Wang Xue picked up the teacup, uncovered the tea lid, first smelled the fragrance of the tea, then blew away the floating tea leaves, took a small sip, put down the teacup and said: "Mr. Ye's question is not easy to answer, after all, there is no successful RPG web game project on the market to refer to." ”

The precedent of successful projects is undoubtedly an iron rule of the industry in the eyes of many capitalists. In addition to entrepreneurs or wealthy companies to test the waters and explore the market, how many people are willing to squander checks to shop for an unclear future?

For a freshly baked thing, player tastes are unpredictable, success or failure is elusive, and the project is too risky for everyone to be the first to eat crabs.

Although Wang Xue seems to be brave enough to set up Lewan, it is a decision made after a lot of market research that has already made a page game that has achieved remarkable results in the market. And in today's era of strategy web games, who knows what kind of waves an RPG will set off when thrown into this sea?

"Of course, the hottest thing in the market now is the strategy category, but we all know that the core users of strategy games are strong PVP players, does Mr. Wang feel that this kind of players covers the entire market?" Xia Qingyu said calmly.

Wang Xue didn't think about this question, and he didn't answer slowly: "Of course not, there are more casual players or PVE users that have not been covered, which is why we are willing to sit down with you for an interview, and are willing to take a look at your "Immortal Dao". It's just that we make a platform, it still depends on the profitability of the project, and the payment ability of PVP players is much higher than that of PVE players, and we should have a consensus on this. ”

Xia Qingyu shook his head: "I don't fully agree with Mr. Wang's words, although the user attribute is related to the ability to pay, but it does not fully represent the ability to pay, Mr. Wang has released "Dance" should understand this." ”

Ye Shenxi also added: "Casual just means that the user screening threshold is not as high as that of strategy games, so that more players can experience it smoothly, and after players play to a certain extent in our game, there will also be arenas, leaderboards, and subsequent PVP activities, of course, these will not be open to novice players." ”

Wang Xue nodded, he had a conclusion in his heart, and he didn't seem to be entangled in this topic: "Can I take a look at your game?" ”

Xia Qingyu had already prepared, and when she was in Funan, she had the program set up a VPN in her work notebook, which could connect to the company's intranet server. At that moment, open the computer browser and hand the notebook and mouse to Wang Xue. "Mr. Wang can try it out."

At present, "Immortal Dao" has a considerable degree of completion, and the core gameplay system has almost been developed, at least allowing Wang Xue to experience the standard process of receiving tasks, fighting monsters, completing and submitting tasks, as well as equipment advancement, partner recruitment and training, and even the special gameplay of hunting. Especially the core battle, after Liu Jiehui joined, through his desperate explosive progress, it has already been done.

Wang Xue's first look at the game gave him an upper-middle score for art, which was a little better than mainstream web games, but not to the point of stunning him.

"How long have you been working on this project?" Wang Xue asked as he operated.

"It's been a little more than two months since the team was formed, and if the project really starts, it's 55 days." Xia Qingyu replied.

"Huh?" Wang Xue was a little surprised: "It's going to be soon." ”

The average development cycle of web games is about half a year, which is almost the speed of a skinning project, and Wang Xue is sure that even first-tier manufacturers like Tenghua and Huang Yi can't do this speed.

"Mr. Ye began to outline the framework of this project when it was still at the milestone, and basically completed all the settings before entering the herring network, and the rest is just the amount of work to be piled up in the program and art." Xia Qingyu looked at Wang Xue's surprised appearance, and felt a little proud, but he still really gave the credit to Ye Shenxi.

"It's still a little scary, though...... Haha" Wang Xue smiled and continued to experience the battle and special gameplay.

In the middle of the dungeon, he encounters a monster and enters the fight. The battle mode of "Immortal Dao" gave him a lot of shock, the turn-based combat of the nine-square grid, and it is also a pure hang-up type, there is no need for human operation in the process, just look at it, it is really an unprecedented way to play. At first, he didn't know how to play, but after playing a few more monsters, he understood, and he found that the core gameplay threshold of this game was very low, and he almost played it casually and put it into it, which is a very big plus.

