On the morning of April 26, as soon as it was dawn, a group of studios were already standing in front of the computer, starting to prepare for the 10 o'clock launch of "Honkai: Star Dome Railroad", and the light and shadow on the computer screen were projected on their faces, shining on their excited faces.
At dawn, the work party and the student party also got up from bed, eating breakfast and commuting to the company or school, occasionally turning on the mobile phone to chat with friends in the group, and clicking on the game by the way to see if there was an update.
"I grass, I started serving in advance!"
With the release of this message in the group, the originally lively group suddenly became quiet, and all the group friends began to touch the fish either nervously or brazenly, and their action target was "Honkai: Star Dome Railway".
People with different purposes spread with the news of the early start of the service, and more quickly poured into "Honkai: Star Dome Railway", it is not an exaggeration to say that the first "Star Dome Train" has reached a terrifying number of passengers, and people are still trying to board this train.
Some netizens jokingly said that this is everyone wants to join the "iron gate", and the first step to seize the opportunity to become a core iron gate believer is to start by boarding the first train and snatching to a top UID.
A new generation of gaming identity: UID
UID, that is, User Identification, is the digital ID assigned by the system when the player registers the game, which is equivalent to the player's ID number in the game, and the digital principle of UID is often based on the player's registration time to arrange adjustments, simply put, the earlier the player registers, the higher the UID number, it can prove that you are not a game "veteran" player.
The UID for Honkai: Star Dome Railway
For example, in "Genshin", there is even a set of UID registration time comparison table, just look at the player's UID, you can speculate his game registration time, and the smaller the number or special UID, the more it can prove that the player is "special" in the vast sea of people.
It can be said that the UID of today's popular games is both like a QQ short number and a license plate number with a special number combination, just because the number is special and unique, it has become a new generation of game identity symbols.
And "Honkai: Star Dome Railway", which has been widely concerned and has more than 30 million reservations worldwide, the UID squatting grand event in today's open beta is even more than previous games.
Since the pre-download of "Honkai: Star Dome Railway" has been opened, various diversified services have appeared on some trading platforms, such as initial number customization, and more popular preemptive UID services.
Promotional slogans such as "multi-device cybersquatting" and "professional squatting package 4 bits" are all over the preemptive UID transaction of "Honkai: Star Dome Railway".
And these "sought-afters", some are individual customers, part are scattered small studios, more "businessmen" who sit in front of the computer just after dawn, they want to earn more on UID.
After the player friends who shouted "start the server in advance" entered the game, there were already one million people, and the group friends who were busy with work and only set the alarm clock at 10 o'clock and so on were reduced to a UID starting with 4 million.
While they scolded and cursed "Missan is not kind enough to open the service in advance", they only sighed when looking at the UID of the huge number, and then threw themselves into the game, no longer thinking about the UID.
Unlike these ordinary players who want to experience the game more, the UID show of local tycoons who want to get status symbols and "sought-afters" who want to earn the first pot of gold has just begun.
Star Dome Railway UID hypermarket
On the second-hand trading platform salted fish, 2 hours after the start of service, the search for "Star Dome Railway UID" has reached hundreds of nearly thousands, and the number of UIDs sold has gradually increased from the top 100, 3 digits, 4 digits to 5 and 6 digits.
Among them, the top special number UID, such as 1314, 520, 666, 888 and other numbers, are marked with sky-high prices.
An account with a UID of 5200 a second ago was ridiculed for whimsical because of the selling price of 9999, and a number wants to sell 10,000, and no one will buy it.
In the next second, the prompt of "It's late, the baby has been sold~" on the transaction interface is fiercely silent, and at the same time, the number of "I want" people (representing the number of conversations and consultations with sellers) of a large number of salted fish short-digit UIDs is also growing. (Note: According to the mobile game matrix, the actual selling price of the UID account of 5200 should be 5200 yuan)
And in order to make their UIDs sell at a higher price, many players have begun to give new meanings to their preemptively squatted UIDs.
For example, the UID with 99 says that this is a good meaning of 99; For example, UID5377, said that this is to avoid the original god draw to seven seven; There is also a palindromic digital UID that is easy to remember, which is also hung up with a high price...
Even some UIDs that do not belong to the top numbers and are not special number combinations, and the seller wants to sell the high-priced ones, directly marking the unique label of the UID, waiting for a local tyrant with a special preference for the number to buy.
There are more players who hang their beautiful UID on salted fish as a display, as if they have used UID as a new means of comparison.
In fact, in products with a huge magnitude, ID-related content for sale and value symbolism has become the norm, not to mention the QQ number and "League of Legends" ID that form the industry chain, in the public beta of large-scale popular online games, it is not uncommon to preemptively register ID to make money, but most of them used to exist in the form of "text ID".
The "Faker" ID of League of Legends Mobile Game
After the era of mobile games, for the convenience of technology and management, but also to allow the appearance of the ID of the same name, to avoid the phenomenon of player ID preemption, UID has become a new player personal symbol, but with the emergence of national magnitude games, UID has also appeared preemption and sales phenomenon.
Earlier, "Genshin", because its UID sales atmosphere was not yet popular when it was launched, so so far, its UID is more of a symbol of "elders", and the appropriate value-added role when selling numbers, and cannot be sold at sky-high prices just by relying on UID.
But "Honkai: Star Dome Railway" is different, its appearance is accompanied by the horror popularity of pre-download to top the free list of 113 countries and regions, it is the largest number of products since the first half of this year, it can be said that before it was launched, people have recognized its potential and commercial value, and it is precisely because of this that its UID can be auctioned at sky-high prices and become a status symbol.
Missing the "Genshin" UID squatting period, and at the same time the UID market has begun to grow, the next "Honkai: Star Dome Railway", which has the most explosive potential and has accumulated a huge user magnitude, is undoubtedly not only a business opportunity that studios cannot miss, but also one of the fastest ways for some players to show their fame and fortune status and special in the online world.
The current huge user magnitude of "Honkai: Star Dome Railway" is like a big stage, and countless people sharpen their heads to appear on stage, or seize the opportunity, or show their differences. Anchors frantically attract traffic, UP masters do strategy clicks overnight, players rush to register UID into the iron gate to occupy a position, and even the mobile game matrix article is also one of the wrapped into the big stage.