game development designer

Chapter 507 Is It Worth It?

With the launch of the multiplayer mode at dawn for a week, the popularity has basically dropped. After all, the content of the multiplayer mode is placed here, although in terms of equipment and dungeon content, it has borrowed a lot of elements from Diablo 2 and Monster Hunter .

But the length of the content itself is placed here, and the players who started liver immediately have basically graduated.

After all, this is a multiplayer mode of a stand-alone game. Unlike DNF, a free online game that has no threshold, it needs to bind players through various daily activities and various materials.

Compared with these games, the multiplayer mode of Daybreak is more casual, although the multiplayer mode is more casual, and the burst rate is not very low.

At least it will not happen that the explosion rate is adjusted to be very, very low, and it will even take a long time for the player to be able to drop the equipment needed for graduation.

If this is a free PVE online game that focuses on brushing elements, like DNF, then Chuhe will design a relatively complete explosion rate mechanism.

But at dawn, the ticket price alone was 59.9 US dollars, and Chuhe didn't want these numerical methods anymore.

Although for most players, this kind of numerical gameplay makes them more interested.

In fact, most of the players are of the straight-talking type. They have a good idea about how to play the game, but after this good idea is made by the game company, it turns out to be true due to various reasons. It's not that fun.

On the contrary, it is the various shortcomings of the players who verbally criticize and criticize, such as the krypton gold points in the game, which makes many players scold and focus on money at the same time.

But these are completely useless in the dawn time, but not all the players in the dawn time have nothing to do.

For example, for the difficulty of realistic mode, the host platform has canceled the setting of auxiliary aiming because of the highest difficulty of realistic mode. At present, only about 13% of players have successfully cleared the realistic mode.

For the PC platform, it obviously has a big advantage in targeting, but there are also special content for PC players, that is, the AI ​​​​in the game is smarter than that of the console version.

Surprised? Unexpected?
This also allows the number of people who have cleared the difficulty of the realistic mode on the PC platform to be even less than that on the console platform.

As for Chuhe, he has completely given up the difficulty of clearing the realistic mode.

Whoever likes to clear the level, let him clear it, I just want to be a rookie player quietly.

And compared to the difficulty of the realistic mode in the multiplayer mode at dawn, there are more important things waiting for Chuhe to deal with.

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Inside the office of Jinling Tianhe Network.

"Chu, congratulations on the success of Dawn." Charles, who came from EA, didn't know what to say.

How uncomfortable.

People sold it, and they died violently.

Hearing Charles' congratulations, Chuhe could only smile and say nothing.

What should I say?
Congratulations to you too?
"Are you the only one, Charles?" Chuhe asked Charles directly instead of being too polite on this topic.

Chuhe already knew about EA's intentions on the phone, and had some conversations with EA's current CEO, Wilson.

Regarding the matter of entering EA, Wilson led Chuhe to discuss with Fidelity, Logan, and Pioneer. They are not against Tianhe Networks, and are willing to give each company a 1.5% stake in Tianhe Networks based on EA's current market value. It is enough for Tianhe Network to directly become the fourth largest shareholder of EA today.

At the same time, they also strongly expressed their desire for Tianhe Network, and gave a very high valuation.

In this regard, Chu He's left ear goes in and his right ear goes out. If it wasn't for the good cooperation with EA, and the private relationship with Charles's personal trainer, even Chu He wouldn't bother to listen to EA's words.

As for EA, Chuhe himself really doesn't think much of anything.

And according to the current market value of EA, the shares in Fidelity, Logan and Pioneer are acquired?

It seems like how much you can sell at a premium. After the discussion that day, Chuhe asked the people inside the company to investigate. Today, Fidelity, Logan and Pioneer, except Pioneer, still retain EA shares, and even increase slightly. hold.

Logan and Fidelity both reduced their holdings when the bad news came from Anthem.

This is also one of the main reasons why EA shares have fallen these days.

"People from Fidelity, Pioneer and Logan will arrive in the afternoon. I told you Chu before." Charles said helplessly.

"Sorry, I forgot." Chuhe said with some embarrassment.

This is not pretending, but the truth, after all, he really didn't take this matter to heart.

"EA is said to be going through a major layoff?" Chu He asked tentatively.

This news has now spread out, but it has not been officially confirmed by EA.

Hearing Chuhe's words, Charles immediately understood the meaning. After all, the other party was a veteran poacher. At least EA had been poached hundreds of employees by the other party, and most of them were R&D personnel and middle management.

"We will lay off more than 1500 people, which is expected to save an annual cost of 3 million US dollars, but most of them are marketing, publishing and operations personnel." Charles said looking at Chuhe.

There is nothing to hide about this news. Brown, who serves as CFO, will soon announce the news at a press conference.

Hearing that the main layoffs were operations, marketing and publishing staff, Chu He lost his mind immediately.

publishing?

Have you ever thought about getting involved in the field of game agency distribution? As for marketing and operations, look at EA's current miserable state. A few years ago, when the two parties cooperated with PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds and followed up as an agent for Red Dead Redemption.

The market value of EA at its peak reached 450 billion US dollars, second only to Activision Blizzard's 600 billion market value stimulated by the news of Call of Duty and World of Warcraft at that time, and higher than Nintendo's 380 billion.

Now EA only has a market value of 300 billion US dollars left. In a few years, it has made 150 billion US dollars out of nothing.

However, the skinny camel is bigger than the horse, and Chuhe can't afford to take over this part of EA's shares, even though he just bought 5% of Ubisoft's shares not long ago.

But according to the current market value of EA, without affecting the normal operation of Tianhe Network, 11 billion US dollars can still be paid out.

But the key point is, can't EA come up with something that can attract Tianhe Network?

"EA's technical reserves, resource channels, if Chu Youyuan enters EA, these can all be shared." Charles said looking at Chuhe.

"I need to think about it." Chuhe didn't reply to Charles.

Chatted with Charles about other things, and after the other party left the office, Chuhe notified the company's senior management for a meeting to discuss.

It is said that they look down on EA, but if they really buy EA's shares and become the fourth largest shareholder, it is impossible for the development of Tianhe Network to be beneficial.

The most important thing is one point, that is, whether it is worth it or not.

(End of this chapter)