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When the time turns to January 2022, "The Era of Super Evolution" developed by the studio at the same time is already one step ahead of "Legend of Xianyuan", opening the first round of internal qualification invitations for this highly anticipated and highly anticipated new game.

When "Age of Super Evolution" opened the first round of internal test qualification invitations, "Wasteland" players were also facing a large loss.

It's not because the first round of closed beta of "Age of Evolution" started to threaten "Wasteland", but because at the end of December of last year and the beginning of January of this year, a large number of "Wasteland" reskin games were officially released. Beta started.

During the period of about 12 days from the end of December to the beginning of January, almost every day, a game with a post-apocalyptic wasteland background was announced on WG and started its official public beta.

Sometimes the time is tight, the tasks are heavy, and there are situations where two games collide with each other and start the public beta in the same year.

Before September, games with a post-apocalyptic wasteland background that were completely unpopular, now suddenly there are mountains and seas of games to choose from.

When the first "Wasteland" reskinning game was announced to be open beta in December, many lovers of the apocalyptic background were surprised, but soon, the second, third, and fourth... No.12 four...

For a while, the players were even dazzled.

Soon, the tricky rhetoric turned into 'copy and paste and see it'.

These games are worthy of being reskinned games in March. They completely copied the overall structure of "Wasteland". If you have a conscience, you can make more changes in the art. There is a "Life at the End of the World", good guy, not only copied the game framework and art style of "Wasteland", but even copied the name of the game "Life in the Future" that Lincheng Studio is still in the development stage.

Even if other skin-changing companies in the industry saw it, they had to give a thumbs up and boasted "shameless".

Although these skin-changing games are almost like copying and pasting, from game A to game B, even the interface UI functions and key positions are not changed, but these small and medium-sized game companies do not expect to produce any high-quality goods, 3 The skin is changed every month, the cost is controlled within 200 million, and their goal is to run away as soon as they roll.

But these skin-changing games have an advantage-they copied the values ​​before the "Wasteland" five platinum event. At that time, the values ​​​​of "Wasteland" had not collapsed, and there were no new cards to restrain the old five Platinum is the best stage of the numerical environment of the "Wasteland" game.

Furthermore, these skin-changing games are not as ruthless as "Wasteland" in Krypton Gold, and many of them have even reproduced the conscience values ​​​​during the internal beta of "Wasteland", which made many players who were forced to play because of the krypton gold problem. The "Wasteland" players who have left can barely find a meal replacement. After downloading the game, they don't spend much money. Most of them just pay for the first charge or a monthly card, and use these games to soothe their hearts hurt by "Wasteland" at the beginning. .

Just like this, the accumulated player base has supported a large number of such skin-changing games, making these companies that make skin-changing games a lot of money.

Of course, there are many people who change the skin of "Wasteland", and although there are few people who change the skin of "Yi Nian Xian Mo", it is not impossible.

However, these companies that changed the skin of "Wasteland" have made more or less money, but those who changed the skin of "Yi Nian Xian Mo" seem a bit bleak--"Yi Nian Xian Mo" does not know what magic power the game has, and the player stickiness is ridiculously high , Even if there is a skin-changing game, they basically don't pay attention to it.

These companies that produced the skin-changing game "Yinian Xianmo" didn't expect to be able to grab players from "Yi Nian Xianmo", but what they thought was that if the model of "Yi Nian Xianmo" could become popular, they would attract new players Can you come?

But what’s outrageous is that new players are indeed attracted, but these new players are basically prostitutes. In the game, you warn players not to spend money, but players really don’t want to spend more money. The meaning of depravity and demonization.

In this case, the krypton gold atmosphere of the game cannot be activated, and the faction confrontation mode cannot be activated. Without faction confrontation, there will be a lack of interactive competition between players... The whole game suddenly becomes like a pool of stagnant water, becoming a very pure and thorough Buddhist health cultivation and immortal cultivation game.

Looking at the result, the skin-changing company had two words echoing in their minds—outrageous!

***

"The Era of Super Evolution" is the first round of invitation testing started when a large number of reskinned games such as "One Thought Immortal Demon" and "Wasteland" were launched one after another, and the daily activity of "Wasteland" players and the single-day turnover hit a new low.

Because there was "Wasteland" before, and then there were a large number of skin-changing games on the side, even if these games were just skin-changing, they did whet the players' appetites.

When someone discussed "Age of Super Evolution", more than one person said that "Age of Super Evolution" can't do worse than those hot chicken games, right?

Of course, whenever this happens, there will be fans of the same studio who will dig out the CG of "The Age of Super Evolution", saying that the quality of "The Age of Super Evolution" is worth looking forward to.

But, just like the trailers of movies and TV shows are full of the most essential content of the movie, there is often a line of small words in the game CG: [The final effect is subject to the actual machine demonstration].

