Just like the "CS" Video Editing Contest that year, Dragon Teng likes to open up video clips of multiple games, four-panel comics, fandom creations and other peripheral content to all game fans.

Then organize it in the form of a formal competition, set up a prize that is not too high, but benefits a wide range of people, and is held frequently, almost once a quarter, which is a long-term low-reward and multi-participation competition, which can keep players pay enough attention to the game, and gradually cultivate a game-centric, multi-format surrounding cultural atmosphere.

Every week on Mango Channel, there is a special introduction to this week's best new game video,A Wei and KiKi and others specially organized a evaluation group,Count the number of plays and downloads from the official website,And then the quality of the work is evaluated by professional video production personnel,The game theme is temporarily limited to "CS", a large number of excellent production groups have emerged, such as professional video working groups "Sweet Coffee" and "Sand Eagle Fury", as well as the publicity groups of major well-known CS teams.

Because Longteng has a complete training and publicity competition reward system, and the previous activities have been a complete success, so the video of "Diablo 2" and the four-panel comic collection competition have also received enthusiastic responses from players, everyone is waiting for the game to be released to buy genuine discs, many professional video studios have begun to recruit, and many anxious netizens have also begun to post on the forum.

"Beijing local image post-processing master cooperation, I Lenovo company software engineer, good at video processing, look forward to you who are good at post-production zuò contact me, LongChat account is ......"

"Springs illustrators are looking for peers to work with! If you are a game master or comic artist who is good at the creativity of the four-panel comic book of "Hilarious Interstellar", you can contact me and co-sign the work. After winning the award, AA will share the prize equally, contact information. LongChat or phone ......"

"Graduated from animation major, computer drawing and drawing skills are superb. The little beauty in Ningcheng who has been in the industry for two years asks to bring~ It is best to be a local girl in Ningcheng~ Please contact me in the station letter, report your name, phone number and work unit, do not disturb if you are not sincere, thank you~"

This kind of post is basically concentrated in the video and animation competition area of the official website, and many people find like-minded friends and partners here, and it has vaguely become a well-known concentration of animation and video production in China.

On September 22nd, the Dragon Game Battle Platform updated its version, added a Diablo 2 area, and opened a game discussion area.

September 24th. The exclusive servers of the Dark Zone of the Dragon Game Battle Platform have all been maintained, and the exclusive server group of BattleNet has been maintained.

On September 28th, Diablo 2's advertisements have spread all over the world, TV media is the most important way of communication, community advertising, street signboard advertising, bus stop signs, Diablo 2 is in many places, but it is the least investment in online media. Because Longteng's official website is the best advertising platform, LongChat chat software pops up a floating window every two days, and the effect is excellent.

On October 1, "Diablo 2" was launched simultaneously worldwide. Queuing up to buy has once again become a scene that people talk about everywhere, and the direct operation of Longteng online mall also accepts overseas customers to buy, and a VISA or MASTER credit card can be easily purchased without leaving home.

The PC version of the game sold 2.4 million copies in a single day. Among them, 82% were bought by European and American players, and 8% were Japanese and Korean players. Chinese mainland, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan also accounted for 8% of sales, which was very unexpected by Longteng.

Yang Yun took his wife to conquer the Silk Road. The main core person in charge of Blizzard Studio is more than half gone, and only Zhao Yongping and Lin Zhihong are in the company to handle daily affairs, and only they know the good news and tricky things.

It was almost like a crazy purchase, which was a happy event for them, but they soon realized that this might not be a good thing, Longteng was not fully prepared, and the previous listing plan was omission.

That night, the Diablo 2 area on the Dragon Game Battle Platform was almost crowded, and Dragon Teng prepared 360 sets of servers for dark players all over the world, distributed around the world, which theoretically allowed more than 90,000 players to enter the battle platform and play online games in the LAN, which is the fastest and most convenient way for dark players in the world to connect online.

But this is far from enough, and it can't stop the enthusiasm of the players at all.

A large number of European and American players can't enter the full domestic distribution server, so they can only transfer to the Chinese server, you can imagine how high the ping is, and the network latency is stuck and stuck, paused and paused, but this is better than not being able to connect.

