Chapter 608： How attractive is free?

Chapter 608 How attractive is free?

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In the facebook video site on the Internet, there are some strange looking games.

These games seem familiar at first glance, as if you have seen them somewhere, but if you take a closer look at the models and maps of the games, you have never seen them before.

People wonder what 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 page of these strange games.

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

But, what is this mod?

In the video, there is an explanation from the person who made the video.

"Dear viewers, you are very welcome to watch my channel. I am ***. If you are interested, you only need to click on the caution and follow options. In this way, it will make sense for me to make this video."

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

"Everyone pay attention, you should have seen the general appearance of this game. This is a brand new mode just launched by 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 of all, let's take a look at a mod that is now more popular in the creative workshop: Farm Defense Zombies Edition."

"This mod is made by an independent game production team. The game they originally made is called Farm Defense, which is also a very interesting game in my opinion. In this zombie version of Farm Defense, the original Farm Defense The gameplay is preserved, and it also adds to the tension of the game, which is really a rare mod."

"In addition to the Farm Defense Zombies version, there are also officially launched Counter-Strike biochemical mods, hide-and-seek mods, etc. It's really interesting."

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

"It's interesting."

According to the introduction in the video, the new features of this mod 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. Free.

This does not mean that you have played 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 brand-new creative workshop, there is a very complete recommendation system. If it is a module with a high enough rating and a high enough popularity, it can be placed in a more prominent place. The location makes for a fun experience.

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.

That is to say, if you are a little bit more irritable, you can play the content of these trial games in a week.

Stardew Valley, Counter-Strike, StarCraft…

A variety of open source games have quickly poured into a large number of players in just one day.

According to normal estimates, the number of players on PC 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 occupies 70% to 80% of the current PC market, and naturally there are even fewer people willing to grab this small market.

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

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

Among them, the number of concurrent online users of Counter-Strike broke 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. At the same time, the number of people online has increased rapidly, and the data has reached 3.3 million.

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

Because the more players you announce, the more willing developers who are interested in developing indie games are willing to launch their games on the Battle.net platform and not consider other platforms.

After all, the player base is here.

A small platform with only 10,000 to 20,000 players will sell 10,000 to 20,000 if you die.

But a game platform with millions of players has been established, even if the production level is slightly lower, it will definitely have a higher exposure rate than a small platform.

3.3 million, which is still the number of players online at the same time, which surprised many game makers.

Are there so many PC players?

I didn’t notice the PC platform at all.

Generally speaking, the number of players online at the same time will be more than ten times more than the number of registered players, but this time is a little special, because several popular games are free for a limited time. Play the game more actively during this time.

This data also surprised the executives of Suri Electronics.

Hayakawa Ukito also suddenly realized that he seems to be underestimating PC players.

Their love for games is also very high.

That’s the appeal of free, though.

But free doesn’t bring any benefits.

Especially the thunderstorm of YOO the previous year made most of the capital realize the existence of the Internet bubble.

They are now very distrustful of the so-called simultaneous online numbers, or registered numbers, on the Internet.

The same is true for Hayakawa Ukito, who also thinks that this is only a flash in the pan and cannot prove anything at all.

But the Battle.net platform is enjoying itself.

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

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

At the same time, Zhu Yuxing immediately ordered people to expand the server capacity, and Zhu Yuxing was very concerned about network services.

Players are very sensitive. A slight network delay in games such as 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)