The Nobug platform has a real-time online leaderboard that shows the number of people online in real time for each game on the platform.

At the top of the list is "Don't Go After School: Pinballs", which can break one million from time to time.

The second place is "Xiuzhen Fantasy".

Although the number of people online at the same time can reach more than 500,000 at eight or nine o'clock in the evening.

But everyone who knows the truth will want to laugh when they see this data. With 500,000 simultaneous online players, it would be nice to have 100,000 people playing Xiuzhen Fantasy.

There are 400,000 people left, all of whom are hanging processes in the background, cutting the screen to play other games!

The third, fourth, and fifth ranked games are "Time and Space Scouting", "Star Emperor" and "Global Evolution".

Among these three games, "Time and Space Reconnaissance" has risen rapidly in ranking compared to last month, and the number of online users has also increased by two levels.

This is due to the game's plug-in-free environment, as the world's first FPS online game that claims to be "100% plug-in-free", "Time and Space Reconnaissance" has attracted many FPS game lovers.

Although after playing, most people will be speechless by the strange game features such as bullet turning and bullet time, but this does not affect everyone's normal play.

The remaining two games have experienced varying degrees of player churn, especially "Star King".

As a phenomenal online game that once had a glorious time and broke people's stereotypes of fighting games, "Star Emperor" is actually not very good after the release of the 60 series graphics card.

His self-relieving method is just a return to the light, and he has only lasted for a while, and it is very unexpected for Chen Ba to be able to rely on a round of version updates to survive until now.

The birth of the 70 series graphics card and the release of the Dream 7 engine directly announced the decline of this game.

No way, as a 30 series graphics card era, the game built with the Dream 5 engine can still be praised by players for "excellent picture effects" is already a great praise.

You don't see the graphics card crisis back then, and it was just released, but after two years, it was gone.

A game with main graphics and special effects really can't last long, and it can't be like "Fantasy Journey to the West", a game that has been popular for twenty or thirty years.

"Thinking about it from another angle, in fact, "The Emperor of the Stars" is already quite good."

Huang Qing commented: "The games of the same period are basically cool now, but "Star Emperor" is still a more mainstream game with the popularity of the GAL League. ”

"That's right!"

"The Divine Grace Continent was also quite popular at that time, and now basically no one buys the personal version. Only the professional version and the personalized version are still bought. ”

Yang Dong explained: "Back then, "Divine Grace Continent" was criticized for its poor picture quality, and now it can't be handled, so no one plays the ordinary version. ”

The game is moving so fast!

Taking mobile games as an example, mobile games in the early years generally had relatively simple graphics, mainly in the Q version of the cartoon style, and the details of the light and shadow textures were much worse.

But now, excellent mobile games can rival many PC games in terms of light, shadow and texture details.

Ray tracing?

Mobile is also available!

Because of the rapid development of the game industry, games in the early years have been eliminated by players. It's not a problem with the gameplay mechanics, it's that the art style looks too old and too spicy to the eyes.

There is a question post in the Tianba community, which attracted more than 50,000 votes and responses.

The question is simple.

The landlord sent two screenshots of the game, one screenshot from "Cold Window Reading Simulator", and one screenshot from the 4K extreme rendering of "Global Evolution", and then asked: Which of the following games is made by Brother Ba?

More than 72% of players chose Global Evolution, while only 13% chose "All of It".

When the correct answer was announced, other players said: I can't believe that these two games are made by the same person!

The two screenshots of the game feel like they span a century, and they are not games of the same era at all, but they are from the same person.

This sense of confusion is a bit as ridiculous as someone telling you that Snake and Red Dead Redemption are the same game producer.

"The picture is getting more and more realistic!"

Chen Ba sighed: "When playing games in the past, although the game producers tried their best to improve the sense of substitution and immersion, the graphics of the game were still not realistic enough. ”

"It's different now, it's a little hard to tell the truth from the fake in front of the computer screen, and if you play VR games, you may really not be able to distinguish between reality and virtuality."

"That's an exaggeration."

Yang Dong shook his head: "No matter how you say it, the boundary between virtual and reality is still very clear, so that it will not be indistinguishable." ”

"But the game graphics are getting more and more delicate and delicate, which is true, the Dream Building 7 engine is too strong in this regard......"

The Tianba engine of Tianba Studio has now been updated to version 4.0.

But the strength of the Tianba engine is not the game screen and material texture, but the fooling and automation, so in this regard, the gap with the dream building engine is still quite large.

"Then let's practice!"

Chen Ba felt that since the Dream Building 7 engine was so powerful, it could be used for reference.

There's no such thing as having a great engine and just turning your nose up at other engines or even dismissing them.

Threesome, there must be my teacher!

There is no need to deliberately belittle what others have done well, you have to admit it when you should admit it, and you should learn it with an open mind.

The new game will be developed using the Dream Building 7 engine, focusing on the game screen!

This is the decision that Chen Ba made after listening to Yang Dong's report and pondering for a while.

"The new game is a horror game?"

Remembering what Brother Ba had said, Yang Dong said thoughtfully: "I agree with this plan in principle, but will it be ...... to make a horror game with the Dream Building 7 engine?"

What the hell do you want to do?

Dream Building 7 makes a horror game, and it doesn't pay for it to scare people to death, right? Do you know that Dream Building 7 is full of firepower, how real the picture is?

"Isn't that good?"

Chen Ba said calmly: "Horror games originally pursue a sense of substitution and immersion, the more realistic the picture and the richer the details, the more fun the game will be?" ”

I don't know if it's fun or not, this game is designated to be very scary!

After all, as we all know, the quality of the game determines the level of scare of a horror game. Sadako with pixel mosaic, or Sadako with 8K extreme light and shadow colors, which one do you prefer?

