Chapter 1674

Relying on this announcement, Daqian game and Blizzard game gained the limelight. Almost all players are discussing Warcraft 3, and almost all game media are also discussing Warcraft 3, as if there was only Warcraft 3 left in the world.

At the same time, because of the high quality of Warcraft 3 itself and the nearly free refund policy, players are doing well at Amway. More and more friends around them have also joined Azeroth's world.

As a result, on the 28th day after the launch of Warcraft, the global sales of Warcraft 3 exceeded 30 million copies in less than a month.

This time not only broke the sales record of PC, but also all the game records in the world. Even the 48 day sales record of 30 million copies of Pokemon gold and silver was broken. Warcraft 3 ascended the throne of the game king with unimaginable absolute hegemony.

Of course, if boss Jia could come up with the same sales policy as Warcraft 3 when the Pokemon gold and silver was released, Warcraft 3 would probably not win the Pokemon.

The promise given by Daqian also said to do it. On the second day after the sale of Warcraft 3, the refund has been continuously returned to the steam account of each player, which has become 6900 steam points again.

Oh, no, it's steam droplets

At this time, the phone of the whole Daqian game was also exploded by the phone of all game operators, and everyone was asking about the refund.

These smart game makers found that although Daqian will refund all Warcraft 3 in full, the problem is that the refund is not US dollars, but steam points.

This thing can't be changed back into dollars, so these steam points can only be used to buy games.

Obviously, these points can no longer be used to buy Warcraft 3, so these points will flow directly into other games in the steam game store.

Based on the principle of money without bastards, I believe that more than half of these steam points will be re consumed by players in a month, which means that at least 10 million of the 20 million sales will be allocated to other games.

Moreover, not all games dare to sell the top game price of $69. The price of most games still hovers in the range of less than $30. If a large number of $10 games are grabbed, the sales volume of 100 million copies will be divided into at least 30 million copies. Even if it is evenly distributed to more than 3000 games, it is also the sales volume of 10000 copies of each game, Enough for these game developers to eat, drink spicy and enjoy a better life.

Of course, this idea is beautiful. The key is to see what the policy of Daqian is and whether the returned steam points are calculated according to the normal steam points.

Otherwise, if Daqian shamelessly announces that all these steam points are active points and won't give money, he will scold his mother instead.

Therefore, whether you join the steam game or not, the game companies are frantically asking about the rules of the whole activity of the steam game.

The steam game was obviously well prepared, and soon a detailed activity description was sent directly to the work mailboxes of all game players.

Game makers can't wait to read the instructions, and then show a hesitant expression.

According to the statement in this note, the special steam points for this refund, also known as steam drops, will be calculated completely according to the steam points when calculating the income with the game developer.

That is, it will give all the money as sales money to the game developers. This commitment makes all developers overjoyed. Daqian is indeed the most forthright company in the world.

But soon, they found that not all game developers can enjoy this service. Only companies that have signed an exclusive sales contract with Daqian can enjoy the benefits of this contract.

As the name suggests, this exclusive sales contract is Daqian's request to obtain the exclusive online sales right of the game. In the future, online sales can only be sold through the steam game online platform. Even if the developer is not qualified to sell, otherwise it will be a breach of contract and huge losses will be compensated.

Moreover, the term of this contract is 20 years, which is the highest contract term in the industry. If the contract is terminated halfway, it also needs to pay huge compensation.

Fortunately, this contract is signed according to a single game, not according to the scale of the whole company, but it's not bad. Games without a contract naturally have no expression of exclusive sales, and then they can't use steam and water drops to buy, which can't bring huge profits to the game company.

At the same time, there is a hidden condition in the contract, that is, for exclusive games, Hongmeng version must be developed. At the same time, the content of Hongmeng version must be more than that of Windows version. Even if there is one more mount and one more map, there must be more, otherwise it will be a breach of contract.

"Daqian has finally learned bad!" many game companies sighed helplessly when they saw the request sent by Daqian.

Indeed, how pure, honest and kind the previous Steam games were. They didn't impose any restrictions on their game companies and allowed them to join Microsoft's box game company. It was a typical silly white sweet.

Now the steam game has finally broken down, and the game company is required to sign an exclusive contract, so as to block all competitors.

Even directly forced game developers to develop Hongmeng version, which is invincible

And this time Daqian is still standing on the commanding height of morality, because the normal steam points do not limit the exclusive game, and the steam water drop is that Daqian abandoned the profits obtained by his Warcraft 3, and then subsidized these profits to all game manufacturers.

To put it bluntly, it means spending money to buy your exclusive. If you want money, sign the exclusive.

No money, then everything will be normal, and I won't make it difficult for you.

In a word, the practice of Daqian is similar to that of box game, but it makes all game developers very comfortable. No one has too much aversion to Daqian... Well, except box game and Microsoft.

So, will these game manufacturers be willing to sign this contract?

Almost all game manufacturers agreed. The reason is very simple, because the contract requires the exclusive agency right of online game sales channels, and the offline channels are not constrained. In other words, game companies can still sell their games in box game stores.

Now there are no competitors in online channels and Steam games. Even if you refuse to sign an exclusive contract, you can't find a second online store that can be sold. Why hesitate to sign this contract.

On August 3, 2000, the steam game store announced that it had signed an exclusive sales contract with 2893 game companies around the world to exclusively represent the sales of a total of 5897 games.

After the announcement of this news, Microsoft's market value, which had been hard to stabilize at about $280 billion for more than a week, began to fall sharply again, ushered in three fuses in one day and fell below $200 billion in three days.