Chapter Seventy-Two: The Idea of the Dota Age
It's June 30th, and it's been two months since Chen Ping was reborn.
In the past two months, a lot has happened.
In just two months, Chen Ping's business has improved slightly, and even his assets have exceeded 10 million.
You must know that just the game "Plants vs. Zombies" has a valuation of tens of millions in the outside world, plus Changping Supermarket, Chen Ping has a three-story shop worth 5 million under his name, in general, Chen Ping's assets are already a lot.
However, for these, Chen Ping did not calculate in detail.
In the past two days, Chen Ping has been discussing the development of the second game with Xue Mingtao.
On the morning of the 30th, when Chen Ping was in the office and Xue Mingtao were thinking about the direction of the development of the second game, suddenly, Chen Ping's eyes lit up, and he quickly searched on the computer, and a faint smile suddenly appeared on his face.
Seeing Chen Ping's movements, Xue Mingtao was also a little strange, and he couldn't hold back the curiosity in his heart, so he took a look.
However, seeing the information that Chen Ping searched for on the Internet, Xue Mingtao was also confused.
The next moment, Chen Ping had already turned his head to look at Xue Mingtao, and asked softly with a smile, "Have you ever played this game?"
Xue Mingtao was stunned for a moment, then slowly shook his head, and said softly for some reason: "That's not true, but I've heard of this game, it seems to have been developed by a game company in the United States, it should be the same company as StarCraft, and it is currently preparing to be launched, but I don't know the specific date of launch." ”
Chen Ping nodded, although Xue Mingtao is an old man in the game development industry, he has always only worked hard in the domestic game market, and Xue Mingtao's understanding of the foreign game market is not too profound.
Blizzard, a game company, has developed StarCraft, an absolute classic game, but the game StarCraft has not made much waves in China, although many people are playing, but it is not one of the most popular games in China.
So Xue Mingtao doesn't know about Blizzard Games, which is normal.
Chen Ping decisively turned the computer in front of him to Xue Mingtao in front of him, pointed to the computer screen, and said with a smile: "Look at the introduction of this game!"
Xue Mingtao glanced at Chen Ping in surprise, and then carefully looked at the web page that Chen Ping opened.
After a while, Xue Mingtao asked softly in confusion: "Is there anything special about this game?" It seems that it is only a stand-alone game, although it can be played online, but it doesn't seem to have anything to do with the game we are going to develop!"
Chen Ping shook his head with a smile, and after a moment of silence, he said softly: "I checked it just now, the time when this game will be launched is tomorrow!
Hearing Chen Ping say this, a trace of doubt flashed in Xue Mingtao's eyes, and after reading the brief introduction of this game seriously, the doubts in his heart were still not dispelled.
After being silent for a long time, Xue Mingtao said softly: "Mr. Chen, this game has not yet been launched after all, and we have not seen its specific content, how do you know that it will definitely become popular all over the world in the future?"
Chen Ping was suddenly stunned for a moment, and then quickly reacted.
Indeed, the official launch of this game will be tomorrow, and if it enters China, it will take at least a few months, and during this time, it is almost impossible to see this game in China.
What's more, although the name of this game will be almost familiar to everyone in the future, at least for now, no one can predict the development prospects of this game.
After thinking for a moment, Chen Ping suddenly stretched out his hand and pointed to a few lines of words on the web page, and said softly, "Have you noticed this?"
Xue Mingtao looked at it carefully, then nodded slowly, and said in a deep voice: "Players can make their own maps, which is a bit novel, but the root of this game is still the official game content, and the player's self-made map, I'm afraid there won't be too much room for profit, right?"
Hearing Xue Mingtao say this, Chen Ping smiled softly and inscrupulably, and then slowly said: "Believe me, in the future, you will know that in this game, there will definitely be several maps that will be popular all over the country and even the world!"
As he spoke, a flash of remembrance flashed in Chen Ping's eyes.
In the previous life, it was after this game gradually began to become popular, although not too many people would pay attention to it in the early stage, but when several maps appeared on this game platform, it even directly opened a new era of games!
However, at the moment, this game has not been launched yet, so no one knows how much shock this game will bring to the whole world in the future.
Chen Ping's heart is also a little nervous, although he wants to make that map, but at present, he still needs to wait for this game to officially enter the Chinese market, and at that time, the plan in his heart can start to be officially launched.
