Chapter 67 International Server
Huang is so cool! When he tested the 4090 and DLSS3.0 version with "Star Emperor" during his keynote speech, many foreign players noticed this "special" game.
Yes, it is special! The special thing is that this is the first time that NVIDIA has chosen a non-AAA game for a real machine demonstration, and it is a game produced by an unknown Chinese studio.
Why not cyberpunk?
Why not Horizon 5? With so many AAA games available on the market, why did Nvidia choose StarCraft as the demo game for its new graphics cards?
After the keynote speech and the 4090 graphics card launch conference, many foreign players opened the Steam platform and searched for the game "Star Emperor".
"Star Emperor" or "Lord of the Stars" both refer to "Star Emperor".
This is the English translation, which cannot accurately convey the specific meaning of "Emperor". The word "Emperor" in Star Emperor originally refers to the realm of cultivation, but after translation, it becomes Emperor.
But it's not a big problem.
Although it is very difficult to understand why "Emperor" is a "strength level" after translation, this does not affect the gameplay of foreign players.
As I said, it doesn’t matter if you don’t understand the plot, as long as you understand the special effects and exclaim “Wow”.
The influx of a large number of foreign players not only brought tremendous pressure to the server, but also brought new problems to Tianba Studio.
Domestic early access players basically know what kind of game "Star Emperor" is. Nicknames such as "graphics card sublimation" and "graphics card emperor" are often on people's lips, and no one will take the risk to fight for the road to becoming an immortal.
But the new batch of foreign players don’t know this.
As soon as they entered the game, they were immediately impressed by the god-level optimization of "Star Emperor".
No one told them that it was wrong to blindly choose the ultimate graphics quality, and they should choose the appropriate game quality according to their configuration...
Thus, the road to becoming an immortal became lively.
A large number of ignorant and naive foreign players swarmed in, ignoring the "danger warning" issued by Tianba Studio, and headed towards the road to becoming immortals with the ultimate graphics quality.
This directly leads to the fact that as soon as Chinese players see a foreign ID, they will start to upgrade to the extreme without thinking, focusing on unexpected moves.
Especially the undercover agents sent by the graphics card bar, each of them relied on the powerful graphics cards, while the foreigners did not understand the ins and outs of "Star Emperor", and their faces were crooked with smiles in the past few days.
"Countless foreign supreme beings poured into Jiuzhou, and the sleeping emperors of Jiuzhou opened their coffins and rose from their graves..."
Yang Dong raised his lips and narrated slowly: "This battle was too brutal! The Emperor of Jiuzhou relied on his immortal weapon to hunt down the supreme beings from other regions. The corpses of 1060, 2060 and 6700XT were scattered all over the road to becoming an immortal."
“Of course, there are also many powerful people who possess immortal weapons among the foreign supreme beings. Their strength is not inferior to that of the Nine Provinces Emperor. Logically, they should be able to fight back a few moves.”
"However, because they were invaders, they were suppressed by the Heavenly Dao of the Nine Provinces. Their strength was reduced to only one tenth of what it was. Even though they held immortal weapons, they could only flee in defeat in the end..."
"Please speak human language!"
Xiao Lu didn't understand what it meant that the invaders were suppressed by the Jiuzhou Heavenly Dao and only one tenth of their strength remained?
Where does the suppression come from? "Ahem! Foreign players connect to our server without authorization, not only is the delay very high, but they also frequently disconnect..."
Yang Dong spread his hands and said, "So even if you are a 3090Ti expert, you can't bring your ultimate strength to full play under such a suppression of the Heavenly Dao."
Of course, this is only for the strong.
As for those mortals at level 1060 or 2060, they had already lost their lives due to their youthfulness and indifference to the dangers of the path to becoming immortals.
The road to becoming an immortal is littered with corpses, and this is no joke!
How could the foreign players who were fooled by Huang's words and became interested in "Star Emperor" have ever experienced such a brutal battle?
"I think this is a kind of confidence, giving these foreign players who have never seen the world a little shock!"
Chen Ba was not surprised by the tragic scenes on the road to immortality.
After all, foreign players have never suffered any loss on the road to becoming immortal, so how could they know that the ultimate image quality and extreme sublimation would lead to such serious consequences?
Even if Tianba Studio added a disclaimer on the road to becoming an immortal, but this thing... who would believe it if their graphics card hasn't been blown up once?
You said there are risks, so there are risks?
I don’t believe it!
Once they have personally experienced the terrifying power of the ultimate image quality and extreme sublimation, and witnessed the famous scene of the graphics card smoking, they will naturally become obedient.
But foreigners do love to commit suicide.
Although countless people on the Internet have used their blood and tears to testify to the great terror on the road to becoming an immortal, there are still some people who firmly believe that 1060 or 2060 can create miracles.
Don't ask, if you ask, he won't turn back until he hits the wall! Chen Ba is helpless when he encounters such a stubborn person. He has tried to persuade him, but he won't listen. What else can he do? "The server problem is more important."
Chen Ba thought about it and felt that the most important thing at the moment was to provide stable and reliable online services to the majority of foreign players.
There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!
As for the new version update of "Living Under Someone Else's House Simulator"?
Don’t worry, we’ll talk about it later!
The server side of "Star Emperor" currently has only one "national server" to choose from. Whether it is the Steam platform, Ebao, Wegame or even the host platform, all use the same server.
If there are only domestic players, then there is naturally no problem. After all, the number of players is limited and there is no need to set up new servers.
But now we have to set up the US server.
There is no way! The current online experience of foreign players is very bad. It is basically impossible to play without an accelerator, and it is just barely playable with an accelerator.
Thanks to Huang's promotion, the overseas sales of "Star Emperor" are expected to exceed 100,000 copies, or even higher.
This will result in tens of thousands of foreign players being unable to get a good gaming experience, and they will inevitably give the game bad reviews or even initiate refunds.
"Then we'll build a US server first. As for players from other regions, we won't consider them for now unless the number of active players reaches the target."
Setting up a server has costs.
It is impossible that Chen Ba would be so crazy as to create the so-called European server, Japanese and Korean server, Southeast Asian server, South American server, etc. in one go.
The number of active players in these regions simply cannot support the demand for a dedicated server.
Therefore, for the time being, only one US server will be set up, which should be enough to meet the online needs of most European and American players.
But I have to change the name.
Although this is the US server, we cannot directly say the US server. It should be said the international server. All players can connect to this server to play online.
To build a new server, Chen Ba doesn’t need to go abroad, or even show up in person. He doesn’t have the luxury of buying a server equipment, so he can just rent it.
The only headache is that with the addition of a new server, the operation and maintenance costs will increase further, but...
What should I do if no one spends money in the game? (End of this chapter)