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Chapter 191 0188 [The Only True God: General Lu!]

Tudou.com's office address remains the same three-bedroom house.

The company team has grown from 5 to 8 people.

Two of the new additions are programmers, specifically tasked with optimizing and improving the video buffering function.

Thanks to its partnership with Renren.com, Tudou.com experienced rapid user growth.

Before National Day, the number of registered users finally exceeded 15, with approximately 27 video views per day and more than 600 new videos uploaded daily.

This is already very impressive; 56.com only has a quarter of that.

Currently, there are only two UCG video websites, Tudou.com and 56.com, which mainly rely on user-generated and uploaded videos.

On platforms like LeTV and Sohu, users cannot upload videos; the videos are broadcast entirely through official releases.

Six Rooms and Ku6 are not yet online.

Wow, this video has so many views!

Hearing the employee's exclamation, Wang Wei quickly went over to check.

The video title was: "Zhen Ji and Lu Xun, who is the king of one-on-one combat?"

Wang Wei stared at the video for a long time, but still couldn't understand what it meant.

He doesn't play "Three Kingdoms Kill" and doesn't know the rules at all.

The company's programmers explained, "This is a video of the 1v1 preliminary round of the Three Kingdoms Kill National College League. Originally, Sun Quan was the king of 1v1, but Sun Quan, Cao Cao, Hua Tuo, Lu Meng, and divine generals were banned in the competition. After these were banned, Zhen Ji was recognized as the king of 1v1 in the competition."

"But there's more than one video of Three Kingdoms Kill, so why is this video getting such an absurdly high number of views?" Wang Wei asked.

The programmer said, "In the video, Zhen Ji, as the queen of one-on-one combat, had two major bursts of power throughout the game. But Lu Xun's combined attack was able to withstand both. In the end, Lu Xun made a comeback with low health, and with Zhen Ji having the Eight Trigrams, he used his combined attack to draw 23 cards in one go."

Another female employee said, "From the Three Kingdoms Kill League qualifiers to now, in less than four days, our registered users have increased by more than 30,000! That's equivalent to about a month's increase after we partnered with Renren.com. Moreover, our daily viewership has skyrocketed to 500,000, more than double what it used to be!"

Wang Wei thought for a moment and then instructed, "Promote the game on game forums and online communities, encourage players of all kinds of games, and create game videos to upload to Tudou.com."

The video of Zhen Ji and Lu Xun's one-on-one duel is still getting more views.

Some people were too lazy to register a Tudou.com account, but they came from other places after hearing about it and watched the video again and again.

That's incredible, it's like he's cheating.

Moreover, both sides were using cheat codes. Zhen Ji unleashed two consecutive bursts of power, drawing a total of 19 cards. Yet, she still couldn't kill Lu Xun and was even defeated by Lu Xun with low health.

……

At this moment, the Three Kingdoms Kill client displays a link to the Tudou.com video, while the official Three Kingdoms Kill website embeds the Tudou.com video for direct viewing.

Many players have stopped playing games and are now watching videos and chatting idly.

"I, Lu Shen, am awesome. Zhen Ji is nothing."

"The One True God of Three Kingdoms Kill - General Lu!"

"Seriously, the Lu Xun alliance is giving me the creeps."

"This is definitely the best match since the start of the tournament."

"Haha, that player used up all his luck for the year. He lost the next two matches in a row, and nothing he wanted came true."

"Cards aren't everything, but you can't do without them."

Out with the old, in with the new.

"I'm still too naive."

"That Tudou website is really interesting; you can actually upload your own videos."

"You just know?"

"..."

Youke also uploaded the match recordings of the game "Three Kingdoms Kill" to 56.com, but half a day later than Tudou.com. Furthermore, the official "Three Kingdoms Kill" website did not include a link to 56.com.

However, it has already increased the popularity of 56.com to some extent.

The preliminary rounds of the competition lasted for seven days, with the "Top Ten Matches of the Day" selected each day and made into videos for players to enjoy. The remaining matches were broadcast via text and images.

At the end of last year, China had 2580 million broadband users. More users are using dial-up internet.

By the time of this year's National Day, the number of broadband users had increased to 3500 million.

Broadband users are increasing by an average of 102 million per month!
This rapid growth provided the foundation for the development of Xiaonei.com, Kaixin.com, and Sanguosha.com, and also created an environment for the development of Tudou.com and 56.com.

"The upcoming North and South regional round-robin tournaments will be held online every weekend," Qu Guohao said, "and will continue until the end of the semester. The round of 16, semi-finals, and finals will be held offline during the winter break. At that time, we will also sell tickets to the event and invite 'Game Storm' to record and broadcast it."

Chen Guiliang asked, "How were the activities these past few days?"

Qu Guohao said, "Daily active users have doubled, and the number of daily top-ups has nearly doubled. In particular, college student players are very enthusiastic because they each have a school team. Some schools have been eliminated, but their students are still supporting their local schools."

"After watching the match replays and reading the pictures and text posts, players can't help but log in and play a few rounds. In a moment of impulse, they recharge their accounts. Diao Chan's 'National Beauty' skin sells the best, followed by Lu Xun's 'Burning Camps' skin."

"On 17173's dedicated section, World of Warcraft ranks first, Fantasy Westward Journey ranks second, Audition Online ranks third, and our Three Kingdoms Kill ranks fourth. There are even people drawing comics, borderline comics of Lu Xun beating Zhen Ji to tears."

"During offline competitions, I plan to invite players to register as cosplayers, and each general will have to cosplay. This can be used to warm up the atmosphere before the competition, for media promotion, and to increase player participation."

Chen Guiliang nodded approvingly: "You're really good at organizing events." After chatting for a few more minutes, Chen Guiliang returned to his office.

