Chapter 23 Free Games Not Free

If Lin Yan knew Xiao Chubby Dun's thoughts, he would definitely feel ashamed. To put it mildly, he felt like a porter of nature. Not really a good game producer. This feeling is like when he was not reborn, during the time when he worked for a domestic mobile game developer, the most he did was to port. As long as a new best-selling game comes out on the game list, their company will start researching it very carefully. Then, almost 100% of the time a mobile game with the same core gameplay, but with a different skin.

If so, this reskinned mobile game, if it can set a hot intellectual property right, you can basically sit and count the money. Some entertainment companies obviously also know that mobile games make money, so they will start launching a mobile game at the same time as launching a TV series or movie. Steady profit without loss, almost no loss time, can make a lot of money.

Of course, Lin Yan doesn't know how far China's mobile games will go in the end. This kind of thing, whether it is the norm or a pain. All mobile gamers, will not be because of shoddy mobile games. And like the world, American video game players, have lost confidence in the industry. Thus making the industry almost disappear.

Having said that, Lin Yan didn't like that time though. But he still feels that this is really a suspicion of self-inflicted behavior by the domestic player group.

At the end of the twentieth century and the beginning of the twenty-first century, there was also a period of peak time in the production of video games in China. Lin Yan almost entered the industry at that time. At that time, almost every practitioner had a dream and a heart to make a good game. Although, because of funding and so on, the final game is finished, they may not be particularly satisfied. However, most of the works at that time were very sincere.

However, it was different from the enthusiastic game makers of the time. At that time, players loved free games. Video game. For them, it's just a dispensable pastime. A game sells for dozens, and it's too expensive, so I don't buy it.

Driven by this consumer mentality. There are a large number of pirates. Even a game became popular all over China, and its name spread abroad, and it won awards at foreign game exhibitions. However, the people of the game production team. But he is still frugal and hovering on the verge of starvation.

At that time, the quality of Chinese games was actually no worse than that of foreign "masterpieces". There are even more than the picture. However, with a game like "E.T. Aliens" - "Snow Lion", the already fragile Chinese video game is completely dead.

After that, it was the age of online games.

After that, it's time for "free-to-play online games".

Chinese players can also be regarded as benevolent and can "spend a penny". You can "play the game for free".

Of course, the game is not really free. The operator and the production team also have to eat. At that time, I didn't know the game, so I took the lead in borrowing the "small continuous payment" model of the goose factory and opened a mall in the game.

Using the comparison psychology of players and the contradictions between players, there are many props that can show off, "swipe the speaker" on the world channel, and scold each other.

A "free game". It is not uncommon to spend more than 1,000 per capita. At this time, game companies naturally need to produce a large number of "free games" that meet the needs of players.

As for those stand-alone machines that don't make money, there are only fools. There are still minorities to do it. Of course, there will also be half-dead manufacturers who release a classic game every year, which is getting worse and worse, and finally becomes garbage-like games, selling feelings. Attract players who played as children to buy it. It's also a normal thing.

At that time, Lin Yang didn't play mobile games. I don't even play my own company's mobile games. Sometimes when he was on the subway, some people were having a good time playing with their mobile phones, and they asked people, how much did you spend playing this game?

Not much, just a few thousand. Have fun. The player said happily. The power of "free-to-play games" can be seen from this, in general, at that time, there were few game companies in the world that could exceed the income of Chinese game companies of the same level.

The new system of "free games" is indispensable, and its superiority is unparalleled. It has been studied and studied by game manufacturers from all over the world.

"I'm here to play a game." Lin Yan looked at the little chubby dun's face and said, "You're also here to play games, right?" ”

"Yes, yes......" Little Chubby Dun looked at Lin Yan, who seemed to have amnesia, and recalled what he had just said. I always feel that Lin Yan one minute ago and this minute are two Lin Yan.

"Let's have fun together." Lin Yan wrapped his arm around the shoulders of Little Fat Dun and led him into the arcade hall.

Although Xiao Chubby Dun is fat, he is not tall, slightly shorter than Lin Yan. So, he was able to easily landlord his shoulder. As for the width, it's not that important, just be able to fool people away.

The players in the arcade hall all greeted Lin Yan, and some of them were more familiar, so they asked Lin Yan directly, is this also a master?

"I don't know, he shouldn't have been to the arcade a few times, it's my friend." Lin Yan replied.

Xiao Chubbydun, who was called a friend by Lin Yan, looked at Lin Yan, who was greeting people, and once again felt that the gap between him and this person was a little big.

"Did you play that game that you made?" Lin Yan asked.

There are too many people on the side of "Iron Plate Array". Although it is said that Lin Yan can brush his face, he can play directly in the past. After all, there are so many players who prefer to watch others play rather than play themselves.

But he didn't really want to do that. Because, there is such a thing as privilege. Once you use it, you will be addicted, and if you use it once, you will want to use it next time. Eventually, it will evolve into arrogance.

It's like someone who is not familiar with Yuki Chiba, and you will think that she is very "arrogant", as if her nostrils are facing the sky and she looks down on anyone.

Actually, this is not the case, after getting along with her for a long time, you will find that she is also an ordinary person. As for why others look at her, it probably has something to do with the halo on her head.

Who made her Chiba Yuki, the eldest lady of the Chiba family, and the rest of the students are studying in her family's territory. I didn't even say hello to her, so I said that she was too arrogant. It's a bit of a bully, isn't it? (To be continued.) )