Chapter 551 If You Are My Brother, Come and Kill Me
On August 11, Jiang Rongfa led the old employees of Junzi Interactive Entertainment to complete all the server setup work, and opened the "Ten Thousand People with Prizes Internal Beta" event of "Legend of Mir 2" on the same day.
In a phone call to Lu Yiming, Jiang Rongfa said proudly: "Our game can support up to 100,000 players online at the same time. It is definitely the best in the industry."
Lu Yiming sneered at Jiang Rongfa's boasting and said dissatisfiedly: "One hundred thousand people is not enough. My goal is to have one million players online at the same time and start an unprecedented online gaming boom."
You know, in history, Chen Tianjiao had no resources at all, but the Legend was still as exciting as ever. In 2004, the number of registered users exceeded 100 million, and the maximum number of people online at the same time reached 700,000.
There is no doubt that this is the legend of Xiaguo online games.
But now Lu Yiming has the funds and connections, and he also took advantage of the year 2000 when other online games had not yet really started to gain momentum. If there were only 100,000 people online at the same time, he would have just killed himself by hitting himself with a piece of tofu.
Jiang Rongfa couldn't help but smile bitterly when he heard this, "Boss Lu, you say that so easily. I didn't even dare to think about a million players online at the same time."
During this period, any domestically produced game in Xia Country that could sell 20,000 copies could be considered a success, and the goal set by Lu Yiming was fifty times that.
If Lu Yiming hadn't done so many miracles and was not the boss of Junzi Interactive Entertainment, Jiang Rongfa would have been unable to hold back and started to criticize him.
In the following days, new servers such as Lieyan, Quwen and Mobile were launched one after another, and more and more people in Internet cafes began to join the ranks of "Legend of Mir 2".
With the proliferation of Tongxin Internet cafes, Lu Yiming's start was a direct victory over Shanda.
On August 21st, as the game advanced to version 1.1 "Legend of Three Heroes", it began its official public beta.
Just one week after the public beta, the number of people online simultaneously exceeded 30,000!
"If you are a brother, kill me" has become a popular saying among young people.
Looking at the data in the background, Jiang Rongfa was so excited that he couldn't sleep at night. Just a few months ago, he was still a failure, but after accepting Lu Yiming's advice, he made a phenomenal hit product so quickly. This made him feel like a salted fish turning over a new leaf.
However, after getting Jiang Rongfa's data, Lu Yiming was not satisfied. He called He Zeming and said, "Old He, go find me a group of idle idiots and send them to the Internet cafes in Zhonghai."
He Zeming was shocked when he heard the order and said, "Boss Lu, that's not necessary it? Our Tongxin Internet Cafe is doing so well right now, there's no need to destroy our competitor's store, right?"
"Bah..."
Lu Yiming couldn't help but complain: "Am I such a vicious person? I am an honest man, how can I do something illegal? I tell you, I want to... Do you understand?"
He Zeming was delighted when he heard this, and couldn't help but praise him, "Boss Lu, your trick is really amazing! Okay, I'll go find someone right away!"
Lu Yiming gave the same instructions to Tongxin Internet Cafe in Baiyun City.
Dingfeng Internet Cafe.
Seven or eight young men from the Zangai family walked in, whistling, with their hands in their pockets.
Seeing so many customers coming, the Internet cafe owner at the front desk was immediately very happy and greeted them enthusiastically, "Boss, are you a temporary card or a member? Members here can get a 20% discount."
A young man asked: "Do you have "Legend of Mir 2" on your computer?"
"Legend of Mir 2?"
The Internet cafe owner raised his eyebrows, a puzzled expression appeared on his face, and said, "Let me take a look."
He checked on the computer at the service desk and said, "Sorry, no."
When they heard that there was no "Legend of Mir 2", several young people showed disdain on their faces.
"What a rubbish internet cafe. They don't even have 'Legend of Mir 2'."
"That's right. I originally wanted to recharge my membership for 1,000 yuan. I've brought the money with me. There's no point in recharging if I can't play Legend of Mir 2. I'm leaving now."
"You don't even have such fun games, what's the point of opening an internet cafe?"
