"This is the area of discussion in the planning department, don't interject Che! You're a programmer, just be honest and implement our ideas! Or are you going to change your career to become a planner?"

It's rare that Duan Shanshan didn't leave any face for Che Guanglong, and directly asked him to shut up. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Che Guanglong's face was a little ugly, he snorted with a frown, threw the pen in his hand on the table, leaned back in the chair and stopped talking.

However, a few minutes later, similar words were said again, and the target of the previous moment became the current target.

"Old Duan, don't take it for granted, the times are different, and the mentality of players now is not the same as yours. In short, this is the scope of work of system planning, you can give your opinion, but please make it clear that the decision must be made by me!"

Duan Shanshan's reaction was much more intense than the previous Che Guanglong, and he directly stiffened his neck and shouted: "You are a systematic planner and you can't be arbitrary, let you mess around like this, our project will be dead!"

After joining the threesome studio, because of his previous heart disease, Ling Xingning usually weakened by three points in momentum when facing Duan Shanshan, and he was usually polite and discussed, and a-for-tat situation like today was really unprecedented.

"You are too pedantic in the water tank, and Lao Ling is too radical, I don't think the plan of the two of you is reliable. I think it's still a scoring server, and the paid server doesn't sell props, but only sells it on the free server, so that players can take what they need. ”

As the latest of the three planners, Saiwen is usually relatively low-key in meetings, and only opens his mouth to say some ideas when he is asked for his opinion, but today he rarely took the initiative to speak, and rejected the plans of the two seniors with one mouth.

"Two sets of systems in parallel? This is a lot of work, Qiwen, how many more programmers will you recruit for us?" Yuan Bin interjected with a smile, "Besides, even if you really recruit programmers, such an important system cannot be assigned to others to do, or I and Che'er will have to do it next, so can you discuss with Lao Liu about giving us an extra half a month and a month for the version cycle?"

"Saiwen, you do this, what should I do with the cross-server battle? Do you still have to divide the competition area between the paid server and the free server?

"The RMB warriors are going to be wolves, if the whole service is a wolf without sheep, and the sheep are diverted to the paid service, then the free service will become a death service, and the ghost will come to throw money!" Ling Xingning shook his head fiercely, and the glasses on the bridge of his nose almost fell off.

Today is the fourth day of the new year, and New Year's Day is last Saturday, so the day was postponed to Monday, and this Tuesday is the first working day of the threesome studio in 2011.

Due to the fact that the work of the art department was completed more than expected, the alpha version would be submitted in about two weeks. Closed testing has been put on the agenda, and by the way, some of the previous controversial and undetermined issues have to be put on the table, and a plan must be come up with as soon as possible.

Today's discussion is the operating model.

Commercial game research and development, profit is one of the purposes, and few teams are aiming to lose money to make games, except for the so-called national conditions online games such as learning from Lei Feng to do good deeds and helping grandma cross the road.

The point is, how do you make this money?

Generally speaking, the operation mode of online games can be roughly divided into two types, one is the charging model and the other is the free model.

The charging model refers to the money that will be charged from the beginning of your login to the game (of course, the trial period is not counted), and it can generally be divided into two categories: the timer system and the monthly system, also called the point card system and the monthly card system.

For example, Liu Kewei's favorite "World of Warcraft" is the point card system, and the "King of Kings" that Duan Shanshan and Liu Suifeng played before is a monthly system.

And these two charging models are not absolutely conflicting, for example, Duan Shanshan, Liu Suifeng and Saiwen played "The Sixth Day Demon King", which is the coexistence of two modes of timekeeping and monthly subscription.

The free-to-play model means that players can theoretically play the game without spending a penny. Isn't it true that the purpose of making games is to make money, so how can game operators make money in this so-called "free-to-play" model?

The answer is: by selling paid items in the game.

To take the simplest example, let's say a character in the game can hold 60 items in his backpack. In the free-to-play mode, a small part of the backpack space is usually opened for players to use for free, and in the early stage of the game, because of the low level of the character and the relatively single game mechanics that are exposed to it, the free backpack space is basically more than enough. However, as the player's level increases and the game mechanics become more complex, the amount of equipment and props that need to be accommodated increases, and the backpack space is gradually insufficient.

At this point, players will have to make their own choice, whether to keep organizing their backpack in the game and be forced to discard something of less important importance, or simply spend some money to expand their backpack space.

Of course, this is just the simplest example, there are many specific ways to charge for props, but it boils down to one: either endure all kinds of inconvenient torture, or spend some money to make yourself happy.

