The battle for the Immortal Ascension Order is, of course, the high/high tide of the first version of the game, the mortals played by the players try their best to obtain the Ascension Order, so that they will have the qualification to open the door of Xianxia, and the second expansion "Immortal Road: Tiannan" will be officially opened, when more than ten different sects and immortal cultivation families will appear collectively, players can choose which sect to join, or simply become a free and easy casual cultivator.

"Immortal Road: Tiannan" opens, and every owner of the immortal ascension order in the previous battle will be rewarded, in addition to the change and enhancement of personal basic attributes (spiritual roots), the sect and family corresponding to each immortal ascension token will be exempted from the income to become an inner disciple, and other players must accept the assessment of each sect, and only those who are excellent can enter the core disciples of the inner door, and ordinary people must start from the outer disciples.

But as long as they are diligent enough, all players may embark on the orthodox path of cultivating immortals through battles, adventures, or other means, even if they are outer disciples, they can continue to improve their level, accumulate their own combat experience, that is, operation experience, and eventually become the most well-known character in the map of Tiannan.

Of course, in the Tiannan map, the blood trial, Jiayuan City, the invasion of the Demon Dao, these excellent small copies in the "Legend of Mortal Immortal Cultivation" will appear one by one, in order to make players full of interest, Yang Yun also plans to add other copies, as well as increase alchemy, talismans, refining, formations and other professions, each profession will have a basic impact on the player's strength, resulting in a new and different path of cultivating immortals.

"Immortal Road: Tiannan" is already the idea of the second part, and it will not be launched until at least 1998, Yang Yunzhi said. At that time, 56K cats almost began to become a must for new machines, and Internet cafes with 128K dedicated lines began to appear in China. The performance of the computer has also begun to gradually improve, and "Genesis Online" can be played. Why can't "Immortal Road: Tiannan"?

Yang Yun is very confident!

After listening to Yang Yun's introduction, Zhang Guoqiang asked suspiciously: "So, the story of "Immortal Road: Ascension Order" is a traditional martial arts story that takes place in the mortal world?" ”

"yes, is there a problem?" Yang Yun asked rhetorically.

"But ......"

Zhang Guoqiang really wants to ask, does China's traditional martial arts really have an international market? Take a look at the Jin Guliang martial arts novels produced by Long Teng and the single-player games, all of them only sell well in the Chinese world, and foreigners buy very little, like this. How can the sparse domestic network and game environment support this "Immortal Road" series created by Longteng?

Yang Yun guessed something, and scolded with a smile: "If there is a problem, just say, like a girl, what is it?" ”

Everyone laughed, Zhang Guoqiang simply changed his angle and asked: "I want to know, what is the profit method of our online game?" This is not a stand-alone game, we can sell all kinds of game discs. This is an online game, any client can be shared through the network, is our online game to be free? ”

Yang Yun shrugged: "No, the client can spread at will." But the servers are under our control, and it's simple to add a charging system. We're only doing a one-year free period, and we'll start updating the version when the Ascension Order battle comes. Fees are charged, and the timer starts when each game account logs in to the game. Charge by the hour, or allow players to subscribe to a monthly subscription for an unlimited period of time. ”

Hourly charges. There is no time limit for monthly subscription......

Many people in the audience have been talking about it, this is a pioneering feat that no one has ever done before, those text MUD games are free, and there are a large number of people in the world who are working tirelessly to improve, code, write scripts, maintain old games, and upload new games, because all of this is a matter of interest, and the developers are almost unrequited.

Yang Yun even wanted to do hourly charging......

In the eyes of some people, it is definitely an act of seeking death, and it is an impossible means of making profits.

"Mr. Yang, isn't the purpose of the Internet to be shared and free?" Zhang Guoqiang asked cautiously.

"This point of view! I don't know where you heard it, so let me ask you, those stand-alone games of Longteng have been cracked and shared on the Internet for free, are you willing? ”

"This ...... I don't want to ......" Zhang Guoqiang shook his head, this involves Longteng's own interests, and the loss is Longteng Company, of course he is unwilling.

"Then let me continue to ask you, you pulled up a team of 20 people, worked 10 hours a day, consumed countless brain cells, took 1 year, cost 5 million, and made a wonderful online game, put it on the Internet for others to play for free, are you willing?"

"This and this...... is even more reluctant to ...... "Zhang Guoqiang is embarrassed, this is not respecting the fruits of other people's labor, and it is impossible for them to compromise if they violate their own interests."

"Well, if we are living Lei Feng, one year is free, two years are free, is it free for ten or twenty years, are you willing?"

