If we talk about advantages, both actually have their own advantages.

Although "Counter-Strike" is charged, it can be played locally and connected to the local area network, which means that it can play a lot of scenes.

"Anti-Terrorist Operation" requires an Internet connection to play, but it's free!

If you have two similar games in front of you, one will cost you one or two hundred dollars, and one will cost you nothing. Which game will you try?

Unfortunately, this free game can't be played anytime, anywhere. You can't play locally when you're bored, and you can't also use a LAN connection with your friends in close proximity.

Even if two people face each other and want to play together, they need to go through the Internet to go around.

There are many people who think that Wanhu is taking off his pants and farting by doing this.

However, Wanhu wanted to make a free game, but had no choice but to do so.

The profit point of free-to-play games has always been clear, and that is value-added services.

The value-added service of the game is actually the value-added of virtual data. To put it simply, it's about adding a series of virtual items to the game.

If a piece of software can run away from the server, then there is a problem, that is, the game manufacturer has no way to ensure that the virtual items are distributed from their own.

As long as you have a little bit of skill, you can add the content of the game by modifying the program.

As a result, there is a consequence that paid content is no longer attractive to players, who will not choose to pay for it, but will choose to add it themselves.

Therefore, the game must always be under the control of the manufacturer, in other words, it must be connected to the Internet at all times.

However, the forced Internet connection has always been an undesirable thing in the United States.

Not to mention the last influential real-time strategy game "StarCraft 2" when it was released, it said that it canceled the LAN connection function, as well as the local game function.

Even game consoles, trying to stay online all the time, are sprayed by players.

Why?

This is a pure battle of interests.

Although online ensures the interests of manufacturers, it harms the interests of players.

If I'm going to Shao Laolin for a vacation, and I have a game console with me, and there's no internet there, can't I play video games?

Can't play the game I paid for anymore?

If my home is disconnected, won't I be able to play games anymore?

Therefore, game consoles had to implement a mandatory networking policy, which was canceled if it could not be implemented.

In the future, when the Internet is already very popular, there will still be such a problem, not to mention the beginning of the 21st century, when the Internet is not particularly popular, and the cost is still relatively high.

Although "Counter-Terrorism Operation" is therefore free, it did not achieve too obvious an advantage in installed capacity in the initial competition with "Counter-Strike".

After all, if there is no overwhelming advertising, the first buyers of a game are always those who are veteran players.

Veteran players generally don't care about money, whether it costs money or not, whether it is twenty dollars or not, it is not much worse for them.

The reason why the installed base is almost the same is because you need to evaluate and compare what the two games are, which one is more fun and which one is slightly worse.

In fact, even worse is Wanhu's "Anti-Terrorism Operation".

It's not that Wan Hu doesn't care, but he still lacks experience in making 3D shooters.

It's like a small difference in feel, in the process of game design, it may be just a small parameter change, but when playing, the feeling experienced is completely different.

However, although the feel disadvantage is disadvantaged, Wanhu's "Counter-Terrorism Operation" picture is much better than "Counter-Strike".

On the one hand, this is because "Counter-Strike" uses the old engine of "Half-Life", and on the other hand, because Wanhu itself has launched a three-dimensional graphics card, which is better at optimizing three-dimensional display than other manufacturers.

After a detailed comparison of each project, I really found that these two games are really equal opponents.

Even, relatively speaking, "Anti-Terrorist Operation" has more advantages.

Although the feel is slightly lacking, but the picture is good!

For veteran players, maybe give them a full screen of mosaics, and they can also be used as a full screen of gameplay.

But for the vast majority of novice players, a good picture is the most important thing.

If the graphics of a game are not good-looking, just like a girl's face is not good-looking, is it possible to understand it in depth?

As a result, in the process of gradually generalizing the influence of the two games, the number of downloads of "Counter-Terrorism Operation" began to far exceed the sales of "Counter-Strike".

"General Manager, the number of downloads of "Anti-Terrorist Operation" has exceeded 1 million, and the number of online users has exceeded 100,000!"

You must know that although the number of users of the 10,000-household battle platform has been growing, the number of people online at the same time has remained at more than 100,000, and there has been no great improvement, and now a game has increased the number of people online at the same time by 100,000 all of a sudden, which is ...... It's simply amazing......

As the operators of the 10,000-household battle platform, they know how valuable the number of people who are online at the same time is.

They were originally worried that they would lose money by playing for free, but now it seems that this is 100,000 people online at the same time, so they won't lose money!

Nick also had admiration in his heart, when he first heard about the free game, he thought that Takahashi was carried away by the free security software, but now it seems that it is not.

"Open the crate system!" Nick said calmly.

"Yes!" the operator pressed the button, and after a few confirmations, the order began to be executed.

This is a hot update system, which means that the game content can be changed in real time without the player launching the game.

At Nick's command just now, the in-game chest system opened.

The so-called box system, which is the same as the item drop system in StarCraft.

However, when it drops, a chest will be brought up, not an item. Give players the thrill of opening boxes by themselves.

In the process of unpacking the box, all kinds of precious things will appear like a marquee.

For the time being, these chests can only be obtained by random burst chances, but it won't be long before the paid case opening system will be opened.

When the time comes, players will be able to spend their own money on chests.

However, in order to avoid some legal problems.

At that time, it will not be a box that will be sold, but a small trick such as buying a spray map to send a box, or buying a key to send a box.