Chapter 680 It's Gold that Will Shine Sooner or Later

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With such a disparity in the number of Battle.net account registrations, the disparity in the performance of offline sales is naturally conceivable.

Sure enough, the strength and heritage of established game companies cannot be easily shaken by new companies.

What's more, this game company has such a good reputation and such a strong appeal, which is really unmatched by Tianxing Game Company in a short period of time.

The only gratifying thing is that the number of registrations for Battle.net in China is increasing rapidly, while the sales of StarCraft and Battle.net are not yet covered there.

The situation is not optimistic, but Tianxing Game Company seems to have no other choice but to wait and see.

After all, all that can be done has been done.

The rest can only be left to online and offline game players to judge and choose by themselves.

Early the next morning.

Wu Tao woke up in the villa in Irvine, the air was extraordinarily fresh.

Putting on a T-shirt and shorts and going downstairs, Shi Qianxue was painstakingly frying poached eggs and bacon in the open kitchen.

Ever since she knew that Wu Tao had a villa here, Shi Qianxue decisively moved here from the hotel.

It's just that yesterday's game release performance was crushed by Blizzard Entertainment all the way. Throughout the whole night, Shi Qianxue didn't stop thinking about it, causing Wu Tao's brain to hurt from the noise, but she still had nothing to do with her.

Originally thought that after a night of rest and adjustment, it should be better. Looking at this posture now, Wu Tao couldn't help but smile wryly.

"did not sleep well?"

Shi Qianxue flipped the poached egg in the frying pan over, "I haven't slept all night, I'm not like you, heartless, sleeping like a dead pig!"

Wu Tao rubbed his forehead, there was no way to continue these words.

During the silence, there was a pleasant bell at the door. Looking through the window, it was Molly wearing a pair of hot pants and a vest, standing outside the door holding a box of pizza.

Wu Tao lazily walked out of the villa. Molly saw him and immediately raised the pizza and said, "How about having breakfast together?"

"Come in." Wu Tao waved his hand, turned and went back to the house.

Seeing guests coming, Shi Qianxue's expression finally softened a little.

As soon as Molly entered, her expression darkened and she said, "Congratulations, Wu, you won the bet!"

Wu Tao couldn't help but frowned.

Shi Qianxue became extremely excited and said, "Is that the bet about the game company? You said he won, which means that our game sales have improved?"

Wu Tao instinctively felt something was wrong.

Wen Wu is the first, Wu Wu is the second, there is always a rivalry between Molly and herself, how could she suddenly come over and admit defeat?

What's more, the counter-strike game turned over overnight, which is obviously not realistic.

Thinking about it this way, and then looking at Molly's pretty face, she really noticed a faint playful smile.

"Yes!" Molly shrugged, raised the newspaper in her hand and said, "I even brought the newspaper here, you can read it yourself if you don't believe me!"

Shi Qianxue took the newspaper unconsciously, and was about to flip through the report in a hurry, when Wu Tao interrupted suddenly: "It's an April Fool's Day joke, isn't it? I almost believed it."

Molly, who almost succeeded, looked disappointed and frustrated after being exposed.

Shi Qianxue looked at the calendar on the wall, today is April 1st, isn't it April Fool's Day?

After exposing Molly's tricks, Wu Tao's voice continued: "But I still advise you, don't be too happy about everything. After all, our betting period is two years, and the time is still early."

"Hmph~" Molly twisted her body and left angrily.

This temperament is really used to being praised.

Seeing Molly's leaving back, Shi Qianxue pointedly said: "She has such a devilish figure, you are willing to bully her like this? Do you understand pity and pity?"

Wu Tao turned around and asked without answering, "Don't you worry?"

Shi Qianxue opened her arms and said, "Don't tell me, this girl's mentality has calmed down after being teased by this little foreign girl. Do your best and obey the destiny. Before the last moment, this girl can't easily admit defeat."

Tsk tsk ~ there is progress! Wu Tao took the newspaper left by Molly, and saw a striking headline on the A5 page: StarCraft dominates on the first day, and Counter-Strike is ignored.

Translated into Chinese, it rhymes.

After breakfast, the two drove to Mountain View.

Although it's not time to go to work, Qiu Xiaotian, Li Ming and Jeff have already arrived.

Seeing Li Ming and Jeff's sluggish expressions, Wu Tao couldn't help but wondered, "Why, you didn't sleep well because you were worried about performance?"

Li Ming waved his hand and said, "No, boss. Last night, the number of registrations in the Huaxia region increased too fast, which put a lot of pressure on our Battle.net server and almost caused it to be paralyzed. Jeff and I connected with the Huaxia branch overnight to solve this problem. , fortunately, it's all right now."

Wu Tao's heart moved, "How many people have registered in the Huaxia region?"

"It has broken through 50,000!" Jeff couldn't restrain his excitement.

"So what about the number of online registrations and offline sales data in Europe and the United States?"

Qiu Xiaotian turned on the computer in front of him, pointed to a post on it and said, "We just updated the data. The number of counter-strike online registrations has broken through 10,000, and the offline game discs have only sold 4,980 sets. The data of StarCraft has nothing to do with it." No comparison."

"...Combined with the skyrocketing number of registrations in China, not only will it fail to bring benefits, but it will require us to spend money and energy to maintain it. Compared with other people's sales performance, we have lost miserably!"

As soon as the words fell, Shi Qianxue couldn't wait to retort: ​​"We didn't lose!"

It's just that afterward, her voice was so low that even she herself felt that she lacked confidence.

Unexpectedly, Wu Tao nodded in agreement, "It's too early to talk about winning or losing. In addition, the surge in the number of domestic registrations may not be a bad thing for us."

"...In short, there is an old saying in China that gold will shine sooner or later. Everyone, keep working hard and do the things at hand well. I believe our hard work will not be in vain!"

Everyone else left, but Shi Qianxue stayed silently and said, "What trump card do you have, use it quickly!"

Wu Tao couldn't laugh or cry at once, "What other trump card do I have, I would have used it long ago, that's enough, let's go to work."

Back in front of the computer, Wu Tao habitually opened the gamer's forum.

The popularity of the discussions on the two games on the forum can be said to be directly proportional to the sales performance.

Even if Tianxing Game Company hires a lot of Internet trolls to make a big splash, it can't change this one-sided fact.

Especially after StarCraft was just released yesterday, the forum was almost screened by StarCraft.

Today, Wu Tao took a glance and found that the discussion on Counter-Strike has picked up, and the number of posts has also increased.

This is a good sign.

Before I knew it, it was off-duty time, and the latest sales data of StarCraft: the CD-ROM exceeded 100,000 sets, and the number of registrations on Battle.net reached more than 60,000.

But Counter-Strike's data is still lagging behind: the number of CDs exceeded 20,000 sets, and the number of VIP registrations on Battle.net reached about 15,000.

However, the number of free registrations for Battle.net in China broke through the 120,000 mark in one fell swoop, and this number is still rising rapidly...