After Tesla jumped out of motorcycles and became a brand new category, the competition between the two calmed down a little.
When BYD left the group and expressed that it would not play with them anymore, the motorcycle companies were helpless. However, since the other party did not admit that they were motorcycles, the core fans of motorcycles would not move. This was also an acceptable outcome for Harley and other companies.
BYD could also accept this situation. Although the new Tesla had fewer potential customers after it separated from motorcycles, it began to establish a base that belonged solely to Tesla.
After a portion of the initial 30,000 Teslas were returned, they were sold one after another. At the same time, the pre-orders slowly recovered. Although it was less than 50% of the peak, it still sold at least 20,000 units a month. This was a very good outcome for the United States BYD.
After all, even the lowest unit price, the United States Captain, was only 3,000 USD, but the cost was less than 700 USD.
This was because the main cost for electric vehicles was the battery. BYD itself made batteries, and Xijiang Province was one of the most famous rare earth production areas in Hua Xia. The cost of producing batteries for BYD was actually very low. A United States Captain used a total of eight batteries, and the total cost was only 400 USD.
After factoring in other costs and taxes, the actual cost was only slightly more than 600 USD.
In other words, BYD could make a net profit of 2,300 USD for a warrior version of the lowest unit.
As for the more high-end Hero and Avenger versions.
Well, in fact, it was just a few more batteries and a slight increase in the power of the motor. The cost increased by one or two hundred USD, but the net profit increased by thousands of USD.
In fact, among all the Captain America models that were sold, the Avenger version, which was the most expensive, sold the most. About 20,000 units were sold, and the net profit of one Captain America model was 4,000 USD per unit.
In other words, BYD made a net profit of nearly 80 million USD on the Avenger version of the United States Captain. If the profits of the other two versions were included, it directly exceeded 100 million USD.
And this was only from one month of sales. Wang Chuanfu really made a name for himself in the United States.
Of course, Harley would not give up just like that. There was an undercurrent flowing in the dark. Since they could not win fair and square, they had to resort to some extreme measures!
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"Chairman, in just two months, we've opened 40 additional servers around the world, and we've sold 1 billion points of cards!!" In the office of Fusang Daqian, Zhong Yu, who had come all the way here, excitedly reported to Boss Jia.
It had been two months since the global open beta of Diablo OL. In these two months, Diablo OL had achieved unimaginable success.
In the first week, Diablo OL had a total of 100,000 players around the world, and the highest number of players at the same time, around 20,000 players.
Don't think that LOL has tens of millions of players across the world and think that it's too little.
In fact, this was already a shocking number in the wild era of online games.
This also caught Daqian Games off guard. Although Boss Jia had told Daqian Games to open a few more servers in case of server congestion, Zhong Yu, who was in charge of the actual operations of Daqian Games, didn't follow Boss Jia's instructions.
The reason was simple. Zhong Yu believed that online games were a new type of game, and players wouldn't be able to accept it. Daqian Games used the best servers, and could accommodate up to 5000 characters at the same time, so there shouldn't be any problems in the short term.
After that, they could flexibly choose to increase or decrease the number of servers according to the game's operations, and ensure that Daqian Games could maintain its cost.
For someone who hadn't seen the popularity of online games, Zhong Yu's decision was perfect. Therefore, after seeing Zhong Yu's decision, Boss Jia didn't use his authority to interfere with Zhong Yu's operations. Instead, he nodded and allowed Zhong Yu to do as he pleased.
Zhong Yu wouldn't learn his lesson until he was beaten up by society!
Sure enough, on the second day of the launch, the world's best server couldn't handle the load. Zhong Yu was shocked and immediately ordered to open more servers.
Fortunately, Zhong Yu wasn't stupid. He knew that he would have to open more servers in the future, so he prepared a backup server in advance, and managed to hold on for the second day.
After that, Zhong Yu learned his lesson and ordered ten more servers, and at least Diablo OL's servers didn't crash.
However, a new crisis appeared. Players from all over the world were protesting on the official forums, saying that Diablo OL was too laggy, especially the players from the United States. They were lagging every three steps, to the point where they couldn't play.
The reason was simple. The servers were all placed in the same server room in the same country. Players who were close to the servers naturally wouldn't find any problems with the internet speed.
However, players who were a few countries away from the servers, or even an ocean away, would have a terrible gaming experience. After all, the internet was still very primitive, and couldn't support large amounts of data.
Oh, you're asking why Zhang Zahui didn't experience lagging in the game?
The reason was simple. The servers were all placed in Hua Xia, in Boss Jia's newly built super data center in Guizhou.
That's right, the first phase of the super data center was completed, and the servers could be installed. However, the project was temporarily stopped after the first phase was completed. After all, it would take a few more years for the internet to be ready for the second phase.
Therefore, Zhang Zahui and the others didn't know that they were playing a foreign game, and that they were playing on foreign servers.
In reality, it was the foreigners playing on Hua Xia's servers.
However, this situation only lasted for a few days before Zhong Yu realized that something was amiss. Initially, he had planned to use his own data service center to set up a server, saving more money. However, he did not expect the foreign players to be so angry.
The day before the servers were shut down, the official forums of Diablo OL were adding tens of threads every second, cursing Blizzard and Tencent. In the end, even the forums couldn't handle the load and couldn't be accessed.
After consulting with Boss Jia, Zhong Yu flew to Europe, the United States, Southeast Asia, Fusang, and other regions on the third day of Diablo OL's open beta. He flew to one place a day to reach an agreement with the internet service companies in those regions, and rented their servers to temporarily set up servers for Diablo OL in those regions.
A week after the open beta, Zhong Yu was so tired that he almost fainted. Then, Diablo OL announced the end of the open beta a week in advance, and the servers were shut down for three days.
Three days later, when the players reconnected to the game, they realized that there were server options for different regions on the server connected to the client.
There were servers for the United States, South America, Europe, Hua Xia, Fusang, Korea, and Southeast Asia.
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