The Steam Indie Game Awards have undoubtedly exploded the gaming industry as a fuse, and after many manufacturers saw the potential and direction of the Steam platform, they abandoned their hostility and joined in the cooperation.

A lot of people can't understand why they'd rather share with the platform to reduce revenue than go live on the Steam platform.

In fact, many people only see the surface.

For example, a game can sell 100,000 copies and earn 10 million, and after landing on the steam platform, it will give two transactions of the revenue to the steam platform, but the sales may increase several times, and on the whole, it is still a steady profit.

The increase in games attracts users, and the increase in users attracts games, and the two promote the development of the steam platform very rapidly.

Relying on the initial mobile game and web game users, the users bound to the first sound video network, the Steam platform has reached the scale of 10 million users, and after two months of increasing games, this number has reached 40 million.

At the same time, the steam platform is not only launched in China, but also gradually deployed abroad.

Of course, there was some resistance.

The well-known food video maker of Hatsune Video Network's overseas station, Tom . Granger has had a bit of a problem lately.

The launch of the steam platform in the Kingdom of England went smoothly, and Europe was the earliest overseas market for the first layout of the first video network, but some of his friends were very troubled.

"It's terrible, I didn't expect the Steam platform to be able to get in because of the censorship."

In the voice, a man is speaking English with a strong accent and complaining to Tom.

"Hey, man, don't be discouraged, at least you can land steam in Europe, can't you?"

Tom reassured.

"But I still have to worry about whether the software will be blocked one day."

On the other end of the voice, there is Basil, who lives on the west coast of the Confederation. Ampton, whose country is also very economically developed, second only to Huaxia, naturally chose the Confederation as the location for one of the servers this time.

However, there is a clause in the user agreement of the Steam platform that cannot pass the laws of the Federation, that is, the upload of games, the publication of comments, etc., need to be reviewed by the platform before it can be published, and the Federation believes that this damages the freedom of speech of citizens, and requires the Steam platform to be modified to not be censored, and the Steam platform did not agree to this change for various reasons, so it was blocked out of the Federation.

Now, although users in the Commonwealth can log in to the steam platform through the European zone, it is legally "illegal", and the Commonwealth has the right to cut off the domestic connection to steam at any time, in the words learned by the Commonwealth netizens, it is "walled".

The Confederation has a large number of independent game makers, not to mention those major game manufacturers, and the experience of the Steam platform in the Confederation has also caused dissatisfaction among these people, who have been strongly criticized on social platforms, but have been banned and so on, and can only use some pronouns to discuss the matter.

After chatting for a while, Tom and the others still felt that it was enough to play the game, so they started to go online.

The game they play is a new game on the Steam platform, not a standalone game, but the work of a little-known small factory.

The name of the game is "Hell Paratroopers", and due to the similarity of words, they are also known as "Old Drivers of Hell".

This is a 45-degree bird's-eye view shooter game, the general background is that the player's universe has been invaded by aliens such as the Zerg, and the player needs to control the airborne troops to fight on various planets.

The game has a wide variety of weapons and features, from live rifles and pistols to flamethrowers, beam weapons, as well as tanks, mechs, and other vehicles.

"Hell Paratroopers" has a game feature, that is, the weapon will not be automatically loaded, the player needs to manually control the loading, if connected to the controller game, then when the weapon empty the magazine, there will be a clicking sound from the handle, in the face of the tide of monsters, there is a sense of urgency.

But that's all.,It's just an ordinary Musou brush brush game.。

The most distinctive design of "Hell Paratroopers" is friendly damage.

On the plane, the player's bullets will not only kill enemies, but also wound teammates, and even ask for airdropped supplies to kill themselves, and on the battlefield, players will not only have to fight xenomorphs, but also need to be careful of friendly damage, and at the same time, this unexpected situation is also very fun.

Tom knew that this game was still played by the streamers of the live broadcast platform, and he thought it was interesting, so he bought it with his friends, and he was addicted to it all at once.

I have to say that the anchors are indeed much more powerful in promoting games.

In the past, most streamers played the most popular games of the moment, either "The Last of Us" or "Breath of the Wild" together, but since the introduction of the Steam platform, the fun of many streamers has become to discover the various unpopular games on the platform.

For example, the game "Hell Paratroopers" was released in November last year, and was sold on SN4, PC, and black box platforms, until it landed on the steam platform, the global sales were probably less than 100,000 copies, and after the landing, it was discovered by several anchors, and in just two weeks, the game's sales exceeded 500,000, and even asked the manufacturer to write a letter to the steam platform, thank you very much, and also designed a Gauss rifle exclusive to the steam platform, which was given to every player on the steam platform.

This is just a microcosm, due to the strong anchor influence of Hatsune Video Network, coupled with the variety of games on the Steam platform, the two form a strong combination.

For example, on the game details page of the Steam platform, you can see which streamers have broadcast or are broadcasting the game live, click on it, and you can jump directly to the live broadcast page of the first sound video network, and watch the game process of the anchor to decide whether to buy it.

In the live broadcast area of Hatsune Video Network, when the anchors broadcast the game, they can also hang the tag of the game name, and if the player is interested, he can directly click on the tag to jump to the game purchase page on the Steam platform and place an order to buy.

Streamers need different game content to give the audience a sense of freshness, and games also need a more people-friendly way of publicity, and Hatsune Video Network and Steam Platform just have both.

Now, the biggest regret for many players is probably that the two games "The Last of Us" and "Breath of the Wild" are not available on the Steam platform, and even if the exclusivity agreement for these two games expires in the future, players' accounts cannot be transferred here.

But at the same time, due to the existence of Monster Hunter, players have a lot of expectations in their hearts, expecting this game to surprise them.

And in a small village and town in western China, some people are doing things that have nothing to do with these things at all.