Li Mu slept until around 12 noon, but he only slept for less than six hours. Because his mind was full of thoughts about the Stone Overlord, the quality of his sleep was not good.
When he woke up, his parents had already gone to work, and Li Mu was going to call Zhao Kang and go to the Internet cafe together to see the current spread of Stone Overlord.
Before the release of Stone Overlord, he specially registered a new QQ account, left the number on the plug-in, and indicated that please contact him for business cooperation. He also couldn't wait to know if anyone would contact him.
As soon as I walked to the living room, the phone rang.
It's Zhao Kang.
Like Li Mu, he also didn't sleep well.
Although he doesn't understand technology and doesn't know much about plug-ins, he worked hard in front of the computer all night last night and felt what Li Mu meant by the navy, the kind of self-questioning and answering trap design, and the feeling that A magical, subtle force.
Knowing the taste of food, he also wanted to quickly go to the Internet cafe to see what kind of feedback the results of the two people's labor would get from netizens.
The two agreed on the phone to meet at the gate of the community, and then headed straight for the big spider.
The first post has received 80,000 clicks, 54,301 attachment downloads, and 9,791 replies.
Not to mention Zhao Kang, even Li Mu was fooled.
Zhao Kang excitedly counted the downloads from several forums. In just twelve hours, the number of downloads had reached about 120,000.
Free good things, in this era of scarcity, can really burst out with powerful cohesion and bring these netizens together. After they download the free plug-in and can’t wait to use it, they don’t forget to come back and post a thank you, not to mention Forget to recommend good things to your friends and netizens in the game.
Li Mu thought about it carefully. The legendary wax-free plug-in back then had only a weak function of eliminating candles. In a short period of time, it had spread to almost all legendary players. This era was really the diamond age of the Internet. Anyone could plant seeds online casually. The next seed will have a chance to grow into a towering tree!
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In a residential house in Zhongguancun, Yanjing, seven or eight young people were already sweating anxiously.
These people are currently the entire team of Abe’s plug-in.
They were formed by the merger of two plug-in teams, Abei and Qianyu. At the beginning, the two teams were fighting like a bad pear. It was Qianyu who released the paid version of the plug-in first. The people who worked on the Abei plug-in were jealous after seeing Qianyu making money, and then developed it. They created a similar plug-in and hit the market with free use, which deceived Qianyu and his gang so much that in the end the two groups decided to merge in order to make money together.
In the past few months since the merger, they have basically monopolized the "Stone Age" plug-in market, and they have indeed made a lot of profits. The income settled in June exceeded 200,000.
Originally, they decided to take advantage of the summer vacation in July to hit an income of 300,000 yuan, and had already begun to reorganize their own sales team, preparing to bypass provincial agents and take root directly in retail terminals. But just when they were in high spirits, Last night, a developer from the plug-in team accidentally saw Zhao Kang's post.
At first, the developer downloaded the trial version of Stone Overlord with a scornful attitude. However, after a simple use, he felt as if he had fallen into an ice cave, and his scalp was as cold as the soles of his feet.
Later, the entire team was shocked by the sudden appearance of this plug-in.
The person behind the Abe plug-in also acted as a spoiler. He used a free trial version to catch Qianyu's people off guard. It was like a rogue who gave Qianyu two choices: either don't make any money at all, or make money together.
Qianyu finally compromised. The emergence of such disruptors is like desperate desperadoes. They have never made any money, so they have nothing to lose. But Qianyu is different. They have already tasted the sweetness and must not give up.
Unexpectedly, someone is now using similar methods to disrupt the situation again.
The most terrible thing is that the function of this stone overlord is too powerful, far more than the Abbe plug-in, and it is much more convenient and smooth to use than the Abbe plug-in.
This feeling is like "Rising Sun Masculine" preparing to hold a ticketed concert in a certain place with "In Spring" as a gimmick. Wang Feng himself came over and held a concert in the same city at the same time, but Wang Feng gave it for free. .
Bullying, there's no fucking way to play this!
After the merger of the two teams, the person in charge was named Sun Peng. He was the founder of Qianyu. After Abe came out to disrupt the situation, he recruited Abe's people, which was equivalent to giving a share of the rice in the pot to Abe's people. However, because the Abe plug-in gained a lot of popularity when it was free, everyone decided to just use the Abe plug-in.
Sun Peng thought that with the merger of the two teams, there would be no real worthy competitors in the market, but what the hell is this sudden stone overlord
Since the morning, Sun Peng's cell phone has not stopped.
In this era where mobile phones are charged in both directions and answering calls costs a few cents per minute, Sun Peng's heart is bleeding.
And every call comes from one of my own agents.
