Chapter 546 is playing with you (II)

"Well, I'm confident in that, and our game scenery is absolutely excellent, even some casual players can actually find their fun in our games, but these systems are still under construction, and we probably won't design them first in the near future." Mike smiled and spoke.

"Well, I know, I'm here to tell Mike about the game's charging model." Yang Yiwei thought about it and said his purpose.

"BOSS, have you figured it out? What exactly is the charging model for our games? Mike immediately asked.

"What about your opinion? I thought about it for so many days, and I mean free. Yang Yiwei thought for a moment before he spoke.

"Free?" Mike was stunned for a moment, and then said in some surprise: "No, no, no, boss, I thought you were teasing Mullen, if it's really free, it will be too big a blow to our game." ”

"Mike, you misunderstood, I'm not saying that the game is free, and then the item store charges, I mean, our game is completely free." Yang Yiwei said his thoughts.

"It's completely free?!" Now Mike was even more stunned, looking at Yang Yiwei's gaze was like looking at a madman, after all, the investment in the game of Titan is actually quite large, regardless of the R&D expenses, let's just say that the server investment used by Titan is a terrifying number, although Yang Yiwei never told them how much money this server costed, but Mike They did this, and naturally knew that the cost of this server was at least more than 1 billion US dollars.

It can't be lower than that! But now that so much money is spent on a game that is completely free? Isn't this a joke or what? "Boss, what the hell do you think, you have to communicate with us. Although we all know that you are not short of money, although Blizzard is a game development company, Blizzard is not charitable, and the profits earned by the game represent our achievements! So Mr. Yang, I want you to communicate your thoughts to me clearly. Mike's expression immediately became serious.

Yang Yiwei smiled helplessly, he didn't expect Mike's reaction to be so intense, Yang Yiwei quickly stretched out his hand and pressed it a few times to appease Mike, and then said helplessly: "Didn't I come to discuss with you and Mullen?" It's not that Mullen isn't there, of course I'm going to discuss this with you. ”

Heard Yang Yiwei say this. Mike's mood has calmed down, as long as Yang Yiwei makes his opinion clear to them, then Mike is not afraid that he will not be able to deal with Yang Yiwei, no matter who is dealt with by whom, as long as it makes sense. But if it's completely free, Mike will never agree to it anyway.

"Discuss something with me?" The two were talking. Mullen pushed open the office door and walked in. Seeing that Yang Yiwei was also there, Ma Lun was stunned for a moment, and immediately understood what Yang Yiwei was here for, and immediately leaned over and said, "BOSS, Mike told me that you were joking with me, right?" ”

Yang Yiwei shrugged his shoulders helplessly and said, "Ma Lun." I'm joking with you, but I'm here today to discuss with you about the Titan's charging model, but I don't want to charge for time like the World of Warcraft. There is a monthly card or something else, I mean it's completely free, which means that our game doesn't charge any fees, no monthly cards, no time charges, and no item mall fees, the game will be absolutely fair. ”

"What do you make a profit on?" Maren was stunned for a moment, and then asked subconsciously.

"What do you guys think of LOL?" Yang Yiwei did not answer Mullen's question, but directly turned to another topic.

"Well,This kind of economic game can be seen from the DOTA of the year.,It's very popular.,Although LOL is a new game.,But it's still born out of our Warcraft map production.,We've studied this game.,Overall,It's also an excellent game.。 Mike thought about it for a while, and didn't understand what Yang Yiwei meant by asking.

"Boss, what do you mean by that? Do you want to develop the arena and battlefield in Titan to such a mode? Mullen pondered beside him for a moment, and immediately asked strangely. Ma Lun's reaction was very fast, who said that people who engage in technology don't understand business, although Yang Yiwei asked obviously, but Mike obviously didn't react at the first time.

"Can't you?" Yang Yiwei raised his eyebrows.

"Yes, LOL is now in the world within the scope of the league scale has been established, now even a country like China has established an e-sports national team, with the development of the network and the proportion of games in people's lives is increasing, especially after the growth of the post-80s generation has become the main force of society, the vigorous development of e-sports is inevitable, we don't need to become a model like LOL, we have our own competitive model." Mullen thought for a moment.

"But my opinion is that our model should be completely separated from online games." After Mullen finished speaking, he added. Yang Yiwei didn't think too much about this, after all, Ma Lun and these people are professionals, and Yang Yiwei just made a suggestion.

"What do you think?" Yang Yiwei thought for a while.

