Time passed by quickly. In the blink of an eye, a month had passed.
Naturally, Nine Provinces World couldn't be completed in a month. Bubble Hall, Fantasy Westward Journey, and Nine Provinces Online also couldn't be completed in a month.
However, in this one month's time, a series of casual games in YY games were finally completed.
"Boss Chen, Link Together, Candy Crush, and Candy Crush have been completed."
Li Nan reported to Chen Yu, "Do you want to launch it immediately?"
"Wait a few days."
When Chen Yu said 'wait a few days', he was waiting for a special day.
That day was the open beta of Victorious Return.
After a month of internal testing, Penguin's "Triumph" had achieved good results.
Everyone in Penguin had high hopes for Victorious Return.
However, while Victorious Return was in closed beta, YY's progress was also very fast.
This was especially true for the YY group. After the launch of Shake Shake, Nearby People, Message in Bottles, and other functions, YY's registrations and downloads had undergone a qualitative increase.
At present, YY had already broken through the 4 million mark, only a step away from QQ's 5 million mark.
However, even though it was only a gap of 1 million, it wasn't something that could be caught up in a short period of time.
Although Victorious Return had diverted some of Penguin's attention, seeing the rapid growth of YY's registrations, they followed suit and launched a QQ group. Nearby People, Custom Avatars, Friend Groups, and so on. As for the Shake Shake and Message in Bottles function, YY introduced Shake Shake and Private Messages.
This also eased YY's momentum to a certain extent. For the time being, QQ still maintained its position as the number one player in the market.
… …
Penguin.
"Pony, Victorious Return is going to be in open beta tomorrow. Why are you still researching YY?"
"I can't not research it. Last time we focused all our attention on Victorious Return, our instant messaging service was attacked by YY. You see, YY already has 4 million players online at the same time, while we only have 5 million. "
In terms of online gaming, 1 million was a huge gap.
If an online game could reach 1 million players online at the same time, it would be a terrifying achievement.
But for instant messaging, 1 million wasn't much.
Needless to say, YY already had 4 million players online at the same time, so 1 million wasn't much of a difference.
If Huanyu Technologies wanted to, they could even announce to the media that their market share was on par with Penguin.
"Pony, you're right. Huanyu Technologies has to be guarded against."
Zhang Zhidong also agreed with Ma Huateng.
The last time Penguin released a few small updates, they didn't notice it at first.
He thought that it was just a small function and nothing important.
But looking back, the number of people online at the same time had already skyrocketed.
If he hadn't imitated it in time, he would have been on the same level as QQ.
"Of course, we have to take precautions. But what I'm most worried about is that Huanyu Technologies will still target tabletop games."
"Pony, I'm worried too."
Tabletop games were different from instant messaging. One was a game, while the other was an instant messaging software.
However, since chess and card games were bound to instant messaging, chess and card games had become an inseparable part of instant messaging. The reason why Huanyu Technologies' YY simultaneous online increased so much was largely due to YY tabletop games.
However, in the last tabletop game battle, Ma Huateng was somewhat stunned by Huanyu Technologies.
Until now, he still hadn't figured out what kind of magic YY tabletop games had.
The level was still the same.
Did they copy the playstyle?
But why did everyone like to go to YY?
Not to mention the average person, even the masters of the country went to YY?
Every time he thought of this, Ma Huateng couldn't help but feel helpless.
Fortunately, the domestic Internet was growing too fast. QQ had a constant stream of new users every day.
It was also because of the constant stream of new users that QQ maintained a certain level of popularity.
"But Pony, we can't be too nervous. Although Huanyu Technology is very strong, the chess and card games are more or less the same. All the chess and card games that should be promoted have been released. Can they still release other chess and card games? Even if YY chess and card games are unique, they can't monopolize this market. "
Seeing Ma Huateng so nervous, Zhang Zhidong comforted him.
"I also hope so."
Ma Huateng sighed. He also knew that his actions would affect the company's morale.
Afterwards, he closed YY and cheered himself up. "Okay, let's not worry about him. We've done everything we can. Tomorrow is the day of Victorious Return's open beta. Let's look forward to the numbers. "
The open beta represented a final test of strength.
At the same time, it also represented real money.
Although their performance in the closed beta was okay, who knew how the open beta would turn out.
In fact, they also wanted to learn from Legend of Mir's card consignment system. That way, they would also be able to sell cards during the closed beta. Unfortunately, after taking a look at it, they realized it wouldn't work. It wasn't that they couldn't create such a system, but rather that Victorious Return's economic system wasn't particularly perfect. If they didn't add cards, then it would be fine. But once they did, the entire economic system would collapse.
The next day, everyone arrived at the company early in the morning.
Today was Saturday. Penguin had picked a good time.
At noon, Victorious Return's open beta would begin.
There were no problems with the servers.
There were no problems with communications.
Card Consignment had also cooperated with Huanyu Technologies and had spread to every Internet cafe in the country.
In terms of publicity, QQ provided the greatest support in the form of pop-up windows on their websites.
However, although everything was ready, for some reason, Ma Huateng's expression was a bit strange today.
He didn't know what was wrong with him today.
Today was clearly the day of the open beta. He should be happy, but he kept having a bad feeling in his heart.
Was it because of Huanyu Technologies?
Ma Huateng didn't know. He also forced himself not to think about Huanyu Technologies.
At least not today.
"Counting down."
One minute left.
Penguin's senior executives began the countdown.
Ma Huateng also shouted. He wanted to let the shouts of the countdown wash away the uneasiness in his heart.
3。
2。
1。
Victorious Return's open beta officially arrived at 12 o 'clock.
A crowd of players from the closed beta frantically flooded into Victorious Return.
Penguin's backend servers also recorded every time they were online.
10,000.
30,000.
50,000.
70,000.
100,000.
One o 'clock sharp.
An hour after Victorious Return's open beta, Victorious Return broke the 100,000 mark.
"100,000 simultaneous online."
"Success!"
"We did it!"
Everyone high-fived in celebration.
Seeing this number, Ma Huateng breathed a sigh of relief.
"Something's wrong."
But just as he breathed a sigh of relief, Ma Huateng's heart tightened. He quickly returned to his office.
He opened YY with great familiarity.
Checking the logs, YY hadn't been updated today.
Fortunately.
However, Ma Huateng still didn't feel at ease. He clicked on YY again.
[System: YY is downloading the new game 《Lianlian》. Loading and installing, please wait …]
Seeing the update notification pop up in YY, Ma Huateng's mouse fell from his computer desk.
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