Rebirth of the big era of online games

Chapter 16 Supreme Membership
This P2P streaming media technology of downloading the complete client side while playing has long been accustomed to the eyes of later generations of players.

But in 2000, it was almost a kind of black technology.

This technology solves the problem of slow network speed and too much time-consuming downloading of game clients.

If it is another client game, it is not easy for the client to change to this download mode at once, and it will involve some deeper problems such as virtual client and virtual registry, but it is not difficult to change the MUD game in this way.

The ZMUD client itself can run normally and enter any MUD site to play games. Now it is nothing more than adding a download update program to make the client keep gaining weight and eat all the files that Fang Jie wants to throw to the client.

The previous method was to pack them all into the client and download them together. As a result, I couldn’t eat a big fat man in one bite. Now, I eat less and eat more, and download it little by little during the game. Not necessarily noticeable.

Moreover, it is more convenient to update the game version in the future, instead of re-downloading the large-capacity file.

After seeing the description of the new client, the players are not at all conflicted this time, and they have actively downloaded the independent client program.

Now the game has more than 500 people online, and the original maximum online number is 400.

If it weren't for the flying boots and the offline hosting system, which greatly saves server resources, the server would have crashed long ago, but now it is almost the same. The server always goes down several times every day and automatically restarts.

Now that the shotgun is replaced by the gun, the problem is easily solved.

The server was replaced with more than 3 high-performance computers, the Internet speed was connected to a 10M Internet cafe line, and the client was replaced by an independent client.

Three-pronged approach, the effect is leverage.

Originally, some players thought it was very troublesome. They pinched their noses and downloaded the new client. As a result, as soon as they entered the game, they immediately felt the extreme smoothness of the game.

Playing MUD through the new client is almost like playing a single machine. A dozen instructions are issued at the same time, and the execution is completed without any delay.

Hmm...Actually, the players are right. Under the new version of the independent client, most of the time you are playing on a single machine. Only a small amount of critical data will be sent to the server for processing. All other data will be processed on the local machine. Naturally fast.

It is no exaggeration to say that the text MUD game station operated by Fang Jie is definitely the smoothest MUD game station in the country.

After the server was relocated and replaced, now the game fluency is almost perfect, it is a perverted suit, and there are GM function boots. Various macro buttons are loaded on the client, and even offline can even host leveling.

All of this is due to the wide acclaim and support of players, and has won an excellent reputation.

Veteran players take advantage of their previous game experience. Even if they don’t recharge, they are not weaker than those rookie RMB players who recharge, and even better than those RMB players. Some old players can earn 80 yuan a day by playing games. .

With the help of the macro button function keys, the new players can quickly learn the basic operation of the game and directly start to experience various gameplays. If they are willing to spend some money, they will soon be able to catch up with them. game player.

As for RMB players, they used to spend money in other MUD stations, and the game was still very tiring, but in this MUD game station, almost everything is operated by fools. If you have money, you can play easily, just like a duck to water.

The important thing is that if you calculate an account and there is an offline hosting system, you will actually save money, and you will save a lot of money.

Since it's all about spending money, why not spend money on this money-saving MUD gaming station?
It's...a bit of a twist, but it's true.

For all players, there is another point worthy of their praise and follow-the god GM of this MUD game station knows what players want very well, and his skills are quite awesome!
Almost all the characteristic systems in the game are for the liberation of players and the convenience of players. Even the client download is so convenient.

This kind of technology has never been seen before, let alone in other MUD game stations. At present, there is no such technology in any online games and stand-alone games at home and abroad. It is simply black technology!

You know, everyone is still holding the CD to install the game!
Oh, yes, there is also the twin system...

Emmmm, this is not to be explained, it is not suitable for children.

In short, with the improvement of server performance, the game's reputation has exploded, and many players have sincerely recommended this game to their relatives and friends.

What's more, some tap water directly went to other MUD game stations to promote and attract people, and the popularity of other domestic MUD stations was greatly reduced, and everyone was in danger.

