"Herring Network Motion Capture Studio Launch" isn't the only news about the company today.

A little later, on May 30, U.S. time, the world's largest, most influential, and most well-known electronic entertainment exhibition and sales event, the organizer of E3 (full name The Electronic Entertainment Expo, 3 letters starting with "E", so referred to as E3), announced the list of the last batch of exhibitors this year, and it is also the latest to be determined.

There are hundreds of exhibitors every year, and ESA has announced the list of exhibitors in batches since March, until the end of May, so far all 117 game manufacturers from more than 30 countries and regions around the world have been announced.

Generally speaking, the last batch of announcements is usually some little-known independent manufacturers, such as EA, Activision, Ren Bliss, Yubi, Take-To and other giants, all of which are confirmed to participate in the first batch in March, and they will also occupy the largest booth in the exhibition hall.

In recent years, with the emergence of some excellent small indie games, the rise of digital distribution platforms has allowed them to have a broader release, and this force has slowly entered the field of vision of players, but there is no accumulation of years or explosive projects, after all, it is still not so eye-catching.

But this year is different, because in the last batch of lists, there is the name of the herring network.

In fact, in April, Qingyu Network received an invitation from ESA, and Ye Shenxi and Xia Qingyu were also confirmed to participate in the exhibition, but they had not yet decided what to exhibit, so they could not give ESA a final answer at that time.

In fact, there are only three games on the North American Qingyu network, and the era of "Survival" is a little old, and it is only a free game after all, but this time it can be released on PS3......

ONE is definitely on display, and it's one of the highlights, and it's been gaining momentum in both North America and Europe lately, with the first season of the league in both regions officially kicking off.

In South Korea, Europe and North America do not have the ability to hold competitions on their own, and as in China, they are all authorized to local institutions with rich experience in organizing e-sports competitions.

In China, it is Ji Qinlin's modern torch, in South Korea is KeSPA and CJ E&M, in Europe is the ESL E-sports League (Electronic Sports League, which has the famous IEM tournament) in Cologne, and in North America it is MGL, which is the event and the name of the company, and enjoys a huge reputation in North America. Warcraft" related events have also achieved remarkable results. And then starting this year, a separate Eternal War series of events was added.

On the current world map of "Eternal War", South Korea, needless to say, has firmly pressed "Eternal Tower" under its body, topped the Korean game list and firmly occupied this term, with 1.2 million monthly active users, while the United States and Europe have 2 million and 1.4 million active users respectively, and the number of gamers in North America and Europe is much more than that of South Korea.

Coupled with the fact that Chinese mainland has exceeded 10 million monthly active users at this time, the current global active users of "Eternal War" have reached 15 million, and the number of online users has exceeded 3.7 million, ranking second in history, but it is not far from the record of 10 million in "Warcraft".

Obviously, with the development of leagues around the world, more and more players will pay attention to and enter this game, Xia Qingyu will start to promote it in more regions around the world next, including Southeast Asia, South America, more countries outside the European Union, and of course, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, Xia Qingyu is planning to go to a server with Southeast Asia, which is weird, but the policy is different, and it can't be merged into the national server.

"The Origin of Everything" is naturally one of the highlights of the exhibition, in the big game markets such as Europe, America and Japan, this game is more representative of the herring fish network than "ONE", so Henggong Studio has to rush to add some new things, and it is a more important update content, so as not to make players complain about insincerity.

Games that have already been released are exhibited on E3, and they can only rely on new content to attract players.

The reason why it was delayed until the end was that the ProjectB herring network was finally determined to be able to be published.

After more than three months of intensive development, ProjectB now also has a demo version that can show the effects, although there will be no complicated gameplay, but at least it can show the action and special effects, some scenes and character rendering graphics, and the physics engine features that Doug is proud of.

Graphics and technology they have to show.

Ye Shenxi asked Shan Jie to work overtime to develop a simple tool similar to the "Cinematic Editor", which can add characters and control the playback of character movements and fixed coordinates to play special effect animations, plus adjust the camera lens angle during action playback.

Ye Shenxi directly threw a storyboard script to Rao Bin, and asked him to bring someone to familiarize himself with the tools and go to the DEMO to record the clip material.

