In fact, there is a big failure regarding the changes behind WOW.

That is, in order to simplify the difficulty of the game, Blizzard cut countless original excellent RPG content, and then cut countless MMO content in order to simplify the game.

Let WOW completely become an MMO content is extremely weak, RPG content is also extremely weak so-called MMORPG, to be honest, according to a pure game, he can bring players pure joy, far inferior to the original version, RPG game exploration is the greatest fun, the game has a sense of mystery is the greatest playability that an RPG game can bring to players.

But then WOW is no longer researchable, and if an RPG loses its explorable elements, then the foundation of the game does not exist, which is why more and more players say that WOW is getting faster and faster.

Of course, even WOW, which has become extremely fast food, is enough to dominate the entire MMORPG field.

You can even say it unceremoniously.

"I'm not targeting anyone, I'm saying that everybody in this room is rubbish."

A game, can be done, to all industry peers for more than ten years, but no matter what these peers try to do, there is no way to eat the exhaust of a game in the same genre, the status of this game, and it will naturally be established, maybe on the day WOW comes out, many people will say, this is an excellent game.

However, probably the vast majority of people would not have imagined that this is such a great game.

After the release of Monster Hunter, both the official player community. Still on the Battle.net platform, the enthusiasm of players is beyond imagination.

Because the ladder system of "Monster Hunter" was not launched at the same time, but players are very eager for the official ladder system to be launched as quickly as possible, and countless high-level players can't wait to show their unparalleled hunting skills and speed through the ladder.

Of course, the original Monster Hunter didn't have this ladder system.

And the ladder system is also the inspiration that Jester got from Blizzard's games, because he thinks. The game mode of the game "Monster Hunter" is indeed very suitable for joining the ladder system, after having this system, it can greatly improve the playability of this game, and when players are tired of brushing materials, they will turn to the top of the ladder.

After all, there will always be a day when the material is finished.

But the ladder, because it is a direct competition between people, so. The day he didn't finish brushing, you didn't see that there was a group of people constantly brushing the ladder in the D3 game, not to mention a game like "Monster Hunter".

Human beings will always produce conquest**, this is human nature, it cannot be taken away and cannot be hidden.

Everybody has it.

"Why am I worse than him? I couldn't be worse than him! ”

It's an idea that everybody has, and that's why the ladder system has been so successful since the day it was born, because everyone has a competitive spirit. They all have the heart of comparison, and they all have vanity.

This is why designers should make reasonable use of players when designing games.

However, the opening of the game content is gradual. Putting everything out at once isn't a design approach, and if you put out a lot of games at once, players might suddenly not know what to play, and you'll waste all these different ways of playing. There wasn't enough time for players to experience it.

It's like a ladder system, it's actually done now, and it's been tested internally a few times, and even if it's open right away, there's no problem, but the problem is. It's only been a month since Monster Hunter was released, and many players have just picked up their hunting badges to start their hunting journey, and they don't have a deep understanding of the game yet.

The ladder system was hastily launched.

Aside from the fact that this is very good news for a very small number of players, for the vast majority of players, there is really no special use for such a thing.

Because they can't experience this kind of content.

Therefore, instead of opening up too early and satisfying the hearts of a small number of people, it is far better to wait for a while, when more than half of the players are ready, in the open ladder system, so that more people can experience the content of this game, which is the best and most correct choice for designers and players.

Therefore, Jester's answer to all the high-level inquiries in the player community is that he is not ready.

Now that the matter of "Monster Hunter" has finally come to an end, for Jester, the busiest time has just arrived, because of the arrival of the era of online games, and it is also Jester's official preparation for the development of domestic efforts, although the network company established by him and his sister-in-law in China before, because of the relationship between acting as an agent for online games in the past two years, has successfully turned losses into profits.

Moreover, there are also studios that are funding several domestic games.

Under this kind of funding, domestic games do not need to consider whether the game can sell well in China, so designers can consider how the game should be designed to be fun as much as possible.

So in the past two years, there have also been several games that did not exist in history, and the quality is very high.

There are also far more developers than there have ever been in history.

This is also something that Jester can do, and he can't control whether there is a ban on game consoles in China in the future, and he doesn't want to care, but he thinks that it will not be a bad thing to be able to leave a group of people who have really developed for good games in China.

It's much better than going to make games in the future with a group of people who don't even know the most important things about games.

In fact, although it is only the beginning of online games in China, it is foreseeable that the future profit prospects are very broad.

Not only is the dark-oriented MMORPG of Mars Entertainment, which is represented by Jester and his sister-in-law's network company, very popular, after all, it has the propaganda role of Diablo, a god-level IP.

Even other online games, such as Genesis, are very popular in China.

For domestic players. This kind of online game seems to be more fun than the single-player game, and Jester is noncommittal about this conclusion, he can only say that for different players. He has a different choice for games.

Moreover, Jester is very curious about a person who is now in China.

This person's name is Li Kewen, this character Jester has heard of, in the original world, for this legendary figure, this great soul who has passed away, he is very respectful.

