This year marks the 15th anniversary of Honor, and 15 years ago, Honor was open beta on all platforms. As soon as Honor was launched, it occupied the list of major games with absolute data, becoming the most popular game in the world.

As the original founder of Honor Games, Butterfly Blue also personally hosted the first press conference of Honor Games 15 years ago.

To this day, the bloody madness of those years is still vivid.

However, in a small corner of the city, there is a group of college students who have just entered society, and they have established a game studio to provide all kinds of game services for the Honor game. For example, leveling up, brushing dungeons, and so on.

This game studio was established at the suggestion of Xiao Qi. At present, there are four people in the team, Xiao Qi, Zhang Hua, Wang Jie, and Lin Yu. Similarly, the four of them are also roommates in college, and their majors in college are also electronic software products.

There are quite a lot of such game studios, and in order to match the huge game market today, various studios are also making a lot of money.

But now you have a difficult choice.

"What do you think about this?" Xiao Qi, as the leader of the studio, is a little hesitant now.

Zhang Hua slapped the table vigorously and said, "Glory is no longer good, many studios have canceled their business with Glory." Now that this market is engaged in glory, it can't make much money. ”

The life of the studio is already a little tight, and although glory has been in vogue for 15 years, the meaning of decline is becoming more and more obvious. With a unique first-person combat perspective, plus a large online game with a high degree of freedom. Honor has its unique advantages and a large audience, but this advantage has gradually begun to decline for various reasons.

First of all, Honor is an extremely time-consuming game, if you want to have a good day, you have to invest at least five or six hours, and there is no guarantee that the income is reasonable, after all, the game's materials and equipment are becoming more and more popular.

Secondly, in the early days of Glory, when the version level ceiling was extremely low, the gameplay and fun of Glory were obvious, but with the change of versions, the online level of Glory reached level 110, and soon the version of level 120 will begin.

In addition to the obvious characters such as battle mages, gunners, thieves, and magic swordsmen, there are also some other brand new characters, and the emergence of these new types of characters has undoubtedly broken a certain balance in the game, and the power of krypton has once again been pushed to the forefront.

In this case,It is natural to be able to adhere to the player of faith,With the replacement of the game version,The upper limit of the game level,There are more and more copies of the whole system,Although the game has launched a series of auxiliary operations that automatically pass the copy,But it still takes a lot of time on glory。

It is also for this reason that various glorious studios have also appeared one after another.

The game has progressed to this extent, and it is irreversible, and Xiao Qi deeply knows that this is the final result of the multi-party operation of game developers, advertisers, and operators.

The game is a good game, but it was ruined because of the operation, and the continuous kryptonite method is a big reason for ruining civilian players. After the eighty or ninety level dungeons, without the support of some big guys, civilian players can't get through at all.

At the same time, the explosion rate of in-game equipment and the difficulty of obtaining various materials are becoming more and more difficult, although it is unique in terms of game operation, but various game mechanics cannot save the decline of the entire game.

Soon the game that copied the Glory gameplay also gradually came out, and they used more advanced engine mods, constantly optimizing the real perspective brought by the first person, and strengthening the battle mode. Gradually, plagiarized games also came to the fore.

Although the Glory World Cup is still one of the important pillars to support the continuation of this game, the decline in the overall game level of Glory is an undoubted fact, once in the sixty or seventy version, all the copies are still mainly manual operation, through delicate operations to complete the copy, that year emerged many powerful players, that is also the most glorious moment of the Glory Pro League.

However, with the increase in dungeons in the future, people gradually couldn't cope with it, coupled with the automatic battle method launched by the system, gradually, in addition to streamers and professional players, many people gave up the ultimate operation.

Having lost the glory of the operation, there is no soul.

Wang Jie also sighed silently and said, "There's no way, the few studios we know have already canceled the glory." They're ready to start jumping into those plagiarism games. Compared to the current glory, those plagiarized games may have more soul. ”

Lin Yu picked up the water glass, looked at the interface of the glorious main city in front of his computer screen, and watched him play the battle mage for 3 or 4 years. This is already a very old profession, and the strength is not as good as those new professions, but Lin Yu is still persistent. He didn't speak, just watched there silently, as if he was very reluctant.

Xiao Qi may have been emotionally infected, and he also fell in love with the glorious interface in front of his computer. The studio has several computers, and with the help of their own software, they are helping others to swipe orders. But he is also a player, looking at the character on his interface, he was suddenly full of emotion: "I have to make a choice, the players of glory have reached the peak of gamers in the world from the level 50 version in 2040, the number of which is a full 500 million." To the current 50 million, not to mention the existing 50 million accounts, more than half of them are supported by studios like ours, and the actual number of players may be less than 10 million. We had to change the way our studio mainly operated, change the main game, or we would be disbanded if it dragged on. ”

This urgent need is clear to all four people here.