He then edited it by hand to create a trailer that was purely real-time calculations rather than CG animation, and the first trailer was released.

At this time, there is still half a month before the official opening of this year's E3, so the entire Qingyu network has suddenly entered another tighter rhythm in a tight overtime atmosphere.

This version has no other code names such as Alpha, Beta, Omega, Gama, etc., and is called "E3 version".

This is the first trailer of ProjectB, and it is also the first time that this work has been announced to the public, before which the herring fish network kept the project completely secret, and no media had known about its existence.

And this announcement on E3,The significance is not limited to the work itself,But marks the company Fisoa,In the field of stand-alone games, it will begin to get rid of the positioning and labels that the masses have always thought of it as casual,Light,Creative winning,Begin to march to the traditional 3A masterpiece,Raise the banner of a real commercial masterpiece,And those giant manufacturers that have long become synonymous with this type of game,Compete in the same iron cage。

Players' expectations and tolerance for these two types of products are completely different.

They'll tug at their heartstrings because Survive creates a lonely post-apocalyptic wasteland, they'll be happy to have fulfilled their childhood dreams in The Origin of Everything, and even though both games have significant shortcomings, they still don't get them from giving them two thumbs up.

Because it's free, and $25 to play.

Before you buy it, you can know where to put your expectations just by the packaging and a simple introduction to the game, and as long as it meets or even exceeds your expectations in this place, other flaws will be so easy to ignore.

But the $60 game is different, the meaning of $60 is that you have to try to maintain a balanced level of balance in every aspect, which is an investment of tens of millions of dollars, then you should come up with the corresponding quality.

Graphics, light and shadow, story, dialogue, combat, equipment, skills, vehicles, bugs, and even original soundtracks...... Players are sometimes tolerant, but sometimes very picky.

However, in reality, this is not the case in most cases, not a game with a cost of $2 million that achieves 40 points, and 4 million can achieve 80 points...... This is not a simple linear function, and even at the simplest level, it has a significant marginal diminishing effect, and the higher you go, the harder it becomes.

"New projects have been announced, and the first trailer has been released." That's all for the news released on the official website.

Xia Qingyu asked Ye Shenxi: "What do you think will be the reaction when we announce it?" ”

Ye Shenxi thought for a while and said, "Maybe there will be some ridicule, saying that we don't measure ourselves or something." ”

"Hey, I've known you for so long, I didn't see that you were a pessimist."

"Of course, there will be more players with great expectations."

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The news of Qingyu Network's confirmation of participating in this year's E3 naturally caused an uproar in China, and although there were discussions abroad, they were two completely different situations.

More foreign players, fans and media are speculating about what type of new projects officially revealed by ESA and Fisoa are.

As fans of Fisoa and its games, or personal fans of the two bosses, of course they all know the research and development speed of the herring network, from June 2007 to December 2008, in 19 months, it came up with 4 web games, 1 terminal game, two stand-alone games for a total of 7 games, on average, that is, one game can be produced every 2.7 months!

Now that nearly half a year has passed since their last "The Origin of Everything", it's time for the next one, even if it's just an announcement.

Now there is a kind of saying Cao Cao, eh...... They don't know Cao Cao very well, and they say Alexander the Great, and Alexander the Great has arrived.

The media knows the history of the Qingyu network better than the players, but it is still difficult to guess what type of project the so-called "new project announcement" is.

Even if there are two more adjectives, you can diverge yourself and publish a whole article.

The mood at home is different, and that's because manufacturers from China have been absent from the world's biggest gaming event for a long time.

It is not a real absence, but a symbolic meaning, derailing from the mainstream of the world, or even drifting away.

Since 2000's "Proud Warring States" and 2002's "Qin Injury", no stand-alone game in China has appeared on the stage of E3.

Even the above two models were not representative of Chinese manufacturers, as they appeared at the booths of their respective distributors: EIDOS in the UK (which developed the Tomb Raider and Allied Death Squad series) and Strategy First in Canada (which ran Cossacks and Raids).

