Rebirth of the Wild Age

To use the popular Internet term at this time, Chen Xie is a plmm. She has been online since junior high school and has been online for five years, but she has never played a large-scale online game so far.

In the second year of junior high school, my father brought home a second-hand 486 computer, saying that a colleague from the unit was about to go abroad, and it cost 500 yuan to deal with it at a super low price. Chen Xie first learned how to send emails, and then learned how to chat in chat rooms. Unfortunately, the Internet fee is too expensive, and she only dares to surf the Internet secretly for 10 minutes a day.

In high school, Chen Xie started to get in touch with QQ, and later fell in love with Renren.com.

Not long ago, a two-and-a-half-year-long online relationship came to an end because of the public beta of Shan Hai Jing. Chen Xie came home from winter vacation in his freshman year. He originally wanted to chat with his online boyfriend on QQ every day, but it took him a long time to reply to the message. It turned out that the guy was so addicted to games that he didn't even bother to pay attention to his girlfriend.

Chen Xie wanted to see what her rival in love looked like, so she searched and logged in to the official website of Shan Hai Jing, clicked to download and install the game. The result was tragic, her old antique computer was too low configuration, not to mention loading the game, even the installation of the game was stuck.

Both parents were at work during the day, so Chen Xie sneaked into their bedroom and successfully cracked the computer power-on password using the number of his own landline phone. This computer was newly bought by my father last year. It cost more than 6,000 oceans, and he is not willing to use it usually.

Chen Xie successfully installed and entered the game according to the teaching on the official website. She doesn't know anything, doesn't know how to form a team, doesn't know how to fight monsters, she just runs around all over the place, and after playing for a long time, she knows that she can accept the task, and she will be beaten into a soul state by monsters every ten minutes Run to pick up the corpse and continue playing.

A few days later, Chen Xie was killing Cong Cong in Zhuangshan. This is a beast that looks like a dog, but it has six legs, and it is ugly and cute when it runs.

Suddenly, Chen Xie heard a deer cry. She shifted her perspective and saw a female player riding a nine-color deer, running towards this side in a heroic manner, and her id was called The Doudou Woman Hero Kills the Quartet.

The monster you killed, can I skin it? I want to practice skinning skills and do the task of collecting animal skins. Doudou asked.

Yes, Chen Xie asked stupidly, Can skinning be used in this game? What's the use of animal skins?

Doudou said: Animal hides can be used to make equipment.

Oh. Chen Xie typed a word.

Form a team. Doudou said.

Chen Xie asked, How to form a team?

Doudou said: I'm here to form a group, you accept it.

After the two teamed up, Doudou initiated another deal: I'll give you a gold bar, and I'll get the skins of the monsters you kill. You are responsible for killing the beasts on this side, and I will kill the beasts on the other side of the river, which is more efficient.

You are so rich! I played the game for several days, and now I only have more than ten silver ingots. Chen Xie said in shock.

Doudou: ...

Chen Xie immediately canceled the transaction and said, You don't need to pay me, I don't know how to peel the skin anyway.

Okay. Doudou jumped off the Nine-Colored Deer, peeled off all the monsters that Chen Xie killed, and then ran to the other side of the river to kill the monsters. The monster over there was slaughtered by her, and she quickly ran back to peel the corpses here, and then found that Chen Xie had been beaten to death by the monster.

Waiting for Chen Xie to come back from the dead body, and seeing her bleeding from the wild monsters, Doudou couldn't help but ask, Did your equipment run out of durability?

Oh, I said why these monsters suddenly became stronger. Chen Xie said in surprise.

At this time, the Spring Festival was approaching, and none of Doudou's followers licking the dog was online today. Anyway, she was too bored, she felt that this cute newcomer was very interesting, so she asked, Are you a man or a woman?

A girl. Chen Xie said.

Doudou teased: Call me big sister, I'll take you to level up.

Big sister. Chen Xie typed immediately.

Doudou's level is 20 levels higher than Chen Xie's. Seeing that this cute newbie just met the conditions for entering a low-level dungeon, she took him to brush a level 15 dungeon.

Wow, I've never been to this place before. Chen Xie said in surprise.

Doudou warned: Don't stay too far away from me, be careful not to be killed by dungeon monsters.

Chen Xie immediately turned into a little follower. Seeing that it seemed easy for Doudou to cut melons and vegetables, he also tried to fight dungeon monsters, but he lost blood crazily when he hit them.

