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Relying on the announcement at this time, Great-Thousand games and Blizzard games have grabbed the limelight. Almost all players are discussing Warcraft III, and almost all game media are also discussing Warcraft III, as if the whole world is only left. It’s just a game like Warcraft III.

At the same time, I think that the high quality of Warcraft III itself and the almost free rebate policy, so players will have no disadvantage in Amway. More and more friends around them have joined Azeroth within the realm.

As a result, on the 28th day after the demonic beast was released, in less than a month, the global sales of Warcraft III broke through 30 million copies.

This time not only broke the PC sales record, but also all game records in the world. Even the 48-day 30 million sales record of “Pokemon Gold and Silver” was also broken. Warcraft III Ascend to the throne of Yu-Gi-Oh! with unimaginable absolute domineering.

Of course, if Boss Jia could come up with the same sales policy as Warcraft III when “Pokemon Gold and Silver” was released, then Warcraft III will probably not win Pokemon.

The promise given by Great-Thousand also says to do it. On the 2nd day after Warcraft III was sold, refunds have been successively returned to the steam accounts of each player, and they have become 6900 steam points again. .

Oh, no, it’s steam droplets

At this time, the phone calls of the entire Great-Thousand game were also blown up by the phone calls of all game companies, and everyone was asking about this refund.

These smart game dealers discovered that although Great-Thousand will refund all Warcraft III in full, the problem is that the refund is not actually US dollars, but steam points.

This thing is impossible to change back to US dollars, so these steam points can only be used to buy games.

These points are obviously impossible to be used to purchase Warcraft III, so these points will flow directly into other games in the Steam Game Store.

In line with the principle of not having bastard if you have money, I believe that in a month, at least half of these steam points will be consumed by players again, which means that 20 million sales, at least Has 10 million will be allocated to other games.

And not all games dare to sell for the top game price of $69. The price of most games is still hovering in the range of less than $30. Ten-dollar games are plentiful and easily available, so this 100 million copies Sales will be split into at least 30 million or more sales. Even if it is evenly distributed to the current more than 3,000 games, that is 10,000 sales per game, enough for these game developers to eat well and enjoy a good life.

Of course, this idea is wonderful. The key is to see what the Great-Thousand policy is, and whether the refunded steam points are still calculated according to the normal steam points.

Otherwise, if Great-Thousand announces by shameless, these steam points are all activity points. If you don’t give money, then bullshitting will be required instead.

So regardless of whether it is a game company that has joined Steam Games or not, they are frantically asking about the rules of Steam Games’ entire activities.

While Steam Games was obviously well prepared, a detailed activity description was soon sent directly to the work mailboxes of all game companies.

The impatient of game dealers began to read this description, and then showed a hesitant expression.

According to the statement, the special steam points refunded at this time, also called steam drops, are calculated based on the steam points when calculating the revenue with the game developer.

That is to say, a lot of money will be given to the game developer as the sales money. This promise has made all developers overjoyed. Great-Thousand is really the most outrageous company in the world.

But soon they discovered that not all game developers can enjoy this service. Only companies that have signed an exclusive sales contract with Great-Thousand can enjoy the benefits of this contract.

As the name suggests, this exclusive sales contract requires Great-Thousand to obtain the exclusive online sales right for the game. In the future, online sales can only be sold through the Steam Game online platform, even if the developer is not qualified to sell, otherwise it will be a breach of contract. To compensate huge losses.

Moreover, the term of this contract is 20 years, which is the highest contract term in the industry. If the contract is terminated midway, huge compensation will also be required.

Fortunately, this contract is signed according to a single game, not according to the size of the entire company, but this is not bad, games without a contract, naturally there is no exclusive sales expression, and then steam cannot be used The purchase of water droplets cannot bring huge profits to the game company.

At the same time, there is a hidden condition in the contract, that is, for the exclusive game, the Hongmeng version must be developed. At the same time, the content of the Hongmeng version must also have more windows versions, even if there is one more mount and one more map. There must be more, otherwise it is a breach of contract.

“Great-Thousand finally broke down!” Many game companies saw the request from Great-Thousand and sighed helplessly.

Indeed, the previous steam games are so pure, upright, and kind. They don’t impose any restrictions on the game companies under their banners, and let them join Microsoft’s box game company. They are typically silly and sweet.

Now the steam game has finally learnt badly, and the game company is also required to sign an exclusive contract to block all competitors.

They even directly force game developers to develop the Hongmeng version, which requires invincibility…

And this time Great-Thousand is still standing at the commanding heights of morality, because normal steam points are not limited to exclusive games, and steam droplets are Great-Thousand abandoning its own Warcraft III profits, and then Part of the profit is subsidized to all game manufacturers.

To put it plainly, it means to spend money to buy your exclusive. If you want money, then sign the exclusive.

If you don’t need money, then everything is normal, and I won’t make things difficult for you.

In short, Great-Thousand’s approach is similar to box games, but it makes all game developers very comfortable, and no one has too much dislike for Great-Thousand…well, except box games and Microsoft .

So, will these game manufacturers be willing to sign this contract?

Almost all game manufacturers have agreed. The reason is simple, because this contract requires the exclusive agency rights of online game sales channels, and offline channels are not at all restricted. In other words, game companies can still transfer their own The game is sold in the box game store.

Now on the online channel, Steam Games does not have any competitors. Even if you refuse to sign the exclusive, you can’t find a second online store that can be sold. Then there is no hesitation in signing this contract.

On August 3, 2000, Steam Game Store announced that it had signed an exclusive sales contract with 2,893 game companies around the world, and will exclusively represent the sales of a total of 5897 games.

After the announcement, the market value of Microsoft, which had finally stabilized at about US$280 billion for more than a week, began to plummet again, with three circuit breakers in one day, and it fell below US$200 billion in three days.


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