Chapter 296: The Black Hand Behind the Scenes?
China is Liu Neng's basic plate, and he has been deeply cultivated here for too long. From the time the first game was released more than two years ago, it won quite a good reputation. Later, relying on "Three Kingdoms Killing", it has swiped a wave of favorability, which can be said to be the existence of the top reputation of domestic game producers.
However, foreigners, especially the white masters, do not particularly look at him differently for the arrogant and stereotypical impression of Asians.
"Spore" is already a miracle, but later, even if Dota is so popular abroad, it is because it has a deep imprint of "Liu Neng", which causes most mainstream media to not speak highly of it.
For some reason, this epoch-making competitive game has not yet been able to form a world-famous event, which is problematic in itself. This time, "Minecraft" is also not very highly rated by a lot of media, which is in stark contrast to the high interest of domestic players.
Because the game has not yet been officially released, the vast majority of foreign real players actually get the news of this game from the media.
How else can it be said that the media will always only show the audience the "truth" they want to say?
The news I got from the second-source news dealers was very one-sided and biased.
At least judging by the current mainstream foreigner media, it is clear that Minecraft is a game that is good for nothing.
"All in all, Minecraft is a sandbox game with a sandbox concept, and looking at the promotional video, it seems to be extremely playful. But if you think about it with your feet, you can imagine that it is completely impossible for a game to dig deep into so many ways to play. ”
Therefore, it can only be said that although Mr. Liu Neng has a great idea, at the implementation level, he has chosen the most impossible task. Predictably, Minecraft is a game that is superficial in all aspects of gameplay, and it is impossible to dig too much. As a result, this game is only superficial, and it is a game that is not worth playing in depth......"
Basically, the mainstream foreign game media is like this.
Interestingly, if it's just one media outlet saying that, it may be biased and with tinted glasses.
But if the vast majority of mainstream gaming media say so, it may not just be a matter of bias.
— but someone is behind it.
When Abel saw these news, he fed back the situation to Liu Neng almost immediately.
Of course, the transatlantic phone call was made, after all, the email communication is not time-sensitive, after all, the two owners are not short of money now.
"See what our gaming media is saying about your game?" Abel didn't understand that Huaxia people had to spend a lot of time on the phone to greet each other, he preferred to talk about the problem directly and resolutely.
Liu Neng said lazily, "Of course, I see, the wind is very bad." What do you think? ”
"I think their statement is so unfair. The vast majority of people on our side haven't really started playing the game, but you can actually see some player demos through various channels. Their comments are very irresponsible, and I even think they are a little malicious......"
Liu Neng smiled, "I actually want to ask, have you started playing?" Feel like this game is fun, don't you? ”
"Of course! It's the most interesting and exciting game I've played in the last 10 years. Abel said with some excitement, "Don't Starve is not a sandbox game at all compared to Minecraft. I think your game can really be called a sandbox. There's a lot of creative play in it that I've never thought of before...... Seriously, Liu, I'd love to break your head open and see how these thoughts came out of your head......"
Liu Neng was quite helpless, "Recently, more than one person has had this idea, I think you are terrible, why do you have to take apart my brain?" If you want to know, I can tell you that! ”
"Right now, on Riot's side, everyone is playing Minecraft like crazy, and it's spontaneous, and no one is forcing them to play it at all."
Liu Neng laughed, of course no one would force them to play, this game, probably as long as the first three days really played, the back will be like a demon and keep wanting to play. Unless you stop playing because of something, it just has this magic.
"The so-called wind review doesn't have much impact. The game is still this game, even if everyone believed those media at the beginning, they didn't think it was a good game. When a group of people actually start playing, the ratings will slowly change back. Liu Nengdao.
"That's true." Abel said, suddenly paused, and said seriously, "I have some gossip, this time the media collectively gave you a low score, and there was a company behind it." ”
Liu Neng seemed to have expected it, "Oh? Is it Tempest? ”
"You know?"
"That's not it, it's analyzed."
"What did I think you heard? It stands to reason that there should be no rumors, I heard the gossip from a former colleague, and the truth is unknown. ”
"Do you remember Heroes of the Storm?" Liu Neng asked.
"What about the game...... Now half-dead, I guess this will be the first game to be discontinued by Tempest. But it should still last for a few years. Abel said with some regret that this game is actually quite well-made, but the design of the gameplay itself has fallen into a misunderstanding, which is a pity.
"Without Dota, this game might have worked. Quality is there. But because it was released after DotA, there were also some problems with the gameplay, which led to the near-death of this game when it was launched. You say, will the storm be particularly angry with me? ”
"But that doesn't mean they're so hostile to the games you posted, right? Although I left the company from Storm, I still have to say a word for my old club, and quite a few of them are actually game-centric, and they will applaud when they see a game that they think is good. This pot should still be the ...... of the media" Abel said with some dissatisfaction, this kind of unreasonable speculation is actually quite unpleasant, especially that the storm is actually the belief of many people.
Liu Neng shrugged his shoulders, but unfortunately Abel couldn't see it, "Maybe it's because of other reasons?" For example, our company's games have affected Tempest's revenue. Of course, this is just a small guess on my part. How are the preparations for the official launch now? Abel. ”
He didn't want to continue to dwell on this issue, and directly asked another new question, just like before, the foreign release is still under the name of Riot, and then released on steam.