After the Chinese New Year, the employees returned to the studio one after another.

It is worth mentioning that now there are a total of nine people in Tianba Studio, including Chen Ba.

In addition to the mobile game dog planning and special ability to eat boys recruited in the fan group, the studio also recruited two graduate college students who intend to stay in Jiangning after the Spring Festival.

"Nine is enough."

Chen Ba thought about it, even those top game studios that are famous all over the world are estimated to be only a few dozen or hundred.

But even so, they were able to develop a series of admirable 3A masterpieces in two to three years.

Therefore, people are not many but fine!

With the number of people in the studio approaching ten, the next step is not to recruit people randomly. Because at this point, quantity is not something that Chen Ba should consider, quality and ability are.

Recruit a few hundred people in one go?

This sounds like a great thing, and it can greatly relieve the pressure on the studio. But if you think about it, you know that with a development team of hundreds of people, the basic salary alone is enough to crush a game company.

And hundreds of mediocre people, can there really be a team composed of dozens of elites?

I'm afraid not!

Although there are only nine people in Tianba Studio, it can actually be regarded as a team of more than 30 people.

Because Chen Ba himself and Tie Hanhan system, whether it is work efficiency or comprehensive development ability, it is definitely stronger than 20 ordinary game developers.

It's mainly the system's work.

As for Chen Ba...... His role can be expressed in just one sentence: he and the two horses together can shake the economy of the whole of Asia!

"Are you crazy, do you want to pay for in-app purchases in a buyout game?"

"I'm not crazy! If you don't make some extra income, what do you say about server operation and maintenance costs? ”

Lu Jing and Yang Dong at the next desk quarreled, listening to the conversation seemed to be because of the charging model?

Chen Ba became interested, got up and walked over to join the discussion: "What are you arguing about?" Online mode of in-app purchases? ”

"Brother Dong said that the online mode should sell something that has nothing to do with the balance of the game, such as skins, which I don't think is appropriate."

As soon as Lu Jing saw Chen Ba, he couldn't help but complain: "A buyout game, won't it become a secondary charge?" ”

"Makes sense."

Chen Ba nodded.

Buyout games,It's really perverted to engage in this kind of in-mall purchase model,It means that players need to pay twice to experience the full game content。

Generally, it is free + in-app purchase, that is, the game itself is free to play, but the game will have a mall to provide various in-app purchase unlock content.

Buyout games rarely have this.

"If you don't think the term in-app purchase is good, then change it to DLC!" Yang Dong shook his head and explained, "In short, servers have operation and maintenance costs, and if we don't develop new revenue streams, servers will have to shut down soon." ”

To do the online mode, especially the multiplayer online mode of "Star Emperor", the server side is a hurdle that cannot be bypassed.

It's not that you rent or build a server and you're all set.

There is also a cost to the daily operation and maintenance of the server, and this cost is not supported by income.

"You have a point."

After listening to Brother Dong's explanation, Chen Ba hesitated for a while.

Indeed, he overlooked one point, and that was the "daily active users" of players in online mode.

The daily activity is not high, and the demand for the server side is not high, so it is not a problem for the studio to bear this operation and maintenance cost. But what if the daily activity of players is very high, as many as hundreds of thousands?

"Make an in-app purchase plan first, but don't rush to add it, wait for the game testing stage, and then make a decision according to the situation."

After thinking about it carefully, Chen Ba finally came up with a solution.

Make the game's in-app purchase plan first, but don't rush to add it to the base game, wait for the early access and testing stage, and make a decision based on the estimated daily activity of players.

If the game has a good response and the online mode has a lot of players, then you can make a set of in-app purchase plans in it and sell some skins to maintain your life.

If the response to the game is average, the general enthusiasm of players is not high, and the daily activity volume of the online mode cannot reach the standard, then there is no in-app purchase plan.

"By the way, when the time comes to probe the players and ask them what they think about it?"

Chen Ba is not the kind of person who falls into the eyes of money, and if players generally dislike or reject this charging model, then he will not go against players.

Actually, it's better to do DLC.

Although the result is the same, both for the launch of game skins, the acceptance of DLC is definitely countless times stronger than that of the game store.

"Ask the player?"

Xiao Lu almost didn't laugh out loud, and couldn't help but complain: "This still needs to be asked, I'm afraid no one will approve of this plan, right?" ”

"You're right, but if they don't let me sell skins, I'm going to have to sell new characters." Chen Ba said with a smile.

In-app skins aren't allowed to be sold, right?

The new character will most likely be made into DLC for sale, and it costs money to unlock it.

"It's a multiple-choice question to either come up with all kinds of flashy skins or spend money to unlock new characters, and we will respect the wishes of the players."

New characters in the game are extras.

Assuming that "Star Emperor" costs 40 pieces, then these 40 pieces only include the initial six characters, and the subsequent new characters are additional content that needs to be unlocked by purchasing DLC.

This is actually the best way to do it.

Not only can it solve the problem of server operation and maintenance costs, but no one can accuse Tianba Studio of engaging in secondary charges.

But as a last resort, Chen Ba didn't want to use the trick of "role charge".

Because one of the most important experiences in fighting games is character selection, if a new character costs extra and the mechanics are particularly strong, it will definitely cause great dissatisfaction among players.

"Then it's settled."

Yang Dong nodded and concluded: "The game itself is a buyout system, but we made a few character skins in advance and stuffed them into the deluxe version for sale. ”

"If the sales of the deluxe version are not low, far exceeding the so-called basic version, then the road of character skins will be taken in the future......"

The in-app purchase plan is also simple.

You can get the source stone in the game game, and if you save enough 100 catties of source stones, you can go to the stone shop to cut the source of the gods, and the things cut out of the source all depend on luck, which is the so-called lottery.

In addition to obtaining Source Stones in game matches, Tianba Studio will also provide "Source Stones" for purchase, which is equivalent to the shark card in the online mode of "Give Him Love V".

Chen Ba will not force Krypton.

In the online mode of the game "Star Emperor", even if you don't charge money, you can save enough 100 catties of source stones by playing two handfuls a day, and go to Shifang to gamble on your luck.

In other words, topping up just allows players to draw their favorite skins faster.

If you don't charge money, you can draw it sooner or later if you spend some time.

And this kind of thing is a lottery, it looks at the face, and the kryptonian spent tens of thousands of catties to extract the skin, maybe the European Emperor will hit it as soon as he shoots.