The goblin elder of "World of Warcraft" said: "Time is money!", in the national uniform, this line is translated as "Time is money, my friend!", the old, urgent tone, I don't know how many players have sighed, how many Warcraft people's youth and memories!

Early the next morning, Sun Buqi changed his biological clock, did not go to the campus to read English early, but took advantage of the time when others were asleep, turned on the computer to query the news of "World of Warcraft", unexpectedly, there was little news of Warcraft on the Internet.

Recently, the poster has been complaining on the forum, "Glass slag keeps jumping tickets, today is tomorrow, tomorrow is so much? Do you want my grandson to burn the game to me?"

The following sporadic followers continue to explain that washing the floor for the production company, "Blizzard's attitude of making games and striving for perfection has the reputation of "Blizzard's production, it must be a high-quality product", and I recommend that you wait patiently. There will be bread, there will be milk!"

The following is a neat queue, with people from different accounts constantly swiping the screen, "Blizzard production, it must be a high-quality product!".

Sun Buqi was unwilling to return in vain, did not miss any link, the information on the hyperlink, and finally in the corner of the post, in an inconspicuous place, he found the QQ group number of the Warcraft fandom group.

Fortunately, Sun Buqi used to occasionally go up and down the bend of the batch kicking industrial workshop, so that he would not be awkward by the awkward web design in 2004, and the content was stacked on top of each other, and the appetite was lost.

In 2017, the domestic web technology has already developed for several generations, and the forum layout looks neat and generous; the curved forum has always been the same, consistent with the birth in 2000, maintaining the pattern and atmosphere for more than ten years, which is very suitable for pension and nostalgia.

Sun Buqi complained about the current web design, and after continuous application and verification, he was able to join the QQ group left in the post. There are only three or two kittens in the group, and the avatars are all gray.

He sent private chats one by one to ask, only to know that he was outrageously wrong: the lovers of "World of Warcraft" are basically foreign students. They are accustomed to using the international version of ICQ, not the QQ of the Penguin Empire in the future.

In 1996, three Israelis, Wisger, Wadi and Goldfinger, got together and decided to develop a software that would allow people to communicate quickly and directly on the Internet.

THEY NAMED THE NEW SOFTWARE ICQ, WHICH MEANS "I SEEK YOU." ICQ supports functions such as chatting, sending messages, and delivering files on the Internet, making it the world's first online contact tool.

The predecessor of the twist Teng version of QQ was OICQ, which was first launched in February 1999 and was only distributed in China, with only a few hundred thousand users. He lacked confidence in QQ, wanted to hug his thighs, and was ready to sell it to the big guy at that time - Sohu Zhang Chaoyang at a price of 3 million yuan.

Zhang Chaoyang couldn't look down on the newly-born QQ, thinking that such a rudimentary and vulgar communication tool could be done by finding a few people by himself and spending two weeks. He lowered the price to 600,000 yuan, and Mr. Ma felt that the price was too low: his own bottom line was 1 million, and 600,000 yuan was not enough for the development team.

Because of the price difference of 400,000 yuan, Zhang Chaoyang and QQ missed out. The development of QQ is still struggling, the number of registrations and users is growing slowly, and the market is tepid.

The founding team extinguished the idea of making a handful and leaving, and put more energy into QQ. In order to improve the stickiness of QQ users, they continue to "borrow" and "copy" the functions of other similar software, slowly accumulate customers, and optimize the content and design of QQ.

In October 2004, Sun Buqi's temporary application for QQ was only eight digits, and of course, if he took a little more time to refresh it carefully, it was possible to brush up on the seven-digit QQ. It is said that if you use an overseas virtual website, the probability of swiping to seven figures is greatly increased.

When Sun Buqi saw the new QQ number, he even had the idea of hoarding a batch of QQ numbers; the income of this batch of numbers after ten years is not lower than the income of hoarding land and speculating in houses! The important thing is zero investment, apply for a QQ number, and you don't need to fill in any information!

Sun Buqi registered the international version of the ICQ number according to the guidance of his QQ group companions. Compared with the commonly used QQ, ICQ has few functions and is bloated, so it is no wonder that it will lose in the user competition with TM in the future.

After joining the ICQ group, Sun Buqi knew that he had a false alarm, and he didn't get up early in the morning, but rushed to a late set:

The American and European servers of "World of Warcraft" are not open, only the legendary beta players have released some screenshots of the game sporadically, and other people are angry and are waiting for the open beta of the game in November.

The soldiers and horses have not moved, the grain and grass go first, and the national server players want to play the American version of "World of Warcraft", there are still several thresholds, first of all, the problem of the account. New players need to purchase CDK to register for Battle.net, and a U.S. credit card is required to buy CDK;

Secondly, if players want to play World of Warcraft, the computer hardware must keep up. Now the mainstream 2D games "Fantasy Journey to the West", "Journey to the West", and "Legend" do not need a discrete graphics card at all, and the motherboard comes with the function of a graphics card, which is more than enough.

