Chapter 776: Too Little
Nan Ming sighed: "Actually, I didn't see the last four words at all, the garland has never been in the backpack from front to back, where can I see the attributes?"
"I put it on when I got the wreath, and I didn't take it off until I did the downhill mission to change clothes and become a human. The old man who happened to give me a coat and hat told me that this garland was "quite wild and interesting to buy it for 100 yuan to get a grandchild", and the price was quite bold, enough 100 Taiping 100 yuan, I thought that this was also part of the task of going down the mountain, so I took off the garland and gave it to him without thinking about it. Now it seems that I'm actually a pit daddy's mission system.,If multiple eyes took out the mission log and looked at it, they would have found the problem.。 ”
Fang Junqi nodded, with a really like this expression on his face, "You really sold the garland from Old Man Sun." In fact, this wreath plot was deliberately set up by the development team, the purpose is to remind everyone of the difference between immersive operation and traditional UI operation. Hehe, you'll definitely get into the habit of checking your backpack and quest logs frequently in the future!"
"That's not necessarily," Nan Ming gritted his teeth and said: "When the official version opens the traditional mode, I will change the game mode, and now this half-hung first-person perspective is too annoying." ”
"It's a little annoying," Brother Qi nodded in agreement, and then couldn't help but explain, "This is also to connect with the future VR mode, playing games in the first person, and using your own hands to access items to view books, which can create a better sense of substitution and immersion." ”
The game UI that has not changed much for more than 20 years has been passively operated on in this game, or deleted or hidden or deformed, and the designers tried their best to suppress the presence of various traditional interface elements: semi-somatosensory control based on gestures and footwork made the key move skill bar ineffective; the blood blue bar is hidden by default, and can only be intuitively judged by observing panting and hand tremors; the backpack is materialized and hung on the character, and the items used need to be taken out first, and the task list is also made into a physical log book and put into the backpack. Obviously, Nan Ming is not used to the materialized backpack and taskbar, which is why he made an oolong that sells treasures cheaply.
"I'd rather he had been using the traditional mode, and now it always feels like it's a lot of things that can be done with a single button, forcing players to reach out and kick their legs. ”
"It's not good to help you increase exercise, lose weight, and fitness?"
"Haha!" Nan Ming laughed, Nan Ming also took care to clench his fists and bend his arms to do a bodybuilding movement to show off his biceps, "Do you think I need this amount of exercise?"
"You don't need it, I need it!" Brother Qi pointed to Guo Ming, the skinniest of the five, "He needs it too." ”
Nan Ming stretched out his hand and hugged Guo Ming's neck, "Xiao Ming, if you want to exercise, let's join the fitness club with me, I promise to make you change in January and change in March!"
If the words and deeds of the two of them are placed in Europe and the United States, it is a proper personal attack on height discrimination, but it is a commonplace thing in China, not only did they not feel that there was a problem, but even the "victim" Guo Ming did not feel that there was any problem, and he also laughed.
In this way, there was talk and laughter along the way, and the originally lonely and long way home became lively.
Back in the dormitory, Fang Junqi did not turn on the computer to play games, but honestly sat at the desk and read the textbooks and notes.
Guo Ming noticed his abnormality and immediately asked, "Why don't you play?"
"Brother Qi has to concentrate on reviewing and preparing for the exam, and he won't turn on the game from now until the end of the exam!"
For this answer, Director Guo immediately scoffed, "Where did the person who dragged me to catch ghosts at night die?
"You're the old ghost!" Turning around, Fang Junqi explained: "Mobile games are different from consoles, the Monkey King is now in the internal beta and will eventually delete the data, but the mobile game is not, just collect all kinds of monsters in advance and cultivate them slowly, and when the time comes, just import them directly, this is a sharpening knife and not cutting wood." ”
"No, what you told me before is obviously to enter in advance and prepare early, so that you can be one step ahead in the future. ”
"Well, it's actually my dad who just sent me a text message, saying that if I don't do well in the exam this time, I will take back my gold account, I don't think it's okay if I'm not serious!"
