Da Qian Games had spent a lot of money to hire the best CG designer in the industry to create this CG picture. It took them half a month to create this picture, and then another half a month to refine it. In the end, they had spent a total of 20,000 USD.
In fact, the cover of the picture was pretty good. The areas that should be covered were covered with leather armor to make sure that there were no gaps.
However, there was a hint of smoothness and flesh within the slender body, a hint of pink skin within the fair skin, and just the right amount of shadowy areas that were faintly discernible. There was a ring of flesh that had already appeared due to the leather armor, and lastly, there was a peerless beauty that did not belong to the human world, and only belonged to the Elves.
Any man who saw this picture couldn't take their eyes off it.
However, it turned out that the value of this picture was very high. After the users of 51 Search saw the picture on the homepage, they instantly entered sage mode. They pinched their chins and thought for a long time. They carefully looked around and clicked on the picture very decisively.
They then entered the steam game store. The same prompt asked if they wanted to use 51 Search to log into the steam game store and purchase Warcraft 3: Reign of Chaos.
Although most users rationally chose to give up and leave the website, there were still some who were gamers and knew about the Warcraft series, but didn't buy it immediately for various reasons.
As a result, when they clicked on the website, they felt like countless ants were crawling in their hearts. In the end, they gritted their teeth and rushed to the nearby store to buy the Da Qian series card, or directly went to the steam game store to buy the physical store.
Of course, there were also some who weren't interested in the game or didn't know anything about it. They only bought the game after seeing the picture.
Of course, these people would start cursing after trying the game, saying that the Elves in the game weren't the same as the ones in the picture, and that the Elves in the game weren't as beautiful.
Yes, but many people were still immersed in the game even after they had finished cursing. They were crazily running through the story lines, wanting to see how the world of Azeroth would end.
Don't think that using CG Elves to attract customers was a bad idea. In fact, in 2004, the Korean game A3 became the first game released by Hua Xia with over a million players on the day it was released.
Of course, A3's modeling was even more troublesome than Warcraft 3. Almost everyone cried out that they had been tricked and stopped playing after a day.
But Warcraft 3 was different from A3, it was really fun!
If Amazon and 51 Search's ads didn't attract you, then don't worry. When users logged into QQ, an ad popped up saying: Warcraft 3: Reign of Chaos is now available. Click here to play the trial version for free. The picture was still the same Elven girl.
If you chose to reject the ad, then when you logged into the QQ space, you would see the Warcraft 3 ad at the top of the QQ space.
If you ignored it, you would find that you suddenly received a letter in your QQ mailbox. You would open the mailbox out of curiosity and find that it was an official letter from QQ.
"Dear user xxx, in order to thank you for using QQ and for your continued support of QQ, we will be giving you a set of 'Warcraft 3 Themed Space Costume' and a set of 'Warcraft 3 Death Knight QQ Show' for free. Click here to receive and change!"
Would you have the heart to reject something that was given away for free?
In particular, the price of the QQ show set was not cheap. It required real Q coins to buy it. Therefore, many people were using the original blank QQ show. At most, they would bring a few accessories given by the system.
Now that you're giving away a set of Death Knight for free, who wouldn't be tempted!!
There was also the QQ Space Costume. This was a feature that was still in beta and was only available to a small number of beta players. It was said that it would only be available to all players in the second half of the year.
If you could get a set of QQ Space Costume right now, it would be irresistible.
Hence, after a few days, all QQ users would realize that more than 50% of their friends had become Death Knights. Their QQ Space would also be filled with High Elven Archers who couldn't help but want to shoot at them. There was no way to reject them at all.
In fact, it wasn't just Amazon, 51search, QQ, Hongmeng System, Taobao, 51search, and a few other unspeakable websites. Basically, all the websites owned by Da Qian were filled with advertisements for Warcraft 3, as well as links to the steam gaming online store.
The results were obvious under such a crazy advertising campaign.
On the morning of the sixth day, Hawkins opened the steam gaming website out of habit to check the sales figures of Warcraft 3. His jaw dropped as he found out that the original five million sales had increased to 6.35 million sales on the sixth day. In just one day, the sales had increased by more than a million!!
What was even more terrifying was that the increase on the seventh day was even more terrifying than the sixth. The sales had increased to 8.75 million, second only to the sales on the first day. Everyone in the gaming circle was going crazy.
Yep, they only found out later that the QQ promotion started on the seventh day. Due to some technical issues with the QQ Space Costume, it wasn't sold at the same time as the advertisements on the other websites and was delayed by an entire day.
On the eighth day, the global sales of Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos officially broke ten million. It stabilized at 12.37 million copies before midnight, even surpassing the first day's sales. All the viewers shut their mouths.
The reason for the explosive sales on this day was because the world's largest gaming media, 'Gaming Life', published their first review of Warcraft 3: Reign of Chaos.
The editor of this magazine used all kinds of adjectives to praise the game's fun, fun, and moving story.
What was even scarier was that these flattering words were all f * cking real. 98% of the players who played the game didn't even respond.
This was because they were all too immersed in the game.
And this day would forever be recorded in history. This was the first PC game in the world to break through ten million sales in eight days. It was also the third game in the world to break through ten million sales in eight days. The ones in front were Pokemon Kim Silver and Pokemon Black White.
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