Back To 1995

   Chapter 675 One stone stirs up a thousand waves

The Astros defeated the Devers school baseball team by a score of 47-45 in the whole game. After the game, there was a round of applause. In the end, the entire game was won by selling tickets, player donations, advertising fees, etc. 80%. The million dollar knife is donated.

  As the title sponsor of the Astros Arena, Double Click Company and Song Yang have jointly donated another million dollars. Today's noisy game is finally over.

As for how the two million dollars raised today are distributed, that is a matter of Adrian and the Houston public office. Over plucking, apply oil layer by layer.

The Houston municipal departments and personnel who handle the matter take a part from it, and then distribute it to the next floor, and finally to the charities and welfare organizations that purchase and distribute the materials, and keep a part of the "expense", and finally to the private hospital's patient number and In the hands of the slum community, if you can keep 30 to 40%, it is considered a professional integrity. After all, doing charity in America is also a business, and you can't let the people of the charity organization starve to death!

   After Song Yang returned to his villa in Houston, he went to the study. After turning on the computer, there were more than a dozen more emails in the Hotmail mailbox, all of which were sent by Xue Leshan and Panda TV.

  V, like Blizzard, is a game studio under Xue Leshan, but Blizzard has been famous for a long time. Before it was acquired, it had released several games of "Warcraft" and gained popularity.

   And V Club, this time is the first show, even if there has been overwhelming publicity before, and Xueleshan as a guarantee, but how many people buy it, no one knows.

  Song Yang opened an email from the Williams and his wife, the president of Xueleshan. It was sent by Xueleshan at noon, when Song Yang was still in the arena.

   The content of the email is very simple, with only two sentences, "Half-Life has sold more than 680,000 sets, and its sales have exceeded $40.12 million!"

Song Yang looked at the contents of the email and found that nearly 700,000 copies of "Half-Life" games were sold in one morning, which is definitely a crazy sale. The official price of Half-Life is 59 dollars, which is more than ordinary The version of "StarCraft" was nine cents cheaper, but it sold more than the morning sales of "StarCraft" on its first day on the market!

Compared with Blizzard, the popularity of V Club is much worse now. The explosion of orders in the morning has surpassed the "StarCraft" in the same period, which shows that Xue Leshan's brand has really stood up. On the other hand, It also shows that shooting games have a much wider audience.

   "After four hours of sales, the sales exceeded 680,000 sets, and the game studio of V Club under Xue Leshan has created a new history of American games!"

  The media began to report on "Half-Life", "The manager of the Snow LS marketing department announced that the Half-Life game has sufficient inventory, so there is no need to worry about the supply..."

It’s okay not to say this. As soon as I said it, players who were still waiting and watching immediately flooded into major game retail stores. When the first two “Diablo” and “StarCraft” were released, Snow Mountain got the marketing The manager also said this. The next day, America and other places began to sell out. After suffering two losses, how can many players continue to jump into the pit? !

The marketing department of Snow LS is really wrong. In order to provide sufficient supply this time, Snow Mountain has directly printed 5 million sets of game discs, and now that broadband has become popular, users can use the "Xue Leshan Online" platform to Directly download the digital version of "Half-Life", so the Xue LS marketing department feels that there will never be the first two out of stock this time.

   But after being bought by players, it’s hard to say how long these 5 million sets of stock will last.

Seeing that players are starting to scramble for "Half-Life", game retailers, channel dealers, and scalpers have begun to make moves again, playing with reluctance to sell and stock up. Grab, directly began to enter an infinite loop.

The word-of-mouth and game experience of "Half-Life" have already passed through the TGA game exhibition, as well as game forums such as IGN, and spread throughout the game industry. All players who like shooting are not worried that "Half-Life" will overturn. , as soon as it went on sale this time, it was snapped up directly.

In the evening, the TGA professional e-sports league led by Xue Leshan was about to open. Ken Williams and Roberta and his wife were going to attend the opening ceremony with a group of Xue Leshan executives and received sales of "Half-Life". , Looking at the sales report in their hands, all the Xue Leshan executives were silent for a while.

