At the time when the revision of "Three Kingdoms" was completed, Longyou Company was also making final preparations for the sale of "Age of Empires?......

The president of Microsoft's game department made a special call to the deputy general manager of Longyou for this matter. As the general manager, Fu Hui does not speak English, and the vice president communicates with these foreign manufacturers.

Because of the time difference, it's night here in China. The vice president was about to fall asleep, and when he received a call from Microsoft, he couldn't speak, and he couldn't remember the basic conversational words.

After the dot-com bubble, Microsoft's market capitalization plummeted by half, but it is still a behemoth with more than $200 billion. Even the president of a division of Microsoft is a big man who is prohibitive.

The president of the game department said with a face: "Microsoft has represented you with "Mecha Warrior 4", "Simulator Battle", and "Crazy City Racing...... There are six games in total, and none of them have sold more than 150,000, why is that? ”

"Because ......" the vice president of Longyou Company didn't know how to explain. They have done a good job of selling 20 yuan through the channel of Internet cafes to crack down on piracy, and they don't know why they can't sell in quantity.

The president of the games department interrupted: "I don't want to hear any explanations, I just want to see the results." You're about to sell Age of Empires, and I'd love to hear good news about the game. "Understood." The vice president hurriedly said. In fact, it may not sell well, but the vice president has to deal with Microsoft's people first.

After hanging up the phone, the vice president called Fu Hui again and reported Microsoft's attitude: "The president of Microsoft is very dissatisfied with our agency ability. But the target software has found Celadon Technology, and "Age of Empires" will be sold at the same time as us, so I am afraid that the sales will still not satisfy Microsoft. Anger them. ”

"Yes." Fu Hui already knew, because the target software was unwilling to wait for the delay in sales. and went directly to find Wang Buying, so Fu Hui also talked with the agent of "Proud Three Kingdoms", and wanted to come to "Proud Three Kingdoms" for comparison.

As long as you enter the game, you can see that "Three Kingdoms" is not a little behind "Age of Empires" in terms of quality. Even if the target software relies on Celadon Technology, can the quality of the game be improved in a month or two?

Fu Hui said: "Celadon Technology's games can sell well. It's all because the quality of the game is better than our product. But how does "Three Kingdoms" compare with "Age of Empires"? Players are not stupid. Will you really listen to Wang Buying's shouting twice and pay for it? ”

"But this time we have to seek stability, Microsoft is a gaming giant, if they lose confidence in the Chinese market. It's not good for our future exhibitions. The vice president said. Then ahead of time, we will start selling Age of Empires now. Fu Hui made a decision directly.

"There aren't too many genuine copies that have been printed. Don't wait for it to be sold at the same time? The vice president asked.

"Who would dare to pirate the games I represent? Start selling now! How much is sold, tell the promoter to make more effort, and knock on one Internet café after another! After Fu Hui finished speaking, he suddenly thought of a bad idea: "Don't we have a plate of "Proud Three Kingdoms"? Spread out. Let's play the pirated version of "Three Kingdoms" first. After the players play the pirated version, see how many people will wait for New Year's Day to pay again! ”

"Good!" The vice president was overjoyed when he heard this, he deserved to be Fu Dongting's son, don't look at the usual hanger, he can also come up with a means at a critical time. The vice president also watched "The Three Kingdoms" and felt that buying a disc could indeed kill an afternoon, but that's it. How many people will pay for the versus feature in it?

Go to an internet café to surf the internet. It costs two or three pieces an hour. Play a "Three Kingdoms" online, and after a game, players will have to pay at least a few dollars for it! And is it worth the money? The first hour was spent building houses, chopping wood, mobilizing resources, and holding back troops. In the end, it will be a winner.

It's the same with surfing the Internet at home, and you will drop the line in fifteen minutes. It costs a few dollars to play a game, and the Internet fee is also very expensive, how can you afford it?

"Three Kingdoms" is only suitable for playing offline computers at home to kill time, and when the piracy spreads and players have seen the content, not many people will pay at all. Who's got a lot of money? Pay for features you don't use.

Vice President Zhuomo, originally the players listened to Wang Buful's idea, and prepared twenty yuan to buy "Proud Three Kingdoms". But after seeing the pirated version of the game, players don't necessarily continue to pay. And then those twenty dollars, maybe you can take it out and buy "Age of Empires".

Finding a pirate is simple. Longyou International can have today, it is from the sea of corpses and blood. Acting as an agent for foreign luxury goods for so many years, in order to combat counterfeit goods, it has established relations with local industry and commerce, and now this resource has been used to combat piracy. Any pirate dealer who acts as an agent for Longyou to copy game discs on a large scale will soon be shut down and confiscated fines. Tossing it all at once will hurt your vitality a lot.

Pirates are the source of piracy. These people saw the methods of Longyou International, and they were terrified, as long as Longyou Company said that they wanted to act as an agent, they would never dare to burn it again. If you accidentally confiscate most of your wealth, it's too miserable.

