"Bang!"

A loud bang echoed through the ICQ headquarters.

A man in a suit looked gloomy as he looked at the phone that had just been hung up.

"A mere game studio would dare to negotiate terms with us? I really don't know how to write dead words! ”

As one of the major chat software companies in China, Miracle also has a large proportion of the online game market.

Even in today's popular online games, there are two that they operate.

A small game studio, with a little achievements in the field of stand-alone machines, thought that it could be on an equal footing with them, and it looked up to itself a little too much.

In the entire game industry, who doesn't know that the online game market is bigger and more vocal than stand-alone games?

"Go, cancel the contract I talked about with Hong Huang before, I want to see how they can gain a foothold in the online game market without our support!"

The man whispered to his subordinates.

"However, the other ones," the subordinate hesitated.

"Don't care, the price of those companies is higher than ours, and it is even more impossible for Hong Huang to accept it, if they are not stupid, the best way is to give up the online game market and go back to continue to make their own stand-alone machines."

Since the birth of the gaming industry, the entire industry has been divided into two fields: online games and stand-alone games.

Compared to the single machine, a hundred flowers bloom.

Online games obviously pay more attention to the accumulation of word-of-mouth, the accumulation of players, and the ability to operate in the long run.

That's why the market is dominated by many large manufacturers.

Many stand-alone manufacturers fail to enter online games, sometimes not because their games are not good, but because they lack this accumulation and resources.

It is only when men conclude that the flood lacks this prerequisite that they are so fearless.

"Forget about them, I heard that Shengqu has recently pulled in the game agents of major foreign manufacturers, and several others are also ready to move, ready to occupy more market share, we can't relax, we have to quickly negotiate that large-scale online game, this is our top priority."

Another reason for the price hike is that they are already talking about bigger partnerships.

In this critical period of competitive market, he didn't have the heart to waste time on that little game of the flood famine.

Let's talk about collapse, anyway, there is nothing to lose.

After speaking.

The man ignored it and picked up the phone and dialed another number.

The originally cold face was also full of smiles, as if it was a different person.

"Hey, Mr. Wu, the game agency project I talked to you about a few days ago"

Flood Wilderness Studio.

Chen Lin and the others, who were busy, didn't know the reaction of the miracle company.

After rejecting their request, he contacted several others to inquire about the final results.

The response was that there was no way to lower the price.

"Okay, if you can't talk about it, you can't talk about it, so you don't have to be constrained everywhere, and you have to give up part of the game share to them."

Chen Lin sat in the office, frowning and looking at the report handed over by Lao Song.

The one with the highest price not only requires a huge agency fee, but also asks for 50% of their share of the game.

I don't even treat them as human beings.

Or they just don't want to do it at all.

"I think they should have more important projects to discuss, otherwise they wouldn't have offered such a high price." Lao Song analyzed rationally.

"You're right, if I'm not mistaken, they are probably talking to several major foreign manufacturers about game agents, and are ready to introduce foreign games into China."

"Game agents? How do you know? Old Song looked surprised.

"I guess." Chen Lin smiled mysteriously.

How does he know?

Of course I've seen it with my own eyes.

Although the development trajectories of the two worlds are different, the urine nature of capital will not change.

As long as you can make money.

They don't care if the game is made in-house or imported from abroad.

Calculating the time, it has been more than half a year since capital entered the market, and the agency trend should be about to rise.

They have to seize the time to gain a foothold in the online gaming market.

Otherwise, it won't be easy to go in again when it's late.

"By the way, how's the game going? Did you encounter any challenges? ”

Chen Lin changed his conversation and talked about the game.

"There is nothing wrong with the production, without changing the original style, the image quality and modeling have been improved to a very high level, but there is a design that I feel is a little unreasonable."

"Which design?"

"Fatigue."

Lao Song replied without thinking.

"Today's online games, basically want players to be online all day long, you add this fatigue value, players have nothing to do after they run out, isn't this driving people offline?"

Although he has never done online games, he still knows a lot about online games, and what he pays attention to is an online rate.

The more players are online, the more money they make.

How can anyone use such a thing as fatigue to push players out?

"That's wrong, fatigue has to be there, it's the key to revitalizing this game."

"How?" Old Song was slightly surprised.

"You think, if there is no fatigue value, some players will definitely be promoted to the full level in a short period of time and occupy rare resources."

"In order to catch up, ordinary players have to invest more time, and over time, they will have a feeling of boredom at work, so they will get out of the pit."

"At the beginning of our game, we mainly took the casual and lightweight route, and the fatigue value was to limit the gap between players, so that they would not have the feeling of being chased, and they could devote themselves to the game content."

Chen Lin's voice was calm, talking about the advantages of fatigue value setting.

In addition to these points, there is a more important point.

That's the anti-graduation mechanism.

As a game that is biased towards character development, it is the most taboo to graduate too quickly.

Because once it is too easy to graduate, players will not have much sense of accomplishment in playing, and their expectations of becoming stronger will be greatly reduced, which will eventually lead to getting out of the pit.

And the fatigue value.

It's an excellent solution to this problem!

"I see, there is such a thing in it."

After listening to the explanation, Lao Song finally came to his senses, but it was a little refreshing his previous concepts.

