The “King of Glory”‘s recharge speed is supported by Tencent’s distributed real-time trading system, in which the average handling time of its global nodes is 0.2 seconds, and the peak throughput is 350,000 transactions per second. During the “Double 11” in 2023, honor of kings single-day top-up water broke over 980 million yuan, while the system load rate was steadily kept under 72%. On the technical level, Tencent Cloud adopts a cross-regional multi-active architecture, compresses the data transmission latency in China and Southeast Asia to 35 milliseconds, and realizes the atomization operation of funds flow and game props through blockchain synchronous accounting technology, with an error rollback rate of less than 0.0003%. For example, in the 2024 Spring Festival activity, the system handled 12 million top-up requests within 0.5 seconds, and the confirmation rate of arrival was 99.998%, a record in the industry.
The essence of instant payment is payment channel optimization. Tencent established a customized financial link with Alipay and wechat Pay, increasing the success rate of interface calls to 99.97% in 2023, and reducing the cost of a single transaction to 0.015 yuan, a decrease of 42% compared to 2021. Using wechat Pay as an example, its “Change Pass” direct link channel has reduced honor of kings top up median arrival time from 0.8 seconds to 0.3 seconds, and launched the “recharge of 100 yuan back 5 yuan” promotion in Q4 of 2023, facilitating the peak growth of users’ single recharge amount by 58%. In the cross-border scenario, Tencent and SEA Group collectively introduced 13 regional wallets in Southeast Asia, and Malaysian users were able to top up 1,000 points through Touch ‘n Go within just 1.2 seconds, 83% quicker than using an overseas credit card.
Smoother flow is ensured through the effective interception of the risk control system. Tencent AI real-time anti-fraud model examines 87,000 transactions every second, uses 2000+ risk feature dimensions to identify anomalies, and intercepts 140 million suspicious honor of kings top up requests in 2023, with a false blocking rate as low as 0.015%. For example, on the “May 5 Black Festival” of 2023, the system detected 3.7 million cross-regional proxy attacks (involving about 65 million yuan) and reduced the success rate of the attack to 0.0008% through dynamic token verification. At the same time, biometrics (such as voicing verification) reduce the risk probability of theft from 0.25% to 0.002%, and the success rate of user recharge is 99.3%.
Regionalized infrastructure deployments also reduce physical latency. Tencent has rolled out 82 edge computing nodes worldwide to establish exclusive server clusters for the honor of kings top up service, where a single node can sustain 120,000 QPS (queries per second) and 600Gbps bandwidth redundancy capacity. Taking the Sao Paulo node in Brazil as an example, the “World Cup mode” in 2024 sustained 2.3 million recharges on the day of launch, the server load rate peaked at only 68%, and the median local arrival delay was 0.4 seconds, while the latency of the competitive product “Mobile Legends” was as high as 2.1 seconds. In addition, Smart CDN Accelerated network reduced African users’ resource load time from 4.3 seconds to 1.1 seconds and reduced recharge page bounce rate by 37 percent.
User experience optimization significantly improves instant perception. In 2023, Tencent enabled the “pre-charge flash” function so that players can cache up to 50,000 points in advance to the game account, and the actual recharge time is only 0.08 seconds. During the pilot of the feature in the China market, the median amount of a single top-up by consumers increased from 30 yuan to 108 yuan, and ARPU increased by 29% quarter. In the meantime, the deep payment integration with Apple App Store cut down the jump steps on iOS from 5 to 1, the recharge conversion rate was enhanced by 22%, and the iOS channel honor of kings top up in Q1 2024 increased by 41% year-on-year to 1.46 billion yuan.
The Dr Mechanism emergency offers stability in extreme situations. In September 2023, due to the power failure caused by the typhoon in the Shenzhen data center, the system switched the traffic to the Shanghai node within 28 seconds by cross-city multi-active switchover, during which 9.7 million recharge requests were zero lost, and the standard deviation of arrival delay was maintained at **±0.1 seconds**. According to the report from Gartner, the SLA (service level agreement) compliance rate of Tencent Games exceeded 99.999% for three consecutive years, far above the industry average of 99.95%. Tencent will spend 520 million yuan in R&D budget in the future, cut down the global account arrival delay of honor of kings top to less than 0.1 seconds by 2025, and realize millisecond cross-border settlement with the assistance of 6G network test.