Chapter 182 Cruel and Dark World View
Become a game partner and take charge of the life and death of a zone. Not only can you enjoy the attention of a big star, but you can also get a share of the game recharge flow.
Even though the dividend ratio is only 5%, it has a large base!
A server area can easily have hundreds of thousands of people. As long as any player recharges 100 yuan, the local emperor of the server can take 5 yuan, so small profits but quick turnover is quite a lot.
But then again…
Although this money comes easily, it is still difficult to keep receiving it.
The whole area is full of rebels, everyone is Lu Bu. One day of emperor experience card is the norm. Sitting there for a week is barely qualified, and sitting there for a month is the best of gods.
As for someone like Cherry Biscuit, who held power in a district for 70 days, this is quite rare and is generally called "the greatest emperor of all time"! "Maybe in the future, there will be emperors for half a year or even a whole year..."
Chen Ba thought about it and realized that this was a time of chaos and the fight for the throne in such times would inevitably be cruel and bloody. It was unrealistic to want to sit firmly on the throne for a long time.
But in the future, when the country enters a peaceful and prosperous era, or a strong-willed figure emerges, the gaming partners in each district will stabilize, and they will work for at least half a year.
"I guess so……"
Yang Dong was not very sure either. After all, the throne involved too many interests. Unless one was a truly strong man, it would be difficult for one person to conquer an entire district.
"By the way, Jiang Bin from Game Star just called and wanted to interview you. He wanted to know when you are free."
"Jiang Bin?"
Hearing this familiar name, Chen Ba immediately smiled.
If an unfamiliar media friend came to interview him, he would most likely ignore the rejection. After all, he is so busy at work, who has time to deal with media reporters?
But Jiang Bin and Game Star are different, they have been friends for many years.
You must give face to your old friend.
Chen Ba thought about his schedule and gave his answer: "Tell him to come directly to the food court at 6pm. It's a good opportunity to treat him to a meal and we can talk while we eat."
"Okay, I'll tell him."
After receiving Chen Ba's reply, Jiang Bin came quickly and arrived at the restaurant booked by Chen Ba at 5:30.
At this time, Chen Ba also arrived.
After exchanging pleasantries for a while, the two of them didn't exchange much politeness. They ordered a few of each other's favorite dishes, then got straight to the point and began a question-and-answer interview.
"Brother Ba, I heard that you are developing a domestic 3A stand-alone game?"
"right!"
"Can you tell us what the genre is and what the highlights are in the game?"
"The genre is role-playing, and the subject matter is actually aura revival with some sci-fi and future elements."
Because before coming, Chen Ba had thought about what questions the other party would ask, so it was easy for him to answer: "The game has many highlights, such as the magnificent world view, mighty and powerful beasts, cute and playful monsters, and a unique martial arts system."
"Martial arts?"
"Yes, martial arts! In the game, due to the changes in the world, humans extracted ideas from ancient martial arts in order to adapt to the new era and slowly developed a martial arts path."
Chen Ba patiently explained: "If we use the professions in traditional role-playing games as the basis, then in the game Global Evolution, all players only have one major profession: Warrior!"
Only one profession? Jiang Bin couldn't help but complain when he heard this: "Isn't this too boring? After all, if there is only one profession, it will be difficult for players to be satisfied."
“That’s not the case…”
"There is indeed only one career option, Warrior, but within the Warrior career system, there are many different schools."
Chen Ba joked: "If you must say, these schools under the warrior system are the real game professions."
Warrior is a general term.
In this huge system, players can freely choose their development direction and genre and embark on a unique path.
According to weapons, they can be divided into sword fighters, sword fighters, stick fighters, Gatling fighters, grenade fighters...
There are both cold weapons and hot weapons.
The weapons in the game mainly depend on the preferences of the players. Generally speaking, cold weapons are mainly used for "close combat" and "single-target damage", while hot weapons are mainly used for long-range damage.
In addition to the distinction between weapons, there is also a distinction between awakening talents.
This is a great era in which all animals and plants in the world are evolving. Humans are no exception and can choose the direction of their evolutionary awakening independently.
