Mr. Adams’ eyes widened as Jasper said this.
He was about to say something when he noticed Jasper looking over with a smile. “Mr. Adams, do you have any more opinions?”
Thinking about the bet he had made with Jasper, Mr. Adams snorted coldly and said, “It’s all your money, Mr. Laine. Of course, I have no objections if you’re willing to spend that money. I just hope you won’t end up feeling bad when none of the 70 group servers are usable.”
Jasper only smiled and no longer mouthed off at Mr. Adams. He immediately announced, “Everyone, please work a little harder today, stick to your guns, and clock in a few extra hours. I’ll join everyone in working overtime. Also, supper is on me. I’ll get the chefs from Sheraton to whip up something for us. Just make sure everything is done well on your end!”
Cheers filled the entire branch office.
Coming out of the conference room, Jasper noticed Jack’s slightly stiff expression as they made their way to Jack’s office. He smiled and asked, “Jack, are you nervous? This isn’t like you.”
Jack laughed bitterly. “Mr. Laine, it might be nothing for you but we’ve spent too much time and money on this United Legends project. I don’t think I’ll still have the confidence to continue if this fails.”
Patting Jack’s shoulder, Jasper said with a smile, “First of all, we won’t fail. Second, even if we do fail, that’s not important. A loss is a loss. I can still afford to lose this bit of money, and it would be my first time failing so I wouldn’t mind having a taste of it.”
Jack gave Jasper a blank look before shaking his head and saying with a wry smile, “Mr. Laine, to be frank, what you say sometimes really… makes me want to punch you.”
“Hahaha!”
…
“United Legends is opening soon for open beta testing!”
The news spread across the country in a short period of time.
During this time, it did not matter if one was accessing a web portal or a messaging app, even when they had gone to the internet cafe to surf the internet, there were advertisements for United Legends everywhere.
Countless netizens had already been subtly turned into quasi-online game players. They were curious about the game that had been dominating the internet.
In the year 2001 when domestic games were still scarce, the kind of games that many people played were like Command and Conquer: Red Alert. Although they were interesting, they would still become boring after a while.
There were still none of those huge online multiplayer role-playing games in the domestic market.
Currently, all the players were looking forward to the game’s release.
After the news was released, everyone was trying to gather friends through phone calls and text messaging apps.
The men who had scheduled dates with their girlfriends all had to suddenly work overtime for the time being.
Not only that but students who had unfinished assignments were also suddenly working hard to finish them in one day.
Those who had plans at night were suddenly making excuses for not being able to make it.
At 6 p.m. in the evening, a sea of people flooded the internet cafes across the country at almost the same time. One after another, they sat in front of their computers after switching them on, waiting for it to be 7 p.m.
As they waited, they looked to the right and left only to see that everyone there was waiting for the release of United Legends. At once, they all smiled.
“What user ID are you gonna choose?”
“Which realm do you wanna go to?”
“Are you going for warrior or mage? Or maybe cleric?”
Just like that, they began chatting about the game.
The owner of the internet cafe smiled lopsidedly and began thanking Sena. It was hard to tell the future of such a game but at least for the time being, business was doing well.
Not only did the players have high expectations but other people from the local gaming industry and the internet industry were also keeping an eye on the game.
Sena was the first to venture into online gaming and had received quite a lot of attention because of it. Everyone was waiting quietly for the outcome, to see if this game would blow up in the country.
With the expectations of millions of players, the hand of the clock slowly struck 7 p.m.
“Open the server!”
With an order from Jasper, the first ten group servers were opened.
Mr. Adams and Jack were staring at a computer. This computer had the master control program and could directly observe the load in each server.
“The servers are open and some players have already entered the game.”
“Oh no, the load is too big! The server has crashed!”
These two sentences were said almost at the same time.
At that moment, Jasper’s expression was dark.
“What the f*ck are all of you doing? I told you all a long time ago to pay attention to the server loads! The moment a server reaches full capacity, stop the registration for the current server immediately and open up a new one to redirect the traffic! And yet, you still allowed the server to crash!”
The more composed a person was usually, the scarier they were when their temper flared.
Jasper was usually always calm and composed regardless of who he was dealing with. However, now that he had started reprimanding, no one in the entire office including the group of fastidious technicians from Coreana dared let out a squeak.
In the end, it was still Jack who bit the bullet and said, “Mr. Laine, we had already set a threshold but the traffic at that instant was so large that we couldn’t hold it back at all, so it crashed on the spot.”
Jasper frowned. “Let’s not talk about this now. Start redirecting the traffic and guide the players to the new servers.”
Just like that, the first batch of ten group servers was filled up within the first ten seconds of the launch of United Legends. New players had no way to register for an account and were anxiously tapping on their tables.
However, an announcement was immediately published on the official website, and with that, 30 groups of spare servers were opened in one go.
In any case, the people who were keeping an eye on United Legends let out a sigh because they could already tell that the game would be unstoppable!
