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Chapter 238 Don't Treat Players as Idiots

Although it has always been hailed as the Oscar of the game industry, in terms of popularity, in fact, professional-level game award ceremonies such as TGA have always been inferior to large international games such as E3 and Cologne in terms of traffic. exhibition.

At the same time, the previous TGA activities in China were more concerned by some hardcore players and some 'fake hardcore' players, but this year's TGA is much more popular in China than before up.

Just after the release of the nominations for the major game awards, places such as the game star sky, player forums, and major post bars have been completely wiped out.

'Best Game of the Year, Best Multiplayer Game, Best Action Game, Best Game Maker, Best Game Producer, shit!Five nominations? ? ? '

'Don't say it, it's just one sentence, Tianhe Network is awesome, and Mr. Chu is awesome. '

'But what the hell is that best Huaxia game? '

'I heard that Penguin came through the PY trade. "

'Hehe, what about the best Huaxia game?I don't even look at what kind of chicken neck was selected. '

'Forget about the penguins, tell me, can Tianhe Network win the award this time? '

'It's hard to say, it's hard to say, there are no dominant games selected this year, but they are not weak either. '

Tianhe Network was nominated for TGA and was also nominated for 5 awards. This is something that countless players have never thought about before.

In fact, this is not the first time that China has been nominated for TGA. For example, the best e-sports player, the best e-sports club, etc., all have China's nominations.

But these are just the achievements of the game-derived e-sports industry, and none of the real game industry has ever been selected.

As for Penguin, which was also selected with Tianhe Network, it has basically been ignored by domestic players.

Basically anyone with a discerning eye would be able to see that the so-called Best Chinese Game Award was obtained by Penguin through some PY transactions with TGA.

Not only is there no focus on publicity, even on the TGA official website, such a best game award is ranked at a later stage.

"Being troubled by Penguin, even though I was nominated by TGA, I still don't feel happy at all." Prot and others gathered together. After confirmation, they will report the list to the TGA official. At the same time, some members of the team The passport application will also start.

"In the past, TGA gave players the feeling of authority, but this time, I feel that the impression points will be deducted seriously." Pigg next to him also echoed.

Chuhe waved his hand. In fact, he didn't quite understand what the TGA organizers were thinking.

Is it because the small money given by Penguin is too much, and the TGA who have too much money is not willing to refuse, or is it simply because of wanting to expand TGA's influence in China, and Penguin spent a lot of money to get it? This nondescript new award.

If Chuhe really wants to inquire about the inside story, it is not difficult with his current contacts and strength, but it is not necessary.

It certainly does not exist to make TGA a joke, but at least it will have a considerable impact and controversy on TGA's reputation and authority.

Regarding the various awards in the game industry, Tianhe Network has actually won quite a few, but most of them have little influence, and some of them are even unknown to real hardcore players.

In the following days, in addition to confirming the itinerary to TGA with the team, Chuhe also took a look at the situation of other departments within the company.

The old projects within the company, such as famine, are basically qualitative, and the main thing is the daily operation, which is checked with the MOD community.

As for the Jianghu project, after the online mode that Xu Chang was in charge of, there was indeed a wave of new spring, but because of update problems and too many liver emperors in the game, most players have already experienced all the online modes. The content of the pattern is gone.

And compared to the online mode with rules and restrictions, these players still prefer the single-player mode with various MODs, such as the 18X laboratory MOD that is widely circulated in major forums and post bars, but not in the official MOD community.

Replace all kinds of rough men in the game with watery girls, and then make all the wives in the anime into MODs and put them in the game.

The rivers and lakes, which were originally characterized by change and randomness, were simply played by these players as glgame, to save the rivers and lakes?Dominate the world?How could that thing be as good as shopping with his wife in the game?

In the case of Left [-] Dead, the number of players on the PC platform is still a bit more than that on the console platform, mainly because of the MOD community on the PC platform and the fact that players can open private servers.

But in terms of profit, the box key in Left 70 Survival is not as popular as it was in the early days, and the monthly profit of the key is only about [-] million.

