Chapter 10: An Instant Hit (I)
The Internet café is now in full swing, and everyone is discussing this "online game" that they have never heard of before. In this era of the late 20s, when game halls were prevalent, Internet surfing was already a very high-end thing, not to mention "online games".
Li Xiaoming was unprecedentedly busy after everyone copied the game one after another.
Some can't register an account, some can't type and can't get a character's name, and some don't know what each function key is for......
Li Xiaoming suddenly felt that he had made a mistake: "Why don't I know how to call a few network management brothers over to teach first?"
"You've always been stupid. The system suddenly came out and scolded Li Xiaoming, and then when Li Xiaoming started spraying, there was no sound again.
In fact, for the system, existence is the truth, Li Xiaoming thinks that it will be over with a rebirth, it is too underestimating the system! But the system is not so generous to remind Li Xiaoming that he can grope for it, and if he can't, he will continue to be stupid!
After a busy hour, there were finally fewer people asking questions, and everyone began to communicate with each other.
Li Xiaoming looked at the familiar scene, and the picture of "Legend" appeared on all the screens of the Internet café, and he sighed with emotion for a while.
This internal test was a deletion test and was not added to the billing system. The issuance of point cards has not yet been negotiated, although the Cultural Bureau of Rongcheng High-tech Zone has reported a lot of enthusiasm for this, but after all, this is the first large-scale issuance of point cards in the country, and the game must be made to have a certain popularity, and only then will there be publishers willing to pay.
Li Xiaoming himself also registered an account, took out the warrior profession he was familiar with, named "Goldfinger King", and started his "Legend" career.
A broken wooden sword at the beginning, and a small cloth coat, what a familiar picture......
Li Xiaoming put on his novice equipment and ran out of the gate of the novice village, ready to find a scarecrow or deer to practice his hands, but when he went out, he saw monster corpses everywhere, and a large number of men and women who were also wearing them were running around on the map......
When the "Legend" of the previous life first came out, there was no blood bar, and the names of people, monsters, and equipment that fell to the ground were not displayed, which were solved during Li Xiaoming's development. So overall, the game experience is better than in the previous life.
But the only thing that can't be solved is that after there are too many people, there are not enough monsters. Since it is an MMORPG game, competition is inevitable, otherwise what is the fun of the game?
Thinking so, Li Xiaoming planned to run farther away to find out if there were any remaining monsters in the wild to see.
The more you run into the wild, the fewer players you will encounter, after all, there are only 200 people in the whole Internet café now, which is still very small for the entire game. "It's less than weird anyway. Li Xiaoming thought so.
After a while, he noticed a few red dots on the minimap: "Hey, there's something weird!"
So he ran towards the red dot in high spirits.
The monster was under the shade of the tree, and he couldn't see it clearly, Li Xiaoming ran to the monster and was about to cut it: "Ah!"
The screen turned into the familiar black and white, accompanied by a terrible scream. Li Xiaoming's "King of Goldfingers" lay gloriously.
"I'll go!" orcs ......"
After running for a long time, Li Xiaoming, who was only half-blooded, was smashed back to his hometown directly by a mallet. Before he retreated, he vaguely saw something on the ground, but he didn't pay much attention to it.
When he returned to the novice village, Li Xiaoming felt blind: "My wooden sword is gone!"
For a while, Li Xiaoming was sad......
Character Name: King Goldfinger
Class: Warrior
HP: 3/19
Equipment: Buyi (male)
Item: Gold Sore Medicine (Small)*1
Coins: 0
"This is still a fart!" Li Xiaoming felt humiliated...... As a developer of a game, the great warrior who held the staff of judgment when he played the legend in the later generations actually knelt in the novice village, not to mention how aggrieved he was!
Li Xiaoming decisively picked up the landline of the bar, called Chen Wu over, and just answered without waiting for Chen Wu to speak, Li Xiaoming crackled and said: "Give me an ebony sword, a backpack of gold sore medicine, and a bronze ring or something! I'll go, I don't believe I'll be blamed to death!"
