Chapter 34: Staggering Costs

The masked man, Eric Hu, nodded slowly and said, "I'm just thinking about a setting about favorability." ”

A beautiful girl game like "Thosha" has a little bit of a taste of love cultivation, and the favorability system is naturally a must.

Li Ze is looking forward to it, and he doesn't know what subtle ideas the masked man, who has a creative ability of up to 217, has.

"So what do you think about the favorability setting?" Li Ze asked.

The masked man replied, "I don't think we should just work on the process of getting swimsuits, but once you get the swimsuits you want, how can you put them on the girls?" ”

"When adding swimsuits, we can pre-set a costume to hide shame, and the more revealing and bold the shape of the swimsuit, the higher the shame will be set."

"Depending on the character of the beautiful girls, the amount of shame they can accept at first is also different. And if you want your favorite characters to wear those novel, bold, and hot swimsuits, you have to brush up on favorability! ”

"Opinion can be gained through a series of interactions, but it takes a few hours to get a character's friendship full. We'll have dozens of beautiful girls, and that's hundreds of hours of gameplay just to brush up on favorability. ”

"At the same time, we can combine the increase in favorability with the game of beach volleyball. For example, manipulating a beautiful woman to win a match can increase your favorability, or using costumes and props rewarded by a match can also increase your favorability. ”

Eric Hu continued to talk for a long time, and many novel and practical settings made Li Ze admire.

is worthy of being a big man with more than 200 abilities, and he can say so many dry goods in such a little time.

This also made Li Ze feel that the high salary he offered was worth it.

Regarding the setting of the general direction of the game, everyone has a number in their hearts, and as for the matter of filling in the details, it is a long-term work.

However, at this time, Tie Xiaohu raised a key question.

"Boss, which platform is our new work on? Or is it still a PC? ”

Tie Xiaohu's question asked everyone's voice, because although the field of Three Kingdoms was a great success on the PC platform.

But to be honest, the market for the PC platform is not as large as the market for professional game consoles, and if you want to hit higher sales, you still have to rely on game consoles.

Li Ze is not stupid, he used to do the PC platform because he had no money, and the field of Three Kingdoms is suitable for the PC platform.

Now that there is a rebirth field of funds, it is natural to march into the broader console market.

So Li Ze replied: "This time I locked the platform of the micron game machine. ”

"Microns? Isn't it hardcore? ”

The micron game console is a new game console, and the development momentum is very good, and the market share has exceeded 20%.

But another hegemon-level console, the hardcore game console, has a 60% market share!

Objectively speaking, the performance of micron game consoles is better than that of hardcore game consoles, and the appearance is more fashionable and smooth, and the body size is also small.

However, hardcore consoles have been developing for several years, and there are so many fun exclusive games on this platform!

For players, the most important thing is always the game.

Hardcore game consoles have completely exploded micron game consoles in terms of the number and quality of games, so even if micron game consoles appear, hardcore still maintains a market share of 60% and is a well-deserved hegemon.

Perhaps one day, the market share of micron consoles will surpass that of hardcore, but for now, there is no doubt that choosing hardcore is better for game sales.

Seeing that everyone looked at him with some surprise, Li Ze said his reason.

"There is no doubt that hardcore is the current hegemon, and if you choose hardcore, you will almost certainly have higher sales."

"But, gentlemen, remember the maxim of our Rebirth Realm."

"Rebirth field, only make high-quality products."

"The micron game console is currently the most powerful and most expressive console on the market. In particular, micron game consoles are one or two grades higher than hardcore in terms of skin texture and sweat effect. ”

"For a beautiful girl game like "Clear Bikini Beauty Heaven", the skin texture and sweat effect are extremely important."

"At the same time, the micron game console is also better at expressing detailed bone movements, which is also very beneficial for us to make professional sand volleyball."

"I can make better games on the micron platform, which is why I chose micron."

The boss said his reason, and everyone's puzzled eyes disappeared.

If you don't think about money, but only about the quality of your work, then there is no doubt that the micron console is the best choice.

It's just that in the modern business society, there are fewer and fewer bosses like Li Ze who sacrifice money for the quality of the game.

I'm afraid that in the entire industry, only Li Ze, who doesn't open a company for money, will "treat money like dung" like this!

……

After the meeting, everyone began their preliminary preparations after the meeting.

Tie Xiaohu, Lu Ke and Yue Na, three programmers, discussed the simulation together for a while and determined the approximate amount of funds needed.

In the past, I did Three Kingdoms in the field, and I used old technology, and it was a game on the PC platform, so the cost was very low.

But this new work "Penetrating Sand" needs to make the most delicate and good-looking character models, the most professional movement system, and the picture and operation must be top in the industry.

At the same time, it is also on the most expensive and computing power of the new generation of micron game consoles.

Therefore, the preliminary estimation of the development cost of this game is scary!

Putting the report on Li Ze's desk, Yue Na said, "Boss, that's probably what the input looks like." However, considering that there should be some additional additions during the production process, the final development cost will definitely exceed 50 million yuan. ”

Luko also said: "Yes, if everything requires the highest standards, 50 million is already a very low budget." ”

"The amount of computing power required to produce a game is amazing. Especially for hyper-scale users like us, the tiered charges are very costly. ”

Tie Xiaohu said even more worriedly: "Boss, there is also gossip that the usage fee of the shared super host is about to increase in price!" ”

Burn money!

You can make a lot of money making games, but you can also burn a lot of money!

The field of Three Kingdoms that I did before is basically a game from more than ten years ago. With the current level of science and technology, it is natural to be relaxed and happy to do the games of more than ten years ago without spending any money.

But to make a masterpiece of the next generation, it is impossible not to burn money. If you want to make the best beautiful girl, if you want to make the best beach volleyball, you have to burn money!

It's just that the cost of 50 million is really high?

At the end of the day, Thosand is just a casual competitive game.

Even though the requirements for "Tho Sha" are very high, in fact, the cost of "Tho Sha" and the kind of big company, triple-A gun car ball sandbox game is not on the same level at all!