On August 14th, Xie Jiaming, an employee of a foreign-funded trading company in Huangpu, finished his morning's work as usual, and it was supposed to be a lunch break at 12 o'clock, but he sneaked out of the company at 11:50, and returned to the computer after eating lunch in three or two bites, intending to take a half-hour nap first, which happened to be the time to go to work at half past one afternoon.

Life is so regular, beautiful.

Names like his are generally the protagonists in some scar literature that has been popular before.

The treatment of this company is not bad, the salary is not low, although his talent is average, there is no hope of promotion, but the salary will still rise a little more or less every year, even if it is three or five hundred yuan, it is not bad to accumulate for a few more years, and it is better to be stable. Compared to those companies that are precarious, and a project that does not achieve results may cause the boss to run away.

As soon as I opened the FG platform, it prompted to start automatic updates.,But it looks like there should be a lot of content.,The update package is quite large.。 Xie Jiaming is a casual player, he doesn't pay much attention to the game or company dynamics, and he doesn't know what will be updated, anyway, it's all automatic, let alone it.

A few minutes later, he finally entered the main interface of the FG platform.

"This ...... What is it? This was his first reaction, and it was completely different from the previous interface.

The library has been moved to the far left, and it is a little larger than before, and the icons have been reduced accordingly, showing the two herring fish games he has played, "Eternal War" and "Dandantang", and the default selection is "Eternal War", which he recently played.

The largest section in the middle shows his time in the game Eternal War, 183 hours.

"Have I only been playing for more than 180 hours?" Xie Jiaming was a little strange.

This time data is naturally counted after the launch of the FG platform in June.,The previous version actually has the function of recording the player's game time.,Of course, it has to be online.,It's just now displayed.。

Then there's the "You have 37 friends playing Eternal War" that says later. ”

The "DLC" column at the bottom is temporarily empty.

The Sinovation Works button is still greyed out and cannot be clicked.

The herring fish FG platform and friends are completely in line with the "Eternal War",After all, it's your own thing.,If other games that log in to FG in the future also have a friend function,It must be added through the FG platform first.。

Xie Jiaming moved the mouse to the avatars of those friends, the avatar frame has a green stroke to mean that the friend is online at this time, and the gray border is offline.

"Benjamin, in-game: Eternal War."

"It depends on what they're playing, ha, yes." Xie Jiaming knocked on the table.

"Rakuten Tudou, in-game: Sword and Fairy 4."

"Fan Xiaochu, in-game: "Fantasy Three Kingdoms 3".

"This ...... What is it? Why can I see them in other games? ”

At this time, a colleague passed behind Xie Jiaming and stopped when he saw his computer screen: "Huh? What is this? This fox friend who often opens a black dog with Xie Jiaming in the company couldn't help but ask.

"One."

"Where is FG like this?"

"I just updated it today, and I don't know."

"Ah, by the way, Qingyu Network wants to be a stand-alone distribution platform, I remember seeing this news before. Eh, look at the store. My colleague pointed directly to the top of the FG client, on an icon like a shopping bag, and there were two words 'store'.

Xie Jiaming moved his cursor over the icon, and then clicked on it, opening up a new world.

The biggest scrolling ads are displayed under a tab called "Featured."

Several large art promotional images scrolled around.

"Blue Fish Network "Survival", live, and give "Eternal War" Urke 'Wasteland Ranger' suit."

There are several other games such as "Sword and Fairy 4" and "NBA LIVE 2008", which are last year's masterpieces, as well as games that have just been released such as "Wind Dream XX Staggered Tracks" and "Fantasy Three Kingdoms 4 Gaiden", all of which are "XXX" has now officially landed on the FG platform. ”

There's another one that stands out from the rest.

"The store is on sale sitewide, and the remaining time: 6 days, 21 hours, and 35 minutes."

My colleague was also dumbfounded: "It's really made." ”

Xie Jiaming asked: "Are these the stand-alone games you just said?" ”

"yes."

"Just buy it on this?"

"Yes."

"Are these genuine?"

"Definitely."

"Can you buy it with Fishcoin?"

"Why don't you try?"

The entire interface is basically covered with promotional images and icons of various sizes for various games, but these games all have one feature, their original selling prices have been crossed out by a horizontal bar, and the new price is underneath, and the more colorful place on the left is a green bottom box, which reads "-50%" to "-75%" and other numbers ranging from "-50%" to "-75%", which is very eye-catching.

Like "Sword and Fairy 4", the original price is 59 yuan, the current price is 29.5, showing "-50%", these heavyweight games on the home page are all there.

"It's pretty cheap." Xie Jiaming said.

"50% off, of course it's cheap."