"World of Warcraft" not only has high requirements for graphics cards, but also requires a larger memory, and players need to add additional memory modules.

When "World of Warcraft" had not yet entered the mainland market, professional computer websites such as "Pacific Computer Network" began to popularize computer knowledge for players, recommended various motherboards, graphics cards and memory for playing games, and also listed more than a dozen sets of configuration tables.

"World of Warcraft" is a phenomenal game, and unlike the stick pickle games "Paradise" and "Miracle", which are constantly brushing, slashing, and constantly leveling up, there is a level cap. The game downplays the importance of equipment and emphasizes small team cooperation.

The launch of the game in the mainland has objectively promoted the upgrading of Internet café computers.

Although the new machine in the Internet café has only been purchased for three or two years, it is already overwhelmed and cannot play new games smoothly. In order to attract players, the owner of the Internet café had to upgrade the hardware in order to play the World of Warcraft game.

Chen Zhiyong got up to go to the toilet and accidentally saw a faint blue light emitting from the monitor. He saw Sun Buqi facing the display screen, writing and drawing in a notebook, as if he had gained something.

He leaned in front of the screen and asked curiously, "Sandong, you are working too hard! Brother is optimistic about you, I wish you to get the Dragon Slayer Treasure Knife as soon as possible......"

Sun Buqi heard the ridicule of his roommate who didn't get out of bed because the sun didn't bask his buttocks, and continued to record useful information.

He didn't raise his head, and asked angrily, "When will you become a long-tongued woman, let's hurry back to bed and sleep." Beware of lack of sleep, acne on the face......"

Chen Zhiyong belongs to a group of beauty lovers, the mirror and comb do not leave his hand, there are five or six kinds of facial cleanser for washing his face, and there are five or six kinds of facial cleansers; he does not wash his hair every day, resolutely does not go out of the dormitory door, and must sleep beauty sleep every day, and maintains at least ten hours of sleep.

He gestured his middle finger at Sun Buqi and threatened: "Ma Dan, you are so arrogant! Be careful to anger Lao Tzu and not let you play with my computer!" Chen Zhiyong is a typical knife mouth tofu heart, he has done good deeds, and he has always offended people.

Sun Buqi scolded with a smile, "Be careful that I record the audio and relay the foul words you just said to your Xiaojiao classmates!"

Chen Zhiyong had a crush on Ye Xiaojiao in the same class for four years, and until he graduated, he didn't dare to take the initiative to confess. When he drank the graduation wine, he cried so much that he said his unspeakable secret: his parents only let him marry a local in Shunde!

Sun Buqi didn't say anything, he was secretly anxious in his heart, secretly thinking about whether the money in his wallet could meet the needs of playing Warcraft games.

The cost of creating a new account is 100 US dollars, plus a monthly card of 18 US dollars per month. In 2004, the exchange rate of the US dollar against the RMB was 8.3, and the initial investment required 1,000 yuan. If the internet speed is not good, you have to buy a network accelerator, which is another extra amount of money.

But for the sake of the bright future of "a gold coin sells for a dollar", these money are necessities, and workers must first sharpen their tools if they want to do a good job, sharpen their knives and not cut wood, so they can only comfort and paralyze themselves.

The above is just the money for the software, the hardware has not been taken into account.

In 2005, if you configure a computer to play "World of Warcraft" smoothly, it will cost at least 8,000 yuan; to play large-scale online games, of course, you can't use the campus network that is as slow as a snail, and you have to pull a network cable independently, which is an expenditure of more than 1,000 yuan.

Sun Buqi touched his wallet and counted his family property, which was less than 6,000 yuan.

In mid-December, the school will issue a scholarship for the freshman year, and the first-class scholarship is only 2,500 yuan, plus the illusory national first-class scholarship of 8,000 yuan, which will definitely meet the needs of the game, but that will have to wait until next year.

Time is money, I'm a friend!

It is impossible for Sun Buqi to wait until next year, when everything is ready and only the east wind is owed, to enter "Warcraft Time".

At that time, the people who farmed gold coins were called "gold coin farmers", and crooked nuts thought they were the game-breakers. Players in the national server have the threat of being reported at any time and being banned by the GM, and the value of the gold coins will depreciate more, which is not conducive to the accumulation of the first pot of gold.

Chinese NBA star Yao Ming is a loyal player of World of Warcraft. After training during the day, he nested in the dormitory at night to play games, and even dragged his teammates from Team Rocket into the Monster pit.

The hunter role he plays, the operation is a bit sharp, the equipment is also good, the reaction and coordination of professional athletes are good, and he is a little "bite" in the game.

If you can't beat each other in basketball, you can only take revenge in the game. In order to enter the game as soon as possible, take the lead in equipment, and realize the dream of abusing Yao Ming in the game, Sun Buqi had to find another way.

He put his bad thoughts on the upcoming "First Campus CS Competition", and made a gesture in his heart: Junior brothers, for the sake of the alliance, senior brother is sorry for you!