All new things, when they come, are always accompanied by doubts, incomprehensions, and denials.

Then until it suddenly broke into people's lives, and with the continuous fermentation and progress of time, it was gradually accepted, understood, and remembered.

The current Frontier Online is one such game.

No matter how loud the outside world and peers questioned the game before, it was more about comforting each other, believing that times have not changed.

Or rather, it is an instinctive stress response that does not want the world to be changed so quickly.

However, the numbers don't lie.

There is only one truth.

Therefore, although everyone is skeptical on the surface, in fact, many institutions are already entrusting third parties to conduct professional data collection and investigation.

Let's say the simplest data:

Since there are so many people and so many players entering the server, first of all, your server must need it, and the purchase data will not be falsified.

Then there's the bandwidth fee, how many people are connected, and how much traffic is spent every day, all of which actually have data.

After that, there are various sales data, how much players have purchased in the store, although it is impossible to get a precise argument, but it can be glimpsed through sample surveys.

After that, you can tell at a glance if you look at the chat data in the game, and you can tell at a glance whether there are more people and fewer people.

It can also be seen from the number of officially open server groups that basically the open servers are full now, and Pokeni is still buying and opening new servers in the United States and China.

According to Qing Zhiyuan's instructions, it was carried out in an orderly manner.

It's almost at the speed of opening a group of 1,000 servers every other week.

On the one hand, this is because of the continued in-game hunger marketing, which is actually beneficial for players who have not entered the game to register an account for a little longer.

On the other hand, it is also a good operation for the company, and it starts to have too many servers in one go, and if the peak period passes and the player base drops in the future, these servers will actually become a load.

Moreover, adding a cycle is to give the company fault tolerance and use it to deal with emergencies.

If there is a major bug in the update, it will not be paralyzed so much at once, affecting the new servers in the future.

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In short, under such circumstances, with the passage of time and the confirmation of relevant data, everyone learned to accept the new miracle of pokeni, and began to analyze it, trying to take advantage of the arrival of this new wave of online games, and be able to get a piece of the pie.

Merchants, they are all profit-seeking.

Who wouldn't want to make a little more money?

"It's shocking, it's shocking, Pokeni's data is actually real."

"Online games, horror."

"Now that P Society relies on the game "Frontier Online" alone, the total global revenue in a month is almost more than 200 million US dollars, and I feel that without doing anything, pokeni is already at the top of the pyramid of the entire game industry.

A game like this is a god-like existence in any company. ”

"Mom, is Qing Zhiyuan a god? Why does Pokeni continue to create myths in the industry? ”

"I'm going to go, if our company can have such a game, I'm afraid that the boss can wake up laughing at night from his dreams."

"If this game were our company, the boss would probably have fired most of the employees, leaving only the program ape who maintains the server, and then just lying down to make money."

"It's so shocking, Frontier Online is so shocking, who would have thought that an online game could be made like this before?

And the free game, no matter how you look at it, is incredible, it can be so profitable. ”

"Is it possible that in fact, free is the most profitable?"

"We're definitely not going to understand it now, we've had to study it for a while, but this time, it's like Pokeni has taught a solid lesson to game manufacturers all over the world in its own unique way.

Tell you who is the king of the game.

And this unprecedented new mode is definitely a strong shock to existing games.

I'm afraid that the game industry will change dramatically in the future. ”

"Right now, it feels like the whole game industry is going to change."

The shock that Pokeni brought to the industry was no less than a huge storm blowing directly on the ground.

No, it could even be said to have turned the entire gaming industry upside down.

However, often such moments bring more new changes.

Pessimistic people, immersed in pessimism, can only see the sense of despair that cannot be surpassed by pokeni, and the suffocation of being forcibly dragged forward.

Optimistic people have begun to study Pokeni's new business operation model to see if they can profit from it.

"The appearance of "Frontier Online" this time should reshuffle the entire game industry, right?"

"The shuffle is not necessarily, but it will cause a huge impact, and even this powerful impact force may not have much effect on the neon side, but more on the impact on the Omi region."

"After all, Neon is the result of so many years of non-heaven, Sega, and Sony...... The unique game circle formed by the continuous brainwashing and cultivation of various game manufacturers, players' dependence on game consoles, and the habit of single-player games, may continue for a long time.

As for when you can break the inherent habits and thinking.

It probably depends on how much energy the pokeni has. ”

"Indeed, just like the continuous change of human society, sometimes changes are accumulative, but if productivity is crushed, it is another matter.

How much of a technical difference between P Society and Sony and Ren Heaven determines the speed of the final transformation of neon players. ”

"Moreover, according to Qing Zhiyuan's idea, it is not good that people don't want to transform or anything at all, isn't it good to do an expansion and integration?

