Where did Marcos complain about the lack of manpower?

In fact, he just hopes to get Yang Yun's attention, as an American with rich experience in game design, he has been very moved after hearing the open mode of "The Legend of Sword and Fairy 3", and he is even thinking about whether to put "Diablo 3" on the agenda now, so that his team can start this aspect of design immediately.

Blizzard Studios is now tasked with the development of Warcraft 3: The Frozen Throne, and their Diablo 2 beta version of Diablo 2 last month is being handed over to internal professional testers and senior reviewers in the gaming industry for internal testing, and after a month, the version number has been upgraded to version 1.05.

After a few years of sharpening the sword, Diablo 2 took a lot of energy from the members of the Blizzard Diablo team, and after version 1.01 was passed, many employees asked for at least a month off, they had to go out for a walk, or learn new knowledge to recharge themselves.

So just now Yang Yun said that they should let these employees reinforce "The Frozen Throne", Marcos refused him without thinking about it, in fact, he was not short of people at all, and the transfer of supplementary personnel was just his rhetoric.

In Longteng Entertainment Game Company, the only people who dare to talk to Yang Yun like this may be Blizzard, I have to say that the games they make are all high-quality products, and they have become the biggest competitors of the local team led by Zhang Guoqiang, internal competitors, they are very confident.

"Mr. Yang, there shouldn't be much of a problem with "Diablo 2", is it time to consider developing "Diablo 3"? Can you use an open-ended mode like "Sword and Fairy 3"? Marcos asked, he had a soft spot for the model.

Yang Yun smiled: "Let's not talk about Diablo 3, how can Diablo 2 be so easy to make a conclusion without much of a problem?" Which of our games doesn't take years to revise? How many years has "Red Alert" been out. It's been almost eight years, right? I still don't have plans to develop Red Alert 2. Sometimes the time is not ripe and we can't start the project lightly. ”

The experience of "Diablo 3" is clear to Yang Yun. In real history, Blizzard's dark team changed employees and leaders several times, and Blizzard once disbanded the dark group. The departure of the four giants of Northern Blizzard has made the hearts of dark fans all over the world heartbroken, how many years has Diablo 3 been difficult to give birth, and even the internal test was completely overturned by the high-level veto, he doesn't want to review these things.

Marcos, Beal, David, Eric, the Big Four of Northern Blizzard were forced to leave Blizzard. was forced to abandon the Diablo series like their own children, Yang Yun has always felt that this is the biggest failure of Blizzard in real history, he will never allow history to repeat itself, and he will hand Diablo 3 to Marcos and Bill to achieve it.

But now is really not the time to think about Diablo 3, Yang Yun would rather let Blizzard make the Diablo 2 version more refined.

However, he had another question, asking, "Marcos, I want to ask, did your group ever hit a bottleneck when designing the game?" I mean. Do you feel inefficient in finding inspiration, that it takes a long time to think about a problem, or so on? ”

The look on Marcos' face changed slightly. He said solemnly: "That's what I want to say, after Diablo 2 was handed over to the testing department last month, both Eric and Bill said to me. Hoping to get out and about, Rawat is willing to act as a guide for us along the Silk Road. There are quite a few people in our department who want to go out with them. ”

"Rawat?" Yang Yun remembered that the weird guy of Longteng Brazil Game Company. The chief consultant of the dragon adventure game, just came to China to soak a beautiful translation girl, I heard that there are eight months a year when the two of them travel abroad, and the dragon staff often see their adventure photos on the intranet, the most enviable employee in the company is none other than him.

Marcos said: "That's right, it's him, he also got a promise from Toyota to help us buy a Middle Eastern version of the Land Cruiser imported from Japan, and several people in our department are excited to re-walk the Silk Road, explore Dunhuang culture, and see if we can find inspiration." Indeed, as you said, I already have a vague sense of uneasiness, and although it is difficult to detect, I feel that these minor problems must be resolved as soon as possible. ”

As soon as Yang Yun heard that he was re-walking the Silk Road, he was also instantly moved, this is a good idea, he has long wanted to go to the northwest to see, but he has been busy with work, and his wife has to take the children and can't get out, no matter how rich he is, he has no place to use it, he can't count the banknotes every day to play, right?

"If you want to take the Silk Road, count me in, let's not talk about it, let's talk about the loss of inspiration. In my opinion, human inspiration is limited and very easy to run out, so every programmer needs to accept new knowledge every once in a while, so that it is possible to create better games.

