Chapter 489 Released
A month passed quickly.
During this period, Jester was almost focused on completing the limitations of the two games he is currently working on.
Oracle also gave Jester a very clear news.
JPMorgan Chase agreed to Jester's request for capital injection, but if you want to get 10% of the shares, the funds you need are not a small amount, and at least $100 million is required. As for the specific interview date, it is set for one and a half months later, almost after the interview, that is, when Jester gets married.
Jester looked at the schedule posted on one wall.
At this time, he realized that tomorrow was the release date of "The Stone Guardian". He patted his head and seemed to remember that yesterday afternoon, the Fengxing release sent him a document about the release plan for the release date of "The Stone Guardian".
I want to ask myself what else to add.
At that time, I just said something casually and said it, but I just threw the document aside and then forgot when I started working.
Thinking of this, Jester flipped through the files piled up. Because they only got them yesterday, they found them very easily. After a rough look, there was no suggestion to add them. In fact, Jester himself was not concerned about the sales of "The Stone Guardian".
This was originally his own work of interest.
However, fans who had quarreled over him before did not think so. Richard Garrett's fans are actually not very accurate to say this. To be precise, the American RPG fans share the same hatred and share their dissatisfaction with Jester.
This also vented this dissatisfaction on Jester's new game "The Stone Guardian".
This is a PC game, and the most common PC game players are American RPG players. If they do not support this game, it is difficult to sell sales.
Of course, Jester has many fans, and although most of them are fans of the console, in this era, although computers have not yet become popular in the United States, those who like to play games basically have their own computers. Whether they are used to play games is just a matter of whether they are used to play games.
Jester looked at other news again.
Richard Garrett's Genesis 4 is released the day after tomorrow. That is to say, it is one day later than "The Stone Guardian".
Regarding the bet between "The Stone Guardian" and "Genesis 4", not only was it hyped up by supporters of both sides in this primitive network environment, but also in reality, it was also added fuel to many media that could not find any good news.
It's still one day before it is released.
In the first store of "The Stone Guardian", there were people queuing up in a long queue.
It was originally a small production like this, but even if it was produced by Jester, it wouldn't be like this. What's more, it's a PC game with a small audience, but who made the previous bet?
Many media also said that this was something that Jester deliberately took on, saying that he wanted to drive the sales of his game.
Moreover, "The Stone Guardian" was not distributed in the previous article. Because it was a small production, the number of game floppy disks produced in the first batch was not large, with only about 500,000 to 600,000 copies, and a quantity of about 500,000 and 600,000 copies will be produced in the future. Such a quantity is very high for a PC game.
But if you think that this is a Jester game, it is quite rare.
"It is expected to be sold at most 200,000 floppy disks on the first day!"
Jester consulted an expert in the game distribution of Xiafengxing. The expert said that according to the forecast, the first day of the first release can be sold for about 200,000 copies, which is already a very impressive number, because the release range of this game is not as large as "Thor Hammer" or "Age of Empires".
So it is impossible to achieve the results of these two games being close to one million on the first day.
The result of 200,000 is 99% of PC games, and the cumulative sales volume is impossible to achieve.
As for the sales of "Genesis 4", the other party's prediction will not be less than 800,000 in the first month. You should know that the sales of the "Genesis" series have a record of more than one million in single work. Now, because of the gambling incident, Genesis and American RPG players have a hatred for the enemy.
So, in this case, even if Genesis 4 is of average quality, the sales will not be small, after all, is sentiment?
What's more, the news I got from my friends that although Genesis 4 is not a masterpiece, it is still a very excellent American RPG. It is made in a normal manner, without any special highlights, but also without any shortcomings.
Jester thought about it himself.
He also felt that "The Stone Guardian" might not have an absolute chance of winning, so he picked up the phone again and prepared to release a message he was going to release in advance.
This time, the box of the Rune Stone Guardian will contain an independent account and an independent password. This thing is used to verify the Internet after building it with the future battle network. The news that Jester is preparing to promote is this.
The construction of the battle network is still in progress, and it will take as long as three months. In addition to debugging and testing, it may have to wait until the end of this year.
However, in fact, during the test, you can also invite a small number of players to participate.
Jester picked up the phone and called the people who released the Fengxing. They were responsible for the distribution of "The Stone Guardian".
"You will send a message to the public immediately, saying that the game account card in the "Runish Guardian" sold in the first three days is the Battle Network verification certificate we prepared. If you purchased it in the first three days, you will have the opportunity to obtain the first batch of test qualifications for our Battle Network. This qualification is extremely precious, and there will be no more than 3,000. Moreover, this Battle Network is not only prepared for "Runish Guardian", but "Thorhaps", "Age of Empires" and all PC games developed by Mars Entertainment in the future will be listed on this platform..."
Although there is only one day left before the release.
But the speed of spreading new news that Jester, which was suddenly released before it was released is amazing.
In this era, the Internet spread far less rapidly than later generations.
As for temporarily playing advertisements on TV, one is not worth it, and the second is that the TV is not turned on by your home. You can just put it on. In addition to letting people post these messages on some fan forums of Jester or Mars Entertainment, it is mainly direct notification from the sales point or flagship store.
It was through this word of mouth that the number of people waiting for the release of "The Stone Guardian" tripled!
You know, Jester said it very clearly in his previous words.
"After that all the games developed by Mars Entertainment on PC will be added to the Battlenet. Online battles have always been advocated and worked hard to let all players experience it, because I think whether a game is fun or not is online."
"Those console players have unique advantages because they are born to play with their friends and gain far more than One Plus One's game fun, but PC players, sorry, before "Thunder Hammer", I'm afraid I haven't seen you have such an opportunity to share the fun of the game with your friends."
"In my opinion, nothing is more important than sharing. So, after careful consideration, although the technology may be a bit immature, I am still trying to build a platform that is based on the Internet, which I call it a battle network."
"The meaning is very simple, it means being able to fight together on the same network."
"Of course, this road is a brand new attempt. No one has ever done this. It is a lot of difficulties, but we are also trying to solve it. After the battle network is built, we will invite a small number of players to participate in this test. Part of the selection of the first batch of testers is from the first three days of the release of "Runite Guardian", the card in the game floppy disk packaging is the only standard we choose."
Although Jester's words about the choice method in this announcement are unknown, it should not be too difficult to guess.
Just from Jester's description.
Battlenet?
Can you fight "Thor Hammer" or "Age of Empire" with players in the entire North American world?
Is this impossible?
Although many people don’t believe Jester’s statement, this does not prevent them from spreading this news. Then more and more players who were not interested in "The Runestone Guardian" also began to gather. Although they were not interested in "The Runestone Guardian", they were interested in the test qualifications of the Battle.com.
"The Stone Guardian" is not released the next morning.
Instead, it will be released at 24 a.m.
This was also a try by Jester. He wanted to try it out. Can it solve the many problems caused by the release during the day?
Among them, there are things that many players are dissatisfied with because they cannot buy games on the first day.
When it was almost twenty-four o'clock, Jester was still busy in the office. In terms of popular distribution, he wanted Jester to go to the flagship store of Mars Entertainment in Los Angeles to make a debut, and finally give another passionate speech, which will definitely arouse more enthusiasm for buying.
But Jester refused.
He felt that he was here and quietly waiting for the release result was the best choice. (To be continued, please search for Astronomy, novels are better, updated and faster!
Chapter completed!