Chapter 166 OOYYDS
The entire Internet is full of expectations for Jiangnan Group's Warcraft 3, but OO has not announced the sales price or sales method of Warcraft 3. This has made countless people anxiously wait.
Some of them are players, but they are not the most anxious. The most anxious are the pirates. They have smelled the wealth code that can make a lot of money, and they are eager to buy a copy of the game, but Huang He has been slow to do so.
If you don't announce where you can buy it, how can you prevent them from being impatient.
These pirates even used their own channels to find some bookstores, audio and video product stores that specialize in selling games, or simply large chain sales groups, etc. As a result, they learned from their internal channels that they had not received any information about Warcraft at all.
3. News for cloth goods.
This is a very incredible thing. Generally speaking, these sales stores will start preparing for fabrics about a week in advance, but they did not receive any news until two days before the sale. Could it be that this time OO
Do you plan to do all online sales?
If this is the case, then the pirates will be even happier, because they save the cost of purchasing physical games and only need to download them quietly online.
Waiting until May 13th, Volkswagen Software published their interview with Blizzard President Alan Adham in the latest issue of their magazine. At the same time, the specific sales plan for Warcraft 3 was also announced at the same time.
On May 14th, OO and OO Games also announced the specific sales information of Warcraft 3 on their homepage. At the same time, the walls of major Internet cafes were also covered with brand-new posters.
When the pirates saw this information for the first time, they were instantly stunned.
The original text is roughly as follows:
[In order to thank all players for their support of OO Games, OO Games also knows that the majority of players love and support genuine games and are eager to play the genuine Warcraft 3 Reign of Chaos.
In order to allow all players to enjoy the fun of Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos, OO Games has made a difficult decision after careful consideration, that is, Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos will be open to all players for free.
All players can play this world's most advanced stand-alone game through the OO game platform.
The OO game platform will open the pre-download of Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos at 12 noon on May 14th. All players can download the OO game platform for free on the Internet, and then download Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos through the OO game platform.
Zhizhi local game client.
However, the game cannot be played before it is officially released globally at 10 pm on May 15. After the time is up, players can log in to the game through their personal OO account and play Warcraft 3 Reign of Chaos for free.
We are very excited to tell you that all single-player plots and single-player modes of Warcraft 3: Reign of Chaos can be played without restrictions when the OO game platform is turned on and logged in.
At the same time, if you are interested in multiplayer, you can also play through the OO game platform. Warcraft 3 Reign of Chaos is deeply bound to the OO game platform, and there are no room restrictions anymore. You can invite at will.
You can play against your OO friends, or you can randomly match your opponents by entering the OO battle lobby.
Later, we will open the map editor and creative map workshop simultaneously. You can upload the map you edited and then play the game freely.
Believe us, you can find rich and unimaginably great fun in Warcraft 3: Reign of Chaos.
Thank you to all players for supporting Jiangnan Group and OO Games. See you on May 15th.
OO Game Warcraft 3 project team.]
"This...this...is this a stand-alone game? How can you not charge money?" When the pirates saw the news, they became furious.
The game is completely free, you can just download it directly from the Internet, but pirated game dealers are still doing a bad business. They also need to cost to copy a game, even if it is a CD, it costs 50 cents.
Then they sell them on the market for 5 yuan each.
As a result, now the damn OO has actually announced that it is free. This is a pirated game. There is a convenient genuine version that can be downloaded. Only those with funny brains will buy pirated games!
"This 00 is so shameless, it actually stole money from us!" the pirate dealer cursed. They have always been the only ones to steal money from genuine game agents. When have they been robbed of money by others?
"That's it, has this OO forgotten how he started his business? Without us, how could he be as prosperous as he is now!" Many pirates said angrily. They all helped OO back then and turned the client over.
Put it directly into the system CD, or into various pirated games, and package and install it with one click.
The result is good now. They have turned against each other and no money has been earned for them. This is like raising a white-eyed wolf!
Well, if these words were known to our boss Huang, I'm afraid he would be so angry that he would give them a kick, as if he didn't pay them back then.
Anyway, dozens of pirated game dealers across the country who were eager to get started all sighed and announced at the same time that they had given up their plans to pirate Warcraft 3.
