Back To 1995: Chapter 380 Have fun fighting with people
Chapter 380 Fighting with others is a lot of fun
IGN is not a big website yet. It has only been established for less than five months and has less than 150,000 registered users. Most of the people who attract IGN are local game users in America, and the daily active users are only two or three at most. That's all, it can't be compared with websites with millions of daily active users like Yahoo and ICQ.
The IGN forums that Cameron usually sees, there are at most hundreds of thousands of posts every day, but now the IGN forums in front of him make Cameron's eyes widen. He only sees that the original is slow and refreshes every few minutes. The IGN forum with a new post is like a splash screen at the moment, new posts are pouring out, and the hottest post has more than 18,000 discussions...
And these posts are almost all "Diablo" posts. Cameron never thought that there would be so many diving forum users. Even because of too many posts, Cameron's screen even started to freeze. After refreshing several times, it finally flashed back. Looking at the collapsed IGN forum page, Cameron couldn't help but look sluggish. There will be a day when the IGN forum will have too many users and the server will crash? !
Not to mention that Cameron didn't expect it, I'm afraid even IGN website, I didn't expect that IGN has attracted more than 200,000 new users because of the popularity of "Diablo" in just one day, just because IGN The editor published a score of 9.1 for the Diablo game. After being reposted by Yahoo News, the forum immediately exploded!
The slogan of the IGN forum is to be the best game media in the world. Many media professionals and professionals in the game industry have been invited to analyze the game’s playability, sound effects, gameplay, and graphics. This time, IGN’s The editor gave "Diablo" a high score of 9.5, which is the game with the highest score given by IGN since its establishment!
"The subversive operation and subversive gameplay have redefined ARPG games. The game is no longer a stand-alone game, but can also be a networked game. There will be countless new games in the future, and "Diablo" is at that peak above!"
The editors of IGN gave Diablo a high score and an evaluation that is hard to be surpassed and will be imitated by many games.
Xueleshan did not pay IGN. In fact, such a small forum "hasn't" entered Xueleshan's eyes. The big websites such as Lycos, Yahoo, AOL, and Netscape are the places for Xueleshan's public relations news.
Moreover, IGN has just been established, and it is time to build word-of-mouth. It is impossible to tell nonsense with your eyes open just because of a meal. This evaluation, with a high score of 9.5, has already shown that IGN is optimistic about "Diablo" .
After finally entering the IGN forum again, Cameron looked at the webpage on the computer screen, all of which were users of the forum, and there were various discussions about the evaluation of "Diablo".
"This is the best game I have played in the past two years. Except for the map and some settings, this is the game that makes me scream out of God!"
"I broke out the dark gold equipment!"
"How to allocate attribute points?!"
Looking at the dazzling posts on the forum, there are also various ways to play. I played all day, patronizing the tasks to spawn monsters, and I didn’t even notice that there are so many ways to play. Just assigning one attribute point, every time the game character improves Each level can get five attribute points. The attribute points can be allocated to the four major attributes of strength, magic, agility, and vitality. Different attributes can create different game characters and allow game characters to grow according to different paths.
This set of attribute point allocation system, coupled with the "equipment random combination" in the game, will also produce different results, almost adding countless possibilities, so many game users are completely addicted to it, and it feels worse than wild upgrades. Much more exciting.
In addition to these, Cameron also saw other discussions, among which the most heated discussion was downloading the Xueleshan online platform, where they could "team up" to brush advanced dungeons.
Seeing this, Cameron knew what the official "surprise" meant, and many players were inviting people to form teams on the IGN forum, and even the prototype of the game "guild" appeared, and game after game appeared. team mix.
After playing solo for so many years, it’s not uncommon for a long time, but forming a team on the Xueleshan platform and fighting against real people together has made many players feel excited. You can't play tricks, but you can PK with real players, that is "too much fun to fight with people!"
Watching the word "PK" floating on the screen from time to time, and some players specialize in popularizing PK results, every time a player character is killed in the game, a prop "ear" that records the player's ID and occupation can be collected, Many players who are keen on PK are proud of collecting "ears" and regard them as spoils of war!
Looking at the discussion posts full of forums, strategies, online PK, etc., Cameron, who was already hungry, restarted "Diablo" by mistake, and downloaded a Xueleshan online platform by the way, ready to wait I will form a team to PK, collect some loot, and show off on the forum...
