Back to 2000: From making games to becoming the richest man in the world

On Saturday, May 20, 2000, the most colorful stroke in the Chinese online game market fell on this day.

Because on this day, in Rong City, a small city in the south of China, there was a game called Bloody War Song.

Officially launched!

Fifteen days of large-scale testing has made this game a lot of eyeballs.

Countless players who were looking forward to the new game, invariably, walked to the door of the Internet café on this day.

Zhou Zhen made the head teacher speechless with excellent results, and could only approve leave.

After all, today is the first day of the game I made, of course, I have to go to the front line and control the overall situation! Zhou Zhen appeared at the door of the familiar Internet café early in the morning.

However, at eight o'clock, the entrance of the free Internet café was already full of people.

"Come on, come on! The brother of the new member will directly receive a 5 yuan blood war song recharge card! Remember to bring the prefix of freedom when you enter the game at ten o'clock!" Zhang

Meng's familiar voice made Zhou Zhen smile slightly, although this product is in his forties, but this enthusiasm is still the same as that of young people.

Paying out of his own pocket, losing money and making money, this is Zhang Meng's own way, let more people enter the bloody war song, 5 yuan a bloody war song recharge card, Zhang Meng entered a thousand, he didn't plan to sell it at all, but gave it as a gift for Internet café activities.

Two old members! One new member!

This is not that Zhang Meng likes to lose money and find abuse.

It's because Zhang Meng knows that every time he pulls a person into the Internet café, he will immediately become a player of the bloody war song, which is not necessarily.

But this person will definitely register

as a member in his own free Internet café! After registering as a member, he will experience the atmosphere of the players who play bloody war songs in the Internet café.

Zhang Meng doesn't think that these netizens who come to the Internet café to play games will not be able to blend in.

Compared with the cost of 5,000 yuan, what is there not to do with attracting new customers and serving old customers?

!"Lao Zhang! I brought all the people from our unit here today, what time does the game start!

"A man in a decent suit walked in front of Zhang Meng with seven or eight people who were also dressed in suits, and at first glance they were social elites, Zhang Meng looked at this person, grinned at the corners of his mouth, and said with a smile: "Mr. Liu! It's great that you are here to cheer! It will open at ten o'clock today!" We were born to be a free guild, and we were the first in the whole region during the internal test, and now that the public beta is out, we also want to be the first in the whole region!" "

Mr. Liu, the man who competed with Zhang Meng for the flame knife skill book, is also the first

local tyrant in the free Internet café bloody war song! Even if he knew that the file would be deleted, in those fifteen days, Mr. Liu paid for the people in the Internet café to buy equipment, or hired several young men to take turns to take care of the role, all of which showed Mr. Liu's true character as a local tyrant.

He has been friends with Zhang Meng for many years, and he is also willing to be a vice president for Zhang Meng, as long as he can get the first place in the district, he doesn't care about anything else.

After handing out the last gift card, Zhang Meng saw Zhou Zhen smoking against a tree, and quickly stood up and walked in front of Zhou Zhen: "My little Mr. Zhou, the game is about to start, why are you still smoking outside." Hurry up, on the second floor of the Internet café, I have reserved the private room you came to for the first time!"

"Let's go upstairs and chat, and wait for the service to start!" Although

Zhou Zhen is completely prepared and can deal with most things, but looking at May 20 on the wall calendar, Zhou Zhen moved a wave of careful thoughts.

What double 11 promotion in later generations, 1212 or something, as well as the homophonic stalks such as 520 and 521 that were broken in later generations, in this era in 2000, have not yet been popularized, and may not even have appeared

! And this opportunity, of course, Zhou Zhen will not miss it

! Overnight, he replaced the promotional slogan on the official website with: 520! I love you! Bloody war song, waiting for you to fight!

On the first day of the new game, plus the players at this time have not yet developed the kryptonite Xi habit, Zhou Zhen of course has to raise their kryptonite Xi step by step.

