Shuiyun Internet Cafe is a medium-sized Internet café in SH City, with more than PC5oo, and the seats are full during the popular time period of noon and evening.

Even in some unpopular time periods, the number of users on the computer has never been less than 30%. Spread to 24 hours a day, the average attendance rate is at least 5%. And most of the netizens on the computer play games.

In the 2ooo year, online games were still not popular before. Playing games in Internet cafes is more often based on stand-alone games.

Among them, "CS", "Red Alert", "StarCraft", "Warcraft", "Age of Empires" and other games that can be used for online competition are often the main choice of computer users.

In this era, when you walk into an Internet café, the first thing that catches your eye may be "CS", with gunfights between police and bandits.

Either it is "Red Alert", "Interstellar", "Warcraft", "Age of Empires" and other real-time strategy games, players fully satisfy the passion of commanding thousands of troops and fighting against each other.

Other games that can't be played against are often much less popular.

Even popular games like "Dark" and "The Legend of Sword and Fairy" are definitely not as attractive to players in Internet cafes as those that can start LAN battles.

This is actually the main reason why Internet cafes attract users this year. Ordinary stand-alone games, just play alone in your own home, there is no need to surf the Internet. Playing in an Internet café and playing a competitive game with others is more exciting.

"Boss, how do you get the LAN of "Journey to the West: The Great Sage"?" A player is clamoring.

"Stupid, click set up a 'virtual server'. Enter the name of the 'virtual server' and set the password. Someone else knows your 'virtual server' name and password, and that's it! "In order to serve players, the owner of the Internet café has naturally been familiar with the research of new games for a long time.

"Oh? I open a '11111' server and don't have a password. Whoever wants to play, join in! The player said in a loud voice, "You don't get tired of playing "CS" and "Red Alert" all day long, and play a game of "Great Sage" with your uncle!" ”

This roar attracted a lot of responses from players.

Six players joined the game, choosing a faction. The three-person Huaguo Mountain camp. Three-person Heavenly Court camp. Then everyone chose to fight.

This battle. It is a collection of jungler upgrades, as well as confrontation and other elements.

In the beginning, everyone was O-class. Players on both sides of Heavenly Court and Huaguo Mountain can kill wild monsters on the map. Earn XP and reward battles. Meanwhile. Slay the mobs. It also counts as points. In the agreed event, the team with the most points wins.

And, of course, kill the opposing faction's players. More points.

The gameplay of this game is still very new at this time.

", the Bull Demon King resists, acts as a meat shield, and blocks the opponent's firepower. Phoenix, attack behind the Bull Demon King, go around the Bull Demon King, I'll kill the wild monster first to upgrade ......"

"Watch out for the dragon lady! Wow, the dragon girl is so perverted and froze me! Damn, dead! When I come back to life, I must kill this little girl! ”

With the opening of the LAN battle of "The Great Sage", a large group of spectators gathered around the 6 machines.

The attack of the myth of Xianxia from all kinds of light monsters, at the same time, is a competitive confrontation. There are wild monsters in the map, which also fully enriches the gameplay.

In the course of the confrontation, you can not only guerrilla monsters, but also kill the opponent's players to get higher points.

All of a sudden, many onlookers were moved.

"This game is quite interesting!"

"Let's start a game too?"

……

With the release of 5o million game discs, the event was sold out in just one week. Next, software stores, bookstores, Internet cafes and other major channels, orders continue to be sent to small partner companies.

By the end of April, "Journey to the West: The Great Sage Chapter" came out with a news that shocked the industry - sales exceeded one million!

However, along with millions of sales, there is a huge loss, and "Popular Software" published a report - "Millions of sales are still huge, the death of domestic boutique games"!

"In April 2ooo, the biggest news in China's game industry was undoubtedly the launch of "Journey to the West: The Great Sage".

After the game was released, it quickly won the favor of players with its richness, playability and low price. In less than a month after its launch, it achieved millions of sales, setting a sales record for domestic games!

Prior to this, the best-selling Chinese game "The Legend of Sword and Fairy" sold only 530,000, and "Swordsman Love" only sold 2o thousand.

However, industry insiders pointed out that due to the expensive research cost and low-price sales of 8 yuan, this game, even if the sales record is broken, is still a loss-making business.

Compared with the game industry in Japan, Europe and the United States, genuine games cost hundreds of dollars and dollars, and even have tens of millions of sales. Therefore, Europe, the United States and Japan, the top game masterpieces, the investment can reach hundreds of millions of dollars, and there is still the possibility of making profits.

But in the deformed domestic market, domestic games can have a budget of two or three million, which is already a big deal. For general domestic games, the budget will not exceed one million yuan.

And the chief planner of "Journey to the West: The Great Sage" is Wang Qinian, the director of the movie of the same name. Like the movie version, the game is a big deal. With a budget of up to 5oo yuan, it has set a new record in the domestic game industry.

Wang Qinian said frankly that the price of 8 yuan is low, but it needs to ensure that dealers can make money, so it compresses the profits of the small partner company. Not counting the research cost, each box of discs only earns 1 yuan at most. According to the calculation of earning 1 yuan per box, the sales volume of "Journey to the West: The Great Sage" needs to exceed 5oo before the cost can be collected. The reporter interviewed a number of game industry bosses, and many peers ridiculed Wang Qinian for not understanding the market, and he was completely losing money and making money......"

After this article was published, it shook the gaming industry.

At the same time, many players feel that they should do something for this domestic game boutique!

Buy, buy, buy!

Many players have already bought a box themselves, but they have bought a few more copies and presented them to some friends who are playing games. All of a sudden, the disc of "Journey to the West: The Great Sage" on the market was swept away!

At the same time, players took the initiative to help promote this game, for example, recommended Internet café owners, installed the genuine "Journey to the West: The Great Sage", and on the Internet, players also promoted this classic masterpiece everywhere.

In addition, some enthusiastic players with energy took the initiative to report a number of pirated production and sales dens, which vigorously cracked down on the arrogance of pirates......

Due to the piracy of "Journey to the West: The Great Sage", the risk is high and the profit is small, and it has also been boycotted and reported by players. Therefore, many pirates are not stupid enough to do piracy of this game.

So much so that since the launch of "Journey to the West: The Great Sage Chapter", there have only been two or three pirated CDs outflow, but the number of these CDs is less than 10,000, and it has been reported by enthusiastic players, and the public security has destroyed and raided the den.

Next, this "Journey to the West: The Great Sage Chapter", a hot mess of the game, is no longer pirated! And the genuine version is very cheap, which has caused the sales of the genuine version of this game, and it continues to ride the dust. (To be continued!)

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