Not only IGN, but another company, which was established almost at the same time as IGN, and the news website CENT established by Hamisi Mina, launched GameStop, which also gave "Diablo" a high score of 9.7. One of the good games!
Reviews on "Diablo" are constantly coming out. There are professional game review forums such as IGN and GameStop, as well as some professional news media. Generally speaking, word-of-mouth is quite good.
Until the evening, Nielsen was the first to announce that the offline sales of "Diablo" on the first day were 83,000 sets!
This achievement is quite good in the game industry. After all, "Diablo" is not a sequel to a well-known IP, nor is it a game like Mario or The Legend of Zelda, which can sell millions of copies when it is released. .
"ICQ's game department, "Diablo" released by Sierra Mountain, sold more than 80,000 sets offline on that day, with a daily revenue of more than 4.8 million, setting the best record in the American game industry in recent years!"
The Wall Street Journal also made a report on "Diablo", thinking that "Diablo" performed well on the first day, but... that's all. You must know that the release date of a game is the same as that of a movie. The first week was hot, and then sales began to fall off a cliff.
"Diablo" sells 80,000 sets in a single day. No one can guarantee whether it can maintain this kind of sales tomorrow. If the sales volume does not exceed 500,000 sets in the first month, then Xueleshan is actually You may lose money, after all, the cost of development and publicity and promotion is close to more than 30 million dollars!
There are also media, who directly punctured it, thinking that "Diablo" may be an epic defeat, and Sierra may become the second Atari.
"According to sources, Xueleshan Games has reserved more than 4 million sets of production capacity for "Diablo", and Xueleshan's single-day sales volume is only 80,000 sets. To sell these 4 million sets, snow Leshan has maintained a sales volume of 80,000 sets for fifty days..."
CNN TV station news media secretly mocked Xueleshan, thinking that Xueleshan will be compensated this time. After all, it has maintained a daily sales volume of more than 80,000 in 50 days. This kind of thing has never happened before. once.
The **** decides the head. Song Yang’s ICNC News TV station is under preparation. The direct target is CNN. The two sides will be direct competitors in the future. It’s no wonder that CNN can say good things about Xueleshan. Yang here.
"Offline game distributors and game stores have basically completed the statistics. In America, nearly 60,000 sets were sold, and nearly 20,000 sets were sold overseas!"
Ken Williams reported that according to the statistical data, the executives of Sierra Mountain and the people at Blizzard did not show any joy on their faces. This kind of sales looks good, and it is likely to sell a million sets , became another representative work of Blizzard, but now I really can’t laugh, after all, there are still millions of sets lying in the warehouse that have not been sold...
“The actual sales are much higher than the media reports. Amazon has sold more than 7,000 sets, eBay has sold 3,000 sets, and Yeadex in Eastern Europe has sold nearly 800 sets!”
Compared to the worried executives of Xueleshan, Song Yang looked normal, waved his hand and asked, "Where is the Xueleshan online platform?"
Mentioning this, Ken Williams was a little distracted, "Today, the Xueleshan online platform has more than 110,000 download users, and it also sold 3,000 sets, but the real top-up payment of US dollars is less than 1,200 sets. , and the rest are exchanged..."
Xue Leshan online seems to be in full swing, and many activation codes have been sold, but most of them are for activities, and they are exchanged for game coins by pulling people's heads.
"Continue tomorrow, don't stop the publicity, ICQ will provide another promotional fund for Xueleshan, and continue to carry out publicity and promotion!" Song Yang said to the crowd in front of him.
Hearing that Song Yang wanted to spend money on promotion, Ken Williams couldn't help but stop talking. If it was a film promotion company at this time, it would have already quietly stopped losses. There is no reason to continue to spend money , but Song Yang seemed to be going all the way.
Reports on the first-day sales of "Diablo" continue to appear, but the word-of-mouth ratings and sales of the game seem to be somewhat polarized, some "applause but not popular", and some media even directly put the title of "niche game". The number of media who watched the jokes between Xueleshan and ICQ began to increase. Even CNN's website directly published the famous scene of Napoleon Waterloo in the report the next day, implying that "Diablo" means Song Yang Waterloo. obvious…
Nielsen data released on the second day showed that the total sales volume of "Diablo" was 180,000 sets.
On the third day, Diablo’s total sales exceeded 300,000 sets.
On the fourth day, Diablo’s global sales exceeded 510,000 sets, and overseas sales began to be equal to those in America...
(end of this chapter)