Chapter 349: The Return of the King
"Martial Arts Grandmaster: Next" is just a pre-sale performance, and it is already worthy of this era, and it is the drama with the strongest commercial appeal in China so far.
But just making money is not the only pursuit of Dimension Entertainment. Due to Fan Zhe's influence, there is a belief in the whole company - making money is of course important, but it is equally important to make a good work and a work that is loved.
It is also officially supported by such an idea, they will do iP like "Hell Apartment".
"Hell Apartment 2" so far, the box office is only 520 million, and if you share the account in your hands, you will probably earn a little more than 200 million if you throw away the cost. Although the investment is small, it is not a small number in terms of the energy invested. And the amount of money earned is a drop in the bucket compared to a huge IP like "Martial Arts Grandmaster" - so far, the combined income of the two parts of "Martial Arts Grandmaster" is estimated to be almost 3 billion in the end, which is a fifteen-fold gap.
But despite this, Dimension Entertainment still made "Hell Apartment", and in the future, they will still do this type of thing. Doing themes and stories that have never appeared in China or even in the world is one of the pursuits of Wedo Entertainment.
"Martial Arts Grandmaster" naturally makes money, but they don't want it very much, after this work is launched, because of its low quality, it will be scolded as 'cheating money'.
Of course, that doesn't really happen.
On the day when "Martial Arts Master: Next" was officially launched, the score on Douban was also unlocked on the same day, and this work still received a high score of 8.6 points despite the huge audience.
Although this rating will tend to decrease in the future as the screening time becomes longer, I am afraid that it will not fall below eight points in the end.
Eight points, if you understand it according to Douban's scoring system, it is also a watershed for an excellent work.
However, the increase in sales is estimated to be at the time of pre-sale, and a large number of potential viewers have already purchased the complete episodes of this show, so that the subsequent growth is not as terrifying as when it was pre-sold. However, it is estimated that when the episodes of "Martial Arts Master: II" are updated and come to the stage of paid content, the sales will be able to rise again.
In any case, "Martial Arts Grandmaster: Next" is also a good result of steadily winning both word-of-mouth and results.
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For the release of the next part, Fan Zhe did not continue to pay attention to it after seeing that the results were indeed very good.
He has a little bit of a lot on hand lately.
Years later, the company launched four new projects, two animations, a film and a game.
Those two animations are a feature-length serialized animation like "Hell Apartment", and a seasonal animation of "Demon Hunting Notes".
These have been handed over to Mi Le, the head of the company's animation department, and Fan Zhe doesn't have much to worry about.
But for the other two projects, he himself has to put a lot of effort into it.
In other words, these two projects are related to the company's game department.
One of the games, which is currently the company's internal codename "Daming", has been officially launched. The person in charge of this project is Gao Yixiang.
Lao Gao and a group of people were split from the Luozhou studio and established a new studio called 'Second World'. They will be in charge of the development of the game project "Daming".
The main reason why they didn't continue to let Luozhou Studio work on this project was that they had their own tasks.
The main work of Luozhou Studio is still on maintaining "Taiwu 2". It's probably impossible for Dimension Entertainment to sell a game and leave it there after it's been developed.
Basic work such as bug fixes and game server maintenance must continue to be promoted. In addition, there are also the introduction of new skins, the development of new maps, new martial arts, etc., all of which are also to be done.
Of course, all of this will eventually be released in the form of DLC, both free and paid, so that players will always have new content to play.
In addition, the film project that the company is currently going to set up is also related to Luozhou Studio. Previously, Wedo Entertainment had announced an event about "Taiwu 2" to solicit game scripts for filming.
This event has been well received by players - it would be fun to make your experience in the game a movie.
Not to mention, the player who is finally selected will also receive a prize of 250,000 US dollars.
Just for this part of the bonus, I don't know how many professional players are willing to put their heart and soul into it.
This activity was initiated in the name of Luozhou Studio, and the entire operation activity was of course dominated by them.
Under the pressure of many parties, Luozhou Studio can't spare any manpower to develop a new game.
This game, which is internally codenamed "Da Ming", is directly positioned at the 3A level, even if there is a 'dimensional' system to deal with a lot of visual and artistic work, but the whole volume is placed here after all, and the development team has to have one or two hundred people.
There are probably only a few dozen people Gao Yixiang transferred from Luozhou Studio. These manpower, in the current view, is barely enough in the project start-up stage, and when the project enters deep development, if you don't want to make a game for three or five years, it will inevitably increase the number of people.
Gao Yixiang has looked for Fan Zhe many times in the past few days.
Seeing this guy appear at the door of his office again, Fan Zhe really felt a headache.
"Why are you here again?"
"What do you mean? I'm just here for the first time today, okay? ”
Fan Zhe rolled his eyes and said, "It's about manpower again?" ”
"Yes! The preliminary preparations for "Da Ming" are almost over, and the plan has been released for several versions, and now it is ready to enter the formal development stage, but there are too few people! If you do it according to the current manpower and come up with the first version of the internal DEMO, it is estimated that it will be three years later! I don't know how long it will be officially launched! ”
"Didn't I tell you yesterday? I have already said hello to Mr. Ye, she also approved it for you, and gave you the right to recruit people, don't look for me if you lack people, go to the personnel side to ask for it! Fan Zhe was really speechless.
"I know, I know." Gao Yixiang nodded again and again, then licked his face and pasted it up, and said, "However, the people recruited from outside are not familiar with each other, and they are mixed." It's okay to recruit ordinary people, but there is a lack of people in charge! ”
"What do you want to do?" Fan Zhe became vigilant.
"Hey...... I want Zhong Hua to come into our studio and be an art director......"
Fan Zhe jumped directly to his feet: "Impossible!" You dream! ”
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