Chapter 53: Farm Release
The development of the farm was phased, and the first version requested by Yu Song only had two functions: growing vegetables and stealing vegetables.
Of course, the domain company actually already has several upgraded versions in hand, and Yu Song does not plan to release them all at once.
The design threshold of the farm is too low, and once it becomes popular, it is easy to attract plagiarism from others.
The most plagiarized thing on the Internet is creativity and design, and Yu Song can only walk in front of everyone by taking one step and seeing three steps.
Once someone imitates the farm, Yu Song will immediately throw out the second version, that is, there are more costumes and some functional props than the first version.
Among them, Yu Song believes that the most important thing is the prop of chemical fertilizer.
All plants on the farm have a fixed ripening time, which can be greatly shortened by chemical fertilizers.
In order to promote themselves, the farm in the previous life specially designed a task system, as long as the user invited a certain number of friends, he could get a certain amount of fertilizer.
Seeing this, those addicted users are eager to pull strangers on the road, just for those few packs of virtual fertilizer.
Yu Song thought of what a game character said in his previous life, as long as I was fast enough, the question marks of my teammates couldn't keep up with my pace.
Now it's the same, as long as the farm's version is updated fast enough, then no one will dare to copy it.
Doing so many things, Yu Song is to ensure the peak life of the farm and make it better serve WeChat.
"Boss, how long do you think it will take for the farm to become popular after it goes online?" Xie Tao asked cautiously.
Yu Song thought for a moment and stretched out five fingers, "It won't be more than five days!"
Xie Tao and Jiang Zheng are silent, will this be too optimistic?
Yu Song saw the faces of the two and knew that they didn't believe it, "WeChat farm has communication attributes and social attributes, as long as users are addicted, they will definitely pull people in everywhere, this is like a snowball, it will get bigger and bigger."
Not only that, don't forget the leaderboard of the farm, comparison is a potential social factor of the farm, once those users want to be on the list, they will definitely pull people crazy, and it will be very simple for the farm to become popular at that time. ”
After Yu Song said this, the two of them were a little relieved, and they looked forward to the day when the farm was hot to come sooner.
"By the way, you have to be prepared for server problems, and when the time comes, you will be overloaded. Yu Song is very concerned about this problem and must not affect the customer's experience.
Xie Tao said confidently: "Boss, don't worry, I have prepared a few spare servers, which can accommodate at least 2 million people!"
"Okay, let's get out, it's going to be time to go live soon. Yu Song stood up and walked out of the room first.
Yu Song came to the computer, there was a button in front of him, this was specially made by Xie Tao, as long as he pressed this button, the farm could be officially launched!
At ten o'clock in the evening, Yu Song pressed the button, and the farm was officially launched!
At this time, there are not only bar friends in front of the computer, but also people from various Internet companies, and they all want to know what is the magic of this farm.
As soon as WeChat was upgraded, users received a push, and when they opened it, an envelope appeared on the user's computer screen.
The envelope was opened, and four big words appeared, WeChat Farm.
The four big characters slowly shattered, and then all gathered in the lower right corner of WeChat, turning into a piece of farmland, with a few small young seedlings on it.
At the same time, there is also an entrance to the farm on the post bar, which is placed in the middle of the home page in a very conspicuous place.
Users can't wait to click in, the whole page design is very simple, the base map is a sky blue sky, at a glance is very comfortable.
Subsequently, a prompt popped up on the page, whether to bind their own WeChat number, and everyone naturally chose yes.
For people who don't have a WeChat number, some people hurriedly register one, and some people give up.
However, 70 per cent of the people registered.
A large number of users have poured in, and Yu Song is paying close attention to the number of visits, which is the most direct evidence of the popularity of the farm.
It didn't take long for the first plot of the farm to be planted with crops, and a few minutes later, the user began his first harvest.
Twenty minutes later, Tieba showed that the number of friends added exceeded 300,000!
In the background data of the farm, nearly 500,000 fields have been opened! That's 500,000 users!
It's only twenty minutes!
If the domain company reveals this data, 80% of Internet companies can't believe it, this data is amazing!
When the employees in the domain company saw this data, they all jumped, which is amazing!
Everyone looked at Yu Song in the middle, their eyes were full of worship, this boss is awesome!
But Yu Song was not surprised, twenty minutes was not enough, and it was not yet time for this game to shine.
What can you do in 20 minutes? That is, open the game, take a look at the interface, and harvest the first crops.
But the charm of the farm is not here, netizens can see it immediately.
An hour later, the data exploded again.
