Just when Mr. Xu was making preparations for a mission from a certain company in the group, the new expansion pack for Warcraft, The Frozen Throne, had been online for some time.
Just as Hao Yun expected, the newly added plot and settings have received rave reviews from players!
In terms of plot, the new expansion pack The Frozen Throne follows the end of the plot of the original game.
Illidan accepted Kil'jaeden's mission and led the Naga and the blood elves who declared their allegiance to him to Northrend to destroy the Frozen Throne.
At the same time, Prince Arthas, the filial son of Azeroth, had just driven away the three vampire kings of the Burning Legion, firmly grasped the control of the Burning Legion, and was crowned King of Arthas. He was thinking with great ambition. How to slaughter the remaining humans in the royal capital of Lordaeron...
At this time, he suddenly heard the call from the Frozen Throne in his mind, ordering him to return to Northrend immediately to defend the Frozen Throne.
A war is about to break out!
The outcome of this war will determine who will become the master of Azeroth...
The price of the new expansion pack is only 39 yuan. Compared with the expansion packs and DLC released by other games, it can be described as a conscience.
Because this updated expansion pack not only broadens the gameplay, but also comes with dozens of hours of campaign plots and a total of 20 minutes of high-quality CG animation.
As for how high the quality is, it can be described in one sentence.
Any frame captured can be used as a desktop, and my son cannot tell that it was captured from a domestic game animation.
In just one week after the expansion was released, sales exceeded 5 million.
Nearly three-quarters of Warcraft players chose to pay for the new expansion in the first week after it was launched.
At the same time, discussions about the Frozen Throne on major social media spread like rushing waves.
[The plot of Yunmeng games never disappoints me. After completing the campaign, I didn’t expect Illidan to die. I didn’t know if there would be a chance to be resurrected in the future, which made me heartbroken.]
[Arthas became the new Lich King, and Sylvanas became the new master of the continent of Nordaeron, ah! I really want to know the plot behind it! Why is it gone?]
[I don’t know what to say except that it’s awesome.]
[There is nothing wrong with the plot, but is Alsace too strong? ?]
[As we all know, Alsace is Mr. Hao’s biological son. (funny)]
[Hahahaha, you are too vicious!]
Players love not only the plot of the game, but also the updated gameplay.
Especially the newly added tavern and neutral hero units have suddenly expanded the gameplay of the four major races by a whole dimension.
Although the starting heroes are still mainly heroes of the same family, starting from the second round, many players are more inclined to choose tavern heroes.
Especially the beast tamer Rexxar.
This half-orc, half-ogre hero is armed with two powerful battle axes and is good at using his unsettling wildness to tear apart his opponents. The three skills are summoning a grizzly bear, summoning a porcupine, and summoning a war eagle. The ultimate The magic is to summon galloping lizards in a wide area, and each lizard will cause 60 points of damage when it collides with the target.
Although the one-on-one ability is not the strongest, Rexxar's powerful summoning spell can turn any one-on-one situation into a group fight.
The strong single-player ability in the early stage and the good output in team battles in the later stage have made this hero's appearance rate soar to 80%, and sometimes he even becomes the starter.
So sometimes even if you don't want to play this hero, in order to prevent the other party from getting it and causing tons of damage to your own army in the later stage, you will go to the tavern to point out this hero.
Although in Hao Yun's view, it is somewhat inexplicable that this hero has become so popular.
Because in his impression, the popular neutral heroes in Warcraft 3 in the previous life were mainly Pandaren, who had excellent AOE and duel abilities, and Naga, who also had control skills and could cooperate with long-range units to play kite style.
Although Rexxar's appearance rate is not low, it is definitely not T0 in the professional game. Even if the play style combined with the summon flow is quite popular in the pub game, it is definitely not so exaggerated.
Sure enough, even if it is the same game, players in two different worlds will have completely different gameplay based on their own understanding of the game.
In the office on the top floor of Yunmeng Building, Li Zongzheng reported to Hao Yun in an excited tone the sales status of the Frozen Throne expansion since its launch.
"... Players are very satisfied with our new expansion pack! Not only the sales of the expansion pack, but also the sales of the original game have also increased!"
Hao Yun said with a smile.
"Just tell me directly, how long will it take for us to break 10 million?"
Li Zongzheng smiled a little awkwardly.
"Well, I'm afraid it's a bit difficult to break the 10 million mark... Video games have only been developed for 10 years, and the upper limit of market size is so high. So far, no PC game worth more than 100 yuan has sold more than 10 million."
"Really? Then let's be the first one," Hao Yun didn't care about the so-called upper limit of market size. He smiled lightly and continued, "Speaking of which, how is our overseas version?"
Hearing Hao Yun ask about the overseas version, a bright smile suddenly appeared on Li Zongzheng's face.
“The sales volume is gratifying, and it can even be said that it far exceeded our expectations!”
"Oh?" Hao Yun raised his eyebrows with interest, and then asked, "How do you say it specifically?"
"The overseas version of Warcraft directly integrates the Frozen Throne expansion pack and is released together with the original version. We originally thought it would be good to have a sales volume of 500,000 in the first week, but we did not expect that the European region alone reached 700,000 points. In North America, the number is as high as 1 million copies!”
The global pricing of Warcraft is the same, with the original version priced at 100 yuan and the expansion pack priced at 39 yuan.
According to the purchasing power and exchange rates of different regions of the People's Federation, the cost for players in other countries to purchase World of Warcraft is more than three times higher than that of players in the Xia Kingdom region.
However, even so, Warcraft still sold 2 million copies in other regions except Xia.
This achievement can simply be described as incredible...
"By the way, there is one more thing I need to tell you."
Hao Yun asked.
"What's up?"
Li Zongzheng continued.
"The thing is like this. Recently, our colleagues in the operations department discovered that many Warcraft players in the overseas community have launched a joint petition, hoping that the official can treat players from other areas of the People's League equally and allow players from other countries to also participate in the Warcry Cup. tournament.”
"This is a good thing," Hao Yun said with a smile, "then won't our games be international events from now on?"
"That's what I say, but the difficulty of holding international competitions is definitely different from that of domestic competitions. If nothing else, we have to re-formulate the competition rules alone. If we follow the current rules, I'm afraid that other Very few players from the region can qualify for the offline competition.”
The Battle Cry Cup has been held in Xia Kingdom for one session. Although the atmosphere of e-sports culture has not yet been formed, many anchors are already consciously developing in the direction of professional players.
In addition, some brands that focus on developing the consumption potential of young groups have noticed the commercial value of the War Cry Cup, and a lot of hot money has also poured into this field and begun to invest in some potential players and teams.
With the Xia Kingdom's e-sports industry already showing signs of commercialization, even if players from other regions actually enter the arena, it is basically impossible to have any gaming experience at all.
Hao Yun thought for a while and suddenly had an idea in his mind.
"We can divide the players from each region into several divisions. After deciding the division champion, we can then select three individual players or teams from each division to participate in the Battle Cry Cup finals."
Li Zongzheng said with a headache.
"This is a good idea... but it would be quite difficult to hold competitions in various countries of the People's Federation at the same time."
Although this idea is good, Yunmeng Group is not a multinational enterprise after all, and it does not even have offices in other countries.
However, Hao Yun was not worried at all and continued with a smile.
“We don’t necessarily have to run this competition ourselves.”
Li Zongzheng's eyes lit up.
"You mean... let's take over the competition?"
"That's exactly what I mean," Hao Yun nodded. "Competitions in other regions can be organized by competent local companies."
"As the organizers, we only need to do three things."
"Formulate rules, review the qualifications of hosting companies, and control the quality of the competition!"