And after Chinese players enter the domestic server room, they see a large number of hosts with a delay of more than 1000 on the host list, build a Chinese server by themselves, 8 players are all Chinese, but once a foreign IP comes in, I see that guy playing teleportation for a long time, standing still, ghostly, no one knows when he dies, and everyone is not happy to play.

In addition, Yang Yun reminded at the beginning of Blizzard's production that "Diablo 2" should take into account the relationship between the official server and the privately set up server.

The game has three game modes, one is the most standard single-player mode, the second is the official website BattleNet server connection, and the third is the multiplayer connection mode, which is the local area network.

The Dragon Arena platform offers a third LAN mode, which is the favorite way to play for most players, as long as you find a stable server, you can play the battle together as if you were a few good friends sitting in the same room.

But there is also BattleNet for players to choose from, this is a large server similar to "Legend" or "Bubble Hall", players can enter this Battle.net server after guò CD-KEY verification, create characters, just like playing ordinary online games, but each room can only have a maximum of 8 people to enter, and the maximum number of people that BattleNet can accommodate depends on the server configuration.

The current situation is that 2.4 million players, about 1 million people are going to the single-player mode, they have various reasons for not being able to connect to the Internet, and the remaining 1.4 million are able to connect to the Internet, or have the opportunity to connect to the Internet, including the local area network.

Considering the time difference between the north and the south, there are only about 120,000 people who want to play online battles online at the same time, and the Dragon game battle platform supports more than 90,000 people at most, and more than 20,000 people are homeless, so they can only use the BattleNet dedicated battle.net server.

But there are many people who don't want to BattleNet servers so early, and they haven't figured out the game mode yet, so early on the server, in case you practice the wrong number, waste time and energy, not to mention, you may need to practice again.

And BattleNet was not stable at the beginning of the game's creation, the network speed was not as fast as the Dragon game battle platform, and sometimes it would be disconnected, technically it was not as mature as the Dragon Game Battle Platform, so there were still some players who had to use the stand-alone mode to play, of course, they would also protest on the forum, hoping that Dragon would increase the number of servers.

October 1 is the National Day of the Chinese, the concept of the National Day Golden Week has long been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, the Golden Week to travel to see the head has become a phenomenon that everyone ridicules, so a considerable number of citizens after suffering one or two losses will never suffer a third loss, they choose the National Day Golden Week to stay locally, will meet friends, go shopping, sleep for a few days, or - play games!

In the major Internet cafes across the country, Lineage 1 and Legend are still the most popular online games, plus some casual "Bubble Hall", "Running Kart", "Band and Dance", as well as competitive games such as "StarCraft", "Warcraft 3" and "CS", there is now another "Diablo 2" to choose from.

But the 1.09 version of this game is different from "Warcraft 3", if it is not a genuine user, without the verification of CDKEY, it is not very cool to play.

Tang Xiaorui sat on this computer, tossing for more than ten minutes and still couldn't enter the game, he was really angry.

He raised his head and shouted in his broken voice, "Network Administrator! Management! ”

After the glasses network administrator came over, Tang Xiaorui pointed to the monitor and said angrily: "Why can't I enter the game?" ”

Glasses wondered: "It's impossible, the Diablo 2 of each of our machines is good, I only installed it this morning, and then I made a copy of each machine in the Internet café." I'll take a look at ......."

The glasses leaned down, switched the game out, saw the other programs on the taskbar, and understood what was going on: "Do you want to use the Dragon Game Battle Platform to play LAN?" ”

Tang Xiaorui replied: "Yes! Doesn't it mean that online games can only be played on this platform? ”

Glasses asked, "Then did you buy a genuine CDKEY?" ”

"What? Correct...... Genuine? Still want to buy genuine CDKEY? Tang Xiaorui was dumbfounded: "I haven't heard of it, I play "Bubble Hall", "Kart Run" and "Audition" or something, and I didn't say I wanted to buy CDKEY!" ”

Glasses stood up, he felt a little funny: "Diablo 2 is different from those online games you said, it requires genuine CDKEY." According to the official introduction, version 1.09 is CDKEY verification, if you don't verify CDKEY, you can't enter the nightmare and hell mode of stand-alone mode, nor can you use the Dragon game battle platform for LAN battles, nor can you enter BattleNet for network battles, but you can conduct LAN battles, and there are also no nightmares and hell modes. So, do you understand? (To be continued......)