After changing the advertising method, the number of players entering the game began to gradually normalize in the next two days, and on the fourth day after the deletion test began, the number of daily active users has reached about 2,500.

After the retained data of the first three days came out, it was the same as the paid data, which made the frightened Li Zhi feel relieved.

54% was retained the next day, and 38% was retained on the 3rd, which is only a little lower than the deletion data of the Immortal Dao, a proper S+-level product, by the way, when Li Zhi did "Swordsman 2", the retention was not so high, and it belonged to the peak of his career.

In the past few days, there have been fewer bugs in self-testing and player feedback, and many of the player's data, such as the upgrade speed and the cultivation progress of each system, are also in line with Li Zhi's expectations.

For planning, expectation is the way, realization is the art, you don't need to see how he does it, first think clearly what kind of effect should be achieved after doing it is fundamental, if the initial expectation is crooked, other designs are done in vain.

Judging from the test effect of this game, it can basically be said to be very successful.

But as Ye Shenxi expected, the dark cloud floating above the herring fish network never dispersed, and it became thicker and thicker, and the other party's next move also surfaced.

On this day, almost suddenly, a large number of game guild players began to appear on the "Proud Sword" deleted test server [Yijian from the West]. They simply register a small account to log in to the game, and then repeatedly shout on the world channel, and attract players to other games with various preferential rebate promotions.

is not only shouting on the public screen, but also chatting with normal players privately, and the content of the conversation is nothing more than:

"Brother, I recently found a particularly fun game, why don't you come and play it together?"

"It's so lonely to play games alone, come and add the QQ group [257627296], there are brothers and sisters, let's play together!"

"There is a game I have a channel to recharge and get a 5% discount, do you want to come and play together?"

Etcetera.

It's called a gaming guild.

Local tyrant players are a scarce resource in the game industry, operators and channels are poaching each other, and guilds are even more unscrupulous than them, which can be described as frenzied.

When players are attracted to each other's QQ group or YY channel, there will be a complete reception process. The receptionist must be a woman, with a sweet voice, able to speak, and occasionally show off her talents, sing and hum songs, play side balls or something, like this kind of reception, at this time, it is about ten yuan an hour, and then some resources are rich and the conditions of the live broadcast industry are also mature, so I naturally turned to be an anchor.

These players are then assigned to a team leader who takes you into a game and incentivizes you to spend money on it, and their most obvious characteristics are that they are a brother and their words are impassioned and inflammatory. Well, as long as you continue to top up, he will treat you like a brother.

Of course, there will be many other positions in a guild, various veteran backbones to deal with guild affairs, and the profit group is responsible for negotiating benefits with operators, including various recharge discount privilege accounts, activation codes, exclusive gift packages, etc.; The recruitment group is the one who kept shouting and pulling people in other games at the beginning; There are even some big guilds that have activity groups that organize activities on a regular basis, and there are various chat and play groups responsible for activating the atmosphere of the trade union, adjusting the conflicts of members, recording members' recharge contributions, and so on.

Union members like these will be paid by the union founder, that is, the president, and the president's income comes from the game operator they join.

As long as your guild can grow bigger, there will be a lot of game operators begging you to join their games, and these guilds are not attached to any one game, as long as you give money, leading team battles will bring people to your game, and they are all players with considerable ability to pay.

This is a special group in the game industry outside the triangular relationship between developers, operators, and players.

Give the guild rebates, and the operator does not lose money. The players in the big guild are all people with high paying ability, and the wool is out of the sheep, and the operator has almost zero cost to import these users through the guild, even if you recharge seven percent off, they will divide half of the income to the guild OW, and they will also earn.

It's just not fair to other ordinary players.

This has completely deviated from the original meaning of the game guild, no longer a harbor for players to communicate and interact, a hotbed for finding a sense of belonging, and in this deformed business model, it has gradually degenerated into a new way of topping up and channeling.

In this way, because of the existence of huge rebates, the game turnover data will be inflated, and even in the future, operators will throw the cost of rebates to R&D manufacturers, and small and medium-sized manufacturers will be in a completely passive position in this mode.

"Proud Sword" has a large number of guilds recruiting new groups to settle in during the deletion test, which is definitely against the laws of the industry, a deletion test server with only 2500 people, how many people can pull it for you?

Just like the private team that maliciously clicked on the previous two days, this is a matter where the cost definitely outweighs the benefit. Obviously, the other party's goal is not to pull people for their game, but simply to pull away the users of "Proud Sword".

The people who entered "Proud Sword" this time are obviously small guilds that have not made any reputation, the kind at the lower end of the pyramid, which collects money to make trouble in the game, and then takes people to the operators they actually take orders to make some extra money.

In other words, it's not very likely that the game they're bringing people to is behind it.

Ye Shenxi and Xia Qingyu's phone calls have hardly been interrupted in the past few days, and they have been in touch: "Let the customer service ban those new recruits first." Ye Shenxi said.

"It's already being banned, but they're also signing up for new accounts." Xia Qingyu snorted coldly: "They are really dedicated." ”

"Let Xiao Hei join their guild, and then see if we can contact their president." Alas, to make a game, you have to engage in Infernal Affairs.

"Well, I will give Xiao Hei some funds in advance, so that he can serve as a façade, it should still be possible to be a local tyrant in this kind of small guild." Xia Qingyu's eyes lit up, and she also had a plan in her heart.

As long as the guild leader can know who is behind it, she Xia Qingyu wants him to know that the herring fish network is not a soft persimmon that people can pinch around casually.

She is really angry these days, and it is certain that some people are red as the company grows, coupled with the lack of operational experience, she is also ready to pay some tuition.

But to the point where she did, all kinds of kitsch and lewd skills followed, full of tricks and ghosts, which really made her, a newcomer to operation, learn a lot.