"No...... From now on, if any game is pushed out without testing in the future, the project leader will be directly replaced. "Li Fangcheng knows that it's time to make a big deal!

If you blindly indulge, you will only raise a flock of sheep, not a pack of wolves!

Everyone, no one dares to refute, everyone knows that Li Fangcheng is real!

"In terms of the number of people, the number of test people is arranged according to the level of the game, as I said before. There are seven levels of difficulty: easy, easy, normal, hard, hard, hard, hard, and hell, but the size of the game is not mentioned, and from now on, the game is divided into large, medium, small, and super large-scale games. For example, the number of test players for Mini Games is 100, the number of test players for medium games is 1,000, the number of test players for large games is 10,000 players, and the number of tests for super large-scale games is 100,000 players. Li Fangcheng directly set the reference data for the number of tests.

"Boss, 100,000 people, will it be too much?" this time it was not Ling Donghua who asked, but Hua Xiaohan.

Li Fangcheng shook his head slightly: "Xiaohan, you know that 100,000 people test, what we pay is nothing more than thousands of test machines, at most plus the cost of a meal, how much does it cost us? 100,000 US dollars or 200,000 US dollars? And when we develop a game, how much do we spend when we invest in the creation of the game? We are now just a third-party company, only responsible for the production of games, and you have not yet touched the production cost and publicity and promotion costs. ”

"For example, the cost of production for our small members is at least $2 even in China, and at least $4 if they are abroad. This time the sales of our little members, in fact, the Tang Ze family is equivalent to helping us work for free, they have earned fame, we have made profits, do you think the Tang Ze family wants to go over the 2 dollars is a profit?"

"Isn't it?" Hua Xiaohan frowned, this seemed to be different from what he imagined.

Li Fangcheng shook his head helplessly: "No, this is plus the cost of publicity and distribution, in the case that there are already many ready-made channels, just make posters at the entrance of toy stores and movie theaters and shopping malls, and there are no TV commercials and large-scale outdoor advertisements, just like that, it is already nearly $2 The cost of publicity and promotion, and we sell them is $12, if you calculate according to the normal one, our net profit is only $3!"

Speaking of which, even if Hua Xiaohan didn't react again,

"And if we make a small member, a batch of 10 million, and find that there is a problem, many players find that there are many loopholes when they play it, such as buying food, no matter how they feed it, the little members are hungry and eventually starve to death. If you think about it, if we were to recall all 10 million of them, how much would we lose? At least tens of millions of dollars would be a direct loss! Which is more cost-effective than the cost of 100,000 people?"

It's an account, a bill that you can see clearly without counting.

Hua Xiaohan, after all, is a programmer, and in the entire team, in fact, many people are not people who have studied games so deeply.

What many people don't know is the cost of developing the game, coupled with the terrifying astronomical amount of publicity.

Not to mention anything else, if a game wants to sell at a good price in the fastest time, it must invest countless advertising costs, and the least of them also needs to be like Li Fangcheng to balance the advertising investment costs and costs.

Otherwise, it would be nothing more than a joke for a small member who wants to sell tens of millions of units in a short period of time!

Some people may wonder why Li Fangcheng's cost can be compressed so low.

In fact, the reasons are very simple: First, the cost of personnel, the cost of employment in China is very low, and it is diligent! Compared with production in Japan, it is faster in efficiency and cheaper in cost, and it is already the only choice; second, it is the production method of cassette.

Huaxia's current cassette or circuit board production is far cheaper than Japan's!

In the hands of a group of people who specialize in cassette, a reverse deduction crack, it didn't take long to crack the storage algorithm inside.

Nintendo's cassettes are made of better quality materials, which can protect the entire cassette well, and it is generally bumped and bumped. It is also difficult to have any damage to the cassette. Even if there is some damage, Nintendo allows it to be sent for repair, and it is a cassette that can be recorded and used repeatedly.

But the cassette produced by Huaxia now, basically will not use such good materials, if it was just piracy at the beginning, it changed later, directly for higher profits, study how to cut the cost of the cassette, so the later piracy simply made the cassette thin and light, this cheap and lightweight cassette, although there is also a fatal problem, that is, it is broken and broken, and it has no maintenance at all, it is more like a one-time use item.

