Chapter 664

Stepping into the small building of the Silicon Valley Branch, Wu Tao has even made psychological preparations to face a group of "mourners".

After all, Blizzard Entertainment is a strong opponent to stir up the game. As a novice employee of Tianxing game company, it is almost inevitable that the morale will be devastated.

However, the next moment, a hot and prosperous work scene was displayed in front of him.

Everyone is enthusiastically busy with the work at hand, completely unaffected.

In doubt, Wu Tao asked Shi Qianxue and Qiu Xiaotian who took the initiative to meet him and said, "it seems that everyone's morale is good. How do you two boost the morale of these foreigners?"

Shi Qianxue guessed, "boss, are you worried that everyone will be affected by Blizzard Entertainment distribution plan, resulting in low morale?"

Qiu Xiaotian realized this, waved his hand and said, "boss, these foreign devils are different from us Chinese. They don't think too much in their minds. It's better to say that they are not afraid of strong enemies. It's heartless and heartless. "

"... after hearing about Blizzard's entertainment plan, everyone's enthusiasm has increased a lot. I feel honored to release game works with such an old game company."

Shi Qianxue then added: "director Qiu and I were also worried about death, but in such an atmosphere, as soon as we were infected by everyone's positive emotions, we immediately felt that it was no big deal. It was just a fight back."

"Well said!" Wu Tao appreciated.

The three people passed by the office room and walked into a conference room.

Wu Tao sat down first and said, "but Allen probably didn't have a good intention to release new game works at this juncture. We can despise them strategically, but we should pay attention to them tactically."

Shi Qianxue nodded, "at least our investment in Internet advertising should exceed Blizzard Entertainment..."

At this time, Qiu Xiaotian was puzzled and said, "I remember when they practiced in blizzard, they planned to release StarCraft in September 1998. Now I don't know what's going on, but it's so much ahead of time? "

Wu Tao's eyes narrowed. "If Allen is specially released in advance for our company, there will be many loopholes in game testing. In this regard, we may also have an advantage. "

Shi Qianxue disagreed. "It's impossible. According to Allen's style, we usually strive for excellence to a heinous extent. We will never sacrifice the characteristics or stability of the game for the sake of catching up with the construction period or other purposes."

Seeing that they had different opinions, Qiu Xiaotian waved and said, "it's easy to be sure. I'll ask Blizzard later."

The three people discussed some details of the press conference three days later, and they separated.

Then Qiu Xiaotian brought Wu Tao a 586 high-end computer with a 19 inch exquisite tube display. Although it was very heavy, the display effect was unspeakable.

The operating system is the English version of Win98. Fortunately, it is not difficult for Wu Tao.

Before long, Wu Tao used this computer to surf the Internet smoothly.

Compared with the backward situation of dial-up Internet access in China, broadband has long been used in Silicon Valley.

The speed of surfing the Internet can be said to be very comfortable.

At least Wu Tao travels in several international well-known game player forums, and his fluency seems to go back to the new century.

In the major player forums, the posts about anti-terrorism elites still account for the largest proportion, but with the release date approaching, the proportion of StarCraft posts is also increasing.

And in terms of click through rate alone, there is even a trend of exceeding the relevant posts of counter-terrorism elites.

Later on.

The golden cup and silver cup are not as good as the reputation of game players.

With word-of-mouth, we can win the unreserved trust of game players and fans.

At present, Blizzard Entertainment is like this. They occupy the advantage of reputation and have firmly taken the lead in the new game release PK.

This will undoubtedly be a tough battle.

Thinking of this, Wu Tao seems to be able to understand Molly's relaxed attitude towards the theatre.

On March 31, Los Angeles, the weather was fine.

Tianxing game company held a new game press conference at the five-star Hilton Hotel.

This specification can be said to be quite high.

In contrast, Blizzard Entertainment held a small press conference at its company headquarters, which seemed much more low-key.

The press conference of Blizzard Entertainment was led by Allen, while the press conference of Tianxing game company was led by Li Ming, the main developer of anti-terrorism elite.

At the press conference, BGM and some effect films of counter-terrorism elite were displayed, which looked quite exciting.

In the subsequent Q & A, the exchanges between the two sides were also very enthusiastic.

But Wu Tao is clear that these can not be counted. The final win or lose lies in one thing, that is, the performance of game sales.

At present, both games provide two sales modes.

One is a game CD, which is generally worth between $19 and $79. As a result, StarCraft, like the anti terrorist elite, chose the price of $59.

The other is to register an account in the form of selling keys on battle.net. This is relatively cheaper, but each key costs up to $39!

As for the pricing in Europe, although there are some differences, there is little difference in the overall value.

In Asia, StarCraft sales have not yet covered. The anti terrorist elite games are all installed in Internet cafes in mainland China, and the registration of battle. Net account is all free.

So there doesn't seem to be much difference between the two.

At the same time of the press conference, Vivendi, an old game distribution company, has distributed well-made game CDs to various sales terminals.

However, this distribution mode that depends on the sales terminal must wait until the next day to accurately count the sales data of the previous day.

On the contrary, the registration number of battle.net online is particularly intuitive and easy to count.

Perhaps it is a tacit agreement that both companies broadcast the sales data after the release of new games in real time on the world's largest gamer forum.

The data was refreshed for the first time. By the end of the press conference, the number of new StarCraft battle. Net accounts had exceeded 10000, while the number of new anti-terrorism elite accounts had just exceeded 1000.

The difference can be said to be quite obvious.

Shi Qianxue, who has been stretching his string, immediately shouted at the data: "it's over. It's really gorgeous."

Qiu Xiaotian also frowned and locked, but his fist was clenched, and even the veins on his hand burst out.

It is really the prospect of the game company, pinning too much expectation and hope.

lose the first battle.

It can be said that the situation is quite not optimistic. Wu Tao thought silently and suddenly asked, "by the way, how is the new registration of domestic battle. Net accounts?"

Qiu Xiaotian immediately said, "I'll check it."

After a while, Qiu Xiaotian returned with a wry smile: "as of just now, the number of new accounts of mainland anti-terrorism elite battle.net has exceeded 20000, and is still rising rapidly..."

Shi Qianxue said weakly, "what's the use of that? All domestic registered accounts are free. "

Wu Tao was two eyes and said, "that's not necessarily useless. Let's wait and see..."