And in his vision, it is natural to be able to see the improvement of the combat strategy of the nine-square grid mode, compared with the traditional turn-based terminal game, the 3*3 combat position strengthens the concept of horizontal row and vertical column, providing more combat possibilities, especially according to the opponent's position for the arrangement of troops, which is a very interesting thing, it can be said that it is easy to use, difficult to master.

The battle of "Immortal Dao" will be a big selling point, Wang Xue made a definition in his heart.

After upgrading a few levels, the opening of the life hunting system made him even more unable to stop, watching one life grid appear on the screen, and then flying into the package, and then upgrading, he was still unsatisfied with the copper coins on his body, and he was a little embarrassed to ask: "Is there a GM order, the copper coins are spent, and there are no ingots ......"

Ye Shenxi helped him enter two lines of GM commands, adding millions of copper coins and ingots, and he began to hunt for his life again.

"This system is very addictive, Mr. Ye." Wang Xue praised without hesitation, but he was puzzled: "But why is there a high-level hunting that costs ingots, but the price is set a little high, and a lower price can not allow more players to participate?" ”

Ye Shenxi explained: "Mr. Wang, the reason why this price is high is that we don't actually want players, especially free and small and medium-sized R players, to spend here. ”

This explanation was unexpected by Wang Xue, he really wanted to hear Ye Shenxi's explanation, and even Liu Heyi, who had been listening, couldn't help but interject: "Why, of course, the more players pay, the better?" ”

Ye Shenxi shook his head and said: "That's not the case, Mr. Wang, Mr. Liu, life hunting is a very important core system in the early stage of the game, and all players will spend a lot of resources to participate, get life, and improve themselves." This system requires long-term investment from players, and if they spend their limited ingots here for a while, it will affect their gaming experience in other local systems. Even if they unconsciously spend the ingots and find that they can't afford to invest in other systems, or they will lose them, and even if they continue to play, they will be filled with negative emotions such as regret, which is not what we want to see. ”

"This system was designed to provide for big R at the beginning, they are willing to pay to get a greater advantage than others, and the same is true of the payment concept implemented by the fairy road, we will not force players who do not have the ability to pay to recharge, we hope that they can play very happily through PVE copies even if they don't need to recharge, and mining capable big R players is the bulk of the source of income."

Even though Ye Shenxi explained so, Wang Xue couldn't agree, shook his head and said: "Mr. Ye, your previous "Eternity" is also a point card game, so don't all players have to pay to have the current results?" ”

Ye Shenxi said positively: "The player groups are different, most of the users of "Eternity" are students and low-income people, while "Immortal Dao" is different, our core users are users who have a certain ability to pay, but do not have so much game time to immerse themselves in the game. ”

Wang Xue knew that he couldn't convince Ye Shenxi at this point, not only because he was entangled in the hunting system, but since the entire game of "Immortal Dao" implemented such a paid idea, it showed that they completely agreed.

sighed, a bit of a pity.

Wang Xue continued to play, but after playing a few dungeons, he found that he couldn't enter the dungeon, and the system prompted that his physical strength was insufficient. What is it?

If Wang Xue, the paid point just now, is barely acceptable, after all, there are highlights in the battle and special gameplay, but the appearance of physical strength makes him completely incomprehensible, and he even unconsciously aggravates the tone of his speech: "Mr. Ye, why do you want to restrict the player's game behavior?" ”

He can't understand the meaning of the existence of this physical strength thing, shouldn't the player stay in the game for longer and the more sticky it will be, and the less likely it will be to lose. Once the stamina is used up, what can the player do in the game? I can't do anything! What's going on?

Ye Shenxi Gujing Bubo said slowly: "Mr. Wang, there are four reasons for the design of the physical strength system. ”

"First, control the pace of player growth, if the growth of paying players is not restricted, it will harm the interests of most players."

"Second, it is convenient to control the values, so that it can more accurately calculate how many levels the player will reach in the first few days, what kind of monsters will be placed, and other economic numerical models can be better established."