Li Fangcheng also considered it when making this decision, the cassette itself is difficult to damage, so even if there is really player feedback or accidentally want to repair, then directly do a technical processing of data transfer, and then directly take a new cassette to burn the data into it, which is also a way, and can also avoid the need to deliberately arrange personnel to redeem the player, and then do testing, then repair, and then buy electronic components and other troublesome and wasteful things.

The cost is even higher than a direct replacement!

The cost savings, on top of this, are still learned from major pirates such as Xiaobawang and Xiaotiancai!

And the Age of Wonders has even used this technology in many ways, so that although the life span will not be very long, it is enough for players to use normally, and the cost has dropped a lot!

If Nintendo knew about this cost-saving behavior from piracy, maybe Nintendo would have to learn the other way!

Anyway, for the Age of Miracles, as long as the sales volume is high enough, the profit will still be considerable.

Regarding the question of understanding these details of the cost, Hua Xiaohan suddenly realized after listening to it!

This is a measure of value for money.

This is to use a small amount of investment in the early stage to avoid large-scale losses in the later stage!

Thinking about this, Hua Xiaohan stopped talking.

"The purpose of testing is definitely to make the game better, so in this way, it involves the question, how many times do we have to test, how long do we have to test, if we want to test after the first test adjustment and modification, do we need to continue testing, if we want to test, how many people do we need to arrange for testing this time? Ling Donghua voiced his doubts.

Li Fangcheng nodded approvingly, it seems that Ling Donghua didn't completely forget about the test, he just felt that it was thankless, so he didn't do it:" The test needs to look at the score of the game, from now on, introduce a new evaluation concept, star rating system, although Atari does have improper supervision of the third party, but the player at that time did not have any guidance is also a reason, players do not know why the game is more fun, without any introduction and guidance, players will buy a lot of inferior games by mistake without knowing it. ”

Star rating system?

Looking at everyone's expressions, Li Fangcheng knew that he must have never heard of it.

In December 1944, the National Congress of the United States approved the rank of five-star general, which consisted of five star emblems on the epaulettes. The meaning is that the stars shine in the sky.

From this time on, the practice of grading with stars appeared.

And the five-star has become the highest level of meaning.

For example, the Communist Party uses five stars to represent its identity, the five stars on the national flag, the largest one represents the Communist Party, and the other four small ones represent the working class, the peasant class, the urban petty bourgeoisie, and the national bourgeoisie.

"The star rating system, we can say that it is the first one, now let me tell you how to score this score. Li Fangcheng talked about the differentiation of the five stars.

Five stars, super fun game. The playability is extremely high, and at least two of the plot, picture, sound effects, and operation are at least two of the top level.

Four-star, very fun game, high playability, in the plot, picture, sound effects, operation, at least a top level.

Samsung,Just qualified game,Average playability,In the plot,Picture,Sound effects,Operation,At least one excellent level。

Two stars,Not recommended game,Playability is very low,In the plot,Picture,Sound effects,Operation,Only one or two are OK。

One star, not a fun game, no playability, in the plot, picture, sound effects, operation, there is nothing to praise.

Five-star rating system, Li Fangcheng can't deny that he has borrowed some of the practices of later generations, but more importantly, Li Fangcheng hopes that there can be a standard in terms of game production!

And not that no one can make up their minds!

"There is a question, if players think that this game is Samsung, but at the same time another game is also Samsung, but I personally think that the latter is not as good as the former, what should I do?" Ling Donghua immediately thought of this possibility.

"This question is very simple, compared to the standard I just said, as long as it meets the standard, how many stars will be scored, remember, the game score, has always been for a single game, we give a reference value, according to this reference to evaluate, if you have to compare the two games, that's not what we do, even if you go from five stars to ten stars or even one hundred stars to the player evaluation, players will still feel unreasonable, such as a year ago to give eighty stars, a year later I feel that another game that played eighty stars is better than a year ago to play better, a year ago the one can only give seventy stars now, what to do at this timeLi Fangcheng had thought about this question for a long time and answered immediately.