Chapter 285: Thunder's Fury, Blessed Sword of the Wind Seeker
Weekend night.
This is the most active time of the week for players.
This is also the time when news spreads fastest.
Many people have just got home from get off work or school, and as usual, after dinner, they turn on their computers and prepare to play games.
However.
Just at this moment.
A piece of breaking news suddenly spread across the entire gaming community at an incredibly fast speed.
"Brothers, hurry up! Come to World of Warcraft, the PK in this game is really awesome!"
"Damn, thousands of people are fighting on the same screen, and the server didn't crash. It makes my blood boil."
"The fight lasted from noon to night, and several big guilds sent people over to support them. The voice chat was really busy."
"Many anchors also went there. It was an amazing scene."
After playing MMO for so many years, they had never seen a PK battle of this scale. They were immediately excited and downloaded World of Warcraft one after another.
The other players who had just received the news were shocked.
Thousands of people compete on the same screen.
All the major anchor guilds are joining the battle?
Out of curiosity, they all ran to various live broadcast rooms to check.
As a result, as soon as I clicked into the "World of Warcraft" section, a sea of PK scenes came into view.
Click into any live broadcast room, and you will see the hosts and viewers shouting and directing the battles, looking extremely excited.
After seeing the game screen, their eyes widened in disbelief.
people.
Countless people.
In just the area where the anchor was, there were at least hundreds of people fighting each other crazily.
Behind the front line, there is a steady stream of players coming to join the battle.
Many thieves roamed and sneaked around in the marginal areas, engaging in fierce fighting and ambushing with lone enemies.
The healing team in the rear shines brightly, providing support to the players on the front line.
Under their treatment, the warriors charged forward collectively, slammed into the opposing crowd and slaughtered them wantonly.
Each profession has its own performance.
The whole scene was extremely exciting.
"Fuck! This game looks so fun."
"Thousands of people fighting together, this is too spectacular."
"And there are so many professions. Each profession has its own characteristics, and they can be matched with each other."
"Too powerful, this scene is absolutely amazing!"
“I haven’t seen such an awesome MMO in a long time.”
"World of Warcraft, huh? Go download it now!"
The spectacular battle scenes in the live broadcast room instantly captured the hearts of countless players, who simply dropped other games they were playing and ran to download World of Warcraft.
Because the gap is really too big!
You are still slowly completing tasks and upgrading, each doing their own thing like a robot.
The team battle has already started.
And it was a large-scale group battle involving thousands of people.
How could this not make them tempted?
Even if they don't go for team battles, they are still deeply attracted by the social environment between game guilds and players.
Yes!
Just socialize!
For an MMO game, social attributes are extremely important.
They saw strong social attributes in this game that other competing products did not have.
Players spontaneously organized themselves to fight against the enemy together.
Even strangers can lend a hand in times of crisis.
There are also souls of players squatting in the cemetery chatting and gossiping because of too many deaths. The lively and harmonious scene undoubtedly has a fatal attraction to them.
As a result, many people who were still playing other games switched to "World of Warcraft" and began their own magical adventure.
…
Sichuan city.
Shengqu headquarters.
An employee holding a report hurriedly ran through the aisles to find his supervisor who was patrolling.
"Director, something terrible has happened! The number of online users of Oracle has suddenly dropped by more than half a million! And the situation is getting worse!"
His voice was filled with anxiety, and even his steps were much faster than usual.
You have to know that this is the weekend with the largest player traffic. Even if the number of online users does not increase, it should not drop so drastically.
As expected.
After hearing his report, the director's face suddenly darkened: "What's going on? Why did it drop so much?"
"It is said...it is said that because of the prehistoric events, many players have gone to play World of Warcraft."
"Primordial?"
“ Yes… yes.”
When he first heard the news, he was a little bit unbelieving.
But when I checked it online, I was shocked.
Almost the entire Internet was filled with discussions about World of Warcraft, and an entry related to this game directly became a hot search.
#Ten thousand people fighting, who dares to fight! #
When I clicked on the hot search, I saw that it was all team battle scenes in the game.
Even though he was a game developer, he was terrified by the scene and even more shocked by Honghuang's courage.
They are actually willing to invest so many resources to fill up the server.
Are they so confident that their game will be a hit?
"How many people are online for us and Honghuang now?" the director asked in a deep voice.
"Our peak before noon was 4.5 million, and now it has dropped below 4 million. Honghuang hasn't released any news yet, but we estimate... it's around 4 million."
"You caught up so quickly?" The man's pupils shrank.
If he remembered correctly, before today, the online rate of the game Honghuang had been fluctuating around 1.5 million, which was even lower than that of several other competing products.
But now, only one day has passed, and they have reached the same level as them, catching up with their advantage of going online three months earlier!
How terrifyingly hot ?
"Go, get them ready right away and announce the next expansion pack. We must stabilize the situation!"
"Isn't this... a little too early?"
"Three months, plus two months of promotion, is enough. What we need to do now is to retain the players. Let's do it quickly."
"Okay, I'll go inform them right away."
After saying that, the employee left in a hurry.
Originally they were planning to release this expansion pack at the end of the year, so it would be just right to have one major update a year.
But in the current situation, we can only shorten the time to about to attract as many players as possible.