"My idea is to establish a professional league of our Titan games, the first phase of our professional league can be hosted in the game first, and then it will be transferred to offline competitions, and then slowly change to a professional league like LOL now, which is not difficult to do, our opinion is that there are many ways to play, but the game characters used in the game should be born out of the game in the network, but not related to the online game." Maren scratched his head.

"I didn't understand." Yang Yiwei spread his hands honestly, and Mike next to him obviously heard a little vaguely, what is a game born out of the Internet, but it is not associated with online games? What does it all mean? Both men stared at Mullen with wide eyes.

Mullen smiled helplessly, and then continued to explain: "That's right, I'm not thinking about it for a day or two, I mean, first of all, our professional league, or the game. The map will be provided by the official, for example, our 3V3, 5V5 and even 1V1 formats, the maps are all made by the official, such as the 1V1 cycle plug, just like the GSTL team league of StarCraft in South Korea now, each player can only play once, win once and get a point, and then as long as he doesn't lose, he can continue to play the next player, of course. The character's HP is limited. ”

"For example, if we stipulate that a team has 5 players, then until all 5 players on one side fall down, and then calculate the number of wins of both sides, and you win one game, it will be counted as one point. If you pick 5, then your team gets 5 points. 0 points on the opposite side. But if you sacrifice 2 people and kill 5 people on the other side, then you get 5 points, and the opposite side can also have 2 points. Then there are team matches, and the map is different for each game. Just like a battlefield map, there are limits. It's all about the individual performance of the players. And these matches are not played in online games. Instead, it's a separate server, and the data of these players' characters is connected to the online game. ”

"I see, you mean that our league is not played in online games. But it doesn't mean that the online game is useless, when the equipment, weapons, etc. of this character in the online game are updated, then the character equipment attributes of the players when we compete will also change, right? Yang Yiwei quickly said what he understood.

"Yes!" Mullen nodded immediately.

"In that case, will it lead to imbalance?" Mike next to him asked tentatively.

"No, no, no, there will be no imbalance, because there is absolutely no problem with the balance between our game skills, and our equipment is all from the dungeon or monster, or the player himself forged it, the best may be there, or even the only equipment is there, but the appearance of the only equipment does not mean that there are no other equipment of the same level as this unique equipment. We don't have an item shop, all in all, just like the concept of our World of Warcraft, the game only officially starts after the full level. Mullen spoke quickly.

Yang Yiwei immediately thought about it, he wanted to get a professional league similar to LOL into the Titan, because the Titan also has an arena system, which can be completely blocked into an event, and the Titan's full freedom is not fixed profession, you can learn any skill in a profession, but you can't learn conflicting skills, for example, some attributes will be taken in the game, if you practice internal strength, you can't practice the internal strength of the fire attribute and the internal strength of the ice attribute together.

The Titan's huge skill tree and skill combinations lead to a kaleidoscopic combination of such a result, the game will be very good-looking, the player's wisdom will always be endless, as long as you can do the damage data of these skills, the combination changes are very balanced, then this kind of competition will be full of fun.

At the same time, it's not unlimited, you can learn all the skills, yes, but every player has skill points, and if you don't have enough skill points, you can't point out so many skills, which requires you to make a trade-off. And Ma Lun's idea undoubtedly makes Yang Yiwei's idea more concrete and professional.

It's very simple, because when you hold a competition, if it's in an online game, then the huge online game server is prone to unexpected situations, such as too many players watching the game and causing the machine to get stuck, etc., and in this way, it can be directly extracted and held on another independent server, which can be very professional.

Professional players basically don't have to struggle in online games, and the upgrade of online game accounts can be done by the club hired by others. Of course, the specific way to do this suggestion still needs to be improved.

"If we just do a professional league, can we make so much money? If you want to make it back, wouldn't this league be as big as a European football league? What about our profit model? You can't sell tickets like a football league, right? Mike asked, thinking for a moment.

"That's another idea of mine, I remember you said that when you're in the city, Titan is more like a Sims game, and you're a virtual community game, so in this virtual community, we can pull ads! We're free for players, but it doesn't mean it's free for other merchants! For example, in our game, the name of a store in a city, if McDonald's is willing to put in advertising, it can change the name of the store to McDonald's! Yang Yiwei said his thoughts.

"That's a good suggestion!" Mike's eyes lit up, other games can't be implemented because their servers can't accommodate so many players, and other games must have agents to operate in other countries, but Starfall Group doesn't! Starfall Group has players from all over the world in one server, which is perfect for companies that need to expand their products to other countries! In this way, it is not impossible to collect advertising fees. (To be continued.) For mobile phone users, please go to read. )