game development designer

Chapter 519 Good Opportunity
After the first week's sales came out, everyone in the domestic game industry was completely shocked.

The sales volume of 100 million on the day of launch was not unexpected. After all, the reputation of Tianhe Network was worth this sales volume, but the subsequent sales growth is really a bit unclear.

A game that is easy to be cleared by the video cloud, although the interactive mode of the big map has been added, which greatly improves the playability, but in general this is still a game of "watching the plot".

There is no home management system like in The Last Survivor, there are no various mini-games and emergencies like in Red Dead Redemption, and there are no various branch plots.

However, the sales volume has not weakened at all, relying solely on the domestic market to reach 200 million sales in the first week, and the price of the game is not cheap at 149 yuan, although it is half cheaper than 3A-level games, but in the domestic market It's not cheap anymore.

In addition, Tianhe Network’s previous games were all sold at 3A prices. That’s because everyone knows that Tianhe Network’s 3A games, in addition to the excellent quality of the game itself, include the subsequent online multiplayer mode, and operation. Everything is very well done.

Like most 3A games that are popular for a while, even if the multiplayer mode is launched, it will soon disappear due to the popularity, no good content updates and poor operation, resulting in ghost clothes.

In the games under Tianhe Networks, the multiplayer mode rarely turns into a ghost suit. Even if the main enthusiasm is to follow suit, there will still be many players who like to play in the game.

Just like the two games EVE and Star Wars, the number of simultaneous online players in the world is not very high, but they can maintain a very strong vitality.

Even many players in China buy Tianhe games not just for the stand-alone part, but more for the multiplayer mode in the game.

However, the anti-war theme has been lurking, and the official has made it very clear in the face of players' questions that this game will not launch a multiplayer mode, but it still sold more than 200 million copies. It was a bit of a surprise.

In a small discussion group in the industry, a group of people in the game circle were discussing.

'Holy shit, the sales volume of this hidden game can exceed 200 million, which is a bit scary!It feels like a game with the name of Tianhe Network can make a lot of money! '

'Is the domestic stand-alone market so good?Can an interactive movie game sell 200 million copies in the domestic market alone? '

"It's okay to be unconvinced. The plot is really good. Although I feel that some places have stepped on the line, the three views of the whole story are still positive, and the ending is also in line with the meaning above. Although I feel that many places can extend some dark plots and ideas, but Tianhe Network did not do it. '

"Nonsense, Tianhe Network is of course impossible to do it, but the key is that I didn't expect the theme of the Anti-Japanese War to be so attractive." '

'Made, blame Tianhe Network. I have nothing to do with this kind of game. My head was kicked by a donkey. Do 3A to make a lot of money. Is it not good to market IP?If you insist on trying this kind of unconventional game and make it so hot, isn't that harmful! '

At this time, a grumpy old man's voice came from the group.

'What's the matter, Lao Zhang? '

'Old Zhang, you smeared honey on your little mouth today. '

The people in the group laughed one after another.

'What's going on? The company had a meeting today, and the leader said that he wanted to catch the heat. Let us create a mobile game with the theme of anti-war spy warfare for a month, just follow the template of Tianhe Network. Isn't this a joke? '

'What the hell, this group of leaders have cement in their minds, and they don't think about it carefully. The reason why Tianhe Network can succeed is because they are Tianhe Network, and they have the world's top game development team. I also spent tens of millions of dollars to develop the game, and it took nearly a year to develop it. The leaders of this group of pig brains gave me a cost of 100 million, or RMB, and asked me to create a war of resistance within a month. Spy war themed game, the plot is all fucking shit, I'll steal it for him? '

A string of complaining words popped up from the dialog box, and people in the group could smell Lao Zhang's resentment through the screen.

'Then don't wait for the resignation. Anyway, Lao Zhang, you are not short of work. Why don't you just come to our company. We just restructured. The big leaders before decided to follow the high-quality route like Tianhe Network. The last game was high-quality and earned money. Although there are not as many as before, the win is much stronger in the life cycle, and we are planning to open a branch in Shencheng in the near future. '

'Forget it, the child is going to elementary school soon, and the mortgage pressure is quite high. '

Such a seemingly niche game can achieve such results, does it mean that the domestic stand-alone industry market is already very large?

An idea appeared in the minds of countless game practitioners. At the same time, after Tianhe Network latently showed good sales, many domestic game manufacturers who were not short of money continued to start their own journey to follow suit.

Like Tianhe Network, it is absolutely impossible to invest hundreds of millions in such a project.

Regardless of whether there is so much money, the technology in the game alone is not up to standard.

But the method was thought up by people, and soon these domestic game manufacturers came up with plans for how to follow suit.

If the scale of Tianhe Network cannot be achieved, then we will make the PPT game mode of orange light, put photos of real actors, and dubbing is a bit costly, so we can simply use text mode for the whole situation.

As for the platform, if it is placed on the PC platform, it will look shoddy, so it is better to put it directly on the mobile platform, and you can find some excuses, such as considering the player's mobile phone configuration and the size of the occupied space.

Chuhe doesn't know these things at all, but even if he does, he just shakes his head.

Anyway, it's not the first time, I'm used to it.

As for whether it will be successful, if there is a perfect story, and if it is made into a text game, it is well told, and it is accompanied by reasonable background music, which can completely earn some of the players' touch.

But if you just want to take advantage of the heat and make a fortune, then don't treat the player as a mentally handicapped person.

And Chuhe doesn't pay much attention to these things. What Chuhe is currently paying attention to is about the TEU platform jointly established with EA and Ubisoft.

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"EPIC is still very rich and powerful, including Metro and 2K's Borderlands 3, which have been bought by it for a limited time." Eve said with a smile on his face during the meeting.

Not long ago, EPIC, which was constantly moving, announced again that Borderlands 3 will be exclusive on its platform for a limited time, and they will not stop the exclusive pace.

"I think this is an opportunity for us to launch a new platform. We can step on them on this, just like Sony stepped on Microsoft before." Wilson also said.

Previously, Microsoft publicly stated that they would take measures to prevent and control second-hand CDs, and then Sony publicly stated that they condemned this behavior. After realizing something was wrong, Microsoft immediately changed their tone and said that they did not mean to restrict the trade of second-hand CDs.

"This is indeed a very good opportunity. At the same time, our game can be logged on the steam platform. We only need to give players some preferential policies on our own platform. At the same time, if you buy the version of the steam platform, you must register and bind us. Platform data, and activate it through our platform." Chu He said looking at Ive.

This is what Ubisoft has been doing.

(End of this chapter)