Before becoming the Stone Overlord, Li Mu had already had a complete business operation plan.

Given that "Stone Age" has not been popular for a long time, by the end of the year, the national online game market will make way for the super beast "Legend", the online game industry in the online game industry, Li Mu knew in his heart that the Stone Overlord had little profit margin for him.

Without an online payment channel, he can only sell offline and needs to build a sales network from scratch. He doesn't know how long it will take to reach the scale of 20,000 or 30,000 copies a month. Therefore, from now until the end of the year, the revenue that the Stone Overlord can generate in his own hands is estimated to be the top of one million.

One million is indeed a lot, but after so long, the value of the entire Abei plug-in has been in place, the value of the industrial chain is only tens of millions. The so-called industrial chain is the value it creates, and it must support the entire chain of interests.

Production and development, testing and maintenance, channel distribution, terminal sales, and every link is made. Not to mention that Li Mu is not able to establish a channel network that sells tens of thousands of copies a month. Even if there is a ready-made network in front of you, the benefits will be spread out, and if you sell 300,000 to 400,000 yuan a month, it would probably be amazing to get 300,000 to 400% by yourself.

The payment methods in this era are very single, and online payment has not really started yet. Mr. Ma in Hangzhou has not even made Taobao, nor did he do Alipay. Therefore, the bottleneck of Internet payment is now extremely large. Even online games such as the Stone Age and Legend of the Blood, point-of-card sales have to rely on countless Internet cafes across the country for offline distribution, and there is no way to achieve online transactions.

At present, most plug-ins are sold in monthly form, and the sales terminals are like point cards, and they have also been transferred to Internet cafes. Plug dealers will develop Internet cafe cooperation across the country and entrust Internet cafes to sell their plug-in monthly codes. In another year and a half, many plug-in monthly codes can be purchased directly in Internet cafes.

But for Li Mu now, he only has himself and Zhao Kang, as well as three or four hundred yuan in funds, how could he open a network with a monthly sales of tens of thousands of copies? It's simply a dream.

So Li Mu had a long plan, so he prepared two plans for himself.

After the development of the Stone Overlord is completed, he will first open a 15-day free trial period, which is why he asked Zhao Kang to familiarize himself with various online publicity.

Although online payment is not open yet, the online spread is extremely fast. The auxiliary functions of its own stone overlords to players are almost several times that of Abe plug-in and other stone plug-in. It is not only powerful, but also considers the fluency and user experience. The comprehensive use effect is far greater than that of the same type of products.

In this way, as soon as the free trial version is launched, it can produce a word-of-mouth effect in a short period of time. It is free and easy to use, and there is no reason to be rejected by users. This practice will greatly impact Abei plug-ins and other Stone Age charging plug-ins.

Li Mu's method was very detrimental. As soon as he came up, he had the idea of ​​completely damaging the market and directly cut off the revenue of Abei plug-in or other plug-in development teams. It was like 360 ​​Anti-Virus for free back then and praised countless anti-virus software companies.

Once Abe, a plug-in with a business model, is devastatingly impacted, they will definitely not sit still and wait for death. There are only two choices in front of them: immediately develop plug-in that is more powerful than the Stone Overlord, or find the maker of the Stone Overlord to cooperate.

The possibility of the former is zero, and Li Mu's programming level is not comparable to that of these plug-in developers. All they can do is the latter.

This is also the first of Li Mu's two solutions: wait for other plug-in studios to contact, especially Abei plug-in. If they contact themselves, they will directly package the Stone Overlord and sell it. The Stone Age is still very popular now, so it is no problem to sell it for hundreds of thousands.

If the first set of plans for packaging and selling is not successful, then the only second plan is left and you will sell it yourself.

It will be much more difficult to sell yourself. Even if Li Mu and Zhao Kang break their legs this summer, they may not be able to sell much, but it is better than nothing. It is harder for two brothers to make more money. It is still no problem to earn tens of thousands of dollars a summer vacation. If you can discover some local agents among players and users, the speed of advancement may be faster.

However, Li Mu does not prefer the second solution, as it will be too slow to take effect. He needs fast money. Only after "Legend" is launched in the future will the second solution be suitable for long-term fishing.

Therefore, he hopes that everything depends on how much impact it will bring to the commercial plug-ins of the Stone Age after the Stone Overlord goes online!

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On the night of July 11, Li Mu finally completed the development of the Stone Overlord on the second floor of the Big Spider.

The free trial version of Stone Overlord is officially launched on several game forums.

Zhao Kang's efforts over the past few days were immediately effective. Because he had requested free stone plug-ins in the forums and chat rooms of major Stone Ages under the instruction of Li Mu, he had a certain "mass base."

For example, a post on a stone tool forum that was overwhelmed by hundreds of floors was published by Zhao Kang, whose online name is "Standed Pig". The content is very simple: "High school students don't have money to buy plug-ins, so I beg you all to introduce a free plug-in to the stone tool!"

At first, Zhao Kang was reluctant to add the word "kneeling" and felt that he was disappointed. Li Mu gave him a blank look. He obviously did not have Internet thinking. When you take action movie screenshots to find an old driver to lead the way in the future, I don’t know how despicable you will be. In the online virtual community, why do you care about face so much?

Zhao Kang had no choice but to send it according to Li Mu's request.

Unexpectedly, the word "kneeling" really attracted a lot of attention. Netizens these days are also very enthusiastic. Many people replied that free plug-ins do not even have one-tenth of paid plug-ins. If you only use free plug-ins, it would be almost impossible to move forward in the Stone Age.

Some people also advised Zhao Kang not to play anymore, and studying hard is the most important thing.

In short, the responses are all positive energy.

Two days later, the "Stand Pig" posted another post: "Dear seniors, I finally found a free stone plug-in, which instantly kills all similar plug-in. Let's share it with you!"

In the past, forums have already had the function of uploading attachments. The plug-in volume developed by Li Mu is only 5.6MB, but most of the forums limit the size of attachments. One attachment cannot be larger than 1MB. There is no way. Li Mu can only use compression software to compress the plug-in into six compression packages, and then let Zhao Kang upload it together.

It is not enough to have accessories alone. Li Mu also made a lot of screenshots, including plug-in interfaces, functional options, and actual usage effects in the game.

Even with a fixed template, it took half a night to post this purely human.

While Zhao Kang kept posting on various forums, Li Mu kept refreshing these posts.

These days, there are many netizens and few content. Any Hao123 can have millions of users to visit, which shows how scarce the content of the Internet is now, so now there are a large number of users in any forum.

At 1 a.m. on July 12, one hour after the first post was published, the number of downloads reached 638 and the message reached 56. Most of them expressed curiosity, so download it and try it.

Li Mu is not in a hurry either. He knows that good products need time for users to experience them continuously.

So Li Mu no longer followed these posts.

After Zhao Kang posted enough posts, he turned to the game to promote it. He first called out that he found a free plug-in, and then told the player the address of the forum where the plug-in was posted, so that the player could download and try it out.

Afterwards, Zhao Kang used his registered vest account to reply to himself, using all the words of praise, praising the power of this free trial plug-in function that was unprecedented.

Zhao Kang was alone and worked as a navy and childcare work.
Chapter completed!