On Zhou Lixin's computer screen, the Minotaur warrior character he played was just circling around in three circles left and right in Orgrimmar City, just to not be judged by the GM of the American costume to be temporarily away from the role and kicked offline.

A few steps away from the computer desk, Gu Mojie and Zhou Lixin were around a coffee table, eating seas, chatting nonsense, bragging, and fart, as if they had returned to the youthful era of the year.

An online game, an online game that charges according to the timing of the point card, actually has to develop to "forcibly kick the characters standing in the game offline, and free up server resources so that players in the back queue can enter the game". Its popularity is also unprecedented.

Looking ahead, which of the many so-called awesome online games in the future can do this?

At that time in 2004~2005, the charm of World of Warcraft on the earth was really unique, and there was no other branch.

"You're trying to ask me: why has the growth rate of the number of users of 'Hatsune Download' suddenly accelerated a lot in the past few days, but you can't see the reason? The promotion channels that your company pays attention to, and there is no movement? ”

Zhou Lixin summarized and retold Gu Mojie's question, and then followed with a few words: "Did I summarize correctly?" ”

Gu Mojie bowed: "That's right." I just wanted to ask that. This has been bothering me for a long time. ”

"You man! Tell you to quit online gaming, and now you will be punished! The operators of your company are all eating dry food, and they haven't figured out such a simple problem! ”

Zhou Lixin said with disdain. After finishing speaking, he spit out a roasted chicken leg bone, pulled it over the keyboard and crackled a string, and then clicked on a web page.

"Let's see for yourself, Azeroth National Geographic, there has been a long time ago about which is better, 'Hatsune Download' or 'Internet Express'. Also various reviews. Hatsune download in the resource download speed of the Internet Express,This is a long-standing public thing,You do it yourself,You don't even know? ”

Gu Mojie was stunned. After looking at the webpage given by Zhou Lixin for a long time, he came back to his senses: "Isn't this a Chinese game forum in World of Warcraft?" Is this site so influential? ”

"Damn, they're among the top 1,000 websites in ALEAX's global website traffic, okay! Why do you still look down on people? It's not that brother said you. People who really hang around on the web every day and chat and watch the news. Azeroth National Geographic must have more people than your Hatsune homepage, can you believe it? ”

Gu Mojie was anxious to figure out the problem, and he didn't bother to raise the bar with Zhou Lixin, so he immediately relented:

"I can believe it. Those who go to the homepage of Hatsune.com want to download software, who comes to my homepage to find news to see. I haven't focused on making a portal yet, so it's not surprising that people are being compared to me.

However, I always feel that there is a bit of a problem: now World of Warcraft has only been in open beta in the United States for less than two months, and it has been less than half a month since the official launch. There is no shadow of the national service at all, such a game forum. How is it possible to have such a large amount of traffic? At present, the large bandwidth ADSL network of domestic people, and the people who can withstand the wall and know how to go over the wall are definitely less than 100,000. Relying on these people, can they hold up such a large plate? ”

Zhou Lixin's face was refreshed, and he finally found some sense of superiority from his cousin:

"You stupid! On Azeroth National Geographic, must be a gamer? Can't play the game, can't you just look at it? It's because there are so few people who can play the game that the forum is popular. Play alone, take a little screenshot and share the information. At least a few hundred people watched! At present, the Chinese can play the American Warcraft, a total of up to tens of thousands. But the potential players who stared at them with their eyes open. More than a few million every day! ”

Gu Mojie was finally completely shocked this time. He humbly asked Zhou Lixin about the ins and outs of "Azeroth National Geographic". Zhou Lixin also rarely regained the sense of superiority that he had lost for two years in front of his cousin, which was called a gushing voice.

Soon, Gu Mojie learned that this website was built in 02, when Blizzard's Frozen Throne had just been launched and succeeded, and World of Warcraft was just announcing games. But it's because of Blizzard's ungodly influence. Even if it was just a rumor, it attracted a lot of attention from tens of millions of people before the game was launched.

In other words, even if there are only tens of thousands of U.S. players in World of Warcraft, they are now switching to Hatsune download because of the slow client under the Internet Express; But behind these tens of thousands of players. At least millions of potential players are paying attention to their posts, being influenced by their public opinion, and being guided? ”

After thinking about this, Gu Mojie almost jumped up with excitement.

It's really pie in the sky, and it can smash people.

This kind of success is impossible to replicate if it were changed to any historical moment.

For example, if "World of Warcraft" was not so congested when the server was first launched, and there was no need to "queue up to play the game", "players will do everything possible to prevent themselves from being kicked offline after they get into the game, even if they burn some cards"; As a result, players won't care so much about who gets to the game first and who comes to the game later. There's not such a strong motivation, just to get a different download software just to play this game.

If it weren't for the fact that World of Warcraft happened to have opened the American service, the national service was still far away, and tens of millions of potential fans in China wanted to wear it but had nowhere to vent their desires, so they could only stare at the pictures of the battle reports on these forums of Azeroth National Geographic to satisfy their hunger, then these Internet speed sharing posts would not have been magnified so many times the attention.

