Chapter 173: The Game Behind the Scenes Between the Two Games
Potato Brothers is not like those games on the market that need to take up all your time and energy as soon as you get started.
It's more like a spice, just like a short video, which can occupy your fragmented time all the time, so that you can have a hand when you are bored.
But one of the things that is very similar to short videos is that it's easy to stop after playing.
Obviously, I felt like I had only played a few handfuls, but time slipped out like water.
And on the surface, this game is the kind of unique lawn mowing game, but after you really play it, you will find that there are still some difficulties in this game.
If you blindly put all your resources into attacking, you will easily be killed by monsters because the error tolerance rate is too low.
When you put all your resources into defense, you'll get into a monster tide because you don't move the monsters.
You may be able to survive a wave or two, but not being able to kill enough monsters means that your resource acquisition will also be reduced, and your subsequent development will not be able to keep up with the strength of the monsters, and you will die violently.
But does evenly distributing the bonus points lead to mediocrity in every game?
Of course not.
Among the Potato Brothers, the differences between the different characters are quite significant.
With the Ranger you can't equip melee weapons.
When you play Pacifist, all you have to do is pile all the attributes on your life and swim among the mob piles.
There are also engineers, capable of making turrets.
Coupled with the high randomness of the meat pigeon game itself, plus a sufficient number of types of props and weapons, this leads to many times when you can't perfectly farm the weapons and props you need.
In this process, the core "choice" of the meat pigeon game surfaced.
Whether your choices are good or not determines whether you can beat the game smoothly.
In addition, the influencing factors that determine whether a meat pigeon game is fun enough are whether it can be played well enough after it is built.
This is not missing among the potato brothers.
Playing mechanic six nuclear bomb launchers to clear the screen of who knows, Lucky Star picks up a prop full screen death light performance is also very cool.
Some of the responses in the steam evaluation area can be said to be quite vivid:
"You can have one hand wasd and one hand pestle your head OVO."
"It's cooler than a hand punch, a batch on top. Changing roles is a different game, but this game has dozens of characters, and the price is over without a brainstorm. ”
"It's no problem with this style of play, just bad luck, let's do it back!
It's okay with this style of play, it's not good just out of position. Another 100 million!
No play before bedtime! ”
So, what's the use of saying so much?
Why don't you hurry up and fix a handful of potato brothers!
In just three days.
At first, it was just a group of Dota streamers playing it, but then it began to spread like a virus.
According to the data on the Chuxin side, in fact, the group with the widest coverage of this game is actually office workers!
"When I bought this game during the holidays, I played it for 20 minutes and put it down, and I had to play at least four or five hours a day when I went to work, and it was really cool to touch the fish!"
"Haha, the stupid leader is in front of the meeting, Lao Tzu is playing with Brother Potato below, he thought I was taking notes seriously, and praised me fiercely."
"Kill time is very easy to use, a good and inexpensive game."
Compared with domestic player groups, foreign player groups actually place orders faster.
On the one hand, because of the blockage of the news, they actually didn't know that this game was actually made by Pu Xingyu, and they didn't have a brainless look, but they just saw "chuxin" and had no brains.
Forehead...... On the other hand, it is also stained with the light of mirror.
Chuxin's current game,Mirror is the cheapest.,And then there's this potato brother.。
Although looking at the name seems to be a serious game, looking at the introduction is also a serious game, and looking at the preview is also a serious game.
But it's really not a serious game, so you still have to buy it and taste it.
This led to the fact that although many European and American players found out that this game was a serious game after buying it, they first scolded it, and then it really smelled good.
As the week passed.
When "The Legend of Mountains and Seas Cultivating Immortals" has squeezed out all its potential and is still rushing for 300,000 sales, the sales of the Potato Brothers have almost exceeded 3 million.
Although the profit is small, it is a lot of sales!
Ten times the difference, the main thing is a crushing.
If only that were it.
Soon, the news of the full-platform porting of "Potato Brothers" from the PC side by the well-known domestic mobile game transplanting company, Tempxin Network and Chuxin, swept through the entire game circle.
