"Zou Tao, how are the three games going?"

"Mr. Chen, the development progress of Bubble Hall is the fastest, and it will be over in about three months. The progress of Fantasy Journey to the West is also very fast, I learned about it from Xu Bo, and it will be online in half a year. ”

"Fantasy Journey to the West can be launched in half a year, so fast?"

"The main thing is that Xu Bi and Wu Yunyang are just desperate to start the game. In addition, they themselves know a lot about Journey to the West, so when it comes to planning, Xu Bo alone can top the entire team. ”

"Yes. ”

Chen Yu nodded.

Xu Bo was responsible for the customer service of Journey to the West before, although it was customer service, basically all problems have been encountered.

In addition, Wu Yunyang is the founder of the Wind Soul Engine, and it is not difficult to develop.

The main difficulty was the production time.

Whether it's art, 2D modeling, or story setting, it takes time.

"As for our 3D games, the engine is still being worked on, and the whole world background is still being perfected. As for the development cycle, it is about 2-3 years. ”

"3D games are not in a hurry, we do it slowly. ”

Chen Yu nodded.

He didn't call Zou Tao to ask about the progress of these three games, but about something else.

"Zou Tao, competitive games have been very popular recently, have you paid attention to them?"

"Hehe, Mr. Chen, although Hao Fang is hanging on the YY side, I'm not in charge, but how can I not pay attention to it? ”

"Oh, what's playing?"

"CS and Warcraft. ”

Zou Tao is a veteran gamer, so he is naturally interested in CS and Warcraft.

"How's it going, how does it feel?"

"One word, cool. ”

"What if we made a competitive game as well?"

"This ......"

Zou Tao hadn't thought about it before.

Chen Yu asked suddenly, but Zou Tao couldn't figure it out.

However, in the end, I still have a lot of research on this part, and after thinking about it, Zou Tao said: "It can be, but it may not be able to make money better than our online games." ”

Competitive games are good, but to be honest, competitive games are the worst money-making money.

In particular, competitive games are mostly free, and items that disrupt the balance of the system cannot be produced for the sake of game balance.

It can only be in the membership mode, and the membership model also has to provide more services, such as increasing the Internet speed.

Apart from these, there are very few places to make money.

"You're right, if you talk about making money, we still focus on online games at this stage. ”

Of course, competitive games are also very profitable.

However, they make this kind of money by selling genuine cdkey.

Just like Warcraft, if you're going to play Warcraft, you can only buy Blizzard's cdkey. Huanyu Technology's game production strength is naturally not as good as Blizzard for the time being, and it is impossible for him to make a game like Warcraft.

"However, although competitive games are not profitable, they are still quite influential. In particular, South Korea held a world e-sports competition last year, and e-sports has attracted much attention. ”

How to say it.

Although Huanyu Technology is now also very profitable to make online games.

But at the same time as making money, there is also a lot of pressure.

For example, not long ago, some media reported a series of harms of online games from time to time.

This makes people very depressed.

It's just that Chen Yu can't run and say, hey, you're wrong, our online games are not as unbearable as we imagined.

However, if a positive image of esports is established at this time, I am afraid that this concept will be much less.

No, at least you might try to understand.

Everyone will think that games are not necessarily flood beasts.

Playing games can also be considered a profession.

"Mr. Chen, what you said makes sense. ”

Zou Tao agreed with Chen Yu's words.

Probably as the person in charge of the game, he has not been attacked since he joined Huanyu Technology.

Who told him to make the legendary world so hot?

Whoever told him to advertise everywhere at every turn.

Black-hearted capitalists who make money like this must be criticized from time to time.

According to relevant media reports, the General Administration of Sports of China is likely to approve e-sports as the 99th sport. ”

"I've seen this report as well. ”

"I think it's an opportunity, if we can have our own competitive game, and our competitive game can be on the world stage, you say, isn't that exciting?"

"Mr. Chen, but we don't have any experience in competitive games. ”

Although what Chen Yu said also made Zou Tao look forward to it, but after a while, he smiled bitterly.

"Experience is all done slowly, Blizzard didn't have any experience in making competitive games back then, and they haven't become the best game company in the world. ”

"Mr. Chen, what do you mean?"

Not sure what Chen Yu meant, Zou Tao asked.

"So, I'll give you a creative idea. By the way, Zou Tao, aren't you playing Warcraft, do you think Warcraft is actually very difficult to operate?"

"Difficult to operate?"

Blinking, Zou Tao said, "I think it's quite simple. ”

"I'll go, it's easy. ”

Chen Yu burst into tears: "That's more complicated than playing online games." ”

"That's a lot more complicated. ”

Online games only need to fight monsters and upgrade, although there is also a certain technology, but the technology is too general.

But Warcraft is different.

It is a multiplayer strategy game in itself, which tests not only the player's strategy, but also tactics and operations...... Wait a minute.

That's why Warcraft is the most popular game in esports tournaments.

The reason for this is that he has a strong confrontation and operability.

However, although Warcraft is classic, it also has its shortcomings, that is, the operation is too complicated.

Players who play online games can't operate at all.

One person in Warcraft has to operate multiple heroes, or even dozens of heroes, can you control it?

Not to mention many, it's just one or two, and it may not be able to operate.

"I think it's too complicated to promote the game, so we can make it simpler. For example, let's only operate one hero. ”

"Only one hero?"

Zou Tao was a little confused and asked, "What's the fun of operating a hero?"

"Yes. ”

Chen Yu added: "What I mean is that we can divide it into 5v5 matches, with five people on each side, and each person will operate a hero to fight. In this way, the whole game is played by ten people. ”

"FE map?"

"Yes, it's similar to the Aeon Of Strife map in StarCraft. ”

FE is a map in StarCraft.

This map was created by a player named Aeon64 using the StarCraft map editor.

The map allows the player to control a hero unit and fight against a team of computers.

It seems that Zou Tao is really an ancient gray-level player, and he even knows the StarCraft FE map.

Since it is understood, it is better to explain.

Chen Yu continued: "It's just that our game is not interstellar, and at the same time, the confrontation is also player-to-player, not player-to-computer, we can use the most popular Warcraft as the platform to make a map that belongs to us, and then set up on this map and make ......"

According to Blizzard regulations.

The copyright of the map edited with the Blizzard Editor belongs to the editor.

It's like a form made in Word belongs to the maker himself.

Therefore, although Warcraft is still used as a platform in this regard, there will be no copyright problems with Blizzard.

Of course, Blizzard is not doing this to provide convenience to everyone, he is doing it for their game.

The more editors they use, the more popular their games are.

It's just a pity that they got away with it in later generations.

I didn't expect the maps edited by the players to be more popular than the games they made themselves.

It's an embarrassing thing.