Doudou easily dealt with the monster, and couldn't help complaining: This monster is at the same level as you, and your equipment is too bad.

Oh. Chen Xie typed with a smile.

Doudou quickly killed the small boss of the dungeon. Chen Xie frantically touched the corpse and said in shock, My God, we have two pieces of blue equipment, one for each of us.

Give it to you, it's useless for me to take it. Doudou said.

Thank you big sister, Chen Xie was so happy that he typed, I've been playing for several days, and I've only seen four blue equipment. One of them is a mission reward, and the other three are from wild monsters. I can't wear a suit that blows up other professions at all.

Doudou said: These equipment are scum, and the dungeon is mainly to help you upgrade.

Oh. Chen Xie replied with two words casually, then moved the mouse to the blue clothes and looked at them again and again, like a child who loves candy so much.

Wow, another piece of blue equipment!

Wow, this monster exploded a lot of money!

Wow, the monsters here are so strong, they almost killed me with one hit.

Wow, this big boss exploded purple equipment, and there are a lot of money!

Big sister, can we make another copy? I can't wear the purple outfit that the boss exploded.

...

In this way, Chen Xie was led by Doudou to brush the dungeon all afternoon, and he didn't give up until he got the purple outfit all over. This cute newcomer seems to have obsessive-compulsive disorder. She took off the high-level blue outfit and replaced it with level 5 and 8 garbage purple outfits. She had to turn herself into a piece of purple to be happy.

I'm going offline. Doudou said suddenly.

Chen Xie quickly typed: Thank you big sister, goodbye big sister!

Continue tomorrow? Doudou asked.

Well, Chen Xie asked, Is Big Sister already working?

Doudou asked back, What about you?

Chen Xie said, I'm still in my freshman year.

Doudou began to run the train with his mouth full: I am 30 years old and a software engineer.

Wow, that's amazing! Chen Xie admired infinitely.

Doudou was flickering: little sister, don't bother playing games, you should read more books and study more. When you start working in the future, you will know that learning opportunities in college are hard-won. This is given to you by someone who has been here advice.

Chen Xie immediately said, Yes, I will study hard.

After chatting for a while, guessing that it was time for his parents to get off work, Chen Xie quickly quit the game and ran to the kitchen to wash rice and cook. She was humming while washing rice, and she was in a very happy mood. This game made her discover a new world. It was much more interesting than chatting on QQ before, and there was an enthusiastic big sister in the game.

Hahahahaha!

Doudou sat in front of the computer and laughed happily, it was so interesting to fool Mengxin.

After logging in to the Shan Hai Jing Official Forum, Doudou began to read posts. Most of the top-up posts are technical posts, but the top one is an emotional post.

The landlord said in the post that this game made him feel very warm. He met a high-level player a few days ago, because he helped that player collect feathers, and gradually became friends with him. The other party took him to level up and run missions for two whole nights, and even dragged him into the guild. Yesterday he came to the pvp map alone, and was killed many times by a gold player. He yelled in the guild channel, which directly led to a big PK between two guilds with hundreds of people.

I'm just a novice at level 30, and I only know two or three people in the guild, and I haven't even played a team copy with them. But I only say that I was guarded by someone's corpse. Those brothers and sisters in the guild, as long as they are online Everyone came to help, and even delayed the opening of the gang book. Later, I apologized to everyone, but everyone comforted me, saying that the group book can be opened at any time, and the gang members must stand up and help if they are bullied. Since childhood Da, I am a very ordinary person, with an ordinary family, an ordinary school, an ordinary grade, and an ordinary job. I have never been valued by others. A strong sense of presence…”

There are a lot of replies to this post, most of them are talking about their own touching experiences, completely immersed in the atmosphere of there is true love in the world.

Another Tucao post was also highly praised:

The game is good, but I can't afford it!

On the day of the public beta, I went to the Internet cafe with my friends, and it was already full. The situation where the entire Internet cafe used to play Legend as a group disappeared, and most of the computers were waiting to play Shan Hai Jing. The promotion of this game is very strong , No matter what game I played before, I want to come in and experience it. I signed up with my friends, and then it was very embarrassing because I still need to queue up. This is the first time I have encountered a game that requires a queue to play.”

It took more than 40 minutes to queue, and it took more than 10 minutes to read the article in the game, and I burned my Internet fee for an hour.