There have never been many such CG scammer games, so that most of the deceived players will not believe the CG effect of the game before actually playing the game.

But well...

WG Game Forum

Subject: [What's the matter with you?Aren't they all saying that they don't look forward to losing to the studio's "Mega Evolutionary Age"? ? ?I just took a look at the number of reserved players for the first round of closed beta. It has already exceeded 5? ? ? ? 】

This post made Chen Xiaopang amused for a while, and he burst out laughing at that time.

His chubby hands crackled and nimbly typed on the keyboard to reply to the host.

3L: [Silly boy, is there a conflict between complaining about CG scammers and the qualifications to make an appointment for the first test?Maybe someone made an appointment for the qualification for the first test before complaining about the CG scammers, just to fool you silly children from making an appointment and reduce their competition? 】

4L Landlord: [@3 Floor,! ! ! ! 】

5L: [I can’t stop laughing, honest friends on the third floor, why did you tell the host the truth so quickly, the host should live in confusion and can’t find the answer. 】

10L: [This is the first time I see such an honest landlord, it's rare, friends, great protection! 】

A group of players were laughing and joking on the forum, and the host who posted the post finally realized his stupidity.

Indeed, even if it is really a CG scammer, you have to watch and play it before you can know if it is a scammer or not!Besides, if you don't watch "The Era of Super Evolution", you can look at the "Legend of Xianyuan" next door. They have a trial version, and the flight experience of the trial version is exactly the same as the effect in the CG-there is a high probability of " Age of Mega Evolution won't be a liar either.

In short, during the internal testing stage, most ordinary players who do not mix the forum may not know it yet, but players who have been stationed on the WG forum for a long time

I have already made an appointment, and I am waiting to experience the first test of "The Era of Super Evolution".

***

Compared with the 1000 people in the first test of "Yi Nian Xian Mo", the number of people in the first test of "Super Evolutionary Age" has expanded to 5000, but compared with the number of reservations that have already exceeded 5 people, the limit of the number of people in the first test Still a little less.

"Brother Pei, just 5000 people, keep a sense of expectation."

That's what Qiu Boyu said, and Pei Shu didn't object.

They didn't intend to sign a confidentiality contract with the players. In fact, as soon as the closed beta starts, there will inevitably be an anchor live broadcast, and players who want to watch it will naturally be able to see the actual screen of the game.

And after the real machine screen is released, as long as the players are interested in the content, they will naturally have a sense of expectation. The scarcity of test places will also increase the player's expectation at this time. When this expectation accumulates to the public beta stage, it will be Not a small force.

"Okay, Boyu, you can figure it out."

Pei Shu was very happy. During this period of time, Qiu Boyu had grown rapidly in the process of leading the team to develop "Age of Super Evolution", and now he is a qualified game director.

Qiu Boyu didn't expect that he could adapt to the role of the main planner of the game so quickly.

Once he was depressed because he left the "Wasteland" project, and then after he came to Bulo Studio, he thought that he would spend the 5 years agreed with his family as a simple game programmer in Bulo Studio.

He originally thought that he would never have the chance to make a game of his dreams again, but in the end Pei Shu gave him new hope and helped him open up a whole new world when he was stuck in thinking.

When he returned to his desk, Qiu Boyu was still a little erratic—his "The Era of Super Evolution" was about to start its first round of internal testing!

Sitting next to Qiu Boyu was Jiang Ziye, who also gave Qiu Boyu a thumbs-up.

"Come on, brother Boyu!"

Qiu Boyu also let out a long sigh of relief, smiled and gave Jiang Ziye a thumbs up: "Don't worry, I will!"

***

On January 1th, in the days approaching the Spring Festival, the "Super Evolutionary Age" of the studio finally unveiled part of its mystery and started its first round of closed beta.

In this group, all the old players who have participated in the test of "Yi Nian Xian Mo" since the first test period, can be said to be old fans of the studio.

This time, for the first test of "The Era of Super Evolution", almost all the people in the group have applied for the first test qualification, but unfortunately the winning rate is only about 15/[-]. Of the hundreds of people in the group, only a handful of them got the first test qualifications.

Chen Xiaopang: [Hahahahaha, friends, I got the invitation code, who else? ? ? 】

The young master only has money: [Internal test invitation code received at a high price!Some private me! 】

I'm rich: [I also got the invitation code, the test will start at 12 noon, right?I'll check it out in a while. =. = I hope Dogecoin planning will not be too doggy this time. 】

Chen Xiaopang: [Probably not?I heard that the main planner this time is the programmer of "One Thought Immortal Demon", and he is also very awesome, but he suddenly turned from a programmer to the main planner. 】

The young master only has money: [Then the main plan this time is not to lose to the teacher? ? 】

Chen Xiaopang: [No, I saw that Mr. Buba should be named as a producer, but the project leader and master planner are the program brother. 】

Although most of the people in the group didn't get it, but they played "Yi Nian Xian Mo" originally because they prefer fairy games, and they feel good about the theme of "Super Evolution Era", so they didn't get it. I don't have too much obsession with the qualification for the internal test, I just tell players like Chen Xiaopang who got the invitation code to come back and tell me how the game experience is.

