In anticipation, the time finally came to ten o'clock in the morning on February 22, 2001, which was a good day for Tang Xin, Zhuo Ping and all the employees of the "Legend" studio of Micro Times.

As an important product of the company's early development, the success or failure of "Legend" will directly determine the company's development prospects in the future. At present, the development of QQ is advancing rapidly, if "Legend" can succeed and continue to provide cash flow for the development of the micro era, it will be very beneficial to the great development of the micro era.

When the needle freezes gradually towards 10, Tang Xin and Zhuo Ping were in the technology department of Micro Times, nervously asking the technical engineer behind her: "Are the servers and broadband ready?" ”

"Mr. Tang is relieved, everything is ready. Once the time freezes at 10 o'clock, the server turns on on time. ”

Tang Xin nodded, this time she prepared 50 groups of large high-end servers that can accommodate 10,000 people online at the same time, will enthusiastic players crowd these 50 groups of servers? Tang Xin was looking forward to it.

This open beta opened five sets of servers for the first time, with the names of: Qiankun, Sun and Moon, Kyushu, Longteng, and Tianxia, which looks quite domineering.

In this public beta, Tang Xin asked the technicians to set up a login queue for the game, and when the server reaches the maximum limit, there will be a queue waiting prompt. This small setting was very common in later generations, but in 2001 it was unprecedented.

The first five sets of servers appeared on the game login screen very early, and because they were not opened, they were always in a state of maintenance, but they couldn't be entered before ten o'clock.

As the time was fixed at 10 a.m. Beijing time on February 22, 2001, the first batch of five sets of servers of "Legend" was officially opened.

"Oh my God, this player is too fierce. At the moment when the server was opened, there were 50,000 different IPs trying to log in to the server at the same time. The technician next to Tang Xin stared at the background login data of the server, dumbfounded.

Tang Xin was a little surprised, although she knew that "Legend" was very popular, and she also knew that QQ's pop-up publicity was very powerful, coupled with the excitement of the event, and the huge sensational effect of various publicity, 50,000 IPs landed at the same time at ten o'clock in the morning, which was what she expected.

"Mr. Tang, hurry up and open a set of servers, right? Based on the maximum number of people in each group of servers is 10,000, these five groups are simply not enough. Now the number of people logging in has risen again. ”

"Don't worry, our servers have login protection, and more than 10,000 people will start queuing mode to ensure that the number of people online in the game is within 10,000." Tang Xin said while analyzing the game's online data.

"Mr. Tang, the Qiankun server is full, and the number of people in line has reached 17,000."

"Mr. Tang, the Sun and Moon server is full, and the number of people queuing has reached 15,000."

"Mr. Tang, the Kyushu server is full, and the number of people queuing has reached 19,000."

"Mr. Tang, the number of people on the Longteng server is full, and the number of people queuing has reached 18,000."

"Mr. Tang, the number of servers in the world is full, and the number of people queuing has reached a critical 20,000."

The technician who monitors the server data at all times reports the number of online users to Tang Xin 5 minutes after the service is opened.

"Mr. Tang, this is equivalent to 10 people playing or logging in and queuing up to play our game." The technician said excitedly to Tang Xin.

Tang Xin nodded, and was about to speak, but received a call from Long Chengcheng.

"Xin Xin, something happened." There was some panting on the side of the dragon's fallen city.

Tang Xin frowned and said, "What's wrong?" ”

"Our customer service numbers were going to be flooded, and many players were complaining that we had too few servers, and some people were waiting in line for 24 hours. Now there is a lot of noise in the forums, and everyone is strongly asking for more servers. Long Chengcheng said.

"Don't worry, I'll take care of this matter, and you'll be responsible for appeasing the players' grievances. We have prepared a total of 50 sets of servers, which will be released one after another. ”

"Mr. Tang, these fifty sets of servers are not enough, at first I thought that our game could have 100,000 online, but judging from the current situation of the forum, 100,000 online is still too conservative, and our game open beta is simply unprecedented. The number of people in the forums who demand open servers is increasing at the number of posts per second, and if this continues, the forums will have to be crowded. Long Chengcheng said worriedly.

"As I said, don't worry about this, everything will be handled by me and the technicians here. You have to ask the company's customer service staff to be calm, face the players, and not overreact. Let's put service first. Tang Xin admonished.

"Mr. Tang, I know this, then you are busy, the call here is coming again."

Tang Xin hung up the phone and said to the technician next to him: "Immediately go to the official website and forum of "Legend" and release an announcement, saying that seven sets of servers will be opened again at 10:20. ”

"Dear players, the open beta of "Legend" has started at 10 am today, and the first five groups of servers opened are: Qiankun, Sun and Moon, Kyushu, Longteng, and Tianxia. At present, these five sets of servers are very popular, and the super high popularity has allowed new players to enter the game world of "Legends" in a steady stream. In the face of the high enthusiasm of players to log in, in order to avoid the trouble of queuing, so that the majority of players can get the best game experience and better understand the game world of "Legends". The official decision was made to open seven more servers at 10:20. The names of the additional servers are: Zhulu, Thunder, Beacon, Wanli, Four Seas, Vertical and Horizontal, and Yanhuang.

Although we have urgently added a new server, there may still be no guarantee that there will still be more users outside of the game who are anxiously waiting to join Legends, and I would like to express my deep apologies to all users who have been waiting for a long time! We will try our best to open up more game servers for you to have a better gaming experience! Thank you again for your support and understanding!

Happy gaming!

"Legend" operation team

22 February 2001

"What's the matter, each group of servers has been lined up to 20,000 people, and only seven groups of servers have been opened, and there is no money to buy servers in this micro era, so don't operate if you don't have money to buy servers. Labor and management started queuing at 10 o'clock, and when they reached the 100th place, they were disconnected, and when they went in again, they were told that the number of people in line had reached 20,000, so they tried to log in to other servers. What a fuck. "There is a netizen named "Steamed Bun Brother" when he saw the announcement of the new server opening on the official website of "Legend", compared to the number of the first batch of servers, only seven new sets of servers have been added this time, and he couldn't help but be angry, and posted in the forum to complain.

This post quickly received a response from other netizens, and everyone replied one after another, expressing doubts about the operational ability of Micro Times.

Netizen "I'm here for the car" replied in the post: "I finally waited for the open beta of "Legend", but only five sets of servers were opened, looking at the scene of 10,000 people queuing up to log in in front of me, I suddenly had a sense of powerlessness, in order to play the game, I had to queue for dozens of hours, is it worth it?" Finally, the official said that the new area would be opened, but only seven groups were opened, which really made people want to curse. ”

"Micro Times is really a small company, if it is operated by Weichat Technology, the number of open servers will not be so small."

"Wow, are you really going to open seven new servers? I'm so happy, I can finally skip the queue, I'm scared. Fortunately, I switched to window mode when I logged in to the window, and I entered the forum to take a look, otherwise I would still be stupidly queuing. God, there are 13,000 people in front of me. ”

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