Finally entered the game, the birth point is densely packed with people, and the game experience is super bad! I finally encountered a wild monster, and I started to attack, but the result reminded me that I had to face the target. I thought about it. This game is also too strenuous, I was not happy at first, then suddenly disconnected, and when I log in again, I have to queue again.

This is my experience of playing Shan Hai Jing, queuing for an hour, fighting monsters for five minutes, freezing, disconnecting, logging in, endless loop.

There are also many replies to this post, including ridicule, approval, and watering.

Haha, the Internet cafe the landlord went to is too bad, I guess they still use 512 broadband.

This game machine is really bad, especially the graphics card. In an Internet cafe over there, because playing Shan Hai Jing is too laggy, the boss has already upgraded the computer in an all-round way.

It takes more than 10 minutes to read the game? The machine in your Internet cafe is 486, and my computer reads the article in more than 10 seconds and it comes out.

...

On the day when Shan Hai Jing started its public beta, 300,000 people were online at the same time. Such a hot scene made Excalibur Networks have to increase the number of servers, but it was still unable to satisfy those enthusiastic players. The number of servers could not be increased casually. It had nothing to do with money, but related to game operation issues.

On the second day of the public beta, the number of simultaneous online users dropped wildly, falling below 200,000.

Excalibur Internet Company urgently sent people to investigate, and it turned out that the configuration of the Internet cafe could not keep up. Either the network speed is too slow, or the computer is too poor, many players can't bear the lag and disconnection, so they are so angry that they play other games.

However, as word of mouth fermented and the number of concurrent online users plummeted, it continued to grow steadily every day.

About half a month later, seeing that the Chinese New Year was about to come, the number of concurrent users of Shan Hai Jing suddenly increased to 500,000! On the one hand, the impact of the Spring Festival holiday, and on the other hand, many Internet cafes have completed equipment upgrades. The combination of the two factors has caused the game to be extremely popular.

The industry was shocked!

It's been less than 20 days since the Nima public beta, and the highest number of simultaneous online users has exceeded 500,000. Is it okay to continue like this?

The Ninetowns employees worked overtime, and finally announced that World of Warcraft had started a test with limited numbers and deleted files before the Spring Festival. As a result, countless players who were attracted by the beautiful painting style of Shan Hai Jing were defeated when creating characters, because the characters inside were too ugly!

Sometimes European and American game companies are also very funny, the game content is so wonderful, why do they make the game characters so ugly?

European and American players don't care about character image? Stop talking nonsense!

When League of Legends was first launched, the characters in it were ugly. In order to cater to the domestic market, Tencent made a set of beautiful hero skins. As a result, this set of skins was well received in Europe and the United States, and the number of downloads increased exponentially. Seeing this situation, the fist company simply changed the Tencent skin to the official skin, and then began to recruit a large number of Asian artists.

In the original time and space, there is no similar game to grab the market. Now, Shan Hai Jing has a first-mover advantage and local cultural advantages, attracting most passer-by players.

Many of those who are still unswervingly playing World of Warcraft are old fans of Blizzard. On the second day after the server was launched, the number of online users of World of Warcraft dropped by 30%. These are all people who came to experience it. After the experience, they went back to continue playing Shan Hai Jing.

Moreover, due to the short preparation time, the Chinese technical team of World of Warcraft has not fully grasped the game, and all kinds of messy small problems continue to appear in the original time and space. The month is officially in operation. Now that the pre-preparation time has been postponed by half a year, the public beta test time has been advanced by two months, which means that at least eight months of preparation time have been shortened. It is no wonder that there are no problems!

But Mr. Zhu really had no choice, because Shan Hai Jing was too popular. If you continue to drag down until the Shan Hai Jing has a firm foothold, then World of Warcraft can only follow behind and eat farts.

Although it was seized by Shan Hai Jing and despite its own minor problems, Warcraft has cultivated too many die-hard fans in China, and Blizzard's market background is far deeper than that of Excalibur Network. World of Warcraft itself is such a game, which made these Blizzard fans deeply obsessed, so they brought their friends around to play.

Two games of the same type, just like this, the number of players continues to increase, and the players on both sides begin to become incompatible, often building thousands of stories in post bars and forums.

At this time, World of Warcraft was sweeping the world. In the relatively large online game market, only China and South Korea successfully resisted the invasion of Warcraft.

South Korea has Paradise 2, and China has Shan Hai Jing, both of which are in their respective countries, firmly suppressing World of Warcraft.