Anyway, Oracle still has 4 million online players, so there is no need to worry too much in the short term.
In comparison.
The situation with other manufacturers is much more confusing.
As MMO games, their online rates have been affected to varying degrees.
A large number of players left.
The senior executives were so shocked that they held an emergency meeting.
Those who were previously gloating over the lack of popularity of the Honghuang game now looked grim, watching helplessly as the players were snatched away by Honghuang.
As one gains, the other loses.
The online rate of "World of Warcraft" soared, but their game not only did not increase, but instead dropped sharply.
Especially Penguin's "Swordsman".
From the very beginning, this game was promoted with large-scale gang battles and siege battles as its selling points, claiming that group battles of hundreds of people would not lag.
As a result, when the video of Honghuang’s group battle of tens of thousands of people came out, it instantly turned into a clown, and the number of players plummeted by nearly 800,000!
The top management was so angry that they slammed the table.
As a last resort, major manufacturers had to advance the planned update content and increase publicity and promotion efforts, which barely managed to stabilize the online presence.
And the situation of the MMO market.
There were also huge changes due to the sudden rise of Honghuang.
only.
But no one knows.
At this time, Honghuang was brewing another big move.
…
"Boss Chen, isn't the special effect of this 'Thunder's Fury, Blessed Sword of the Windseeker' a bit too exaggerated?"
In the Dawn team, Lao Li and Chen Lin stood in front of the computer, watching the weapon pictures that the employees were rendering.
It was a long sword with a double edge in the middle and a cold and domineering spike on the handle.
The sword blade was sharp, emitting a faint blue light that enveloped the entire sword.
The most eye-catching thing is a dazzling ball of light in the center of the crack, which constantly flashes with traces of lightning power and looks domineering and unparalleled.
[Thunderfury, Blessed Sword of the Windseeker]
Bind when picked up
One-handed sword (speed 1.9)
44-115 damage (53.9 damage per second)
+16-30 Nature Damage
+5 Agility
+8 Stamina
+8 Fire Resistance
+9 Nature Resistance
Durability: 125/125
Requires level 60
Chance on hit: Strike the enemy with the force of lightning, dealing 300 Nature damage, then strike the next nearby enemy.
Each time the lightning jumps, it reduces the target's natural resistance by 25 points, can attack 5 targets, and reduces the target's attack speed by 20% for 12 seconds.
…
The quality of this weapon is orange.
Even the special effects are different from other equipment, and are many levels higher. No wonder Lao Li would ask this.
Chen Lin smiled and said, "No, this is fine. The more exaggerated the special effects, the better. It should be different from other equipment. After all, this is one of the few orange equipment."
"What about the final boss? Is there anything that needs to be changed?"
Lao Li continued to ask, looking at the monster design on another computer.
In the picture, there is a fire giant with blazing flames all over his body, holding a giant lava hammer in his hand, which is another orange equipment.
"Hmm..." Chen Lin looked at the model on the computer and fell into deep thought.
Then he stretched out his hand and pointed to his shoulders and head.
"Here, and here, turn up the brightness a little, add some lava spikes, and increase the flames on the body as well. I want that oppressive feeling of raging flames."
As the final boss of the first raid, you must pull out all the cards.
to this end.
Chen Lin even had the rendering of the entire battle field raised by several levels in order to show the burning sensation of fighting in a sea of lava and fire.
After all, this concerns his future plans.
A grand e-sports event.
He wanted all players to be shocked by the scene when they saw Fire Lord Ragnaros for the first time!
So this time he seemed particularly concerned.
After solving the production problems.
He went to the dubbing room again to check the dubbing of each character.
"Let the fire purify everything!"
The roars and howls mixed with the mixed sound echoed throughout the dubbing studio, shaking the eardrums of everyone outside.
The voice actor responsible for the Fire Lord was a well-known veteran voice actor in China who was specially hired by Chen Lin at a large expense.
Just this one roar showed his dubbing skills to the fullest, making him sigh that the money was not wasted.
After standing outside for a while and listening to other dubbings and finding nothing wrong, he did not stay any longer and went outside to find Lao Song.
"How is it? Has the online rate stabilized?"
"It's still rising. It's now over 4.5 million."
Old Song took a deep breath, his eyes filled with excitement and shock.
In just two days over the weekend, the number of online users of their World of Warcraft soared from 1.5 million to 4.5 million, a full increase of 3 million!
You have to know that even though "Oracle", which is represented by Shanda, has a good reputation abroad and was launched so long in advance, its best result is just this.
Now they have caught up in two days.
To say I wasn't excited would be a lie.
Not to mention the online game team under him, each of them was already extremely excited.
Because they can feel it.
This game is likely to become a major IP under their Honghuang, and it is entirely possible that it will continue to grow!
"4.5 million?"
Chen Lin's eyes lit up. This was much faster than he had expected.
It’s even catching up with the free game DNF.
"In that case, let's prepare. Once Lao Li has finished the production, we'll release the update announcement. We'll also contact the previous venue and pre-lease it for half a month."
"What about the scale? Will it be the same as last time?" asked Lao Song.
"No, let's do something bigger this time. Since the players are so enthusiastic, let's do something big too. We'll double the prize money and have both PVP and PVE events running at the same time!"
