In the following month, Boss Jia spent most of his time with his wife and children. He didn't even go to E3 in the United States.
However, there was no need for him to go this time. This was because Daqian didn't do anything new at E3. They only released some new games.
The most important games were probably Red Alert 2 and Warcraft 2. The trailers for these two games were released one after the other, causing a huge commotion in the gaming circle.
What Boss Jia didn't expect was that the crowd cheered when the Legend of the Sword and Fairy 2 was announced. Although the cheers weren't as loud as the first two games, it was the third highest cheering for the game.
This made the production team of the Legend of the Sword and Fairy 2 very excited. They always thought that their game was a free game because no one liked it.
In fact, the Daqian Games was debating whether or not to make the Legend of the Sword and Fairy 2. This was because the sales of the Legend of the Sword and Fairy weren't good.
Although the total sales were more than 50 million copies, everyone knew that the Legend of the Sword and Fairy was a free game that could be bought at any time. The sales had nothing to do with the quality of the game itself.
Therefore, many people thought that the Legend of the Sword and Fairy 2 was a terrible game and wasn't worth making a sequel. It wasn't until Boss Jia made the decision that there was a possibility of a sequel.
Therefore, when the production team of the Legend of the Sword and Fairy 2 saw the crowd cheering, they were very touched. It seemed that they had fans after all.
This was the truth. No matter how terrible a game was, even if it was a free game, as long as it sold more than 50 million copies around the world, it would have a huge number of fans.
After all, the Thousand Machines Transformation was the first game for many children who had never played a game before, and the Legend of the Sword and Fairy would be the first game that they would play. This feeling was incomparable to anything else.
In fact, the production team didn't do any detailed research. If they went to the BBS all over the world, they would find that the number of users of the Legend of the Sword and Fairy was only second to Pokemon, Diablo, and Super Mario. It was the fourth most popular gaming forum in the world.
The Legend of the Sword and Fairy had a huge number of fans all over the world.
Other than that, Daqian Games also announced plans for more than 30 games. Of course, many of them were just cannon fodder, but as long as one of them became popular, it would bring in huge profits.
Other than that, the most important news at the scene was the performance of the steam game store.
At E3, Zhong Yu, the president of Daqian Games, excitedly announced that after nearly a year of development, the steam game store now had 2,321 offline physical stores around the world, and 892 games had been logged into the steam game store.
In that one year, the steam store sold a total of 723 million copies of the game, bringing joy to a total of 98.75 million players in the world!
Then, the steam shop announced two rankings for the entire year. The first was the sales ranking, and the other was the player evaluation ranking!
The players in the steam shop can fill in their evaluation of the game after they purchase the game and send it back to the steam shop. That's why the game evaluation ranking was created.
Among them, there was no need to talk about the game sales ranking. It was purely a ranking of sales. Then, the first was Pokemon Gold. From July last year to July this year, a total of 46.82 million copies were sold. There was no doubt about its strength.
Next is StarCraft.
After that is Kart Karting.
Seven of the top ten games are produced by Daqian Games. The remaining two are EA's Genesis, Capcom's Street Fighter, and Microsoft's Age of Empire.
That's right. Microsoft, which doesn't seem to be involved in the gaming industry, released Age of Empire, an important game in the history of gaming.
That's why when Microsoft announced that they will be releasing their game on the steam store, many industry bigwigs were shocked.
Huh? Why did Microsoft say 'again'?
It's normal for Microsoft to choose to release their game on the steam store. That's because the steam game store is now the world's biggest game store chain, and Microsoft does not have their own game distribution platform. That's why they chose to release their game on the steam store.
This is a normal business decision, and there's nothing wrong with it.
When the steam game sales ranking was released, it did not cause much surprise. This is because the ranking can be calculated based on the published data. Everyone in the audience already knows the order of the ranking. What's there to be surprised about?
But when the game evaluation ranking was released, something shocking happened. The first game on the ranking is "Zelda: Flute of Time."
That's right. The number one game wasn't Da Qian's game, nor was it any game under the steam gaming platform. It was Selda Flute of Time from Nintendo's N64 gaming platform, which was not released on the steam gaming platform at all. It was released on December 31, 1996.
According to history, this game was released in 1998. However, because the current gaming market was much worse than in the other world, Nintendo invested in the game, and the greatest masterpiece on the N64, Zelda: Flute of Time, was released on the N64 platform more than a year in advance.
But no one expected this game to be the first game on the ranking.
Ask yourself, is "Zelda: Flute of Time" the best game in 1996?
Most of the video game media and gamers are certain of this. This is because "Zelda: Flute of Time" is so good. In the 2018 Top 100 Historical Games list, "Zelda: Flute of Time" is ranked second. There's no doubt about the game's quality.
However, why did Da Qian really give the number one spot on the leaderboard to Nintendo's game?
In fact, even if the Daqian did not give the first place to Zelda, it will not affect the fairness of the ranking.
Due to the fact that the Great Thousand Games Ranking Board was a game that was sold in the steam game store, "Zelda – Flute of Time" was not even released in the store. In fact, it had long been excluded from the list of candidates. It was normal for it not to be on the list.
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