My wife's belly is getting bigger and bigger.

In order to facilitate the care of the pregnant Cocoa, Gu Miao chose to work from home. Unless it's something particularly important, he only goes to the company.

Otherwise......

I didn't see anyone for a week!

For the irresponsible and rotten approach of the director and boss, the colleagues of the animation production team of "Yu-Gi-Oh" are full of resentment.

Scald!

Your wife is pregnant, and it's not you're pregnant, what's the matter? You want to take a vacation too, don't you?

It's just too slack!

If it weren't for Gu Miao's goods, the identity of investor + director + screenwriter + boss would not be provoked, everyone would definitely have to strike, give him a little color.

Gu Miao didn't know, because he hadn't gone to work for a week, and the tool people had already had the idea of "strike protest".

Even if he knew, he wouldn't change.

Because during this time, although he has been working from home and seems to have nothing to do, he is actually busy with a very important matter.

Yu-Gi-Oh spin-off game!

A week ago, President Kobayashi from Wanbao Games reported to him on the sales of the PC, mobile, handheld and console versions of Pokémon.

It has to be said that Pokémon is indeed a great wonder in the gaming world.

This thing is really hot!

When it comes to game sales data, President Kobayashi has a smile on his face.

As expected, after the release of this year's group financial report data, Wanbao Games is definitely the second largest net income of many subsidiaries after Wanbao Toys.

A proper second-in-command!

Gu Miao, who learned that Wanbao Games made a lot of money in the first half of this year, admired the ability of "Pokémon" to attract money.

Meanwhile.

He, who was working on the Yu-Gi-Oh animation, also had an idea.

If he's not mistaken, it seems that the card battle game of the same name adapted from "Yu-Gi-Oh" is also quite profitable?

The question is, how to do it?

In the memory of his previous life, since the IP of "Yu-Gi-Oh" fell into the hands of Konami, there have been many game adaptations.

Have you ever heard of Yu-Gi-Oh Capsule Monsters: Raise & Fight?

What about Yu-Gi-Oh: Monster Showdown?

Did you know "Monster Showdown 2"?

Have you played the masterpiece Yu-Gi-Oh 5D's: World Series 2011?

All right!

Seeing this series of names, I believe everyone will feel lost and wonder what these things are.

Actually.

Most of these games are "official game-specific software" developed by Konami. It's not quite appropriate to say it's a game.

What's more, in the early days, these games were rarely released in China and became popular.

The familiar "Yu-Gi-Oh: Duel Link" is the orthodox game work of Yu-Gi-Oh in the real sense, which has entered the field of vision of ordinary domestic players.

Of course, this is a misnomer.

There are too many derivative games in the "Yu-Gi-Oh" series of Konami played.

In terms of the number of derivative games, the "Yu-Gi-Oh" series is actually not inferior to "Pokémon", that is, Pokémon.

But there is an embarrassing fact.

"Yu-Gi-Oh" is still more famous for its "physical" game cards, and the electronic card game is a bit pulled, and on a global scale, it is not how popular or famous.

…

This is not Gu Miao's embarrassment!

When it comes to the Yu-Gi-Oh spin-off game, the first thing that comes to everyone's mind is definitely a board game that uses "physical cards" to fight.

It is not an electronic version of the "Card Battle" game on consoles, PCs, and handhelds.

This speaks volumes......

Konami has really not done a good job in the development of video games in "Yu-Gi-Oh". On the contrary, it is a physical card game, which can be called a global hit.

However, Konami is not to blame for this.

Card veterans seem to be more interested in physical card battles than video games.

It's not the same as Pokémon.

Pokémon games are popular, and that's because in reality, Pokémon can't be caught at all. If you want to experience Pokémon Battle Training, you can only play video games.

If there are Pokémon in reality, how many people do you think will play the "Pokémon" game?

The reason why Yu-Gi-Oh spin-off video games are not popular is largely due to ......

There are cards in reality!

In reality, I bought a bunch of physical cards, isn't it good for me to play physical card battles directly? Why do you have to use a game console to play a virtual "card battle" game?

That's why.

Many of the Yu-Gi-Oh spin-off games released by Konami have mostly been turned into "game-specific software".

Gu Miao didn't want to repeat the mistakes of the past.

Who can withstand the carefully developed video game that has become "game-specific software" in the end?

What he wants is to develop an online game of "Yu-Gi-Oh" that can take into account both competition and gameplay, and attract ordinary players to play in the pit.

That's right!

Online games, not stand-alone!

"If you play a single-player game, the sense of accomplishment of beating the computer AI is a bit too bad."

Gu Miao explained: "The competition between players is the most attractive part of Yu-Gi-Oh. ”

It's easy to understand.

If you make it a stand-alone machine, you will abuse the computer all day long, and it will not be interesting to abuse it in the end. It is estimated that after playing a few hands, many people will feel tired.

It is much more interesting to make an online game, match players through the network, and then add the "rank" division, and the winning player can increase the rank.

"It's easy."

President Kobayashi nodded and said, "Making an online game is nothing more than increasing some server expenses." The game is indeed much more interesting than that of a single machine. ”

"But how are we going to make a profit?"

That's the core question!

Making games is not doing charity, what game companies want is definitely making money, and games that can't make money are no different from a piece of.

For now, the buyout system is not suitable.

Because this "Yu-Gi-Oh" spin-off game is an online game, online games will have high server maintenance expenses.

For online games, it is more reasonable to charge props and "time charges".

Time charging is currently the mainstream.

But there is also a threshold, and the time fee will dissuade many white prostitute players, and these players, to put it bluntly, are also part of the game experience.

Only props are charged.

Considering the special nature of the gameplay of "Yu-Gi-Oh", the item charge is also very well designed.

It's nothing more than a "card draw"!

There is only one product in the mall, "Card Pack", which can be recharged to draw cards and increase the number of your "card library".

Ordinary players can also draw the number of lottery draws for nothing through their daily activities.

Anyway, krypton players, at most, there are more cards than white prostitute players, and the group cards are more free and rich, and nothing else.

"Let's make a few more skins."

Gu Miao thought of the little heroes in [Genting Zhiyi], as well as all kinds of chessboards and attack effects, and immediately had an idea.

These don't affect the fairness of the game, and krypton gold can't change anything about the "bells and whistles" skins, you can do a few more.

Earn money, don't chill!

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