For Gu Cheng, May was really eventful. There are so many big projects on the May Day prime time www.biquge.info that there are so many big projects that a little bit of superficial care will almost exhaust all his attention.

When the group of beautiful girl trainees of the S-M company were talking about him behind his back, he himself was paying attention to the development of the open beta of "World of Warcraft" in China.

I have to say that Blizzard's products are still very powerful, at least in the first 10 years of the 21st century, that is, the existence of invincible opponents all over the world. In '05, no single console and online game company on the planet could match Blizzard's titles, and it will continue to be so for at least the next five years.

On the first day of the public beta of "World of Warcraft" in China, Gu Cheng's YY Entertainment deployed the server capacity of 100 servers in two regions, and the bandwidth was also sufficient.

Among the two zones and two lines, the first zone telecom is divided into 60 servers, and the second zone Netcom is divided into 40, using the best server in the online game industry at present, according to the design plan, each server can accommodate 5000 players online at the same time, and will not be stuck and dropped to less than 10 frames.

Of course, if it is caused by the user's own poor network and has nothing to do with the server, then there is no way.

As a result, 100 lines and 500,000 people were online at the same time, and it was full as soon as the server was opened.

Many players find that it would be almost a fool's dream to log in to the game after 2 p.m. on their days off.

This result is already 3 times better than when "Zhu Xian" first opened. Even compared with the high-tide state of "Zhu Xian" for several months, it is not far behind. The power and signature of Blizzard's products can be seen in 05.

It can be said that Gu Cheng and Sun Zhengyi's battle for online game hegemony was already lost at the moment when Gu Cheng pulled Ding Sanshi into his circle and integrated the strength of the game and the relationship between the outside of the market.

When he lost "World of Warcraft", it was impossible for Legendary Entertainment to turn the tables. The hanging beating in the back can only be regarded as the whipping stage, and it is advisable to chase the poor and expand the results of the battle.

On May 3rd, the highest login queue appeared on the "Kilrog" server in Zone 1, and at 4:30 p.m., the queue reached more than 8,700 people - that is, the number of people outside the queue was 1.7 times higher than the rated capacity of the server. The expected time that players can enter the game displayed on their computers is already --:-, which is completely unpredictable.

Other slightly better servers, there are still two or three thousand people in line, and it is expected to take 3~5 hours to queue to enter the game.

Because it's an open beta, it's free for everyone to play, and it's expected that there will be no point cards within two months, so the official won't open too many servers to net money.

Moreover, the maps and leveling ceilings opened during the open beta period are also relatively low, only the 45-level full-level version, which is a little behind those regions that started the server early - for example, the North American server has been updated to the level 60 version in April, and the Australian server has just been updated. Although the Dongyi service on the Asian side has not changed, it is expected to be a little faster than the Huaxia region in the future.

The number of server lines will not increase in a short period of time, which means that it will definitely be hungry for marketing for a while, so that everyone can spread the word of mouth about the awesomeness and popularity of the game, and brew momentum.

YY Entertainment's operators are very accurate about the psychology of users, knowing that the popularity of the May Day Golden Week is only temporary, because June will be the final exam season, and most players will definitely have a resurgence after playing a little bit, and it is not cost-effective to add a server now, and the queue will definitely be reduced in June, so it is better to buy a new server when the time comes to charge and directly pre-install the high-version game.

The effect of hunger marketing is very good, and after finding that the queue problem is serious, many players are reluctant to log out of the game when it only takes five or six minutes or even half an hour to do things like going to the toilet and eating, preferring to hang there. Later, even college students took two classes in the afternoon and walked away for an hour and a half, and spent 3 yuan to hang up the game in the Internet café.

Of course, this situation is very extreme, because generally speaking, people who are willing to spend 3 yuan to hang a game in an Internet café and not log out will not go to class obediently - isn't it just playing games in class?

Because everyone knows that once you log out of the game, you may not be able to get in for a few hours.

After discovering the seriousness of the problem, YY Entertainment came up with a rectification measure that was unheard of in the Chinese online game industry.

If there had been a UC shock department in '05, they would have written a few news stories with headlines like this:

"Shocked! A certain imported online game is too hot because of too many players, and it is actually kicked and banned from playing!"

In this online game, if you stand still for five minutes, you will be forcibly kicked offline by the GM to make room for other players!"

There is no doubt that the official strategy is to kick out the zombie account that refuses to log out. Anyone who stands still for five minutes in the game will be forced to kick off the line.

When this measure first started, it aroused the scolding of countless players, all of whom had vested interests in having computers at home that could be hung up 24 hours a day. Soon, though, more players who were stuck in the queue and couldn't get into the game began to applaud the strategy.

On the official forums of YY Tieba and World of Warcraft, various topics have been noisy.

