However, Huanyu Technologies had more than one product.
In addition to 5173, they also had another product, YY.
Even though YY's registration volume and concurrent online volume were not as high as QQ, the YY channel was still a trump card.
For a long time, many advertisers had been thinking about how to accurately place their advertisements.
After all, traditional advertisements were just like television. They were a type of indiscriminate advertising.
Even if the coverage was large, 99% of them would not be your active customers.
If the advertisements could reach the users who needed them the most, then such advertisements would have the most value.
Therefore, from Baidu's bidding ranking, although this service was criticized, it had to be said that the model was excellent.
Through keyword searches, they could identify active users and accurately place advertisements.
The YY channel was also a place where advertisements could be placed accurately.
As long as the user chose the game category before registering the channel, then the channel would definitely be interested in the game.
There was no need for a large-scale advertising bombardment. Just a notice on the game channel would be extremely attractive.
Needless to say, the YY announcement also stated that YY would cooperate with the Legend of Mir to launch the Legend of Mir medal function.
As long as the user tried the Legend of Mir, they would be able to receive a Legend of Mir medal.
This medal was somewhat similar to the QQ icon in the modern QQ.
However, the QQ icon had all the Penguin services on it, but some of the services were gray. If you wanted to light it up, you had to activate these services. This medal was awarded by an event. It was not something that could be obtained just because you wanted to. It could only be obtained during a specific event. Once the event time was exceeded, you would not be able to obtain it.
Needless to say, once such an event was released, it attracted the attention of thousands of YY users.
They liked games to begin with, and there were also YY activities.
Thinking about it, it would be so dignified to wear a medal.
Therefore, countless users were looking forward to the Legend of Mir's closed beta.
However, with so many users paying attention, Huanyu Technologies had a headache.
This was because they realized that some of the activation codes that they had prepared were not enough.
"Boss Chen, should we increase the activation codes?"
"Didn't we get 500,000 activation codes before?"
"500,000 activation codes is too much. Even those guilds can't satisfy it, let alone us leaving some for the casual players. Also, there are a bunch of YY users coming over. 500,000 is really not enough. "
"Then add another 500,000."
"Alright."
Zhang Jianming nodded and prepared to get another 500,000 activation codes.
A few days later, Zhang Jianming ran over again. "Boss Chen, we don't have enough activation codes again."
"What's going on? Didn't it just increase by 500,000 two days ago?"
"Even if it's increased by 500,000, it's not enough."
"There are already one million activation codes, but it's still not enough. Brother Jian, you're not going to sell them, are you?"
Chen Yu glared at Zhang Jianming.
Don't underestimate this activation code. Just one activation code costs a few dozen yuan.
If these activation codes were to be sold, they could be sold for millions or even tens of millions.
"How would I dare?"
Zhang Jianming shook his head. "It's really not enough. Why don't you take a look online? There are still a lot of people who don't have the activation codes. Not only that, but the owners of those internet cafes have also sent word. "
"They said that they won't help us promote the cards."
"Why?"
"Why else? They said that they'll only promote the cards and won't give them the activation codes. How can they continue to promote it?"
"Uh, I didn't think this through."
Chen Yu wiped his sweat.
"You don't know how many activation code applications have been submitted by all the major internet cafes in the country?"
"How many?"
"One million."
"Damn …"
Chen Yu's face was full of tears. "Really?"
"Boss Chen, take a look."
Zhang Jianming turned on the computer. Dozens of data files were all activation code applications.
"It seems that we underestimated them."
At present, there were about 100,000 internet cafes in the country. Even if one internet café applied for 10 activation codes, it would still be one million.
There was nothing wrong with this number.
However, Chen Yu was secretly happy.
He didn't expect this either. He only wanted to open up the channels for the cards.
Now, it seemed that once the channels for the cards were opened, the promotion in the Legend of Mir 2 exploded.
It made sense.
In the past, although some internet cafes did sell cards, they were only sales agents and didn't make much money.
As for why they sold cards even if they didn't make money, it was because they needed to sell cards to attract gamers to go online.
Even if the cards didn't make money, they would still sell them.
But now, not only could they charge a fee for going online, but they could also charge a fee for selling cards.
The more they sold, the more they earned.
In the end, the internet cafes in the country shouted to their customers all day long, "Brothers, the Legend of Mir 2 will be in closed beta next month. If you want to play, hurry up. I'll help you apply for some activation codes."
"What? Is the Legend of Mir 2 fun? Isn't that obvious? I'm going in to play. What do you think?"
"Come, come, come. Let's form an internet café team. We'll enter the game together."
Many of the internet cafes' owners were very young, and many of them liked to play games.
Even if these internet cafes' owners didn't play games, their managers were all gaming experts.
In order to sell cards, these internet cafes went all out and promoted the Legend of Mir 2 to them.
As for the internet cafes' posters?
Don't ask. They had already done it themselves. Huanyu Technologies didn't even need to do anything. They just put up the posters.
"Okay, let's do this."
With so many activation code requests, Chen Yu was also having a headache.
"Forget it. We won't use the activation code this time. We'll just do a closed beta without deleting files."
The activation code was something that Chen Yu came up with to promote Miracle MU.
When the activation code was released, it could be said that Miracle MU became popular.
But now, it was different.
Originally, the activation code was for hype. But now, the Legend of Mir 2 couldn't be more popular.
If they used the activation code again, it would probably affect the game's popularity.
Instead of that, why not just cancel the activation code and do a closed beta without deleting files?
"Closed beta without deleting files. Eh, Boss Chen, this is a good idea."
Although it was the first time that a closed beta without deleting files was created, Zhang Jianming nodded and said, "In the past, all the files had to be deleted. Many people played for a month and all their data was cleared. It's a pity when you think about it. If we do a closed beta without deleting files, everyone's enthusiasm will be even higher. "
"I think so too."
Chen Yu nodded.
Of course, this wasn't the only benefit of a closed beta without deleting files.
Once the closed beta without deleting files was released, the cards that were created in the previous closed beta would probably be even more popular.
The top-up from the closed beta would all be returned to the open beta.
Now that the files weren't deleted, even those who weren't pay-to-win players would start to spend money.
How could they become stronger without spending money?
Now that there was an event where they could return the money they spent, would they spend or not?
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