Gu Mojie and Zhou Hongyi are both mature and rational businessmen. They did a lot of calculations, but they didn't calculate that the listing of an online game could have such a big impact on the download software market.

After all, when Gu Mojie and Zhou Hongyi were formulating their operation plans, World of Warcraft had not yet been launched. At the time, the Azeroth National Geographic forums had at most a few percent of what they are today. Gu Mojie and Zhou Hongyi, who look at the data and talk about evidence, naturally will not pay attention to these small websites at that time, nor will they cover these places with the advertorial plan. It was the launch of Warcraft that caused the traffic of these forums to skyrocket dozens of times overnight.

Gu Mojie was excited for more than ten minutes, and as soon as he was happy, he and Zhou Lixin drank a few beers. After doing it, Gu Mojie only felt that he was full of inspiration and thoughts. A lot of ideas popped up at the beginning.

"I thought of it! Tomorrow, I will explain it and let the company's operation staff spread the advertorial funds to places like the 'Azeroth National Geographic' forum! Brother, you quickly give me a list, in addition to Azeroth National Geographic, which Warcraft forums are more mainstream and you know, write them down. I'll have to hire some sailors to build momentum in those places. Now is the kind of opportunity. Throwing advertising money in this kind of place is a small profit and a double result with half the effort! ”

As soon as Gu Mojie said it, Zhou Lixin was not ambiguous, so he sorted it out on the computer, wrote an email, and filled in some of the surrounding hot spots he knew.

Gu Mojie stood behind his cousin and watched, and the ideas came out one after another: "It's not enough to find a water army!" In this matter, the post of the pure water army is not influential enough. We also have to hire some people to go to the United States to play World of Warcraft, and then make a special trip to use the 'Hatsune download' to download the Warcraft client. Then when you share battle reports, boss drops, and boss achievements. By the way, show off the Internet speed when you first got off the client! That's it! ”

Zhou Lixin had just finished typing the email, and he poured a basin of cold water on Gu Mojie without replying: "Are you sure you want to do this?" At present, I want to play American service Warcraft, but I need a PayPal account, buy some cards with US dollars on EBAY, and know how to use proxies to circumvent the wall. Where do you find so many people to cheat on this? ”

Gu Mojie was told by Zhou Lixin, and he calmed down a little, but he soon felt that there was no big deal.

"These are small things, PayPal dollar account, I have it. Big deal I use my money in the United States. Draw a small sum to buy Warcraft point cards, and I pay for others to play! Even if you sponsor 10,000 people to play Warcraft. It's only a few hundred thousand dollars of card money. and the same effect of advertising costs, this little money is nothing.

As for circumventing the wall; There are really not enough people in China who know this at present, and many people are not so fast even if you train them, which is a problem......"

Gu Mojie seemed to hesitate when he thought of this, but only a few minutes later. He solved the problem in a flash of inspiration.

"There it is! I'll ask Junjun to help me get it. Those students from the Academy of Mathematical Sciences and the Academy of Physical Sciences are all studying computers, so won't they go over the wall? I Gu someone paid for my classmates to play Warcraft, as long as they helped me post a few posts to show off the superiority of Hatsune's Internet speed. They are also very profitable in this transaction, aren't they? Oops, I admire myself so much. ”

Zhou Lixin was speechless for a while: Cousin, is this too much drunk? Otherwise, where did you get such a strong sense of superiority? One more question......

"Who is Junjun?" Zhou Lixin had something to say, and when he thought of the question, he asked, "I always remember, isn't the girl who follows you named Fei Liluo?" ”

"Hmm...... You don't know? Junjun is my girlfriend. Sister Fei, Sister Fei too...... No! I mean, Sister Fei is my legal counsel...... Anyway, you don't care who Sister Fei is. ”

Gu Mojie drank a little too much, and after a few words, he went around and walked in.

It is said that when a genius drinks too much, his IQ rises and his EQ also decreases. Li Bai was drunk and wrote "Qingping Tune", so he was able to ask Yang Guozhong to polish the ink and open the map cannon.

Seeing that he couldn't explain clearly, Gu Mojie hurriedly blew the fire on Zhou Lixin:

"Brother, I didn't mean you. Why do you stare at me every day? You are now worth millions, and you are also a middle-level Taobao network, what girl is not there? You can also find one...... I haven't seen you stay at home like this, except for work, you play games, and my aunt doesn't bother you......"

Zhou Lixin also drank too much, and he was defenseless, so he blurted out: "I'm Ahri's hairy?" People still have Baidu, and they have come back from Stanford in the United States. How can you look at me as a second student of Qiantang Institute of Technology...... Alas......"

Gu Mojie's eyes lit up, and the wine also woke up more than half: "Isn't it?" Do you already have a goal? Who is it? How long has it been? Say it and I'll help you get it! What's wrong with Stanford! You are my brother, even if you are a female Harvard doctor, as long as you don't dislike people old, I say you are worthy, you are worthy! ”

Gu Mojie waved his hand, making it look like he was smashing people with money. (To be continued.) )