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v2 Chapter 514: "World of Warcraft"
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After all, the news about Henry was only an entertainment topic. Henry asked the Internet to block it. Gradually, people began to forget it.
Before long, Christmas came.
Americans like to go on vacation at this time, while Henry takes his family to Hawaii for vacation.
Blizzard released its first online game "World of Warcraft" on Christmas Day. This game is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game. It uses the story of "Warcraft" as the historical background and relies on the historical events of Warcraft. And heroic characters, World of Warcraft has a complete historical background timeline. Players take risks in World of Warcraft, complete tasks, new adventures, explore unknown worlds, conquer monsters, etc.
The game's promotional video was released on the Internet three or four months ago. The high-definition pictures, cool characters, and interesting gameplay attracted countless players at once.
"It feels so fun just watching the promo, it deserves to be Blizzard!"
"This 3D game screen is really awesome, and it can definitely explode all other online games!!!"
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Countless people are still worried that Blizzard will bounce tickets again, but this time it did not. On Christmas Day, "World of Warcraft" was officially launched on the Firefly game platform. Within a day, the number of registered players reached 10 million and the number of paying users reached 1 million.
However, to play "World of Warcraft", the computer configuration requirements must be relatively high, and many players are stuck while playing.
"I'm dizzy, the game is too fun, but it's an old card!"
"Yes, I am the same. Blizzard officials said, "World of Warcraft" is a 3D high-definition picture quality, if the computer configuration is not good, it will be stuck. Therefore, Blizzard officially recommends using Apple's imac and macBook computers!"
"Imac and macBook are expensive! In order to play games, I have to buy an Apple computer. I am fainted!"
"In order to play the game, I gave it up. Isn't it just an Apple computer? The big deal is that I will eat instant noodles in the next few months!"
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Although "World of Warcraft" requires high computer configuration, some people retreat, but more people become "World of Warcraft" players. At the same time, due to the impact of "World of Warcraft", the sales of imac and macBook soared. A week later, more than 100,000 teenagers went to the Williams store to purchase an Apple computer.
In view of the relatively high computer configuration requirements of "World of Warcraft", only the United States has opened the game. However, in just one week, the number of registered users of "World of Warcraft" exceeded 30 million, and the number of paid users reached 5 million, which shocked the world! ! !
Media across the United States said: "World of Warcraft has become a phenomenon-level game in the United States. As long as gamers who like to surf the Internet, they will discuss "World of Warcraft"!"
"Blizzard produces, it must be a boutique! "World of Warcraft" is great!"
Blizzard has released good games one after another, and people have respected it as the world's top game production company, with hundreds of millions of fans around the world! The current "StarCraft", "Warcraft" and "Diablo" so far are still the top ten most popular games in the game industry! And it is precisely because of the existence of Blizzard that game competition has gradually become an acceptable full-name competitive sport.
In addition, with the background of "Warcraft", Henry also let people develop DoTa, which is a multiplayer real-time RPg game that can support 10 people to connect at the same time. The game is divided into two camps. Players need to manipulate heroes and get the final victory by destroying the opponent's ruins, which is similar to the LoL game! Once DoTa was launched, it quickly swept the world and became a must-have game for Internet cafes. So far, the number of players has exceeded 120 million!
"Start the "World of Warcraft" movie plan!" Henry played the game for a while, and then issued an order for Blizzard and Galaxy Films to cooperate to create a "World of Warcraft" series of movies!
It was rumored in the past life that the "World of Warcraft" series of movies will be created, but it has not been shot for a long time. Later, the players of "World of Warcraft" left one by one, and the IP value was greatly reduced when it was filmed at this time. As the saying goes, when the iron is hot, Henry intends to spend about two years to create the "World of Warcraft" movie. At that time, it happened to catch up with the hottest time of the "World of Warcraft" game! How to say, there are also a large number of players back to support it!
Henry actually wanted to not only film "World of Warcraft", but also "StarCraft".
The race wars among Terran, Protoss, and Zerg are also very interesting. However, the scene is magnificent and the special effects need to be more powerful! This movie has been filmed, and it is absolutely comparable to the "Star Wars" series!
In this way, it is possible to add a new series of ace movies to the Galaxy Film Company.
Right now, the Galaxy Film Company’s series of films are the most in the world, including "Jurassic Park", "Star Wars", "Transformers", "Harry Potter", "Lord of the Rings", "Pirates of the Caribbean", "Spider-Man", "X-Men", "Iron Man", "Captain America", "Fantastic Four", "Wolverine", "Terminator", "007", "Fast and Furious", "Resident Evil" ", "The Matrix", "Toy Story", "Shrek", "Mission Impossible", "Indiana Jones", "Ice Age", etc., only filming a series of movies every year makes other film companies jealous To die!
Last year's "Harry Potter" and "The Lord of the Rings" ~lightnovelpub.net~ took the world by storm, winning US$3.04 billion and US$1.15 billion respectively, shocking the industry! Especially for "Harry Potter", because this IP is related to Henry, fans all over the world are paying special attention. The movie has not yet been released, and all movie tickets within a week have been sold out! The global box office is extremely shocking and has far surpassed "Titanic"!
Of course, this kind of success cannot be replicated by others. Who made Henry so famous, and "Harry Potter" is his famous work, the number of sales of books alone has reached more than 6 billion copies, which has surpassed the 5 billion copies of "Mao ~ Ze ~ Dong Quotations", Ranked second in the world, second only to the "Bible".
In addition to box office sales, peripheral products are also very popular, especially costume props, such as magic robes, magic wands, flying broomsticks, etc., during the time when the movie was released, it was in short supply!
Senior Wall Street analysts commented that the IP of "Harry Potter" alone is probably worth tens of billions of dollars!
Because Henry opened the gold finger and took all kinds of high-quality IP to the Galaxy Film Company, other film companies were miserable. Galaxy Film Company releases its own movies every month, and most of the movies released in the same period are crushed, which greatly weakens the strength of these movie companies! So that as soon as the Galaxy Film Company released any news, the whole Hollywood was rumbling. This shows that they are afraid of what the Galaxy Film Company is afraid of!
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