Brother Ma, who had no money, could only watch Jiangnan prosperously operate the Warcraft 3 card, and soon it was time to start the pre-download.

As a result, a large number of aggressive players opened the OO Game Center at the specified time. When they were about to pre-download the game, most of the players heard a ding and then saw the following prompt.

[We are very sorry, because there are too many players currently downloading. In order to ensure the user's downloading experience, the number of downloads is currently limited, and a maximum of 20,000 players can be downloaded.

But we provide you with a queuing service. Your current queuing number is 58741. You can choose to keep your computer in its current state and wait for the queuing download to be completed.

At the same time, you can also choose to make a reservation at the link below to reserve your download time. You will be able to download quickly without queuing.

Hey guys, you have to queue up to download a game!

When they saw the prompt from the system, the players were stunned. In fact, it was still early to queue up more than 50,000 numbers. After an hour, the number in the queue had already reached more than 700,000.

Later, this was entered into the Guinness Book of World Records, becoming the record for the largest number of people queuing to download online in history. It lasted for three years before being broken by OO itself.

All the colleagues who saw this were furious. At the same time, more than 700,000 people were queuing up, and I don’t know how many people had made reservations. In this case, wouldn’t it be possible that Warcraft 3 could bring millions of people in one day?

Traffic?

Doesn’t this mean that all game users in China will be wiped out in one go?

This is really scary, especially Xiao Ma. When he saw this number, he could only comfort himself that these were just Jiangnan's bragging. There couldn't be so many people waiting to download the game.

Of course, such waiting also led to voices on the Internet accusing OO. However, the netizens of that era had not yet reached the point where in later generations, everyone was a mixed bag, and both pigs and dogs could access the Internet. The quality of the netizens of that year was still higher. They all

I can understand the queuing thing. After all, it is a game of more than 500 MB. The bandwidth usage is very scary. OO can provide downloads to 20,000 people at the same time. Such a server has crushed all Internet companies in the country.

And in fact, the queue speed is not too slow. For example, the guy who queued for more than 700,000 people had already queued up to about 100,000 people in two or three hours.

Of course, this is not because the download speed is fast, but because there are many people who can't stand the queue or have to turn off their computers and leave, so they choose to make a reservation.

But making an appointment is not a simple matter. In fact, from the 15th to the 20th, the appointment times are actually full, including 24 hours a day after the early morning.

From around the 20th to the 25th, I have free time almost all in the evening.

So if you want to make a reservation during the day, you have to start from the 26th. If you want to make a reservation at any time of the day, you have to start from June 1st.

And this time is still being pushed back. If we wait another day, it is estimated that we will have to wait until after June 10 to make an appointment.

Some people may worry that if there are too many people queuing up, it will reduce players' interest in playing the game.

Such worries are not unreasonable, but Huang He, who has been baptized by queuing in countless games in later generations, knows very well that you never have to worry about queuing for a game. On the contrary, the more people queuing up, the more popular your game is.

More people will be attracted to queue up.

The simplest example is like there are two dumpling shops next to each other on the same street. There are so many people at the door of one shop that the people queuing up have blocked the door of the shop.

The other restaurant is crowded, with only two or three people eating inside. Which dumplings will you choose to eat?

That's almost always the one where you have to queue up, otherwise where would so many Internet celebrity stores in later generations come from?

Of course, if the queue is always like this, the enthusiasm of the players will be extinguished. But fortunately, this queue is for downloading the game, not the queue required to log in to the game.

Huang He actually devotes most of the server resources to game operations, so Huang He is confident that there is no need to queue when actually playing the game.

Therefore, queuing will not make players leave, on the contrary, it will stimulate more enthusiasm.

Soon, another day passed, and it was time for the official limit of Warcraft 3: Reign of Chaos. At this time, Huang He did not stay in Wenzhou, but stayed in the network center in Caoxian County.

Wenzhou's network center has been verified by time. There is no problem with stability. The key is the stability and reliability of Caoxian County.

Soon, as 10 p.m. passed, a large number of players poured into the Warcraft 3 section that had just opened in OO Game Center.

"100,000 people!"

"200,000 people!"

"300,000 people!"

"500,000 people have reached the current upper limit!" Cao County staff kept shouting, and eventually the number of people online at the same time stabilized at around 500,000.

Well, the reason why it is 500,000 people is not because it can only accommodate 500,000 people, but because only 500,000 people have completed the download so far. According to statistics, there are still at least 3 million people queuing up to download.

