Reborn on the Internet: Starting with Games

Chapter 154 Legend 3 Open Beta
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Li Fang contacted Jun.com to produce and package physical recharge cards. Because they had good cooperation experience before and the other party had made a lot of money, there was no reason to refuse the big order from Century Interactive Entertainment.

However, regarding the issue of sharing, Chen Hao personally negotiated with the other party's boss Wu Hongbin. The share ratio remained unchanged at % to %, but the cost of card production and packaging would be % of the cost of the other party.

There is no objection from Jun.com. After all, things are rare and valuable. There are physical card distributors everywhere, but Century Interactive Entertainment is the only one, so Chen Hao has absolute bargaining power.

Finally, Chen Hao told the opponent to strictly control the probability in the card pack. The probability of SSR cards appearing is 1%, the probability of double yolk eggs is 0.1%, and the probability of SR cards, except for the guaranteed one, is controlled at 10%.

This time Junwang started large-scale manufacturing and stocking out of Century Interactive Entertainment’s confidence and suggestions to avoid the recurrence of the previous Miracle dilemma.

After finishing these things, Chen Hao had to turn his attention back to "Legend 3".

Because "Legend 3" is going to open beta.

At this time, Shanda's "World of Legends" expansion pack "Inner Demon" has been online for half a month, especially since it is free until the end of the month. This price war is quite ruthless, allowing "World of Legends" to catch up in one fell swoop.

Now the number of simultaneous online players of "Legendary World" on the market has surpassed "Legendary", exceeding 40 in one fell swoop.

It currently occupies the second position in market share.

The 3456 people are composed of Legend, Bubble Hall, Westward Journey Online 2, and Ragnarok, fighting and blasting each other, with the number of people online ranging from 20 to 30.

Chen Hao is confident that the optimized "Legend 3" will surpass "Legend", and he also plans to compete with the currently gaining momentum of "Legend World".

He doesn't know who the final winner will be.

It's a mule or a horse, just pull it out and do it!
On September 9st, the orthodox sequel with the mission of revenge, Legend 1, officially launched into open beta!
The open beta is of course free, open beta celebration, seven days of play.

If Shanda is in the first year of junior high school, Century Interactive Entertainment can be in the fifteenth year.

Isn't money important?Of course it is important, but what is more important now is people. There are people now to make money in the future, and traffic is king.

Both "Legend 3" and "Legend World" are free, so based solely on the quality of the games, which one can retain more people after the final fee will be the winner.

Although Century Interactive Entertainment and Shanda both say that their games are legendary legit, in fact, it doesn’t matter. Whichever one survives to the end will naturally become the legendary legit.

He had played the internal beta of Legend 3 for a few days before. The playability and graphics were indeed much more fun than Legend. Although he had never played Legend World, Chen Hao was still very confident in this optimized version of Legend 3.

Sure enough, shortly after the server opened at 10 a.m., all major servers were overwhelmed by the influx of players.

We had to temporarily release more than a dozen groups of spare servers to support this turbulent wave.

Now with Century's powerful servers and network support, the stability and carrying capacity of Century Interactive Entertainment's online games have been significantly improved, and it is no longer the same as when Miracle was in public beta a year ago.

Chen Hao looked at the statistics page of Legend 3. In one hour, the number of people online at the same time exceeded the milestone of 1. In three hours, it reached 10, and it is still rising.

Chen Tianqiao also paid attention to the statistics. Looking at the number of people online at the same time in Legend and Legend, Legend World was okay, tens of thousands lower than usual, and Legend was even worse, with a drop of 10,000+.

Once upon a time, the number of people online for Legend was so low that there were only about people online. The former hegemon fell from its peak to its trough in just one year.

Of course, Chen Tianqiao did this deliberately. Now the Legend project team has cut off Korean technical support. Only Shanda is left to maintain operations. It only invests in necessary technology and operation and maintenance to ensure basic survivability. After all, Legend can still provide Shanda with It brought a lot of revenue. Anyway, they had broken up with South Korea, and Shanda kept the royalties.

On the other hand, Shanda is doing everything possible to draw blood from Legend and divert traffic to Legend World. Even during the period when Legend World was free, it was only tied with Legend, which shows how deep the background of Legend was.

But things are different now. As soon as Century Interactive Entertainment’s Legend 3 came out, the huge Legend player market has three drainage pools, Legend 3, Legend 3 and Lineage. Especially Legend now charges a fee.

Legend players are full of novelties about this legendary sequel, Legend 3, and have turned to Legend 3 to try it out.

Zhang Jianshe is one of the big players who switched from Legend to Legend 3. He is years old this year. After more than ten years of hard work, he can be regarded as a small business leader.

I sit in the office every day. In addition to drinking tea and reading newspapers, I also use the work computer to play Legends. Occasionally, I go out on a whim to inspect the work progress and show my sense of presence.

Since he always has social events every now and then, he is now very paunchy and has gained weight before he reaches middle age.

What is missing is what is being supplemented, so when Legend was just in public beta, I played a mighty warrior. Now it is level 43. In addition to not slaying the dragon, he is equipped with top-notch equipment, and even has a death glove with a sky-high price attack of 1-5.

Zhang Jianshe was unmoved by countless public beta tests of new games. Oh, he still had some thoughts in the middle, and that was last year's sensational Miracle public beta.

In the end, after struggling for a long time, he discovered that the company's junk computer configuration couldn't bring up the giant Buddha of Miracles, so he honestly started playing Legend.

