Hello everyone, this is the positive shock game, I am the positive shock little brother.
Today, the little brother wants to tell you about a popular martial arts online game from more than ten years ago - "Bloody Rivers and Lakes". In the Chinese online game market, which is full of 2D games such as "Legend" and "Fantasy Journey to the West", "Blood River lake" attracts a large number of players with its exquisite 3D graphics and free operation mode. It is the enlightenment online game of many student parties who have no money, and the game is still running until now. And what ups and downs has the game experienced in the past decade?
The end-game version of "Bloody Rivers and Lakes" is adapted from the Korean best-selling comic of the same name, and after being introduced to China, it became one of the most important works in the history of Chinese online games, and was once on par with "Legend" when it was introduced to China. At its peak, the number of registered users exceeded 10 million.
In May 2005, less than a month after the public beta, "Bloody Rivers" announced that the game was "free for life". Although there were still some online games that could not survive at that time, they chose to operate for free, but "Blood Jianghu" was the first one that focused on free operation shortly after it was launched.
17game has made great efforts to promote the game, not only in the internal test on the Internet full of advertisements, but also in the day before the public beta held a concert called "Blood Night", invited many stars to sing, and there are some top celebrities.
Under the publicity of this online and offline concerted efforts, the game's internal test exceeded 100,000 registrations in 4 days, the number of online people in the public beta exceeded 200,000 in 3 months, and the number of online people exceeded 300,000 in 7 months! Although it is not as good as those top online games, it also spoils many developer bosses. After that, a large number of free online games appeared on the market, including "Journey Online", which was popular all over the country in 2006.
200,000 online celebrations
Speaking of the game itself, the younger brother was also one of the many players at that time. The game's high-level characters will land gorgeously from trees when they enter the game, and low-level characters can only fall down stupidly. This ingenious detail setting makes the little brother remember it vividly, and he has deliberately asked how many levels will make what kind of landing action.
In fact, the game is very boring from the current point of view, that is, constantly spawning monsters and upgrading, but in that year, there was an online game that could be played for free and felt very happy. After trying all the characters, the younger brother chose the doctor, just because the doctor is remote and can add blood, and the spawning efficiency is relatively high.
In fact, many players at that time were as simple as the little brother, as long as some of them played, for those Kryptonian gold big guy combat power perverts, every day a dozen or something will not care at all. This has also led to agents becoming more arrogant, and even directly selling combat equipment in the mall.
In addition, private servers are an important reason to accelerate the decline of games. Since the game was updated to the V170 version in 2007, many "Blood Jianghu" private servers have appeared on the Internet. The zero krypton party at the bottom has worked hard to brush equipment to play with the big guy, and it is better to go to the private service to be the big guy.
This undoubtedly also affects the experience of many kryptonite bigwigs, spending so much money to smash out the attributes, the next door private server login will be sent, who can bear this? This led to a collective protest by players. Even during the most rampant period of private servers, the game official had to open the version in advance to allow players to play new content.
On the other hand, the game is also BUG continuous, every three to five there will be a new BUG term in the forum, the most serious invincible BUG even existed for 4 months before it was completely repaired.
Coupled with the plug-ins and other issues that have been plaguing players, a large number of players have been lost, and since 2008, "Bloody Rivers and Lakes" has embarked on the rolling service mode of combined service - open service - and then combined service. The game environment is no longer harmonious, full of scammers and hang-up scripts, and the wild is basically hordes of robots, which are powerless against these officials.
After 2010, the game has not moved much, and it has lagged behind mainstream games in terms of graphics quality and gameplay. Most of the main player groups are brick-moving parties active in private servers, and now the search for "hot blood rivers and lakes" has to skip several private service ads to find the official website, which is really lamentable.
In 2013, the agent also broke the absurdity of internal employees privately banning their names, but because the game was too niche, it soon sank into the sea.
But who would have thought that more than a decade later, the game's mobile game of the same name, "Global Edition of Blood Rivers and Lakes", was launched on April 1 this year. Before its launch, the global reservation volume of the game has exceeded 5 million, which has rushed to the top ten of the Appstore, Google Play game download list and best-seller list in Southeast Asian countries. The success of the game also led to a surge in the share price of the developer Dragon Chart South Korea, which increased its market value by 250%.
A major feature of the game is that players can exchange for blockchain coins by digging up diamond props, and then exchange them for cash, which also leads to the influx of a large number of studios and brick-moving parties, which is very similar to some domestic terminal games.
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Not only that, but "BloodY Rivers and Lakes W" is also about to be launched in May, and the developer's interpretation of the game's name "Hot Blood Rivers and Lakes W" is that this game connects the world of "Hot Blood Rivers and Lakes" with another new world, so the initial "W" of "World" is used.
However, South Korean players said that "W... There's no need to talk to someone else...".
The younger brother tells you: "Blood Rivers and Lakes" as an old end of the tour, has gone through 17 years. However, the flood of private servers is also from the outside aspect of the game's popularity, until now there are still a certain players still love the game "Blood River", of course, so many years have passed, the game's screen has long been unable to keep up with the times, but occasionally go to see the memories of that year, or good.
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