Chapter 21 Same Name Theme Song

  "Honey, do you think this song sounds good?" In the room, a young couple, one holding a mobile phone and the other an iPad, were lying in bed doing their own things. Suddenly, the girl playing with her phone pounced on her boyfriend's side, pulled out one of his earbuds, stuffed it into his ear, and asked with a smile.

  "What song is this?"

  "The theme song of New World!" The girlfriend said, directly snatching the tablet computer from her boyfriend's hands and forcibly shutting down the game that was running on it. "What's so fun about these games!" She said, manually entering the URL of the official website of "New World" on the tablet: "Tonight at 10 o'clock, New Century will update a new version, hurry up and download one, and then we can go in and play together!"

  Boyfriend rolled his eyes and muttered: "The picture quality of New World is so bad"

  The words hadn't been spoken yet, but were glared at by his girlfriend and forced back down!

  "Dream Technology is so powerful, have you seen any game with so many elements? And the client is so small too. Unlike those crappy games you play, updating a map takes half a day and still needs money to buy. Can't compare to New World! The games inside, racing, kf, tribe, horizontal western tour, and my favorite 'Pet Link', are all free!"

  "Alright!" The boyfriend rubbed his nose, and had no choice but to accept the appointment. However, he also started looking forward to revising the new world, with some expectation.

  There are many couples like this around the world. But more mobile phone enthusiasts and otaku are looking forward to Beijing time, 10 o'clock in the evening.

  Along with the launch of the official website of "New World", the theme song sung by Zhao Xue also became popular with the traffic!

  The new world website has a total of six versions, with the Chinese version as the theme, which can be freely converted into any language translation in the world. Among them, English, French, German, Japanese and Korean versions are specially developed. For user groups, Zhang Heng can be said to have lost money!

  There are six versions of the official website, each written with regional characteristics and none of them are the same!

  "Why does the theme song of 'New World' only have a Chinese version?" someone asked in a post on the forum.

  Answer: Because Zhao Xue can only speak Chinese!

  After the official website opened, Zhang Heng was immersed in the forum. Now, the number of people logged in to the game forum at the same time has exceeded 2 million, and the posts are refreshed very quickly. If you're not careful, what you say will be buried before others have a chance to see it!

  "Boss, will 'New World' be charging a fee later on?" Ah-Dai suddenly jumped out and asked.

  Zhang Heng is also struggling with this issue, whether to keep it permanently free and retain the user base or charge a fee. Permanently free means no money is spent here, but definitely will be spent elsewhere, after all Zhang Heng developed "New World" for what? Isn't it just for RMB?

  It's not profitable, who would bother with it!

  "Do you think it's better to charge collectively or sell props? Zhang Heng also found it difficult to make a choice for the time being. So he had no choice but to throw this question back at Ah Dai!"

  Ah-Dai wrinkled up her cute little nose, tilted her head and thought for a moment before saying: "How about we charge a fee instead?"

  "Charge? Why! Isn't free better?" In Zhang Heng's mind, only free can retain users.

  "It's free, so it must be paid for somewhere else. Boss, do you think selling in-game items is good or giving players a fair gaming environment is good? Ah-Dai said that the fee is charged to logged-in users, not much, just one yuan per year. If 'New World' has 800 million users, then the annual revenue will be that much!"

  Making 800 million in a year? That sounds good, but for those big game companies, this profit is still a bit small. Seeing Zhang Heng frowning, Ah-Dai seemed to know what he was thinking and smiled sweetly: "Moreover, we will also have 'props' appear in the new world. In fact, charging and selling props are not contradictory."

  One yuan per person per year, is it too much?

  Zhang Heng nodded, Ah Dai thought that he was more clever than himself, doing what he said wouldn't go wrong, why bother wasting his own brain cells!

  "By the way, about the payment method for buying 'Global Coin', have you figured it out?" Zhang Heng suddenly thought of this question again.

  "Uh, for now we can only support two modes of payment: phone bill recharge and online banking recharge. Currently, our online banking recharge is using other companies' recharge systems! Later on, we need to develop our own recharge system, but if we want to make it global, we'll need to sign written agreements with numerous banks. At that time, the boss or the boss's recruited employees will have to handle these matters, Ah-Dai can't act as an agent!" Ah-Dai nodded.

  "As for phone bill recharge, it can be directly deducted from the expenses, but for now, it only applies to China and other countries still need to negotiate with those mobile companies!"

  Now basically every country has its own third-party payment platform, such as Huaxia's 'Caifu Tong' and 'Zhifubao', Mengxiang Technology can directly use them for now. However, in the end, it is still necessary to develop its own third-party payment software, of course, this matter can be delayed for the time being!

  Beijing time, 9:59 pm.

  New World X.1 version, officially launched on the official website for free download, previously downloaded users are all prompted to update and upgrade.

  New version, total size 52KB, download and installation takes 6 seconds, old users upgrade only need 2 seconds!

  "Wow, upgraded so quickly! The client is still so small."

  Users who upgraded first couldn't help but exclaim in surprise. The screen is absolutely improved by at least a thousand times compared to the old version, and the public hall has two colors, blue and pink, for players to choose from.

  "Honey, there's also a bar in this new world!"

  "Can I still have same-city chat and make friends? Video storage?"

  "Playing New World can really make money?" A beautiful girl wearing a three-point style in the dormitory, holding her mobile phone and exclaimed in surprise.

  "Boss, global registered users have broken 70 million."

  "Not bad, you watch first!" Zhang Heng was absolutely confident in the new version. This was the result of his hard work day and night for a whole week! He had even asked Ah Duan to review and reference many materials, with playability, entertainment value, graphics, and ease of download and installation, all while still being free for now. If this didn't catch on, it would be simply unreasonable!"

  Zhang Heng entered the game space and walked for almost a month according to the map he bought from the "grocery store" owner before finding the legendary.

  Zhenhai Castle!

  The area is much larger than the Jiuli village that Zhang Heng came out of. There are also many indigenous people inside, and when Zhang Heng walked into the city, many indigenous people curiously sized up this "outside world" guest!

  "I'm the Sheriff of Town Harbor, stranger. I hope you'll follow the rules from now on and not stir up trouble for no reason. If there's anything you can't solve, you can come find me. My name is Hill!" The western cowboy-dressed sheriff stopped Zhang Heng and said expressionlessly.

  "Alright!" Zhang Heng nodded honestly, with a forced smile on his face, thinking to himself, "How can there be foreigners in this game?"