This time, not many people were invited to the headquarters of Mars Entertainment for testing.

The original plan was 200 people, but the number of people who signed up was so enthusiastic that the number of participants was finally expanded to 350.

Although this number is too rare compared to the number of registrations, this kind of invitation-based test is not to invite a large number of people to play, but a real test.

Equivalent to QA.

You know, the development of a large-scale game requires a large number of QA testers, but at present, among the more than 100 development members of WOW, there are no dedicated QA testers, and the basic tests are all undertaken by developers.

It would take at least a hundredfold to expand this size.

Hundreds of QA testers are a pure waste of manpower and material resources, so there will be this external testing activity for players.

What I want is to test these players and complete some QA tests.

Therefore, this time the test time to the Mars Entertainment headquarters is very long, a full month, of course, Mars Entertainment includes food and accommodation, and a little additional living allowance, naturally, the subsidy is not high, so it is a voluntary registration method.

And also stated.

Those who make a score in this test can also directly qualify for the next invitation test, and Jester also guaranteed that before the public test, such a very small invitation test will not be done just once, at least five or six times, almost twice a year.

And. Best of all, this is not a test to enter into a non-disclosure agreement.

Testers, in addition to not being able to record videos, are completely free to talk about their testing process on the Internet and mention what kind of game it is.

Even Jester said.

On the test computer prepared by Mars Entertainment, it is possible to go directly to the Internet, and players can even conduct live broadcasts with text and screenshots while testing, of course, the address of the live broadcast is limited to the forum of Mars Entertainment.

The criteria for selecting testers are simple, basically as long as the players who value Mars Entertainment have the opportunity to get such an opportunity. Of course, if the winner of the lottery does not confirm it on the email, then there will be a candidate for the next candidate, and everyone has a time limit for confirmation, of course, because the quota is precious, if it is confirmed, it will not come at that time.

Then the player account associated with the qualification will be permanently suspended.

Because of the life-saving standard this time. That is, as long as you have purchased more than three games of Mars Entertainment on the Battle.net account of Mars Entertainment, you are eligible to sign up.

The players are extremely enthusiastic.

What's more, the test time Jester also took into account the relationship between many students who are game parties, and put a month's test time into the summer vacation. In this way, even students have no worries.

The shortlist is not announced all at once.

Instead, on the official forum, the speed of 35 people is announced every day, and it takes a full ten days for the final list to come out.

This makes a lot of people pay attention every day. Even refresh the page of the Mars Entertainment Forum every moment, because the thirty-five digits per day are not announced at one time, but one or two every hour. And players want to know if they have been qualified for the test in the first place, and they will keep refreshing the page before the hour.

Therefore, in the past few days, the number of posts on Mars Entertainment's game forum has created a record high.

The number of posts per day is hundreds of thousands.

At this time, Jester also opened a post on the game forum of Mars Entertainment, and took the initiative to introduce some basic setting issues of WOW.

This is also what many players have proposed.

Players reflected on the forum that if many of the game's mechanics or gameplay are not revealed, then the background of the game must not be revealed, although Jester said that this game is "World of Warcraft", that is, this game is set according to the background of the world of Warcraft.

And this background has novels, comics, and even single-player games from the previous WAR series to complete.

However, not all people are familiar with these novels, comics, and even WAR series, if you want to know more about it, you can go and read it, but for many people, they want to have a simple understanding of it, and it is okay to know such a thing, and these people probably don't have much interest in which novels to read, read those comics, and play those RTS games of the WAR series many years ago.

So, can you briefly introduce the background of the game through a post on the forum?

After thinking about it, Jester also thought that this proposal was good.

So, he decided that he would take a little time out of his day to write a little bit about the background history of WOW and share it with the players.

Moreover, on the game forum of Mars Entertainment, the WOW zone also came into being.

On the fifth day of the shortlist, Jester's first post about the historical background of WOW began to be serialized on the forums, which was also the first official announcement, with some more in-depth news about the already high-profile game.

The post is written very briefly, like a brief history.

At the beginning, he introduced what kind of world it is, what kind of race it has, what kind of terrain and landforms, and what kind of power.

Jester, of course, takes the same approach as the bards of Homer's epic poems, like traveling around the world in those DND novels, introducing other people to stories about the world and heroes through the poems.

"The starlight of Azeroth is as dim as the light of the world when I first came into it, like my cold gaze, perhaps, only things that have lost their enthusiasm can really last long, like the history of this world......"

"No one can tell if countless legends are true or false, and neither can I."

"When I began to sort out the history of this world, I found that there were countless mixtures and contradictions. The ingredients of the Xu family are confusing. ”

"Even what I have personally experienced, there are several different theories, perhaps, this is what history needs to verify, but when I wander in this world to collect those clues of right or wrong, detailed or general, real or imaginary, a sense of foreboding that is difficult to complete envelops my heart."

"Definitely. I couldn't satisfy myself with the part that had already been written, until one day, I found this treasure......"

