Chapter 861 - Addicted to Games
The growth rate of gamers in "Golden Martial Scrolls" is actually not fast, but after its launch, it has maintained a uniform growth rate. The number of registered users increased by one or two thousand a day, and the number of registered users increased by three to five thousand.
It seems that this growth rate is too slow compared to the general user growth rate of the explosion of online games in later generations. The popular online games of later generations are announced at every turn with tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of registered users.
But actually...... Even hundreds of millions of registered users are useless, regardless of the degree of data infusion. Even if it is a game with hundreds of millions of registered users, in fact, most of them are only dead users and zombie users.
If a game can have tens of millions of daily active users, it should be a world-class hit. Even if there are only about one million daily active users, it is a very popular hit.
The current growth rate of gamers in "Golden Martial Scrolls" is not fast, but it continues to grow at a constant rate, bringing popularity and flow. The number of active users per day, relative to the previous day, can see a steady and upward trend.
"Mr. Zhao, a new set of servers is currently opened, and the server hardware cost is 1 million yuan. In addition, network costs and operating costs are expected to require an investment of 500,000 yuan. Based on the cost recovery of two years, an average of 2,500 yuan per day is required to maintain the operation of a server. A senior executive of the operation team of "Jinwu Scroll" said, "At this stage, Japanese, English, and Chinese traditional servers have entered a profit cycle. However, the server with the most users Chinese Simplified, although the server users are full, but a group of servers has an average daily turnover of about 1,000 yuan, which is still in a state of loss......"
"What about the overall profit?" Zhao Ruofei asked.
"As a whole, at present, 7 sets of servers can bring about 30,000 Hong Kong dollars of revenue per day, and after deducting various costs, they can make a profit of more than 10,000 Hong Kong dollars. Operations executives said.
Zhao Ruofei nodded and said, "That's good, at present, the Jinwu Scroll is the direction of the company's future business transformation." If successful, the future prospects are limitless!"
The revenue of 7 sets of servers should exceed one million a month.
And what if the number of servers exceeds 70 groups, or even more?
Moreover, at this stage, the hardware cost and network cost of the server are relatively expensive. However, the cost of hardware will become cheaper and cheaper over time. The same is true for network costs, the hardware costs of telecom operators will also benefit from technological development, and the price of traffic services will become lower and lower over time.
Therefore, according to the current business model, online games and other Internet services will benefit from the dividends of technological development, and the cost will be reduced rapidly.
The operating costs of later Internet companies have increased, more because the cost of acquiring users and traffic has become more expensive. It's not that the hardware and technical costs are more expensive.
In the early stage of the development of the Internet industry, the cost of obtaining traffic was really low.
Take the water army as an example, now spending 100,000 yuan to hire a water army can spread the news to all corners of the network. However, even if tens of millions of yuan are spent in later generations, they may not be able to see much promotion effect.
Zhao Ruofei couldn't help but admire Mr. Lin for this, five or six years ago, the Internet users were less than one million in the wilderness. Mr. Lin began to put forward a lot of plans for the Internet industry.
Including the planning of "Jinwu Scroll", it really goes back to six years ago, although Mr. Lin did not appear in the list of the development team, but many creative ideas were first proposed by Mr. Lin.
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"Holy, this game ...... It's really fragrant!" After the launch of "Jinwu Scroll", Lin Qi registered a game account on the first day and became a player of this game.
After that, for more than ten days, a few hours a day would be set aside to explore the game world and perform tasks that could only be done once a day.
After more than ten days, the character "Lin Buping" established by Lin Qi has been upgraded to level 17, and in the world of "Flying Fox Gaiden", he has obtained two external skills: "Bajiquan" and "Baguazhang". Although, in the game "Jinwu Scroll", the upper limit of Bajiquan and Baguazhang is not high, and they can only reach level 20. However, because there are real-life martial arts moves to refer to, it looks better than other fictional martial arts moves.
