Chapter 159: The Game Goes Public
After the film "Tell Your Secret", two films of the little partner company, "Journey to the West: The Great Sage" and "Tell Your Secret", were nominated for the 7th BJ University Student Film Festival.
The award ceremony was held on May 8, and the results of the awards will be announced on that day.
Of course, Wang Qinian feels that the probability of "Journey to the West: The Great Sage" winning is not large, after all, this kind of typical commercial film has a congenital disadvantage in winning awards.
However, the probability of "Tell Your Secret" winning the award is on the high side, and historically, this film won the favor of the college student film festival and won the first prize for best feature film.
Wang Qinian has a very indifferent view of any award.
Anyway, he has good box office results, and he doesn't need to win awards to prove himself.
However, if "Tell Your Secret" can win an award, it will be the same, it is also the work of a small partner company.
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The focus of attention in the domestic film industry has gradually shifted to the college student film festival to be held in May.
Wang Qinian's battlefield has quietly shifted to the game market!
At the beginning of April, the game materials of "Journey to the West: The Great Sage" were reviewed by the General Administration of Optoelectronics. On April 16th, the PC game "Journey to the West: The Great Sage" created by the partner company at a cost of 5oo yuan was held!
With the help of Wang Qinian's personal influence, hundreds of journalists in the industry were invited to the game conference. However, most of the media reporters who cheered on the scene were entertainment reporters, so everyone at the scene began to ask about topics related to Wang Qinian's movies.
"Wang Dao, why haven't you seen your new work this year?"
"From director to game planner. The span is relatively large, can you control the live? ”
"College Student Film Festival, your work has been nominated, do you have any confidence in winning the award?"
After answering many memorable questions, the product was introduced at the press conference. Wang Qinian turned on a computer, and the projector showed his operation on the big screen.
"The PC stand-alone version of "Journey to the West: The Great Sage" is based on "Journey to the West". We've made movies before, and the game version has both similarities and many differences with the movie version. The player enters the game. You can experience a mysterious mythological journey! Some of the details that are not described in the film version. Inside the game, you can experience it. Wang Qinian said, "In the game, you can choose two camps. Heavenly Court and Huaguo Mountain. Everyone who has watched the movie version should know. The two camps are in a hostile relationship. Players choose different factions. It's about playing different types of roles. For example, I chose the role of this phoenix in the Huaguoshan camp......"
"Okay, click Create Role. Name! Yes, she had to be named, and what was it? Little mother**! Well, the character of the little hen was created...... Inside the game, the hen's dream journey begins! ”
"The task system and trading system are relatively colorful, allowing players to have a real adventure experience."
"In terms of combat and skills, it should be more gorgeous."
"There are many ways to play, and there is a time limit here, so I can't show them one by one."
"We don't just have a single-player adventure, we have a team-up adventure online, and an online confrontation game. Okay, now please ask our staff to show you how to play online confrontation! ”
"You can also team up on a LAN to challenge some of the more difficult tasks. For example, in this S-level difficulty of the Hades Palace, it takes at least two months for the single-player player to upgrade the character to level 7O, and for the single-player version to upgrade to level 7O, it will take at least two months or more. However, with the Internet, multiple players form a team, and some low-level players can also rely on cooperation to pass guò. Mysterious levels like Tong Guò can have great rewards. ”
As the game was shown, there were bursts of amazement from the scene.
"This game looks amazing!"
"It's like a movie!"
"So the game is so fun!"
"Domestic games are actually doing so well......"
At the press conference, the staff of the partner company presented the game CD to the reporters and guests present for free, and also attached a detailed game introduction manual.
Even if you are a rookie player, as long as you touch the mouse for a while, you will definitely get started quickly.
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With the high-profile meeting of the partner company, the news of the game version of "Journey to the West: The Great Sage" quickly entered a high-profile publicity period.
"Film director Wang Qinian, cross-border games! The quality of the game "Journey to the West: The Great Sage" is not inferior to that of a movie. Playing the game is like experiencing a mythological blockbuster movie yourself. -- The entertainment page of the "BJ Evening News" directly reported the advertisement advertorial as news.
"What has Wang Qinian been doing lately?" -- An article in Popular Film magazine ostensibly accuses Wang Qinian of being a good worker, but in fact it arouses the audience's curiosity about Wang Qinian's game.
"The game adapted from the popular movie of "Journey to the West: The Great Sage", the author tried it with a provocative mentality, and took it, but I was fascinated!" -- An advertorial article on "Computer News" unscrupulously described the gameplay and experience.
At the same time, the sales of the stand-alone version of "Journey to the West: The Great Sage" have also begun to be carried out across the country.
Cheap game discs, the batch price is only 5 yuan, which is enough to give the interest rate difference of 3 yuan to the retail channel, and the unified retail pricing is 8 yuan!
Therefore, the major channel providers are actively purchasing, making the genuine line of game discs quickly break 5o thousand!
Such an astonishing volume shook the domestic game industry at once!
You must know that the best-selling "Legend of Sword and Fairy" series of Chinese games in the 9o, the sales of genuine discs of "Xian 1" and "Xian 2" are only more than 5o boxes. In "Immortal 3", it fell to 340,000 boxes, making the game maker constantly pour bitter water and shout losses.
In addition, Kingsoft's flagship work "Swordsman Love" series has a sales volume of about 2o million boxes.
The stand-alone version of "Journey to the West: The Great Sage" quickly broke 5o thousand, and the number of lines almost reached the peak of domestic games.
8 yuan cheap genuine, it seems to be a loss of profits, but in fact, it is an expanding genuine consumer market.
Wang Qinian knows that genuine players and pirated players are different!
The vast majority of die-hard fans can only be exhibited in the genuine player group. Die-hard fans will pay more attention to the dynamics of the game team, and in the future, when a new game is released, die-hard fans will often rush to the previous game and buy the follow-up work.
And pirated players, although they are potential fans, after all, it is more difficult to convert.
However, game discs on the market are generally sold for tens of yuan to 100 yuan, and many gamers generally cannot afford to consume genuine games.
The price of pirated game discs is about 5 yuan, and if the genuine version is too expensive, then piracy will inevitably be very popular.
In order to compete for users from the harsh market environment, the small partner company came up with 8 yuan genuine!
In this way, the genuine version will not have an obvious disadvantage in the face of the price war of piracy. You can buy a genuine disc for 8 yuan, compared to players who will not buy a pirated disc for 5 yuan in order to save 3 yuan.
And if you buy a genuine game disc, the player's psychology will be different from playing a pirated disc.
That's why, Wang Qinian wants to engage in 8 yuan genuine games! (To be continued!)
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