Such a discount activity, of course, Qingyu Network needs to negotiate with various game publishers to reach an agreement, and some manufacturers will accept it, and it is very easy to speak, such as Huanyu. They also know that discounts will definitely drive sales, and many of their own games are old games, and they are almost impossible to sell, and it is difficult to find offline physical stores. Qingyu Network is also very good at being a person, Xia Qingyu said that during the discount period, we will not draw 30%, reduce it to 20%, and everyone will bear a part of the loss, rejoicing.

There are also some games like CCTV network element and the agency of Electronic Arts EA, which they still have to negotiate with EA, but EA does not agree. The price in China itself is set lower than that in other parts of the world, and then a discount, this gap is too big, what do players in other countries think. In addition, they also believe that their games are not necessarily discounted, they are confident in the quality of their games, and series such as NBA LIVE still have a certain player base in China, and they are more optimistic that they don't need to rely on discounts to promote them.

For these game companies that can't reach an agreement, the approach of the Blue Fish Network is to discount me as a copy, and sell a copy of how much money should I give you or how much I will give you.

For example, the price of a game is 79, and the herring network draws 30%, that is, for each copy sold, it will cost the game publisher 55.3 yuan, and now I will give you a 55.3 yuan discount, the price is 39.5, and I will still give you 55.3 yuan.

It's so arrogant.

There are two kinds of promotions, one is that the game publisher takes the initiative to mention it, because the game can't sell or doesn't meet sales expectations, and the second is now, the store is online, and the whole platform is on sale.

This is what the herring network must do by itself, and it will become a fixed activity in the future, a real discount season.

Of course, it is also because the influence of the FG platform of Qingyu is not enough, although the discussion triggered by the press conference, as well as the weight of the herring network itself, slowly began to have single-dose game providers take the initiative to come to the door, but it is still far from the extent that major manufacturers seek to get on.

When the FG platform really took shape, it was different at that time.

"Click in and have a look?" Colleague said.

"Which point?" Xie Jiaming asked.

""Survival", this is made by the herring himself, and it is Pasca, the producer of "Eternal War", who personally started it."

Xie Jiaming said: "Oh, he still does this? Then I clicked on the promotional image and entered the game information interface of "Survival".

As soon as you enter the interface, the promo video starts to load automatically, but the default is silent mode, so it won't scare people.

This is a 2DCG animation that starts from a bird's-eye view of a ruined city and slowly approaches, skimming through the crumbling steel forest, wild dogs foraging in the snow, scattered warheads with radiation symbols, mechanical guards on patrol, and then focusing on the gate of a bomb shelter.

The gate had been opened, and a line of footprints stretched out into the snow at the door, indicating that a man had just come out of the dugout and was walking in the direction of the city.

The camera follows again, and finally finds the ragged man.

He had a haggard countenance, was poorly clothed, and looked very pitiful. However, there is still some luster and brilliance in his eyes, and it seems that he still has a desire for life.

A very short CG animation, and then immediately jumped to the interface of the actual operation of the game.

Xie Jiaming and his colleagues watched it seriously, and did not choose to fast forward or skip it.

In the city's run-down hotels, shops, libraries, parks, he found some useful tools.

In the wasteland, in a forest of strange plants, he fights wild dogs, bison, spiders, jackals, and mechanical creatures, defeating them and dropping power-ups.

In a vacant lot, he built his base, set up generators, refrigerators, workshops, and then made guns, canned food, cold and radiation suits, and transportation vehicles.

In the early afternoon, when the flood hit, he strengthened the metal-colored fence to keep himself and the base from being destroyed by the flood.

When the volcano erupted, the heavenly fire fell, and countless rocks with flames fell from the sky, and he fled in all directions to avoid being hit.

At night, he spent his solitary time waiting for the dawn, guarding a small light bulb and a snow-white dog beside him, as if he were his only friend.

Then the video ends, and the logo of the herring network and the FG platform appears again in the screen.

"This ...... Is it a domestic game? Xie Jiaming actually doesn't know much about games, but when he was a child, he always played some enlightenment works "Sword and Fairy 1", "Rich", and "The Legend of the Three Kingdoms", and then he started playing online games. It's just that this "Survival" is a little different from the domestic games in my previous impression.

"What kind of style is this?" A colleague also asked.

"I don't know." Xie Jiaming said.

The two continued to look elsewhere on the page, the basic information on the right, developer: Qingyu Network; Publisher: Blue Fish Network; Issue date: August 14, 2008.

The game description below explains the details of the game, and there is also a game icon of the "Eternal War", which reads: August 14, 2008 - August 31, 2008, you can drop the "Wasteland Ranger" set of the "Eternal War" Sun Wheel Swordsman Erke.

"Jiaming, you order this." When a colleague saw this line, he suddenly exclaimed.

Scared the rest of the people in the office who had a lunch break.