My game, you have no right to award

Chapter 126 Victory begins
"not bad."

Zhou Kuang commented, turning to Feng Qi beside him and making a five-fingered gesture.

When the other party saw this gesture, he immediately understood that "Netherworld Mountains and Seas" had sold 50,000 copies and showed a surprised expression.

Seeing the unconcealable joy on Feng Qi's face, Zhou Kuang shook his head.

Still too young.

Zhou Kuang’s own expectation for “Netherworld Mountains and Seas” is at least three million copies.

Normally, sales would be five million copies.

If the word of mouth is good, it is not impossible to sell more.

These 50,000 pre-sale sales are just a drop in the bucket!
The first domestic 3A stand-alone game

If this title doesn't translate to 3 million copies sold, then either they are too bad and the whole game is crap.

Either the domestic market is sick and cannot respond to stand-alone games.

Or maybe Zhou Kuang is crazy.

In short, he couldn't imagine any situation in which their sales would not reach three million copies.

But if he told this number to people around him, such as Niu Tieming, they would definitely think he was crazy or that he was too confident.

Even Feng Qi or Yang Ji might not be so confident.

"Not bad? Hahaha, brother, you are too cautious. 50,000 copies is simply too good!"

Niu Tieming was in a good mood.

"I bet you it won't be a problem to sell a million copies in the end!"

"Oh? Why do you see it?"

Zhou Kuang was curious as to why he was so sure.

"Do you think I've worked for nothing all these years?"

"I've seen the sales trends of countless games sold on the begamer platform before."

“No one is as dazzling as the Netherworld Mountain and Sea!”

"Trust me, bro."

"You've made a killing."

Suddenly, Zhou Kuang discovered that Feng Qi had been making gestures to him, and he couldn't even stop smiling.

"Hold on."

Zhou Kuang walked up to him, and Feng Qi frantically motioned for him to look at the screen.

Zhou Kuang looked at the monitor, which was still the developer backend of Steam. What was displayed on the Steam backend was the pre-order sales of "Netherworld Mountain and Sea" on the Steam platform!
[Netherworld Mountain and Sea Standard Edition Sales: 154514]

[Netherworld Mountain and Sea Deluxe Edition Sales: 265833]

These two numbers... add up to forty thousand?
No! It's 410,000!
Zhou Kuang suddenly looked up at the clock on the wall with a hint of astonishment in his eyes.

eleven o 'clock.

At this time, exactly one hour has passed since the pre-sale started!
He lowered his head and stared blankly at the two numbers on the screen, constantly adding them up in his mind.

Four hundred and ten thousand copies?

Is it 410,000 copies?
He couldn't believe it and counted it again. It was indeed six digits.

It actually is 410,000 copies!

The pre-order sales on the Steam platform in one hour were more than eight times that of the Begamer platform!

But, didn’t Steam just get back online? Did players buy 410,000 copies in a single minute?

This is impossible!
At this time, the corners of Feng Qi's mouth were almost stretched to the back of his head. He really couldn't help but burst out laughing.

Niu Tieming obviously heard the laughter as well.

"Hello? Hello? Hello! What's going on? Is the signal bad?"

Zhou Kuang was awakened by the other party's voice and came back to his senses.

In one hour, "Netherworld Mountains and Seas" pre-sold 410,000 copies!

The corners of his mouth turned up.

Total sales of three million copies?
nonono, it's time to change expectations.

"I have good news for you." Zhou Kuang's voice suppressed his excitement and seemed relatively calm.

"What? There's more good news?"

Niu Tieming was stunned. If it was sold for 50,000, isn’t that good news?

"Ah."

Zhou Kuang's voice was trembling, and Feng Qi, who was standing beside him, rushed out of the office with a look of disbelief on his face, and no one knew what he was doing.

"Steam sales figures are out..."

"How many!"

"you guess?"

A sly smile appeared on Zhou Kuang's lips.

Niu Tieming on the opposite side breathed a sigh of relief.

Are you helpless?

"Also fifty thousand?"

Niu Tieming guessed 50,000 at the beginning. After all, he knew that the sales volume of Steam would definitely not be lower than that of the Begamer platform.

"No."

Niu Tieming nodded after hearing Zhou Kuang's answer.

That's right, how could Steam possibly sell as much as here?

"Then one hundred thousand."

"Still wrong."

"One hundred and fifty thousand."

"not enough."

"Two hundred thousand! It can't be more than that."

Niu Tieming thought he had estimated it as high as possible. After all, sales of 200,000 copies were only four times that of Begamer.