For example, speed. Through evolution, you can gain extraordinary speed. When it evolves to the extreme, you can dodge infinitely and the enemy can't even touch you.
And recovery! With this evolutionary path, the awakened talent may not increase combat power too much, but the advantage is that one has a strong life. As long as he is not deliberately seeking death, he will be indestructible like Xiaoqiang.
The brute force route is also possible.
After embarking on this evolutionary path, what they pursue is to prove their truth with strength. A pair of iron fists can do everything. Except that they are relatively heavy and easily walked like dogs, they are definitely unparalleled warriors!
"I see……"
After hearing this, Jiang Bin probably understood.
Although the game "Global Evolution" seems to have only one career option, "Warrior", within the framework of the warrior, players can choose from many schools and evolutionary routes.
In this way, there will be no problem of career being too monotonous and lacking in interest.
With so many genres and evolutionary routes, players can always find their favorite genre and experience different ways of playing.
In addition to the distinction between martial arts schools and evolutionary routes, Chen Ba also introduced a game mechanism or gameplay that he focused on.
"Devouring evolution?"
"Well... you can understand it as eating the flesh and blood of different beasts to absorb their essence and allow oneself to evolve in a certain direction, learning from their strengths and making up for their weaknesses."
Chen Ba expressed his thoughts.
In the game "Global Evolution", ferocious beasts, monsters and sea beasts are the undisputed overlords of the earth, and their individual strength is absolutely top-notch.
This is also due to the fact that they evolved relatively quickly during the changes in heaven and earth, and embarked on the road of evolution earlier than humans.
By eating these ferocious beasts, sea beasts and monsters, one can, to a certain extent, obtain specific blood power, improve one's own strength and change the original direction of evolution.
For example, if you eat a mutated carrot, there is a 0.01% chance of extracting "carrot blood" and gaining special abilities.
The strong prey on the weak, survival of the fittest! Chen Ba came up with this mechanism to emphasize the cruelty of this world. If you don't follow the laws of nature, you will become someone else's food.
"Brother Ba, do you mean that in this game, humans are actually food for other races?" Jiang Bin said in shock.
"right!"
Chen Ba nodded.
Humans can evolve by eating the flesh and blood of ferocious beasts and sea beasts, so there is no reason why ferocious beasts and sea beasts cannot evolve by eating humans.
In the final analysis, everyone wants to become stronger and to live a better life!
This is also the reason why humans need to huddle together for warmth, huddle in base cities, rely on the protection of the strong and dare not run around in the wild.
Because in the world view of "Global Evolution", humans have become food for many races. As long as they leave the safe zone, they will be eaten by the swarming ferocious beasts.
"Isn't this... too dark?"
Jiang Bin frowned, as if he had not expected the background story of this game to be so cruel and dark.
“So it’s 16+!”
Chen Ba shrugged and said, "This game won't be played by children, and we don't want any underage players."
If nothing unexpected happens, after the release of "Global Evolution", the game will definitely block underage players and will not allow them to play this game.
After all, this world view is still too dark and cruel for some of the flowers of the motherland. Mature adults are the main target audience of this game.
“Are there any promotional videos?”
"Yes, let me show you..."
There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!
Chen Ba took out his mobile phone, checked a video file of about 1 minute and 17 seconds, and played it on demand through the built-in player.
"Dad is dead, and Mom is dead too!"
The video begins with a little girl with a bloodstained face sitting on the ruins and crying. The narrator says with a hint of reminiscence: "The whole world has changed drastically. The once prosperous city has become a paradise for ferocious beasts. I watched with my own eyes as a classmate was bitten to death by a huge rat..."
It was like the end of the world.
People had numb expressions and huddled in corners, trembling in fear at the ferocious beasts running around in the streets.
Then, the dawn appeared!
Finally, a martial arts expert was born in the human race. He cut off a giant python as thick as a train with one sword. Humanity rebuilt its homeland and entered the martial arts era...
The promotional video is made entirely of CG.
This is not a real game demonstration video. It mainly uses animated CG to give you a brief introduction to the game's background story.
After watching it, Jiang Bin was shocked, but he also understood that the game CG and the actual game screen were not the same thing, so he asked Chen Ba if he had a real game demonstration video? "Not yet!"