Being able to give players more choices, make game types and game fields more abundant, and expand the game market is actually the fundamental purpose of POKENI, right?

From this point of view, P Company can be regarded as making outstanding contributions to the game industry. ”

"That is, every time Pokeni opens up a new game territory, there are some companies that follow suit.

It's our turn this time. ”

"As long as you don't have a head iron and don't work against Pokeni, you can basically find an opportunity."

"And Pokeni can open up a new track in the Chinese market, which we didn't think about before."

"Indeed, I really didn't think that the Chinese market could have such huge potential."

"Yes, when I talked about the Chinese market before, it made people frown.

I remember that Ren Tianda seemed to have tried to break into the Chinese market, but because there were too many pirated copies, and the willingness of players there to pay was too low, did they finally have to give up? ”

"In the past, it was a loss to enter the Chinese market, and it can only be said that Pokeni is amazing, and it can actually open up a bright road in this game wasteland, and even in the abyss of games."

"It's not just a bright road, it's just a gold mine, that is, pokeni, and other people really don't have the courage to do it."

"I really admire Qing Zhiyuan so much, this person is really not afraid of death, he dares to do anything, and he can do it every time, is he a monster?"

"Forget it, there's nothing bad about it, Pokeni opens up a new track in front, it will definitely not be able to swallow it alone, and in the end it will have to leave a lot of meat for other companies.

Let's hurry.

Don't be all carved up by then, and there's nothing left. ”

"Well, in this case, we have to hurry up and follow the trend, maybe we can pick up some leftover pokeni soup to drink."

……

Just when Qingzhiyuan gave the industry a little [small] shock, and everyone didn't have time to thoroughly digest it, Pokeni launched another big move in July-

Yu-Gi-Oh

Since the broadcast of the anime, Yu-Gi-Oh has become another big IP of the P company after Pokémon.

Trading cards sold last year alone generated more than $1.1 billion in sales for the company.

What is this concept?

It is equivalent to releasing a million-selling game every month.

Pokeni can collect money while lying down.

Even if P doesn't expand anymore, it can already live quite well with Yu-Gi-Oh's peripheral income, and it can also give employees the best benefits in the industry.

……

Yu-Gi-Oh this game,In fact, it was developed as early as the beginning of last year.,There's no big problem with the debugging above.,I've been looking for players to conduct small-scale range tests before.。

It should have been online a long time ago, but Qing Zhiyuan has been pressed and not released.

Mainly because he felt that the time was not ripe enough.

This timing must have been after the anime became popular, and the trading cards were successful, and players cultivated the habit of buying trading cards, leaving the soil for trading cards to survive, so that they would not die suddenly due to the impact of the game.

This is actually equivalent to an invisibly diversion of players.

Part of it is that I like to collect beautiful cards and then simulate battles with others offline.

This kind of player is a player who has a desire to collect, rather than simply playing for the sake of playing, they are more like animation lovers, because they like to collect.

The other part is more inclined to the game itself, and is a person with a strong desire to win and lose and game attributes, and this part of the players is the core target user who wants after the real game is launched.

There is another very important reason that Qingzhiyuan hopes to bring a small online game impact to players after the successful verification of "Frontier Online", and after everyone has a certain understanding of this, it is best to launch "Yu-Gi-Oh".

It is equivalent to someone who has already warmed up the field, and now the end is just right.

……

So from July onwards, Yu-Gi-Oh's online games began to warm up.

Various promotional channels are being pushed, and with the channel capabilities that Pokeni has now, it has almost only taken a week to make this game hot, and the vast majority of players, although they may not be interested in it, will definitely know the name of this game.

In addition to promotional channels, the Yu-Gi-Oh anime in July was also broadcast on major TV stations.

Therefore, under the combined effect of various factors, before it was released, Yu-Gi-Oh was already a hit and became the focus of attention.

On August 13th, as soon as Yu-Gi-Oh was released, it was like a wild horse running wild on the road.

This time, Pokeni did not adopt a free-to-play strategy, but a fee-based model, and a Yu-Gi-Oh disc is still sold at the market price, which is $19 a copy in the Omi region.

In the neon area, it is 3,000 yen.

That is, it is just a cost price.

However, as compensation for purchasing the game, each player will receive two card packs when they enter the game.

One is the base card pack, which has a total of 80 cards.

Everyone is the same, and it can meet the basic needs of players, not too strong and not too weak, at least you can use the combination to match the deck you want.

There are also 5 card packs that are given away are random, which is equivalent to a lottery, and you can draw 10 cards each time.

After 10 sets of draws, you can get a legendary card and some rare cards, and the rest is to depend on luck.

This is also the first real card drawing mechanism launched by Qing Zhiyuan after crossing into this world.

This set of modes is completely based on Hearthstone, so the gacha interface and process are also quite cool.

Let players have a small inner throbbing every time they click a card.