A few young men were swearing at each other, and they looked like they were looking for trouble.
A netizen who was playing StarCraft took off his headphones and asked curiously, "Is this "Legend of Mir 2" you are talking about really that fun?"
A yellow-haired guy said, "That's right. I played it at Tongxin Internet Cafe a few days ago. It was so exciting that I stayed up all night without realizing it. It's a pity that Tongxin Internet Cafe is so far away, so I wanted to try my luck here, but I didn't expect it wasn't there. Forget it, I'll go to Tongxin Internet Cafe to play. Although it takes two hours to walk there, it's worth it!"
When the netizen who was playing StarCraft heard that these people would rather walk for two hours just to play the game, he immediately became curious and asked, "Is the game really that fun?"
"How can I lie to you? Anyway, after I played that game, I have no interest in any other games."
The netizen got excited and said, "Then I have to give it a try. I'll go over when the time comes."
Their conversation was also heard by other people in the Internet cafe. Everyone was curious about this game that they would rather walk for two hours to play.
Several netizens who were almost there could not wait to get up and said to the boss: "Boss, get off the computer, let's go to Tongxin Internet Cafe and try it."
After a while, a few more people got off the plane and left.
After less than two hours, most people in the Internet cafe had left.
The Internet cafe owner was stunned.
What's going on?
"When was this game "Legend of Mir 2" released? Why haven't I heard of it? Is it really that fun? Don't we have other games in this Internet cafe?"
Heartbroken, the Internet cafe owner quickly started searching for "Legend of Mir 2" on the Internet and found the official website.
On the download page, the Internet cafe owner saw two options.
"Legend of Mir 2" can be downloaded separately.
Download the package of "Legend of Mir 2" + Tongxin Internet Cafe Management System.
After reading the introductions of each product, the Internet cafe owner decisively chose the package version.
"This package not only has a billing function, but also has new games and new software that can be automatically updated. Damn, why didn't I know about this thing earlier? If I install this package, then I don't have to keep an eye on netizens when they go online, right?"
Dingfeng Internet Cafe is not big, with only about fifty computers, and it is located in a residential building, so it has not installed the Tongxin Internet Cafe Management System before, and still uses the old manual timekeeping.
Now, the boss has discovered this thing, and it can be downloaded and installed for free, so he decisively embraced the management system.
To him, this thing smells so good.
At the same time, many Internet cafes were experiencing the same thing.
This kind of small Internet cafe doesn't have many computers, and it's hidden in an alley. A membership fee of one thousand yuan is not a small amount of money.
And with so many people coming, that would cost several thousand dollars.
A visit to the Internet cafes by these young people can make the cafes feel like they have lost thousands of dollars.
All of a sudden, the owners of these Internet cafes learned from their mistakes, searched online for "Legend of Mir 2", and chose to download the package version.
The popularity of "Legend of Mir 2" grew and soon attracted the attention of competitors.
Leijue Information Co., Ltd., as the first online game development company in Xia Country to apply graphical MUD technology to the commercial consumer market, can be said to be a pioneer in the field of online games.
Moreover, the current development is quite good, with users across both sides of the Taiwan Strait and Hong Kong, and more than 400,000 paying players.
But in recent days, the founder Liu Jingping was in a very bad mood and got furious at a company meeting.
"Chen Guangming! Tell me, what is going on? Why did the data of our "King of Kings" drop so much in August?"
The data management department has long noticed the decline in the data of "King of Kings" and has conducted an investigation. When Liu Jingping asked about it, Chen Guangming quickly said, "I have asked someone to investigate. The decline in our daily active users and concurrent online users is attributed to the emergence of a new game "Legend of Mir 2" on the market. Our market share has basically been taken away by this game."
"Was he taken away?"
Liu Jingping frowned and asked, "Which company produced this game? Why haven't I heard of it? Is this company from Japan or South Korea? Has it produced any great games in the past?"
Chen Guangming sighed and said, "Mr. Liu, as far as I know, this is a game company in mainland China. It has never produced any game IPs before. It should be a newcomer in the industry."
"What? A newcomer?"
