Chapter 267: Celebration Banquet
The online content version of "Taigo 2" was originally something that was planned to be launched.
Online play, this feature may not be particularly helpful for the quality of the game itself, but it will have a better effect on the long-term income of the game.
The members of the planning team of 'Luozhou Studio' are already thinking about waiting for the online version to be launched, and they will hold an event such as 'the world's No. 1 martial arts conference', and set a time so that all players can sign up to participate. The competition system doesn't have to be too complicated, just make a ring match and bring the audience below.
Even, if you perform well, it is still unknown whether you can go to esports.
Although, RPG games, if you want to do e-sports, games that are not inherently FPS or MOBA are more suitable.
And then again, the sales of 14 million units in the first week of "Taiwu Picture Scroll 2" are actually far from reaching their peak.
Although the sales of this game have exploded, due to various reasons, in fact, many players who first learned about this work did not buy it directly.
For Chinese players, they have experienced a lot of 'triple-A scams', although before this, they were very much looking forward to "Taiwu 2", but when the game is launched, there are still some people who will choose to wait and see for a while.
Similarly, in the overseas market, there are not a few such wait-and-see players. Their doubts are mainly because of the subject matter.
But then again, people who have basically fallen into the pit, after watching for a while, are likely to buy games.
There is no other reason, whether it is the various news about "Taigo 2" that they have seen on the Internet, or the feedback given by friends around them who have played the game, the quality of this game is extremely high.
At the same time, as more and more players play, the whole game has become more and more popular. This is reflected in the fact that there are a large number of game anchors and video makers playing this game, both at home and abroad. Their live broadcasts, the game video content they made, spread wildly on the Internet.
This kind of popularity has also attracted many players who didn't know about "Taiwu Picture Scroll 2" before this to enter this game world.
And these are all reflected in the sales of "Taiwu 2".
The global sales of 14 million units in the first week are already quite good results. By the end of August, that number had reached 26 million units!
In a little more than two weeks, "Taiwu 2" has sold tens of millions of copies.
With a total of 26 million units sold, the game has made a profit of more than $1.5 billion.
There is no doubt that "Taiwu Picture Scroll 2" has become one of the most profitable games in the world.
In the company, a celebration banquet has been held.
In fact, this celebration banquet is somewhat late, and it should have been held when the sales came out.
However, at that time, the team of 'Luozhou' was intensively promoting the development of the online version, striving to make the online version online as usual according to the information announced before, so as to cooperate with the company's marketing department to formulate the 'No. 1 Martial Arts Conference in the World'.
As a result, the entire development department was busy, and there was little time for the celebrations.
However, by now, the online version has been almost done, the first version has been released, and the official version will be launched soon, and the workload of the development team has dropped all of a sudden. Although there are still a lot of things to be done for later maintenance, it is not too busy.
So, Fan Zhe was also very generous, he directly booked a five-star hotel next to it, invited a good chef to make a top-level buffet, and let the entire project team of hundreds of people eat, drink, and have fun at will.
Although the price is high, it is still a drop in the bucket compared to the profits they bring to the company.
According to the current sales of "Taiwu Picture Scroll 2", even if the sales of this game do not increase in the future, it will at least bring more than one billion US dollars in revenue to Wedo Entertainment.
This is equivalent to about 7 billion yuan!
Although, the game was able to do and be able to do it this way, the 'dimensional' system actually took the most credit.
Whether it is the 'Dimension Engine' or the art resources provided by the 'Dimension' system, it is difficult to measure with money. Otherwise, it is very difficult to achieve the visual effects of the combat system shown in "Taigo 2", or the calculation level of intelligent AI such as "dynamic rivers and lakes", with modern technology.
Not to mention whether it can be done or can't be done, at least, with the cost of 1.2 billion yuan announced by "Taiwu 2", it is definitely impossible - it is not fun to multiply it several times.
But in any case, we can't ignore the role of 'people'.
The plan of the game planning, about various Chinese elements, the embodiment of traditional martial arts philosophy in the game, about various art designs, about the calculation design of dynamic rivers and lakes......
All of these embody the hard work of all the staff of the 'Luozhou Studio' directly under Wedo Entertainment in the past two years.
Spend a little money and treat everyone to a celebratory feast, which is the proper meaning.
In the lobby of the hotel, Fan Zhe also put down the post-work of "Martial Arts Grandmaster" and chose to come over to spend this day with everyone, which may be more meaningful than the Spring Festival.
Eat, drink, chat...... There is nothing annoying for the leader to speak, just everyone relaxes together.
In the second half of the banquet, Fan Zhe and Zhong Hua got together and chatted about the next project.
""Taiwu" is finished, but I don't plan to let "Luozhou Studio" rest, in addition to the necessary iteration and maintenance of "Taiwu 2", I am ready to transfer out the rest of the manpower and start the next game project."
"Wow, Fan, you're such a vampire! We've all made billions of dollars for you, and we won't even give you a break? Zhong Hua said in a very exaggerated manner, of course, he was joking, his personal relationship with Fan Zhe was already very good.
Fan Zhe smiled and said, "Do you want to rest?" That's okay, I'll give you two months off, it's okay if it's not half a year, wherever you go, I'll find Miller to do art for new projects. ”
"Don't don't, old Fan, Mr. Fan, Fan Shen, I was wrong." Zhong Hua looked dead and said, "Tell me, what are you going to do with the new game project?" ”
"It is estimated that it will be an original game IP, and the theme may be steampunk."
"Steampunk?"
"Yes, how about being a steam master, what do you think?"
"Clams?"