"Horror games are plot-eating, aren't they?"

Huang Qing, who had been listening and didn't interject much, couldn't help but ask, "Do you have any plans for the plot?" ”

"Prepare to customize a script!"

"Who to customize and how to customize, these will be talked about later." Chen Ba waved his hand.

"Xiuzhen Fantasy" has just been tested publicly, and there are still a lot of problems that have not been solved, and the customized script of the new game must be arranged after the New Year.

Speaking of this, Chen Ba was suddenly curious about one thing.

As a conscientious MMO online game, the open beta has been almost half a month, how much is the recharge turnover of "Xiuzhen Fantasy", and can it feed eight servers?

"The water is pretty average."

Yang Dong said with a wry smile: "Because we have to operate with conscience and can't dissuade players, the krypton degree of the game is very low and very low, and the experience of zero krypton players is not much worse than that of heavy krypton players, so not many people recharge." ”

This is not surprising.

After all, it was a plan made by Chen Ba himself, and in the first half of the year, there were definitely not many people who recharged, and it was normal for the turnover to be low.

But how low is it?

"Let's put it this way, the game is running at a loss! Hundreds of thousands of people are immersed in the game every day, and the cost of maintaining the server is higher than the player's top-up turnover. ”

Yang Dong said this, very helpless: "If you want to maintain it for half a year, the price is still quite large, and you may not be able to recover the initial investment after half a year." ”

"So I suggest that new revenue streams be created, at least to make sure that the game is not operating at a loss."

A new source of income?

Regarding Yang Dong's proposal, Chen Ba deeply agreed. Although "Xiuzhen Fantasy" is operated by conscience, no matter how conscience you are, you can't do a loss-making business!

So it's imperative to develop new revenue streams, but the question is, where do you start?

New Krypton Event?

This is not good, it is easy to expose and eat to scare away players. Now the game has just been open beta, and it is still in the fattening stage, so you can't scare players away.

If you don't take money out of the player's pocket, you can only find another way to make money from somewhere else.

"If it doesn't work, just advertise!"

Seeing that Brother Ba was deep in thought and didn't speak for a long time, Yang Dong proposed: "Don't leave after school" doesn't rely on advertising days to make money, it shouldn't be a big problem for us to implant a few advertisements." ”

"No, no, no, it's not an advertisement."

"The environment of "Xiuzhen Fantasy" is not the same thing as "Don't Leave After School", and you can't follow the same scheme."

Chen Ba shook his head, and suddenly a thought seemed to flash through his mind, and he said thoughtfully: "Do you think...... How about starting with merit? ”

"Merit?!"

Yang Dong and Huang Qing glanced at each other, and they both saw the shock in each other's eyes, and Yang Dong took the lead in asking, "Are you going to start selling merit?" ”

That's not right!

Merit is the core system of "Xiuzhen Fantasy", if krypton can be purchased, then the game will be completely soured and deteriorated.

Yang Dong didn't understand very much, Brother Ba just said on the front foot that he wanted to operate with conscience, keep the players and don't scare them away, why did he turn around and start selling merit?

"You misunderstood!"

Chen Ba explained: "It's not that the mall sells merit, I mean that through the way of merit, find a way to make some money. ”

"Xiuzhen Fantasy" is a magical game, and the magic lies in the fact that the players of this game usually do not play this game, but run to play other games.

Why is this happening?

Because playing other games, not only can you reap the joy, but also get merit rewards along the way, which is simply killing two birds with one stone!

This is also the reason why friends and businessmen basically do not reject or are hostile to "Xiuzhen Fantasy".

Why are you hostile to it?

"Xiuzhen Fantasy" will not rob your players, and even encourage players to play your game, so noble and selfless, it's too late to like it, how can it be hostile?

Chen Ba decided to start in this direction.

The hundreds of thousands of players of "Xiuzhen Fantasy", especially the meritorious players who account for a high proportion, are the chips in his hands.

As we all know, players follow merit!

Since he is following merit, isn't it easy for him to make a little action and guide players to play XX games?

Anyway, it's all about merit, it's good to be able to brush five points an hour of playing game A, and you can get 20 points an hour of playing game B, so why don't I play game B?

Expand it a little more!

When players find that they can get merit rewards normally by playing game A, and they can't get merit rewards even if they try their best to kill the plug-in as a dog, which game will they play?

"Protection money?"

Huang Qing immediately figured out the doorway, and his eyes lit up and said: "Guide the whereabouts of the hundreds of thousands of players in "Xiuzhen Fantasy" through merit, and earn money from friends?" ”

"What kind of protection money, don't talk so ugly, okay?"

Chen Ba said speechlessly: "We are serious people, what kind of protection fee do we charge?" This is called the white list, do you understand the white list? ”

"Ahh

Huang Qing smiled and said, "Then what are you going to do with this whitelist?" ”

"Need action?"

Chen Ba turned his head to look at him, and felt that Huang Qing was so old for nothing, and he could ask such a mentally retarded question.

With 500,000 concurrent players and millions of active players, what a lot of money is that?

With this confidence, what else do you need? Just knock on the door and ask: Brother Pig/Goose, do you want the player?

Who can refuse so many player resources?

If someone can really refuse, then Chen Ba respects him as a man, anyway, ask yourself, he can't refuse this kind of thing.

If the other party agrees, that's easy!

The other party got the player, Chen Ba got the money, the player got merit and happiness, killing three birds with one stone, and a world where no one was hurt was built.

As for whether players will be diverted to the game, is the drainage effect good?

Do not worry!

Don't underestimate the obsession of players of "Xiuzhen Fantasy" with merit, in order to become immortals, these people dare to do anything......

(End of chapter)