Everyone shook their heads and then realized.
Yes, the Potato Brothers game is actually very mobile-friendly.
Although computers are now very popular, the advantage of mobile is convenience, which is also an important reason why the previous batch of big manufacturers engaged in online games have switched to mobile games.
This is also a real big money absorber!
Players have also expressed their support:
"Although I bought the potato brothers on steam, this game 22 is really a big profit, and I will definitely support it on the mobile game side."
"I have long wanted to play Potato Brothers when I saw those videos on the short video, but I still don't have a computer and it's not very convenient for me, and now there is a mobile game side, and I will definitely support a wave."
And as the only game that has blossomed on PC and mobile.
The project "Potato Brothers" can undoubtedly be described as a great success.
Suddenly, Pu Xingyu's name was once again mentioned by all players and game media.
This time, all the voices of doubt have also disappeared.
"Who still says that my brother Pu can't do it? People have been around the old thief for so long, and they must have learned a little bit of real talent! ”
"I haven't played all the games before my beginning, they are too difficult to understand. But this time the potato brothers, it really makes me like it very much. ”
"We will also support the game made by Brother Pu next time, come on!"
When everyone praised this new star game producer who emerged in a sweeping way in the game market for the first time, there were also good people who gave Pu Xingyu the title of "Little Luobai".
The same debuted as a very cheap game, and the same swept the Internet just when it was first released.
It seems that everyone has seen another genius game developer rising in the sky.
This kind of thing should have been a good thing, but gradually, because of the appearance of some remarks, it gradually became a little wrong.
"Why didn't Brother Pu break away from his original intention and go it alone? If you are so talented, you can only have internal friction with Mr. Luo at the beginning, and you will have a better development when you come out. ”
"In my opinion, Pu Xingyu's game "Potato Brothers" alone is enough to prove his talent, no worse than Luo Bai, there is no need to succumb to others."
"Say that a "Potato Brothers" can be compared to an old thief? What are you kidding? You pus filial sons are almost there. ”
"Luo Xiaozi is almost right, blowing your master everywhere every day, I don't know how many game producers in this world are better than Luo Bai, so you can't wait to be the first in the world every day."
Seriously, Pu Xingyu was originally sullen and sneaky to watch the praise of "Potato Brothers" on the Internet.
He was very happy when others praised him.
But as soon as I saw these remarks, people were numb.
hurriedly ran to Luo Bai, saying that he wanted to contact the media to hold a press conference or something like that, and publicize that the idea of "Potato Brothers" came completely from Luo Ge.
After listening to this, Ke Luobai didn't react at all, just focused on the keyboard, and asked Pu Xingyu a question that made him scratch his head by the way.
"Did you get a call from a headhunter?"
"Huh? No? Why do you ask this? ”
Pu Xingyu scratched the back of his head, brainstormed in his mind for a long time, and finally figured out some taste.
"Brother Luo, you mean someone is going to dig me?"
"Isn't that obvious?"
Luo Bai poked out half of his head from behind the monitor,
"Don't talk about mirror, when I finished Ori, I made a lot of noise than you are now, right? Why didn't you see anyone on the Internet bragging about me like this?
It's just that I had too much trouble with Tianxing at that time, which is equivalent to cutting myself off from the domestic game circle, and these people didn't want to dig me.
It's just a potato brother, the revenue is not as good as a hair of these guys, and it's not a particularly valuable IP work in itself, how can it be worth blowing like this......"
Luo Bai was only halfway through his words when Pu Xingyu's mobile phone rang.
"Strange magic phone call."
Luo Bai closed his mouth and gave Pu Xingyu a look.
Pu Xingyu also answered the phone with a comprehension and turned on the hands-free button.
"Oh, good afternoon Mr. Pu, congratulations on the big sale of "Potato Brothers"!"
"You are?"
"That's right, Mr. Pu, our boss wants to invite you to a light meal, I don't know if it's suitable or not......"
On the other end of the phone, the person was talking about the sky.