So generally speaking, the word free in a free game is just a cover for absorbing non-paying players, treating them as sheep, and stimulating the so-called wolves, that is, paying players, to further consume game props in order to experience the thrill of smashing people with money in the game.

If there are no sheep, without the pleasure of crushing the weak, what is the point of leaving only the wolves?

That's what was being discussed in the small reception room at the moment.

The space of the small reception room is not large, that is, about twenty or thirty square meters, it is rectangular, with several square tables lined up in the center, and a circle of folding chairs around it.

The moderator of this meeting is Liu Kewei, producer, level planner and numerical planner, and the discussants are Ling Xingning, chief planner and system planner, Duan Shanshan, copywriter planner, and Zhao Qiwen, executive planner. In addition, Che Guanglong, the main Cheng Cheng on the server side, and Yuan Bin, the main Cheng Cheng on the client side, also participated as technical consultations.

As far as the threesome studio is concerned, the level of this meeting is already very high. In addition to the main Meiliu with the wind, the core members of the studio do not pull one by one.

After all, the operating model is of great significance to the commercial operation of a game, and it has to be treated with caution.

By the way, Ling Xingning has been officially promoted to the main strategy not long ago. Although Liu Kewei is still doing the work of levels and values, it is not a long-term solution to always let him hang alone as a producer and chief planner. Especially after the expansion of the program department, in order to clarify his voice in the team, it is inevitable to clarify the identity of the main planner.

It is said that the charging system does belong to the scope of system planning, theoretically speaking, as long as Ling Xingning, the chief planner and system planner, and Sai Wen, the executive planner of the system group, discuss and decide, and finally submit it to the producer Liu Kewei for approval.

This is the normal workflow.

So it's no wonder Ling Xingning is so impatient. Lao Duan, you are not an unreasonable person, you all know that you are not in his position and do not seek his own politics, the car is the main process, he is only responsible for the realization of the planning idea, why can't you tell the difference between the system and the copywriting when you get to yourself?

However, for Duan Shanshan, Ling Xingning's plan has broken through the bottom line that he can accept, which is not just a conflict in the division of business, but has actually risen to the collision of game concepts.

"No matter what type of game it is, the most basic principle should be fair competition!" Duan Shanshan quickly tapped his fist on the table with five fingers, showing that his mood was not calm at all, "We should do it, treat all players equally, and we can't discriminate because of the wealth and poverty of real identity." That's why I insist that the timekeeping system and the monthly subscription system are the direction that our game should choose, called free, but in fact, let players spend money to buy special treatment, this kind of approach is too fucked up!

"Cut, old Duan, can you not be so naïve?" Ling Xingning said with a smile, "Your concept has long been outdated! Some players work very hard in the real world, but they can't spare too much time to play games, and some players hide at home all day playing games and don't do anything, why let normal people who support themselves be suppressed by a group of idle lazy people in the game? Just because they spend more time playing games? This is not fair!"

"You don't want to change the concept, how do you know that people who play games seriously can't work hard in the real world?" Duan Shanshan was not to be outdone, "Do you have to spend extra money to prove yourself?"

Ling Xingning shook his head and sighed, "Okay, even if I changed the concept just now." In other words, can you guarantee that there will be no RMB warriors under the fee-based model? Lao Liu's "World of Warcraft" does not have a gold group? The "Sixth Day Demon King" you play does not have coin sales and boosting? If there is demand, there will be trading behavior, and the fee-based system cannot guarantee real fairness at all, but just give away this piece of profit that we could have earned to those professional game boosters in vain!"

"Do you mean that you know that others are doing bad things, and what you think about is not how to stop it, but why can he do it but I can't, so you even want to kick them out and do it yourself?" Duan Shanshan glared at Ling Xingning and asked loudly.

"We are game people, not saints who save the world!" Ling Xingning retorted with a smile, "What's good or bad, even banks have VIP counters these days, what's the big deal about giving players who spend a lot of money more benefits in the game?"

Seeing that Ling Xingning and Duan Shanshan's pinching of each other was becoming more and more intense, Liu Kewei gritted his teeth and slapped the table hard, startling everyone in the room.

"Enough, enough! Stop, you two have a point, but it's not right!"

P.S. said that the test in mid-February was a miscalculation, it is expected to be developed for four months, and the progress is half a month ahead of schedule, and if it starts on October 1, it should be the first closed test in mid-January, so I would like to explain.