It's okay to just give up, but the most unlucky thing is that some pirates deliberately bought new machines and a large number of CDs, and even hired a cracking team, intending to take advantage of this opportunity to make a lot of money, but ended up losing everything.
, just quit.
All in all, for a long time afterwards, the piracy circle continued to criticize OO.
Of course, these people can only curse and don't even dare to stand up. As long as they stand up, they will be the same.
Compared to pirates, players are in a completely different situation.
When all the players saw this news, they were shocked and then overjoyed.
In just an instant, all the posts about Yin Yang and Weird OO games on various forums were upvoted.
But don’t get me wrong, these posts are not upvoted to troll, but to be trolled.
"The host SB, the appraisal is completed!"
"Is the poster's face swollen? If not, I'll kick him again!"
"Count me in!"
"+1"
"People like the poster are a typical example of unilaterally judging a gentleman's heart with a villain's heart. OO proves with facts who is the real king!"
"I hereby declare unilaterally that from today on, OO Games is my father. If anyone dares to scold my father, I will fuck him."
"Those upstairs, count me in!"
"Come on, I'll watch the show!"
"I had already calculated that the price set by OO would not be too high. After all, companies like them hope to focus on volume rather than price. But I never expected that OO would be completely free. This is simply unbelievable.
OO is the most arrogant of all the game companies I have ever seen, and it deserves to be a company like this that gets rich!"
"Menggu Iron Cavalry is here for a visit! I have told you a long time ago that a company with our big Mengmeng in it, how could it be a company that rips off money? Our Mengmeng is so cute and beautiful, how could he rip off your money?
Woolen cloth?"
"Who is Mengmeng upstairs? I've never heard of it!"
"Mengmeng is Leng Zhimeng, the CEO of OO Games. I heard he is a 19-year-old high school student!"
"19-year-old high school CEO? Real or fake? Do you have any pictures?"
"[Picture.jpg]"
"I wonder, is she so beautiful and cute? Is such a beautiful girl really the CEO of the company? Is she being used to deceive people?"
"Look at the picture. Do you see the Focus Interview logo? This picture was taken directly from the Focus Interview program. Do you think it is real or fake?"
"Ah, even if I die, I will also join the Menggu Cavalry. Where is the organization?"
"We are in the Menggu Iron Cavalry section of the OO forum. You can join us by registering!"
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This is almost the actual speech of players on the Internet, and it can almost reflect their mood.
If there was a website like Douban that specifically rated companies at this time, OO's original score would have been around 6.9, but now, it has soared to 8.5, and is about to reach the epic 9.
The company moves forward.
Of course, there are other voices on the Internet, such as questioning
OO does this, how does it make money?
They heard that OO spent a full US$2 million to win the agency rights for Warcraft 3 in China, and ended up giving it all to players for free. So the US$2 million was a pure loss?
Not only that, OO actually bound Warcraft 3 to the OO game platform, which is even more incredible.
After the free policy was announced, everyone knew that Warcraft 3 would definitely have an influx of unimaginable huge players. These players would bring a lot of traffic, which would almost double the burden on OO's network and servers. This would
At least tens of millions of servers are needed to meet demand.
In addition, I am afraid that broadband costs will increase by several million every month.
This sentence means that once the free policy was announced, not only did OO not make a penny, but it had to spend tens of millions in server fees at one time and several million in bandwidth fees every month. What on earth is OO doing?
?
This leaves many entrepreneurs puzzled.
"It's me that Huang He is trying to figure out!" Among so many people who were puzzled, our little brother Ma was probably the first one to understand.
Brother Xiao Ma understands very clearly that Huang He's target is not others, but himself, his own QQ, and his own QQ Lianzhong game.
Huang He, this bitch, covets his own body.
The reason why Huang He made Warcraft 3: Reign of Chaos completely free, but at the same time bound it to the OO game platform, was to further take away the users of QQ Lianzhong Games.
Then further, QQ users will also be taken away, and Tenda will have to repeat the tragic situation of OO Bottle and OO Voice a few months ago.
I am going to be cut off again and a large chunk of my users will be gone.
Chapter completed!