The other side of "......" was silent for a long time, and Chen Wu's voice came helplessly: "What you said yourself was that in order to maintain the fairness of the game, it was not written into the GM system, I have a weak heart, you can mourn." ”
"I ......" Li Xiaoming wanted to cry.
I hung up the phone, and my gaming career had to go on. Li Xiaoming helplessly wandered around the novice village, looking for the most strange "chickens" and slowly killing them one by one......
Kill, dig the meat, kill again, dig again......
After killing all the way to level 3, Li Xiaoming finally saved enough money to buy a new weapon.
You know, a chicken only has 5 experience points, 100 points to upgrade from level 1 to level 2, and 200 points to upgrade from level 2 to level 3. Li Xiaoming wasted more than two hours for these chickens...... At this time, the most advanced group of players in the Internet café have already reached level 7 to learn the first skill, and have begun to team up to quickly upgrade and brush equipment!
"I think my gold finger is fake, can I return it?" Li Xiaoming said cheaply.
"If you can, the system wants to return you, do you think it's okay?"
"Fuck off, you're a scum system now, Spicy Chicken!"
"Heh, don't fall into the hands of this system, otherwise you will look good. ”
The system said that they didn't want to talk to this slut. In the words of later generations, it is, "If you can do it, don't beep." ”。 The system is clear that sooner or later there will be such a day.
When Li Xiaoming worked hard to reach level 7 and learned the first skill "Basic Swordsmanship", and wanted to find a team to form a team to open up the wasteland together, he found that as far as the eye could see, there were only some low-level monsters outside the novice village with him.
Other players have a strong learning ability, don't underestimate the game wisdom of Chinese players. Some of them found the skull cave in groups to brush up on experience and upgrade equipment, and some of them had already set up a mining team to enter the zombie cave with the pickaxe they had saved up so hard to buy.
There's even a team that's so deep in the zombie cave that they've broken into the wormhole's connection.
Looking at it, Li Xiaoming wanted to cry without tears.
"Hmph, no matter how awesome you are, this game was also developed by me. Li Xiaoming had to give full play to the spirit of Ah Q, otherwise it would be too faceless.
For the next week or so, Li Xiaoming spent fifteen or sixteen hours in the Internet café almost every day to receive feedback from players, during which there were indeed some minor problems, including the loopholes in the trading system of the previous life, and the loopholes in brushing equipment and items were also discovered and solved one after another.
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In mid-July, Li Xiaoming returned to Rongcheng satisfied, because the point card issuer here had eyebrows.
Led by the Cultural Bureau of the High-tech Zone, the Sichuan Provincial Publishing House sent a negotiation team led by the deputy editor-in-chief to discuss all aspects of the point card with Li Xiaoming for the first time at their company headquarters. The meeting was friendly and harmonious.
In the end, the two sides discussed, Longtu is responsible for providing the card number and password database, and the Sichuan Provincial Publishing House is responsible for the printing and distribution of the pre-payment, with a proposed issuance amount of 35 yuan / sheet, including 120 hours of game time, Sichuan Provincial Publishing House occupies 25% of the sale amount, and the first batch of 2 million copies are to be issued. If other channels are required to cooperate with the issuance, an additional share of no more than 10% will be given to other channels, and this part of the share will be borne by Longtu.
Moreover, Li Xiaoming did not sign the exclusive distribution right, and only gave the Sichuan Provincial Publishing House the right of priority distribution under the same conditions for subsequent sales.
This is what Li Xiaoming gritted his teeth and insisted on, after all, the company still has nothing, and the other party can't get the exclusive distribution right even if he contributes money and effort, which is indeed a bit excessive.
Li Xiaoming is actually not very satisfied with such a result, after all, in the future, he will directly recharge with his fingers. In this era, not to mention online payment, even online banking is not popular, obviously Li Xiaoming and they only have to compromise.
Moreover, in order to better popularize the game, in addition to the road of regular network download clients, Li Xiaoming also needs to provide client installation CDs as gifts, which are attached to related games or entertainment magazines. That's a lot of money.