Chapter 82: You Tell Me You Don't Make Money Selling Skins?
After that, the main thing was that Zhang Yueyang and Zhuge Yuan came to the stage to introduce themselves and their team. Zhang Yueyang not only jumped over by himself, but after carefully inspecting the studio, he dug up the old hands who had been in Colorful Technology before, so that only half of the breath of Colorful Technology, which is now in the middle of the river, was left.
Several "head and face" characters sat at a table to eat, Xu Jiaojiao didn't have a smile on her face, and said to Liu Neng, who was still chatting with Zhang Yueyang, "Where are you going?" ”
Liu Neng was stunned for a moment, but wanted to pretend that he didn't hear it, and continued to talk to Lao Zhang about the new game, Xu Jiaojiao's voice was several degrees higher, "Let me ask you, where are you going?" ”
"Where are you going? This is my studio, and it's definitely still in the studio! He sighed slightly. There are some things that he can't face if he doesn't want to face them.
"Do you think I'm stupid?" Xu Jiaojiao's face was very ugly, and she didn't tell her about the personnel adjustment at all before this, the key is that all the people were arranged, but Liu Neng didn't arrange himself well. "You asked Zhang Yueyang to be in charge of the studio, what about you? Where are you going? You didn't give yourself a seat! Are you leaving? ”
"How can I go, I founded Daystar, and I will always be in Daystar."
"You lie, you just want to leave Guanghua City, are you going to Shanghai?" Xu Jiaojiao stared at Liu Neng's eyes, "I hope you can answer my question positively!" ”
Liu Neng sighed, sometimes it's definitely not a good thing for this person to be too smart, "The studio wants to develop, and there are obviously not as many talents in Guanghua City as there are in Shanghai, so I went there to form a new studio." But the Daystar here, which is also the Blue Star Studio, is the foundation, and I will come back often to see it. ”
"Why does it have to be in Shanghai, Pengcheng can't do it? Isn't it okay to hang the city? Why does it have to be in Shanghai? Is it because there's that big star there? ”
"Xu Jiaojiao, don't talk nonsense." Liu Neng's face gradually became a little cold, he felt a little guilty about Xu Jiaojiao, although he didn't know where this guilt came from, it may be that when he first founded the studio, Xu Jiaojiao gave him great help, or in the past few months, under getting along day and night, Xu Jiaojiao's emotional sustenance made him dodge.
Liu Neng never thought of accepting Xu Jiaojiao, in a sense, she is a very beautiful and youthful girl, but she is not the type he likes, and her age is unacceptable - in a sense, for him, Xu Jiaojiao is too young and too immature in thought.
For example, at the dinner table today, embarrassing each other.
"There is something, we said privately, now is the time for our studio dinner, don't bring unhappy emotions here." The smile on Liu Neng's face gradually put away.
"If you're going to Shanghai, I'm going too!" Xu Jiaojiao said categorically.
Liu Neng sighed for the third time today, "You won." ”
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After Zhuge Yuan joined, he took over the design work behind "Three Kingdoms" in an all-round way, and then let the planning and procedures of the core design of "Three Kingdoms" in the project team also join the Three Kingdoms, helping them get familiar with and sort out the current code structure as soon as possible, and also understand the current design ideas.
Around the beginning of the second week of January, the Mo Three Kingdoms Studio began the design of the military generals in full swing.
Before this, there was a discussion between Zhuge Yuan and Liu Neng about how to make money in "Three Kingdoms Kill OL", and Zhuge Yuan had three ideas:
1. Make a profit by selling card packs, and sell subsequent card packs at one time, but he actually has a negative attitude towards this plan, because the price will be relatively high, which is very unfriendly to players;
2. Making a profit by selling military general cards is equivalent to an upgraded version of the former, but because the price of a single card is definitely much lower than the price of a card pack, the player's acceptance is relatively high;
3. Draw cards.
"We are facing a lot of revenue pressure, any company in China, in fact, the level of profitability is much higher than ours, as far as I know, some light games have an AURP value (average revenue per user) is more than 30; Some heavy games have this value in more than 200 pieces or more. Your current approach will definitely result in a very low AURP value in our game. ”
Liu Neng only insisted on his own opinion, "I have to insist on this matter, first of all, revenue is not the studio's only pursuit, or it is not my only pursuit. Revenue metrics have never been our assessment criteria, so this AURP value doesn't mean much to me. Another thing, I want to say, this model of free through the game itself, characters, and fees by skins, its AURP value will definitely not be low. ”
"The Standard Pack of Three Kingdoms OL and the first Wind Forest Volcano/Military Wars Expansion Pack must be free; In the future, I want to make the expansion package entertainment-oriented, you can micro krypton, but it must not be very expensive, this is my first request to you, this criterion is not allowed to change; The second requirement is that the most important thing you need to do is that the balance between the generals must be cautious, and it is not required to achieve absolute balance, but there must not be some of these generals whose strength is significantly higher than that of others. I want to make this game a competitive game in the future, if the military generals return to the furnace because of the imbalance of the generals, this will be an accident for us! ”
"But I still can't figure out the idea of your so-called skin charges, all of your stat-related game content is free, how can this be profitable? Players aren't fools either, isn't it to buy one that doesn't look good? Zhuge Yuan still couldn't understand.
Liu Neng's revenue data for the first month slapped in his face, "Last month's revenue data, there were more than 3.6 million monthly active players, with a revenue of 150 million, and the player's AURP value was more than 46 soft girl coins, do you say they are all fools?" ”
Zhuge Yuan's glasses widened, ", how is it possible?" Sold skins for 150 million? ”
"Correcting a couple of points, not just selling skins, but also voice acting, avatar frames, and card frames. In addition, this is because our game has just been launched, there are too many activities, and many skins can be obtained through free activities, and they are sold for so much money; On the one hand, the player base will continue to grow, on the other hand, the access to these skins will be reduced, plus the expansion pack we are going to come out will also have new generals and new skins, oh yes, the old generals can also make new skins, do you still think that selling skins is unreliable? ”
"You cowhide!" Zhuge Yuan had nothing to say at all, this matter completely subverted some of his past thoughts, "Is there anything else?" If not, I'll design the skin...... No, the generals who designed the expansion pack are gone! ”