Game Development Giant

Jester's answer indeed caused a stir.

But he did not explain what he meant at the press conference, but players can get one message, that is, Jester will not retire after WOW is officially released.

As for Jester saying that he will continue to develop a follow-up product to WOW, although players are very curious, Mars Entertainment will definitely explain this matter.

Sure enough, during the public beta, Jester came to the forum again to answer players' questions.

The opening time of WOW's public beta server is set at 12 o'clock in the evening.

Before the start of the test, Jester also thought it would be more interesting to interact with the players on the forum. As he expected, with Jester's appearance on the forum, within a few hours before the start of the test, the forum Sure enough, it was more than twice as busy again.

Many people are asking Jester some questions they are interested in. Some people are asking Jester about the game WOW. Although it has been conducted several closed tests, it goes without saying that those who have not had the opportunity to participate in the test, even if they have Old players who have tested the parameters several times may only know very little about the game WOW.

Of course, the most concerning question is about what Jester said at the press conference.

Many people don’t understand what Jester means.

What Jester said means that he will continue to participate in the development of WOW and will not retire?

Jester didn't hide anything about this issue, but Jester didn't go into too much detail. He explained on the forum: My plan won't change much. WOW is my last game. , in the past few years of developing WOW, I have never had any ideas that would allow me to continue developing a game that I find exciting.

To be honest, in the past few years, various games on the market seem to be blooming, but they are still decorated within the circles that have been drawn before.

No one can jump out of the circle and draw a new circle by himself.

I'm not an all-powerful person. I'm also the designer of Yege Game, and my inspiration is endless. I'm in this state now. I know how to make fun games, and in my head right now I have imagined a few interesting games, but these games still don’t make me have that exciting idea, they are just repeating the same path that I have gone through before.”

The difference is just walking the same path faster.

This is not the development experience I want, so. I made the decision to quit after the development of WOW. Five years later, I still stick to this decision.

The reason why I said before that I would not retire immediately is that the game WOW is far from being completed. In fact, in my vision, this will be a game that may have a life span of ten years. It will have a Another expansion pack is about to expand its life. Of course, I won't keep developing this game for ten years, but I feel that I need it. How to develop expansion packs will give my successors a good start.

So, I will finish the first expansion pack of WOW. It is worth mentioning that I am already designing the story of the expansion pack. I should be able to form a small team independently by the end of this year. Pre-development, of course, is not a short-term matter, because the original version of WOW. In our vision, there will be many subsequent versions, with a life cycle of about two to three years.

Jester's words can be said to be a very detailed explanation, and his retirement plan has not been postponed. But as he said before, he will retire after the development of WOW is completed.

However, the biggest difference between WOW and the console games or stand-alone games he developed before is that it is an MMORPG. This kind of game does not mean that it will be fine once it is developed. Firstly, it requires long-term maintenance. Secondly. It requires the development of many subsequent versions, and these subsequent versions will seriously affect the quality evaluation and reputation of an MMORPG.

Therefore, an MMORPG is in the development stage before release, and after release, it is actually in the development stage.

Jester's so-called completion of WOW development was just a very general statement. Now he explained in detail that his so-called completion of WOW development is worthy of paving the way for the subsequent development of this game.

That is to say, according to Jester, he will develop an expansion pack for this game.

The concept of expansion packs is not a new concept. It exists in stand-alone games and MMORPGs. For example, EO has been released in the past five years, and many expansion packs have been released, which greatly expanded the content of EQ. Huge.

Of course, no player will question that WOW is better than EQ.

This is a conclusion drawn from closed testing.

A few months later.

Dark Cross is a very ordinary player. He has played EQ before, and now he likes WOW very much. Since the public testing of WOW, he has entered this new game. Do things you have never done before. This The slogan made him extremely interested in this game when he first heard it. Indeed, as the slogan said, he did a lot of things in this game that he had never done before. matter.

The character he created was a night elf huntress.

His favorite character is the hunter, because this character is accompanied by pets, so he won't feel lonely when playing alone in the game.

He is a person who is very afraid of being alone.

His night elf character's name is Kelly Dark.

He likes to play games with a sense of immersion. In the game, he often helps new players do some tasks that they don't know how to do - the task settings in WOW are very good, and Dak is doing these. During the missions, you can clearly experience the efforts of the designer in celebrating these missions. Therefore, he has an ambition to complete the missions in the entire Azeroth world.

This is a very huge project.

Because the tasks of WOW are not linear tasks, it does not mean that you can complete all the tasks by following a line all the time.

Rather, it is the task of the network structure.

Bits and pieces are scattered in every corner of the world. Some of the tasks in these walks are related, some are not, and some require you to complete certain tasks before you can get the next step from an NPC elsewhere. new tasks.

I want to finish all the characters. It's very annoying and tiring.

Moreover, the difficulty of many tasks, or the difficulty of the tasks, is not directly proportional to the rewards of the tasks. Of course, this is natural to Dak.

