Reborn on the Internet: Starting with Games

Chapter 378: You fight, I’ll take care of the logistics

"6 to 1, the minority obeys the majority. The next topic is, how long will the public beta be extended?"

"I remember the principal said that the familiarity period for a game is about a week. Since they chose August 8 for the public beta, we will push it back seven days."

One of them thought for a moment and expressed his opinion, "It's not good for the next seven days to fall on Sunday. In fact, the day before, Saturday is the best open beta. It happens to be the first day of the holiday and has the most players."

"Second." "Okay!" "No problem!"

The senior recorded the information and said, "The public beta is scheduled for August 8th, Saturday. Next item, when will the public beta news be announced?"

"It must be announced when it is the most anticipated, and the effect will be best."

"According to what you say, they must be the best on August 8, the day of their public beta."

"No, no, no, although the day of the public beta is also good, the best is the day before their public beta. This can distract attention and plant a seed for these players at the same time."

"I'm worried that there are shameless people like us."

"Just like the principal taught us, don't worry about others and just do our own thing."

Afterwards, several people chatted and added details to perfect the follow-up plan and so on.

A few minutes later, the senior finalized the plan and respectfully handed it to Zhou Xiao standing aside.

"Boss, this is the implementation plan for the public beta of "Kart Racing" that we have discussed and compiled. Please take a look."

After spending a minute, Zhou Xiao read the plan and was very satisfied with the capable people in front of him. "No problem, the consideration is quite comprehensive. It proves that the previous class was not in vain. I will record the practical results at the end of the month and conduct them in the next class." Review summary.”

Several young people in front of him bowed their heads and said yes.

Zhou Xiao hummed, "Good performance, let's go do the work."

Watching these young people go out, Zhou Xiao's face was very pleased. The eldest Century University is really a mastermind. These students have good foundation and are willing to work hard. Each of them is like a small tree that continues to nourish and strengthen itself. is growing at an extremely alarming rate.

It saved himself a lot of energy, and after two more attempts, he could completely let go and let these little guys do the tossing.

It seems that I have to hurry up and recharge my batteries, otherwise I will be beaten to death on the beach by these back waves in two years.

On August 8, the news that the media and players had been waiting for finally came.

Century Interactive Entertainment officially announced that the family-friendly casual racing online game "KartRider" will officially launch racing on August 8. At the same time, it will launch a free racing event for registration, and announced that sports star Liu Xiang will be the designated spokesperson, let's witness the speed together!

What comes up is a set of open beta + endorsement + activities without explanation of combos.

Later, The8 also stepped in to join the game. Although it had no new games, World of Warcraft announced that it would be free for a week starting from August 8 to win over players.

At 18:3 in the evening, Tencent finally made a move. Miracle's orthodox sequel and the pinnacle of the next-generation 8D masterpiece "Miracle World SUN" is scheduled for public beta on August 13, and a public beta celebration will be held on August 8.

At that time, producer Hong Renjun, known as the "Father of Miracles", will come all the way from South Korea to share the grand event with Chinese players!

Reports have widely introduced that "World of Miracles (SUN)" can successfully combine Eastern and Western cultures, and proposes an innovative and unique battlefield system concept, providing a smooth fighting feeling and excellent sound and light enjoyment. It is a Korean game The pinnacle 3D online game.

The game structure combines the characteristics of MMORPG, video games and stand-alone games;
In terms of picture composition, the real light and shadow effects, delicate character skin textures, exquisite game scenes, and even the cracks caused by the impact of weapons are clearly displayed in front of players.

In terms of music presentation, Oscar winner Howard Shaw, the music director of the movie "The Lord of the Rings", was invited to create, and with the performance of the Russian National Symphony Orchestra as the main force, he completed the masterpiece "SUN" All music production.Balabala blew a lot, focusing on a high-end, atmospheric and high-end game. Players who play World of Miracles are high-end players.

From the announcement, we can see that Tencent attaches great importance to this game and its ambition to win the market.

Before the beta has even started, World of Miracles has become the most anticipated new game among players.

Online games experienced a surge in August, and the pace of new game releases was faster than the previous months combined. For players, it is not an exaggeration to say that it is a Chinese New Year.

As time went by, various games began to be tested publicly, and the battle was more intense than people expected. Each game tried their best to grab players. Various activities and news were overwhelming, and the fight was very lively.

There are many activities such as open beta lottery, limited free benefits and so on.

17173 Information Station very considerately cooperated with Volkswagen Software to conduct game data statistics and launched daily new game rankings, which became the vane of this online game war.

In the daily new game list, Shanda's two games "Rainbow Island OL" and "Street Basketball" basically did not fall out of the top three. They were divided by other companies, and the rankings continued to change every day.

When Century Interactive Entertainment and Tencent joined the battlefield, it was as if the burning fire was mixed with a layer of hot oil and became a white-hot trend.

"World of Miracles" won the first place in the open beta, directly landing at the top of the list, followed closely by "Kart Runner", and then others.

In the next few days, with the support of vigorous activities and media publicity, "World of Miracles" firmly held the top position on the new game list, followed by "Street Basketball" and "Rainbow Island OL", and the others were indistinguishable. Victory or defeat, the odds are against each other.

The only strange thing is that "Kart Racer" still followed the previous style of Century Interactive Entertainment, which was unhurried and step-by-step. In addition to the official open beta test, a pinnacle C1 racing car was given away, and then nothing happened.

Compared with other companies, it is inconspicuous and inconspicuous at all. Therefore, apart from maintaining No. 2 at the beginning of the test, it began to fall behind and gradually became a laggard.

But this is very much in line with public expectations. Lo and behold, Chen Hao's law has indeed come into effect. All the online games he had previously been interested in became popular, especially Miracle World, which had no competition with Tencent at the time, and directly became the number one.

Although it may have been a good thing that Audition became popular a few months ago, now it seems that Kart Racing is indeed an alternative.

Some media even released negative remarks that "Kart Racing will become the Waterloo of Century Interactive Entertainment".

Nowadays, in the online game market, the number of domestic players is nearly 3000 million, and there are only a few dozen major domestic online games.

There are only a dozen popular headsets, accounting for nearly 80% of the players.

So now demand exceeds supply, and there is no shortage of people to play new online games.

Unlike established online game companies such as Shanda, Tencent, and Century Interactive Entertainment, new online game newcomers such as Modu Haojia, Jiuyou, and Game Orange obviously did not expect such a hot market. Servers were opened one after another, and soon The servers they had reserved were exhausted, and what was left waiting for their gamers was lag and dissatisfaction.

The reason why their games fall behind is not because of the quality of the games or because players are not yet fresh, but because the servers limit their scale.

This is all due to inexperience. At this critical point when the war is in full swing, if the food and grass are cut off, the result can be imagined.

The bosses of these companies belatedly understood the importance of servers, but it was obviously too late to purchase them at this time. It would take at least ten days and a half, and the day lilies were already cold.

If the game wasn't fun, they would have accepted it, but now the activities were going well and the number of people was full, but they lost the battle due to lack of food, which hurt morale.

Just when they were exhausted and their morale was low, a convoy filled with food and fodder passed by.
The flag with the words "Century" written on it in large characters sounded in the wind.

(End of this chapter)