Correspondingly, the popularity of "The Legend of Jin Yongqixia" has skyrocketed. That night, the number of players online exceeded 600 at the same time, becoming the largest MUD game site in China.

The so-called people are afraid of being famous and pigs are afraid of being strong.

As soon as the MUD station was on fire, all kinds of bulls, ghosts, snakes and gods came.

Li Qing, who has been in charge of customer service, found a problem that she thought was very serious: "Fang Jie, someone is shouting in the game to sell a lot of game coins!"

There have been people who sold game coins before, but they were all petty. This time is different, and the amount of game coins sold is very large.

Fang Jie, who was discussing the Internet cafe with Xia Hao on QQ, turned his head and said, "Report their game ID to me."

After getting the game ID, I directly checked the game records of these players on the server side. There is no problem. The game coins are obtained normally, and some are obtained by recharging. There is no cheating, and everything is normal.

"Don't worry about them." Fang Jie smiled indifferently.

Li Qing didn't understand: "Why? They're selling game coins! They're taking our business!"

Now the game currency in the game is too valuable, the official price is 1:100, as long as the game currency is sold above this ratio, it is equivalent to cutting the hustle.

Fang Jie explained: "Professional players must be allowed to exist. This shows that the currency and props in the game have generated value and can enhance the stickiness of game users."

Professional players or game studios will always be an unpleasant presence for various game companies for a long time in the future.

On the one hand, it increases the output of game resources, destroys the internal financial system of the game, and also affects the game experience of normal players. On the other hand, it cuts off the income that should be the game company.

The launch of the so-called bound gold coins and bound equipment is aimed at combating professional players and prohibiting free trade between players.

However, Fang Jie has a different view on this.

If a game is destroyed by professional players using normal game methods, it can only be said that the game is not done well, and the game company is too incompetent. How can you blame the players for being too good at playing and being too professional?

In his previous life, he was considered a semi-professional player during his college days, that is, he earned all the fees for playing online games, including Internet access fees, daily expenses, game points and so on.

He feels that professional players or game studios in the game have more advantages than disadvantages.

Once the game item has value, other ordinary players will not easily abandon the pit, because the game currency and equipment they play are RMB in a sense, and naturally they are reluctant to abandon the account. A sentence "I can sell hundreds of things on that number".

Many game companies are short-sighted and can't see this at all. They just think that professional players have encroached on their interests, and can't wait to pocket all the profits.

As everyone knows, if the props in a game cannot be traded, from an economic point of view, it has no value without exchange. Players will abandon the pit if they say it is abandoned, and it is not a pity to throw away the account as garbage.

In the next 20 years, before online games were monopolized by big companies, all popular games could have transaction functions. Fang Jie believes that online games that can break the monopoly in the future should be games that can be traded rather than bound games.

If the skin of the king pesticide can be bought and sold, I believe the game will be more popular.

The reason why "Fantasy Westward Journey" is successful is that it has been enduring for more than ten years.

As for why the vast majority of players did not realize the game props, which led to the collapse of the internal financial system of the game, this involves some financial theoretical knowledge and is related to the M2 broad money supply...

Well, it seems to be going too far. You can't ask a game planner to know such abstruse financial knowledge, right?
Fang Jie was too lazy to explain too much to Li Qing, who was a temporary guest customer service guest. Anyway, he didn't mind professional players entering his game station. As long as the way these people obtained game coins was within the scope of the game rules, there was no need to kill them all.

Not only do not mind, but also should be encouraged.

But well...

Fang Jie immediately limited the number of accounts that can log in to the game server with the same IP address.

Each IP address is limited to dual accounts, and the third trumpet cannot log in to the game.

After the game was updated, the game dropped dozens of trumpets at once, which immediately aroused the dissatisfaction of some players who opened more trumpets.

Some people started ranting against it openly in chat channels.

