Tokyo Video Game Tycoon: Chapter 608 How attractive is free?

Chapter 608 How attractive is free?

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 On the Facebook video website on the Internet, some strange-looking games have appeared.

At first glance, these games may seem familiar, as if you have seen them somewhere, but if you take a closer look, the models and maps of the games are new to you.

 People are curious about what kind of new game this is and why they haven’t seen it before.

 Such an unconventional game should be well publicized.

 But there is no news about this game.

With such curiosity, people click to enter the video pages of these strange games.

Then, they learned through the introduction that these games were modified modules derived from Counter-Strike.

 But, what is this module?

 In the video, the person who made the video explains it.

“Dear viewers, you are very welcome to watch my channel. I am ***. If you are interested, you only need to move your hands and click on the careful and follow options. In this case, it will make sense for me to make this video.”

　　It started with a very brief self-introduction, and then he began to formally introduce the module he was playing.

"Everyone paying attention, you should have seen the general appearance of this game. This is a new mode just launched on the Battle.net platform. It is a mode called Creative Workshop, where you can freely download interesting modules created by other players. Then the original game can be transformed, and eventually it can even be transformed into something completely unrelated to the original game. First, let’s take a look at a module that is quite popular in the creative workshop: Farm Defense Zombie Edition.”

"This module was produced by an independent game production team. The game they originally produced was called Farm Defense. In my opinion, it is also a very interesting game. In this zombie version of Farm Defense, the original game of Farm Defense is The gameplay is preserved and the tension of the game is increased. This is really a rare mod.”

“In addition to the Farm Defense Zombie version, there are also officially launched Counter-Strike biochemical modules, hide-and-seek modules, etc., which are really interesting.”

Watching this video, one can’t help but want to know the next gameplay content.

  “It’s a bit interesting.”

According to the introduction in the video, the new features of this module seem to be completely free, which means that as long as you have purchased open source games such as Counter-Strike, you can freely access any gameplay in the creative workshop. These are completely Free.

This is not equivalent to playing several games for the price of one game.

 And it seems that you can create your own gameplay at will.

 Soon people clicked on the Battle.net platform.

The creative workshop is now arranged in the most conspicuous position. In this new creative workshop, there is a very complete recommendation system. If the rating is high enough and the popularity is high enough, the module can be placed in a more conspicuous position. The location makes it fun to play.

 This time, in order to promote the new creative workshop function, the Battle.net platform simply held a seven-day free trial event for several open source games.

  In other words, if you are a slightly more aggressive player, you can play almost the same contents of the trial game in a week.

 Stardew Valley, Counter-Strike, StarCraft…

 Multiple open source games quickly attracted a large number of players in just one day.

According to normal estimates, the number of PC players should now hover around 10 million.

 This is really incomparable to the scale of hundreds of millions of players on home consoles.

 The Battle.net platform monopolizes 70 to 80% of the current PC market, so naturally there are even fewer people willing to seize this small market.

 As a result, more and more players have only one option after becoming PC players, which is to first download a Battle.net platform and play the games on it.

 Three days later, the number of online players of these open source limited-time free games exceeded the previous online record for game sales.

 The number of people online at the same time in Counter-Strike has reached a new high, reaching 730,000.

This is the number of people online at the same time, and this data is still rising rapidly. The same is true for other StarCraft and Stardew Valley. The number of people online at the same time has increased rapidly, and the data has reached 3.3 million.

In order to attract more traffic at the beginning, the Battle.net platform disclosed a lot of data to the public. This is slightly different from the rules of Yuxing Electronic Entertainment, but it may also be because Yuxing Electronic Entertainment has no rivals in the PC market. On the contrary, it can bring greater benefits to yourself.

Because if the number of players announced is larger, developers who are interested in developing independent games will be more willing to launch their games on the Battle.net platform without considering other platforms.

  After all, the player base is here.

 For a small platform with only 10,000 to 20,000 players, your sales volume will only be 10,000 to 20,000.

 But a game platform with a confirmed player base of millions, even if the production level is slightly inferior, will definitely have higher exposure than a small platform.

 3.3 million, this is the number of players online at the same time, which surprises many game manufacturers.

 Are there so many PC players?

  I didn’t notice the PC platform at all before.

Generally speaking, the number of players online at the same time is more than ten times more than the number of registered players, but this time is a bit of a special case, because several popular games are free for a limited time. Out of the desire to have free sex, players are willing to spontaneously Play games more actively during this time.

This data also surprised the senior management of Surui Electronics.

Hayakawa Ueto also suddenly realized that he seemed to be looking down on PC players.

 They also have a high love for games.

 However, this is the attraction that comes with free.

 But free will not bring any benefits.

Especially the thunderstorm of YOO the previous year, which caused most capital to realize the existence of the Internet bubble.

 They now have great distrust of the so-called number of people online at the same time, or the number of registered users on the Internet.

The same goes for Hayakawa Ueto. He also believes that this is probably just a flash in the pan and cannot prove anything at all.

 But the Battle.net platform is having a lot of fun playing on its own.

 With so many people online at the same time, the pressure on the server is also great, and the demand for servers is also increasing rapidly.

For this reason, Youxing Electronic Entertainment had to temporarily deploy some of GS1's network servers.

At the same time, Zhuyouxing immediately ordered people to expand the server capacity. Zhuyouxing is very concerned about network services.

 Players are very sensitive. A slight network delay in a game like Counter-Strike will greatly affect the game experience, not to mention the crash due to network service fluctuations, which will greatly damage players' trust in the Battle.net platform.

 (End of this chapter)