Two hundred thousand downloads…
Sun Peng swallowed weakly and looked at the time. It was three o'clock in the afternoon, only fifteen hours later, and there were already two hundred thousand downloads...
His legs were a little weak. The highest number of simultaneous online users in the Stone Age was only around 200,000. The total number of registered users was estimated to be in the order of a million. In less than a week, this plug-in may be fully popular...
After all, the Abei plug-in is a paid plug-in. Covering more than half of the players is a pipe dream, but it is possible to reach 100% coverage of something free and easy to use!
Seeing that everyone was very depressed, a young technician comforted him: "Sooner or later they will still have to charge, and the number of paying users will definitely drop sharply..."
Sun Peng glanced at him and said: "So what if there is a sharp drop in paying users? As long as he sets the price no more than 15 yuan, he can take away all our users!"
"Then let's lower the price! Ten yuan!"
The person who spoke was the original leader of Abe's team, Jia Bei, known as Abe.
"What if the other party also lowers the price?" Sun Peng said coldly: "When you used free plug-ins to confront us, didn't you consider this?"
Jabe was immediately speechless.
Yes, the other party gave it to you for free as soon as it came up. Are they still afraid of starting a price war with you? What a joke!
At the same time, on the second floor of the Big Spider Web Bar in Haizhou City.
Zhao Kang felt as if his soul had been sucked out of him. He slumped down in front of the computer and murmured to Li Mu: "If this plug-in charges, how many people do you think will pay for it?"
"I'm afraid only tens of thousands of people can survive." Li Mu analyzed the current situation in the Stone Age. Tens of thousands of people across the country spent money to buy plug-ins, which should be a relatively reliable figure.
"Oh my God." Zhao Kang was completely stunned: "Then if there are 30,000 people, it will be 500,000 a month! This..."
Li Mu looked indifferent: "Don't settle the score, that's not how the score is settled."
With that said, Li Mu roughly explained the situation that he needs to face in sales. Monthly sales start from scratch and increase little by little. Monthly consumption of tens of thousands of copies cannot be achieved overnight, and there are also various channel costs and distribution at all levels. The profits go down layer by layer. If you sell for three to five million yuan per month, you will be very optimistic if you can recover more than one hundred thousand yuan.
"Even one hundred thousand is amazing!" Zhao Kang felt dizzy for a while: "My parents only earn less than twenty thousand a year. It takes six or seven years to earn one hundred thousand. If you do the cheat business for more than ten or twenty years, it won't work. A billionaire now.”
Li Mu shook his head and said: "This business won't last long. It can only prosper for two or three years at most."
"Why?" Zhao Kang was a little confused.
"Have you been to a disco?"
Zhao Kang nodded: "I've been there a few times and it's quite fun."
"Have you ever heard of those shaking pills?"
Zhao Kang also nodded repeatedly: "I've heard of it."
Li Mu said with a smile: "Game companies are equivalent to discotheques. They invest in venues, equipment, and labor, not only to make money from tickets, but also from the sales of drinks, fruit plates and other products. This is the money they make." ,Right?"
"That's right."
Li Mu continued: "What is ecstasy? It is a drug that can make the guests in the disco have more fun, so our plug-in is like this kind of ecstasy pill sold in the disco. People who go to the disco have more fun, but this is harmful to the disco itself, because he can't get the money for selling pills, and not all customers will take ecstasy pills. If you eat and get high too much, it will inevitably affect those customers who don’t take pills. If things go on like this, the customers who don’t take pills will no longer be willing to come here to play, and the business of the disco will plummet. Do you think they will? Let you go?"
"Holy shit." Zhao Kang realized this twist and suddenly exclaimed: "It's okay if we don't get killed!"
"Yes." Li Mu said with a smile: "So, plug-ins are equivalent to ecstasy pills. The business cannot last long. If you rely on a disco for a long time, the disco itself will find ways to prevent our pills from entering, and at the same time, it will also If you try to find a way to attack us, then you can only change to another disco and continue working for a while."
Li Mu went on to popularize science: "There are loopholes in the current law, and it has not been dealt with yet. But in time, what cheaters will have to face will be attacks from the government and game operators, and they may even be sentenced or convicted. So this thing is suitable for taking advantage of the situation, but not suitable for long-term development.”
Zhao Kang really understood now and nodded repeatedly: "Then what are you going to do?"
Li Mu said, "It can't be done for a long time, but it can be done for two years. However, Stone Age has no future. The best way to deal with Stone Age Overlord is to find someone to take over. We can get the money and wait until September or October to make other games." "
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After Sun Peng calmed down at this moment, he thought about his current situation carefully, and he was indeed ready to contact the developer of Stone Overlord first and ask what the other party wanted. If they could cooperate, that would be the best. If the other party If you rush into this field with the mentality of killing without mercy, then you will really be unable to save yourself.
So, Sun Peng used his QQ to add the contact information Li Mu left on Stone Overlord.
A speaker message icon also popped up in the lower right corner of Li Mu's computer.