   The founders of G Fatty and Harrington, who had high hopes for sales, also looked at each other at this time.

   In the end, it was Harrington, whose mouth was dry, and couldn't help but say, "Could it be that the marketing department made a mistake?"

   Looking at the large series of numbers on the sales report, Harrington felt dazzled. It was not that the sales were too low, but that the sales were too high.

   "It should be the channel dealer who stocked up!"

Ken Williams read the numbers on the sales report several times before he said that the last time "StarCraft" sold 1.35 million sets in a single day, and the sales exceeded 80 million US dollars, it was a bit scary at that time. , breaking many records in America and even the global game history.

At that time, many media threatened that the record of "StarCraft" may not break the record for many years, but just like every time a movie achieves a super high box office, there will be an epic movie to break it. Its record, but even Xue Leshan did not expect that day would come so fast!

"Half-Life" sold more than 1.6 million sets on the first day, and the sales exceeded US$94 million. Today's hit.

And now there are still a few hours before tomorrow, and there is a delay in sales statistics in other overseas regions. If Xue Leshan wants to make some moves, it can definitely come up with a big move, for example, let "Half-Life "Become the first game in the world with sales exceeding 100 million on the first day!

   "Let's make an announcement to the outside world!"

After Ken Williams thought for a while, he still wasn't ready to make big news. How long did it take for Xue Leshan to split from ICQ? It's really exciting. It is estimated that investors will file a class action lawsuit against ICQ. The chickens that laid the golden eggs were separated, and they were clearly doing things.

G Fatty and Harrington and other members of the V Club will naturally not object. This will be a bit stunned. Even if they sell a small target in one day, they have no idea that "Half-Life" is actually Can be so fierce!

   "Unfortunately, Half-Life has been open sourced."

Xue Leshan got a supervisor and said with a sigh, with the sales volume of "Half-Life", if it is not open source, it will be a good gold lump, and the development of the sequel will be able to survive for several years. After open source, continue It's much more difficult to make, and you can't play tricks.

   But it was just a sigh. The "Half-Life" open source code, allowing players to make MODs, was promised by Song Yang, but no one in Xue Leshan dared to overturn Song Yang's decision.

There was almost a thunderstorm on the ground, and without waiting for the third-party data agency to issue an announcement, Xue Leshan himself issued an announcement in advance, claiming that the global sales of "Half-Life" exceeded 1.6 million sets and the sales exceeded 94 million US dollars. The gaming industry has been thoroughly stimulated.

   There is no need to falsify this kind of thing, and there is no need for Xueleshan to do anything, and it is not a listed company, so it needs to raise its share price. The outside world has no doubts about Xueleshan’s announcement, but it is really stimulated.

  The major game magazines, forums, Yahoo, MSN, AOL, Lycos America, four major portals, at the same time, all pushed the sales of "Half-Life".

   "A new era of video games has arrived!"

"Following Diablo and StarCraft, the Valve game studio under Xue Leshan launched the third AAA masterpiece, with a single-day sales of 94 million and 400,000 US dollars, setting a new record in global game history. Leshan is leading the global game industry into the era of 3A masterpieces with high investment, high quality and high returns!

It is not impossible for the game industry to be small and big, but the 3A masterpiece model led by Xueleshan will redefine the game market and become the mainstream of the game industry. Xueleshan is changing the history of games with its 3A game masterpieces, digital games, online games, and professional e-sports. ! "

The Wall Street Journal spent most of its space to tell the outside world what Xue Leshan is doing. This is not written for ordinary players and people who don’t pay attention to the game industry, but for Wall Street institutions and Silicon Valley companies. Wait until a few years. Afterwards, when players and ordinary users feel it personally, the game industry pattern has basically been set.

   A large number of media such as Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Wired Magazine, Computer World, and Silicon Valley Daily are all blowing up on Snow Mountain, but it is not that other media have opinions on Snow Mountain.

   (end of this chapter)