I think programmers should have a sense of innovation, "Sword and Fairy" 1 and 2 are simple traditional RPG modes, turn-based, maze, dungeons, single plot, these are all bad settings used in various RPG plot games in the past, so I want to make a radical change, so that "Sword and Fairy 3" has become an open mode.

Similarly, I think that Diablo 1 and Diablo 2 are in the same vein, 2 is just an expansion and extension of the story of 1, with a big improvement in graphics and operation, and enhanced gameplay, but this does not produce revolutionary changes. That's why I don't want to mention Diablo 3 right now, Marcos, I hope you and Bill can think of something different, don't be imprisoned by your old ideas, our games must have the most advanced concepts in the world, and we are the trendsetters! ”

After Yang Yun said this, he finally added: "We Longteng is a private enterprise, not a listed company, so there is no performance pressure, no profit target, and even no time requirements." Marcos, I just want to be boutique, can you understand me? ”

Marcos sighed: "Longteng's product must be a high-quality product, who in this world doesn't know this sentence?" Well, maybe it's time for us all to empty our brains and embrace something new. Next month, after the official launch of "Diablo 2", in October we will go to the northwest to explore the Silk Road and see Populus euphratica! ”

Yang Yun smiled: "Take me!" ”

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The R&D plan of "The Legend of Sword and Fairy 3" was accidentally passed out, which immediately attracted everyone's attention and was full of interest.

There are several major events in Longteng in September that deserve the attention of the media, one is that Lin Zhiling reappeared in the public eye, leading the Longteng entertainment department, first of all, it is like the national primary and secondary schools to openly solicit "Bubble Hall" and "Running Kart" game babies, which can make them household names without affecting children's studies as much as possible, and TV stars.

The second thing is LongEricsson's smart PDA mobile phone research and development plan, Yang Yun stayed in Sweden for a week, that is, he personally supervised the new company's R&D department's new product research direction, and he didn't care about it after he came back, but the media are still very happy to see LongEricsson's research and development of Longteng's products turn losses into profits, and this kind of positive news is always the best joke chased by the news media.

The third thing is that "Diablo 2" has entered the end of the internal test, and authoritative media such as "Popular Software", "Home Computer Magazine", "Video Game Magazine" and other authoritative media have completed their respective test tasks, and introduced the game in the form of screenshots and texts, and the evaluation experience was all published on the latest works of various companies, seducing/luring those dark fans cheered and looked forward to it, and began to spontaneously count down on the official website forum, and hundreds of people signed in on time every day.

The last thing is, of course, the establishment of "The Legend of Sword and Fairy 3", although the news is circulated from within Longteng, but the real core content is still consciously covered up, and not too many people know that "Sword and Fairy 3" will use open mode, and many people still think that this is still a sequel to the story of changing the soup but not the medicine.

The editor-in-chief of the "Computer Herald Leader" Cheng once made a public bet with Yang Yun, and later because he was suspected of colluding with an overseas consortium, he was mad and framed Long Teng, Lu Fengshan was imprisoned, and the editor-in-chief Cheng was expelled from the newspaper.

Therefore, as soon as the research and development of "Fairy Sword 3" began, people's imagination began to run wild, and they couldn't find the north at all, and they all made suggestions for the fairy sword development team of Longteng Company.

There is a voting statistics post on the Xianjian District Forum on Longteng's official website, written by netizen "Little Butterfly Sword", who listed five options: "Option 1: The story of Xianjian 1 and 2 continues, the mode is the same, and the effect is strengthened;

Option 2: Online game version, change to a genre like "Fairy Road";

Option 3: Go back to 500 years ago, describe the details of the battle between immortals and demons, and replace all the protagonists;

Option 4: Change to a quest and adventure game, and change the background to the entire Xianxia world to cater to European and American players.

Option 5: Other good ideas. ”

There are a lot of replies below,Forum real-name registered users have the right to vote,45% of people chose option 4,Everyone is more or less affected by the matter of Editor-in-Chief Cheng,Think that since Yang Yun agreed,Then he will definitely do what he says。

Even ordinary people can imagine that Longteng will definitely make changes to this facelift, otherwise it will not be possible to sell well in Europe and the United States, so option 5 has also been chosen by many netizens and put forward their own ideas. (To be continued......)