Reborn multinational giant

This Spring Festival, Fang Zhe had a very happy time. On the morning of the second day of the new year, Feng Xue accompanied Fang Zhe back to Fang Zhe’s hometown and experienced two days of authentic rural life.

This is also the first time that Yang Xiuying and Feng Xue have met in reality. Feng Xue’s beautiful looks, cheerful and knowledgeable personality, and eloquence have left Yang Xiuying with a great heart. impression.

Fang Zhe also secretly admired Feng Xue's sudden change of character, and it was true that one thing fell one thing, in front of his parents, who would have thought that Feng Xue would be arrogant and domineering to himself in daily life.

On the fifth day of the fifth day, Fang Zhe and Feng Xue returned to Yanjing together. The new year has begun again. The top priority of Huizhong is preparing for the public beta of Steam China.

Since Huizhong reached an agreement with the American valve company to introduce steam at the end of July last year, the preparation and establishment of Steam China has been in full swing.

Including language translation, correction, game review, grading, China independent server setup, account system, payment system, game community construction and so on, until now, all related work in the independent steam China area has basically been completed, and will be February 23 On the tenth day of the first lunar month of the lunar calendar, we officially met with Chinese gamers who have suffered from overcoming the wall.

In October last year, Huizhong had already released the news of Steam’s entry into China. Since then, various game forums such as 17173, Duwanwang, Video Bus, and Yezizhu have appeared one after another. Advertisements and news about steam China.

In mid-November, Huizhong officially opened the pre-registration channel for Steam China. All Chinese players can pre-register their steam China accounts and download them in advance through multiple channels including Huizhong official website, steam China official website, and Zhongle game platform. On the steam platform client, players who already have a steam account can skip the registration process and use their old account directly.

Under the overwhelming advertising campaigns across the entire network, as of February 22, 2010, the ninth day of the first month of the lunar calendar, the day before the steam China public beta, the total number of pre-registrations on steam China exceeded the 3 million mark!

3 million people seem to be a lot, but compared to the current 50 or 60 million computer game players in China, there are more than 20 million daily active players in the previous League of Legends in China alone. There are still many potential users waiting to be tapped in steam China. .

However, although the number of these 3 million players does not seem to be much, most of the players are the backbone and hardcore players among Chinese online game players. You must know the reasons why China was restricted by the political environment and walls in the past, console games, and stand-alone games. And 3A games, etc., are basically difficult to popularize among ordinary players like Tencent DNF, CF, NetEase Fantasy Westward Journey and other online games. There are only a small number of people who know the steam platform in China. These players have an environment. , Conditional allocation, more powerful consumption capacity.

In a country like China with a population of 1.3 billion, even a small part of it is millions, and these people are currently the main users of the pre-registered steam platform.

On February 23, 2010, the day of the official public beta of Steam China, many long-awaited players across the country opened Steam China early and boarded their Steam China accounts.

One of them is Li Kun, a sophomore in the winter vacation in Jing'an District, Jianghai City.After waking up at 9 o'clock in the morning, he turned on his computer and opened Steam China to log in to his steam account. He has been playing console games since the first year of high school. He has played no less than five or six 3A masterpieces. He is a standard hardcore player. He is also an old player on the steam platform. He registered a steam account as early as three years ago. He has a history of overcoming the wall for four or five years.

While listening to the song, Li Kun chatted with several of his college roommates about "Left Left 2" in the QQ group. "Leave Left" is a classic zombie-themed doomsday survival adventure game. It started in 2008. Since its release, there have been many players around the world who like doomsday zombie-themed games. "Left to Survive 2" is the sequel to "Left to Survive". It was released in mid-November last year. Once it was released, it was widely acclaimed and swept the world. .

"Legend of Survival 2" can be played solo or online. When in school, Li Kun often played black games with a few roommates in Internet cafes, but now it’s winter vacation because of the existence of the wall and "Survival The official server of "Road 2" is abroad, and Li Kun wants to play hacking with a few roommates again. The difficulty is not ordinary. The terrible delay alone made them lose their interest in hacking.

Fortunately, now Huizhong has introduced steam to China, and Huizhong has also opened up domestic servers for many games on Steam, including "Left To Survive 2", so the people in their entire dormitory are looking forward to the public beta of Steam China. .

Nearly 10 o'clock, Li Kun cut to the steam China platform interface. There were dozens of seconds left in the open beta countdown on the interface. After a while, the countdown ended, and the main interface of the platform became the main interface of the steam platform store.

The main interface of the store is a dazzling array of game promotion pictures. On the top are several relatively large game promotion scrolling pictures. This column is a selection of recommendations, including "Left Survival 2", "Magic City", "Spore", and "a4" Many classic game masterpieces such as "Need for Speed", are constantly scrolling in this column to play the game promotional images.

Going down, there are games in different sections such as hot games, new games on the shelves, and special offers. Li Kun casually flipped through the homepage, and then couldn’t wait to enter the "Leaves of Survival 2" in the featured recommendation column. He had already discussed with a few roommates and wanted to play a few games of "Left to Survive 2" online for the first time.

The installation package of "Left Left 4" is very large, about 7 gigabytes. If you download the game completely at the current average Internet speed in China, you will have to wait until the evening at least. Fortunately, Li Kun They had already downloaded the game when the game was released. Now they only need to download another steam China patch package.

The size of the entire patch package is only tens of megabytes. A few minutes later, when Li Kun reopened the single-player "Legend of Survival 2" he had played many times before, the game had been linked to Steam China and could be connected to the Steam China server.

"I'm online, how about you?" Li Kun sent a message to several roommates in the Q group.

"I'm online now. It's in Room 24 in the death center area. The password is our dormitory room number 212!" A roommate replied a message in the group.

Within a few minutes, four university roommates gathered in Room 24, Death Center District, Road to Survival. This was the first time they had been so far apart. Everyone had a different feeling in their hearts. After an excited chat on the public screen in the room, he entered the game directly.