Chapter 102: The game MOD

played against Ren Shuo without any moral ethics and secretly sponsored a player of the Tongtian generation level, while other graphics card manufacturers sponsored the account owners.

Da Renshuo was so happy to win this championship!

As soon as the game was over, Darenshuo announced the good news on its official website, public account and short video platform: "We are the champions! Darenshuo 4090 won the Raptor Sacrifice Battle."

Other manufacturers were furious.

Okay, okay, this is how it should be played, right? If you are unkind, don't blame me for being unjust! If the Beating Man Shuoneng can sponsor the Technical God, can't they sponsor him?

It's all about money! In the first Jidao battle, everyone was not well prepared, and the bastard Da Renshuo got the championship. This was undoubtedly a loss of face for many manufacturers.

Face is more important than money.

Moreover, the "Battle of Jidao" is not only a battle for the luck of graphics cards, but also involves the image and reputation of the brand in the eyes of players.

In the future, when it comes to high-end graphics cards, if the price difference is not big, players will definitely give priority to Darenshuo. After all, it is a champion brand that emerged from the battle of "Star Emperor"! Darenshuo: What champion are you? You said you are the world's number one 4090/7900, but why don't you have a championship? The world's number one without a championship, isn't that just Shockwave? "Graphics card manufacturers such as Shrinking Star, Sad Rainbow, Duiliaotai and Sapphire have already established special e-sports divisions to search for and sign suitable "Star Emperor" e-sports players."

Yang Dong explained: "In addition to advertising, they also want to take revenge on Renshuo and prove that their graphics cards are not bad."

Lies don't hurt, the truth is the sharpest knife!

The phrase "You are a champion" is very hurtful, especially to your peers, because it is a fact and you cannot refute it.

"Esports division?"

Chen Ba frowned and said, "In that case, should we form a league? Otherwise, there will only be one battle of sacrifices a year, which is too few games."

"sure!"

"Just have a try. We're not paying for it anyway. If these graphics card vendors want to play, then we can set up a league framework for them to play." Yang Dong said indifferently.

To put it bluntly, although this Jidao battle is over, many graphics card manufacturers are still unable to swallow their anger and are eager to take revenge on Renshuo.

But the first Jidao Battle has just ended, it’s impossible to hold the second one right away, right?

This is inappropriate! Considering the actions of these graphics card manufacturers to sign professional players and set up e-sports divisions, it is more reasonable to establish a professional league.

“How do we run the league?”

Xiao Lu, who was texting his girlfriend, couldn't help but interrupt and asked, "How do the A-card and N-card camps coordinate?"

"Let them do it themselves!"

Chen Ba thought about it and realized that A cards and N cards represent different hardware platforms. To be honest, it would not be fair for the official to force the players to use a certain platform.

Just let them do it themselves.

Tianba Studio is only responsible for providing event-related services, including match refereeing and live broadcast, etc.

As for the equipment used in the competition, the clubs can just assemble it themselves. As long as they don't go too far, like overclocking or changing the cooling system, the game officials won't care.

This is also a good opportunity to promote the game "Star Emperor" and see which hardware combination is the strongest.

"Then go and inform them..."

"The league is tentatively named Golden Era, with 15 seats guaranteed. The first opening game will start after National Day and will continue until June or July next year to determine the league champion."

There is still plenty of time.

As for the prize money of the competition, Chen Ba will communicate with Lao Huang, Su Ma and Intel before making a decision.

“Why Intel?”

"It's OK for them not to sponsor, but the consequence of that is that the league will not be allowed to use their platform and will have to use AMD instead."

Chen Ba thought about it, and then said: "Besides, the annual advertising expenditure is so high. Spending some money to sponsor us can also be regarded as a form of advertising."

The Jidao Battle has received a decent amount of attention! Although the video playback volume, live broadcast audience and other data of the game are not as good as the top e-sports events, such as League of Legends, CSGO, and DOTA2.

But the most valuable thing about the Jidao Battle, including the "Golden Age" league to be held in the future, is that the audience of the game are all "high net worth individuals".