As for PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds, the entire team has basically not changed much, except for daily bug fixes and game optimization, and at the same time increased the crackdown on cheating.

Regarding the customer service team, the team hired a customer service outsourcing company and signed a one-year contract.

On the original basis, another 200 customer service personnel were added, and the industry's first-class technical anti-hacking team was also invited to carry out technical prevention and control.

Although there is still no way to completely eradicate cheats, the overall game environment is definitely much better, and there will be no such situation where there are six or seven cheats in a random game.

Moreover, the team will also cooperate with some domestic third-party platforms such as 5E and overseas platforms such as faceit and esea, allowing them to launch local dedicated servers.

The main purpose of doing this, apart from the other party actively coming to discuss cooperation, the second is to better prevent cheating and provide players with a good game environment. As for user training, Tianhe Network currently does not have such a thing. In this aspect of the plan, Tianhe Network is only a game company, not a platform company, and Chuhe has a very clear position on this point.

In comparison, DNF's operation team and planning team require a lot of geniuses.

After Tianhe Network was nominated for five TGA awards, the planning and operation team of DNF immediately launched a celebration event, launching limited edition fashions and titles, as well as giving invitations to the abyss and various enhanced protection scrolls, Activities related to the enhanced level scroll.

Because unlike ordinary online game companies, Tianhe Networks does not judge the success or failure of a team with fixed KPIs, but takes comprehensive considerations.

For example, during this period of time, the operation team’s feedback from the players during the operation of the game, as well as the overall balance of the game, are all things that the team needs to consider.

In general games, it is impossible to block large-scale studios because KPIs such as the number of people and average online need to be considered, because once these studios leave the game, the KPIs in this area will definitely drop, and planning and operation will be in bad luck at that time up.

If these studios are not blocked, then it is necessary to consider the excess of resource output, and ordinary resources can be produced through ordinary dungeons, and a large number of good resources are generally produced except for high-level dungeons. The activity produced.

In order to prevent these good resources, most of them will use a scheme that is bound to the account role. If there is no such binding material, then you will find that the rewards of the game activities are simply tasteless. I feel that the planning team is stingy. Like a star, I would be reluctant to give something good for an event.

From this, various theories have been derived, such as planning to force, or forcibly delaying the rhythm of the version, but these are not a problem at all for the planning team of Tianhe Network.

Although a large number of high-quality props will indeed speed up the progress of the version, considering the particularity of DNF's development, this has an impact but not too much.

You must know that it has been a long time since it was released, but so far, no one in all servers has been able to gather a complete set of epic suits.

The closest player is still 3 pieces away, and even the most difficult alien dungeon in the game, only about [-]% of the players can pass.

Although there are various strategies circulating on the Internet, in the case of advanced difficulty, it is not possible to decide just by looking at the strategies. The DPS of each team is different, and what happens in the dungeon will also be different.

'Tianhe Network is awesome!The activity is so strong, I won a lucky 3% discount, including limited fashion, I can buy 3 sets of fashion, and I made a lot of money! '

'Fuck, are you so lucky?I won a 5% discount. '

'Hey, you weak chickens, what is this? 1% off, not to mention the Ghost Swordsman costume, which has been coveted for a long time. '

"The Goose Factory next door, the activities with the Pig Factory are so special. It's stingy to give something. Some time ago, the Goose Factory's game's first anniversary celebration gave away a set of fashion with a limited time limit, and then it disappeared. I don't even know how to say it. '

Looking at the players' forums, including the feedback from the customer service message, Chuhe couldn't help but feel emotional in his heart.

To a certain extent, the requirements of players are really low. Apart from fun games, all they need is the attitude of game manufacturers.

Just like what some shy gamers say: show me Nako, and I'll give you a ticket.

What players want is an attitude and sincerity from the manufacturer. Sometimes players ridicule themselves and turn themselves into leeks, and they will be cut off by game manufacturers as soon as they mature. Will treat that manufacturer as a fool, and then leave their game without hesitation.

(End of this chapter)