August 31st, the highly anticipated Xbox games online store was launched. On this day, Microsoft's share prices rose slightly.
The first day's results were not bad. As all of Nintendo's games are sold in the Xbox games online store, the number of downloads on the first day is quite high. Including the store's opening ceremony, the total number of games sold on the first day is about 100,000.
Although this number is nothing compared to the Steam games online store, everyone in Microsoft can comfort themselves. The beginning is always the hardest, and the rest will be smoother.
But in the afternoon, a serious incident occurred. A bug appeared in the program. If a gamer uses Microsoft's credit card to recharge, after entering the account password and clicking on the recharge button, the gamer closes the webpage and reopens the Personal Center, the gamer will realize the recharge was successful. However, the account password can still be used.
It was easy to imagine what happened after that. This loophole was secretly sold for tens of millions of box points. Not only that, the person who discovered the loophole even showed off in the QQ group. As a result, the entire QQ group was selling the loophole.
The QQ group's ability to spread the news is amazing. Within an hour, almost all the QQ group members know about this bug.
The Xbox games online store finally saw its dream come true. More than a million users entered the store. This news made everyone in Microsoft excited. This is a great opportunity!
More importantly, Microsoft prohibits the use of QQ, and all employees are not allowed to log into the QQ group. That's why no one in Microsoft knows about this bug.
It was said that millions of users had used this loophole to swipe their top-up cards … Some people even shared their account numbers and passwords. Anyway, as long as they did the right thing and closed the website in time, an account and password could be used indefinitely.
Feng Yu can only imagine how Microsoft will feel when they know about this.
In the end, the ones who saved the Xbox games online store are not Microsoft. It's the gamers. As more and more gamers heard about this bug, more than 1.2 million gamers entered the store. The Xbox games online store's server crashed, and the entire website crashed.
It wasn't until the staff of the box game repaired the website that they discovered the abnormal data in the background. They hurriedly reported it to the Deputy Secretary. Then, the Deputy Secretary, who was sleeping, almost wanted to jump off the 12th floor.
This was a typical data feedback loophole. Logically speaking, such a low-level loophole should not have appeared, but because they were in a rush, a large amount of program inspection work was omitted, so it was understandable that the loophole was not discovered.
After all, even in 2020, even if it was Tencent, there would still be countless loopholes. They might even be played by Lao Gan Ma. This kind of thing was not a fantasy.
Taking a step back, in fact, under normal circumstances, it was impossible to wait until the website was flooded with users before discovering the loophole. As long as one stared at the backend data, one would understand that there was a problem with the trillions of recharges.
However, the entire team was too tired. After seeing that the website was running smoothly, even the assistant secretary secretly went to sleep, let alone the frontline staff.
Among the three people in charge of monitoring the data, two of them were sleeping, and the other was forcing himself not to sleep. The result was obvious.
In the end, when the total number of recharges reached 15 trillion USD, all the staff in the box game online store went silent.
They didn't want this to be true at all, but it was true.
"Suspend the website, then clean up the data …" The Deputy Secretary-General helplessly gave the order. Thus, the online store, which had only been online for 12 hours, was shut down for maintenance. All the staff had to work overtime, carefully reviewing the millions of accounts, and erasing the illegal recharges of the Box points.
Since they didn't have any professional tools, and some of the players were honestly topping up their accounts, they had to be screened. Hence, the millions of accounts had to be manually reviewed.
Even when the Deputy Secretary asked everyone in Microsoft to work overtime to verify the data, it still took 15 hours for the website to be reopened.
On the day the website was launched, a malicious BUG caused the website to be shut down. Deleting the recharges caused Microsoft's share prices to plummet, and it fell below 160 billion USD.
That's why the other programmers can take a nap after deleting their accounts. But the Deputy Secretary had to go to the board of directors to get scolded.
Fortunately, the deputy secretary was a part-time assistant. After scolding them for a while, he returned to the project team with a smile on his face and announced that their next important milestone was coming. That was, Nintendo's Super Sunshine Mario, which was going to be sold in the box game online store.
As early as three months ago, the game had started all kinds of promotions. Moreover, the game had many selling points. First of all, it was the official sequel of Mario. It was the official sequel after five years. Just this title alone was enough to attract a lot of attention.
Secondly, this is the first PC version of Mario's game, and it is another blockbuster.
In the past, Nintendo is a console fanatic and will never release a PC version of their games. This is because of Nintendo's pride, and they are afraid of PC piracy affecting their console sales.
But this time, Nintendo released a PC version of their game for the first time, and it is the official sequel of Mario. This news is enough for countless Nintendo players to cheer.
Nintendo had no choice but to do this. First, this is because of Microsoft's strong demand. This is because the box game online store's main market is PC, and Windows is also a PC operating system. When they started working together, Microsoft asked Nintendo to make a few PC games, or else the cooperation would be meaningless.
Secondly, Nintendo had no choice but to agree. This is because the N64's sales are dropping by the day, and if they insist on releasing a console version of Mario, the official sequel of Mario Bros might not even sell 5 million copies.
Nintendo will never release a PS console version of their games, so they must release a PC version, or else Nintendo's reputation will collapse.
So, three months ago, Microsoft and Nintendo agreed to release the PC version of Super Sunshine Mario.
Now that he had arrived at the Lunchbox online store, the Deputy Secretary immediately felt that he was quite lucky.
The reason why the steam game online store is so popular is because Daqian did everything they could to promote Warcraft 3.
Microsoft can also use the popularity of "Super Sunny Mario" to do the same thing. This will increase the sales of the box games online store.
"This is our best chance!" said the Deputy Secretary.
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