A month flies.

During this time, Jester has been almost distracted by completing the limits of the two games he is currently working on.

And Oracle also gave Jester a very clear message.

JPMorgan Chase agreed to Jester's request for capital injection, but if you want to get 10% of the shares, the amount of money needed is not a small amount, at least $100 million is needed, and the specific interview date is also set in a month and a half, almost after the interview, that is, when Jester gets married.

Jester looked at the schedule taped to one wall.

At this time, he found out that tomorrow turned out to be the release date of "Rune Guardian", he patted his head, he seemed to remember, yesterday afternoon, the popular distributor passed a text to himself, talking about the release plan of "Rune Guardian" release date.

Want to ask yourself if there's anything else you'd like to add.

At that time, I just said it in passing, and I was talking after reading it, but at that time, I just threw that text aside, and then forgot about it when I worked.

Thinking of this, Jester flipped through the texts piled together, because he only got it yesterday, so it was easy to find it, and after a cursory look, there was nothing to add, in fact, Jester himself didn't care about the sales of "Rune Guardian" at all.

This was originally his own interest.

However, the fans who had quarreled with him before didn't see it that way, Richard. Garrett's fans, in fact, are not very accurate, to be precise, those fans of American RPGs share the same hatred, and they share their dissatisfaction with Jester.

This frustration was also vented on Jester's new game "Rune Guardian".

It's a PC game. On the PC gamer, the most are American RPG players, and they don't support this game. It's also hard to sell sales.

Of course, Jester has a lot of fans. Although the vast majority of them are fans of consoles, in the United States in this era, although computers have not yet been popularized, but basically those who like to play games basically have their own computers, whether they need to play games or not, that is two words.

Jester looked at the other news.

Richard. Garrett's Genesis 4 was released the day after tomorrow, which means a day later than Runestone Guardians.

About the gamble between "Rune Guardian" and "Genesis 4". Not only in this primitive network environment, it has been hyped up by supporters on both sides, but also in reality, it has also been added to the fire by many media that can't find any good news.

It's a day away from going on sale.

At the launch store of "Runestone Guardian", there were long queues.

Originally, a small production like this zuò, even if it was produced by Jester, would not be like this, not to mention that it was a PC game with a small audience. But who made the previous gamble.

There are also many media outlets that say that Jester deliberately provoked something to boost sales of his game.

And "Rune Guardian" is not distributed in the front, because it is a small system. So the number of game floppy disks made in the first batch is not very large, only about 500,000 to 600,000 copies, and there will be about 500,000 or 600,000 copies to be produced in the future, which is very high for a PC game.

But when you think that this is a Jester game, it's quite rare.

"I expect to be able to sell up to 200,000 floppy disks on the first day!"

Jester consulted with an expert in game publishing at Downwind Publishing, and the expert said that according to predictions, more than 200,000 copies could be sold on the first day of launch. And that's already a pretty big number, because the game isn't as big a release as Quake or Age of Empires.

So it's impossible to have these two games that are close to one million on the first day.

And the results of 200,000. It's 99 percent PC games, and it's impossible to achieve cumulative sales.

As for the sales of Genesis 4. This other party's prediction is that the sales volume in the first month will not be less than 800,000, you know, the sales of the "Genesis" series have a record of more than one million singles, and now because of the gambling incident, "Genesis" and American RPG players have the same hatred.

Therefore, in this case, even if the quality of "Genesis 4" is average, the sales will not be less, after all, feelings.

What's more, I got the news from a friend, although "Genesis 4" is not a masterpiece, but it is still a very good American RPG, it is decently done, there are no special highlights, but there are no shortcomings.

Jester thought for himself.

He also felt that "Rune Guardian" might not have an absolute chance of winning, so he simply picked up the phone again, preparing to release a message in advance that he was going to release in the future.

This time, the box of the Rune Guardian will have an independent account and an independent password, which is used to verify the network after being built with the future battle network, and the news that Jester is going to publicize is this.

The current battle network construction is still in progress, and it will take three months at the earliest, plus debugging and testing, it may not be until the end of this year to really open to the outside world.

However, in fact, during the test, it is also possible to invite a small number of players to participate.

Jester picked up the phone and called the people who were popular in the distribution, and they were in charge of the distribution of "Rune Guardian".

"You immediately sent a message to the outside world, just say that in the first three days of the "Rune Guardian", the game account card in it is the verification certificate of the battle network that we prepared to build, and if you buy it in the first three days, you will have the opportunity to obtain the first batch of test qualifications for our battle network, this qualification is extremely precious, probably no more than three thousand, and this battle net is not only for "Rune Guardian", but "Thor's Hammer", "Age of Empires" and all PC games developed by Mars Entertainment in the future, will be on this platform......"

Although there is only one day left until the release.

But for Jester, the speed at which the new news that suddenly broke out before the release was still very astonishing.

In this era, the spread of the Internet is far less rapid than that of later generations.

And when you play ads on TV temporarily, one is not worth it, and the second is that the TV is not opened by your house, you can put it if you want, except for letting people post these messages on some Jester or Mars Entertainment's fan forums, mainly it is a direct notice from the point of sale or the flagship store.

It was by word of mouth that the number of people waiting in line for the release of "Rune Guardian" tripled!

You know, Jester made it clear in his previous words.

"After that, all the games developed by Mars Entertainment on PC will be added to the battle.net, and online battle is something I have always advocated and worked hard to let all players experience, because I think that whether a game is fun or not, at least half of it is online."

"Those console players, they have a unique advantage, because they are born to play with their friends, and the fun of the game is far more than one plus one, but PC players, with all due respect, before Thor's hammer, I'm afraid I haven't seen you have the opportunity to share the fun of the game with your friends."

"In my opinion, there's nothing more important than sharing for fun, so after much deliberation, even though the current technology may be a bit immature, I'm still trying to build a platform that is web-based, and I call it Battle.net."

"The meaning is very simple, it means to be able to fight together on a network."

"Of course, this road is a new attempt, no one has ever done this, there are many difficulties, but we are also trying to solve it, waiting for the completion of the battle network, we will invite a small number of players to participate in this test, and the selection of the first batch of testers, part of it, is from the first three days of the release of "Rune Guardian", the card in the game floppy disk packaging, is the only criterion for our selection."

Although in this announcement, Jester's words about the selection method are unknown, but it shouldn't be too difficult to guess in his head.

Just from Jester's description.

Battle.net?

Is it to be able to play "Quake" or "Age of Empires" battles with players from all over North America?

It can't be, right?

Although many people didn't believe Jester's statement, it didn't prevent them from spreading the news, and then more and more, players who were originally not interested in "Rune Guardian" also began to gather, although they were not interested in "Rune Guardian", but they were interested in the test qualification of Battle.net.

The release time of "Runestone Guardian" is not early in the morning of the next day.

Instead, it goes on sale at 24 a.m.

It was also Jester's attempt to see if the midnight release could solve many of the problems caused by just a daytime release.

Among them, many players are dissatisfied because they can't buy the game on the first day.

By the time it was almost twenty-four o'clock, Jester was still busy in the office, and in terms of distribution, he wanted Jester to go to the flagship store of Mars Entertainment in Los Angeles to make an appearance, and finally give another passionate speech, which would definitely arouse more enthusiasm for buying.

Jester refused, though.

He felt that it was the best choice for him to be here, quietly waiting for the results of the release. (To be continued)