Relying on this announcement, Daqian Games and Blizzard Games have captured the limelight. Almost all players are discussing Warcraft 3. Almost all game media are also discussing Warcraft 3, as if there is only one game like Warcraft 3 left in the world.

At the same time, thinking that Warcraft 3 itself has high quality and almost free rebate policy, players are always good at making amends. More and more friends around them have joined the world of Azeroth.

As a result, on the 28th day after the release of Warcraft, in less than a month, the global sales of Warcraft 3 exceeded 30 million copies.

This time, not only did the PC sales record breaking, but all the game records in the world were also broken. Even the sales record of "Pokemon Gold and Silver" of 30 million copies in 48 days was broken. Warcraft 3 reached the top of the throne of the game with unimaginable domineering aura.

Of course, if Boss Jia could come up with the same sales policy as Warcraft 3 when "Pokemon Gold and Silver" was released back then, Warcraft 3 would most likely not win Pokemon.

Daqian also said that he would do it. The day after the sale of Warcraft 3, the refund was gradually returned to the steam accounts of each player, and it became 6,900 steam points again.

Oh, no, it's steam droplets

At this time, the phone number of Daqian Games was also blew up by all game dealers, and everyone was asking about the refund.

These clever game dealers found that although Daqian will receive a full refund of Warcraft 3, the problem is that the refund is not actually US dollars, but the steam points.

This thing cannot be turned back into US dollars, so these steam points can only be used to purchase games.

These points are obviously impossible to buy Warcraft 3, so these points will flow directly into other games in the Steam Game Store.

Based on the principle of having money without bastards, I believe that within a month, at least more than half of these steam points will be re-consuming by players. This means that at least 10 million of sales of 20 million will be distributed to other games.

Moreover, not all games dare to sell top-level games at $69. Most games are still hovering below $30. There are a lot of games worth ten dollars. Then the sales volume of these 100 million copies will be split into a sales volume of at least 30 million copies. Even if it is distributed evenly to more than 3,000 games at present, it will be a sales volume of 10,000 per game, which is enough for these game developers to enjoy a delicious and enjoy a wonderful life.

Of course, this idea is beautiful. The key is to see what Daqian’s policy is. Whether the returned steam points are still calculated based on the normal steam points.

Otherwise, if Daqian shamelessly declared that all these steam points were activity points, and if he couldn't give money, he would be cursing.

So whether you join the Steam Game or the game company that you haven't joined, you are crazy about the rules of the entire Steam Game event.

Steam Games was obviously prepared for a long time, and soon a detailed activity description was sent directly to the work email address of all game dealers.

The game dealers couldn't wait to start reading the instructions, and then showed a hesitant expression.

According to this statement, the special steam points for this refund, also known as steam droplets, will be calculated completely according to the steam points when calculating the income with the game developer.

In other words, he would give all the money to the game developers as sales funds. This promise made all developers overjoyed. Daqian is indeed the most generous company in the world.

But soon, they discovered that not all game developers could enjoy this service. Only companies that signed exclusive sales contracts with Daqian could enjoy the benefits of this contract.

As the name suggests, this exclusive sales contract is that Daqian requires the exclusive online sales rights of the game. In the future, online sales can only be sold through the steam game online platform. Even if the developer himself is not qualified to sell, otherwise it will be a breach of contract and will be compensated for huge losses.

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

Fortunately, this contract was signed on a single game, not on the scale of the entire company, but this is not bad. Games without a contract naturally do not have the exclusive sales expression, and then they cannot use steam drops to buy it, which cannot bring huge profits to the game company.

At the same time, there is a hidden condition in the contract, that is, the exclusive game must develop the Hongmeng version. At the same time, the content of the Hongmeng version must also require more Windows versions. Even if there is one more mount or one more map, there must be more, otherwise it will be a breach of contract.

"Daqian has finally learned bad things!" Many game companies sighed helplessly when they saw Daqian's request.

Indeed, the previous Steam Games were so pure, upright and kind. They did not restrict their game companies and allowed them to join Microsoft's box game companies, which was typical silly and sweet.

Now Steam Games has finally learned bad things, and they also require the game company to sign an exclusive contract, thus banning all competitors.

He even directly forced the game developers to develop the Hongmeng version, which is invincible...

Moreover, this time Daqian is still standing on the moral high ground, because the normal steam points do not limit exclusive games, while steam droplets are Daqian abandoning the profits obtained by Warcraft 3 and then subsidizing this part of the profits to all game manufacturers.

To put it bluntly, it is to spend money to buy your exclusive. If you want money, sign the exclusive one.

If you don’t have money, then everything will be normal and I won’t make things difficult for you.

In short, although Daqian's approach is similar to Box Games, it makes all game developers very comfortable. No one has had too much disgust with Daqian... Well, except Box Games and Microsoft.

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

Almost all game manufacturers agreed, but the reason is very simple, because the exclusive agency rights of online game sales channels required by this contract are not restricted, which means that game companies can still sell their games in the box game store.

Nowadays, Steam Games has no competitors. Even if you refuse to sign an exclusive contract, you will not be able to find a second online store that can be sold. So what is there to hesitation to sign this contract?

On August 3, 2000, Steam Game Store announced that it had signed exclusive sales contracts with 2,893 game companies around the world, and will exclusively represent the sales of a total of 5,897 games.
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