"I've got all the scholarships, and you still say that you didn't do well in the exam? It's really tiring to be friends with the top students. ”
"If I'm a top student, why do I need to review and prepare for the exam?" Fang Junqi asked rhetorically, and then picked up his mobile phone, "The old man pinched his fingers and found that it was not suitable for reading books tonight, so it was better to play with his mobile phone." ”
said that he wanted to play with his mobile phone, but he opened the mail app, and he planned to make a small report and relay Nanming's complaints to Atletico Madrid, who were far away in the south.
He has long discovered that writing an email and sending a message to Atletico Madrid can get a faster response than a phone call. Although I didn't know that E7U caused all this, it didn't affect the conscious choice of text when I wanted to contact the other party.
When he received the email, Atletico was leaning on the bedside, taking advantage of the sage's time to think about the future of the universe and mankind, but the email pulled his thoughts back.
Sighing, he whispered, "It's a pity that there are still too few people!"
"It's a lot, no matter how much, I'm afraid that your body will have problems," it was Tang Jiayi who came out of the bathroom just now, she only heard the second half of the sentence, but she thought of other places. Because of the live broadcast of the European Cup, Atletico Madrid slept a few hours less than usual during this time, but he still insisted on not reducing the quantity and quality of bed activities under the banner of "not letting his wife become a football widow", which made her worry about her husband's body.
"Where did you hear that," Atletico said, holding up his phone and explaining, "It was Xiao Qi who just sent me an email saying that some closed beta players have objections to the operation mode of "The Monkey King", but I think the number of players who oppose them is still too small. ”
"Oh," Tang Jiayi nodded without changing her face, took off her bathrobe and sat on the bed, "What's the matter?"
Recently, she has been busy preparing for the opening of a photo studio, whether she has such a superman, and other things are naturally difficult to attract her attention.
"After the start of the closed beta, "The Monkey King" appeared in public opinion that it was hot on the outside and cold on the inside. Overseas players who participated in the beta generally responded well, with a lot of praise for the graphics, sense of impact, AI performance, innovative UI system and simplified plot, while domestic players and Chinese media had a lot of dissatisfaction, mainly focusing on the latter two points. ”
After listening to him talk about the changes to the UI system, Tang Jiayi frowned and said: "Many foreign players have been exposed to the main perspective RPG, and it is easier to accept this enhanced sense of substitution mode, and keep looking forward to the upcoming VR mode." And domestic RPGs are all third-person, even turn-based, plus domestic MMORPGs all kinds of 'one-click xx', it is indeed difficult to get them to accept your new system. ”
"Of course, we knew that we would open up the traditional 2D mode to them, but not now. At least wait until the VR mode is open for a while and build up a reputation. ”
"Forcing players to try the somatosensory mode, and then sell your hands and feet and headbands, right?" Tang Jiayi said that I had seen through everything.
Then she asked, "Isn't the media always fond of touting new technologies and new experiences, why did they jump out against you this time?"
Atletico scratched their heads, "They praised our technology and said it was bees, and then they attacked the plot of the game and also said it was bees. ”
There are many games based on the background of Journey to the West, not one hundred but eighty, and the reason why the media pays so much attention to this work is entirely because of the label of "investment of 400 million, domestic 3A, VR masterpiece". Since the bee has made a high profile, it is natural that people can't refuse to look at this game with higher standards and more rigorous scrutiny, and the media's evaluation of this work can be summed up in two words: technology against the sky, and the plot is pale.
On the one hand, they have successfully built a unique and vivid world: mountains, rivers, lakes and marshes have changed, flowers and animals have reproduction, big cities and small villages have economies, and all kinds of people have lives, which fully reflects the technical strength of bees.
On the other hand, as an adaptation of the game of Journey to the West, "Monkey King" puts the story time after the trouble in the Heavenly Palace and before the Journey to the West, and the main line is just a little monkey running down the mountain, wanting to "smash the Five Elements Mountain and rescue the Great Sage", and the game scene is therefore limited to the land of Dongsheng Shenzhou from Huaguo Mountain to the Five Elements Mountain in the east, which makes the Chinese media and domestic players say they can't bear it.