This time, he plans to go back to China after a while to inspect the work in China, and by the way, he also wants to meet the other party. If he could, Jester would love to bring him into his company, because he was a rare real genius, and if I could compare it to one person, he would be John in this field in a way. Carmack.

A ban in 2000 completely destroyed the fledgling video game industry in mainland China, but even in such a desperate situation. There are also some Chinese people who have dedicated their lives to the game and deserve to be remembered. Li Kewen is one of them.

Li Kewen, a young man born in 1979, once resounded in the domestic game circle with the name of "the first person in domestic simulators". Just like what everyone often says nowadays, "Liu Cixin single-handedly brought Chinese science fiction to the world level", what Li Kewen did back then was to single-handedly push China's simulator to the best in the world.

Kewen Li, whose online name is Kevin, is the earliest independent simulator developer in China. At the same time, he is also a senior administrator of the cat flutter forum, and his appearance and haste passed away have shocked the domestic game industry.

Li Kewen, who has an IQ of 16~4, has been at the top of various subjects all year round when he goes to school, and he has shown extraordinary talent in computers since he was a child: in 1997, he won the title of "Star of Sitong" in the "Sitong Cup" Youth Computer Programming Competition in Beidi City; Silver Sail Award for primary and secondary school students in the imperial city; Gold Medal of the 10th National Science and Technology Invention Expo; Gold Medal in the 9th National Youth Invention, Creation and Scientific Paper Competition; First Prize of Imperial City Youth Science and Technology Paper ......

Because he is a heavy gamer, after entering college, Li Kewen began to devote himself to developing simulator programs. He has publicly released DreamNES, DreamGBC, and DreamGBA, and has ported his own emulators to handheld and mobile. Especially when Nintendo's handheld GBA was released, Li Kewen even wrote a GBA emulator that can run the game perfectlyDreamGBA without even having a GBA, and as a completely free emulator, it has better compatibility and faster speed than foreign paid works. This is considered to be the first time that the technology of the Chinese people is at the forefront of the world in terms of simulators.

This is a John. A carmack-like character, he was once the idol of countless people and countless players.

However, God is jealous of the talent. Li Kewen, who was only 25 years old, died of uremia.

Before Li Kewen died, he was developing DreamPS2, and it is said that the simulation of the CPU and graphics chip has been programmed, and it only takes another two months to connect the cores of the PS2 emulator, and it takes another two months to debug it.

However, at this time, his kidney donor for a uremia transplant was found to have the hepatitis B virus, and his health began to deteriorate dramatically, and he was no longer able to complete the job.

On June 30, 2004, Li Kewen received his graduation certificate from Imperial Capital University in the ward, and the next night, he passed away.

Until his death, Li Kewen still remembered the simulator he developed, and he left his last words to all players: "I will leave tomorrow." If you survive, you'll have a new DreamGba to play when I come back. As for 1.8, you can't play the golden sun normally, but this one is really not good, sorry! ”

If he can live for more than ten years, then he can also see the bizarre handheld battle between Sony and Nintendo, the three-way world of video games, and the release of game consoles in China...... In this way, he will be able to play more of his favorite games, and he will be able to bring better emulators to players who can't own a console, and maybe he will use his skills to embark on the path of game development...... Who can tell if all this is true?

If he is given a chance, he will definitely be able to make the best host.

Or the best game.

As a player with an unbounded passion for video games, Jester wanted to give the legend a chance.

Jester didn't want to let such a talented genius die because of a medical accident, and if he could, he wanted to stop it from happening.

It is really rare and rare for such a character to appear in the game desert in China.

Judging from the current time, he should still be in his third year of high school, and he will be admitted to Imperial Capital University next year, but fortunately, Li Kewen is also a celebrity, and he is not an unknown person, so it is not too difficult to find such a person.

Moreover, as a senior player, Li Kewen and his screen name are not unknown in China, maybe he is one of the thousands of players who often go to the player community of Mars Entertainment in the United States to read posts.

Jester contacted the domestic branch, and as soon as he mentioned this person, the domestic people immediately said that they knew-because not long ago, it was this person with the screen name kervin who completed the cracking of the latest version of the GAMEBOY and launched it for free on the domestic network, which made the people in the domestic branch of Mars Entertainment very angry.

But there's nothing to be done.

After all, this is not Europe and the United States.

Jester also felt a little funny when he heard the news, he didn't expect that the person who had enjoyed the benefits of Li Kewen's simulator would be cracked on his head by the other party this time.

However, Jester just replied indifferently: "Let this matter go for a while, I am very curious about this person, after a while I want to go to China to inspect the work, if it is convenient, can you help me contact the other party, if you can, I want to meet with the other party, I appreciate the talent of the other party, I hope to be able to talk to him." ”

Hearing the words of his chief boss, the people in the domestic branch suddenly didn't know what to say.

His own boss actually wants to meet with a cracker? (To be continued.) )