"Third, in order to maintain player stickiness, we will develop the habit of players taking a look at the game every once in a while for the characteristics of playing games in fragmented time for web game users. and fourth, to extend the life of the game. ”

Ye Shenxi finished the four reasons in one breath, but Wang Xue still couldn't accept it, but shook his head with a smile: "Mr. Ye, I have been in the industry for so many years, I have never seen such a design, and I can't agree with what you said that going online every once in a while can maintain stickiness, the longer the player plays, the higher the stickiness, which has been verified by data." And the life of the game can be filled by adding new systems, without the limitation of using physical strength. ”

Data surveys are of course also part of the game's operations, Wang Xue once investigated and analyzed the data of players in "Dance", with a daily online time of 4 hours as the cut-off point, the number of players who reached this number of online hours per day increased by at least 5 percentage points compared with the average retention rate that did not reach it.

Ye Shenxi continued: "There is a significant difference between the target users of web games and desktop games, they don't have that much time to stay online every day, so we can't force them to be online all the time, but to improve our products according to their game habits in fragmented time. ”

Wang Xue almost sneered and said: "The habits of players are cultivated by us, and the requirements of players cannot be blindly met. ”

Ye Shenxi's reason has been explained very thoroughly, and Wang Xue can't accept it, and he has no choice.

In Wang Xue's opinion, the two young people in front of him are simply messy. He adjusted his tone and said: "The game should be distinctive, but it is not such an "innovation" that does not consider the player base, our group of users have been playing online games for so many years, how can they accept such a setting for a while." The player enters the game and finds that there is nothing to play with, and there is nothing worse than that. ”

He even felt that this project was a bit of a pity.

Xia Qingyu also tried to continue to persuade Wang Xue, but Wang Xue didn't want to listen anymore, so he asked directly: "You want to seek exclusive agency for this project, right?" ”

Xia Qingyu was not affected by the interruption of his speech, and said with a normal face: "Yes." ”

"Can you give us an approximate representation fee estimate?" The exclusive agent will pay the developer an agency fee in advance, and the amount is determined by the agent and the developer through negotiation.

Xia Qingyu replied calmly: "5 million." ”

This is the amount she and Ye Shenxi have discussed, after successfully acting as an agent and signing the contract to get this agency fee, she will first send a bonus to the project team, as well as the team travel funds after the project is stabilized, and at the same time expand the scale of the company and start the research and development of follow-up projects.

Wang Xue shook his head and smiled, although he didn't say it, but the meaning of this smile can be understood by anyone with a discerning eye: an idiot talks about dreams.

In fact, Wang Xue is still a very polite person, after all, after so many years in the workplace, the basic etiquette can still be maintained no matter what.

But he was really a little bit angry with the two people in front of him, and they personally ruined a project that could be very promising, even though it was also developed by themselves.

Especially when they are so young, they look like an elder watching the bear child mess around, and they are angry.

And Xia Qingyu and Ye Shenxi also knew that today's communication still ended in failure, they still kept smiling, shook hands with Wang Xue and Liu Heyi and said goodbye, saying that they hoped that there would be opportunities for cooperation in the future, and then packed up their things and left the club.

After Ye Shenxi closed the door, Wang Xue still let out a long sigh, and said with a little pity: "Fooling around......

Liu Heyi on the side also sighed: "People who do well in terminal games may not be able to do page games." "The opposite side has also been seen, and she has an explanation with Li Zhi.

Ye Shenxi and Xia Qingyu left the clubhouse, and after the elevator door downstairs closed, Xia Qingyu winked at him and gestured a cross in the air with his hand.

Ye Shenxi squeezed out a smile: "Expected." ”

Xia Qingyu threw the notebook to Ye Shenxi and hugged it: "There are two more, although they are not as big as the fun, they don't have more vision." ”

Ye Shenxi smiled and said: "Why are you still comforting me, what is this little thing, you can't imagine what I have experienced." ”

Xia Qingyu had an expression of just what you can, just what you can do: "Ouch, what have you experienced, come and communicate with me?" ”

"Does this count as a leader's heart-to-heart conversation?"

"Hmm...... Calculate. ”