Even if you're unlucky, you'll be able to get crystals by breaking down the extra cards to create the cards you want.

In terms of value calculation, it is actually about the same.

Qing Zhiyuan is not so black-hearted, in addition to the relatively high probability of card drawing, the production cost given after calculating the value of the card is not very high.

But, in the game, Qing Zhiyuan asked Shinji Mikami to do a special treatment, that is-

Added card avatars.

In other words, the battle process of "Yu-Gi-Oh" is not just a simple collision of cards.

Instead, according to the pattern shown in the cartoon, each character will be summoned and a unique model will appear in the venue.

Different models have different occupancy ranges for the number of lattices.

For example, the Black Mage may only occupy one slot, while the True Blue-Eyed White Dragon needs to occupy 4 slots after being summoned.

After the character appears, then there is a lot of room for planning and operation.

For example, Black Wizard has officially launched a number of different skins, which are the same as those of Frontier Online, and some of them can be drawn by earning in-game currency.

There is also a part left for players to make.

The remaining rare and particularly cool model skins can only be obtained by drawing point cards.

Not only does it increase the depth of payment, but it also greatly enhances the performance of the game.

Players can experience almost the same feeling as in the animation when they play this game.

More exciting.

And for many players, those characters who used to only appear in the animation are like a glimpse of life in the game.

This is the real Yu-Gi-Oh in the minds of players.

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As soon as Yu-Gi-Oh's game was released, it immediately detonated the market.

The price itself is relatively cheap, so there are many people who buy it.

And there are many players who even want to open more new numbers to draw cards, so the number of purchases will be more.

It has even led to a lot of metaphysics:

For example, if some players fail to open a good officially recommended legendary card on their first account, they will be considered to be unlucky with the account itself, and it will only be a waste to throw money into it.

So in this case, you need to open a new account until you encounter a special [white] account.

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On the one hand, it is influenced and blessed by animation, and on the other hand, Pokeni's advertising and publicity are well done.

On the other hand, "Frontier Online" has brought online games to the attention of players to a certain extent, and has warmed up and taught in advance.

What's more important is the uniqueness of the game Yu-Gi-Oh, as well as its own charm, which makes it shine greatly this summer.

This light is so dazzling that it even makes the eyes of the entire game industry sting.

After it was put on the shelves, it took less than a week for Yu-Gi-Oh to sell more than 2 million copies worldwide.

Exceeded 10 million in one month.

This is the first time in history that such an exaggerated figure has ever been made.

Of course, it's Yu-Gi-Oh in the paid games column.

If you count the free games, the stats of Frontier Online are a little more terrifying.

However, you must know that Yu-Gi-Oh is a disc that costs $19.

In other words, Pokeni has already earned almost $100 million in the first month of sales alone.

And this momentum is still very strong, and it is constantly growing.

More and more people are falling into the pit under the promotion of the game and the drive of friends.

Yu-Gi-Oh is actually quite different from Frontier Online.

It will have a wider audience of players.

3D shooters like Frontier Online will actually screen out a large number of players from a physiological level, and many people will be dizzy in 3D, and the category of shooting games has been screened again.

It is equivalent to screening twice, and the remaining players are all hardcore.

And what about Yu-Gi-Oh?

It's a card game, turn-based, doesn't require particularly fast reflexes and a level of operation, and it's not a 3D game that can make people dizzy.

Although the modeling is 3D and there are 3D battle scenes, the visual effects are very friendly to players.

It is also very convenient to operate.

The only threshold is the [brain]

Because of this kind of strategic card competitive game, the rules are actually quite complicated, and it is not so easy to learn.

Players need to have a certain IQ and knowledge reserve, and then be able to understand the rules and understand the rules.

Only under this premise can you play against NPCs and players in the game.

In addition to this, it is also necessary to have a certain ability to work under pressure.

In Yu-Gi-Oh, Pokeni also set up a special [Deathmatch Mode]

Unlike ordinary matchmaking between players, in this deathmatch mode, it is set according to the animation of Yu-Gi-Oh:

The winning team gets one of the cards from the deck used by the losing side.

This card is probably the one that is very valuable.

It's just that it's not a specified form, but it's drawn arbitrarily from it.

Therefore, the excitement of the whole game has been improved a lot, and it has a strong gaming nature.

At the same time, this setting also makes many players very interested.

It means that you can win or lose and grab the opponent's cards to get what you want.

On the one hand, the desire to win, on the other hand, strengthens the reward of victory.

Double stimulation, addictive.

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So, in such a situation, there is no doubt -

The arrival of "Yu-Gi-Oh" once again turned the entire game industry upside down.

Let everyone be shocked.

"It's scary."

"Pokeni is crazy!"

"I've felt it—

The dawn of a new era. ”

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…… (End of chapter)