level 10.

"Maybe they don't have a lot of confidence in the game. This is Li Hui's view.

But Liu Yun believes that in fact, for most game companies, it takes a lot of courage to adopt point card charges.

is as strong as NetEase, after "Fantasy Journey to the West", the games launched basically adopt the model of free time and paid props.

No matter how much those gamers hate free-to-play online games, it can't change the fact that this type of game is already the main theme of this era.

Liu Yun in his previous life was also a little curious, those game websites, such as 17173, or those players who play more, tout the games that charge for point cards every day, and for those games that are free of charge, they are a mouthful of garbage. But as a result, those games on fire are all free games, and the point card game is basically one out and one dead.

This shows that the players who leave messages are keyboard warriors who don't have a backache when they stand and talk, or they are a handful of people with ulterior motives.

So Liu Yun's view is slightly different from Li's, and Ctrip's doing so may increase the number of people online for the game, or even delay its lifespan.

"Ctrip's Lao Liang can lead such a large travel website, it is impossible to have no level. ”

After a moment's thought, he decided to see the opportunity to act, and said, "Actually, this is an opportunity for us. ”

Li Hui was puzzled and asked, "What chance?" ”

Liu Yun replied directly: "Change the original plan." In the beginning, we planned to increase the popularity of the game during the open beta period, so that all the open beta servers were in a popular state, and new servers were constantly added. When the game was officially charged, a large number of water armies and gamers from the major guilds evacuated on a large scale, allowing them to experience the feeling of going from heaven to hell. ”

"That's right, that's right. This is a countermeasure discussed privately between the two.

In fact, there are many game companies like Yoyo, in wooing those game guilds, but Yoyo's advantage is obvious, they have YO Bi, for Yoyo, they have the exclusive right to publish, the cost paid is negligible, but for those netizens, they can buy game products, antivirus software activation, and even book a room on Yoyo Holiday Online, which is of great significance.

But other companies don't have such good chips, and they want to win over these game companies to get some real money. Therefore, in this battlefield, Yoyo's advantage is very obvious, and the management of these game guilds is willing to obey Li Hui's dispatch.

Liu Yun continued: "We feel that we should be improvised, and let the other party have a sweet dream for a while. ”

Li Hui's eyes flashed, and he suddenly smiled: "Mr. Liu, I understand." Because of the opponent's new policy, players can play for free until level 10. I'm going to make a plan, and I can summon a bunch of 10-level trumpets from the water army to boost the online rate of "World of Wonders". ”

Liu Yun nodded and said with a smile: "That's the truth." ”

Li Hui couldn't help but secretly say that this plan was too cunning, and he gave the other party a grape, but no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't eat it.

Even if Ctrip can count the number of paying players above level 10, if the number is scarce, it will breed a very contradictory mentality, whether to give up or persevere. After all, the huge number of trumpets below level 10 will always make people hopeful, and they will expect that among these trumpets, there will be people who will continue to convert into paying users.

One day, two days, three days, most of them will wait for a while, and even make a fool of themselves, telling themselves that there will be a lot of paying users soon, just wait a little longer.

This is like a drowning person who sees a life-saving straw, and will inevitably hold on to it tightly and never let go easily, until one day he is completely desperate and dies.

"Then I'll prepare now, and promise to get things done. Li Hui received the order and went to work.

After Liu Yun hung up the phone, he heard the radio in the waiting room shouting: Passengers going to Yanjing, start checking tickets.

He stood up and said indifferently to Feng Liang, his personal bodyguard behind him, "Let's go, let's go to Yanjing." ”

This time, he will meet a person as agreed, and he is also the father of his friend Li Mingen, the president of the Huaxia Academy of Sciences, Li Zeguang. (https:)

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