"I don't want to ......" Zhang Guoqiang's face became more and more red, if he really did it for ten or twenty years, how could it be completely free?

"When you release a new expansion pack every year, make new copies every year, and organize people to fix bugs, patch them, and do system maintenance every year. Players don't contribute a dime to you, as long as the game has a slight bug and imbalance, players can scold you for blood, so are you still willing to provide it for free? ”

"Uh...... Mr. Yang, don't talk about it...... Charge, must charge! Don't spoil those players! ”

Zhang Guoqiang was indignant, he thought that the game he worked so hard to make would be played by others for free for life, he, the author, had no remuneration, not to mention that he would be angry, those who ran to the comment area of Longteng's official website to spray the game is not fun, how powerful are the professional trolls who have no depth and no connotation, his head is dizzy when he thinks of these.

"That's right! I support you, don't get used to the players! Online games are young children, and they can't get used to their players in doing anything, otherwise the tails of the players will definitely be raised to the sky in the future, and they really think of themselves as masters! ”

"Yes, Mr. Yang, if it is free from the beginning, it will be inconvenient if we want to charge it in the future! Otherwise, as soon as the fee is proposed, players and the media will jump out and talk about the free "Fairy Road" series, so how can you play? ”

"And I hate those who enjoy the fruits of other people's labor for free, and who still cross their legs and say that it's not good here, it's not good there."

"Mr. Yang said a word, you-can-you-up, I think you can't be polite to deal with those picky and cynical players!"

The following express their opinions, and soon unify the central idea, Longteng's first online game must be charged, as a large game production company in the world, Longteng's behavior is the standard, how can it be easy to make the game free?

However, Yang Yun said that there are still different opinions on the hourly charge.

Ma Liang's brain turned quickly, and he quickly thought of another way to make a profit: "Mr. Yang, is the charging model of consumption by time too monotonous?" I thought of another way to make money, we deliberately took out those top-level elixirs, god and demon equipment, and legendary weapons, and marked the price clearly, and those who have money got it, what do you think? A good idea, right? ”

"How? Not so good! Yang Yun was furious before he finished listening, what kind of good idea is this, this is self-defeating and self-inflicted!

According to Ma Liang's idea, first use a free game that is quite fun, to attract the majority of fishing silk to come to experience the game, and these fishing silk will form the largest number of game fans in the game world, and they are also the most unreliable bottom game fans, most of them can't afford to pay money.

Next, by selling experience upgrade pills, selling the best dragon slaying knife, selling nine-star gems, selling perfect materials and other means to serve rich RMB players, collect money and give it to the baby, rich is the uncle, a superb weapon costs 10,000, and a complete set of equipment costs 5000, if you don't want to spend money, you can honestly fight monsters, and wait for that strange low explosion rate.

To do this, how is it different from "The Journey"? Of course, it's not just "Journey", which domestic online games are not this setting? The vast majority of them are like this, making money by selling equipment!

Yang Yun has long disdained this profit model, just look at the grand point cards of "Legend" and the point cards of "World of Warcraft", if you want to keep the game in a virtuous circle, you must not sell any items that affect the balance of the game.

"Ma Liang, you misunderstood. What really makes ordinary players fall in love with this game is definitely not the variety of high-quality equipment at their fingertips, nor the so-called novelty selling points in the game. As long as this is a world with rules, as long as our view of the world of "Xianlu" is positive, then plus some laws of heaven and earth in Xianxia culture, customized fair, fair and complete legal scriptures, constantly improving game balance settings, and constantly strengthening patch research and development, this is the real reason why players love this game! ”

Yang Yun said to everyone very solemnly: "Since we are referees and game service providers, we can't take the initiative to smash our own jobs, and referees are not qualified to affect the balance of the game." I would like to reiterate here that in our online game of Dragon, you can sell small pets, provide services to change the appearance of your character, or other things that just affect the appearance, but never sell items that affect the balance of the game, this is my bottom line, untouchable! ”

The words made many people present thoughtful, and Ma Liang's face was even more red, and he didn't know what to say.

At Yang Yun's insistence, "Immortal Road" is charged in the form of point card time, two prices at home and abroad, cheap at home and expensive abroad, which is also the consistent practice of Longteng Entertainment Game Company, and no one finds it strange.

Yang Yun can't remember all the stories of "The Legend of Mortal Immortals", but he knows the main line, so he will communicate with the script editing department about the follow-up content, and the R&D department can start to build an online game structure.

Before the meeting ended, Yang Yun suddenly grabbed Zhang Guoqiang: "Guoqiang, I have another question to ask, how are you doing on the platform of "Five Thousand Years Up and Down"? (To be continued......)