What are high net worth individuals? In simple terms, although the game is not well-known and not many people watch it, 99% of them are consumers of the product. Advertising here may be more effective than sponsoring other e-sports events.

Intel has already invested heavily in advertising in the e-sports field, so sponsoring "Star Emperor" will not be a problem.

This is what Chen Ba thought, and this is how he talked to them.

But he never expected that! After hearing the basic situation of the "Golden Era" League, the representative of Intel's marketing department immediately reported to the leader and made a surprising decision.

Not only do they have to sponsor the league, they also have to grab one of the 15 seats and form a team belonging to Intel.

"Ah? But you don't have a graphics card... Oh! Sorry, my my!"

Chen Ba originally wanted to say, a bunch of graphics card manufacturers are competing here, and Intel is not a graphics card manufacturer, so why are you here to disrupt the situation?

But he suddenly thought that Intel seemed to have GPU-related businesses and products...

Quite interesting!

After learning that Intel was also going to join the "Star Emperor" Golden League, Chen Ba thought of something.

After Intel entered the market, it definitely kept the good stuff for itself, so its CPU must be top-notch. Its GPU is a little worse, but there is still the possibility of an upset.

Lock in a seat in a top club.

As for the other giant in the league, it is of course AMD. With CPU and GPU, if it is overclocked and a dedicated driver is made for "Star Emperor", it will be a galactic battleship! As for the teams such as Da Renshuo and Shrinking Star, at first glance, there is nothing special, but if you think about it carefully, their strength should not be underestimated! After all, the performance of a computer cannot be judged by the CPU or GPU alone, the combination of other hardware can also determine the upper limit.

“Okay, okay!”

"This league should stop calling itself the Golden Age and call itself the PC Hardware Brawl."

Chen Ba couldn't help but laugh and said, "During the league, these companies won't get angry and cut off supply to each other, right?"

For example, Intel's GPU performance is too poor, so in a game like "Star Emperor", it will definitely be a disadvantaged team.

What if they lose too many games and get angry and cut off supply to other teams, not allowing them to use their CPUs? …

In Jiangning in September, the temperature difference between day and night is quite large.

There will be a slight chill at night and in the early morning, but it will be so hot at noon that you will sweat all over. If you are not careful, you will get sick like Zhong Shengwei.

"Is Xiao Zhong okay?"

"fine!"

Chen Ba waved his hand and said, "I just felt a little unwell. I went home to rest after getting some medicine from the hospital."

He went to the hospital.

Although Zhong Shengwei's complexion was a little bit unwell, overall there was no big problem. It was just a common cold and fever.

This is a personal physical problem.

Some people are fine when they are sick or have a cold, but people with poor physical constitution like Zhong Shengwei will be in a very bad mental state when they are sick.

Xiao Zhong came to work as usual today, but as soon as he arrived at the studio, everyone noticed something was wrong. Finally, Chen Ba sent him to the hospital and told him to go home and have a good rest.

Although work is important, good health is more important.

Game development will not be delayed because of one or two people missing from the studio, unless there are some special circumstances, such as there are only six or seven people in the studio, and four of them take maternity leave...

That would indeed have a bad impact.

Tianba Studio does not have any new game plans for the time being, and its current work focuses more on updating and maintaining several old games.

Among them, "The Continent of Divine Grace" is the focus.

As the studio's most profitable game, subsequent major version updates and DLC must be made, and a creative workshop must also be opened.

However, before deciding whether to open the creative workshop, a very tricky problem needs to be solved: if the MODs made by players are used commercially, how should the profits be divided?

If "Divine Grace Continent" opens a creative workshop, there will definitely be many players who will use their creativity and imagination to create various game modules with great "commercial value".

There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!

As for the mutual citations between players, that is, the part that does not involve commercial profit, there is naturally no need to care about it.

But "Shennong Land" is so special! The special thing is that "Shennong Land" is not only an RPG adventure game, but also an excellent AI animation production software.

This also means that...

Some excellent game modules will inevitably have commercial value and will be favored and cited by animation producers.

How to divide the profits generated from this?

Moreover, if the creative workshop is opened on the Steam platform and sold publicly, the Steam platform will definitely take a portion of the profits, which is something Chen Ba does not want to see.

