Chapter 42: The Past Flows Away
Among them, role-playing games have become a veritable death project due to the highest development cost and the highest probability of hitting the street.
In order to improve the user experience, some games need to buy expensive supporting equipment, which is a barrier to many users. In addition, role-playing games are mainly plot-based, and the workload of translation is very large, and because the speed of game updates and iterations is too fast, it is often the case that the game company goes bankrupt and closes down as soon as the translation is completed, making it difficult to achieve simultaneous listing in multiple countries. This situation was not resolved until the previous two years when machine translation technology was revolutionized.
The most lethal thing is that role-playing games are relatively slow to heat up, requiring players to spend a lot of time and energy to develop their characters, but the quality of the game itself is not enough to bind users for a long time. When the gameplay is not rich enough and the content is not substantial, using daily tasks and other means to strengthen the stickiness will only cause disgust among users.
Heavy players like March are few and far between, and most people's playtime isn't so exaggerated.
"A Dream of Rivers and Lakes", "Desert Ark", "Tomorrow's World", "Deep Palace", "Point Soldiers", "Immortal Map"...... The role-playing games that can be said to be famous in China, one is counted as one, and they are all cool together with the game company behind them.
All of these games were played in March. Among them, her favorite one is "Point Soldier".
"Point Soldier" is based on the war plot, because the war scene and combat system are very good, it was popular for a while, and the final decline is also because there is only war content, and the gameplay is single, which can be described as a war of success and a war of defeat.
There are five factions in the game, and players can choose one side to join, play as a small soldier, fight on the battlefield, and make achievements.
Given that the five factions are represented by red, yellow, blue, green, and black, they are often referred to by color.
March is an archer in the green faction.
In the beginning, when she first played a role-playing game, her first profession was a doctor.
For one, she is young and somewhat resistant to hand-to-hand combat, and the priest is a ranged support class that doesn't need to be close to monsters; Second, no matter which game, the nurse is always very popular, and it is convenient to form a team; Thirdly, all the novices who choose to play wet nurses probably have the naïve idea of giving roses to others and having a lingering fragrance in their hands.
After playing for a while, March gradually discovered that wet nurse is a profession that wipes the butts of teammates.
In PVP, the opposite player knows that he is holding on to the nurse, and the various flaws of his teammates, such as slow fire, low output, and lack of support awareness, will eventually be converted into pressure on the nurse. Once the nurse collapses, half of the battle is lost. If you win, the most showy will always be an output-oriented profession, and almost no one will go out of your way to thank the assistant; When they lose, their teammates often dump each other and rarely reflect on their own problems, and the wet nurse is the biggest back-breaker.
This experience made March understand that playing as an assistant is not a happy thing.
Later, she tried many classes, from a ranged hunter and mage, to a melee boxer and a thief, but she never chose a support again.
Luckily, in the game "Point Soldier", she received a bound milk, a medic who was regularly teamed up with her to enter the battlefield, called October.
The acquaintance between the two was very cliché, in a certain battle, the green camp was at a disadvantage and had to retreat, October fell at the end of the line in order to heal the wounded, and saw that he was about to die in the hands of the enemy, March appeared in time and saved him.
After the battle, they added friends to each other. This game allows duplicate names, and their screen names are one called March and the other is October, which is very similar, and they both feel close to each other. Out of a sympathetic mentality, she has great respect for October, who plays a career in therapy, and often gives help. Over time, October became her bound milk.
Medics are a great help to other players, but they are difficult to get started, and it is difficult to grab heads and exploits, most people don't like to play, and the number is scarce. With the binding milk, March is invincible on the battlefield, as long as you avoid the team with wet nurses and be careful not to be surrounded by too many people, you can get out of the way.
March's favorite tactic is to pretend to be alone and seduce the enemy in the squad. When the enemy ran closer, she found that a medical soldier was hiding nearby to add blood to her, and it was too late to retreat at this time, so she was not in a hurry, and harvested them one by one with a bow and arrow.
This tactic is quite common, but it is quite effective, and it has been tried and tested, and the duo of their love of pit people has gradually become famous, causing many people who have fallen into the pit to spit on the forum.
Later, due to the single gameplay and frequent bugs, there were fewer and fewer players who "dotted the soldiers", and finally fell to the point of closing the server.
October, like most players who abandoned the pit, started one day without warning and never went live again.
He didn't leave contact information outside of the game, and March couldn't reach him.
The friendship in the virtual world is like this, coming and going in a hurry, not long ago, they were born and died, and they looked at each other, and they turned a blind eye and became strangers.
Although it was a pity to lose an excellent binding milk, March was used to seeing the gathering and dispersion on the Internet, so he didn't mind too much, and soon devoted himself to the next game - "Longevity Map".
The lesson left by "Dianbing" to other game companies is that the gameplay must be diversified, and only fighting, killing and killing will not work. The "longevity map" after it attached great importance to the production and living system, so it achieved short-term success.
"Changsheng Tu" is not allowed to have the same name, and as expected, the simple name of "March" has already been registered, and she can only add two words and name it "Fireworks March".
Less than a month after entering the "Immortal Map", she received a dart robbery mission.
Misty is the swordsman of the darts, and she is the thief of the darts.
As the saying goes, if you don't fight, you don't know each other, the two of them are good players, evenly matched, sympathetic to each other, and have become best friends since then.
For a long time after that, they learned from each other and made progress together. Misty Misty corrected March's technique, and March also instructed her in swordsmanship.
The two know that success is never just luck, but requires unremitting effort.
A year later, March can still easily remember, the graceful posture of dancing the sword under the moon in the smoke and rain.
In the first PVP competition, the two competed for the championship and finally won.
In terms of strength, they know themselves and each other, and they are comparable. In the end, it is the balance of careers that determines the outcome of the game.
In the "Immortal Diagram", thieves have many auxiliary skills, theft, lockpicking, and sneak attacks are the thieves' strengths, and Zhengda's heads-up cannot exert their full strength. Swordsman, on the other hand, is a pure combat class and is best at one-on-one combat.
It is the gap in the ability of the two professions to go heads-up that determines the outcome of this competition.
Anyway, she was losing.
The winner is famous, the loser is left with nothing.