For example, in a game, a poor rural woman has a very troublesome task for you to complete. The reward she can give you for the task may be just a few pies or cheese that she saved through frugality. In her opinion, this is It is already an extremely precious thing to him. You ask her to give you a lot of money. This is obviously impossible and does not conform to the elements of RPG.

But this task may be very troublesome. It may require you to kill an elite monster, or it may require you to run a long way, or even across the map, and it may take a lot of time.

The pay is not high and the difficulty is very high.

Many players, or the vast majority of players, don't like to do this kind of task.

Dak did it very seriously, and his character was a bit like a girl. He is also very serious and careful when doing tasks, and he will read the task description carefully.

He also likes to help some new players who can't find how to do this task. Some tasks are very obscure in the task description, and it takes some time to do it. If he meets someone on the road and asks him, then he I will definitely take this player to complete this mission.

Duck didn't do this on a whim.

But doing this has basically become his daily routine. On any map, as long as he encounters someone he can help, he will never begrudge his helping hand.

Gradually. In the server, Dak has also gained a great reputation, and many people know him. When it comes to Dak, the night elf huntress. Many people will say, oh, she, I know, she is a good person, where did I encounter that very troublesome task. I was so angry that I didn't finish it at night. At that time, I angrily cursed the designer SB, how could the designers design NC tasks? It was just a waste of players' time.

At that time, I yelled and cursed.

So the surrounding players could also see that the night elf huntress from Dak was also there. He happened to be passing by and went to do a mission on another map.

He saw others shouting about missions, so he took the initiative to contact them.

Tell the other party where the task is, and if the other party is willing, he can lead the other party to complete the task.

There are almost countless such things.

Players in the alliance also know how to reciprocate love. Once, Dak wanted to go to the deserted land to catch the hunter's divine pet Broken Tooth. This pet has an attack speed of only 1 and is the most popular among hunter players because of its high attack speed. Can interrupt the casting of spells faster.

As soon as he arrived in the Desolate Land, an Alliance player asked him if he wanted to capture Broken Fang.

The person who asked him was a hunter.

Dak said yes, and said that if you wanted to arrest him, he could not arrest him yet. Unexpectedly, another alliance hunter directly said, Catch Broken Tooth, and we will clear the place for you.

At that time, Dak still didn't know what the other party meant.

When he arrived at the refresh point of Broken Tooth, he found that there were seven or eight alliance players around him, from all professions. They saw Dak also saying hello, telling him that Broken Tooth would be refreshed soon. Grasp.

And around, there are some corpses, all of which are tribal hunters.

today.

Dak was leading a thirty-something night elf on a very troublesome mission in the Stonetalon Mountains in the game. His mother called him outside his room that it was time to go to the hospital, and Dak replied that she would wait for him. Yes, I will help others complete this task first.

For Dak, helping others in the game is one of the few things that makes him feel happy.

Because he is seriously ill.

Leukemia, also called blood cancer, is still an incurable disease even with today's advanced medical technology.

In reality, Dak is always depressed because of leukemia. He does not have many friends in reality, and his friends all know that he has leukemia and always look at him with a sympathetic look, which makes him He felt very uncomfortable. He felt that he was also a very ordinary person. He did not need sympathy from others, and he could also help others do what he could.

Unfortunately, in reality, his friends would not let him do this.

When playing together, his friends will always do what he should do for him, and the same goes for other things. Only in the game does he feel that he is a normal person. He can help others and be loved by others. help.

This normal feeling made him feel happiest and happiest.

After helping this new player complete this troublesome task, Dak also breathed a sigh of relief.

He is going to the hospital for chemotherapy soon.

He didn't like chemotherapy. He knew what kind of disease he had, leukemia, an incurable disease. No matter how hard he tried, it would only delay his death.

He was only in his twenties and he didn't want to die.

but……

He took out a piece of manuscript paper from the side of the table, with a short poem densely written on it.

This short poem was written by himself and addressed to himself.

He likes this short poem he wrote very much. Whenever he encounters something uncomfortable, he will take it out and read it.

He looked at the writing on the paper and read the poem gently.

The stars seem to have withdrawn their light. They no longer shine for me.

They seem cold and indifferent, but they cannot replace my warm hands on you.

But I held back my tears and lived like a year, desperately insisting on recording every moment here for you.

However, loneliness is coming soon, pain has come, and your faded smile gently drifts away from my memory with the wind.

The poem may not be very well written, and some rhymes may not rhyme, but it was written by Dak himself, because these are the true reflections of himself and his own heart.

While reading this poem, Duck heard his mother calling him again.

Dak knew that he had to go to the hospital for chemotherapy. Although he was unwilling to undergo chemotherapy, which made him feel endless pain, he still did not want to die like this. He also wanted to continue playing WOW and continue his journey in Azeroth. The story of the night elf huntress of the world.

Sighing, he put aside the piece of paper with the short poem written on it, closed the computer, and left the room. (~^~)