"According to what you say, we can start with the number of classes, so that players still want to play after playing the first number, then they can open the trumpet again and continue to play."

"That's right, the most important thing in this game is the class, so the class balance is the difficulty, remember to call the value group to test it a few more times when the time comes."

"Okay, I'll arrange it."

Lao Song has always been resolute in doing things, and he turned around and left directly after speaking.

When I walked to the door, I suddenly thought of something, and turned back again: "By the way, the sales report of the first week of "Warm Snow" has been sent to you, you have time to take a look." ”

Came out so soon?

Chen Lin raised his eyebrows, clicked on the report sent by Lao Song and glanced at it.

In just one week.

"Warm Snow" sold 225,000 copies.

Compared with other 30+ million masterpieces in the first week, although it is a little lower, it is also beyond his initial estimate.

After all, the investment in this game is not huge.

Not even a tenth of Resident Evil.

"With a little more promotion, it should be no problem to sell millions."

Chen Lin remembered the requirements of the sixth phase of the system, ten games with sales of one million.

Now there are a total of five models that meet the requirements: Monster Hunter, Need for Speed, Human Defeat, One Wolf, and Two Guys.

Three between 500,000 and 100,000 models: Braveheart, Killing Spire, and Messing Kitchen.

Yes.

The sales of humanity's defeat are actually higher than the latecomers, and they are higher than the Killing Spires released earlier.

The main reason is that this game is enough for sand sculptures, and the price is cheap.

Coupled with the help of the creative workshop, it has become the first choice for many players to be funny and happy.

Of course.

Because of the advantage of the release time.

The Killing Spire now has more than 900,000 sales, and it is only one step away from a million.

Brave Heart is estimated to be a bit difficult because of the limitations of the painting style and subject matter.

Messing around with the kitchen has potential, but after all, it hasn't been released for a long time, and it still needs time to accumulate.

Other words.

He still has about three explosive products left before he can unlock the sixth stage and get that security firewall reward.

This is something that is very important for the information security of online games.

You have to get it as soon as possible.

Otherwise, with their current level of security technology, it is difficult to block the attack of hackers.

"Millions of sales, which game should I make?"

Chen Lin touched his chin and looked at the list of solutions on the computer.

These are all documents that he usually makes when he has free time, and lists those excellent games.

Some have already done more or less the same, and some have just made the beginning.

He scrolled his mouse and looked at the list of documents on it.

Because of the establishment of the online game team, the studio has been drained a lot of manpower, and it will take time to recruit a new batch of people.

Therefore, a 3A game that is too large is not suitable for the project for the time being.

"Huh? this game."

Suddenly, Chen Lin paused, and his gaze fell on one of the folders.

Through the thumbnail of the folder, you can also faintly see a beautiful card drawing.

When he saw the name of the file, the corners of his mouth suddenly rose.

"AR and holographic projection have been in hand for so long, and it seems that there is no place to use them, so let's make this first."

With that, click on the file and get busy.

Time is in a hurry.

In the blink of an eye, it is a new summer vacation again.

As the hottest months of the year, the scorching temperature did not hide the enthusiasm of netizens.

Travel of travel, travel of tourism.

Only the workers and students preparing for the exam still stick to their posts and work silently.

It's as if summer vacation has nothing to do with them.

"Calculate the time, the new games represented by those big manufacturers should be launched soon, right?"

On the Internet, idle players discuss the latest trends in the game industry.

Unlike self-developed games, agency games do not require a lot of R&D and production time.

You only need to get the authorization and build the channel, and you can officially go online.

So not long ago, several major online game manufacturers publicly announced that the new game will be launched soon, and the time is during the summer vacation.

Prepare to take this opportunity to harvest a wave of holiday traffic.

"Brothers, look at the official blog! Those games are coming soon! ”

Suddenly, a message appears that interrupts the players' discussions.

While they were discussing who would launch first, several major manufacturers actually issued announcements at the same time, announcing that the new game would be officially launched.

"I'm blanching! It's really an announcement! ”

"And it's several at the same time!"

"Did they negotiate this?"

"Hahaha, okay, now there's finally a new game to play."

"Brothers, rush! Strive to be the first in the whole server! ”

"The King's Landing Guild recruits people, and those who are interested will chat privately and open up the wasteland together."

"The Peak Battle Pavilion Guild recruits a large number of new players, and settles in major new tours to come to like-minded brothers."

In an instant, the whole Internet was boiling.

Started to prepare for the launch of the new game.

Because they all know that the most important opportunity for online games.

The first time you enter the game, one step faster than other players, you may get valuable resources first, and open up the gap.

Some game studios have even gathered people to prepare for new games.

There is even a group in each game to get the first step in the business.

Because they don't know which of these games will end up killing, they can only use the stupidest and most effective way to cast a wide net.

"Boss, just released a new game called Dungeons & Warriors, do you want to open a separate group?"

In a gold-striking studio, an employee's shout sounded.

"Dungeons? Haven't heard of a game from any manufacturer? ”

The studio owner, who was hurrying to prepare, asked without raising his head.

"It seems to be the Honghuang Studio." The employee replied.

"Flood? It turned out to be them, didn't they make a stand-alone machine? Why did you suddenly come to do online games? ”

(End of chapter)