Chen Xiaopang: 【What's the matter?I'll start a private test live broadcast in a while, everyone in the group will watch it together, and you'll know how it goes! 】

As the time gradually approached 12:[-] noon, the players who had already pre-downloaded the "Super Evolution Era" test client began to pay attention to the time one after another, preparing to open the game to get a glimpse of the real face as soon as the time arrived.

Chen Xiaopang had an accident during the live broadcast of "Yi Nian Xian Mo" last time, so he made preparations in advance this time, checked the live broadcast software and mobile phone screen projection software many times, and even opened the "Super Evolution" Times" client, and tried whether the screen can be projected normally on the login interface.

After everything was confirmed, Chen Xiaopang felt relieved and began to wait for the official start of the game's first beta.

At noon on January 1th, when the hour hand reached 20 o'clock, players like Chen Xiaopang opened their game clients at the first time, and then saw the login prompts from "The game server is not started." ' changes to the normal login screen.

After entering the invitation code and successfully registering, on the loading interface, a rabbit and a little zombie appeared on the progress bar. The rabbit and the little zombie jumped forward, loading the game content bit by bit.

"Ah, is this the rabbit from the CG?" Chen Xiaopang recognized it immediately.

To be honest, this rabbit is quite cute, but Chen Xiaopang thinks that the player character can't be this kind of little rabbit, right?Just seeing that the rabbit actually appeared on the loading interface, it seems to be quite important.

Before Chen Xiaopang could think too much, the rabbit and the little zombie had already reached the end of the interface—the game content had been loaded.

In the next second, the previous preview CG screen appeared in front of Chen Xiaopang. After the preview CG was played, Chen Xiaopang found himself in front of a barren wasteland.

Chen Xiaopang was stunned for a moment, and realized that he was actually in the first-person view of a shooting game. Just when he was a little confused, the system prompt came as expected—[A violent energy storm swept across this land, when you After waking up, you find that there are dangerous enemies around you, you need to find your companion immediately...]

Chen Xiaopang subconsciously clicked on the zombies around him, and the system prompted: 【Are you sure this zombie is your companion? 】

hiss!

Good guy.

Chen Xiaopang was still wondering why there is no player identity choice in this game. Could it be that the players' predictions about the preview CG were wrong?

It turned out to be waiting for him here!

"So can I really choose the identity of a zombie? Damn it, I suddenly feel so excited! As a zombie, can I go to attack the city!!" Chen Xiaopang's eyes lit up.

In Chen Xiaopang's live broadcast room, seeing that Chen Xiaopang seemed to be planning to directly choose the identity of a zombie, the players who were watching were anxious.

[Wipe the fat brother, don't just stare at the zombies!Quickly see what identities are available around you? ? ? 】

Chen Xiaopang looked up at the barrage, and patted himself on the head: "Hey, I'm a little too excited to see the zombies, wait, Brother Fat will take you to see what else you can choose!"

So Chen Xiaopang withdrew his hand that was almost certain, and began to search the surroundings from the first-person perspective. This search found, "Are you sure this carnivorous beast is your companion?" ', 'Are you sure this herbivorous beast is your companion? ', 'Are you sure this human is your companion? ', 'Are you sure this parasite is your companion? '...

A series of "Are you sure?" made Chen Xiaopang amazed: "There are so many races to choose from?"

The audience in the live broadcast room were also amazed, and then someone joked: [Didn’t there be xenografts in the previous CG?Fat brother, touch that grass! 】

Chen Xiaopang also thought of this problem, so he tapped the ordinary grass that didn't look like a foreign plant at all, and smiled while pointing him: "Shouldn't you point vines or something for foreign plants? This little grass looks too ordinary hahaha."

result next second

——[Are you sure this heterophyte is your companion? 】

Chen Xiaopang: "...What the hell?!"

The audience in the live broadcast room: [...It's really true? ! 】

Perhaps because of being too surprised, Chen Xiaopang shook his hand and directly clicked OK.

Chen Xiaopang:! ! !

"Fuck! Don't! I want to be a zombie!!!"

It's a pity that everything was too late, Chen Xiaopang could only watch helplessly as the camera picture changed, the camera pulled back, and his name, Chen Xiaopang, also appeared on an ordinary grass, in front of him The race has become - [heterogeneous].

Chen Xiaopang: QAQ is in tears, his zombie dream...!