Chapter 51: 1.5 million

With the heated discussions of countless players, the major game forums are full of discussions about the game of Octopath Traveler.

Of course, there are also many players who have only watched the live broadcast and have not played it, and they are blowing about the game.

Compared with the original content, Yang Chen has improved a lot, first of all, he has absorbed a TV series "Game of Thrones" and a game "Final Fantasy 6" from the dream memory, which makes the group drama in "Octopath Traveler" perform better.

The details of the system, such as some chicken hunters to grab pets, Yang Chen also refers to a game development system called Pokémon, so that the hunters in "Octopath Traveler" can experience the fun of raising pets, and also call it Pokémon, although ordinary players don't know what this means.

In addition, the NPCs tempted by the dancing girl, as well as the NPCs recruited by the priests, and some specific NPCs will also trigger side quests when they fight, and Yang Chen has made modifications in many places.

The combination of retro and innovative, coupled with the fact that there has not been a good enough JRPG for a long time, made "Octopath Traveler" instantly very popular among JRPG players and enthusiasts, and the game's sales rose as quickly as a rocket, and soon exceeded 700,000.

However, the increase in sales and popularity has also brought a lot of negative reviews, mainly from players who heard about the popularity of "Octopath Traveler" and followed the trend to buy.

These players don't actually like the longer paced JRPGs and pixel styles, they just feel that Octopath Traveler is so popular right now that it should be a fun game, and then they buy it without understanding it.

After buying it, I tried some of the games and thought it was okay, but there were many people who felt that they were disappointed, and this game was not as fun as it was blown, so they gave a bad review.

As for the reason, most of them are limited to what era there are still people who do pixel style, or the game plot is too old-fashioned, and the game pace is too slow and boring.

For the comments of these players, Yang Chen didn't have much to do.

Because this is a limited game, players who don't like JRPGs can't accept pixel style, and can't tolerate long plots are destined not to like this type of game.

If there is blowing, there is stepping on, and "Octopath Traveler" is not gold, how can it be liked by everyone?

Holding the computer at home, with two little feet dangling, Wang Yaliang smirked at the comments on "Octopath Traveler" on the Internet while eating the sundae.

The steel egg, which had grown long hairs next to it, was stupidly circling in a circle trying to bite its own tail.

"What's fun?" Pouring some dog food into the box, Yang Chen put the small bowl in front of the steel egg, then took off his shoes and climbed onto the bed to look at the computer screen in front of Wang Yaliang.

"Look at our game, a lot of people have given it good reviews!" Wang Yaliang leaned on Yang Chen, and then stuffed the uneaten sundae in his hand into Yang Chen's hand.

With the launch of "Octopath Traveler" and the promotion of the Galaxy Network, it can be said that the popularity of the game has skyrocketed rapidly.

The combination of modern and retro, JRPG classics, all crowned on the head of Octopath Traveler.

Especially in JRPG circles, almost nine out of ten players know about Octopath Traveler.

In just three days, the sales of "Octopath Traveler" have reached 750,000 copies, although it has not broken the original sales record of 800,000 in 3 days of "Time and Space", but according to this trend and popularity, coupled with word of mouth, it can be expected that "Octopath Traveler" will definitely not be worse than the total sales of "Time and Space".

The average gamer is surprised at most that the sales of Octopath Traveler can be so high, but the industry insiders in the gaming circle are shocked.

It's going to explode!

"The Marriage of Isaac" sold more than one million at the beginning, which was shocking, but it wasn't too shocking.

On the one hand, the unique creativity of the game itself, and then the price of the game, the price of 58 yuan is about the same as that of ordinary indie games.

But "Octopath Traveler" is different, the price of the first ordinary version of 116 yuan is double that of "The Combination of Isaac" 58 yuan, which is beyond the pricing range of independent games, to put it simply and bluntly, that is, selling two copies of "The Combination of Isaac" is equivalent to selling one copy of "Octopath Traveler".

"This is just the beginning, but we expect a big expansion of the studio this time." Yang Chen smiled, looked at Wang Yaliang and rubbed her head and said.

"In addition, when the first batch of platforms is divided, we can simply buy this house and not rent it." Yang Chen thought for a while and said to Wang Yaliang.

I haven't talked about this before, mainly because the money invested in "The Marriage of Isaac" needs to be invested more in the game, and the houses in Jiangshi are not cheap, although their area is quite remote, but it is almost one or two million.

Considering the cost of "Octopath Traveler" and the turnover of Nebula Studio, Yang Chen has always kept this idea in his heart.

But with the big sale of "Octopath Traveler", Yang Chen felt that there was no problem at all.

"It's good that you decide." Wang Yaliang didn't say anything, just leaned on Yang Chen's body and nodded gently.

"By the way, didn't you say you wanted to learn how to make games? Now I'm going to teach you! Yang Chen suddenly thought of something, and said to Wang Yaliang with some excitement.

Half an hour later......

Looking at the pile of electronic TXT textbooks downloaded from the computer, and a bunch of video and graphic textbooks, the smile on Wang Yaliang's face gradually lost.

Boom...... What should I do if I want to regret it?

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'Octopath Traveler, a classical JRPG that doesn't want to please everyone'

'Octopath Traveler, a nostalgic hymn to JRPGs! ’

'A dark horse in the indie gaming world! Nebula Studios revealed! ’

'Shocked! The creator of such a game used to make such a game!? ’

With the hot sale of "Octopath Traveler", Galaxy Network has also invested heavily in marketing, and "Octopath Traveler" has successfully completed a small slaughter version of the game industry in the entire August, when there are no too strong opponents.

Media of all sizes have praised "Octopath Traveler", which is like a masterpiece, and in just a few days, almost all game media have turned into Yang Chen's licking dog, licking "Octopath Traveler" crazily.

Under this kind of marketing, "Octopath Traveler" released its latest sales announcement on the eleventh day, and successfully reached 1.5 million copies.

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After the news came out, all the people who had watched "Octopath Traveler" before felt incredible.

In the Chang'an studio, Lin Jiayi looked at the last clearance record on the computer screen a little helplessly.

Lost? Lost again?

In fact, he can find a lot of excuses, such as the game itself of "Octopath Traveler" is actually not so godly, and there are many details in the old-fashioned royal road plot, such as the branch line of the ending that can be guessed with a guess.

The reason why it is popular is purely to take advantage of the market, there are no games of the same type, and it takes advantage of the feelings of youth memories.

But these are just excuses.

But what made him most uncomfortable was that he said before that JRPGs are a legacy of the times, but now that the sales of "Octopath Traveler" have exceeded 2 million, isn't this another slap in the face?

Although the sales of "Time and Space" have recently exceeded 2 million, the starting point of the two sides is completely different.

Is this man so evil?

Lin Jia looked helpless.