The plot of the game stops at the foot of the Five Elements Mountain, and the vast world further west is ignored, the eagle is sorrowful and collects the dragon horse, the fire burns the Guanyin Temple, the daughter-in-law of Zhu Bajie, the three dozen white bone spirits, the Sun Xing and the grandson, the immortal fairy child Red Child, and the master and apprentice of the Mother River are conceived...... , these familiar stories and characters will not appear in this work. Don't talk about others, even Tang Jiayi expressed her dissatisfaction after listening to Atletico Madrid's introduction of the game plot: "There is nothing, is this still Journey to the West? ”
The latter shrugged when he heard this, "That's why I said that there are too few domestic players, if their number is more than ten times or twenty times, what does it matter if there is a whole Journey to the West directly?"
PT has a very beautiful share in the mainland market, but when you look at the market capacity, you will find that the actual number of PT players is not much, which means that there are not many PT players in China. This makes Bee can only focus on the European and American markets when developing games, after all, the potential is greater, and only a variety of online games and mobile games are left for domestic players. The same is true of this "Monkey King", although it is known as the first domestic AAA masterpiece, but it is made of strong European flavor, and obviously does not take the needs of domestic players as the first goal to meet.
"What, the board is under a lot of pressure?"
The promotional words of the 3A game are not just nonsense, Beegame has indeed spent more than 300 million yuan on the development of this game, and the cost of publicity and operation in the later stage may also be more than 100 million. Correspondingly, the revenue pressure increases accordingly with large investment, and sales must reach $120 million to achieve capital preservation. Below this figure, not only will the bonus dividends of the stand-alone machine and PT department be wasted this year, but Ma Dong, who has promoted the project, will also be reprimanded by the board of directors of the group.
Unlike Jiajing Group, which only has two half-owned shares of the husband and wife, Bee has external shareholders at the group level and virtual shareholders at the subsidiary level, and these stakeholders naturally need to be concerned about the company's operation. Before, everyone didn't talk and sat and watched Atletico talk to themselves, completely because the company's performance was good and dividends were more, but if there was a problem in the big project that Atletico Madrid was heading for, resulting in a decline in the company's profits, these people would definitely jump to anger and take the opportunity to go crazy by the way.
"Don't worry, everything is under control," Atletico stretched out his hand to put his arm around his wife's shoulder, patting the other party to show relaxation, "The scale of bees is getting bigger and bigger, and there are more and more people coveting this fruit, but your husband is not muddy, he was able to deal with them in the past, and of course he can now." ”
Group shareholders with deep backgrounds have always wanted to expand their shareholdings, so as to expand their voice and share of interests; the management is also not satisfied with virtual shares that can only pay dividends, and many people still have the idea of picking up the company to cash out with options incentives, or even a leveraged buyout to become the boss. These situations have long been in the hands of Atletico Madrid, and all kinds of attempts have been resolved as soon as possible by him using his information advantage.
However, home advantage is also a shackle for Atletico, and occupying most of the company's interests makes it difficult for him to make up his mind to lure the snake out of the hole and fight for development. Just like the "Monkey King" project this time, although the main purpose is to play the signboard of PT games and domestic games, it finally chose a more conservative development strategy. The story is divided into three parts to reduce development costs, and the plot structure is more simplistic and Europeanized.
Then Atletico was laughed at by his wife, "I feel like you're still afraid of them, and you're a little constrained." ”
"Of course, the company's losses are all our money!" Atletico Madrid admitted frankly, "Besides, Rome was not built in a day, and the situation of the PT host is gradually improving, and now it can be out of 3A, wait for a year or two to keep it and then go up the ladder, see me flood them with the 3A sea!"
Mrs. Ma heard the song and asked, "Triple A, in fact, the actual development cost of this game is not as high as advertised, right?"
"Our PTE engine is different from the mainstream of the industry, and there is a lot of groundwork to be done in the first part of the series, and the cost is still very high, but it will be much better later. ”
Speaking of this, he suddenly withdrew his hand, grabbed his mobile phone and said, "Ha, I'll just add another fire!" ”
Soon Tang Jiayi saw what Atletico had just sent, "Say a few words before the game starts. We've all seen players' opinions on "The Monkey King", but what I want to say is that we are actually working on the classic plot and scenes, but because of market reasons, this work is mainly for the European and American markets, so these contents can only be placed in the last two. ”
After reading these pictures of quicksand river monsters, Zhu Bajie's daughter-in-law, and Tang Seng riding a white horse, Tang Jiayi quickly raised her head, "The second part has been completed?"