Chapter 278

This Spring Festival, Fang zhe had a good time. On the morning of the second day of the lunar new year, Feng Xue accompanied Fang zhe back to Fang Zhe's hometown and experienced two days of serious rural life.

This is also the first time that Yang Xiuying and Feng Xue, the future "mother-in-law and daughter-in-law", meet in reality. Feng Xue's beautiful appearance, cheerful and reasonable personality and eloquence have left an excellent impression in Yang Xiuying's heart.

Fang zhe secretly admires Feng Xue's suddenly changed character. As expected, one thing falls to another. In front of his parents, who can think of Feng Xueping's arrogant and domineering appearance to himself every day.

On the fifth day, Fang Zhe and Feng Xue returned to Yanjing together. The new year began again. The top priority of Huizhong company is to prepare for the public beta of steam in China.

Since the end of July last year, Huizhong reached an agreement with American valve company to introduce steam, the preparation and establishment of steam China have been in full swing.

Including language translation, correction, game audit, grading, Chinese independent server setup, account system, payment system, game community setup, etc. until now, all relevant work of the independent steam China has been basically completed, and will officially meet with Chinese game players suffering from wall climbing on February 23, the tenth day of the first lunar month.

In October last year, Huizhong has released the news of steam entering China. Since then, many advertisements and news about steam China have appeared in various game forums such as 17173, DuoWan, video game bus, yezhu and so on.

In mid November, Huizhong officially opened the pre registration channel of steam China. All Chinese players can pre register their steam China account on Huizhong's official website, steam China's official website, Zhongle game platform and other channels in advance, and download the steam platform client in advance. Players who already have a steam account can avoid the registration process and directly use the previous old account.

Under the network wide and overwhelming advertising, as of February 22, 2010, the ninth day of the first lunar month, and the day before the open beta of steam China, the total pre registration number of steam China has exceeded the mark of 3 million people!

3 million people look like a lot, but compared with the current 50 or 60 million computer game players in China, the former hero alliance alone has more than 20 million daily active players in China every day. Steam China still has a lot of potential users waiting to be mined.

However, although the number of 3 million players seems small, most of the players are the backbone and hard core players among Chinese online game players. You know, in the past, China was limited by the political environment and walls. Console games, stand-alone games and 3a games are basically difficult to popularize among ordinary players like Tencent, DNF, CF and Netease dream journey to the West, There are only a small number of people who know the steam platform in China. These players have environment, conditional configuration and strong consumption ability.

In China, a country with a population of 1.3 billion, even a small part, there are millions, and these people are the main users of the pre registered steam platform.

On February 23, 2010, the official public beta of steam China, many long-awaited players across the country opened steam China early and boarded their steam China account.

Li Kun, a sophomore on winter vacation in Jing'an District, Jianghai City, is one of them. After getting up at more than 9 a.m., he turned on the computer, opened steam China and logged in to his steam account. He began to play host games since his freshman year in senior high school. He has played more than five or six 3A masterpieces. He is a standard hard core player. He is also an old player of steam platform. He registered his steam account three years ago and has a history of climbing the wall for four or five years.

While listening to the song, Li Kun chatted with several of his college roommates on the QQ group about the road to survival 2. The road to survival is a classic zombie themed doomsday survival adventure game. Since its release in 2008, it has accumulated many players who like doomsday zombie themed games all over the world. The road to survival 2 is a sequel to the road to survival, which was released in mid November last year, Once released, it has been widely praised and swept the world.

Survival Road 2 can be played by one person or multiple people online. At school, Li Kun often played black with several roommates in the Internet cafe, but now he has a winter vacation. Because the wall exists and the official server of survival Road 2 is abroad, Li Kun wants to play black with several roommates again, which is not generally difficult, The terrible delay alone made them lose their interest in opening black.

Fortunately, Huizhong has introduced steam into China, and Huizhong has also opened up domestic servers for many games on steam, including road to survival 2. Therefore, the whole dormitory is looking forward to the public beta of steam in China.

Near 10 o'clock, Li Kun switched to the steam China platform interface. There were still dozens of seconds left for the public beta countdown on the interface. Soon, the countdown ended, and the main interface of the platform became the main interface of the steam platform store.

The main interface of the whole store is full of game publicity pictures. At the top are several large game publicity rolling pictures. This column is a selection of recommendations, including many classic game masterpieces such as survival Road 2, mechanical fan city, spore, A4 and top flying car. The game publicity pictures are constantly rolling in this column.

Next, there are popular games, new games on the shelf, special offers and other games in different columns. Li Kun casually flipped through the home page, and then couldn't wait to enter the survival Road 2 in the selected recommendation column. He had already discussed with several roommates and wanted to play several survival Road 2 online at the first time.

The installation package of survival Road 2 is very large, with nearly 7 g. if you download the game completely at the current domestic average network speed, I'm afraid you'll have to wait until the evening. Fortunately, Li Kun and his team had already finished the game when it was released. Now they only need to download a steam China patch package.

The size of the whole patch package is only tens of M. a few minutes later, when Li Kun reopened the stand-alone road to survival 2 he had played many times before, the game has been associated with steam China and can be connected to steam China server.

"I'm online, and you?" Li Kun sent a message to several house friends in Q group.

"I'm online. I'm in room 24 of the death center area. The password is room 212 of our dormitory!" a roommate replied a message in the group.

Within a few minutes, four college roommates gathered in room 24 of the death center area on the road to survival. This was the first time that they drove black from such a long distance. Everyone had a different feeling. After talking excitedly on the public screen in the room, they directly entered the play.