After visiting the Internet cafes and computer malls around the school, Zhang Umbrella and Li Si returned without success, and Zhang Umbrella complained.

"Hey...you said, is there no situation in the world where you can have your cake and eat it too? Why is it so difficult to play a game? It's like fighting monsters. First, you grab the beta code, and now you start grabbing the installation disk and point card.

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"What are you thinking? You didn't listen to what the boss said. The Miracle Point cards are basically gone as soon as they arrive. What should we do now?"

"What should we do? Cold salad." After saying that, he opened his umbrella, turned a corner, and ran directly to a bookstore.

"Hey, why are you going?"

"If you can't buy a game disk, why don't you buy two books to satisfy your craving?"

The two came to the bookstore and wandered around the computer magazine section.

In the quiet bookstore, someone suddenly opened his umbrella and screamed. Realizing the abruptness, he immediately covered his mouth.

He quickly waved to Li Si.

"I stepped on your tail and screamed so loudly."

"What do you think this is?" Zhang Xian turned the magazine to the back with a mysterious look.

"Damn it!" He scored twice, attracting angry stares from the crowd around him.

I saw a CD on the back of the magazine. Printed on the CD was a girl wearing a veil and silver armor, and a few big words, Miracle MU.

The girl has long legs in black stockings and a coquettish posture, especially when she is holding a pipa and half-covering her face to show off her amorous feelings that seem to be exposed but not exposed, which makes the two people at the peak of their youth look straight in the eyes.

What kind of elf is this? She is clearly the goddess of miracles.

Li Si's eyes were a little straightened and he murmured, "Xiaosan, do you still remember who my goddess is?"

"Isn't it always Stefanie Sun? Yesterday you were still saying that you must go to a concert this year."

"No, no, no, you must have remembered it wrong. The goddess I have been searching for finally appeared."

"tui~ You're a scumbag who's had his own thoughts. Why does this goddess look so familiar? It's like I've seen her before somewhere!"

"Don't think about it, buy it quickly to avoid being robbed again." After saying that, Li Si took a copy and read the Miracle gift content.

Not to be outdone, Zhang Umbrella directly rounded up the rest.

"You're crazy. The free game time is tied to the free account. It's useless if you buy so much."

"Who said I have to use it myself?"

Li Si reacted, "You want to sell?"

"Nonsense, it's not like you haven't seen how popular it is. I sell it at a higher price when I get it to the school. I think there are people who want it if it is doubled. At least I don't have to worry about paying for the card in the future. It's a pity that this store only has 8 copies."

When Li Si heard this, he rolled his eyes and put the book in his hand towards the open umbrella, "Then you go to check out quickly, and I'll go to the bank next door to withdraw money."

Just as he was about to leave, he was grabbed by Zhang Umbrella, "What are you doing with the money? You have enough money~"

"Of course the purpose of withdrawing money is to sweep goods. The layout is small, brothers. If we want to do it, we can make it big. Then we will gather at the door. Time is money, my friend!"

After checking five or six stores, I found that not only popular software, but also two or three other game weekly magazines also came with Miracle CDs. Everything I didn't mention was picked up by the two of them.

Two hours later, the two returned to the dormitory with large bags and small bags, and bought nearly 50 magazines of various types with Miracle installation disks. It cost them a full month's living expenses.

Then the two of them ran around and posted small advertisements at the door of each dormitory. After a while, a bunch of people with the same ideas came.

Seeing as they were both alumni, the two of them didn't have the nerve to double the price and just increased the price by 10 yuan per copy to make hard money. They all sold out in less than an hour, making a net profit of 500.

After seeing the sweet spot and looking at the crowd of customers waiting for food, the two of them took a taxi to a bookstore further away to continue purchasing goods.

After a day of hard work, I earned three thousand.

The next day, Zhang Umbrella and Li Si wanted to do the same thing. As soon as they went out, they found that there was a colleague selling Miracle Point Cards at the door of the dormitory.

As a result, they found that major outlets had received another batch of goods, and this time the goods were very sufficient.

The money earned yesterday was enough to play Miracle for a Year, so the two of them stopped it as soon as they got along.

Waiting for the public beta to arrive in a few days.

The summer season is not only a battleground for movies and military strategists, but also for online games.

In June, NetEase's "Elf" and Zhi'ao's "The Legend of Ancient Dragon Heroes Online" were released successively.

In July, not long after Century Zongheng held its press conference, the portal giant NetEase suddenly announced that the domestic self-developed large-scale online game "Westward Journey Online II" would be released for public testing on August 15, and invited Zhou Xingchi to endorse the game, which won a lot of attention.

Attention.

In the past, "Legend" and "Magic Baby", which had the highest market share, took the lead, and there were also similar competing products "Swordsman Online" and "Elf" on the side, and later there was "Westward Journey Online II" strong pursuit.

It is against this background that Miracle ushered in its public beta.

August 8, sunny, suitable for the market to open.

Miracle public beta day.

Century Zongheng’s normal working hours are at 9:30.

But on this special day today, the company's working hours have been temporarily adjusted to 8:30.

But even so, everyone came to the company before eight o'clock, consciously carrying out final inspections and preparations to ensure that the public beta was flawless.

At 8:30, Chen Hao showed up at the company,

"Mr. Chen, morning."

"Boss, morning."

"Morning~"

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The employees stood up spontaneously to say hello, and everyone's face was filled with excitement and excitement, mixed with a bit of nervousness.

I have been busy for more than a month. This is the company's first big project, so I can't help but be excited.

Chen Hao waved his hands in high spirits to let them continue their work. Behind him were two workers, carrying a huge bundle of curtains.

Some employees looked around curiously.

Chen Hao asked workers to install the curtain on a nearby wall.

Then I set up a projector and asked Lu Tao to project the statistical data page on it.

There is no such large LED screen now, so Chen Hao can only make do with it.

The statistics page displayed on the screen is very concise, with only three lines.

"Witness the miracle with you!

ACU:0

PCU:0"

ACU (Average concurrent users) average number of players online at the same time

PCU (Peak concurrent users) the highest number of players online at the same time

The two indicators above to judge the popularity of a game are the two numbers above.

Currently, the Legend family is the dominant one, with an average of 300,000 online users and a maximum of 500,000 online users.

This is the target they are currently chasing.

In fact, currently, 100,000 people is a milestone for judging whether an online game is popular.

Chen Hao was in charge of the headquarters, while Lin Lang was in the Zhongguancun computer room. He finally learned something and resigned from IBM. He came here a few days in advance and led a group of hardware engineers to optimize the number of blade servers and connected broadband.

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9 o'clock sharp.

One hundred blade servers have been started and are ready.

According to the previously determined plan, 5 areas will be opened at the beginning of the open beta. The names of the areas are named according to the regions of miracles, and are divided into Brave Continent, Icewind Valley, Fairyland, Atlantis, and Lost Tower.

There are 3 servers in each area, and each server is named after a weapon, such as Death Scythe, Red Sword, Hammer of Destruction, Legendary Staff, etc.

First invest in 60 servers, the total capacity can support 180,000 simultaneous online users, and can support 200,000 in extreme cases.
Chapter completed!