Chapter 1258

How popular is world of Warcraft?

Now it's Beijing time. At 18:00 p.m. on April 28, 2004, the world of Warcraft's highest online rate in the world has exceeded 60 million people. Although "crazy farm" was popular before, with the highest online rate of 65.7 million people, it is only a leisure online game after all. In the view of most game media and many game companies, "crazy farm" brings hundreds of millions of dollars of net profit for "second world" every year, but it is not really a large-scale online game.

Its so-called highest on-line rate is naturally not enough. This is just like the online rate of "ICQ" and "QQ". Is it meaningful? No, As a result, most game companies do not recognize the 65.7 million person time record of crazy farm as the world's highest online number. Of course, it is also followed by the 40 million online player record of virtual life, which is also from the second world. This is a record that all game companies can't ignore, and it's also a painful record.

40 million players online, how much money do you have to make every day! Although "virtual life" is a completely free online game, its placement of advertisements in the game has brought more rewards to "the second world"—— When you think of the millions of dollars that virtual life players make for Lin Feng every day, many game companies are very upset. Even EA, the recognized giant in the game industry, or Nintendo, another absolute king in the home game industry, are envious of the wealth created by the "second world" in the online game industry.

You know, before the emergence of Lin Feng, the game industry always used to make money by investing first, then developing for a long time, and finally going public, relying on the absolute quality of the game to attract players to buy the game to make money. But now, Lin Feng has greatly simplified this money making mode. He only needs to develop a good game, and then after a short period of development, he can attract a large number of players by various publicity means or incentive activities after going on the market, so that players can unconsciously pay for a game that is not so good for a long time.

Compared with the two game modes, there is no doubt that Lin Feng's game mode is simpler, easier to make money faster and longer, and it is very easy to generate game added value. You say, in the face of this situation, how can companies like EA and Nintendo not be envious.

But now, "world of Warcraft" has easily broken this record again. A game that has been on the market for only nine hours, the highest number of online people in the world has exceeded 60 million. You say, how amazing and terrifying it is. When you think about the future profits of world of Warcraft, companies like EA or Nintendo will feel the pain, very painful.

Of course, whether it will make money in the future remains to be tested, and Nintendo and other companies will not struggle with it now, but in a game, the auction of tickets to a birthday party for $50000 is quite painful. Not long before Lin Feng returned to the company, a "ticket" on "Dingdang" just sold for $50000, which is undoubtedly the most expensive item sold in all online games. This item is disposable and consumable. But it sold for $50000, which is not painful for many game companies.

Is the ticket for Lin Feng's birthday party just before that“ When Peter Moore, President of EA, heard the news, he had a bitter smile on his face. Fifty thousand dollars, which is enough to buy all the games that EA has developed since its inception, but now it only buys a consumable prop of a newly launched online game called "second world". In the face of this news, Peter Moore does not know whether he is out or the world is too crazy.

Of course, not only Peter Mo, Moore and others were surprised, but also Lin Feng, the initiator. It's an exaggeration to buy a ticket to the virtual world in the game for $50000. How many rich people in the world are so free!

In fact, Lin Feng doesn't see how much appeal he has in the world. Besides, many friends of Lin Feng will attend the birthday party together. Although it's virtual, it's not expensive. After all, it's not much to spend 50000 dollars with the world's richest man and many other rich people. Especially for those rich people, it's really cost-effective to spend 50000 dollars to buy a birthday party with the world's richest man.

"Boss, you are so charming!" Wu Zhaopu sighed.

Lin Feng also sighed. If I had known that, it would be better for the "second world" to officially sell this birthday ticket. If you think about it, there are 11000 seats, 50000 dollars for each. Honey, that's 550 million dollars. The development cost of world of Warcraft plus the promotion cost is only 200 million US dollars, and now Lin Feng's admission ticket to a birthday party can be sold to 500 million US dollars, which is too profitable. Of course, it's just YY. Lin Feng can't really sell tickets, and tickets won't sell for 50000 dollars.

But anyway, "world of Warcraft" has set a world record, an online record for large-scale role-playing online games.