WeChat has added nearly one million new users, and the farm has added more than two million friends!
To put it bluntly, this game is already on fire!
Today is the time for the domain company to launch the game, and basically all Internet companies know about it, but when they really saw this game, everyone was a little disappointed.
Now it's the world of terminal games, and browser games are not popular. Everyone is looking forward to him because of the previous record of the domain company.
But after going in to try it, the picture is mediocre, the game content is scarce, and this game has no future.
This is what most Internet people say about this game, after all, they can't see the background data of the domain company.
However, for two hours, no one spoke anymore, and they were already addicted to the game.
The start of the farm is fast, as long as you plant seeds in time and harvest them in time, you will soon reach level 2, and after that, you can unlock new lands, seeds, and power-ups.
Allowing users to level up quickly, allowing users to discover the changes and fun of upgrades, so as to immerse themselves in it, constantly looking forward to upgrades, and looking forward to more advanced exclusive rights, is almost one of the most pursued principles in the game industry.
And the farm, play this code to the fullest!
The farm was also so successful in the previous life, it was not without reason, Yu Song stood on the shoulders of giants, and there was no reason why he was not successful.
Zhang Zhidong is also playing this game, and since the explosion incident, he has regarded the domain company as a competitor.
"The graphics are average, the smoothness is much better than half of the web games, and it seems that the server is not stingy. This is Zhang Zhidong's evaluation at the beginning.
However, when Zhang Zhidong tried to steal vegetables, everything changed.
Stealing vegetables will not only get crops, but also experience and money, stealing vegetables can speed up the levelup!
Zhang Zhidong was out of control, calculated the harvest time of his crops, and even set an alarm clock.
On the other hand, he wrote down the ripening time of his friends' crops and stole them on time.
Zhang Zhidong's friends were depressed now, the moment the crops were ripe, they just refreshed the page, and the ripe crops had been stolen!
When they find out that their crops have been stolen, they are furious, but they can't find anyone to vent to, so they have to... Join the army of vegetable stealers.
Since you stole my food, I'm going to steal it back again!
Slowly, the skill of stealing vegetables to increase experience and money was discovered by netizens, and it was really out of control.
Seeing that the vegetables he worked so hard to grow were stolen by others, no one would feel good.
Especially if you have gained less, but the other party has gained more, you will feel even more unhappy when you think about it.
The person who was stolen was in a bad mood, but the person who stole the food was different.
People who can steal vegetables on time are naturally very concerned about their crops, and it is impossible for people to steal vegetables.
In this way, if you keep your own experience and steal experience from others, this kind of person will definitely be the fastest to level up.
When Zhang Zhidong was having a good time, he suddenly woke up to what his original purpose was.
This is a god-level product! Zhang Zhidong gave an evaluation.
This WeChat farm is addictive. It looks very simple, but it includes all kinds of gameplay elements, which is really amazing.
Zhang Zhidong suddenly had no passion, and the whole person withered. In the past, I simply regarded the domain company as an opponent, but now it seems that my company's development team cannot be compared with others at all.
A strong sense of crisis appeared in Zhang Zhidong's heart, even though it was already midnight, he still dialed Ma Huateng's phone.
"Come on for a meeting, I've already called everybody. As soon as the phone was connected, the first person to speak was Ma Huateng.
Speaking of which, the penguins have never met so often, and the domain company has made the penguins no longer proud.
When Zhang Zhidong came to the company's conference room, all the senior executives had a notebook in front of them, and the pictures were all WeChat farms.
The scariest thing about the Internet is that you don't know your opponent's products at all.
Many people are operating computers with one hand and smoking with the other, and the whole conference room is smoky, a bit like an Internet café.
Ma Huateng sat on the main seat with a dark face, pointed to the position next to him and said, "Zhidong sit, everyone is here, tell me your opinion!"
"This domain company first put WeChat out to attract our attention, and by the time we put all our energy into developing new QQ features, he was already developing games!" sighed an executive in the operations department.
You know, Ma Huateng said a few days ago that the future of QQ is in the game, and this college student about 20 years old seems to have seen this a long time ago.
No, he started the layout early on, and the farm product is so mature that it has been in development for at least a few months.
"We're lagging behind after all!" Ma Huateng was a little deflated.
Zhang Zhidong is full of energy, "Penguins have developed little by little, but now they are just meeting an opponent, and we can't mess with ourselves." ”
"That's right!" Ma Huateng regained his spirits, "how difficult it was for the penguins at the beginning, we didn't come through the same way." How did we get here? We walked on the shoulders of losers!"