When Liu Jingping heard this, he was immediately furious and his voice rose eight octaves.
"Are you saying that our Lei Jue lost the game to our mainland counterparts? And the guy was a newbie?"
As a Taiwanese company, Leijue is indeed qualified to be proud. In Liu Jingping's opinion, Taiwan's game industry is second only to the United States and Japan, and can compete with South Korea. As for mainland game companies...
What kind of stinky fish and rotten shrimp is that?
What happens now? His own company, in the online gaming field which it is best at, is being beaten by a new game company from the mainland?
Is this reasonable?
Liu Jingping had a gloomy face, and he knocked on the table and shouted, "Where are your planning department? Hurry up and find a solution for me. You can organize new activities or make concessions. In short, I will give you half a month to win back all the users. Otherwise, you can forget about your year-end bonus this year."
When they heard that the year-end bonus would be gone, everyone in the office was on high alert.
"Are mainland game companies so powerful now? They even dare to compete with us for users."
"I'll check it out after the meeting. I want to find out who this person is."
"Damn it, if you dare to steal my year-end bonus, I will let them know why the flowers are so red."
Liu Jingping snorted, patted the table to signal everyone to be quiet, and then said loudly: "Meeting adjourned!"
As soon as Liu Jingping left, Chen Guangming's wife Huang Yuzhen couldn't help but complain, "Boss Liu is really too much of a pushover. He doesn't give us any publicity resources and wants us to figure out a solution on our own. How can we figure out a solution?"
The two are a couple of doctoral students at the Institute of Materials Science at National Tsing Hua University in Taiwan, and "Lord of Kings" is the result of their joint efforts.
But now facing a strong enemy, Huang Yuzhen feels helpless. After all, the publicity campaign of "Legend of Mir 2" is too scary. It is not just the three big cities of Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou. Lu Yiming has begun to expand with these as the center. The number of new users every day is simply not comparable to that of Lei Jue.
After all, even a good cook cannot cook without rice. How can you promote without money?
It’s not impossible to compete with “Legend of Mir 2” for users, but the key is that you have to have the funds in place.
Promotion costs money, right?
It costs money to do activities, right?
It costs money to buy advertising space, right?
Just tell me you guys to figure it out yourself, how can I figure it out?
Chen Guangming sighed and said, "Well, forget it, let's do our best. To be honest, in terms of game quality, I think this "Legend of Mir 2" can't be compared with our "Lord of Kings", but that game is simple and brainless, with a strong sense of attack, and it's easy to get addicted. It's not easy to snatch users from them."
In the eyes of the couple, the current situation is already bad enough, but they don’t know that Lu Yiming is secretly planning a bigger publicity offensive.
In the Lu Family Garden, Lu Yiming was playing "Legend of Mir 2" in the game room. Suddenly, the six-digit QQ icon on the lower right corner of the computer flashed and made a beeping sound. Someone sent Lu Yiming a QQ message.
Lu Yiming quickly brought the game character back to the safe zone and then opened the QQ chat window.
The message was sent by Jiang Rongfa.
"Boss Lu, someone got the paralysis ring."
The Paralysis Ring is an equipment in "Legend of Mir 2", known as the "PK artifact". It can directly chop the opponent into unconsciousness. It is an excellent equipment for home travel and robbery.
Lu Yiming looked at his character's equipment column and immediately sent a message saying, "Which hardcore player is so lucky? Even I don't have a paralysis ring."
Jiang Rongfa said: "It's in Baiyun District 1."
Lu Yiming had told Jiang Rongfa before that if someone swiped out a paralysis ring, he must be notified. Although he didn't know why, Jiang Rongfa faithfully carried out Lu Yiming's order. After the backstage monitoring detected the appearance of the paralysis ring, he immediately came to tell Lu Yiming.
To be honest, Jiang Rongfa thought that Lu Yiming wanted this equipment, so he went to get it as soon as someone got it.
But then he thought, he made the game himself, and getting a set of invincible equipment for Lu Yiming's account would only be a matter of changing a few data, and there was no need to go through so much trouble to collect the equipment.
"Baiyun District 1? Aren't Wangzai and the others in that district?"