The vice president went to several big pirates overnight, and they all thought they had heard it wrong. How could Longyou ask them to engrave pirated discs? Then I realized that it was a game of carving celadon technology system to harm people.

Pirates make money when they have it, and they don't care if they have it or not. They know that "Three Kingdoms" will be officially sold on New Year's Day, and now the date is very close, and players are very curious about the franchise game, so the game has great market potential. Bingguishen, if you release pirated copies at this time, you will definitely be able to make a lot of money.

On the same day, a large number of pirates from the vicinity of Nanjiang arrived overnight, and pirates from other places were also ready to take a plane as soon as possible tomorrow. Piracy is a fast word.

At present, the largest pirate is the Zangjing Pavilion, and it is also the fastest. Directly ask the sales staff of Nanjiang to go to Longyou Company to copy the original disk, and then charter a car overnight to send the original disk back to the headquarters.

In fact, "The Three Kingdoms" has been listed abroad. Pirates such as the Zangjing Pavilion have also made the idea to find foreign buyers to buy back the English version of "The Three Kingdoms" and re-translate it back into Chinese. As a result, the buyer said that he couldn't find "The Three Kingdoms" everywhere, and he couldn't buy it at all.

Of course, it is impossible for that foreign agent to spend money on a game that may lose money. "Three Kingdoms" was assessed as extremely risky, so only 3,000 copies were made for a small-scale trial sale, and it really sold badly. So the agent considered himself unlucky and destroyed the rest of the game. Failed as an agent.

In the United States, there are only more than 1,000 copies of "Three Kingdoms" scattered among players. How can a pirate buyer buy it?

The Scripture Pavilion got the original disc at two o'clock in the morning, and the small workshop was already waiting with full staff. A group of people were busy until the next morning, and the first batch of 10,000 pirated discs of "The Three Kingdoms" was ready.

At the same time, two regional agents also rushed over, each with thousands of discs and returned to their respective cities, and began to flow to retired old men, laid-off aunts, street stalls, and video stores.

Two other regional agents are also rushing here, and by the time they arrived, there were more than 10,000 pirated disks......

No wonder they are so anxious, because everyone knows that the pirated version of "The Three Kingdoms" will definitely sell well!

It can be said that "Three Kingdoms" is the most anticipated game by Chinese players now. Among the three games in the game box, the mini-game doesn't sound very attractive, and everyone has seen it in "Counter-Strike", which is an absolute masterpiece, with a matching mechanism, it is simply refreshing. With this jewel in front, where can "The Three Kingdoms" go?

As the pirates thought, the pirated version of "The Three Kingdoms" was only sold out in the early morning and was immediately snapped up. Countless regional agents have red eyes, waiting outside the small workshop, a batch of discs are produced, no need to print, just put a bag, you can take it to sell.

Players only got up in the morning, and now that the night has passed, there is actually a pirated disc of "Three Kingdoms". Everyone didn't care about buying pirated copies of Celadon Technology. They thought that this was done by Celadon Technology, and they made preparations in advance for New Year's Day. As we all know, in order to save intermediate costs, Celadon Technology allowed the free version to disperse. Receiving money is only for the value-added service of online connection.

I don't know what the first franchise game of the game box will look like? Players bought pirated disks, looked at the installation progress bar on the screen, and looked forward to it.

……

There is an Internet café here in Nanjiang.

The captain of the Qulong clan rubbed his eyes. I woke up too early, I didn't sleep enough, and after two rounds of play in "Counter-Strike", my form began to decline. You have to take a break, or your win rate will drop.

At this moment, a thin young man stumbled in from outside, panting and saying to the owner of the Internet café: "Boss, open a machine!" ”

"There's no time, you wait...... Seventeen minutes, see if the man can get off the plane. The boss looked at the data on the security box of the Internet café version and said.

The thin young man shook the disc in his hand, "This is the disc of "The Three Kingdoms"! Celadon Technology's first co-sale game! Boss, is there really no chance? ”

"Really?" The boss was surprised, looking at the disc, nothing was printed, and the pirated disc could be printed and painted, it was too rough.

"Of course it is. I saw that there was one for sale downstairs this morning, so I bought it and immediately ran over. The thin young man looked left and right to see if there was any empty plane.

Qu He listened, and was also curious about what Celadon Technology's game looked like, and beckoned: "Dude, hey, I'll let you." Come on my machine! ”

The thin young man couldn't wait to hear this, and immediately ran over, and was stunned when he saw the data on the game box interface on the screen: "The winning rate is ninety-four percent!" So high? ”

"Generally average. Hurry up and pretend, I'll also see how about "Three Kingdoms". "As a professional gamer, you definitely need to know all kinds of games. Maybe "Three Kingdoms" can be like "Interstellar", and there will be games to play in the future.

"Big brother, thank you." After the thin young man finished speaking, he sat down in Quhe's seat and began to pretend "The Three Kingdoms". )