Otherworldly Architect

9 month 1 day.

Blue Star's two "Xia Ke Xing" regular server groups, and two temporary server groups, as well as the entire operation and maintenance team stationed there, are confidently welcoming the wave of players.

...Then, he exploded with confidence.

"Huh?! Could you please say it again?"

"It's been 15 minutes since it went live, and the average player request is 25 billion, with a peak of 31 billion! Boss, all servers are under high pressure, and all external links are blocked!"

"Where are there so many players!!! How many download channels are blocked?"

"Boss, we don't know this yet, because the official website of the blog has been suspended, let alone the download link..."

Long before the public beta started, the official website of Blue Star had opened the download of the official version of "Xia Ke Xing".

It's just that before 9 o'clock on September 1st, all servers are closed to the public, and players cannot log in to the game.

The game download channel is naturally distributed to various partners through the studio.

This includes the two major platforms of IPP and Atlas, countless other small and medium-sized digital media distribution platforms, self-media websites such as blogs, comprehensive online live broadcast platforms such as Fat Cat TV, and finally several game news sites.

For example, gaming studio and other large websites for game evaluation and player voting released the page of "Xia Ke Xing" early in the morning, marking "launching on September 9".

For games like this that have not yet been released, although players cannot rate them, they can click the "Expect" button to indicate that they want to play this game.

Long before the Blue Star Carnival, the player expectations of "Xia Ke Xing" exceeded [-] billion, swept the rankings of all major websites, and basically remained undefeated.

Other game publishers in the Sixth Star Province had to avoid their edge for the time being, and no one dared to continue to set a date for the time node of early September.

But compared to the total number of players, most people are more willing to download the game client itself a few hours before the game starts.

As a matter of course, before and after the open test at 12 o'clock, it is naturally a peak period for a wave of traffic requests.

So now, some people feel that the servers all over the world are on the verge of collapse...

——Blue Star's official website is slow to death!

——I can’t log in to the blog!

——Even the real-time data statistics of gamingstudio have collapsed, and the opening is blank!

This is definitely one of the major "traffic accidents" in the history of the Internet in the Sixth Star Province.

Blue Star's back-end team leader, Horace, was already sweating profusely, and the members of the operation and maintenance team made an emergency rescue.

Fortunately, I had prepared in advance, and I was able to rent two additional servers at a high price to temporarily relieve the pressure on the main server group.

You must know that the server group is not a simple 1+1=2 effect.

Just to integrate resources together so that all players can stay in the same world, what is needed behind it is the top service technology in the interstellar world.

Fortunately, Blue Star's technical department can barely withstand the pressure...

Otherwise, only one-third of these billions of players can enter the game, and the rest of them will have to spend at least an afternoon in the long queue.

Of course, even now, when most players log in, they still face a cold queue prompt box.

[While queuing. 】

[There are still in front of you: about 9200 million players...]

[Estimated waiting time: 1200 minutes. 】

Just looking at these numbers is depressing.

What is even more desperate is that the estimated waiting time of the server may not be correct.

Because I want to know that the previous players who can enter the game will not quit the game in a short time.

——But for any fun game, the first time you go in and experience it must start at least three hours!Anyone who goes offline at a glance and then comes back to queue is a fool!

At this time, from the outside world's point of view, Blue Star Studio was still calm. While the temporary announcement apologized to the players, the new server team had already taken office.

A large part of the players who were squeezed into the login interface were put in again, and the entire official forum immediately had the cleanest day ever.

No one knows, in fact, Blue Star is also in turmoil...

"Hurry up! What's the status of the main server? Just put it on the big screen and monitor it at any time!"

"The pressure in Xinshou Village has also exceeded 120%, hurry up and let the AI ​​pinch two more villages temporarily!"

"A new bug has been found in the backstage, and there are 12 of them, including 2 of the 'critical level', and the relevant programmers have already asked the relevant programmers to investigate urgently..."

"A 200-jin female body has a mold-wearing bug in the face pinching session. Kevin just fixed it, and it will be updated in 5 minutes!"

The studio was full of traffic, and countless people were running to work.

It is clear that at this time, of course, he will not stand there to cause trouble, and just sit in his office, monitoring the various data and actual situation of "Xia Ke Xing".

On his right, a holographic projection screen is displaying the communication with Xia Cheng.

Xia Cheng was staring at the constantly updating server data across two screens: "Can another two groups of temporary ones hold up? I don't think it's enough to rent for 24 hours..."

After Mingyan heard this, he couldn't help laughing and said, "Leave professional issues to professionals. Why do you seem more nervous than them?"

