"Manager Ding, how is it? How many players are online now?" Feng Yu crossed his legs and smiled at Ding Lei.
According to Feng Yu's plan, NetEase will be developing in the gaming industry. Ding Lei wants to get a NetEase account to use all NetEase products. This is the so-called NetEase Pass, which includes forums, email, games, etc.
"General Manager Feng, the number of players has exceeded 300,000 in three days!" Ding Lei said excitedly.
Three hundred thousand people, and that was the number of people online at the same time. As for the number of registered users, it had exceeded five hundred thousand, and it was still growing rapidly every day.
General Manager Feng had told him that the number of players online will easily exceed 1 million. At that time, Ding Lei thought General Manager Feng was wrong, and the number of registered players should be more than 1 million. He did not expect this game to be so popular.
"Yes. The Beta period will be one month. We will collect the feedback from the users and let Wind and Rain Games make some adjustments. One month later, Legend of Mir will be released. Have you found the production company for the time cards? "
"Yes. Based on what you said, the 16-digit password will be split into four types: 100-hour card, 200-hour card, 300-hour card, and unlimited monthly card. But General Manager Feng, will the unlimited monthly card sell well? Is the 300-hour card not enough for them to play? Who can play for more than 10 hours a day? "Ding Lei was puzzled.
All the time cards are valid for 30 days, and Ding Lei felt the 300-hour card might not even be able to sell well. The 100-hour card should be the most popular. Players can play for a while after school or work. Where will they find the time?
Even if he really liked to play games, a 200-hour point card was more than enough. That unlimited monthly point card was clearly superfluous.
What he didn't know was that the players of the Legend of Mir had a way of playing the Legend of Mir game. Two or three players would play on the same account, and the account would stay online for 24 hours a day. They would earn money by collecting equipment, gold coins, skill books, and quests to help other players level up.
As long as this game became popular, professional gamers would definitely appear. Not only did they sell equipment, but they also helped people level up and complete quests.
In any case, after Level 7, he would have to start charging fees. No matter who he looked for to help him level up, he would need to spend some money to be able to enter the game.
The current open beta was also a way to attract people to know how fun this game was, how to level up after level 7, how to do quests, how to farm gold coins, equipment, skill books, etc.
"Boss Ding, you don't have to worry about this. Anyway, we don't have much money to make Point Cards, right? I believe that in less than three months, this unlimited monthly card will sell better than the 300-hour card. Maybe it will even sell better than the 200-hour card. "
Feng Yu didn't explain much, and Ding Lei couldn't understand. But he was just a representative, and even the marketing fees were paid by Wind and Rain Games. So, the Wind and Rain Games took the majority of the profits. If these few cards could not be sold, Wind and Rain Games' losses would be higher.
"General Manager Feng, are we really going to make the servers so huge and have so many servers?" Ding Lei asked.
Feng Yu wanted the servers to be able to handle millions of players at the same time and had prepared 4 huge servers for the open beta. These servers were not rented. They were bought. Such a huge server would be very expensive.
"Can't you tell how popular this game is now? It's only been a few days. How many players do you think we will have in a month's time? Even 4 servers might not be enough during the open beta. We had ordered servers from Lenovo and urged them to hurry up. When the game is officially launched, there will be more players. At that time, we must prepare at least 10 servers of this size. Word of mouth or watching others play will attract a lot of new players. When that time comes, we must split the players. "
"Is this the regions you mentioned?"
"Yes. We will open two regions at the same time. When the number of players in each region exceeds 500,000, we will open a new region."
"Our server can handle 1 million players at the same time and can even handle overload. Isn't it too early to open a new region with 500,000 players? After the new region is opened, there will surely be players moving from the old regions to the new region. The number of players in the old regions should be decreasing. "
"First, there are not many monsters and too many players. There are not enough players in the safe zones. Also, let me ask you. You are looking for a job, but you have to fight for yourself and your cousin is the leader. What will you choose? "Feng Yu smiled and looked at Ding Lei.
"I choose to fight for myself!" Ding Lei replied without hesitation.
Feng Yu: "… …" Damn! I failed to give an example!
"You choose to fight for yourself. But what about the ordinary people?"
Ding Lei hesitated for a while. "Maybe I will choose a place where my cousin is the leader."
"That's it. Who doesn't want to be taken care of? It's the same for the game. Those who go to the new region will have the same thoughts as you. But at the same time, some will think of the old regions. With a high-level main account leading them, they will level up quickly. They will not lack gold coins and low-level equipment. Maybe they will have more fun, right? "
"Isn't it too fast to open a new region with 500,000 players? Once the new region is opened, I feel that the number of players will increase and the popularity of the old regions will continue to decrease. Isn't this game only fun with more players? If there are no players, won't the old regions be useless? "
"The situation you mentioned will happen, but it won't be too fast. It will take at least two to three years for it to happen. When that time comes, we can merge the regions. "
"Merge regions?"
"It's to merge two or more servers into one server. This way, there will be more players in the new server. Moreover, in order to fight for Sabak and the others, there will be new wars. This will stimulate the return of those old players and stimulate their passion to level up. Yes, Sabak is a player's city. It will be updated in later versions. "
"But if we merge the regions, the players in the new server will not have to take many detours. They might even develop better than the players in the new server."
"But the players in the new server will play the game longer and have higher levels. Both sides have their own advantages, and it is hard to say who has the upper hand. Every server has a top player, who is also the so-called boss of the server. After the servers are merged, in order to snatch the position of the boss, it will stimulate them to level up, get better equipment, and so on. No matter what, they will at least have to grind harder. "
Feng Yu laughed proudly. This is the method used by many private servers in his previous life. Merge regions, open new regions, and merge again. This way, the bosses of the different regions will fight with each other and stimulate the players to top up more money.
Although the current Legend of Mir players do not have the ability to top up money to buy equipment, it is possible to do so in the future. But Feng Yu does not intend to make the Legend of Mir into a game for the rich. He wants to make the game fair to attract more players, and he does not want to destroy the classic Legend of Mir in his memory.
This is a game, and it is only fun when there are more players.
"Boss Ding, trust me. We will lead the development of Hua Xia online games and make more people pay attention to this industry. We will become the industry leader!"
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