In 03, Minnan Netdragon set up a booth from Chinese mainland manufacturers for the first time at E3, and then in 05 they went again, including this year's appearance with the Blue Fish Network at the E3 venue, as well as Beijing E Time and Space, with their three products "Perfect Realm International Edition", "Curse" and "Pocket Journey to the West".

In fact, it is not that China does not have manufacturers fighting on the stage of E3, but those works in the international community have not caused much repercussions, and they are not so worthy of the media to write about, and ...... NetDragon and E-time are all online games. Objectively speaking, the gameplay of online games is weaker than that of single-player and console games in most cases, and international online games are not mainstream, except for a limited number of "Warcraft", "Star Wars Night", and "Fierce Fight", which generally do not receive much attention.

E3 is the representative of this international mainstream.

Take a look at the games that will make a big splash at E3, a few that are destined to be a big hit this year.

SCEA, Sony's North American subsidiary, has confirmed that a 30-minute demo of God of War 3 will be available at the venue, and will be on hand to announce the release date of the highly anticipated title.

Yubi will present Assassin's Faith 2, the sequel to the critically acclaimed Assassin's Faith two years ago, which, according to what has been revealed, will take place in 15th-century Italy and feature a young aristocrat. It's clear that they intend to make the franchise another big hit, especially after the cold run of Prince of Persia: Reborn late last year, and almost all the major media outlets believe that they intend for the Assassin's Creed franchise to take over the banner of Prince Percy's top action-adventure game.

There is another signature, Tom Clancy's series "Splinter Cell: Guilty", which has not been heard since it was first announced in 07, and this time Yubi will release new information again, and the release time and corresponding platform have been confirmed.

Activision will release the highly anticipated FPS "Call of the Year 6: Modern Warfare 2" live trial, taking on the "Call of the Year 4", the best reputation in the series, which will undoubtedly be the most popular FPS game of the year. Activision has tasted the sweetness of the New Year, and one film a year still makes a lot of money, but this series is a joint effort of their two studios, Treyarch has been on board since the third generation, taking on the development of odd-numbered generations, and Infinity ard is responsible for even-numbered. So this year's 6th generation is still completed by Infinity ard, which guarantees the original flavor.

Dazzling makers are in too much.

2K will release BioShock 2, which will take us back to that punk world, the utopia of disillusionment; Capcom has "Lost Planet 2" and "Zombie Siege 2" towns, vowing to carry out the action to the end; Sega took out "Bayonetta" to let you know how sexy and charming a woman can be; Ren Jile is still Mario, and the II version of "Mario Galaxy" and "New Super Mario" released a demonstration video of the actual machine at the same time; And Soni sacrificed the ultimate move "Uncharted 2", and the Drake who went anywhere is here again.

At the same time, due to Square Enix's withdrawal from this year's E3 due to the global trend of swine flu, Soni also used PS3 to show a demo video of Final Fantasy 14...... Because the game itself will only be available on PC and PS3, this is also one of the most anticipated online games in E3 this year...... can only add "one", because the herring fish network inserted strongly, bringing "Eternal War" with it......

EA's figure is naturally indispensable, the first announcement of "Dragon Age: Origin", the best-selling series sequel "Mass Effect 2", the release of a large number of new pictures of "Need for Drag 13: Shifting", and the claim to support the destruction of all buildings, according to the player's actions can break glass, items will leave traces of use or friction...... Battlefield: Rebel Company 2 developed using the Frost Engine.

How star-studded, surrounded by these works, how can "Perfect Realm International Version" be as showy as it is on domestic CGS?

Frankly speaking, before the release, Chinese players watched the news of E3, in addition to marveling at the announced masterpieces, shocked by the most advanced technology, and then looking forward to it, in fact, there are always some pessimistic emotions, and even some extreme players see that the media is reporting that there are game companies in our mainland to enter the main venue of E3......

There may not be many such players, but there are actually quite a few.

But this year is really different, because the herring fish network is coming, with a brand new work that it is currently sure to be announced, but there is no other information.

It's the first time it has participated in E3, can it try, just once, to meet the expectations of Chinese players?

Just like they've always done.

Even if it's vanity.