Chapter Ninety-Nine: The First Year of Online Games
On February 1, 1999, as the first batch of players to enter the legendary online game, Zhou Ming and several classmates entered the Internet café, and after completing the formalities, they skillfully opened the legendary game.
The game interface did not appear as usual, but first popped up an interface that started to officially charge. Zhou Ming and the classmates at the next table glanced at each other, and couldn't help but feel a trace of bitterness in their hearts, during this time, the game was so enjoyable that he almost forgot that the game still had to be charged.
Although the fee will cause a certain amount of financial pressure on yourself as a student, but after more than a month of hard work, your own warriors have become well-known in the server, and the mages and Taoists of your classmates go out to fight BOSS explosion equipment together, all relying on their own warrior numbers, rough skin and thick meat, and they can have a stable output in front of them.
Anyway, let's take a look at the charging policy first!
The description page explains two charging methods, 50 yuan for a monthly card, 30 yuan for a point card, and 1 point for 2 hours.
Several people exchanged glances with each other, and the price was still okay, not too expensive, not too cheap.
Those who play for a long time can choose a monthly card, and those who have limited time can choose a point card.
Looking down, they see that a new class has been added to the game: the Assassin.
The game opens the guild system: the boss in the game, after being killed, has a certain chance to drop the guild token, the upper limit of the primary guild is 100 people, and the guild level increases, which requires the efforts of everyone in the guild. Players with guilds can enjoy numerous buff bonuses.
After the official operation, a lot of new ways to play have been added to the game, please explore by yourself after entering the game.
At the end of the statement, a punitive measure for cheating was added: the game operator accepts player supervision and automatic game detection, and once it is determined that the player is using the crank, the account will be banned immediately. Within a week of their guild, all active players will have their buffs canceled, their drop rate will be reduced by 30%, and their ID numbers will never be able to register for Legendary Games. VV chat software also marks the account of the cheating player as an untrustworthy player.
In the envelope of game data, a verification mechanism with normal data has been added, and for abnormal data, the server will automatically intercept and add it to the abnormal list. After a period of observation, if there are still frequent anomalies, a short video will be taken as evidence for retention. This determines that the player uses a plug-in to send the abnormal video to the player's email address and then permanently ban the account.
For such a strict anti-cheating measure, which will obviously increase the overhead and burden of the server, and even lead to redundancy, the developers of the stick country have expressed their opposition. But Zhang Yi made it clear that he would rather spend more money to purchase better and faster servers, but for anti-cheating, he should try his best to do it technically, and he can't let go of one.
No matter how good the game is, if the plug-in is rampant, it won't survive for long. Legendary online games, he has high expectations, he doesn't want to cool the hearts of players and shorten the life cycle of the game because of garbage plug-ins.
You know, the legendary online game is him, the biggest source of cash for a period of time in the future.
What's more, from the perspective of economic interests, plug-ins are to snatch food from his rice bowl, which is absolutely intolerable for him who is extremely possessive.
The main control room of the legendary online game is located in Haijin.
On February 1, 1999, in the main control room, the leaders of micro-hardware and software gathered together, all dressed in anti-static clothing, special shoe covers, hats, and surrounded a giant video wall made of many 17-inch monitors.
On the display wall, a red line represents the number of people online in the game before the charge, and the blue line represents the number of people online after the official charge today.
Under Zhang Yi's strong opinion, the company's main business, micro-hardware pirated software, has been gradually divested.
Now you can only rely on the boss to make this legendary game. Everyone doesn't know much about whether this kind of online game is really as the boss said, and its ability to attract money will far exceed that of pirated software.
Today is the first day of charging, whether it is a mule or a horse, just pull it out and walk around.
Although it is only the first dozen districts to open and start charging, there are hundreds of thousands of players, and if most of these players will pay to play this game, it will not be a problem.
You must know that the person who pays the money for the first time will have such a sum of money flowing into the account of the micro-hardware software company every month in the future.
The blue line is still on the rise, and it has exceeded 50% of the number of users before the charge, everyone looked at each other, towards Zhang Yi, and applauded excitedly, this online number after the charge made everyone breathe a sigh of relief.
This means that Legend Online Games has crossed the break-even point set by these accountants according to costs. In other words, after removing the operating expenses of the game and the agency fees, it has begun to make a profit.
Zhang Yi had a faint smile on his face, just nodded his head slightly, applauded, responded to the crowd, and signaled that everyone did not need to be in a hurry to celebrate, and continued to watch the big screen.
The blue line is still on the rise, 60%, 70%, 80%, 90%, the red line is not far away, and it is about to coincide slowly, everyone's breathing is getting more and more rapid, and some people's fingernails are digging into the flesh.
The blue line is moving more and more slowly, and finally, it is fixed at the 95% point. When everyone saw this scene, they applauded excitedly and hugged each other.
Bai Jie was even more reserved in the past, directly hugged Zhang Yi beside her and kissed her on the cheek.
This action startled Zhang Yi and looked at the people around him, but fortunately everyone was in a state of excitement, and no one noticed the movements of the two of them.
Zhang Yi glared at her, and Bai Jie gave her a big roll of the eyes. The flattery and adoring expression between his eyebrows made his heart shake.
Only Bai Jie in the management knows that the so-called 30% of the revenue of the game agency fee is simply Zhang Yi himself, who poured the money from his left hand to his right hand. Because, the company that developed the game is wholly owned by the little man in front of him.
As a woman who has experienced the vicissitudes of the sea, she knows very well in her heart that Zhang Yi is not really in love with her. The sexual interest he showed to himself began because of his appearance and talent.
And later, after knowing some of his secrets, he used various means to train himself domineeringly, but he didn't let his desires be truly satisfied. This kind of perverted self-control ability that can be retracted and released freely is like what a man in his 20s can do.
If anything, she was a little forced at first. After getting together with him, his parents' health has gradually improved, and he no longer has the feeling of being overwhelmed by the weight on his shoulders.
Now, the more she knows, the more she admires this man, and those unheard-of means of making money make her stunned and shocked.
Not to mention that this man uses his superior technical skills to play with his competitors.
What she thinks and does every day now is to let this little man completely possess her, capture her, and dominate her, and she is willing to surrender to him.