"In advance? A beta version coming out this week? What the hell. ”

Sun Rong was full of anger, he felt that the boss of the company was simply playing the piano randomly. It's still a while before it goes on sale, and there's no reason to release a beta version so early.

Stand-alone is not an online game, if it is a large-scale MMORPG, then when the game has a prototype, you can open the test server test. For example, WOW is like this, and each expansion pack is tested when it is basically only a small part of the content, and the bugs are flying all over the sky, and they are all changing bugs while testing.

However, single-player games can't do this, especially single-player RPGs with the plot as the core, and the testing work is carried out behind closed doors. It is also close to the release of a media version of the game that will be released and distributed to various game media review agencies. This media version is actually no different from the official version, but it just allows the media to get in touch with the game earlier than players, so that it can be rated and reviewed in time.

Sun Rong is an old man in the domestic game industry, starting with the Swordsman series, and then the stand-alone decline and the rise of the mobile terminal, Sun Rong took a few people to make a swordsman-themed mobile game.

It's a very ordinary skin-changing mobile game, all of which rely on the popularity of the swordsman theme in China, and the IP is a marginal game, after all, the IP of the original series is in the hands of the old club, and it can't be used.

In recent years, mobile games with various fairy and martial arts themes have been flooded, with shorter and shorter lifespans and increasing competitive pressure. They have only lived for more than a year in this swordsman mobile game, and they can't do it anymore. The company has no follow-up projects, so it can only choose to run away.

It was also at this time that someone found Sun Rong and told him that someone wanted to invest in a stand-alone masterpiece, Xianxia theme, and asked him if he was interested.

This person is Sun Rong's colleague when he was doing the Swordsman series, he told him that he had an investment and planned to start a big project, but he was short of manpower, and asked Sun Rong if he was interested in doing it together.

Sun Rong still likes to make stand-alone machines in his bones, as an old man in the industry, Sun Rong's age is already considered old in the game industry. At his age, if he hadn't successfully started a business and become a boss, most of them would have quit the industry.

I have to say that the batch of stand-alone games in the early years still influenced a generation, but unfortunately there is no successor.

Sun Rong thought about it and agreed. In this situation, except for a few giants, the risk of making mobile games is already too great, and the desire of VC to pitch mobile games is getting lower and lower.

Sun Rong's swordsman mobile game can't be said to be a success, but he barely survived. In the field of mobile games now, this is already very good, and it is one in a hundred to survive, and now in addition to the mobile games of a few big manufacturers and giants, how can it be so easy to make a hit.

This is how the foundation of the Gunsan Studio was pulled, and I have to say that the boss's ambitions are quite big and the funds are abundant. The whole studio also has dozens of small people, poached some people from Zhucheng, and recruited a group of people in Rongshi.

After the start of the Gunsan Studio, Sun Rong found that it was not as good as he thought. The young and beautiful female boss is a complete layman in the game industry, but she has a strong desire to control, and she is completely a businessman at heart, and she believes in that set of marketing methods.

The boss is named as a producer, and the old colleague who pulled Sun Rong in is responsible for the specific development work, and he is the second person in the development department.

"You also know the boss's character, what she thinks is, it's useless for anyone to say." Yang Kai spread his hands and said helplessly.

Yang Kai is the head of the development department, and the Gunsan studio is only responsible for the development work, and the commercial operation is all in charge of another group of people. This is also what Sun Rong criticizes, their development work must serve the boss's business decisions, and in Sun Rong's view, many decisions are taken for granted.

"The money from the boss, we are all part-time workers, and we can't speak." Yang Kai smiled bitterly, when he took this investment, he knew that this kind of thing would happen, and the character of this boss is a typical person who likes laymen to guide insiders, and has a strong desire for power. But he still should come down, there are really not many people who are willing to invest money in a single machine these years, at least he has found several large factories including Penguin for the project of "Ten Thousand Immortals", and they are not willing to invest.

In the final analysis, they are still an unprofessional workshop-style operation model, and the slogan is loud, but in fact, they can't keep up in all aspects.

Sun Rong frowned and said: "You also know the current situation of "Ten Thousand Immortals War", the follow-up optimization work is really stressful, and it is approaching the end of the year, what kind of beta version will be made, isn't this sick?" ”

Yang Kai comforted: "The beta version of this thing, just fool it around." You can change it with our latest beta version, the boss wants to use this way to do publicity, and all aspects must be good, and others won't talk nonsense. ”

His family knows his own affairs, and Sun Rong and Yang Kai know exactly what the situation of "Ten Thousand Immortals War" is now. However, in terms of publicity, it has its own set of propaganda methods, and the boss wants to invite major media to test and publicize, which must be a point, and then you can only hear a hymn.

If others take money to do things, it's impossible to say whether they will play seriously or not.

After discussing some follow-up things about "The War of Ten Thousand Immortals", Yang Kai sighed: "We can only do our best to obey the destiny of heaven, anyway, the name of the boss of the producer has now become playing with the boss." ”

Sun Rong smiled bitterly: "When the planning case was brought back a few times, I knew that this matter was not easy to handle, the boss was too big, the requirements were high, and the steps were too big." ”

At the beginning of the project, Sun Rong wrote several plans to change the project framework according to the actual situation of Gunsan Studio, mainly to reduce the difficulty of development and use some more stable routines. However, all these plans were called back by Chen Ying, and said that she only made milestone boutiques when she came to make games.

Sun Rong has no choice, he can only do it according to the boss's requirements, the whole research and development process is really ups and downs, and they really made a little something, but Sun Rong knows that these things are far from high-quality products.

"Have you heard about Future Oasis and their Lost Wonderlands project?" After chatting about this, Yang Kai suddenly asked.

Sun Rong nodded and said, "I've heard, there's been a lot of movement in the past few days, is this really fake?" ”

Yang Kai said: "I don't know, I just heard that the penguins have sent someone to contact them, I don't know the specific situation, but I think there should be something." ”

Sun Rong said: "Now Penguin has always wanted to enter the stand-alone market, and in recent years, it has begun to burn money to raise a stand-alone development studio, this future oasis will not be incubated by them, in recent years, Penguin has poached a lot of people from the world's major factories and come back, and it is not surprising that a strong studio has come out." ”

Yang Kai shook his head and said, "It shouldn't be, I asked a few acquaintances, but I haven't heard of it." ”

Sun Rong sighed and said: "The Chronicle of Ten Thousand Immortals will be released in two months, do you think we will bump into it?" ”

Yang Kai thought for a while, shook his head and said: "No, although their development progress is unknown, but if it is to be released at the same time as us, the news will come out a long time ago." ”

Five minutes later, Yang Kai's mobile phone screen lit up.

A push message came from a social platform account that Yang Kai followed.

"The mysterious new domestic work "Lost Secret Land" from Future Oasis Company is scheduled to be released globally on April 5 and will be released on the shelves of WG at the same time."