Fang Jie used the Tianshen GM account to push it back with one sentence in the game: "Sorry, opening more accounts will take up too much server resources and bandwidth that are already very limited, and then affect the normal game experience of other players, so every time you open a trumpet account, it will take up too much server resources and bandwidth that are already very limited. Each IP is limited to dual-opening."

These words immediately won the support and appreciation of most of the other players, and turned their heads and scolded the professional players who were clamoring for more games. They didn't want the server to become stuck again because of this bunch of rat shit.

Subsequently, Fang Jie made another update to the game, and then issued an announcement.

Announcement: "In view of the requirements of some players to open more trumpet accounts, the wizard team of this site has decided to add a supreme membership system. Pay a certain amount of server resource management fee every month to become a supreme member, you can open more and more accounts. The number of numbers is linked to the supreme membership level. For details, please check the "Supreme Membership System Instructions" in the game by yourself."

After going around for a long time, Fang Jie's real purpose is to come up with a membership system, only for those professional players.

If you want to open more than seven or eight or even a dozen trumpets to brush game currency, of course, there is no problem. For each additional account permission quota, you need to pay 100 yuan per month for server resource management fees, euphemistically called: Supreme Member.

That’s right, you can only open more if you open the Supreme Membership. Level 1 Supreme Member can open three times, Level 2 can open four times, and so on.

In short, if professional players want to make money in the game, Fang Jie has no objection, but he has to send a piece of meat first. While the benefits are shared, it also raises the threshold for professional players. Don't mess with the game.

The launch of this membership system caused a lot of discussion in the game, and the players finally came to the conclusion: support!
Ordinary players of course have no opinion. Anyway, this membership system is only for opening more accounts and does not destroy the balance of the game. Game operators can continue to upgrade servers with this membership fee, which is only good for them.

Professional players carefully calculate an account, and then find that it is still profitable to open more accounts, which is better than none, so they do not object.

Even some smart professional players have developed a new business: game boosting services!

Since opening an extra trumpet requires a monthly membership fee of 100 yuan, let those rich and lazy players pay the money for them.

The key is that the novice players are still very willing, because the network fee saved is far more than the power leveling fee. In fact, it saves money and does not suffer.

Moreover, professional players are generally upgraded from game masters, and it is definitely more efficient for ordinary players to level up their game accounts for ordinary players than for ordinary players to level up on their own.

Generally speaking, the boosting business will not form a large market scale until after "Legend" is listed. There were some boosting services in the past, but they were basically free to help friends to practice, but now they have appeared earlier.

Fang Jie didn't expect that an unintentional act of his own would accidentally spawn a regular game boosting service, which made him wonder if he should get a game trading intermediary website like 5173 in advance.

Since it has decided to take the online game industry as the core of the business, the related peripheral businesses of the online game industry must naturally be in their own hands.

"There are so many things to do, there are so many things to do..."

Fang Jie couldn't help but sighed when he saw the list of land prices sent by Xia Hao.

He originally thought that achieving the goals in the development outline in this life should be easy, and there is no need to rush for a while, but after getting involved in it, he found that even if everything seemed so simple, he was still a little overwhelmed, and many things seemed very urgent. .

Do your best...

Putting aside these distracting thoughts for a while, Fang Jie replied to Xia Hao in the QQ chat window: "That piece of land is a bit high according to the standard of the third-tier land transfer fee, it is not the commercial center of Jiangcheng, nor is it a prosperous area, even if it faces the street, At most, it is the fourth level. You continue to talk to them, and if you can negotiate the rent according to the fourth level, you can directly rent for 20 years!"

After a while, Xia Hao replied over there: "20 years can be discounted by 6.5%, but even at the fourth tranche, the rent per square meter is 848 yuan, 200 square meters, almost 20!"

"Only 20? Not much, not much!" Fang Jie's eyes flashed with golden light, "I estimate that the land will be collected by the Polytechnic University in at most 10 years, and the land transfer fee and the house demolition fee will add up to at least several million. Dozens of times the profit, no loss!"

This remark made Xia Hao also tempted: "How about I go to my family to get more money and invest some?"

(End of this chapter)