As Chen Guiliang passed by Xu Fengyin's workstation, he praised her, "Your drawing of the Diao Chan skin, 'The Beauty of the Country,' is exceptional. It has already set a new sales record for a single item in the Three Kingdoms Kill game. Keep up the good work!"

"Is there a bonus?" Xu Fengyin asked expectantly.

Chen Guiliang said, "It will be included in the performance bonus and paid together with the year-end bonus."

"yeah!"

Xu Fengyin waved his fist.

This comic book girl, who tragically died in the company, has finally emerged from the shadow of "opening the box".

She noticed that while her colleagues occasionally teased her, they didn't say anything excessively strange. The fans who flocked to her on Kaixin.com also asked her to update her fanfiction, and it seemed that no one discriminated against fanfiction that bordered on the offensive.

Just as Xu Fengyin was happy about receiving the bonus, an employee who followed industry trends angrily cursed, "Damn it, Tencent has launched 'Hero Kill,' and it starts its public beta this Saturday. QQ users can log in to 'Hero Kill' directly, and after completing the game tasks, the word 'Kill' will be displayed on the QQ user panel!"

Several employees of Youke gathered around.

"Isn't this just a clone of 'Three Kingdoms Kill'?"

"Although we adopted the basic rules of 'BANG!', we innovated in many ways. According to the description of 'Hero Kill,' it's purely a copy of 'Three Kingdoms Kill'!"

"Can I sue them for plagiarism?"

"I'm afraid we can't sue them. The graphics and text are different, so it doesn't count as plagiarism."

"Damn it. First they copied 'Happy Farm' to make 'QQ Farm,' and now they're copying 'Three Kingdoms Kill' to make 'Hero Kill.' Why are they targeting us and copying us like this?"

“We’re not the only ones. Tencent has also imitated Lianzhong’s game hall and casual games. Our current Youke Interactive Games is actually imitating Lianzhong and QQ Games. Shanda’s Bubble Fighter was also imitated by Tencent into QQ Tang.”

"..."

Chen Guiliang walked over, looked at Tencent's promotional announcement, and simply said, "It's okay, it won't be affected."

The game "Hero Kill" imitates "Three Kingdoms Kill" to an excessive degree, even keeping the hero skills exactly the same, only slightly modifying the skill descriptions in order to avoid plagiarism issues.

This approach will anger players of the game "Three Kingdoms Kill".

Especially in universities and high schools, anyone who dares to say they play "Heroes of the Three Kingdoms" will be met with collective contempt from their classmates.

The real users of "Hero Kill" are actually all attracted from QQ, so there is not much competition between it and "Three Kingdoms Kill".

Many people play a few rounds of "Hero Kill" purely for the sake of their QQ profile panel.

Tencent's "QQ Fantasy" followed a similar pattern, reaching 66 concurrent users in less than half a month of open beta testing. This was because playing the game allowed users to display the character "幻" (Fantasy) on their QQ user panel, which looked incredibly cool and stylish.

At the time, some media outlets even claimed that QQ Fantasy would become the next game for everyone. However, after its initial explosive popularity, it flopped, with many QQ users leaving as soon as they got the "Fantasy" title, much to the disappointment of Tencent's top management.

Using QQ to attract players is a double-edged sword. While it can attract a large number of players in a short period, it can also create a false sense of explosive popularity for Tencent's game teams, preventing them from fully understanding the actual situation of a game.

"Call Engineer Dong to my office."

"it is good."

Dong Qianqiu has graduated this year. His graduation thesis is titled "Several Concepts of Virtual Currency Clearing Center Module".

He directly took his work and deliberately added a few random ideas, writing a paper that was a mix of truth and falsehood.

For the past few months, Dong Qianqiu has stopped working on games and instead focused on developing and improving Game Science's payment system: YK-Pay.

Now, not only games under Game Science use the YK-Pay system, but also those on Renren and Kaixin.com.

Tao Chenggang's "Ruling the World" will also use this system.

It's still a long way from being fully perfect. For example, the "virtual currency clearing center module" in Dong Qianqiu's paper is designed to handle high-concurrency transaction situations.

"How's the token system coming along?" Chen Guiliang asked.

Dong Qianqiu said, "The anti-theft chain and token system are still under testing, and some bugs have been fixed."

"Can it be completed by the end of October?" Chen Guiliang asked.

“It’s hard to say,” Dong Qianqiu said. “It can be used now, but there are still unpredictable bugs.”

Chen Guiliang said, "The closed beta of 'The Reign of Power' will begin in a few days, and the paid public beta will start no later than mid-November."

Dong Qianqiu said, "We'll use it and improve it as we go. Shanda's EZ-Pay wasn't perfect at first either, and it only became working properly last year. I can only guarantee that any bugs will be fixed as quickly as possible."

Since games like "Three Kingdoms Kill," "Happy Farm," "Parking Wars," and various casual games are primarily played by users with their own computers, the payment environment is relatively simple.

Therefore, in the early stages, Youke's YK-Pay payment system only needed to cooperate with online banks, China Mobile, and China Unicom.

However, Tao Chenggang's Quan Yu Tianxia had to deal with internet cafe users and sell recharge cards at newsstands and convenience stores, making the payment environment more complex.

In particular, the anti-theft features must be as comprehensive as possible!
Why did Shanda's prepaid cards frequently become pirated in the early days, requiring a request to five ministries to crack down on them? It was because Shanda's payment system had vulnerabilities, and its card key anti-theft system was inadequate, allowing pirates to copy prepaid cards.

"The Reign of Power" has entered the countdown to its closed beta test.

The beta testers are all long-term supporters of this game.

They witnessed the game's conception and birth, participated in the naming vote, and completely treated the game like their own child. They would do their best to help find bugs and provide feedback.

(End of this chapter)