Chapter 1671
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"Three million copies of the game were sold on the first day. My god, is the game industry going to replace oil and become the number one industry in the universe?" When the first day's battle report of the steam gaming online store was released, all the game companies that were paying attention to all of this were watching the battle between the two sides. They suddenly felt that the channels of the entire game industry might be ushering in a huge wave of reshuffling.
Of course, this number dropped by half on the second day. Only one million copies of the game were sold on the second day. This was also very normal. It completely reflected another characteristic of online game sales. That was, the sales on the first day were extremely high. After that, it would start to fall off a cliff and finally enter a slow curve.
This was very normal. As there were no queues or restrictions on the number of players, all players could buy the game they wanted on the first day. Therefore, the sales on the first day would naturally be insanely high. After that, the sales would drop rapidly.
On the fifth day, it only sold two hundred thousand copies a day. The developers let out a sigh of relief as Warcraft 3 wasn't as crazy as they thought it was.
However, they seemed to have forgotten that even though selling 200,000 copies a day was indeed a huge drop compared to the first day's 3 million points, it was still abnormally high. After all, 99% of the games in the world could not have the miracle of selling 200,000 copies a day.
On the fifth day, according to the steam gaming store, the store sold an estimated five hundred and fifty thousand copies of Warcraft 3. Based on this, it wouldn't be a problem to break ten million in a month, or even thirty million in a year. This steam gaming store was indeed a good choice. With the seventy percent cut, many game developers were ready to work with the steam gaming store.
But what they didn't know was that this was only the beginning.
Burkby was a programmer. He had been busy with work at his company. After a busy day, Burkby's greatest joy was playing games.
"Should I play on the computer, or my Qianji, or my PS2?" Burkby looked at his computer screen in a daze. Even though he had hundreds of different games, he still didn't know what to play. This was terrible.
"Let's see if there's anything interesting on Amazon!" Burkeby sighed and decided to go to the Amazon flea market instead. The flea market was a place that sold second-hand goods. There were always some interesting old things there, and Burkeby himself often found some treasures there.
But what Burkby didn't expect was to see a blood red image on the front page of Amazon. It was an image of an axe wielding orc facing off against a fully armed human soldier.
"What's this advertisement?" Burke was taken aback. As a gamer, it was a pleasant surprise to see such an obvious fantasy game promotional image on Amazon.
Then, Burkeby instinctively clicked on the image and jumped straight to a web page. "The continuation of the legend, created by the God of Games Yapeng Jia himself, the strongest real-time strategy game in history: Warcraft 3: Reign of Chaos is now on sale. Click here to play!"
"What the hell? Warcraft 3 is already on sale? And it's made by Jia Yapeng himself!" Burkby was shocked.
Although Da Qian Games had done a lot of publicity in advance, in the year 2000, no matter how strong the publicity was, it was already a very great achievement to have one-fourth of the audience receive the news.
Burkby didn't do anything other than play games and go to work. He didn't even read the news or magazines, so of course he didn't know about Warcraft 3.
At the same time, Burkby was shocked by the advertisement. What was this about clicking here to play? Didn't he have to buy a disc to install it?
Burkby clicked on the page again and entered a store called Steam Flagship Store. This store sold all kinds of games. These games could all be bought directly through Amazon points. One of them was Warcraft 3: Reign of Chaos.
"Buy!" 6900 points wasn't much for the programmer Burkeby. Moreover, he often shopped on Amazon, so he didn't doubt that he could buy Warcraft 3 – Reign of Chaos with his money.
After choosing to buy directly, two more options popped up. Buy the digital version and buy the physical version.
There was also an explanation below the two options. Buying the digital version would allow you to download the game immediately and play it.
Buying the physical version would require you to wait for delivery for no more than ninety-six hours. You would also need to pay a minimum of three dollars.
"Can I really download the physical version online??" Burkby mumbled, then decisively chose the digital version.
To him, there was no difference between the physical and digital versions, but the digital version would allow him to play the game a few days in advance. That was enough.
After clicking on the purchase button and paying the fee, the page jumped to a new website that Burkby had never seen before.
Burkby took a look and saw that the website was called Steam.
"So it's a steam game!" Burkby suddenly realized. Anyone who played games would know about the steam game store. So this was a product from the steam game store, which made it even more trustworthy.
"Detected that you have jumped to the steam game store through Amazon. Would you like to use an Amazon account to create a steam game store member?" A new notification popped up. Burkby naturally agreed without hesitation.
Thank goodness, I don't need to register a member account. This is too humane!
Burkby exclaimed in his mind. He didn't realize that he had become a member of the steam game store without even realizing it.
The next step was to download the game through the steam game online store, install it, and enter the game … That was all. It was said that for half a month, Burkby's friends and colleagues didn't see Burkby again except during normal work hours.
This kind of thing didn't only happen on Amazon. When Internet users all over the world turned on their computers every day, they habitually opened their browsers and entered the 51 search engine, intending to start a new day of surfing the Internet. They suddenly discovered that there was an additional image under the 51 search engine's search box.
It was an image of a beautiful elf with snow-white skin and pointy ears wearing very little clothing. She was drawing her bow and aiming at a monster with a human body and a snake tail.
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