Reborn on the Internet: Starting with Games

Chapter 159: Earn 1 million before closed beta?
Around the 90s, collecting cards at that time were only children's toys, and adults looked down upon them.

Once upon a time, children grew up and entered society, and trading cards became a new toy for young people.

Later, a number of games, animations, and film and television IPs were all made into cards and sold on the market, including Ultraman, Naruto, and Game of Thrones.

In addition to the traditional SSR, there are also ZR, UR, OR, SHR, and GP.

Among them, Ultraman's most expensive card, Blue Eyes Ultimate Dragon, is said to only have one copy, and it was auctioned on a domestic platform for 23 yuan.

There is also the 20th anniversary "Blue Eyes White Dragon" Yu-Gi-Oh pure gold card officially released by Yu-Gi-Oh. It is made of about 11g of 24K gold and is a king-level collection of trading cards. The official price is 20 yen ( Approximately 1.2 RMB), limited edition of 500 pieces, each piece will be printed with the collection number and certificate of "No. 1 - 500".

According to the normal valuation, it should be between 20 and 30 RMB per piece. However, it was put on the auction platform and was speculated to a sky-high price of 8700 million yuan. The auction platform then forcibly stopped the price with malicious intent.

So Chen Hao just borrowed a little bit of the idea of ​​​​trading cards to create a recharge card for Three Kingdoms OL.

In the past, there were Water Margin cards presented by Little Raccoon Noodles as a precursor, and in the past two years, Yu-Gi-Oh cards have become popular in mainland China, so Chen Hao is not worried about player acceptance.

The problem now is not whether to accept it or not, but that the recharge cards are fucking sold out again.

There were still three days before the closed beta. Although it was forward-looking and pioneering enough for Jun.com to prepare sufficient supplies, Chen Hao found that he was still conservative.

It didn't even hold up for a week, which is simply a shame in the card-making industry. Wu Hongbin, the boss of Jun.com, was also a little embarrassed.

There are as many Three Kingdoms OL recharge card numbers as there are, the number of boxes in each batch, and the number of SSRs in each box are all fixed ratios. The probability of rare cards among them is strictly limited. After the cards are produced, they are sent to which region in the country.

All the details here are elaborate and explained, and Century Interactive Entertainment has already prepared these, just waiting for production and distribution.

Both times, he fell into the hands of Chen Hao, and he became the bottleneck between the upstream and downstream. This made Wu Hongbin feel ashamed, so he quickly called Chen Hao and issued a military order.

"Mr. Chen, I, Old Wu, promise that similar situations will not happen again. You have to believe in the strength of Junwang,"

"Well, I believe in your strength. I will ask the following to send you another 100 million card numbers in a moment."

"Okay. Eh? Mr. Chen, why is it only 100 million copies? Now you just give me 1000 million copies, and I can sell them to you. Don't you know that Three Kingdoms OL cards are so popular in the market now? There are no stores.”

"From now on, we will supply you with a limited supply of 100 million per day."

"Mr. Chen, you still don't believe me, Old Wu."

"Old Wu, this is not a question of trust or distrust, this is a strategy. Have you heard of hunger marketing?"

"Gah? What kind of marketing?" Wu Hongbin really couldn't keep up with this young man's thinking. Nowadays, if he has money, he doesn't make it quickly, but instead controls the quantity. What the hell?

Hey, Chen Hao sighed and didn't want to explain, "You're right to listen to my preparation! Let's start with this, 100 million per day in the recent period, remember, no more, no less!"

After finishing speaking, snap, hang up the phone.

To put it bluntly, cards are all about rarity. If the market is completely saturated, who will still play?

Maintaining hunger, maintaining supply exceeding demand, and making players unable to ask for anything is the highest level.

The daily distribution of goods is just to build momentum, and we will wait for the public beta to be fully released.

Chen Hao learned this trick from Rebus, who was good at monkey tricks. He suffered deeply from grabbing mobile phones at that time. At that time, he even maliciously guessed that in fact, the mobile phone channels were not laid out at all. It was all a means to build momentum in advance. Every day Hundreds of thousands of units were snatched up.

Unexpectedly, this young man who once dreamed of slaying dragons would one day turn into an evil dragon.But even an evil dragon has some conscience. At least the quality of the recharge card and the ten consecutive draws are real benefits.

Chen Hao picked up the internal landline and called the Finance Department and Taoyoubao respectively.

After a while, Xiaoran and Zhou Xiao each sent a piece of data.

Chen Hao opened the data report and was happy.

Good guy, the Three Kingdoms OL internal beta has not even started yet, but it has already earned 1 million for the company.

Basically all of it comes from the sales share of offline recharge cards.

Looking at the data submitted by Zhou Xiao, the sales record of Taoyou Bao Sanguo OL online recharge cards is only more than 300 million, accounting for only a pitiful 3%.

A comparison of the two data confirmed that there is no problem.

Since there are so few online, it might as well be.
After thinking about it for a while, Chen Hao had a plan in his mind. He picked up his cell phone and called Zhou Xiao over.

Chen Hao plans to open a mall in the Sanguo OL special area of ​​Taoyou Bao, and put the Sanguo OL recharge cards on the shelves for physical sale.

Then connect with Jun.com’s system and get through.

When a buyer pays on it, the purchase information and mailing address are sent to Jun.com's system, where they are mailed and shipped. Chen Hao specifically emphasized that only items containing 328 and above are free of charge.

This is the first time that Taoyoubao has conducted physical transactions, so Chen Hao asked Zhou Xiao to follow up on this matter and make sure to go online before the public beta of Three Kingdoms OL. The latter followed the order and left.

The early release of the Three Kingdoms OL recharge card not only has a similar pre-recharge concept, but also has a trading method.

The most important thing is to use the cards to let the parents of Three Kingdoms OL know in advance the numerical values ​​​​of the generals and the details of the generals' skills in Three Kingdoms OL.

This way, the threshold for getting started is lower. After all, only a small number of players are looking for strategies online.

One card and three meals, and I had to add a chicken drumstick for dinner. Chen Hao crossed his legs and bounced.

The meaning of internal testing is similar to the screening of a movie. The quality of word-of-mouth determines the final box office trend.

If the feedback from the closed beta players is good, they will spontaneously summarize their strategy experience and write some sharing posts, which can be used as a reference for other players who are not eligible for the closed beta.

Of course, through the experience of internal beta players, some feedback suggestions and bugs will also be put forward, which will also promote the improvement of the quality of the game itself.

This time, Chen Hao ordered 20 copies of the activation code for the internal beta of Three Kingdoms OL. Currently, 80% of them have been distributed, and the remaining 20% ​​will be distributed in the next few days.

There are two ways to distribute qualifications for this internal test. The first one is through holding corresponding activities on various game websites and magazines.

Similar to the essay-writing activities with the theme of "First Introduction to the Three Kingdoms", some game websites have created a ranking list of Three Kingdoms flash games. How many top players will receive activation codes, etc.

There is also an official Three Kingdoms OL knowledge quiz activity in Three Kingdoms OL. Players can answer the questions by reading the official guide and information. There are 20 questions in total. If you answer 15 questions correctly, you can qualify for the internal test (each account is limited to three questions per day).

In addition, there is another channel to obtain qualifications for internal testing, which is to purchase a Three Kingdoms OL recharge card with level 128 and above, and a game activation code will be given as a gift with the card.

Since the amount of code this time was huge and it was sent through multiple channels, the main enthusiasm of players was focused on the frantic rush to buy Three Kingdoms cards.

Internal beta activation code?Isn’t that a standard configuration for everyone?
(End of this chapter)