The ratio for ordinary games is at most this, and for most games it is even just two to one or three to one.

"not enough."

"Still less?!"

Niu Tieming had a secret guess in his mind, but he had lost his patience.

"Say it quickly."

Zhou Kuang didn't intend to tease him anymore and said firmly.

"Four hundred and ten thousand copies."

"..."

There was silence for a while.

"Forty...ten thousand?"

The other party's voice seemed a little dry, with a hint of doubt.

"Correct."

"Four hundred and ten thousand copies?"

"Correct."

"In just one hour, Netherworld Mountain and Sea sold 410,000 copies on Steam?"

"Correct."

"..."

Both sides were speechless.

Suddenly, there was a huge cheer outside the door, which almost blew the roof off.

Feng Qi informed all the employees who were waiting for the results, and they went crazy after hearing the news that Steam had pre-sold 410,000 copies and Begamer had pre-sold 50,000 copies.

As the creators of "Netherworld Mountains and Seas", they know what this achievement means.

This means that all their hard work over the past two years, focusing on the project without paying attention to external opinions and slanders, and improving their skills day and night, have not been in vain!
That’s right, everything we’ve done so far is not in vain!!
Those days when I adjusted the code and looked for bugs until my hair fell out.

The days of constantly modifying art materials, or even tearing them up and redrawing them.

Those days of revising the plans and plot scripts countless times.

Those days of debugging the gameplay until I became paralyzed.

All of this, everything, is meaningful!

Just keep moving forward, as long as you don't stop, the road will continue to extend.

Just like today.

The pre-sale sales of 410,000 on Steam alone proved the players' recognition of "Netherworld Mountains and Seas", and they received the warmest response from the market.

And their efforts are about to pay off. In just one hour, Steam pre-sold 400,000 copies. Who can say how high the final sales volume will reach?

But at least they know that the higher the sales volume, the higher their rewards will be.

Zhou Kuang promised that after the release of "Netherworld Mountains and Seas", they would receive a substantial bonus based on the sales volume.

Judging from the current sales of 400,000, the final total sales volume may be quite terrifying.

In that case, the bonus would certainly not be just tens of thousands per person. It would have to be at least six figures, and those who made great contributions could easily get a seven-figure bonus.

As for the levels of Feng Qi and Yang Ji, Zhou Kuang offered bonuses according to the level of their game partners.

They can even get a bonus that is nearly one point of profit, which would scare outsiders to death if they told others about it.

Not only ordinary people, but even employees of other companies in the gaming industry would be envious.

He wished he could take off his boss's head and let Zhou Kuang kick it like a ball, and then welcome him to join his company.

"Fuck!"

Niu Tieming cursed subconsciously.

"Four hundred and ten thousand???"

"You're going to rob me!"

"Hahahahaha!"

"Red and fiery, in a trance!"

Zhou Kuang and Niu Tieming laughed together.

"The most perverted thing is not here yet..."

Zhou Kuang turned his head to look at the screen.

"Can you please stop scaring me? If you have something to say, just say it right away. I'm about to have a heart attack!"

Niu Tieming covered his chest, feeling both pain and happiness.

"What's the pre-sale ratio for the standard and deluxe editions?"

Niu Tieming thought for a moment before answering, "The sales of the deluxe edition are probably one-third of the standard edition."

"No, no, actually it's a little more, probably around 27 percent of the total sales."

Zhou Kuang smiled and shook his head. Begamer players indeed bought more standard versions.

In fact, he was shocked to see that the pre-sale sales of the deluxe edition outnumbered the standard edition in the Steam backend.

It's not just a little bit more. The sales of the deluxe edition are more than 100,000 copies more than the standard edition, accounting for 64%.

But this time Zhou Kuang didn't intend to keep it a secret and told the other party directly.

"On Steam, the deluxe edition of Netherworld Mountain and Sea sold 100,000 more copies than the standard edition."

"..."

Seeing that there was silence from the other side again, Zhou Kuang had no choice but to ask worriedly.

"Are you there?"

"……I am here."

Niu Tieming was still digesting the news in his mind, and in the end it could only turn into a sigh.

"Zhou Kuang, you're a real genius!"

……

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……

Ever since Black Cat learned at ten o'clock that "Youming Shanhai" was finally available for pre-order on Steam, he has been trying to buy the game.

However, no matter how he refreshed, he couldn't log into Steam, which made him very angry.

"Mad idiot!"

The black cat hammered the table, causing the camera on the table to shake continuously.