After the open beta of Legend World, he also tried it. He always felt that the taste of Legend was not quite right, and the skills and names were unfamiliar. Although some shadows of Legend could be seen, the overall change was a bit unrecognizable. In the end, he only tried it for two or three days. Just return to the legendary business.

Even at the end of last year, I took advantage of the opportunity of sudden consumption to upgrade my office computer, but I still couldn't bring myself to make the impulse at that time. I was still used to the simple and crude games of Legend.

But when he saw the information about Legend 3 some time ago, he admitted that he was really tempted this time after not being tempted for a long time.

First, this is not some other messy game, but an orthodox sequel developed by the same game maker as Legend One Blood.

Secondly, looking at the guide on the official website, about 70% of the various maps, occupations, and skills remain the same as before. This makes him, a legendary veteran player, very familiar and completely seamless.Then he would pay attention to the various career upgrade strategies and skill introductions on the official website from time to time, especially the many new skills for warriors, such as Shifang Slash, Lotus Moon Sword Technique, and Soaring Sky Sword Technique.

Let’s not talk about the effects. Just listening to the name and skill introduction makes me feel that it is very powerful.

Ten Directions Slash: A skill that surrounds all enemies with a circular attack of sword light. If the Half Moon Sword Technique is only a fan-shaped area in front, then this move is a 360-degree AOE strike without blind spots.

Lotus Moon Sword Technique: Use a sword technique as fast as lightning and shaped like a crescent moon to attack twice in a row, which is extremely powerful.

Flying Sword Technique: A unique sword technique that transports energy to the Dantian, leaps into the air, and then falls from mid-air to attack the enemy.

Then seeing the animation demonstration, Zhang Jianshe couldn't wait even more.

On the day of the open beta, he showed up early at the company, which made other employees feel a little different. Manager Zhang actually went to work so early today. The sun was really shining in the west.

As soon as 10 o'clock arrived, Zhang Jianshe took the lead and chose one area and one server. He had already thought of a name, and it was still called Zhuifeng Middle-aged.

After entering the game, you come to the familiar Novice Village, but the surrounding pictures have become more refined and delicate.

He seemed to have found again the novelty of nailing, raking cats and digging up venison.

This Legend 3 is not bad. If he tries it for a few more days and it is fun, he will sell the Legend Warrior account on Taoyou.com.

Zhang Jianshe represents one type of player, and another type of player is the curiosity-seeking type, who will play any game for a few days to experience it when it is released for public beta.

However, these people have recently found themselves feeling a bit stretched. They had only played the Miracle expansion for two days, and before they could understand it, the Legendary expansion was released. As a result, just a few days after experiencing it, Legend 3 came in force.

Immediately afterwards, they followed up with the internal beta test of Three Kingdoms OL to grab accounts and conduct internal testing.

These double cultivators and even triple cultivators have the illusion of becoming stars, and their schedules are almost full.

I can’t play it, I really can’t play it.

On September 9, Legend 8 officially started charging, the number of people online has dropped to a certain extent, and the situation in the third pass has gradually stabilized.

Legend World relies on its first-mover advantage and is still in the free-to-play period. Currently, the three companies currently rank first, with 30 online users.

Legend 3 rose strongly and reached No. 2 in one fell swoop. Although the number of players dropped, it stabilized at around 25.

Legend, the former overlord, fought a few reasonable battles between the two sides, but also encountered the embarrassing situation of father not loving mother, and the current number is barely maintained at 20.

Now the situation among the three families has changed from two tigers competing against each other to a tripartite confrontation.

Originally, Chen Hao's expectation for Legend 3 was to get a piece of the pie from Shanda, and it would be over if he was disgusted by the other party. However, no one expected it, and the piece of pie was a bit big.

It's a bit like a dove occupying a magpie's nest.

Now that things have taken a welcome turn, plans need to be adjusted accordingly.

Chen Hao asked Zhou Xiao to slow down the pace of Miracle updates from once a month to once every two months, and then invest some technical and operational resources into the Legend 3 project team.

Prioritize the stability of Legend 3.

Currently, Century Interactive Entertainment’s technical department is divided into four major project teams, namely Miracle, Legend 3, Ragnarok, and Bubble Hall, each of which forms a whole.

Therefore, standing at the upper level, you can clearly see the structure and personnel size of all teams, and dynamically allocate team resources to try to maintain a balanced state that is consistent with the scale of the game.

After doing this, Chen Hao called Wemade, the parent company of Legend, to inquire about the development progress of the next version.

As a result, the other party said that the next version would be released in three months. Chen Hao said that it was too slow and there was nothing they could do about it. Firstly, because the original quality was not very good and it was still in the tinkering stage. Secondly, because in South Korea, one version is released every three months. The version is already very fast.

If it is not updated for 3 months, it will be defeated by the legendary world.

The final communication also achieved some results. The two parties confirmed that Legend 2 will be updated to the next version 3 months later.

At that time, Century Interactive Entertainment will just modify some new things on their basis.

After all, there are still many things in my mind.

Legend 3 is temporarily finished. There are also Corporate Guardians, Martial Arts World OL and the highlight of the second half of the year, Three Kingdoms OL. There are a lot of things waiting for you to deal with.

Chen Hao was still thinking when the phone rang and it was Xu Pengkun.

"Mr. Chen, Xiong Xiaoge from IDG Capital wants to discuss cooperation with you."

(End of this chapter)