According to the design, the current maximum capacity of the server is 10 million people, so these 500,000 people are just water for the entire server, and because of the opening of two network centers in Caoxian and Wenzhou, one in the south and one in the north, all people entering

players have a brand new online experience.

"Xiao Huang, old man, there is something I don't understand. Since 500,000 downloads can be released in one day, and the number of people queuing up to download is around 3 million, then in theory it only takes 6 days to queue up.

That is to say, you can only wait until the 21st at most. Why do you only have people waiting in line for reservations on the 25th, but they are all full?" Ni Guangnan, who was also staying in the control room with Huang He, asked curiously.

"I did this on purpose!" Huang He said with a smile.

"On purpose?" Ni Guangnan's eyes widened.

"Yes, in fact, if downloading is fully liberalized, there may be about 600,000 people by this time. If they line up at the same time, people who were originally scheduled for June 4th can advance to May 24th." Huang He said with a smile.

"You suppressed nearly half of the traffic, why?" Ni Guangnan was even more confused. He couldn't figure out why Huang He did what he did.

"First of all, for those who are queuing, it actually doesn't make much difference whether they wait until June 4th or May 24th. They both have to wait a long time."

"Then, I need to ensure the experience of the players who are currently downloading!" Huang He said, "For example, I have not opened all the traffic, and I have not opened the maximum number of people. The current average download speed of players is about 40KB per second, with an average of 4 hours

It takes a very long time to complete the download.”

"But if I fully open the number of players, the download speed may drop to about 25KB per second, and there will also be a risk of disconnection at any time. Players will also need more than 6 hours to download, which is too long.

It takes a long time, and it is very easy to cause network problems, such as the download is interrupted in the middle, and then the download needs to be manually resumed again."

"So, for our platform, the priority is not to ensure the number of downloading players, but that everyone who downloads can successfully complete the download without waiting for an unacceptable time."

"In the end, it just lowers players' expectations!" Huang He said with a smile.

"I don't understand..." Old Ni Guangnan shook his head. He really didn't understand.

"Then let me give you another example. Suppose you have two grandsons. They are both studying. One of them has better grades, usually scoring 90 points, and the other has worse grades, usually only about 50 or 60 points. So when these two

Two grandsons scored 70 points at the same time, which one do you blame?" Huang He asked.

"Of course it's the one whose grades have declined..." Ni Guangnan said subconsciously.

"That's right, the two children's grades are obviously the same, but you favor one over the other, blaming one while praising the other. This is because you have different expectations for them." Huang He said with a smile.

"This is the same when it comes to queuing. If I open all the traffic now, I tell users that they will be queuing until May 24th. But there will always be some uncontrollable changes in this world that will cause queuing.

The speed increased, so I told them, I'm very sorry, you are now delayed until May 28th before you can start downloading, what will they think of me?"

"On the other hand, if I first tell them that your queue will be on June 4th, and then I tell them that because of our hard work, your queue will be on May 28th, how will they feel?

?”

"...profiteer..." Ni Guangnan was stunned for a long time, then snorted and complained. Huang He chuckled and said nothing more.

After all, the older generation is fair and selfless, and they really cannot accept this concept.

"But maybe only people like you can lead a successful company to survive!" Ni Guangnan finally sighed.

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"Come in, I'm in!" Along with a burst of cool sound effects, Liu Chuanye entered the game.

He is now a loyal user of OO and OO game platforms, and he is also looking forward to Warcraft 3. Therefore, even though he is about to face the college entrance examination, he has been stuck in time and became the first batch of players in the country to squeeze into the download channel.

The queue number is very high, it is No. 14710.

After waiting for about two hours, I successfully entered the download channel, and then spent another night to complete the download of the game.

Immediately afterwards, I kept watching the time and waiting for the game to be fully released.

What, are you asking how Liu Chuanye and his goddess are doing?

No, because Liu Chuanye felt that he had a good chat with He Anrong on the Internet, and high school was about to end, so he had the courage to confess his love and revealed his identity. In the end, he was issued a good person card, and he almost said that I was

I have always regarded you as my brother.

However, Liu Chuanye did not give up on himself, give up studying, become a gangster, or go out to work, or fall out with his family, or become pregnant, or something like that in some youth movies... Oh, Liu Chuanye is a

Men...then change it to not falling in love with men.
Chapter completed!