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Chapter 675 One stone stirs up a thousand waves
In the whole game, the Astros defeated the Devers school baseball team with a score of 47 to 45. After the game, there was a round of applause at the scene. In the end, the 80 yuan obtained through the sale of tickets, player donations, advertising fees, etc. American knives donated.

As the title sponsors of the Astros Arena, DoubleClick and Song Yang jointly donated another 100 million US dollars. Today's noisy game is finally over.

As for how to distribute the 200 million dollars raised today, that is a matter for Adrian and the Houston Public Office. Even if it is nothing, no one will be able to find out. It's just that the general work is not so rough. Pluck the hair and apply oil layer by layer.

Each of the Houston municipal departments and personnel who handled it took part of it, and then distributed it to the next level, and finally reached the hands of charities and welfare organizations that purchased supplies and distributed them, and kept a part of the "expenses", and finally went to private hospitals. In the hands of the slum communities, it is considered professional ethics to keep [-]% to [-]%. After all, doing charity in America is also a business, and people in charity organizations must not starve to death!
After Song Yang returned to his villa in Houston, he went to the study room. After turning on the computer, there were more than a dozen emails in the Hotmail mailbox, all of which were sent from Xue Leshan and Panda TV.

V Agency, like Blizzard, is a game studio under Xue Leshan, but Blizzard has been famous for a long time. Before it was acquired, it had already released several games of "Warcraft" and gained popularity.

As for the V agency, this time it was the first show. Even though there had been overwhelming publicity before, and there was Xue Leshan as a guarantee, no one knew how many people would buy it.

Song Yang opened an email from Xueleshan President Williams and his wife. It was sent by Xueleshan at noon, and Song Yang was still in the arena at that time.

The content of the email is very simple, only two sentences, "Half-Life has sold more than 68 sets, and the sales have exceeded $12 million!"

Song Yang looked at the contents of the email and found that nearly 70 sets of "Half-Life" games were sold in one morning. "StarCraft" is nine cents cheaper, but the sales volume exceeds the morning sales of "StarCraft" on the first day of the market!
Compared with Blizzard, the popularity of V agency is much lower now. The blockbuster in the morning has surpassed the "StarCraft" of the same period, which shows that Xueleshan's brand has really been erected. On the other hand, It also shows that shooting games have a much wider audience.

"On sale within four hours, the sales volume has exceeded 68 sets. The V Society game studio under Sierra Mountain has created a new history of American games!"

The media began to report on "Half-Life", "The manager of the Snow LS marketing department declared that the inventory of the Half-Life game is sufficient, so there is no need to worry about the supply..."

It’s okay not to say this, but once I said it, players who were still waiting and watching immediately poured into the major game retail stores. The manager also said this, and America and other places started to sell out the next day, and suffered losses twice, so many players, how could they continue to jump into the pit? !
The Xuele LS marketing department is really wronged. This time, in order to provide sufficient supply, Xueleshan directly printed 500 million sets of game discs. In addition, now that broadband is becoming popular, users can directly use the "Xueleshan Online" platform. Download the digital version of "Half-Life", so the snow LS marketing department feels that the previous two out of stock will never happen this time.

However, it is hard to say how long the 500 million sets in stock will last after being bought by players.

Seeing that players started to snap up "Half-Life", game retailers, distributors, and scalpers began to move around again, playing with reluctance to sell and hoarding goods. The reduction of goods on the market was visible to the naked eye, which intensified the madness of players. Grab, directly started to enter an endless loop.

The word-of-mouth and game experience of "Half-Life" has already spread throughout the game industry through the TGA game exhibition, as well as game forums such as IGN. All players who like shooting are not worried that "Half-Life" will overturn , as soon as it went on sale this time, it was immediately snapped up.

And in the evening, the TGA professional e-sports league led by Sierra is about to open. Ken Williams and Roberta are going to join a group of Sierra executives. When they attended the opening ceremony, they received "Half-Life" sales , Looking at the sales report in their hands, all the Xueleshan executives fell silent for a while.

As for the sales volume, the two founders of V Agency, G Fatty and Harrington, who had high hopes, also looked at each other at this time.

In the end, Harrington, who was still thirsty, couldn't help but said, "Could it be that the marketing department made a mistake?"

Harrington felt dazzled when he saw a series of numbers on the sales report. It wasn't that the sales were too low, but that they were too high.

"It should be that the distributors are hoarding the goods!"

Ken Williams looked at the numbers on the sales report several times before he said, the last time "StarCraft" sold 135 million sets in a single day, and the sales exceeded 8000 million US dollars, it was a bit scary at that time, Breaking many records in American and even global game history.

At that time, many media threatened that the record of "StarCraft" may not be broken again for many years, but just like every time a movie achieves a super high box office, an epic movie will emerge to break it It's a record, but even Xue Leshan didn't expect that day to come so soon!
"Half-Life" sold more than 160 million sets on the first day, and the sales exceeded 400 million. Big deal.

And now, there are still a few hours before tomorrow, and the sales statistics in other overseas regions are delayed. If Xueleshan wants to make a move, he can definitely make a big move, for example, let "Half-Life "Became the world's first game with over [-] million sales on the first day!"
"Let's make an announcement to the outside world!"

After Ken Williams thought for a while, he was still not ready to make big news. How long has it been since Sierra was separated from ICQ? The chicken that laid the golden eggs was split out, obviously doing something.

G Fatty and Harrington and other members of the V Agency naturally wouldn’t object, they were still a little dazed at this point, selling a small target a day, even they never thought that “Half-Life” would It can be so violent!
"Unfortunately, Half-Life is already open source."

A director of Xueleshan said with a sigh, that if the sales volume of "Half-Life" is not open sourced, the proper golden bumps and the development of the sequel can last for several years. After the open source, the sequel It is much more difficult to make it, and you can't play show operations.

But with a sigh, "Half-Life" open source code, allowing players to make mods, was promised by Song Yang, and no one in Xuele Mountain dared to overturn Song Yang's decision.

There was almost a thunderstorm on the ground. Without waiting for the third-party data agency to issue an announcement, Xue Leshan himself issued an announcement in advance, claiming that when the global sales of "Half-Life" exceeded 160 million sets, and the sales exceeded 400 million US dollars, the entire game The industry has been thoroughly stimulated.

There is no need to lie about this kind of thing, and Xueleshan does not need to do anything, and it is not a listed company, so it needs to increase the stock price. The outside world has no doubts about Xueleshan's announcement, but it is really stimulated.

Major game magazines, forums, Yahoo, MSN, AOL, and Lycos America's four major portals all pushed the sales of "Half-Life" at the same time.

"A new era of video games has arrived!"

"After Diablo and StarCraft, the V agency game studio under Xueleshan launched the third 3A masterpiece, with a single-day sales of 400 million 40 US dollars, setting a new record in the history of global games. Lead the global game industry into the era of 3A masterpieces with high investment, high quality and high returns!

It is not impossible for the game industry to grow big with small things, but the 3A masterpiece model led by Xueleshan will redefine the game market and become the mainstream of the game industry. Xueleshan is changing the history of games with its 3A game masterpieces, digital games, online games, and professional e-sports ! "

The Wall Street Journal spent most of its space telling the outside world that what Sierra is doing is not for ordinary players and people who don’t pay attention to the game industry, but for Wall Street institutions and Silicon Valley companies. Wait a few years Finally, when both players and ordinary users feel it personally, the game industry structure has basically been set.

The Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Wired Magazine, Computer World, Silicon Valley Daily and other media are all raving about Sierra, but it is not that other media have opinions on Sierra.

(End of this chapter)