There were also many viewers in the live broadcast room doing the same thing as him, and they kept complaining in the comment section.

"I've been waiting for two years, don't make me wait any longer, Qiuqiu"

“This is pure hunger marketing!”

"Hunger marketing means no more sales? What's wrong with you?"

"It seems that I can only buy it tomorrow."

"In that case, the purchase time is the next day. Can it still be considered an initial purchase?"

“Of course not.”

"Why is Steam still offline? Damn it, Gabe Newell, please do some work! How are you still growing?"

"Big Black Dog, think of a solution quickly!"

Looking at the comments from the audience in the comment section, Black Cat was extremely annoyed. Steam kept displaying error messages, which made him anxious.

Especially those who asked him to think of a solution, he is just a host, not Gabe Newell's father!
How can he make steam better!
Unless he can awaken his teleportation ability now, tp to Bellevue, Washington, break into the Valve headquarters from downstairs, and then point a knife at Gabe Newell and force him to repair Steam immediately.

He kept clicking the left mouse button to refresh, using more and more force until the vein on his forehead bulged slightly.

Just when he was about to go crazy, the screen flashed and steam actually worked!

He quickly went to the store interface of "Youming Shanhai", directly chose to buy the deluxe version for 368 yuan, and then checked out!

Looking at the icon that kept spinning, Black Cat became very nervous, fearing that Steam would break out again.

Fortunately, Steam did not malfunction until he bought the deluxe edition of "Netherworld Mountains and Seas".

Black Cat glanced at the lower right corner. Fortunately, only more than 20 minutes had passed since the pre-sale of "Netherworld Mountains and Seas" started on Steam.

The audience in the live broadcast room were shocked after seeing this. How did the black cat get in?
"Fuck, how did you buy it?"

"Black Cat, please teach me, I want to buy it too."

"Shadow!"

"What did you do?"

“How did you get in?”

Looking at the anxious comments, the black cat slightly raised the corners of his mouth.

He said with a somewhat smug tone: "Brothers, I don't know what's going on."

"I just kept hitting refresh, and suddenly it worked. Maybe it was touched by my sincerity!"

As he said that, he clicked on the mall again, and this time the error message popped up again.

The black cat's smile froze there.

He didn't believe it and tried a few more times, but as expected, the result was still an error message.

Seeing that Black Cat was showing off just now, Steam was moved by his sincerity, but immediately couldn't log in, and the comment section was immediately filled with comments mocking him.

"Hahaha, big black dog, just pretend. If you're lucky, just say you're lucky."

"I'm touched by your sincerity. I've been refreshing since 10 o'clock and I've almost clicked the mouse twice, but I still can't enter the store page. My sincerity is no better than yours."

"Black Dog, stop struggling and teach us how to purchase Netherworld Mountain and Sea."

The black cat became angry and embarrassed.

"Don't make me teach! Teach, teach, teach!"

"Just keep pressing refresh! The faster the better!"

He was just doing it perfunctorily, but many viewers actually succeeded after trying it this way!
"Wow, that's awesome! I've already bought it."

“I bought it too!”

"Huh? I thought Black Dog was joking."

"I'll go try it right away."

"6666 big black dog nb!"

"The first person to crack Steam's lag problem, the first person to buy Netherworld Mountain and Sea!"

After seeing the barrage, even Black Cat himself was stunned.

Damn, am I so awesome?

His method was quickly spread by the audience in the live broadcast room.

Fans of Super Black Cat ran to the live broadcast rooms of other game anchors and started chatting with their fan versions.

What? You haven't bought Netherworld Sea yet? We already bought it! Super Black Cat came up with a solution!

What's the solution, you ask?
Just keep clicking the refresh button, the faster the better, and when the store page appears, choose to purchase the deluxe version.

After checkout, you can successfully pre-order.

Black Cat's fans spread rumors and included purchasing the deluxe version in the steps, but in fact, Black Cat simply wanted to buy the deluxe version to support the production company.

You wouldn't believe it, but some people actually chose to buy the standard edition, only to fail! Furthermore, they can no longer access the store page for Netherworld Mountain and Sea!
These people beat their chests and stamped their feet, begging for another chance.

There was once a mysterious mountain and sea in front of me, but I didn’t cherish it. I only regretted it when I lost it. This is the most painful thing in the world.

If God could give me a chance to start over, I would say three words to that game: I'll buy you.

If I had to give this game an edition, I would say it's the Deluxe Edition.

(End of this chapter)