At ten o'clock, the bloody war song was officially opened, and Zhou Zhen, who was sitting on the second floor of the free Internet café, stared at his computer with a smile, and the program that prompted the number of people who were online and the number of people who registered at the same time.

"100!

", "200!", "800!", "

10000!", in a few minutes, the number of online users directly exceeded 10,000

! This is Zhou Zhen, leaking the client in advance, in advance, leaving the impression of the game of bloody war songs in the hearts of netizens across the country

!

Zhang Meng sat next to Zhou Zhen, also staring at this rising number, full of anticipation.

"Full server announcement: The current number of online people has reached 150,000, in order to give back to all players, this game will randomly refresh a thousand welfare eggs in the novice village area!"

"After the welfare egg is broken, you can get a 9*9 range of explosions, and the explosive items are: skill books, gold coins, equipment, potions, etc., and in order to commemorate the exciting day of 520, specially prepared for all players: Love Rose!".

Looking at this announcement that suddenly appeared in the middle of the game, Zhang Meng slapped his thigh violently and said: "Brother Zhou! You didn't tell me about this event before! 9*9 big explosion!! I knew I should tell the brothers in the Internet café to get ready!" Zhou

Zhen patted Zhang Meng's shoulder and said in a low voice: "The game started today, I did several activities, all of which were triggered, Brother Zhang, you saw this activity, you only saw the 9*9 explosion, but you didn't find it." "

The number of people online at the same time is already 150,000!After that, it will rise again! The amount of blood I set for the welfare egg is 2000 blood, and the player will be forced to lose 1 blood at a time, that is, it will take 2000 hits to burst. "

The game is set up so that players in the same formation can pick it up freely, and other players need to wait for a minute of protection period to expire before they can pick it up.

"What do you think, 150,000 people, grab a thousand eggs, what will happen? What will happen during this protection period!" Fortunately

, the server load made by Zhou Zhen is large enough, and fortunately, the bandwidth of Zhang Meng's Internet café is sufficient.

Otherwise, in less than half an hour after the server was launched, 150,000 players crowded into a server, changed to other games, and crashed long ago.

But hearing Zhou Zhen's words, cold sweat suddenly oozed from Zhang Meng's forehead.

Zhang Meng hurriedly stood up and opened the door of the private room, and roared angrily at the players on the first floor: "There is an event in this game! The brothers who beat the eggs remember to form a team! When they find the eggs, notify the brothers in the Internet café first, and then beat the eggs after clearing the field!" In

this era when the dialogue is all about roaring, Zhang Meng's big voice talent is a bit extraordinary! Zhang

Meng sniffed a strong smell of blood from Zhou Zhen's words.

Zhou Zhen seems to want the players to fight! It's only a few levels! On Zhou Zhen's screen, Zhang Meng clearly saw the data on the background, the person with the highest

level is only level 11! How many gold coins can a level 11 player buy medicine?! I'm afraid that even the smallest bundle of gold sore medicine can make this player empty his backpack! And Zhou Zhen's game setting is just a chicken thief's point card, which can buy potions.

"it! It's flashing! There's a pillar of light! This love rose is so good!" A

loud roar suddenly sounded on the first floor, and the entire Internet café was shaken.

The corners of Zhou Zhen's mouth raised, and the system of the best equipment flash with light pillar made in the games of a certain milk powder and a certain pineapple in later generations is of little practical significance, but it can extremely satisfy the vanity of players.

After all, this thing is shiny! It's different from other things!

This is also one of the settings made by Zhou Zhen in order to improve user stickiness.

"I'm a god! Love Rose is still a piece of equipment?! Such a pervert?! I want it! Five hundred! Sell it or not?" Mr

. Liu's voice was not small at all, in the private room on the second floor, Zhou Zhen and Zhang Meng heard clearly, Zhang Meng's face changed, and he looked at Zhou Zhen expectantly: "Brother Zhou, this... Love Rose ...... Or you can brush one for me?!

" The corners of Zhou Zhen's mouth raised, and he nodded: "Okay!"