Chen Ba shook his head.
There is no actual demo video available right now. Even if you can cut a clip, the effect will look very lame, so it’s better not to show it to embarrass yourself.
"All right!"
Jiang Bin seemed very disappointed when he learned that there was no actual game demo video.
But he could also understand that it was really too much to expect a real machine demonstration at this stage. Brother Ba's PPT had just been completed, how could there be results so quickly?
Understanding is understanding.
Jiang Bin is still full of curiosity about the game "Global Evolution" and wants to know more details about the game.
"I can't reveal that."
Chen Ba knew what he could say and what he could not say.
It is true that he and Jiang Bin are very close friends, but no matter how close their friends are, it is impossible for them to tell him such business secrets.
Haven't you seen how much Rockstar suffered because of the GTA6 leak? "Okay, thank you again, Brother Ba, for taking the time to accept our exclusive interview with "Game Star"!"
Jiang Bin concluded as usual: "At the end of the interview, I will pick a few questions that fans are most concerned about. How about you answer them, Brother Ba?"
"Sure! Just ask..."
"Okay, the first question comes from the netizen "爱霸信霸等霸", who asks: Tianba Studio has developed a game engine, will it be open to other independent game developers in the future?"
"The Tianba Engine will be open."
Under industry management, this type of game engine will be open to many independent game producers, and Chen Ba will not make any special arrangements or exceptions.
The most important thing is that this can make money! Once other game developers use Tianba engine to develop games, they have to pay a protection fee to Tianba Studio. Why not agree to such a good thing?
only……
The ecosystem of Tianba Engine is still immature, and some of its functions are not perfect enough, so it cannot be made public yet.
And even if it is made public, we still have to teach others how to use this engine, right? There are still many people in Tianba Studio who are learning how to use this engine! If we ourselves haven't learned it yet, how can we have time to teach others? Therefore, it may take some time for the Tianba engine's open platform to be launched, and it is definitely not going to happen at the moment.
"The next question, from a netizen named "Zundujiadu", is when will Love Advisers release a feature that only matches players of the same sex?"
"The matching mechanism is pretty good. What's the matter... only matching players of the same sex? Huh?"
Chen Ba didn’t understand at first, but when he reacted, he realized that what the player wanted was the “match only same-sex players” function.
What's going on? Nantong, right?
Chen Ba almost couldn't hold it in. It took him a long time to calm down his inner shock and slowly explained: "Ahem! Well, I'll think about it later and see if it's necessary!"
"One last question!"
Jiang Bin was also a little nervous, so he quickly skipped the previous question and said, "A question from a netizen named 'Cyber Buddha'. During the Spring Festival, 'Living Simulator' is free to purchase, so why is 'Need for Speed' not discounted yet?"
Has there been no discount? Chen Ba frowned and thought about it, and found that it was true. From the release of "Need for Speed" to now, it seems that there has been no discount, and it has always been sold at the original price.
It's no wonder he forgot.
The main reason is that "Drive" has always been selling very well, and its sales growth curve is as steady as an old dog. In this case, there is naturally no need to offer any discounts or promotions.
But what the players said makes sense.
Long-term non-discounts are not friendly to those who "wait and see". Even if sales are stable, discounts are needed occasionally to stimulate sales.
"In two days, the new historical low price will be available!"
Chen Ba explained: "Players who are interested in "Need for Speed" can wait patiently, the -50% discount will be here soon."
To be honest, it is quite painful to see a hot-selling game suddenly discounted by 50%. After all, this game has no worries about sales, and there is no need to give such a generous discount.
Just like a large number of popular games that have been at the top of the sales list for a long time, the most they can offer is a 30% or 20% discount, and it is difficult to offer a discount of 50%.
Don’t ask, the answer is there is no shortage of sales.
The same was originally true for "Need for Speed", but since players had such high demand and it had never been discounted, the first discount was a little bigger.
This little money doesn’t matter!
Anyway, the original price is in three digits, and it can be sold for fifty or sixty yuan at a 50% discount. As long as the players' enthusiasm for purchasing is high enough, it is also a good income.
(End of this chapter)