Chapter 1671

"A total of 3 million games were sold on the first day of listing. My God, is the game industry going to replace oil and become the first industry in the universe?" when the first day war report of steam game online store was released, all game companies who pay attention to all this watched the double share war. They suddenly felt that it might be the channel of the whole game industry, There will be a huge reshuffle.

Of course, by the next day, the sales figure had plummeted by half, and only 1 million games were sold the next day. This is also very normal, which fully reflects another feature of game online sales, that is, the sales volume on the first day is fierce, then it starts to fall off a cliff, and finally enters a slow curve.

This is normal, because without the restrictions of queuing, quantity and so on, all players can buy their favorite games on the first day, so the sales volume on the first day is naturally high, and it will decline rapidly in the next few days.

By the fifth day, the sales volume was only 200000 copies a day, which relieved all game developers. This Warcraft 3 was not so abnormal.

However, they seem to forget that although they only sell 200000 copies a day, which is indeed a sharp decline compared with 3 million on the first day, it is also abnormally high. After all, 99% of the Games in the world can't have the miracle of selling 200000 copies a day.

Finally, on the fifth day, according to the data displayed by the steam game online store, the whole store is estimated to have sold 5.25 million copies of Warcraft 3 in five days. According to this data stock estimation, it may not be a problem to break 10 million a month or 30 million a year. This steam game online store is indeed a very good choice, plus 70% of the share, Many game developers are ready to cooperate with steam game online stores.

But they don't know that this is just the beginning.

Burkby is a programmer. Recently, he is busy with the work of the company. After a busy day's work, burkby's greatest fun is playing games.

"Today, is it playing the computer, my little thousand machine change, or my PS2?" burkby looked at his computer desktop. Although he had hundreds of different games, he still didn't know what games to play. It was too bad.

"Let's see what's interesting on Amazon!" burkby sighed and decided to go to Amazon's flea market. This flea market is a place for selling second-hand goods. There are always some very interesting old things in it. Burkby himself often finds some treasures there.

But what burkby didn't expect was that when he opened the Amazon home page, he saw a blood red picture of an orc holding an axe and confronting a fully armed human soldier.

"What kind of advertisement is this?" burkby was surprised. For a game lover, it was a bit of a surprise to see such an obvious promotional picture of fantasy game style on Amazon.

Then burkby instinctively opened the picture, and then directly jumped into a web link: "the continuation of the legend, the God of the game Yapeng Jia personally made it, and the strongest real-time strategy game in history:" Warcraft 3 · rule of chaos "is now on sale. Click to play!"

"What the hell, Warcraft 3 has been on sale, but Jia Yapeng made it himself!" burkby was shocked.

Although Daqian game has carried out a lot of publicity in advance, in 2000, with strong publicity, 14 audience groups can get information, which is a great achievement.

Burkby does almost nothing except playing games and working. He doesn't even bother to read news and magazines. Naturally, he doesn't know the news of Warcraft 3.

At the same time, burkby is also very shocked by this publicity. What is a click to play game? Don't you need to buy your own CD to install it?

With curiosity, burkby continued to click on the page, and then entered a shop called steam game flagship store. This shop actually sells all kinds of games, and all these games can be purchased directly through Amazon points, including Warcraft 3 · rule of chaos.

"Buy!" 6900 is not a big deal for programmer Burke. In addition, he often buys on Amazon, so he won't doubt whether he can really buy Warcraft 3 · rule of chaos with his money.

After choosing to buy directly, two options pop up on the web page: buy digital version and buy physical version.

In addition, there is an explanation under these two options. Those who buy the digital version can download the game immediately and then play.

Those who buy the physical version need to wait for the delivery of the forwarder for no more than 96 hours, and need to pay a tip of at least $3.

"Can you really download genuine Games directly on the Internet?" burkby muttered, and then decisively chose the digital version.

For him, there is no difference between the physical version and the digital version, but the digital version can play the game several days in advance, which is enough.

After clicking on the purchase and successfully deducting the fee, the page directly jumps to a new website that burkby has never seen before.

Burkby took a look and found that the name of the website was steam.

"It's a steam game!" burkby suddenly realized that anyone playing games can't know the steam game store. It turns out that this online sales is the goods of the steam game store, which is more trustworthy.

"It is detected that you jump to the steam game online store through Amazon. Would you like to use Amazon account to create a steam game member?" a new prompt pops up on the page, and burkby naturally agrees without thinking.

Thank God, you don't need to register a member account again. It's so humanized!

Burkby sighed in his heart, but did not find that he had unconsciously become a member of the steam game store.

The next step is to download the game directly through the steam game online store, install it successfully, and enter the game... Then there is no game. It is said that in half a month, burkby's friends and colleagues have never seen burkby again except during normal working hours.

This kind of thing doesn't just happen on the Amazon platform. When Internet users all over the world turn on their computers every day, habitually click on the browser, enter 51 search, and plan to start a new day's online surfing, they suddenly find that there is a picture under the search box of 51 search.

This is a beautiful picture of an elf with snow-white skin and sharp ears, wearing very few materials, bending his bow and arrow, aiming at a monster with a snake tail in the distance.