Chapter 237: The Marble Dynasty

"Cultivation Fantasy" has been in public beta for one week.

As a long-lost MMORPG game in the PC market, and a fairy-tale theme full of sentiment, with advertising covering the entire network, there is naturally no shortage of players.

The first five areas opened were almost fully booked throughout the week.

Even at three or four in the morning, these five popular servers were full, and the queue waiting page would pop up from time to time.

Please note, it’s 3 or 4 in the morning! At this time, the server is already full, which is ridiculous. If you can still jump out of the queue waiting page, it can only prove one thing: a new server needs to be opened! Yes...

Taking into account the crowdedness of these five areas and the influx of a large number of new players, Chen Ba had to consider and decide to open three new areas on the fifth day of the public beta.

"Eight districts should be enough!"

Chen Ba muttered, "The PC gaming market is sluggish. People nowadays play more on their phones, and the computer startup rate is ridiculously low. There's no point in opening too many new areas."

"That's the reason..."

"It's different now than before! In the past, MMO games could open several new zones a month. In a year, there would be at least a dozen new zones opened, and sometimes dozens."

Luo Ji commented: "But for a game like today to be able to maintain normal operation of seven or eight zones is already amazing."

Haven’t you seen that League of Legends, a super popular phenomenon-level game, was also forced to merge its servers in China? No one would doubt the popularity of League of Legends, saying that it is the No. 1 PC game, but even the big brother of the PC game market cannot support so many servers and can only merge six or seven servers.

This fully demonstrates that there is really no future and no necessity to open new areas crazily now.

No matter how popular an online game is, there shouldn't be more than 10 servers. It's best to keep four or five servers, which is a more reasonable state.

Why open so many districts?

When the server is opened, it is a ghost server. Don’t you think this is fun? It wastes resources and energy. The key is that there are too many ghost servers and they have to be merged, which adds a lot of work.

"My Lord, times have changed!"

Xiao Lu joked, "I guess it will be hard to see a scene like that again where there is a long list of servers and you have to scroll the mouse for half a day just to find your own server."

"I know what you mean!"

"You reminded me of the time when I used to play games. I would first choose Netcom or Telecom, and then choose my own province. After choosing the province, there were still one, two, and three districts..."

Chen Ba also laughed.

In the past, when playing such large-scale online games, selecting districts was indeed a headache. Take the famous CF as an example, a province can be divided into one district, two districts, and three districts.

This situation no longer exists.

The main reason is that the PC game market is sluggish. The number of players is incomparable to before and cannot support so many server divisions.

In addition, there is a secondary reason that the current servers are generally configured in an outrageous way. The number of players that one zone can accommodate is equivalent to four or five zones or even more in the past.

Take "Cultivation Fantasy" as an example.

Xiuzhen Fantasy currently has eight zones, and the maximum player capacity of these eight zones is based on 100,000 people. In other words, the eight zones can handle 800,000 players online at the same time.

This is just online at the same time!

In fact, the number of registered and active players in one zone definitely exceeded 500,000. It was just that everyone logged into the game at different times, so there were only a little over 100,000 people online at the same time.

At this point, Chen Ba admires the Telecom Zone 1 of the League of Legends National Server, which is Ionia! This zone accommodates many players from the National Server, and after the launch of the Teamfight Tactics version, it attracted many players of Teamfight Tactics.

Who knows what the carrying capacity limit of this area is?

One million people online at the same time in one zone? Maybe not so outrageous, but during some activities where skins were given away online on time, there were definitely hundreds of thousands of people online at the same time...

"Xiu Zhen Fantasy" cannot reach this level yet, not even half of it. After all, the audiences of these two games are different, and they don't like to crowd into one area.

However, in the game "Don't Leave After School: Marble Storm", some regions have already become the new "Ionia".

"What did you say?"

"The server can't hold up anymore. Either expand the capacity or stop new players from registering or transferring to other regions!"

Yang Dong was worried that Chen Ba didn't understand, so he explained: "In Districts 3 and 5, the peak number of people online at the same time has exceeded 500,000. Do you know what this means?"

Two zones can support millions of people online at the same time. It’s scary to think about it, and the server going on strike is also expected.

I can only say that this is worthy of being "After School, Don't Leave"! If it were any other game, this would definitely make people drop their jaws, but if it was "After School, Don't Leave", it wouldn't be surprising.

