Chapter 208 The Failure of NetBillion's Predictability
The public beta time of the WeChat portal is scheduled for the early morning of October 1, and the public beta time of "Journey to the West" is scheduled for 12 noon on October 1. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
One of the two is the open beta of the portal, and the other is the open beta of the online game, which does not belong to the same category, so I am not worried about the occurrence of a crash.
The time moved from 11:59 on September 30 to 0:00 and entered October.
The WeChat portal, which has been in preparation for four months, has officially started the road to public beta!
In this public beta, Su Wen only sent an invitation code to enter the qq.com website for Yellow Diamond users.
In the past two months, the number of yellow diamond users has continued to grow, from more than 300,000 in August to 430,000 in October!
And these 430,000 users were lucky to be selected by Su Wen as the first batch of users to serve as the public beta of the WeChat portal.
Of course, it is not excluded that yellow diamond users will give invitation codes to others.
The WeChat portal had an internal test before the public beta, and the response was not good, so Su Wen did not have high hopes for this public beta, but only hoped that there would be no chaos and that it would be able to pass smoothly.
The purpose of a website beta test is the same as that of an online game or other software, which is to test the stability of your website.
Will there be a large increase in traffic, resulting in a crash of the website?
There is also whether the website construction is compatible with the browser, whether there will be mutual exclusions, and so on.
In fact, Su Wen also knew that at this stage, since he couldn't do better than the three major portals in terms of speed and attitude, he could only work hard in other aspects.
At the very least, the user experience must be more than the three major portals!
The first is the art of the website, the work that makes a first impression.
Sun Zhonghuai came up with more than 50 designs for Su Wen's approval.
In the end, it wasn't until Su Wen, a person with a vision that was more than ten years ahead, couldn't find a thorn in the way that the art of the website was decided.
Secondly, the fluency of the website is also strict, and redundant and unfiltered content is never allowed.
The WeChat portal started public beta from early morning to 11 noon, that is, 11 hours, with a total of 13,000 visits.
Among them, there are less than 2,000 secondary visits to the same IP address, which can only be regarded as decent, not very good, and not much worse, but it just makes people feel no surprise.
However, the portal is a continuously developing industry, and Su Wen does not focus on the present, but on the future.
At 12 noon, "Journey to the West", which has been developed by Wangyi for a year, officially launched the public beta.
This is the first time that the three major portals have set foot in the field of online games, and this time there is a WeChat message to help, which has led to the public beta of "Journey to the West", with a different color!
Ding Sanshi has high hopes for "Journey to the West", and hopes to use this to make a comeback.
At the beginning of the open beta of "Journey to the West", Su Wen also went to take a look.
Objectively speaking, "Journey to the West" has both art and playability, two important elements of online games.
In the eyes of 01, at least more than 80% of online games on the market!
And the Internet has a lot of products or concepts, which are actually quite good, but because of the lack of an opportunity to show themselves, most of them die in infancy.
"Journey to the West" obviously will not suffer from this kind of treatment, Wangyi itself has a huge user base, coupled with QQ behind the scenes, whether it is exposure or media attention, there is no online game that can be compared with the public beta, even the popular "Legend 2", which is extremely popular now, has never enjoyed this kind of treatment!
Such a high level of exposure and attention, coupled with the fact that the game is not badly made, naturally attracted a large number of players who were qualified for the open beta and entered the game with curiosity.
After the start of the open beta, on the whole, the public beta results of "Journey to the West" are not bad.
NetBillion only issued about half a million public beta qualifications.
Three hours after the open beta of "Journey to the West", 40,000 players registered and logged in to the game!
Even compared to the open beta results of "Legend 2" at that time, it was only slightly inferior.
Although the results of this open beta are very good, "Journey to the West" is a kind of predictable failure in Su Wen's eyes!
The game itself didn't make a mistake, but Wangyi made a fatal mistake!
And this fatal mistake will bring "Journey to the West" into the abyss!
In order to achieve the effect of drainage from the portal, Wangyi made the game client of "Journey to the West" into an ActiveX plug-in and embedded it in the IE browser!
Such a move is quite undesirable!
With the technical level of IE browser in 01, there will be occasional crashes when browsing websites every day, not to mention the client embedded in the entire online game.
Wangyi's practice was beyond reproach in the first two years, after all, netizens are used to frequent browser crashes.
However, since the beginning of the new century, many game operators have found that the stability of putting the game client on the desktop is much higher than putting it in the Internet Explorer browser.
Up to now, at least 60% of online games on the market have wisely chosen to put the game client on the desktop.
Online games are no better than stand-alone games, and as soon as they are disconnected, people's favorability will plummet, and it is even easy to make people angry.
If the net billion dies, the failure is also self-inflicted.
Four hours after the open beta of "Journey to the West", although the number of registered players is still rising in a straight line, Ding Sanshi, who has been guarding the backstage of "Journey to the West", has long been unable to laugh.
In addition to the ability to attract people to play, the retention rate of an online game is also a very important factor!
Of the more than 40,000 registered players of "Journey to the West", the number of people who are still online today is less than 1,500, and the retention rate is only 4%!
Although Ding Sanshi is operating an online game for the first time, he also knows what it means that this kind of retention rate happens to an online game, and "Journey to the West" can't retain players!
The retention rate of "Journey to the West" is not good, and the WeChat portal that conducted the public beta on the same day is not much better.
As of 4 o'clock in the afternoon, there were more than 30,000 views, and the number of secondary views was also lackluster.
Although it was National Day, Su Wen stayed in the company until six o'clock before leaving.
In fact, if it weren't for something, Su Wen would have stayed in the company and paid attention to the data changes of the WeChat portal.
Today, Wang Ruhai issued a call at Jiangzhou International Hotel, and the members of the Jiangbei Club will gather together!
This is also the first time that Su Wen has participated in such a meeting since he joined the club.
The Jiangbei Club is not the last private drinking party at Wang Ruhai's house, and the bigwigs of the whole Jiangbei will appear at this party.