Jester's opening is even more acclaimed by the first-person bard, which is much more vivid than the boring history of a game.

Therefore, there are still people who keep urging Jester to change.

Jester was in a good mood, and after a little consideration, he continued to write in the manner of a bard.

“…… It was a boxy thing, and one of the sides was like a mirror, but I could see a clearer image from it than the overall vision of the crystal ball. I don't know what kind of magical power this is unfolding in front of me. ”

"This artifact comes from an unknown world, and when I used it, it was still half on the other side of the spatial portal."

"A mysterious arcanist gave me this square box, along with what he called a mouse. And these things are connected to another world by some thick wires. ”

"Don't drag the lines too hard, you only have a few days. That's what this arcanist told me. ”

And with his cold words, I took what was called a mouse, and to my amazement. As I moved the thing as the Arcanist instructed me, an arrow in the mirror inside responded to my movements. And this mouse has two buttons on it......"

When Jester posts another text he wrote, the players who are reading his post finally know what he was talking about at the beginning, it turns out that Jester used a game in which the Bard got a computer on Earth, and the Bard used this computer to tell the story of something called WOW or Azeroth.

This kind of witty writing will naturally be welcomed by players.

A lot of people were urging Jester to keep writing.

Because the first day's posts can't always be in the water these nonsense, and don't write anything.

Jester saw that this was the case, so he thought about it again, then looked at some of the background settings of Azeroth that he had written a long time ago, prepared the wording, and continued to write in the post.

“…… When I moved the arrow to the only icon and quickly pressed the left button twice, something magical happened. ”

"The history of Azeroth, the history that has been sealed in history and no one knows is re-presented before my eyes, this treasure from the unknown world, a clear and objective record of all history, whether it is humans, orcs, night elves or undead disasters."

"Even countless dead characters can move freely under the control of rats, only in the mirror, of course."

"So, after a few days, I finally knew what I needed, and this was what I was going to say: the orcs came out of nowhere, and they suddenly appeared in the Swamp of Sorrow and began to invade the nearby human settlement."

"The two sides attack each other, the focus is on Gran Village, if the humans hold here, it will be difficult for the orcs to expand to the west, and they can only survive in the swamp all day, so whether it is the leader of the orcs Black Hand, or the king of the human race, Lane, have sent elite troops to the Gran Village, in addition, the human race is still facing a big problem, and this problem needs to be solved urgently."

"That is, it has been more than twenty months since there has been no news of Lothar, he went to the Death Mine to look for the lost Book of the Gods, a monk of the North County Abbey saw him in a mirage and was tormented in pain, the king thought that Lothar was still alive, and immediately sent his own troops to rescue Lothar from the Death Mine......"

This is the plot of "Orcs and Humans" in WAR1.

Of course, there is much more to the game than that, much more detailed.

But Jester only briefly introduces the background of WOW to the game, but those who don't want to read the novels, comics, and WAR series of games know that of course, the more brief the better.

That's some background anyway.

“…… The Black Hand captured the village of Gran...... The troubles of humanity are far more than that, and the threat from within them is even more terrifying. ”

"Medivan has already begun to absorb the energy of this world, and before dealing with the orcs, he must be stopped first, and a surprise team has come to the Tower of Medivan, that is, Karazan, to fight a decisive battle with this man with the most powerful magical powers, and the leader is none other than Anduin. Lothar ......"

“…… Medivan died at the hands of Lothar's sword, and just when people thought that there would be a brief peace in the world, an even more shocking news came from the capital - King Ryan had been assassinated by the orc Assassin Garona! ”

"At this time, Garona, who was imprisoned in the Northshire Monastery, had mastered some of the mysteries of human magic, and before that, there was also a split within the orcs, and the Hammer of Destruction, supported by the Shadow Council, rebelled, killed the Great Chieftain's Black Hand, and captured the Solar Glade, and learned human magic from the human magic tower in the city, and then, the orc army approached Northshire, razed it to the ground, and rescued Garona......"

This plot is also mentioned in the WAR series of games.

However, Jester also knows that this is also a plot to be filmed on the so-called WOW movie in later generations.

It was a passage chosen from the history of this orc invasion, of course, it may have been to shape the image of Thrall in the future, and forcibly added Durotan to it.

In fact, the orc invasion of the Eastern Kingdoms did not have anything to do with Durotan at all.

“…… The orcs continued to advance, and after the town of Shining Gold and the town of Moonstream were conquered, Stormwind was completely isolated, so that the final fall, the king died tragically, the capital fell, the kingdom of Azeroth fell into the hands of the orcs, and countless humans were displaced, and Sir Lothar could only take King Ryan's young son Ureon across the ocean to take refuge in their ally Lordaeron......"

“…… Six years later, Doomhammer was fully prepared to head north, and the massive fleet began to march towards Lordaeron. ”

"Historically known as the 'Kuroshio'." (To be continued.) )