Jester's answer did cause a big stir.

However, he didn't explain what he meant by that at the press conference, but players could get the message that Jester wasn't retiring after the official release of WOW.

As for Jester's statement that he will continue to develop a follow-up product of WOW, although players are curious, however, this matter will definitely be explained by Mars Entertainment.

Sure enough, during the open beta, Jester once again came to the forum to answer players' questions.

The open beta of WOW is scheduled for 12 p.m.

Before the beta, Jester also felt that it was more interesting to go to the forum to interact with the players, and as he expected, with Jester's appearance on the forum, the forum was more than twice as lively in the hours before the beta began.

Many people are asking Jester some questions they are interested in, and some are asking Jester WOW in this game, although there have been several closed tests, but needless to say, those who have not had the opportunity to participate in the test, even if they have been tested several times, I am afraid that the understanding of WOW is only a little bit of a game.

Of course, the most talked about issue is about Jester's words at the press conference.

A lot of people don't understand what Jester means.

Jester's statement is that he will continue to participate in the development of WOW without retiring?

Jester didn't hide anything about it, but he didn't go into too much detail, explaining on the forum: "My plans won't change much, WOW is my last game, and in the years I've been working on WOW, I haven't had any ideas that will allow me to continue to develop a game that I find exciting." ”

"To be honest, in the past few years, all kinds of games on the market seem to be blooming. But it's still being decorated in the circle that has been drawn before. ”

"No one can jump out of the circle and draw a new circle on their own."

"I'm not an omnipotent fan, I'm also a designer of night song games, my inspiration, and I have an endless day, I'm in this state right now, I know how to make fun games, I've envisioned a few interesting games in my head right now, but these games still can't give me that exciting idea, it's just repeating the path I've traveled before."

"The difference is to go faster on the road you have traveled before."

"It's not the development experience I wanted. So, I made the decision to quit after WOW was developed, and five years later, I'm still sticking with it. ”

"And the reason I said I wouldn't retire right away is that WOW is far from being developed, and in fact, in my vision, it's going to be a game that could have a decade of life, and he's going to have one expansion after another to expand it, of course. I'm not going to be working on this game for ten years, but I feel compelled to make a good start on how to develop the expansion for my successors. ”

"So, I'll finish the first expansion pack for WOW. It's worth mentioning that I'm already working on the story of the expansion, which should be by the end of this year. It is possible to assemble a small team for pre-development on its own, and of course, this is not a short thing. Because the original version of WOW, in our imagination, will have many subsequent versions, about two to three years of life. ”

Jester's words can be said to be very detailed, his retirement plan is not postponed, but as he said before, he will retire after the development of WOW is completed.

However, the biggest difference between WOW and those console games or stand-alone games he developed before is that this is an MMORPG, such a game does not mean that it will be fine after development, first choice, it needs long-term maintenance, and secondly, he needs a lot of follow-up versions of development, which will seriously affect the quality evaluation and reputation of an MMORPG.

Therefore, an MMORPG is in the development stage before it is released, and after it is released, it is actually in the development stage.

Jester's so-called WOW development is just a very general statement, and now he explains in detail that his so-called WOW development is worth paving the way for the subsequent development of this game.

According to Jester, he will be working on an expansion for the game.

The concept of expansion is not a new concept, it is available in single-player games, MMORPGs, such as EO, in the past five years on sale, a lot of expansion packs have been released, and the content of the EQ game has been expanded very hugely.

Of course, no player would dispute that WOW is better than EQ.

This is the conclusion drawn from the time of the closed test.

A few months later.

Duck. Close is a very ordinary player, he has played EQ before, and now he likes WOW very much, since the WOW open beta, he has entered this new game, doing things you have never done before, this slogan made him extremely interested in this game when he first heard it, and indeed as this slogan says, he has done a lot of things in this game that he has never done before.

The character he created was a Night Elf huntress.

His favorite character is the Hunter, as he is accompanied by a pet and doesn't feel lonely when playing alone in the game.

He is a man who is very afraid of loneliness.

His Night Elf character's name is Kelly. Duck.

He likes to play games with a sense of substitution, and in the game, he often helps new players with tasks they don't know how to do - the tasks in WOW are very good, and Duck can clearly experience the designer's efforts to celebrate these tasks when he does them, so he has an ambition to do the entire world of Azeroth.

It's a huge undertaking.

Because WOW's tasks are not linear tasks, you can't just follow a line and do it all the way down.

Rather, it is the task of the mesh structure.

Scattered all over the world, some of these walks are connected and some are not. In some cases, you have to complete certain quests before you can get a new quest from an NPC elsewhere.

It's very annoying and tiring to want to finish all the characters.

Moreover, there are many tasks that are not directly proportional to the difficulty of the task, or the difficulty of the task, which is of course taken for granted by Dark.