In and out of the words, as long as Pu Xingyu is willing to go, any Haitian feast can be arranged.
Under Luo Bai's handwritten hints, Pu Xingyu politely refused, but the appearance of wanting to refuse and welcoming just because the increase was not enough was clearly revealed.
"There are a lot of people, Brother Luo."
Pu Xingyu smiled bitterly and looked at Luo Bai in front of him.
"Don't fix those useless things, it's better to sleep well if you have time to deal with this kind of, I'll deal with this kind of thing, you don't have to worry about it."
……
Two games released at the same time, the sales gap is so big, and there is still a long-cherished grudge, it must be pulled out by the good deeds and trampled on.
Of course, Li Si himself doesn't care about this.
Touching the original intention of porcelain is such a thing, it is originally a blood win, and a loss should be.
In the frenzied confrontation of a small number of Internet devils, the voice that occupies the mainstream is still relatively rational.
"Both games are not bad games, and the fundamental purpose of Mr. Luo's establishment of the 'Beginner Seedling Program' is to support the development of domestic games.
It's really unnecessary to make trouble to this point, didn't Chuxin himself say anything? ”
"We are playing games, not game developers, so there is no need to affect our mood of playing games for people like Li Si.
I play both games.,When the mountains and seas are bored, I play potatoes.,The potatoes were frustrated all of a sudden, and I turned my head to play the mountains and seas.,There's no need to spray.。 ”
"Indeed, isn't Li Si himself a long memory?
After he was sprayed, there was no internal purchase of the whole internal purchase, which shows that the person is still a guy who knows his mistakes and changes them. ”
Roar.
It's okay not to talk about internal purchases, but when it comes to internal purchases, the big guys also remember.
Didn't Li Si say at the time, didn't he want to buy the game of the Legend of Mountains and Seas Cultivating Immortals? Why did the game really come out and become an all-buyout game?
Now that you have changed your past, why did you step on your original intention at that time?
It is normal for the two sides to have disagreements on the buyout system and internal purchases, and everything can be discussed.
From this point of view, it seemed very abnormal that Li Si directly broke the news with the media at that time that he had a disagreement with Chuxin.
If it was only some netizens who thought that this matter was not quite right and speculated behind their backs at the beginning, the follow-up incident shocked the big teeth of countless netizens.
"There is suspected that there is a capital injection from a large domestic factory behind Li Si's studio!"
"Sniper operation against the original heart!"
"The driving force behind the development of domestic stand-alone games!"
The people who broke the news are basically those melon-eating accounts on the Internet who specialize in breaking melons, and everyone doesn't know where they got the inside information.
These melons that burst out are very riddler-like in what they say.
does not name names, and never says things to the point, netizens only ask about him.
But there is no doubt that these spearheads are all pointed at the big game companies in the industry.
"This is Luo Bai fighting back, give up Li Si, the game between the two sides will be almost okay to this extent."
"Okay, I'll ask Li Si to launch the Yuanying version as soon as possible."
"By the way, how is Pu Xingyu's contact?"
"He is more ambiguous, as if he agreed and then didn't seem to agree."
"The conditions are not a problem, if you can take him down, there is no doubt that you can cut off Luo Bai's arm, which is enough."
……
"What?! Coming soon to launch the latest version of the Yuanying?
The game Shanhai still has potential, and the current reputation is okay, and I feel that it should be no problem to rush to 500,000 sales......"
Li Si pleaded dryly, and wanted to make a final struggle.
At present, the reputation of this game is still good, but if the current version of the Yuan Baby is really launched, it will be completely rotten.
You don't want your reputation among players to turn into shit.
"Li Si, the contract in black and white is here, if you don't want to get a penny, it's best to be obedient."
So, on March 20, half a month after the official release of "The Legend of Mountains and Seas Cultivating Immortals", the new version of the game "Baby" was officially launched.
Li Si himself fulfilled the decision he had made a long time ago and introduced the in-app purchase system into the game.
And then...... The player exploded in an instant.
