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Chapter 83 Pre-sale of "Jianghu"

At the end of July, Wangyi's martial arts online game "God Catch" officially opened an internal test with unlimited accounts, while Tianhe Network's new work "Jianghu" decided to open the pre-sale on various platforms on August 15st, and at the same time in August NO .[-] is officially open for download.

Originally, Chuhe also wanted to experience this "God Catch", which Wangyi has touted as bad, and see if they have made any new changes at the Cologne Game Show.

But after downloading the game, he registered an account, and after logging in to the game, Chuhe smiled and uninstalled the game.

At nine o'clock in the morning, there are tens of thousands of queues in every district, which is really 'hot'!

After a little attention, Chuhe didn't care about it anymore, not to mention the positioning issue, just the quality of the game, Chuhe didn't think it could affect "Jianghu" at all.

It's just that on August [-]st, after the official website uploaded the first game promotional video and announced the pricing of the major platforms, players began to have heated discussions.

The pre-sale price is 98 yuan. Players who purchase the pre-sale can get a limited costume in the multiplayer mode, and there are no other rewards.

At the same time, the price of the game is 98 yuan for the whole platform. In fact, 98 yuan on the steam platform is no different from Chuhe's price of 68 yuan for the game. After all, the commission on the steam platform is too high.

Of course, Penguin is still rich and powerful. Although the official price is 98 yuan, Penguin’s WEGAME platform has started a voucher activity. Players can receive a voucher worth 25 yuan for free during the pre-order period.

This money is entirely paid by Penguin itself, plus Penguin's commission for the game "Jianghu" is very low. In fact, Penguin has to post a few dollars in it if it doesn't sell a copy of the game. Publicity of WEGAME commitment.

It can be said that Penguin is completely losing money, after all, this game does not have WEGAME's investment.

But it's not enough to say that the penguin is stupid. If the quality of the game is not good, even if Chuhe begs the penguin, the other party will not give any good conditions.

As for the price of 98 yuan for "Jianghu", Chuhe himself thinks it is very reasonable, even considering the quality of Jianghu, he thinks it is cheap.

But for domestic players, obviously most of them think this price is a bit expensive.

And under the Weibo announcement from the official and Chuhe, the players are mostly divided into two factions.

"Domestic game 98? So expensive? I heard that Swordsman 8 is only over 60!"

"I'm afraid I'm crazy about money! 98 to buy domestic games? I might as well pay more and buy 3A!"

"Is the previous one a joke? Are the games divided into domestic and imported? What's wrong with domestic? I didn't see the trial video at the Cologne Game Show? I think 98 is cheap for this quality."

"Everything belongs to the foreign father? Have you been kneeling for a long time? The game is trash if you haven't seen it yet?"

"Let's forget about the pre-sale. When the game comes out, watch the anchor and play it. If it's fun, I'll buy it."

"To be fair, the investment in "Jianghu" is almost hundreds of millions. Is it really too much to sell 98?"

Of course, except for the noisy players on the Internet, everyone in the "Jianghu" project on the Chuhe and Tianhe networks are paying attention to the pre-sale sales.

Including the physical version of the official website, and the digital version of major platforms, all pre-sales are on the same day.

There is nothing to say about the digital version. The physical version is divided into two types: regular version and deluxe collection version.

In addition to the main body CD of the game, the normal version also has a game manual, an original art collection, and the activation code for the limited edition clothing in the pre-sale multiplayer mode of the game.

In addition to the main body CD, game manual, and original art collection, the luxury collection also has Q-version pocket figures of the two main characters, plus a limited pre-sale clothing code exclusive to the deluxe edition.

As for the price, the price of the physical regular version is 188 yuan, and the luxury collection version is as high as 498 yuan.

There is no way to do this, after all, not to mention other expenses, just the two Q-version pocket figures in the deluxe collection account for two-thirds of the cost, after all, this is not some domestic games The Demon God figurine that was given in the collector's edition was specially ordered by Tianhe Network to find a two-dimensional peripheral manufacturer of Neon.

Such a set is sold, after deducting the prices of major distributors, as well as costs and taxes, and finally falls into the hands of Tianhe Network, it will not actually make much money.

"Mr. Chu, the first hour's data came out. The regular version sold more than 2000 copies, and the deluxe version sold more than 100 copies." Soon a data was given to Chuhe and everyone in the project team.

"yeah!"

After getting the pre-sale data for the first hour, the core members of the team, such as Plot, Pig, Lu Zhou, and Xu Chang, couldn't help but show excited expressions and high-five each other to express their feelings at this time.

Judging from the data, "Jianghu" seems to have made a good start, but no one has more confidence in the quality of the game than their development team.

In an exaggerated sentence, they believe that as long as they have played it, everyone will be fascinated by it.

"Mr. Chu, how many digital sales are there?" Excited, Xu Chang continued to ask under the same expectant gaze.

Because the physical version is different from the digital version, the physical version goes directly to the official online store, so the data can be collected immediately.

But for the digital version, the steam platform and the WEGAME platform need to be counted by them, and then fed back to Tianhe Network.

So at present they can only know the sales data of their own platform.

"Our own official website has a digital sales volume of 3000 copies in one hour. Considering that WEGAME has a lot of discounts and the steam platform has a lot of traffic, these two platforms must far surpass us. I think it is a conservative estimate. There should be around 20000~30000." Chu He thought for a while and gave a number.

Including WEGAME and Tianhe Network, they have carried out a lot of publicity on Jianghu before. Although the intensity is not as great as the original Red Moon Legend, it is not too small.

And generally speaking, the peak period of game pre-sale sales is basically concentrated on the first day. According to this progress, Chuhe estimates that the pre-sale sales will probably reach about 10 by the time of the official release.

Hearing the number Chuhe said, everyone in the team was also overjoyed.

As for Chuhe himself, he was both happy and worried. According to the conditions given by the system, "Jianghu" needs to sell 200 million copies within two months, which is not a small number.

Don't say that the domestic is the global scope, the price of 98RMB can reach 200 million copies within two months, which can be said to be a super seller.

Forget it, don't think so much, whether the game is worth it or not, it's up to the players.

After thinking about it, Chuhe is no longer obsessed. He has tried his best to complete it, and the rest is left to the players.

"Check everything. I don't want server problems or obvious bugs in the game on the day the download is open." Chu He looked at the team and said seriously.

"Don't worry! President Chu!"

Hearing Chuhe's words, everyone's expressions were also shocked, and then Xu Chang said.

(End of this chapter)