Chapter 327: DLC Ideas
Of course, this style of picture will naturally offend some people. *
At that time, because the children and their husbands were addicted to DND PC games, some housewives joined forces to form a boycott of DND, and this organization made a huge noise, and even for a period of time, isolated video games from some towns, such as a small town in Texas, was once the core of this organization's activities, and this place did not allow the sale of DND games until the milk.
And the bloody style of "Thor's Hammer", it is natural that some people will stand up and resist.
None of this was of Jester's concern, though, as all Jester really cared about was the players who were besieging his corporate headquarters.
The reason for these players is very strange, and even makes Jester a little crying and laughing, they are not besieged because the game is not good, although in the first version he did not add the online system, but in terms of the plot in the first version, it is already a very excellent game, which is also recognized by these players.
However, he was wrong, he was on the carnival, and added the online system to the demo version, although this system still has some deficiencies and defects, but this is really a very great setting, this is not Jester selling himself and boasting, but the people who have played this system have a recognized evaluation of the online system, originally they kept bragging to their friends, how great this system is, but when the game was released on the first day, they lined up all day to get this game in their hands, only to find that in this game, they couldn't find the option for the Thor Arena that they had seen at the carnival.
Naturally, they get angry.
Although the plot system is also very good, some players who have not played the contact system do not have anything, they think it is very fun just by relying on the plot, as for the online system, although their friends, various game shows. The game press has blown it to the sky, and they are indeed very interested and want to try it, but it is difficult to have an accurate understanding in their own minds only by relying on other people's descriptions.
In other words, they hear others say that the online system is great and fun, but no matter how great and fun it is, they just listen to what others say. As for how fun it was, they didn't have an accurate description in their minds, so when they learned that the first version didn't have Thor Arena, they were a little disappointed, but they didn't think much of it.
But those who used to play it were different, and they were almost thinking about the kind of game that killed each other for a while, and finally waited for the release of this game. As a result, there is no Thor Arena in it, how can they endure it, and under the imbalance of mentality, they will naturally be dissatisfied with Mars Entertainment.
Of course, it's because Thor Arena isn't perfect. That is, it did not reach the release level, so this feature was removed in the first version, but there is also a layer of other meanings in it, that is, this time Jester is ready to make a DLC attempt. Although in later generations DLC has proven to be a really great idea, especially for game companies.
But in this world, this period is not easy to say. In the original history, there was no example of a game similar to DLC for reference.
And to make Thor's Arena into a DLC of "Thor's Hammer", and then sell it for money, Jester wants to see how many people are willing to buy this DLC, and whether current players accept this way of selling or not.
Therefore, Mars Entertainment directly announced that they will hold a short press conference to announce the issue of the Thor Arena online battle system that players are very concerned about now.
It was just three days later.
As soon as this news was released, it was considered to have calmed down the players for a while.
This time the Mars Entertainment press conference was held in Los Angeles, and the location was selected in the conference room of a hotel, although it was only a very hurried press conference, but the scale of the reporters who came here was still very grand, even if it was not invited by the media, there were many to join in the fun.
And Mars Entertainment also does not refuse to come, and it is released in a unified manner.
Anyway, free media resources, don't use them in vain, why not.
"May I ask the problem of Thor Arena, how will you solve it?" At the beginning of the press conference, a female reporter first asked the most important question of the press conference, which was also the one that everyone was concerned about.
This time the press conference was also attended by Jester, which is rare in the history of Mars Entertainment, generally Mars Entertainment has its own community manager, responsible for managing its own community, generally this kind of answering reporters' questions, is to let the community manager who has been trained in professional nonsense and clichés to answer all kinds of tricky questions from these media.
Because generally these trained community managers can expand a worthless sentence into a large paragraph that seems to have a lot of information, but if you analyze it carefully, it is also worthless nonsense to answer, and the role model at this point is still Blizzard Entertainment, which attaches great importance to its own community culture, and they have a dedicated community manager on their own forum who is responsible for answering various questions from players.
But in general, their answers are just nonsense.
But these nonsense can also make those players ** inexplicable, which is very incredible in Jester's opinion.
"The question about Thor Arena is the reason why I'm holding this press conference today, and I know that a lot of players are very angry that we didn't include Thor Arena in the first release, which they used to play at the carnival, but there is no way to do it, we are a game company, and we want to sell a product that is as perfect as possible."
As he spoke, Jester paused slightly, glanced at the audience slightly, and seeing that everyone was listening carefully, he smiled and continued.
"However, because the game, as we all know, it is a program composed of pieces of code, since the program is code, it will not be perfect, that is to say, there are some loopholes that we ignore when we design, and we need to fix these bugs or vulnerabilities as much as possible before we go on sale, and this process is also called debug, generally speaking."
"For example, this time our Thor Arena - in fact, in the original plan, the development plan of Thor Arena was not in the development list before the carnival at all, and its development priority was not the highest, but I took into account the characteristics of the carnival and wanted to surprise the players, so I advanced the development plan of Thor Arena with the priority."
"At this point, our chief programmer for this game, who is also the second producer of this game, and the author of the 3D engine of Unreal Engine I, John . Mr. Carmack also complained to me, which means that with the current pace of our work, it is almost impossible to complete Thor's Arena before Carnival, but because of my insistence, our entire "Quake" development team began to work overtime for three months, and finally, a week before the official opening of Carnival, we finished the game, and the online battle of Thor Arena is only a prototype, to be precise, on the carnival, you have seen before, The Thor Arena that we have played is just a make-up thing that we didn't have enough time at the time, and it is not the final face of this system. ”
Jester's answer surprised the reporters present, this is new information that has never been exposed, just now someone wanted to continue to ask another question, but Jester seemed to ignore it, but spoke directly and continued.
"Moreover, those who have participated in the carnival should know that even if it is an online system launched for temporary emergencies, there are a lot of loopholes in it because of the rush of production, and fortunately in our carnival, there are technicians who can solve problems immediately, but what if it is not in the carnival? We're just releasing something full of bugs and bugs, and I'm afraid that today's players aren't scolding us for not adding Thor Arena to the first version, but are directly spraying us with such a rotten thing to trick players. ”
As he spoke, Jester chuckled, and then with his chuckle, it seemed that there was some inexplicable reaction, and the reporters present also laughed.
Jester's words are really good, if Mars Entertainment really came out with such a game, then now they are criticizing Mars Entertainment and beating the water dogs.
Seeing that someone wanted to raise his hand to ask a question, Jester waved his hand and said with a smile.
"I don't need to ask questions, what needs to be said, I'll finish it directly here, and then I'll talk about when Thor Arena will meet with players, about Thor Arena, it can be said that we only do the core of the game "Thor's Hammer", that is to say, online battle, is our main way of playing this game, we attach great importance to it, after the carnival is over, our development team has been improving Thor's Arena, I can now reveal a very accurate news...... ”
Jester laughed as he spoke, and the reporters in the room pricked up their ears. (To be continued......) R527