game development designer

Chapter 486
The war series and the affairs at Dawn have been dealt with for the time being. There are not many problems at Dawn, except for Amy, Gila, Pig, Prot, and Anthony, who were the first to follow the Chu River. people.

Regarding the style and grasp of Tianhe's online games, they have done a very good job.

As for the war, although Chuhe gave a general direction, it was just a direction. Chuhe himself thought that would be more interesting, but how the player chooses is the player's business.

Although Chuhe believed that this situation of not being able to change history was a manifestation of lack of freedom, it cannot be denied that it might be more contagious in the plot.

Just like in Final Fantasy 7, after Zack took Cloud to escape from Shinra, it ended in the wilderness near Midgar.

No matter what means the player uses, they can't save Zack's death, even if they use the golden finger to kill the Quartet.

It may be the game technology at the time, or it may have been set up long ago, but these are not important anymore.

The important thing is the touch and shock it brings to the players.

Give the player the freedom to choose.

This is a concept that Tianhe Network has followed before.

Don't put something in your game that you think is cool, and assume that players will think it's cool.

It's like Blizzard thought it was cool to put the Diablo mobile game in the finale, and then caused a large number of violent white incarnations to burst into black.

Well, I accidentally pulled Blizzard out to flog the corpse again.

After discussing with the ruins and mines, Chuhe thought about it quietly, and finally made a decision.

Since he thinks it's cool to change history, the realistic battlefield that can't be changed is also quite interesting.

Then simply add a mode, just like most historical games have the setting of real historical events.

Also known as plot killing.

As a small person, you cannot change the torrent of history; as a small person, you can create miracles through your own efforts.

How to choose simply let the players choose to go, isn't it just to increase some development funds?

What's the big deal?rich!

It seems that it is just an additional game mode option on the original basis, but in fact, except for the existing art materials, the rest will have to start from scratch.

It is an exaggeration to say that it starts from scratch, but it is not something that can be completed so easily.

……

Two days later, Chuhe arrived in the capital with his accompanying assistants.

The person who had received the news in advance was in charge of picking up the plane, and Chuhe had to give Chuhe a lot of face, although it was not an open meeting to discuss anything.

After waiting for the hotel that had been booked in advance, Chuhe found that not only he was invited, but also many well-known names in the domestic stand-alone computer industry, including Wangyuan, Penguin, and Beisoft.

In addition, Wangyi also sent people here. Although the other party did not have any business in the stand-alone industry, it was one of the top manufacturers in China after all, so it was necessary to have a proper meaning.

"Mr. Meng, how is the new project of Wangyuan?" Chu He smiled and talked with Meng Xiansheng.

Among the people present, Chuhe was also familiar with Meng Xiansheng of Wangyuan. There was nothing to talk about with Wangyi, and the other party just came over for a cutscene. .

After all, although there is no direct conflict between Tianhe Network and Wangyi, the private relationship is not very good.

On the Penguin side, it was not the people from the Penguin game department, but representatives from WEGAME, but it was not Wang He who had some hypocrisy with Chuhe.

What about the penguins?

For the Wegame department, they are not directly involved in game development, they just want to be a platform.

It doesn't matter whether it's a monopoly, or it doesn't matter if it wants to kill Steam, anyway, it's a normal business layout.

But for Penguin's game department, there will be too much chaos.

Of course, the emergence of this phenomenon is mainly related to the strategy of raising Gu.

In comparison, if Tianhe Network really wants to talk about harmony, it is lying to itself, but compared to Penguin and other big game companies fighting for power and profit, Tianhe Network is much healthier.

But it is also for this reason that some ambitious management talents will basically not choose to come to Tianhe Network, because there is no chance for them to show their ambitions.

"I'm not into games either, and I don't know anything about it. I just let the people below do it by themselves, but I guess the new project is like that. If you fight for it, you just don't lose money." Meng Xiansheng said with a smile.

You can’t make a lot of money, but if you really want to lose money, as long as the net yuan thinks about it, basically you won’t lose money.

Client games, mobile games, and web games are all channels that can generate profits.

The original NE did not think about going through these channels to focus on single-player, mainly because of Meng Xiansheng's strong support.

But if the network element wants to increase investment in stand-alone machines, it is obviously impossible to rely solely on Meng Xiansheng's blood transfusion.

After all, for Meng Xiansheng, to put it bluntly, it is mainly on the industrial side, and the network element is just a fun toy.

He hopes to make this player a good one, so that ordinary players can also enjoy the fun brought by this toy.

It is possible to transfuse this toy without affecting the industry, but it is basically impossible to invest one or two hundred million dollars in a game like Tianhe Network.

As for the Chinese-style games like Netyuan, it is basically impossible to expect to make profits from the country. Clients, web games, mobile games, and third-party profits are essential.

After all, Tianhe Network's main income does not come from stand-alone games, but from online games such as DNF, DOTA2, League of Legends, and mobile games.

"However, Mr. Chu earned enough money this year. DNF, DOTA2, League of Legends, and The Last Survivor make people jealous." Meng Xiansheng said half-jokingly.

These things are no secrets anymore, and people in this industry basically know it too.

The highest annual profit last year was Penguin Games with 298 billion yuan. Of course, this is pure profit.

In second place was Wangyi with RMB 145 billion.

Although Tianhe Network is not a listed company, and the relevant financial reports are not released, but there is no way to mix this business?

It may not be comparable to Penguin, but it is definitely higher than Wangyi.

As for how much, I don't know.

"I didn't expect to earn so much." After hearing this, Chuhe said with a wry smile and shook his head.

It's about 220 billion, is it high?

Of course, it is high. You must know that EA's annual profit last year was only about 80 billion.

However, this is also related to EA's two consecutive scumbags. If Andromeda and the Star Wars 2 series operate well, it will not be difficult to make a profit of more than 110 billion.

But the more you earn, the more layout you get.

Just last year, Tianhe Network's game supporting service industry, the reception customer service of each game, and the newly acquired anti-cheat, optimization, server and other teams are astronomical.

Chuhe didn't want to say how much profit he made. After all, there was no need to say so, so Chuhe still sold it miserably: "This game earns a lot, but the cost is also high."

"The salary of Tianhe Network last year alone cost more than 4 million U.S. dollars. This does not include the cost of outsourcing customer service. If it is included, it is about 5 million U.S. dollars."

"In addition, the acquisition of shares in Ubisoft and companies in other industries also cost a lot of money, and there are still a lot of projects under development."

There is really no water in saying this. The treatment of Tianhe Network can be said to be the top in China. In comparison, Ubisoft is also considered an international giant, but their treatment is really hard to say.

Anyway, after knowing the treatment of Tianhe Networks, after Tianhe Networks acquired Ubisoft, a group of talents jumped to the Tianhe Networks camp.

From technicians to middle management of the company.

Because of this, Chuhe had a headache for a while. He just recruited a group of people from EA, and the dead space studio has not been properly arranged. Does anyone from Ubisoft want to come over?

But it must be necessary, and it happens that QD is also short of people, and the studios of Amy and Jira in the United States are still recruiting.

(End of this chapter)