Chapter 246 Setting an unprecedented new record in the industry
On Saturday, June 24, around 7 a.m., Fog Mirror Game Company announced the latest number of reservations.
The outside world was stunned when they saw the total number of domestic player reservations of 157.1 million. Everyone already knew that this game would be a hit, but they never expected that it would become such a big hit.
"It's outrageous. The number of reservations is 157 million. How powerful is the third brother's assist?"
At this moment, a colleague in the industry was so upset when he saw the exaggerated data released by Fog Mirror Games. He felt that the third brother had contributed at least 60 million in reservations before.
The number of player reservations was originally around 70 million and has slowed down.
As a result, the third brother's operation ignited everyone's emotions. Coupled with the anticipation of the big battlefield mode, and the support of many factors both on and off the field, the number of players increased dramatically.
The country’s huge population base is also key, otherwise it would not have been possible to achieve the exaggerated number of reservations of 157.1 million.
It is worth mentioning that many foreign players are also interested in this game, especially the operation of the third brother. After the video was released, it also caused heated discussions on the Internet.
And "Machine War" has attracted more than 18 million global players. This game has not yet been negotiated for PS platform and Xbox platform. If overseas players want to play this game, they can only play it through PC.
In other words, including foreign players, there are actually 175.1 million people.
However, Fog Mirror Game Company did not release data on foreign players, but third-party data platforms also gave an estimate of approximately 15.5 million people.
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today is Saturday, and the majority of players have relatively sufficient time.
Now, people from all walks of life, especially colleagues in the gaming industry, want to know what an exaggerated new historical record "Machine War" will set on the first day of its launch.
The official launch time of the game is at 10 o'clock sharp. At this time, thousands of players have opened the client of "Machine War Storm", and the game has already been pre-installed.
Many players have already downloaded the game, but now the "Start Game" icon is still gray and cannot be clicked.
Everyone is gearing up and waiting for 10 o'clock to arrive.
At this moment, many players are also teasing that Fog Mirror Game Company will lose money and go bankrupt. 157.1 million players will be given 20,000 points on the first day they log in, which is theoretically equivalent to giving out points worth 31.4 billion.
At the same time, there is a group of people who are also gearing up and preparing a large number of plug-ins, releasing them for free and easily downloading them.
Among these people, domestic colleagues account for the majority. They call themselves friends and businessmen, but their actions are also very sinister.
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As time goes by, it’s 10 o’clock sharp.
Countless players refreshed the client and found that the gray "Start Game" icon turned into gold.
You can indeed enter the game after clicking it and wait for the game to load.
"Holy shit, this server is awesome. More than 300,000 people are queuing up, and it really only takes seven minutes to get in?" A player was surprised to see how long he had to wait in line after entering the game.
It was basically expected that we would queue up today, but it was quite surprising that there were so many people queuing in front of us and the waiting time did not exceed 10 minutes.
In about 6 minutes, this player successfully queued up.
Then the full screen of the game was turned on, and the first picture that appeared was the opening CG animation.
Hold the Esc key for about two seconds to exit the CG animation. However, this player did not choose to exit, but planned to finish enjoying the opening CG.
“It’s awesome, this CG special effects and this grand scene, it’s hard to believe that it was created by a domestic game.”
This player was admiring the opening CG animation. Although he had seen it many times at Bilibili, it still made him feel amazing. The CGs of AAA games from the world’s top game manufacturers are just like this.
As the opening CG was played, the main interface of the game was officially entered, and it immediately showed that 20,000 points had been received.
This player clicked to confirm, looked at the UI interface of the game and couldn't help but nod in praise.
"The UI is very good, and the look and feel is very comfortable."
He is a reserved player, and his game account has already been registered. There is no need to fill in the account ID and nickname when entering the game for the first time.
The nickname has already been decided and can be played directly.
After a while, the player clicked directly to enter the game matching, without going through the novice tutorial process, because he had already watched many trial videos, plus he was an FPS player, and had also played "PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds". There was basically no learning cost to get started with this game, so there was no need to go through the novice tutorial.
Time passed by, and the number of people online at the same time in the game exceeded one million at 10:05.
The platform next door has also exceeded 10,000 people online. Although it cannot be compared with the Chinese client platform, it is still a very eye-catching figure. After all, the number of reserved players on the platform is 18 million, and there is also a time difference problem. Foreign players are already asleep by now.
It has only been open for five or six minutes, and it has exceeded 10,000 people. It can be seen that the trend of popularity is also obvious, and it is definitely heading towards millions of people online.
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The headquarters of Fog Mirror Game Company.
"The latest PCU (simultaneous online) data shows that it has exceeded the 5 million mark in half an hour, and it is still soaring rapidly!" A staff member stared at the background data and reported excitedly.
At this moment, all the employees present were extremely excited.
They all know that "Machine War" will set an unprecedented record in the industry.
Meng Liangyu is also watching here at the moment. He is actually extremely excited, but he is just holding it back.
Ten minutes passed quickly.
“Record-breaking, record-breaking, PCU data soared to 7.55 million!”
Those present immediately cheered excitedly. The online record of 7.5 million set by “League of Legends” in 2014 was broken within 40 minutes after the server was launched. It was as easy as drinking water.
At about 10:52, the number of people online at the same time in "Machine War" officially exceeded the 10 million mark.
It has become the first game in history to have more than 10 million people online at the same time, and breaking the 10 million mark is not the end, the data is still being refreshed.
The key is to look at around eight o'clock in the evening. This time is the peak stage of data, because many people still have to work overtime on Saturdays and have no time to log in during the day.
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The next weekend.
At about 8:30 in the morning, Lu An had just finished breakfast.
After a while, Lingxi came to the living room with a laptop and said to Lu An, who was sitting here: "Master, Meng Liangyu sent you a video request."
Meng Qiuyan also came to the living room, took the laptop and sat down next to Lu An.
"It's probably time to report the results. Open it. Xiaoling, remember to encrypt the video connection." Lu An smiled and Meng Qiuyan turned on the computer and connected to the video connection.
As soon as the screen appeared, Meng Liangyu in the video suddenly said excitedly:
"Brother-in-law, the data on the first day of the game's launch has come out. We have created an unprecedented record. The peak PCU on the first day was 55.67 million, which is 7.42 times that of League of Legends."
Hearing this, Lu An was quite satisfied and said: "Not bad."
Meng Qiuyan next to him immediately said: "The key is to look at the online rate performance in the second half of the year. On the first day, because of the bonus of 20,000 coupons for logging in, everyone went online on the same day, which created more than 50 million PCU data."
Meng Liangyu nodded and said, "Of course I know this, no. With such a large base, it should not be a big problem to maintain a simultaneous online rate of more than 10 million daily in the future. "
Lu An smiled: "No matter how you put it, this result is real, and having such explosive data performance is beneficial to the game itself."
With this peak PCU data, it is difficult for a second game to break the record in the next thirty years.
Because there is no game manufacturer that is as special as "Machine War", and there is no such thing as Lu An that does not require making money from the game, so they will give out coupons on the day it is launched.
Just for this reason, other game manufacturers will never dare to play it.
At this time, Meng Liangyu said with admiration: "Brother-in-law, the anti-cheat system you designed is so powerful. The background data shows that nearly 100,000 abnormal accounts were detected on the first day the game was launched, and the number is still increasing significantly."
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(End of this chapter)