Chapter 270: The Light of Damocles
Although Gu Kun doesn't play many games by himself, he has also seen a lot of games in later generations to open a black team, and he is a little urgent in the real world halfway through, and there is a lot of resistance when he wants to run, and he has to be sprayed by his teammates.
Screenshots of those "my wife is going to give birth, I hung up and retired" on the Internet are also common, and most netizens ridicule at most "You never know what happened in front of your teammates' screens", but the three views must be most inclined to sympathize with the people who were pitted and condemn the temporary retirement.
In Gu Kun's opinion, this kind of three views is simply a distortion of the Heavenly Dao that has been accumulated for more than ten or twenty years.
Isn't it natural that real life is higher than the virtual world? If we had standardized it from the beginning, strictly cracked down on the evil design of those who abandoned their wives and children to play games from the field of game design, and killed all games without a pause function at the beginning, how many people who were delayed by addiction would be saved?
It is right to develop the entertainment industry, but there must also be a value level, that is, the virtual world serves the real world. People can pause watching online dramas anytime and anywhere, and listening to music can also pause anytime and anywhere, which is a kind of humanistic spirit.
As for the so-called "game experience of the cheated teammates", as long as all games are strictly implemented without discrimination before they are released, and no developer is given an exception to please players in this regard, then everyone is tough, and players have nowhere to run if they want to vote with their feet.
In the final analysis, it is necessary to insist that "the virtual social relationship between netizens is lower than the real social relationship in the real world", who made you trust netizens you don't know in reality so much?
Ren is deeper in the mountains, and he should not avoid reality.
After listening to Gu Kun's explanation, Bao Yue was a little more respectful of Gu Kun.
This is a sense of social responsibility with responsibility and foresight. Compared with the one-size-fits-all elimination of stand-alone games, but allowing online games to continue to grow disorderly and savagely, Gu Kun's idea is indeed more humane.
But considering his own strength, Bao Yue was still embarrassed and said: "But it's not easy to do this, we are just an online chess and card game platform company......
Gu Kunyi raised his hand: "As long as you go and promote this matter, I can give you a budget for game research and development, or even a little less in valuation, as long as you dedicate the funds, I will treat it as charity."
First of all, I want you to start with the online game you want to develop or represent, and if it is an agent, you must put pressure on the original developer and order it to be modified. In the future, all the online games that you are represented by the Zhonglian game platform must have the function of 'you can go offline instantly anytime and anywhere, and the characters will disappear in the game immediately after going offline, and cannot be attacked by other players or wild monsters'.
You do it first, you do it well, I'll pay you to promote it, overpower the legend, and then you find a way to get the whole industry to accept the norm, to accept that 'the game has to be interrupted by real-world emergencies at any time'. ”
The function of "going offline instantly" of online games is, in principle, similar to the pause function of a stand-alone machine.
In the early MMORPG online games, in the function of "offline", it is indeed quite disgusting, this is to protect the interests of the PK strong in the game, to prevent the weak from running if they can't beat it, and they will go offline instantly if they run away a little.
Some games are set to "cannot be offline in the combat state, unless the combat state is ended or the battle state is killed".
Some games are set up with a simple delay, and you have to wait for 10 seconds to 30 seconds after you click offline, during which you can't operate or move, and you have to be beaten by other people online or wild monsters for dozens of seconds in vain.
To be honest, these designs are good for the spread of online games, because this can encourage players to further level up and play equipment or even buy equipment through gray industry channels.
But at the level of social benefits, it is definitely an infringement on the public order and good customs of "all games can be suspended" since the stand-alone era.
Even if the addition of pause or "instant offline" will encourage "hit and run", it must also be seen that it also takes into account the player's response to real-world emergencies and reduces the cost of interrupting the game in reality. The balance of two evils is obviously more important to take care of the latter.
What Gu Kun wants is to combat the bullying of the weak by the strong in the games around the world, in exchange for a higher value stage of reality for the game. This is more effective than a few simple slogans to advise people not to indulge in the game.
But in order to have this right to speak, Bao Yue must first become a major domestic MMORPG household, especially a large taxpayer, and contribute to the industry.
It's ironic to think about it, Gu Kun was trying to regulate and limit the barbarism of this market, but in the end he had to put money into it defensively.
I believe that there is no second game investor in the world, not to make money from games, but to suppress the chaos of the industry, and would rather lose money and invest money in it.
Bao Yue thought about it again and again, and first raised a technical question: "Mr. Gu, I think you are too harsh, if everything on the Internet is allowed to go offline at any time, then our own chess and card game platform must be the first to suffer——
Playing cards and playing mahjong is the easiest to play a few cards to see the winner, if some players touch the hand is very bad, he directly surrenders off the line and does not play?