"Boss, your birthday party will start in two hours. Would you like to take a break and have something to eat first? " Wu Zhaopu asked.

Although Lin Feng went to have lunch at noon, he didn't finish it. Now it's 6 p.m. in a twinkling of an eye. In two hours, the birthday party in Lin Feng's game will start. Wu Zhaopu is worried about Lin Feng's hunger. You know, for the "second world" today, apart from Kailin Feng, what we have to say is not so important.

"No, I'll just have something to eat, and then I'll go home for dinner after the party." Lin Feng waved his hand with a smile. You know, Li Zhiyou prepared a big dinner for herself tonight. I can't let her down.

Wu Zhaopu also understands this point. Who let Lin Feng have a good fortune. It's a miracle that several girls can get along with each other after "Wang meets Wang".

As time goes by, it will soon be 8 p.m. when Lin Feng's birthday party is held. In the meantime, as time approaches, the "admission ticket" of Lin Feng's birthday party has been auctioned to the final price of $70000. It's crazy to spend $70000 on a virtual world birthday party ticket.

Crazy, crazy, these players are crazy“ Nintendo president Tsuyoshi Iwata shook his head. Before today, who would have thought that admission tickets for a birthday party of a virtual game could be sold for $70000? This is crazy. The world is really crazy.

But what's more crazy is that the players who buy tickets at auction are not only distressed for spending tens of thousands of dollars to buy a virtual ticket that is basically useless, but also complacent.

——What, heartache? No, no, no, never. Although $70000 is already half a year's salary for me, it will be the most glorious moment in my life to be able to communicate with the world's richest people and those rich people and attend a birthday party together. And I'm confident that tonight's help to me will far exceed that of $70000—— The white-collar player who spent $70000 on tickets to Lin Feng's birthday party told USA today.

Boom—— This player's speech is undoubtedly adding fuel to the fire, making the market which is hard to get a coupon even more hot. It can be said that since this player sold tickets for Lin Feng's birthday party, they have become more and more popular. Although no higher price has been offered, there is no doubt that all 11000 tickets will be put up for auction. Even the players who have paid for tickets before will auction them again. After all, the temptation of money is unmatched.

However, the most widely benefited are undoubtedly Chinese players. With 11000 tickets, 70% of them are in China, and the average price of each ticket is as high as US $40000. It can be said that on the first day of world of Warcraft, Chinese players earned US $308 million with tickets for Lin Feng's birthday party.

308 million dollars! Chinese players made 308 million US dollars in one day, which is a shocking and frightening record. On this day, all the Chinese players who get tickets are undoubtedly happy. According to the statistics of the National Bureau of statistics, on this day, the game world of Warcraft was launched on the first day, giving birth to 7700 millionaires in China. At the same time, the high consumption of these 7700 millionaires after making money directly promoted the popularity of China's real estate in the future.

You know, on average, the 7700 Chinese players earned 320000 yuan per person, and most of them chose to buy houses. Although there are only 7700 players, they suddenly choose to buy a house at the same time, which undoubtedly makes the real estate developers see the room for rising house prices. This will also lead to the rise of China's real estate in the future.

Of course, the greater role of the 7700 millionaires is to promote the rapid development of online games. Within one day, you can earn hundreds of thousands of RMB. This temptation is undoubtedly fatal and has absolutely fatal attraction.

If you think about it, those wage earners who earn 320000 yuan a day are working hard to earn more than 10000 yuan a year. They have to work for 30 years to earn the money that these players can earn a day. Instead of this, it's better to play more online games. Maybe one day I'll be lucky and get a similar ticket. Maybe I won't have to work hard all my life.

That's what most people thought later. Of course, at present, Lin Feng doesn't know. For Lin Feng, the most important thing is the birthday party. If Lin Feng doesn't come up with something to make players think it's worth buying tickets for this birthday party, no one will pay for it in the future. Lin Feng's plan to make domestic players rich and earn money from foreign players is in vain. 1 www.qidian.com , more chapters, support authors, support legitimate reading!)