For example, in a game, a poor rural woman has a very troublesome task for you to do, and the reward she can give you for the task may be a few pies or cheese that she has saved from frugality, which is already something very precious to her. It's obviously impossible and not in line with RPG elements for asking her to pay you a lot of money.

But this quest can be cumbersome, it can have you to kill an elite monster, it can make you run long distances, and it can even take a lot of time to cross the map.

The pay is not high, and it is very difficult.

Such a task, many players. Or maybe the vast majority of players don't like to do it.

Duck is very serious, his personality is a bit like a girl, and he is also very serious and careful in his tasks. The task description will be read carefully.

He also likes to help new players who can't find the quest method, and some quests are very vague in the quest description, and it will take some time to do it, if he meets someone on the road who asks him. Then he will definitely take this player to complete this task.

Darker didn't do it on a whim.

Instead, doing so has basically become his daily routine, on any map, as long as he meets him, he can help. He never spared his helping hand.

Gradually, in the server, Duck also has a great reputation, many people know him, when it comes to Duck's Night Elf huntress, many people will say, oh, she, I know, that's a good person, where did I encounter that very troublesome task, I didn't finish it at night, and scolded the designer SB at the time, how could the designers NC task, it was purely a waste of the player's time.

At that time, it was shouted and scolded.

So the players around can also see that the Night Elf Huntress from Duck is also there, and he happens to be passing by, going to another map to do a mission.

He saw someone shouting about the task, so he took the initiative to contact the other party.

Tell the other party where the task is, and if the other party wants to, he can lead the other party to complete the task.

The list goes on and on.

And the players of the alliance also know how to repay the favor, once Duck wanted to go to the barren land to catch the hunter's god pet broken teeth, this pet because the attack speed is only one, the most popular among hunter players, because the attack speed is high can interrupt the casting of the magic system faster.

As soon as he arrived in the Wasteland, an alliance player asked him if he wanted to scratch a broken tooth.

It was a hunter who asked him.

Duck said yes, and said, if you want to catch it, then he can not catch it first, but I didn't expect the other alliance hunter to say directly, you catch the broken tooth, and we will clear the field for you.

At that time, Duck still didn't know what the other party meant.

When he reached the refresh point of Broken Tooth, he found that there were seven or eight alliance players around, all of them, and they saw that Duck was also greeting him, telling him that Broken Tooth was about to refresh, and you would catch it as soon as it refreshed.

And around, there are also some corpses, all of them are some tribal hunters.

Today.

Duck is in the game with a level 30 Night Elf doing a very troublesome mission in the Stonetalon Mountains, his mother shouts to him outside his room that it is time to go to the hospital, and Duck replies that he will wait for him and help others finish the task first.

For Dak, helping others in the game is one of the few things that makes him happy.

Because he was seriously ill.

Leukemia, also known as blood cancer, is still an incurable disease even with the development of medicine today.

In reality, because of leukemia, Duck has always been depressed, he doesn't have too many friends in reality, and his friends also know that he has leukemia, and always looks at him with a sympathetic look, which makes him feel very uncomfortable, he feels that he is also a very ordinary person, he doesn't need the sympathy of others, and he can also help others do some things he can.

It's a pity that in reality, his friends wouldn't let him do that.

Playing together, his friends will always do what he should do for him, and the same is true for other things, only in the game, he feels that he is a normal person, he can help others, and he can also be helped by others.

This normal feeling is what makes him feel the happiest and happiest.

After helping the new player with this troublesome task, Duck also breathed a sigh of relief.

He was about to go to the hospital for chemotherapy.

He didn't like chemotherapy, he knew what disease he had, leukemia, an incurable disease, and no matter how hard he tried, it was only to delay his death.

He was in his twenties, and he didn't want to die.

But......

From the side of the table took out a piece of manuscript paper, on which a short poem was densely written.

This short poem was written by himself, for himself.

He liked the short poem he had written, and whenever something uncomfortable happened, he would take it out and read it.

He looked at the handwriting on the paper and gently read the poem out.

"The stars seem to have put away their light, and they no longer shine for me."

"They seem cold and indifferent, and they can't warm your hands in my place."

"But I held back my tears, lived like a year, and desperately insisted on recording every moment here for you."

"But loneliness is coming soon, pain has come, and your faded smile gently drifts away from my memory."

The poem may not be very well written, and some of the rhymes do not rhyme, but this is written by Duck himself, because these are the true portrayals of himself, his own heart.

As he was looking at the poem, Duck heard his mother calling out to him.

Duck knew that he had to go to the hospital for chemotherapy, although he didn't want chemotherapy, the chemotherapy made him feel endless pain, but he still didn't want to die like this, he still wanted to continue to play WOW, and continue the story of the Night Elf huntress in the world of Azeroth.

With a sigh, he put aside the piece of paper on which the short poem was written, closed the computer, and left the room. (To be continued.) )