Even if you don't play money with chess and cards, the attribute of fighting luck can't be changed. Any product with a higher proportion of luck, the more likely it is to have bad luck and not play directly, you can't be so brutal and one-size-fits-all!
Gu Kun was stunned for a moment and found that this problem was indeed more realistic.
The more you bet on luck, the easier it is to run away with bad luck, and this cannot be unlimited.
After thinking about it again and again, Gu Kun said in a consultative tone: "Then let's do it, let's set a separate threshold principle for quick settlement for chess and card games and other games of luck."
For example, if you play double buckle or fight landlord, someone escapes and goes offline instantly, then the score that he has bet on will be deducted, but the game will end directly, and his teammates must not be affected - after you do a good job of this article, I hope to promote it as an industry norm, so that the competent department nods, and it can be regarded as a contribution to social order and good customs.
As for mahjong, or those pokers that fight separately, they won't affect their teammates, so it's better to deduct them directly, or to be more humane, and get a 'surrender and lose half'. For example, if your opponent has more than half of the remaining cards in his hand, and you quit the game early, you lose half of the points.' If the opponent has only a few cards left, and it won't save a few seconds to end the game early, then surrendering will not reduce the loss of points. ”
Of course, there is no need to force it as an industry rule, which has no legal basis and can be used as a flexible internal operating rule of the enterprise.
But in any case, Gu Kun must be in favor of greatly reducing the punishment for escaping in board games, and at the same time taking into account the interests of both winners and losers as much as possible on this basis.
Online playing cards should have been positioned to play casually, play pleasantly, and not be too blocked.
Bao Yue heard Gu Kun even say the nonsense line of "surrender and lose half", and he couldn't help laughing, once he laughed, it would be difficult to refute it in a righteous and strict manner. He could only snort a few times, and temporarily agreed to this condition by borrowing the donkey from the slope.
Bao Yue sighed and said, "Okay, Mr. Gu, I have to admit that you are a socially responsible person. What you said, I tried my best to rectify it. But I've done it all, and I hope you will give me enough rewards for my investment in the acquisition of game agency rights.
I can predict how difficult it will be for us to make more civilized and clear-water games and promote them in the early stage when other peers encourage murder and treasure grabbing and guide the evil of human nature, which is tantamount to tying our hands and feet, and hoping that the latter will catch up and surpass the first peers in terms of tax payment. ”
Gu Kun: "Don't worry about this, as long as you do it according to my plan, I will give you 20 million US dollars to spend first, not enough - the company that bought the legend is only 2 million, and your start-up capital is 10 times more to make up for the time difference of half a year, it should be no problem."
As for the first major taxpayer of domestic online game companies, we can make the finances more rigorous, all reasonable tax avoidance tricks can not be used, and the book profits can be high, although you actively pay taxes, how much tax you pay, how much money I give you in private, I will reimburse every dollar of tax——
Well, by the way, I don't know exactly what the law says. It is definitely a crime to make false accounts and evade taxes, but I don't know how to calculate the calculation of making false accounts and paying more taxes? That is, I was not qualified to pay more taxes to the state, but now it is for the purpose of paying more taxes, so I make my accounts a little false and braggadocio, and I don't know how to care about it?"
Bao Yue looked at Gu Kun like a fool: "This ...... It should still be illegal to go too far, but with the same principle of 'reasonable tax avoidance', if it is within the normal range, with legal transfer, and pay more money to the state, the state should not care. However, the upper limit cannot exceed 25% of the actual receivable, which is equivalent to zero cost, and every dollar of revenue is paid two cents and a half tax. ”
Gu Kun thought for a while: "That's right, why bother with the accounts, I let people spend money to buy your $100 million point card, and you won't be able to pay $25 million in taxes completely - okay, I'll figure out a way to do this, you don't have to worry about it." ”
Bao Yue: "Then we can't just count on this kind of performance, right? Our original intention is to do a good job in the game!
Gu Kun: "Of course I know, isn't that for you to overtake in the corners first, and have the right to speak in the industry norms, as for 'the game itself is not the coolest in the industry', we rely on other methods of operation and promotion to make up for this shortcoming." ”
When Gu Kun said this, he suddenly turned his head to find Ma Feng, who had been listening to the peacemaker: "Brother Ma, entrust you with a matter, and set up two other companies, one registered in Lanfang and one registered in Huaxia Continent, we want to provide some online recharge service tools, and at the initial stage, we will mainly help people who do not use the Internet to recharge game point cards in third- and fourth-tier cities."
In the future, we will allow all game companies to settle in this platform, and on this platform, let the Internet café owners across the country test the client, recharge for players, and collect cash for Internet café owners.
In my opinion, the biggest factor restricting the scale of online games now is not whether the game is fun enough, but the fact that the network infrastructure is not developed enough in cities, and many people have no channels to buy point cards. So as long as you can spread out the point card channel, there are people who play it if it's a little worse. ”