"Li Si, you Moroccan fried cakes! I'm your whole family!
Before the version update, I had one of the best built Longhu Jindan, not to mention Yuanying, and I could fight a dozen of the gods.
Now, killing me as a most rubbish inferior infant is like killing my son!
After being promoted to Yuan Ying, the attribute is completely exponential explosive growth! ”
"Laughing, the main material of the thirty-six middle school of this knot infant pill, seventy-two kinds of secondary materials, and the failure rate of special refining!
If you want to keep the materials, you can only use the lucky charms in the system store.
Okay, okay, Li Si, you know how to buy in-house, the game is uninstalled, and you can't return it, so I'll give a bad review. ”
"Fixed the bug that the gap between the cultivation is too big to double cultivate?
Cow! Li Si, you're too awesome!
I finally know why people's original intentions are so different from you, why are you completely moving all the stinky problems of domestic garbage games, right?
No, why are you? A stand-alone game with sales of only more than 300,000 yuan, your plate, without the blessing of the mobile terminal, are you also worthy of this kind of operation?
There won't be any stupid guy willing to play your shitty game, right? ”
"Haha, I'm a fool, for the sake of my Taoist companion Hongying, I really rushed hundreds of yuan into this game to continue the cultivation.
It turned out that it was even more difficult to move an inch after getting married, and the construction of the best exercises that could be easily obtained has now been scrapped.
If you want to become stronger, you can only rebuild the new structure, Li Si, your whole family is not good 4! ”
It was only two days of events, and as the situation unfolded.
The steam praise rate of the entire "Legend of Mountains and Seas Cultivating Immortals" has changed from the original 90% special praise to the current 13% negative reviews.
Originally, there was a downward trend.
However, the continuous decline in the praise rate of this game has undoubtedly seriously threatened the penultimate position of "killing criticism".
The entire Three Kingdoms Kill post bar is full of support posts that re-advertise to keep the penultimate negative review rate of the Three Kingdoms, but it has pulled up the praise rate of Shanhai a little bit.
It has become a joke in the mouths of many players.
When Li Si himself saw this scene, his whole heart was dripping blood, but he couldn't help it, the game had already been sold to others, and if you want to make money, you have to look at people's faces.
And the thunderstorm of "The Legend of Mountains and Seas Cultivating Immortals" obviously also covered up the melon that "sniped the original intention" before.
Both sides tacitly did not go deeper into each other's bottoms in this area.
They know that what they are doing is not glamorous, so there is no need to make a fuss too ugly.
Chuxin also has no spare money to fight with these villains anymore.
The development funds of the forced game of "It Takes Two" are much more terrifying than those of Black Souls, and if there were no rotten oranges behind them in the previous life, the developers simply couldn't afford this cost.
At that time, there was a riverside villa in the magic capital.
Ma Liangcai, who was drinking tea with his father, swiped his mobile phone for a while, and suddenly sneered:
"He's really a lot more expensive, and he used to make a lot of trouble."
Ma Bin gently took a sip of tea in the cup, and looked at his son, who was much calmer in front of him:
"When you are weak, you are afraid of tricks, so you naturally want public opinion to protect yourself.
Now it's more or less an enemy who is already standing on the table and can compete on the same stage, and he just needs to push it over. ”
The two tacitly did not mention who the stepping stone was, and instead began to discuss with great interest the IP works that can be realized in large quantities at the beginning.
"Ori, count; Dark Dungeon ...... It's almost meaningless, it's too niche; Hollow Knight, count; Wanda and Black Soul are counted. ”
Ma Bin raised his fingers:
"Don't forget Mirror, that thing sells pretty well overseas.
At present, it is the IP work that attracts the most money at the beginning, but it is not known to the public. ”
"Stand-alone games, it's really money-making."
"To make quick money, you still need mobile games and online games, there were too many people in China before, and the competition was too fierce, so there were no conditions to settle down to polish stand-alone games."
"And now?"
"Probably...... It's a bit of a sprout, let's see what else he can set off. ”
(End of chapter)