Haicheng University Town, Chunyang Road, Zhengzhan Internet Cafe.

This Internet cafe operates on two floors. There are more than 60 computers on the first floor, which is open to the public.

There are more than fifty computers on the second floor, but they are not open to the public and are dedicated to game studios.

Zhengzhan Internet Cafe was established in the early years when online games were just emerging, and the cost of Internet access was relatively high. Internet cafe owner Li Hai and second shareholder Li Yang made a lot of money in the early years and bought this building.

In recent years, more and more investors have entered the Internet cafe industry.

Not to mention other places, in their university town, there is a university adjacent to their Internet cafe. There are no less than ten Internet cafes outside the school. Competition is fierce, Internet fees are falling, and profits are getting lower and lower.

In addition, the proportion of students buying computers is getting higher and higher. Unless they want to create a lively atmosphere, they rarely go to Internet cafes to surf the Internet.

Make some money!

Brothers Li Hai and Li Yang often complain about each other.

Therefore, Zhengzhan Internet Cafe transformed two years ago.

There are dozens of computers on the second floor of the Internet cafe used as a game studio.

The first floor is still open to the public as usual, maintaining the minimum revenue of the Internet cafe.

If the game studio on the second floor is not operating well, you can also switch back to the Internet cafe.

In 2008, there were two main ways for game studios to make money. One was power leveling, which meant helping players upgrade and charging fees. Like Z Tu, upgrading relied on spawning monsters, and there was a particularly common phenomenon of killing monsters while idle.

The other is to open multiple game accounts and hang up to play game coins, become a farmer, and sell the game coins played to players to earn RMB.

Those who know the business go to overseas servers to earn money from foreigners. M yuan is more cost-effective.

Currently, they are operating two games, one is the currently very popular Z Tu game, and the other is Fantasy Westward Journey.

There are two Internet cafes like theirs that have transformed from traditional Internet cafes into studios locally. There are hundreds of cities and thousands of counties across the country. You can imagine how many game studios there are.

Of course, not every city or county will have a game studio, but conservatively, there will still be a few hundred studios.

Li Hai and Li Yang have been paying attention to new online games. Diablo 3 is a game promoted by Blizzard, the world's top game company, this year. They studied the game information in depth and planned to enter Diablo 3 from the beginning of the game.

However, the progress is not very good.

The gold withdrawal rate in Diablo 3 is too low, barely enough to repair equipment, and the money flows back into the game platform. If you go to farm elite monsters, you will die easily. If you die twice, you have to repair equipment once, which is not cost-effective.

Some time ago, the price of gold coins was relatively high. Especially some time ago, it was difficult to produce a few pieces of gold.

At present, they have not found a suitable method to earn money, so they just bought three game accounts to try out and explore the path without investing a lot of money.

"Boss, look at this post, Damn, it turns out that this is how you can earn thousands of dollars a day by brushing coins!" Li Yang was browsing the game forum, "This thing is easy to understand, but people who don't know it just don't know it."

Li Hai came closer to look at the post. The more he looked at it, the more surprised he became. But after the surprise, he became more and more uneasy.

The gold farming map and gold farming method have just been exposed. If they discovered it, of course they have to keep a low profile to make a fortune, how could it be exposed.

"Whether the post method is feasible or not, let's try it first, don't be fooled." Li Hai calmly went to the account to test it himself.

Half an hour later, Li Hai and Li Yang tested the method according to the post and found that it was indeed possible to earn gold with extremely high efficiency.

According to what the post said, if you buy equipment that increases the drop rate of money, the efficiency will be faster. After calculation, if you can hang up for 24 hours, one account a day can indeed earn six to seven thousand gold coins.

The two checked the current price of gold coins, which was 1 gold and 50 cents. It was still listed for sale by that studio. The number of sales orders was already thousands. This was just one of the accounts. There were three or four such accounts for sale.

They have been jealous of this mysterious studio from the beginning, but they have never been able to find a way to make money.

Let’s look at the price of gold-grinding equipment in the game’s auction house. It’s not cheap either. If the money drop rate is increased by 30%, it will cost 350 yuan a piece. The higher the drop rate, the more expensive the price.

"Boss, let's do it. One account will cost three to four thousand yuan a day. If we have dozens or hundreds of game accounts." Li Yang was so excited that he felt like there were red bills in front of his eyes.

"Boy, please calm down, please. Our AFK software hasn't come out yet, so we can only do it manually, and we have to spend money to buy equipment. What's more, one person can only swipe one account, and two people take turns to do it all day long.

Being able to earn four to five thousand gold coins is considered very good."

"Labor costs are low. We can recruit students right away. For fifty yuan a day, there are plenty of people to do it. The initial investment is a bit high, but in just two days, we can earn money for the equipment, which will be profits in the future."

Li Hai was excited when his second brother said that if he was one day late, he would make less money. After thinking about it for a while, he felt that he was in over his head and his mind was a little confused. He was also attracted by the astonishing profit margins and found it difficult to calm down.

I patted my thigh and decided immediately:

"Okay, you can do it, but you have to act immediately. If you are late for an hour, you will make thousands of dollars less. First, immediately queue up people to buy qualified game accounts to upgrade, recruit people, and draw 25 computers to enter Diablo 3. First, start with the Z Road project staff

If you smoke two people, the rest will remain the same. Before we make money, we can’t put all our efforts into it.”

"In addition, you can use your previous game account to buy game currency and purchase gold-grinding equipment."

Li Hai was depressed. This game cannot be played on multiple machines. It can be played on two machines at most. Otherwise, there would be no need to spend money on gold-grinding equipment.

However, the problem of running multiple games on one machine has also arisen. Upgrading the game account takes time, takes up computer and memory, and increases the management workload. It is indeed not as convenient and quick as buying gold-brushing equipment.

A set of equipment that increases the money drop rate by 300% is equivalent to opening three more game accounts without increasing the money drop rate. Just three game accounts cost more than a thousand yuan.

Spending an extra thousand or hundreds of yuan saves a lot of trouble. Compared to the speed of making money, it is nothing at all. Time is money!

Don’t think too much, let’s get started!

A set of equipment costs three to four thousand yuan?

Throw money!

I'll be able to get my money back in a few days, I'm afraid it's a fool's errand.

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After a soft article about gold farming in Diablo 3 was published and became popular among trolls.

Sure enough, it didn't take long for the studio that had been paying attention to the game forum to discover this rare opportunity to make a fortune and purchased a large amount of equipment.

Time waits not for us!

For this Diablo 3 game, most studios will prepare dozens of computers to earn money, and it is normal to have dozens of game accounts, or even hundreds of game accounts. If it weren’t for the fact that it costs hundreds of dollars to purchase a game account, and you can’t have more than one computer.

Yes, these studios want to create hundreds or thousands of game accounts.

Dozens of game accounts also require hundreds of gold-grinding equipment.

And there are so many game studios across the country, among them, they are already optimistic about this game and are ready to invest funds to settle in the studio.

Or a studio that has already entered Diablo 3, has just discovered a way to earn money, and is ready to increase investment.

But they never imagined that there was such a big pit waiting for them to jump into.
Chapter completed!