“Why are there so many people?”

Chen Ba was also very puzzled. He knew that "Don't Leave After School" was very popular, especially among office workers. It was listed as the first choice game for "slacking off at work".

But no matter how popular it is, the growth rate of players always follows a regular and traceable pattern.

What does it mean? It means that no matter how popular "Don't Leave After School" is, the number of players will increase little by little. It is impossible for hundreds of thousands of new players to appear overnight.

Because of this, Chen Ba is very confident about the server capacity limits of Zones 3 and 5, and feels that these two zones will not have to worry about being "full" in the next few years.

But now, it's full? Where did all these players come from? Did they all pop out of stones? "Of course not!"

Yang Dong explained: "It's impossible for players to appear out of nowhere. After investigation, most of the players pouring into Districts 3 and 5 transferred in from Districts 1 and 2."

Change area!

The existence of this mechanism is the main reason why the servers in areas three and five are overcrowded and have reached their designed capacity limits.

"I see."

When Yang Dong mentioned the transfer to District 3 and District 5, Chen Ba understood it instantly.

Most of the players who transferred to other areas could not stand the "feudal rule" of their own area, so they resolutely defected with their relatives and friends and joined the arms of Areas Three and Five, supporting the resolutions and bills of the "Player Committee".

Damn!

We are all playing "Don't Leave After School", but Districts Three and Five have set up "Play Committees" and "Bead Holders", formulated and promulgated laws, and initially established a modern civilization system. But our district is still playing the palace fighting game of nine princes competing for the throne?

Is this really the same game?

I can’t stand it anymore!

The players are not stupid. If there is no place for me here, I will go somewhere else. You like to play house and set up a feudal dynasty, then fight for the throne and become your own emperor. I'm sorry! As a result, a large number of players began to leave Districts 1 and 2. These lost players moved to Districts 3 and 5, which led to the situation where Districts 3 and 5 were overcrowded.

I also traveled a lot in District 4.

It’s just that area four is special because it is actually the “international server”. The players mainly come from overseas and everyone doesn’t share the same language or culture, so not many people switch areas.

But this is not much, compared with District 1 and District 2.

To be honest, there are also 10,000 to 20,000 foreign players in District 4. They can't stand the "rich and billionaire" rich second generation in District 4, so they choose to transfer to other districts and embrace the "Play Committee".

“Ah, this…”

After understanding why Areas Three and Five were so crowded, Chen Ba also had a headache.

There are two ways to solve this problem! The first way is to expand the capacity of Zones 3 and 5 to meet the basic needs of players and allow more people to transfer to these two zones.

But this is only a temporary solution and not a fundamental solution!

After the server capacity is expanded and talents from other districts are absorbed, Districts Three and Five will naturally develop very well and are expected to become the first-tier cities of Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen in "Don't Leave After School".

But it can be sent to other areas!

Talent outflow and net population outflow, Districts 3 and 5 will become Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen, and other districts will become fourth- and fifth-tier cities? "We must stop this!"

Chen Ba believes that players of "Don't Leave After School" should be dispersed and should not be concentrated in one or two areas, which will lead to uneven development.

In order to prevent the outflow of talent, the best way is naturally to set up play committees in Districts 1, 2 and 4, and humbly learn from and copy the successful experience of Districts 3 and 5.

But there is a snag.

There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!

Will the vested interests, the local tyrants in Districts One, Two, and Four, agree to this plan? Will they be willing to give up their power? "If not, then launch a Heavenly Punishment!"

Yang Dong said unkindly, "After being a local emperor for so long, they won't forget where their power comes from, right?"

There is an ancient saying that kings’ power is granted by heaven.

In the game "Don't Leave After School", the power of the local tyrants comes from the grant of Tianba Studio. If necessary, Brother Ba can launch a Tianzhu against them and establish a new king.

"Don't be so extreme. He didn't make any mistakes of principle..."

Chen Ba thought: "It is better to use courtesy before force, and focus on communication! It would be best if they can see the situation clearly and be more self-aware."

The diehards who can't see the situation clearly? Chen Ba and Yang Dong will never show mercy to this stubborn ruler who has lost the support of the people and is blinded by fame and gain. He should be punished by heaven.

The Players' Committee is the players' choice.

Ignoring the collective will of the players and trying to stop a chariot with one's bare hands will not end well, and will ultimately be ruthlessly crushed by the wheel of development.

certainly!