Lu Yiming called Li Quanwang and asked, "Wangzi, what are you doing?"
Over there, Li Quanwang said loudly: "PK, let's talk later if you have anything to say."
Li Quanwang, Xiao Qinghe and Lu Yiping have been going crazy recently, leading a group of people to dominate the game all day long and having a great time.
After a few minutes, Li Quanwang replied, "I'm done with the P. Tell me, what's the matter?"
Lu Yiming said: "Buy me a piece of equipment."
Li Quanwang asked in confusion, "Didn't you make all the games? What equipment do you want to buy? Don't you have any equipment you want?"
Lu Yiming said righteously: "I have integrity, okay? I will never take the lead in breaking the rules. Besides, if you want any equipment, just spend money to buy it."
Li Quanwang: "Okay, what do you want to buy?"
Lu Yiming said, "In your area, there is a player called 'Jianghu Xiao Xiami'. Find him and buy a paralysis ring from him. I'll have someone transfer 500,000 to you in a minute, and you can use the money to buy it."
Li Quanwang said: "Five hundred thousand gold coins? I have them."
“RMB.”
“…”
"Are you fucking crazy? Five hundred thousand RMB for a ring?"
Lu Yiming sent a struggling emoji and said, "This ring is very suitable for warriors to use for PK. When attacking the sand, there is a paralysis ring. It is definitely the most beautiful one in the crowd. Five hundred thousand is not expensive at all."
An Internet cafe.
"Little Shrimp of the Jianghu" Shi Jinhao is currently playing the Zuma dungeon with his best friend Hong Yutao. Both of them are "Legend of Mir 2" players and are online for more than 20 hours a day - to put it nicely, they are professional players, to put it bluntly, they are just idle people in society.
"Old Shi, we've been grinding for a long time, and it seems like only a ring dropped?" Hong Yutao said very unhappily.
Shi Jinhao was also very depressed and said, "Yeah, the attributes are rubbish. There's a 5% chance of paralyzing the opponent for five seconds. What the hell is this 5% chance? Only five out of a hundred hits."
Hong Yutao complained: "The equipment drop rate in the game Legend of Mir 2 is really too low. I spent the whole day grinding and didn't get any equipment suitable for mages."
Shi Jinhao touched his stomach and said, "Forget it, we haven't eaten for a day, let's get off the plane and find something to eat. Do you have money? Lend me five dollars, I have no money."
Hong Yutao searched his pockets and said, "I'm out of money too. I'll borrow some from someone later. I don't have any money left for tomorrow's internet fee."
The two packed up and returned to the safe zone. They were about to sell the junk equipment to the system store when Shi Jinhao suddenly saw a private message.
"@Jianghu Xiaoxiami, I'm 'Wangzai Kanfantianxia', I see you've got a paralysis ring, I want to ask if you're selling it?"
"Do you want to buy it?" Shi Jinhao thought that he wore this equipment because there was a vacant space in the equipment column. If someone really wanted to buy it, there would be no problem in selling it.
Wangzai cuts the world: "Well, if you want to buy it, I'll pay 500,000."
This “Wangzai who conquers the world” is, of course, Li Quanwang.
Jianghu Xiao Xia Mi: "Okay, how much do you want to pay?"
Wangzai cuts down the world: "Five hundred thousand."
Jianghu Xiao Xiami was very happy when he saw the offer. After all, the NPCs in this game were very dishonest, and the equipment drop rate was already low enough. As a result, recycling a piece of equipment only cost a few thousand gold coins, and it was rare to get tens of thousands of gold coins. This person was willing to spend 500,000 gold coins to buy this junk attribute ring, so he had no reason not to sell it.
"Deal, come to the safe zone, I'll be waiting for you next to Elder Mengzhong."
"good."
After a while, Wangzai came to the side of Jianghu Xiaoxiami after conquering the world.
Wangzai Kanfatianxia: "Okay, send me your bank account number and I'll transfer the money to you."
"Oh, okay... wait a minute? Bank account? Can't this game be traded directly? Why don't you just transfer 500,000 gold coins over to me?"
“I’m talking about the Chinese yuan.”
"What?"
