Chapter 152 President Pei's strong man breaks his wrist!
Wang Xiaobin was stunned: "Open a new server?"
It's not a hassle to open this thing, the only problem is whether there are players to play.
"War Hymn" has been deteriorating. There is no money for publicity and promotion, it is not on any charts, and there is no inflow of new players.
Those who are still playing now are all old players who have persisted for a long time. It can be said that they will never give up regardless of rain or shine.
These people have accounts in the old server and have spent a lot of money and time on the old account. Even if a new server is opened, who will come to play?
However, Wang Xiaobin still raised his hand and made an OK gesture: "No problem, it will be fine soon."
The game is almost out of date anyway, and it doesn’t matter whether a new server is opened or not.
Ye Zhizhou immediately went to the new server and created a small account, and then waited silently.
Within a few minutes, the world channel of the new server suddenly became lively!
"A new server has actually been opened!"
"Ahhh, I feel so bad that I didn't get the sofa!"
"Is there a guild?++++"
"Comrades, look here! Our guild develops harmoniously, is united and passionate, and is led by local tycoons. We are invincible! We specialize in helping fallen grandpas and grandma. You are welcome to join us and help grandma cross the road with us!"
"The one upstairs, the slogan was copied and pasted, right? Now that there are no rich people, how can we lead the team?"
"Why are there no rich people? The rich people in our guild said that if you join the guild, all the stamina potions for everyone every day will be fully included!"
"Fuck! Add me quickly!"
The world channels are coming one after another, and Ye Zhizhou can hardly watch them anymore.
"Our game...there are actually so many people playing it?"
Ye Zhizhou was stunned. He just saw that there were many players calling for new servers on the World Channel, so he just opened a new server to test the water.
I never expected that so many people would come to play on the new server!
What are they trying to do? Doesn’t the old account want it anymore?
Ye Zhizhou felt that this was a bit strange. He hadn't seen this kind of enthusiasm for a long time!
In the past, "War Song" often opened new servers. After all, server rolling is one of the common marketing methods for games similar to krypton gold.
But no one can match the popularity of today’s new server!
While Ye Zhizhou was leveling up, he was considering finding a big guild to go undercover and collect players' opinions on the new version immediately.
As a result, I suddenly got stuck while playing. The screen kept showing "Loading resources" and the screen became stuck in a mosaic.
However, this lag quickly resolved and the game became smooth again.
Just when Ye Zhizhou was about to ask what was going on, he heard Wang Xiaobin shouting over there: "Damn it, there are too many players at once, causing the server load to be too high? The new server is actually full?"
Ye Zhizhou quickly opened the background to check.
The popularity of the many old servers that were originally operated has plummeted, and there are basically no people left. However, the popularity of the newly opened server has skyrocketed in an instant, and it is overcrowded!
New players can no longer enter and can only queue outside.
Ye Zhizhou was shocked because he had never seen a queue on the server since he came to Yangyang Games!
Now he understands that the players who filled the new server are all from the old server!
Players were originally scattered across dozens of servers, so each server seemed deserted.
But now, the players who are still active are gathering together to go to the new server, and they all stick together, so it is naturally more lively.
Ye Zhizhou hurriedly said: "Brother Wang, hurry up and open a new server!"
Wang Xiaobin moved his mouse quickly: "Get it done now. Once the latest server is full, a new server will be automatically opened."
He whispered again: "It's really weird. Players are so enthusiastic about the new server? Is it possible that our changes are really effective? The results are immediate."
Everyone in the design team was excited. Many people had not played "War Song" for a long time, and this time they also registered an alt account for the first time.
"Everyone goes to different servers so that we can observe the conditions of different servers."
"It's best to join a big guild and join their chat group to see how the local tycoons and ordinary players react to this version update!"
Ye Zhizhou was very excited. He quickly assigned tasks to everyone in the design team and lurked into each new server to observe players' feedback on this new version!
When Lao Liu was in charge of planning, he never did these things because it seemed to him meaningless.
It's enough to modify the game based on the data. What's the use of gathering opinions bit by bit among the players?
But Ye Zhizhou doesn't think so.
He has always felt that as a planner, he must play the games he makes and go deep into the player community to obtain the most authentic feedback.
If the designers themselves don’t like their games, how will players like them?
Within a few minutes of playing, someone invited Ye Zhizhou to join the guild, and then invited him to join the chat group.
