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, and there are various reviews about which is better, 'Hatsune Download' or 'Internet Express'. 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. looked at the webpage given by Zhou Lixin for a long time. Only then did he come to his senses: "Isn't this a World of Warcraft Chinese game forum?" 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 watch the news, the number of people in Azeroth National Geographic must be higher than your Hatsune homepage, can you believe it? ”

Gu Mojie was anxious to figure out the problem. I didn't bother to raise the bar with Zhou Lixin, so I immediately softened first:

"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.

But. 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, how can such a game forum 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 there are millions of potential players staring at them 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 because of Blizzard's ungodly influence, even if it only released a rumor, it was before the game was launched. It has attracted a high degree of attention from tens of millions of people.

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, there are at least millions of potential players who are paying attention to their posts, being influenced and guided by their evaluation and public opinion? ”

After figuring this out. 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 it first opened, it was not so necessary to "queue up to get on the game", and the guide "After players got into the game, they would do everything possible to prevent themselves from being kicked offline, even if they burned 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 is no such strong motivation. Just to play this game, I went to change the download software.

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 read the numbers and talked about the evidence, naturally would not have paid attention to these small websites at that time, nor would 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 finishing it, Gu Mojie only felt that he was full of inspiration and thoughts, and many ideas suddenly came to him.

"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, give me a list, except for Azeroth National Geographic. What other Warcraft forums are more mainstream, you know, write them down. I'll have to hire some sailors to build momentum in those places. At present, this kind of opportunity, throwing advertising money in this kind of place, that is a small profit, twice the result with half the effort! ”

Gu Mojie said. 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!" This thing. The posts of the pure water army are 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 the battle report, share the BOSS drops, and the BOSS achievements, by the way, show off the network 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. 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 after only a few minutes, 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 School of Mathematical Sciences and the Academy of Physical Sciences of Qian University are all studying computers. Won't you still climb over the wall? I Gu someone paid for my classmates to play American clothes Warcraft, as long as they help me post a few posts to show off the superiority of Hatsune's Internet speed, they are also very profitable in this business, right? 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?" What did Zhou Lixin say? Thinking of the question, he asked, "I always remember, isn't the girl who follows you named Feliro?" ”

"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. After a few words, I went around and got 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.) )