Chen Ba will give them some respect.

Players of "Don't Leave After School" like to write history books to record the history of each server. In the history books, the last emperors of these servers will receive fair evaluations.

But then again, respect is mutual. If they do not accept Chen Ba's kindness and choose a less dignified death, then don't blame Chen Ba for smearing them harshly in the history book "Don't Leave After School".

What about King Zhou of Marbles, King You of Marbles, King Jie of Marbles, Emperor Li of Marbles, Emperor Ai of Marbles... When it comes to posthumous titles, Brother Ba will never let them go.

By the way.

The historians in Tianba Community who are responsible for writing and recording "Don't Leave After School: The Chronicles of the Marble Dynasty" are really good at it.

The "Chronicle of the Marble Dynasty" compiled and edited by them was recently successfully approved by a publishing house and decided to be revised and published.

Good boy! When this news came out, not only the players were in tears, but Chen Ba was also a little shocked.

Can this thing be published?

It seems that the book publishing industry is indeed not very prosperous. In order to make money by attracting attention, people no longer care whether the content is serious or not.

But it’s not a big problem!

Although this idea is speechless, printing and publishing the book "Chronicles of the Marble Dynasty" is definitely the best decision the publishing house has ever made.

The first print run was 200,000 copies, and we thought it would take some time to sell. However, these 200,000 copies were sold out through online channels in just two hours.

Even Chen Ba didn’t buy it.

This made him very angry. He was one of the authors of this book, but even he couldn't buy it. This shows how popular it was.

So he quickly called the publishing house and asked them to print more copies as soon as possible. This time, don't hesitate to print 200,000 copies, but start with 500,000 copies!

"Ah? Print so many?"

The publisher was shocked and said this was not possible. If they printed so many copies, it would take them forever to sell out. "Only 500,000 copies!"

"Who are you looking down on? Do you know how popular the game "Don't Leave After School" is? Do you know how many players it has?"

Chen Ba said there was no need to panic, just print the books and that would be it. Unsold books could be directly sent to Tianba headquarters in Jiangning, and Tianba Studio would cover them.

Good, good, good! Brother Ba promised to cover the cost of the unsold books. The publishing house no longer had to worry about the future, and immediately gambled its family fortune and printed 700,000 more copies in one go.

As it turned out, Brother Ba was not lying.

The book "Chronicles of the Marble Dynasty" is definitely one of the must-buy books for every "Don't Leave After School" player.

An additional 700,000 copies were printed, and although they did not sell out immediately, they were completely sold out in just one week.

200,000 + 700,000 = 900,000! In today's sluggish book publishing industry, "The Marble Dynasty Chronicles" sold 900,000 copies in just half a month, undoubtedly topping the bestseller list.

Almost every player of "Don't Leave After School" has a copy. Don't ask why. The reason is that this book is so suitable to be used as a "collection of jokes".

Players who have not played the game "Don't Leave After School" may not understand what this book is about.

But for those who have played the game, they have already lived in Bengbu the moment they see the title of the book.

Buy, buy, buy! You must buy a copy of this!

Such an abstract book costs only 35 yuan. You can buy it as a storybook for your son or use it as a desk corner pad.

Chen Ba also bought it, and he bought a thousand copies at a time.

Don't ask why he bought so many. The answer is that he uses them to "preach". Everyone in the studio must have a copy, and they will check everyone's "history" knowledge from time to time.

Whenever guests come to the studio or when we attend any game exhibitions, we will just give this book as a gift!

What? There's no toilet paper in the studio? No problem! Don't worry, Brother Ba bought a lot of "Marble Dynasty Chronicles". Just use the toilet paper. If you don't have enough, go to the warehouse to get more.

This book is so versatile and full of funny abstract elements, such as Emperor Zhuxian, Empress Zhunv, Ghost Emperor and Scalper Emperor. I can't help laughing when reading their records.

Because of this, "The Chronicles of the Marble Dynasty" has also attracted many casual readers who have never played the game.

They don't quite understand it, but they can go to the Tianba community to look up posts for the parts they don't understand! Combined with the posts in the Tianba community and some game videos, this book is not difficult to understand. As long as you can understand it, you will feel that the 35 yuan is really worth it and have a doubt.

When will the sequel to this great book be released? (End of this chapter)