As soon as I joined the group, I was flooded with all kinds of information.
"Hurry up and go to the World Channel to recruit people!"
"Everyone must reach level 20 today. Our guild must prepare for the national war as soon as possible!"
"Do you have any old friends who gave up before? Hurry up and bring them over!"
"I'm going to ask in the previous group and try to recruit ten people. They are all old players and drivers!"
Ye Zhizhou didn't pay attention for a while, and the message in the chat group changed to 99+, which was hard to read.
What particularly shocked Ye Zhizhou was that this group of people actually spontaneously brought in many old players who had quit the game to play on the new server!
Ye Zhizhou has never seen this kind of enthusiasm from a player, not even when he first entered the game of Yangyang and "Hot Blooded War Song" was still at its peak!
Ye Zhizhou looked at the forum posts again.
I still remember that when Lao Liu launched the 888 weapon, the forum almost became noisy. Players chased after it and sprayed the update announcement thread for hundreds of floors. In the next two or three weeks, they continued to beat the corpse without stopping at all.
Later, with the loss of players, the popularity of the forum continued to decline, but it was still dominated by curses.
As a result, now that the version has been updated, the entire forum has suddenly changed to a different style!
There used to be posts criticizing dog planning every day, but now none of them can be seen. Players are all discussing in-game issues such as forming guilds and preparing for national wars.
Ye Zhizhou looked at the forum posts and players' chat groups with some disbelief, thinking about how all of this happened.
"Is it possible... that this means risking one's life to survive?"
Ye Zhizhou understood somewhat.
The original "War Hymn" was already in stagnant water. Old Liu and Du Ruijie squeezed out the last drop of blood for revenue, and the game was in critical condition.
The conflicts between players and the design team, as well as wealthy players and ordinary players, have reached an extremely intensified and irreconcilable state.
Because the amount of gold is too high, ordinary players have lost a large number of players, and in-game activities cannot be organized. Even if the wealthy have spent money, they have no one to play with them, and they increasingly feel that their money is not worth the money.
As a result, ordinary players ran away, and the local tycoons also ran away. Only a few old players were still struggling, and the game continued to decline.
But now, all payment points have been cut off, leaving only the most basic stamina potions.
This seemingly inconspicuous change has brought about earth-shaking changes to the game environment!
For ordinary players, the game is no longer exciting, but fun to play;
All the good things that could only be obtained by recharging were given away;
In the new server, I also have the opportunity to experience the thrill of being a rich man and wearing ten in the national war;
This is simply the ultimate big reward, so of course I won’t hesitate to play the new server!
It is true that many wealthy people have retired from traveling, but as Pei Qian said, let them do whatever they want!
What's more, not all the wealthy people have run away, some of them are still left behind.
As a result, although their income plummeted by 70% to 80%, the remaining players have completely forgotten the previous unpleasantness and rekindled their enthusiasm for the game!
Ye Zhizhou completely understood.
"Sure enough, Mr. Pei has already seen the problems of "War Song" and knows that simply introducing new gameplay or changing art resources will no longer help, so he has to cut off all payment points!"
"This is... a strong man cutting off his wrist!"
"Cut off revenue and save reputation. This is the only way to save "War Hymn"!"
What seemed like an unsolvable problem at first turned around immediately with a simple operation from Mr. Pei!
Ye Zhizhou couldn't help but admire Mr. Pei even more.
Of course, he knew in his heart that this was just the first step.
Although this operation saved the game's reputation, the price was also huge: this game no longer makes any money!
Without the large recharges from rich people, the income plummeted by at least 80%.
Originally, the monthly income of "War Hymn" was only 30,000 to 400,000 yuan. Now, it's hard to say whether the monthly income can still reach 80,000 yuan.
Moreover, no new payment points can be opened in the future, otherwise the reputation of the players will immediately backfire, which means that it will be completely cool and Mr. Pei will be hard to save!
Ye Zhizhou feels that it is like a clearance sale now. The popularity has indeed increased, but it is not an option to keep burning money without making a profit!
"Forget it, let's not consider this anymore."
"I can think of problems that Pei can't think of?"
"These must be all within President Pei's plan. As long as we follow President Pei's requirements honestly, everything will be fine."
Ye Zhizhou suddenly felt unprecedented confidence in himself and the prospects of Shangyang Games!