Chapter 1411
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James was a loyal gamer who would buy a few new games every month.
Ever since there was a steam game store, James would no longer go to other places to buy games. After all, there was no other steam game store in the world that was as comprehensive as all the games. At the same time, it could provide all kinds of ranking and recommendation platforms.
Most importantly, the steam gaming store would often have all sorts of events. Sometimes there would even be special events like a 10% discount on games. After all, no gamer would be able to leave the steam gaming store.
One day in August, James went to the steam gaming store to buy a new game after making some money. James wanted to buy Blizzard's newest game, Warcraft 2: Blacktide.
Warcraft 2: The Black Tide had already been released for three months and most of the players had already bought it. Although James was also a Warcraft 1 player, he wasn't that interested in RTS games, so he didn't buy Warcraft 2.
Yes, he saw an advertisement for the steam gaming platform in the newspaper. It said that Blizzard Games' latest bundle was a bundle of one of Blizzard Games' most classic games, StarCraft, and Warcraft II: Dark Tide. The bundle only sold for 88 USD.
One had to know that the price of these two games was 59 USD each. Now that the two games were added together, it was only 88 USD. That was equivalent to a 30 USD discount. The temptation of such a discount was hard to resist!
James remembered that he hadn't played Starcraft before. Many of his friends said that it was a great game and could even be called a classic, so he excitedly went to the steam gaming store and bought the Starcraft 2 that had been on sale for two years and the Warcraft 2 bundle that was just released this year.
He felt like he had made a killing!
He should have bought it by now, but he suddenly saw the poster for the Legend of Sword and Fairy 2.
James had quite an impression of the Legend of Sword and Fairy 1. Although it was a RPG game that he wasn't interested in, it was an Eastern game.
But the problem was that the game didn't cost money. It was free if he bought the Thousand Device Transformation. Of course James wouldn't stop playing it. If he wanted to play it, he would have to clear the game!
Although there were many parts of the game's plot that were difficult to understand, such as James never understood what Lady Snail was, what Mount Shu was, and why there could be people standing on such a small sword, he could still roughly understand the plot.
What left the deepest impression on James was the final plot. Zhao Ling'er died, and so did Lin Yueru. There was only one main character left. This made James very depressed. After clearing the game once, he had no intention of playing it a second time.
But this unexpected and tragic love story still left a deep impression on James.
Today, he saw the advertisement of the Legend of the Sword and Fairy 2 and saw the familiar main character named Xiaoyao Li.
"Boss, what about the story of the second generation?" James asked curiously.
"Oh, I heard that Ling 'er Zhao has come back to life!" The boss said.
"What? Ling 'er Zhao is alive? " James was stunned on the spot for a long time. He seemed to recall the plot when he first saw Ling 'er sacrifice herself. He could not help but ask, "How much does this game cost?"
"The PC version and the handheld version are both 59 USD!" After the shop owner quoted the price, James hesitated for a while and finally bought the Legend of the Sword and Fairy 2 to boost the sales of the Legend of the Sword and Fairy.
The same thing happened to many people. 120 million copies of the Legend of the Sword and Fairy 1 were sold, and at least 60 million people were unhappy with the ending of the game.
When they learned that Zhao Ling'er could come back to life in the second game, it was not hard to imagine how many people were willing to pay for the sequel.
Even when the second batch of Pokemon Water and Fire was released and its sales reached 10 million copies, it could not achieve five times the sales of the Legend of the Sword and Fairy 2.
On the contrary, the sales of the Legend of the Sword and Fairy 2 reached 6 million copies, even surpassing Warcraft 2 and becoming the second best-selling standalone game of the year.
At this moment, Xu Changlong's meticulously designed game system showed its usefulness. The players who bought the Legend of the Sword and Fairy 2 because of the plot found that this role-playing game was unexpectedly fun.
Although the players still had to follow the main quest to advance the plot, there were still many things that they could do if they did not want to advance the plot.
Whether it was cultivating flying swords, refining spiritual treasures, or increasing the attributes of their spiritual treasures, the Legend of the Sword and Fairy 2 was much more interesting than they had imagined.
Moreover, the final plot and ending were unexpectedly shocking. The Sky Sovereign was actually Li Xiaoyao's father, and Li Xiaoyao was a chess piece of the Sky Sovereign from the beginning to the end. However, this chess piece eventually left the entire game and separated the three realms, allowing humans to break away from the control of the gods and demons and become an independent world.
This plot was so deep that it suited the western players' taste buds.
The most bizarre thing was that some people were inspired by the game and believed that God still existed, but the connection between the Garden of Eden and the human world was cut off. In the end, they created many things that even Boss Jia was speechless.
All in all, the Legend of the Sword and Fairy 2 was a great success even though it only sold 10 million copies, which was incomparable to the 120 million copies of its predecessor.
However, this result made Boss Jia happier and more excited than the 46 million copies of Pokemon: Water & Fire.
After all, it meant that the Legend of the Sword and Fairy 2 had sold 10 million copies worldwide, and 10 million players in Europe and the United States were willing to spend money to buy this game that was set in Huaxia mythology and had a Huaxia style.
Many years later, when a research group discussed the cultural export of Hua Xia, they all agreed that the Legend of the Sword and Fairy was the first cultural export of Hua Xia since it meant that the Xianxia culture of Hua Xia was recognized by many western young people.
The same thing would happen decades later in Hua Xia's Xianxia novels!
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