Subsequently, Chen Ping briefly introduced his thoughts to Xue Mingtao, but there were many key points in them, and Chen Ping had no way to explain them in detail, so that Xue Mingtao also heard a little foggy, but looking at Chen Ping's excited appearance, Xue Mingtao's heart also rose with endless curiosity.
In Chen Ping's mouth, Xue Mingtao heard a word for the first time, real-time competitive games.
In Chen Ping's mouth, on such a game map, a total of 10 people can be accommodated to fight, every five people are on one side, and the two sides fight, with the goal of destroying each other's base, and the duration of a game is about half an hour.
The mode of the whole game completely breaks the existing template of single-player games and online games.
As Chen Ping said, if such a game mode can really become popular, it can really open a new era of games!
But whether this game era can be as Chen Ping said, it can really be popular all over the world, but Xue Mingtao is really not sure.
After all, even the game itself has not yet been launched, and the derived map is even more unlikely, and many of the things Chen Ping said in his mouth, when he has not operated it himself, he can't see anything at all, so he can only suppress the curiosity in his heart.
Chen Ping talked about this incident, and he just remembered this one reason, the game map he was talking about was actually the Dota that exploded the whole world in his previous life!
And the game itself, which will be launched in the United States tomorrow, is Chen Ping's previous life, the almost well-known Warcraft 3.
The content of the game itself, although there were many players in the early stage, but later, everyone's attention has gradually shifted from the content of the game itself to the various game derivative maps that are constantly being innovated.
This game seems to have become a game platform, and many game maps developed have been popular, and the most classic of them is the Dota that Chen Ping intends to develop.
Dota also ushered in a new era of gaming, real-time competitive games.
In fact, real-time competitive games are not started by Dota, and StarCraft is the first real-time competitive game that is popular all over the world, but the problem is that many players in China have not played StarCraft at all.
For people like Chen Ping, the most familiar is the dot.
What's more, when he opened the era of 5V5 real-time competitive games, not only Dota itself, but also League of Legends, Honor of Kings, etc., are all types of games that are popular all over the world.
In Chen Ping's impression, Dota's game map was released for the first time, it should be a few years later, if he can release Dota first, and officially promote this game map to the whole world, at that time, Chen Ping can even fully master the follow-up League of Legends and Glory of Kings and other game IPs that can be called gold-absorbing monsters!
But at present, this is just talk on paper, for these games, although Chen Ping has played many times, and is very familiar with the many heroes involved, but if you want to develop it thoroughly, it is not Chen Ping's words.
It's not so easy to develop and promote the Dota map alone.
At least the current Coslight Technology Company does not have the ability to do that.
Therefore, Chen Ping only briefly talked to Xue Mingtao about his thoughts, and then kept this matter in his heart.
It was precisely because of this idea that Chen Ping finally made a decision in his heart.
Originally, Chen Ping planned to continue to develop a few stand-alone games, accumulate a certain amount of funds, and then officially release a large-scale online game, such a path is also the most suitable for the current Guangyu Technology Company, after all, this will be more stable, and there is no need to take too much risk in the development process.
However, after thinking of Dota, Chen Ping's mind changed.
It's not that he gave up the development of online games, but he wants to give up the development of single-player games.
Chen Ping remembers correctly, the domestic stand-alone game market, in a year or two, will be completely lonely, even if it is now popular in the country Sword and Fairy series of games, although there are several games in the follow-up, but the degree of popularity is gradually declining, now the development of stand-alone games, although you can make some money, but for the future development of Guangyu Technology Company, there is not much benefit.
If you really want Coslight Technology to keep up with the times in game development and surpass the times, you need Coslight Technology to take a risky move!
Once the game development fails, or it does not succeed after it is launched, with the current size of Coslight Technology Company, it will fall directly!
This is also the reason why Chen Ping wanted to develop several stand-alone games before, because only then can Guangyu Technology Company accumulate more funds and strength, and the fault tolerance rate is higher.
But now, Chen Ping has changed his opinion!
He had been ignoring before, and with the eyes of his reborn, was there a reason for the game he developed to fail?
If it really fails, it can only be said that Chen Ping is the responsibility alone!
On the other hand, if a game company wants to achieve long-term development, the most important thing is not the ability to make money, but the number of hardcore players it can have.
And now, although Chen Ping doesn't have much money in his hands, he will wait for the game "Plants vs. Zombies" to become completely popular. The income from advertising space alone is enough to support Chen Ping to develop an online game.
What's more, in the early stage of online game development, the investment is actually not too much, after all, the early stage is just to make some preparations and plan the main direction of the game.