Li Mu hurriedly used the shortcut keys to open it. He only glanced at it and snapped his fingers: "Here it comes!"
The person who requested to be added as a friend was a person named Dapengniao. The verification message read: "The person in charge of Abei's plug-in."
It was him that Li Mu was waiting for, and even his own online name was named for him.
"Till death."
"Whose online name can be called endlessly? Damn it..." Sun Peng cursed angrily in front of the computer. These four words made him feel an extraordinary sense of oppression. Could it be that the other party called him such an online name? Are you saying that you want to fight to the death in the field of cheats
"It doesn't look like a fuel-efficient lamp!" Several programmers gathered behind them smacked their lips.
Just as he was talking, Sun Peng received the feedback message.
"I will refuse to add you as a friend."
Zhao Kang asked in surprise: "Isn't it him we are waiting for? Why did you reject him when he came to your door?"
Li Mu smiled, with a bit of cunning on his face: "Where are we now? It has not been online for twenty-four hours. If I add him as a friend now and talk to him about packaging and selling, it will be too embarrassing. Alright?"
Zhao Kang opened his eyes wide: "You mean, continue to hang him for a few more days?"
"That's right." Li Mu nodded and said with a smile: "Anyway, the trial version of Stone Overlord has a fifteen-day trial period. It's still early. Let's continue to let Abe's people suffer. The more they suffer, the worse they will be to us. There are benefits.”
"Just do what you say." Zhao Kang not only admired Li Mu in his heart, so he also made up his mind to obey his orders.
It was now six o'clock in the afternoon, and Li Mu said to Zhao Kang: "Let's go home too. There won't be anything important in the next few days. Just take the time to continue publicizing."
"What should we do with the computers?" Zhao Kang asked, "Do we still have to keep these two machines?"
"I haven't thought about it yet." Li Mu lamented. It is really inconvenient to do anything these days. Real mobile hard drives have not yet appeared, and U disks have not appeared. Floppy disk storage capacity is extremely low. Internet cafe computers do not have floppy drives, and even CD-ROM drives do not exist. It is not standard on every machine. They often only have one or two optical drives, which are used to install the system on the machine.
There is no mobile hard drive. Ordinary computer hard drives do not have power supply and circuit solutions, so they cannot really be used for mobile storage. There are burners, but the price must not be cheap. I can't afford a software that is less than 6MB and a bunch of source code. , run to buy a recorder, right? What a mess!
Li Mu decided to think of another way. If it didn't work, he would ask his family to borrow some money and keep the two computers for a long time.
When he walked to the counter downstairs, Li Mu thought of Er Bin and said, "Brother Er Bin, is it time for the three days I promised? How long did it exceed today? Calculate the money."
Er Bin waved his hand: "Go back to your home. Anyway, business is not always full every day."
Li Mu smiled and said, "Brother Er Bin is quite interesting." After saying that, Li Mu added, "Well, I'll cover it for another day tomorrow, and I'll come over and give you the money tomorrow."
"Okay, let's wait until you come tomorrow. I won't let anyone go to your box tonight, don't worry."
Li Mu nodded. It seemed that he had to find a way to solve the data storage problem tomorrow. Otherwise, it would be too wasteful and unsafe to store things on the computer all the time.
Suddenly thinking about Abe's plug-in, Li Mu asked Er Bin: "By the way, Brother Er Bin, do you also sell plug-ins here?"
"Yes." Erbin said, "Abei plug-in, I picked it up from the agent in the provincial capital."
"Agent in the provincial capital?" Li Mu frowned: "It's so troublesome, layer by layer."
"Who knows?" Erbin said with a smile: "Anyway, people from the provincial capitals are responsible for running Internet cafes in each city below, and they came to talk to me."
As he spoke, Erbin curled his lips and said, "But this Abe plug-in seems to be about to fall. A stone overlord came out last night and killed him instantly."
Li Mu smiled and asked, "Then you have a loss, right?"
"It doesn't matter." Erbin smiled and said, "I can only sell less than a hundred copies in a month, just a drizzle."
Li Mu lay on the counter and hesitated for a moment, then asked tentatively: "By the way, Brother Erbin, do you have a recorder here?"
"I don't have one. That thing costs more than a thousand dollars, and it's useless. Why, do you need it?"
"Yes." Li Mu nodded: "I want to engrave something."
"I'll lend you one tomorrow." Erbin said cheerfully: "I've seen that one at my support company. They have an HP one."
Li Mu's eyes lit up, and he knew that those who opened Internet cafes in this era were actually not proficient in software and hardware. Every city had a so-called support company, which was actually a small company that specialized in providing computer installation, software installation, repair and maintenance services for Internet cafes, and recorders. For them, it should be something very necessary.
"Then I'll leave this to you, Brother Erbin."
"It's a small thing." Erbin smiled and said, "I'll pass by their place tomorrow and ask for it for you. Just come here in the morning. I'll get you two more empty plates by the way. They have so many of them and they're not worth much. "
(End of chapter)