After getting familiar with the two moves, in the game, in the first big map "Flying Fox Gaiden", he is already a good player. Most of the monsters can be dealt with in less than a minute. Of course, a small number of monsters can't be solved alone, and they still need to be completed in a team.
However, Lin Qi is more like a lone ranger in the game. After all, he doesn't spend a lot of time together in organized activities, as many players do.
Compared with some internal martial arts and martial arts such as the Miao family sword method, the Hu family sword method, and Taijiquan, Bajiquan and Baguazhang are not strong.
Of course, the Hu family's sword technique and the Miao family's sword technique are only invincible in an environment where internal force is declining, and when they are replaced to the next map and version, and gradually the internal force cheats are popularized, these moves are not considered powerful.
These strategies, ordinary players can speculate at most, but Lin Qi already knows the game script and setting in advance, basically according to it, the closer to modern and modern martial arts, the weaker. And the older the age, the stronger the martial arts.
Therefore, some powerful martial arts in the early stage need to be washed away and replaced with more powerful martial arts in the later stage. Every time you upgrade a map, you need to upgrade your character's level. It is still necessary to wash out the lower upper limit, which has reached a bottleneck, and there is no possibility of upgrading martial arts. You need to choose some martial arts with a higher ceiling to practice.
This alone will make players, every time they change versions and maps, they need to retrain new martial arts. It's okay if you don't practice, it's just that a map will be harder than a map. If you don't practice martial arts with a higher upper limit, you may be able to move an inch in the new map. Even if you practice the martial arts in the early stage to the top, you can operate like a god. If you don't upgrade the upper limit, you will end up like an ant.
Therefore, the late-game attraction and stickiness aspects of "Golden Warrior Scrolls" can be used to maintain the playability of the game for a longer period of time through these details.
Therefore, the special gameplay of "Golden Martial Arts Scroll" will make some players who are enigmatic of the rivers and lakes and martial arts continue to invest time in order to have a higher upper limit of martial arts.
However, players will continue to find that it is not only the higher limit of martial arts cheats that are difficult to obtain. Even if you get it, you will have stronger martial arts as the version is upgraded in the future. A mountain is higher than a mountain, and the way of martial arts is endless. This is also the strategy of "Golden Martial Scroll" to whet the appetite of players.
Lin Qi's game ID has not been disclosed to the public, so he is just a very low-key ordinary player, whether it is krypton or liver, it is very ordinary.
But after more than ten years, playing such a simple online game again made Lin Qi feel tasteful. This made Lin Qi sigh, is he old?
The game was too complicated in later generations, and Lin Qi was already immobile. Relatively speaking, this kind of online game, which reduces the difficulty of the game a lot compared to the stand-alone game, is more acceptable to Lin Qi.
Of course, "Jinwu Scroll" can be regarded as epoch-making in this era. The world's first Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game (MMORPG) made this game full of selling points and appeal.
With the release of "Jinwu Scroll" in '94, "Cyber Genesis" developed by Origin is a bit embarrassing.
Historically, Origin's Cyber Genesis in May 1996 was the originator of MMORPG games. But now, even if it is released, it will not be the originator, and it will not even make players feel amazing.
Originally, although "Cyber Genesis" was not the most popular game in history, it inspired the online game industry. A large number of online games that came out afterwards were developed on the basis of the "Online Genesis" game.
And now, the maturity and playability of the game "Golden Warrior Scroll" is far richer than that of "Cyber Genesis". Therefore, even if "Cyber Genesis" is launched, it will not be popular, and it may not even stir up a little wave.
After all, the status of "Cyber Genesis" in history is more based on its world's first MMORPG game, which is a plus for feelings. But now, when there is no emotion, "Cyber Genesis" can only be said to be an online game that is not fun and lacks playability.
At least, compared to the rich gameplay of "Jinwu Scroll", and the constantly upgraded version, and the continuous introduction of more gameplay, "Cyber Genesis" is really a chicken-ribbed boring game.