Xia Cheng said: "Darling! You've been working on this game for more than a year! It's Blue Star's first multiplayer online game ever. Can I not be nervous?"

Ming Yan couldn't be happier, and said, "Drink more hot water."

Xia Cheng: "??"

Ming Yan said: "Relieve the tension."

Xia Cheng: "..." Is hot water omnipotent?

Just as he was talking, the secretary sister who happened to make it clear also came in with hot water.

She doesn't know anything about the game, and she is one of the most leisurely people now. She also said: "Boss, Horace said that the server has stabilized, no problem. He will work overtime tonight to guard the server. If there is any problem, please help me." Text him directly."

Mingyan said: "It's okay, so that he doesn't have to stay up so late, he can go directly to the staff dormitory to rest, or he can work remotely at home."

Miss Secretary said: "I can't sleep even if I let him sleep now. I'd better move him a camp bed outside the server."

Mingyan sighed, "Why are you all so nervous?"

After speaking, he turned his head to look.

I saw that Xia Cheng was still staring at the online data, with both hands clenched into fists, he looked like a husband waiting outside the delivery room...

"...Ahem," Mingyan persuaded helplessly, "Don't get excited, the data is not important. Lao Xia, anyway, this is the first time I play this kind of game, so let's take it as a test of the water. It's a success, of course. Well, it doesn’t matter even if you lose all your money, anyway, Blue Star is not short of money now, at worst, you can earn it back in the next game.”

After he finished speaking, the secretary was already dumbfounded: What a confident local tyrant is speaking!But if you think about it carefully, there seems to be no problem?The talented designer favored by the players can be confident? !

Then, she heard that Xia Cheng nodded and said, "Well, that's right. It would be great if Blue Star runs out of funds one day. I'll invest [-] billion in you to test the waters first."

Miss Secretary: "..." I can no longer understand this world!

It would be an exaggeration to say so.

Not to mention that "Xia Ke Xing" lost all its money, it can also be seen from the data on the first day of the public beta that its future is simply limitless.

As of 24 hours after the opening of the public beta: the total number of downloads of the game "Xia Ke Xing" is 68 billion, the number of registered users is 80 billion, the average number of online users is 50 billion, the 24-hour player retention rate is 87%, and the player praise rate is 97%.

Opening the 3% negative reviews, the vast majority of people are protesting: [The queue time is too long! 】

[It will definitely be crowded at the beginning of the server, but it can't be crowded like this!Almost got me pregnant! 】

[Brothers, I beg you to get off the line while eating?I've been queuing for three hours, and I can't get in. Once you animals get in, you never go offline again?Point card free of money? 】

The charging method of "Xia Ke Xing" is a point card system, which is divided into two modes: time billing and monthly card.

And it also adopts a dual currency model.

——That is to say, players can buy point cards with real currency, or they can use in-game currency to buy them.

Either way, the price of point cards fluctuates with market prices.

Now that the server has just started, there are no players who can use the in-game currency (gold) to buy point cards, so everyone spends money on point cards.

But in fact, every newly registered user will receive 200 minutes of game time for free.If you are the owner of Blue Star's Little Red Badge, Little Gold Badge, Little Blue Badge, etc., you can get an additional 200 minutes for each badge.

This is also Blue Star's consistent player welfare.

Now is the frenzy period when the server has just started, and most players will naturally not feel bad about ordering cards.

Not to mention that they go offline during meals, many people don’t want to eat at all; some people have already discussed with their friends to "work in two shifts"-one person goes offline, and another person goes online immediately to take over. Non-stop to seize the opportunity!

It can be said that when the Blue Star Studio is working around the clock, the players are also working overtime non-stop.

Some people stay up all night unconsciously in order to experience more game content;

Some people like the pleasure of being one step ahead of others, and they have to be one of the highest-level people in any game, so they have no regrets when they bury their heads in practicing the level;

Some people want to seize the opportunity...

During the closed beta when the file was deleted, the player who performed the show operation came again!

This time when he was born, he went straight to the familiar place in Miaojiang without even learning the initial martial arts.

Find the little princess, coax her decisively, sweet talk her, and abduct her, and then run into the sect and call "father-in-law" directly.

Unexpectedly, this time the father-in-law did not play his cards according to common sense.

When the master heard the situation, he was furious, raised his knife and rushed out: "Who dares to coax my precious Mingzhu into being fooled! When I come out, I will cut off his three legs and throw him into the ten thousand Gu pit! "

Player: =mouth=!No, this is different from what you said!Father-in-law... No, no, Master, please listen to my explanation!

It's too late to say.

I heard a "click".