Gu Yuqing rolled her eyes at Chen Ya. Others didn't hear the dirty joke he just told, but she did.
Although she didn't care, no one had ever dared to make such a joke in front of her before, so she complained about the person in front of her in her heart.
If it were someone else, she would definitely criticize them harshly in person until they were unable to straighten their back.
But Chen Ya's smile looked like spring water, sweet with a hint of brightness, like the school hunk that one secretly loved during school days but dared not confess his feelings to. Even the big devil Gu Yuqing couldn't bear to scold him directly.
Although Gu Yuqing had a good impression of Chen Ya because of his appearance, her tone was still not polite.
"High production? A game company describing itself as having high production? I've never heard of that." Gu Yuqing crossed her arms and stretched out her long legs. "Could you elaborate?"
"Currently, online games generally have two profit models: one is the point card system, and the other is free with in-app purchases," Chen Ya said. "The essence of the point card system is to sell time, while the free model is to sell data."
"The point card system has a characteristic: the longer the game operates, the higher the IP value becomes, and it also robs players of their time, leading to a significant 28 effect, or even a 19 effect. Therefore, there are fewer and fewer point card games now, and most new games can only choose the free track.
"The current free-to-play game strategy is mostly based on selling anxiety. Paying money will give you a good gaming experience, but if you don't, your gaming experience will be someone else's. I can't comment on whether this approach is ethical, but this model is doomed to prevent games from truly reaching the masses."
Gu Yuqing frowned slightly when she heard this and said, "You haven't gotten to the point yet."
"Yes, but please bear with me. We can easily analyze and conclude that if we create data discrepancies and force players to top up, the user base will shrink. If there are too few payment points, it will make it difficult to operate the game in the long term.
"So, our game will adopt a model that has the best of both worlds. Our model is that paying players spend money, and free players build a community, maximizing both the user base and willingness to pay."
Gu Yuqing raised her eyebrows.
In her experience, nine out of ten people who claim to have discovered a new profit model are unreliable.
And the person in front of him was even more outrageous. What he said was equivalent to denying the model of all games in the past few decades - if it was really possible to have the best of both worlds, who would be forced to make a game that only had one?
"If you want to have your cake and eat it too, you have to raise a bear that can catch fish. Do you have one?" Gu Yuqing asked with a sarcastic smile on her face.
"Yes, the name of this bear is update," Chen Ya said with a smile. "The experience that the point card system has contributed to the gaming industry is that version updates can increase player stickiness and ensure online time. Therefore, we rely on version updates to attract users.
"This is a card-drawing game. We plan to update a new version every six weeks and open a new card pool at the same time. This way, we can ensure both popularity and payouts. We can use the revenue from each version to develop the next version, achieving a virtuous cycle..."
Hearing this, the male consultant sitting next to Gu Yuqing finally couldn't help it. He turned around and asked Gu Yuqing's opinion with his eyes. After getting her consent, he asked Chen Ya bluntly:
"You said you don't want to profit by creating numerical anxiety, right? Then let me ask you, what mode do you use for PvP? Is it direct confrontation or leaderboards? How do you design the guild?"
"There's no PvP, no guilds," Chen Ya said calmly. "There's no leaderboards, no competition. These methods will only create numerical anxiety, and low-level players will have the same gaming experience as high-level players."
The consultant's forehead twitched, then patiently asked, "You don't have PVP, and it's a card-drawing game. What's the motivation for players to draw cards?"
"Love!" Chen Ya's voice unconsciously rose a little. "Designing every character to be incredibly adorable is the game maker's duty! Players will naturally pay for love!"
The consultant rubbed his head and asked, "Let's not talk about whether paying for love is reasonable. If you have a six-week update, how can you guarantee that the stats don't inflate? If your stats inflate, the idea of paying for love becomes completely nonsense. Once a character falls into the power trap, there's no such thing as lovable or not."
"We have a complete mechanism to limit numerical inflation."
"What mechanism?"
"We can design an elemental reaction mechanism where each character possesses an element, and these elements will react with each other. For example, ice and water will freeze, and lightning and fire will explode. In that way, the characters become element transmitters. As long as we combine them properly, every character will be useful, and there will be no strength trap."
After hearing this, Gu Yuqing finally became interested, lowered her legs and sat up straight.
The consultant at the side continued to ask, "Even so, the six-week update you mentioned isn't very realistic. Take Mewbeast, Pandaren Expedition, and Mysteries of the Burning Legion for example. These major updates will cause world changes. How can you afford such a large amount of story expansion?"
"It's simple. Our protagonist is a traveler," Chen Ya said. "His goal is to visit various countries. Two or three regions in each country means two or three new maps. I designed seven countries, which means dozens of new maps and new versions."
The consultant asked, "How many years do you plan to operate this game?"
“The goal is ten years.”
The consultant immediately said, "Look at it this way. Even if you add up to 21 new images, that's only 21 versions. It only took less than three years to finish the updates. How can you last ten years?"
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