"World of Warcraft" has also grown to the largest YY post bar in just one week, with more than 8 million followers, surpassing the "Gu Cheng Bar" known as D8 (the 'Li Yi Bar' in this time and space has declined by chance, because Li Yi's people are not talking about football in the first place, but they just need a place to vent their connotations).

On the Internet, many people began to post screenshots of their record queue times, competing in alumni circles to see who was the most unfortunate and bumped into the person who needed the most queue time to enter the game. Because of the curiosity of the hunting mentality, many dick otaku have joined the ranks of "Warcraft than the Miserable King".

"Damn! This guy has to wait in line for 4 hours to get into the game!

"Whoever has me miserable, I want 7 hours!"

"What's the 7 hours upstairs, I'm --:-hours, I can't show the time! I guess the server thinks I won't be able to schedule until next Thursday's maintenance!"

"Hold the grass! But you are the longest telecom server, I am here the longest network communication service, 9 hours, who is worse than me in the network communication!"

"I've only been showing up for 2 hours, but I'm in line at 5:30 in the morning!

Later, it gradually evolved from being miserable to "how not to be kicked out of the game".

In order not to be judged by the game algorithm to be "hang-off", some people initially tried to use a button wizard script to make the character wander around the city aimlessly to spend the rest time for eating.

It's a pity that this trick is completely wishful thinking, and only the next day, the official upgraded the script attack on all key elves and other similar plug-ins, and Warcraft's anti-plug-in work is not vegetarian.

And those who use keystroke scripts, if they are only to prevent being kicked offline, and are not used to seek other improper benefits, are considered to be minor circumstances, and the official punishment is given to the ban for one week to one month. Then the script party immediately died down.

If the script can't be on, then press the brick.

Since May 6th, the competitive form of "preventing being kicked off" has developed to the point where many players take a brick when they eat and press the "left down" or "right down" keys in the area of the up, down, left, and right arrow keys on the keyboard (because they are close together, they are easy to press with the rotating head).

Then, when the person walks away to eat, the character is circling around Orgrimmar/Stormwind. For a while, the Horde's Orgrimmar, the Alliance's Stormwind, and Ironforge were overcrowded, and they were all hanging up while eating. The tribe's Thunder Cliff and Dark City are disgusting because of the terrain, and players are afraid of falling to the bottom of the cliff or falling to their death in the sewer after walking automatically, so they have avoided the idle tide.

This wave of hang-up and refusal to retreat, because there is no software, it has been a relatively long time, until the end of mid-May, YY Entertainment official did not come up with a systematic rectification plan.

At first, the official relied on sporadic GM to screen user behavior, and then randomly asked questions to confirm whether the other party was hang-up. For example, if the GM detects that a player has been spinning in circles, he asks the other party a question in the M whisper, and if he does not answer within five minutes, it will be judged as an idle player, and then the baseboard will be banned from logging in for 24 hours.

Later, in June, after the YY Entertainment official made solemn representations to Blizzard, Blizzard had to open up some game development interfaces and related source code to YY Entertainment.

Then YY Entertainment immediately transferred the anti-plug-in R&D team of Zulong Studio, and wrote a small plug-in that automatically sent multiple-choice pop-ups to players with suspicious appearances every once in a while. If a player is deemed to be a suspected AFK, they will receive a multiple-choice question randomly selected from the system's question bank.

The questions are generally more common sense, and as long as you are not mentally retarded, you can answer them. Therefore, as long as the answer is wrong, it will be judged as an idle kick.

In order to allow players to have a better game experience, there are also certain rewards for players who answer correctly, such as rewarding 5% of the current level of upgrade experience points, or 50 game silver coins (the game currency of "World of Warcraft" is 1 gold = 100 silver = 10,000 copper coins, and 50 silver in the early stage is not a small amount of money.) ）

This confrontation lasted until June, and then, as most of the student party needed to prepare for their final exams, the queues for the games gradually eased, and all kinds of noisy, funny, and carnival spoofs gradually subsided.

But "World of Warcraft" has successfully grabbed phenomenal attention, and even players who have not played online games in their lives have to hear the news of Warcraft.

For those who don't play games, World of Warcraft is the game.

For example, in the summer school of Zhonghe Judicial Examination Training School that year, Mr. Guo, who lectured on civil procedure law, never played games, but spoke funny. When talking about the knowledge point that "if the judge is dissatisfied with the judge's recusal decision, the party concerned may apply for reconsideration once, and if the judge himself is not satisfied, he shall not reconsider", in the face of the majority of rote students who do not know the reason, he said this:

"Classmate! If the party is not satisfied with the recusal decision, it is a matter of concern for his personal interests and will affect the verdict! Of course, he should be given the right to apply for reconsideration!

The judge was ruled to recuse himself - what is there to apply for a reconsideration? Why do you want to reconsider if you want to work less? You don't have to decide the case, you can go to the 'World of Warcraft'!"