Lin Yu said: "We were originally born with glory, when we were still ignorant, glory had reached its peak, when we started playing, glory entered the 80 level, 90 level version, we also entered the pit at that time, in contrast, the game we were in contact with is nothing more than the type of glory, I don't think we can give up." ”

Wang Jie seemed to look at the problem more carefully: "Do you mean to say that we also follow the example of other studios to play Glory's plagiarized games?" ”

After Lin Yu heard this, he suddenly became a little angry, he stood up directly, and directly overturned the gaming chair behind him: "What are you kidding, playing those pirated games, that's an insult to glory!" I don't care, I'm going to continue to hold on to glory. Other studios, giving up the business is an opportunity for us in itself, Honor has 50 million players, why don't we stick to it?

Can't you overcome the dilemma in front of you? Is this all for 15 years of glory? Can you give up easily? ”

Lin Yu's impassioned words immediately silenced the other three in the studio.

Now in 2050, the games on the market have also become somewhat volatile due to the change of equipment and the upgrade of game software. The once popular DOTA games, as well as FPS, have also been forced to decline due to various reasons such as computer upgrades and game engine optimization.

League of Legends, a panacea game, has finally weakened after more than 30 years. It's not that the player doesn't like him anymore, it's that there is a problem with the game mechanics, mainly because of the gaming device.

The development of more than 20 years has suddenly made the entire Internet environment a huge optimization, and the comprehensive upgrade of game engine technology has made the PUBG, which once almost disappeared, become hot again in the form of a reset version. This is thanks to the optimization of game engines and the gradual reduction of the cost of computers.

Nowadays, people have more and more strict requirements for games, first of all, visual effects, then the requirements of game engines, and the particularity of gameplay.

It was also at this time that a new game virtual engine was born, that is, virtual panoramic AR. It may sound simple, but this category of games is undoubtedly a new market.

At the same time, in recent years, computers have been constantly updated, and at the same time, the rapid improvement of network speed, the production of games has become more and more sophisticated.

Not only that, but there are also some other types of games with different gameplay and visual effects, which are gradually appearing in front of people's eyes, compared with traditional games from the perspective of God or third people, they are gradually becoming obsolete. This is also an important reason why League of Legends in the past, Crossfire, and PUBG were eliminated.

However, it is surprising that real-time strategy games, which were once popular in the last century, have appeared in a new way because of the use and improvement of new technologies.

StarCraft 4 has surfaced, with advanced panoramic AR to put people in an illusory map world, through a unique way of operation, immersive access to the entire map, players can use different ways to view the entire map, and even in the way of characters and ghosts in the entire map, participate in real-time strategy to bring happiness.

This successful example immediately attracted a large number of players, and for a time StarCraft 4 attracted more people's attention, and at the same time, on the basis of the original human, insect, and star spirits, some other races were added, which greatly increased the playability of the game.

Looking at the strong birth of StarCraft 4 next door, Warcraft is not to be outdone, although it has been silent for so long, the production of the remake has quietly begun, and the internal test has been carried out for more than half a year, and it is estimated that it will appear again soon.

That's a rough game now. From the once glorious dominance of the family, to the current era of a wide variety of games due to the continuous optimization of the game.

Xiao Qi suddenly remembered something, and he said, "Otherwise, let's devote ourselves to a new game!" It's the star of Ultron, which has been relatively popular recently, and there are very few players in the closed beta of this game, and they haven't made some good strategies. I think we can put our energy into this game, and then through the priority resource advantage, and then do the strategy, do the video, be the UP master, do the live broadcast, and so on. ”

Star of Ultron?

When the other three heard the name, they also showed different attitudes.

Lin Yu still insisted on devoting himself to glory, after all, after so many years of love and persistence, it can't be in vain.

Wang Jie seemed a little hesitant, he was obviously also interested in Ultron Star, after all, some of the previous expansions had already shown the unique gameplay of this game.

Zhang Hua looked at him and didn't seem to have a clear attitude.

Xiao Qi thought about it carefully again, and felt that if he devoted himself to the game of Star of Ultron, he might really have a way out: "I think it should be a good idea recently, first of all, it is novel enough in terms of gameplay, and it is in line with the modern people who do not participate in high-intensity competition and pursue casual play."

And it seems that a lot of studios aren't interested in the game right now, and we can take this opportunity to take advantage of some cutting-edge advantages. I think this game can be tried, StarCraft 4 is too difficult, with a new way of virtual operation, without specific training, it is almost impossible for a studio like us to do it. Other games, even remakes of League of Legends, seem to have a hard time catching our attention.

I think we can think about it. ”