Agents are generally divided by provinces. Abei Plug-in finds an agent in each province, who is responsible for the expansion of Internet cafes in cities and counties in the province. The sales terminals of Abei Plug-in are the countless Internet cafes below.
Nowadays, many people who bought Abe plug-ins in Internet cafes come to Internet cafes and ask for a refund. The reason is very simple, it is too scam! Just a few days after I bought it, a much better one appeared on the Internet, and it was free. Who could bear it
Although customers who ask for refunds are somewhat unreasonable, this kind of thing can really make people full of indignation. Users who spent money have no place to vent their anger, and they can’t find Sun Peng and others to blame, so they can only find plug-ins sold to them. Internet cafe.
Selling cheats for Internet cafe owners is just a side job. The real main business is the Internet players who visit every day. If you offend these people, what will happen to the business
Therefore, the Internet cafe owner immediately went to the agent to protest. The agent could not withstand the pressure of so many Internet cafes. He asked Sun Peng to refund the users who had not yet expired.
Some agents even gave Sun Peng a seemingly fair refund plan. Fifteen yuan a month, which is 50 cents a day, will be refunded to the user in cash at 50 cents a day, no matter how many days are left in the customer's account.
Sun Peng wanted to refuse, but he couldn't, because his current marketing model was very unhealthy, and what he said didn't count at all.
He is responsible for the development of plug-ins and the issuance of monthly activation codes. The activation codes are distributed to provincial agents, who in turn distribute them to major Internet cafes below.
Since the sales terminals are all the way down to Internet cafes, and selling plug-ins in Internet cafes is just a side business, and they are not willing to advance payments to superior agents, the pattern of capital flow for plug-ins and the order of issuance of activation codes are exactly the opposite.
The funds are collected from the Internet cafe and settled once a month to the agent. After the agent receives the money from the Internet cafe, he will pay Sun Peng monthly. For every activation code sold, the Internet cafe owner must guarantee a profit of four yuan. , otherwise an Internet cafe can sell dozens or a hundred copies a month, and the money is too little to bother with it. You have to sell, record, and remit money to the superior agent, and you can only make three to four hundred yuan a month. Just enough for a network administrator’s salary.
After all, an Internet cafe only has dozens of machines. How much customer traffic can it get in a month? Moreover, among these customers, there are those who come specifically to chat, and some who come specifically to play stand-alone games. A small number of people play Stone Age. Among these few people, only an even smaller number of people will spend money to buy plug-ins.
In this way, every time the activation code reaches the provincial agent, the provincial agent will deduct three yuan. The reason is that the provincial agent is not worried. They send their own people to run out of Internet cafes one by one, and the cost is not low. , laborious and laborious.
After layers of exploitation, Sun Peng only had eight yuan left per share. There were still a lot of costs in these eight yuan, including rent, equipment, servers and other expenses. Several technicians had monthly salaries. They are all several thousand yuan, and the cost of this alone is twenty to thirty thousand yuan, plus the food, drink and litter for these people.
There are still two people in the team and Sun Peng's core staff who hold shares. If they are divided out proportionally, he himself will not have much left after a month.
Looking back at the dealer's request to refund customers, it is useless even if Sun Peng refuses to agree. All the money sold this month is in the hands of the Internet cafe. The Internet cafe directly refuses to hand over this month's money, even if it is a provincial agent. There is nothing Shang can do.
Sun Peng gritted his teeth angrily: "Okay, you can refund, but all the accounts after the refund must be summarized and given to us, and we will seal them all together!"
The distributors ignored him at all. They also shrewdly realized that the popularity of this stone overlord was likely to wipe out the Abe plug-in in one fell swoop. It seemed that there would be no chance of cooperation in the future.
After answering the phone for more than an hour, Sun Peng's face turned green, and the seven or eight people in the studio also looked dejected. These were all technicians who had learned some programming, but to be honest, their skills were at a very average level. , Stone Overlord plug-in, they will know how big the gap is between themselves and the other party just by looking at it, just like the special effects team of the online drama "Tomb Raiders", they have self-awareness after seeing the special effects of Hollywood super blockbusters.
"Boss, what should I do?"
Sun Peng plays the role of the boss in this guerrilla-like team. The distributors are in his hands, and everyone must rely on him to make money.
Sun Peng's face was extremely ugly: "The distributor has a very tough attitude and insists on refunding users. It seems that we will not be able to get the money back in July at all."
"That's more than 100,000 yuan!" They calculated the sales volume, excluding the profits given to distributors, and the profits from sales. The profit earned by their studio was already over 100,000 yuan, and it seemed that they would not be able to get it back...
At this time, a technician blurted out: "Their total downloads exceeded 200,000!"