"Well, let's do this..."

"We will open the creative workshop on our official website, and players in need can download game modules from the official website," Yang Dong explained.

"Ordinary players can download and use it for free, but if they want to use it for commercial purposes, we need to sign a licensing agreement with the original author and collect 30% of the revenue from the game module."

The 30% is a consideration.

If it is too high, players may not be very motivated to create MODs. After all, if you create an excellent MOD, you are just working for Tianba Studio for nothing.

If it's too low, Tianba Studio will also suffer. After all, they are the ones who get only a small piece of the pie for their game and the platform they provide. Who would be happy about that? "Okay, let's do it!"

Chen Ba thought about it and felt that opening a creative workshop on his own official website was a good idea.

This not only avoids being charged channel fees by the Steam platform, but also increases traffic to the official website and popularity, and also allows for better management of game modules. It is a win-win situation with no disadvantages.

The only drawback may be that players who bought the game on the Steam platform have to go to the Tianba official website to download and install the game mods. Isn't that a bit troublesome? "Not a hassle!"

Xiao Lu laughed and said, "Let's add a MOD-related service in the game. Clicking on this service will jump to Tianba's official website."

"Besides, games including Shen'en Continent are not exclusive to the Steam platform! We can sell games on the official website."

Selling games on the official website? Chen Ba had never thought of this idea before.

But after thinking about it carefully, he found that it was indeed feasible. After all, the games under Tianba Studio are basically available on all platforms, not exclusive to a certain platform.

Since it is not exclusive, why can't it be sold on both the Steam platform and Tianba's official website? Although the number of users on its own platform is small, it is not even a fraction of that of platforms like Steam.

But the good thing is that you get all the money from the game sales, without having to share channel fees with other platforms.

"That's settled then."

"We will work harder in the next two days and try to launch the creative workshop of "Shennong Continent" as soon as possible..."

Creative workshops are not difficult.

It all depends on whether the game developers are willing to give permissions. If they are willing to give players permissions, then game MODs will be easy to make, and the enthusiasm for creation will be very high.

If you are not willing to give permissions, it will be very difficult to make MODs, especially MODs that modify a lot of content. Without sufficient game permissions, it will be impossible to make them.

Except for the automatic generation of NPCs, almost all permissions in "Divine Grace Continent" are open.

To put it bluntly, except for the NPC-related game content, players can modify other props, weapons, enemies, events, maps, modes, plots, etc.

This degree of freedom is very high.

After all, there is such a large space for modification, and with the players' imagination, it is not difficult to create a game MOD that is eye-catching or eye-popping.

"Remember to make it clear to the MOD creators in advance that all MODs related to Shen'en Continent must seek the opinion of Tianba Studio and obtain our authorization before commercial use."

Chen Ba said seriously: "If you violate this clause and secretly use it for commercial purposes, or make profits from game MODs, don't blame us for being ruthless."

The same thing.

The special nature of "Divine Grace Continent" determines that many MODs can be sold for money.

In the face of huge interests, some people may go astray. It is very necessary to take precautions in advance.

at the same time.

All game MODs of "Shennong Continent" can only be released to the special area set up on Tianba's official website after they are completed, and cannot be released to other platforms for players to download.

Simply sharing without making any profit from it is not acceptable.

This is a matter of principle!

If the above terms are violated, Tianba Studio will not show any leniency and will file a lawsuit and claim compensation.

Don't doubt whether Brother Ba can find you, he is a man who cheats. As long as this game MOD is installed on the game "Shennong Continent", he will definitely find it.

Any evil will be brought to justice! "By the way, is our MOD community still called a creative workshop?"

"What else is it called?"

Chen Ba curled his lips and said, "If you think it doesn't sound good, or you're afraid that the Steam platform will ask for copyright fees, then change the name. How about Tianba Workshop or Creative Factory?"

It's not a big deal.

Whether it is Creative Workshop or Creative Factory, it is ultimately just an alias for a MOD sharing community.

If you don't mind being embarrassed, it's OK to change it to Sona's House...

(End of this chapter)