Chapter 80 Companion DLC
Xiao Lu’s idea is very bold.
Although this kind of behavior of a scumbag who forgets his old love when he has a new one is not worth promoting, Chen Ba did not deny it.
To put it bluntly.
Once the game mechanism is designed, players are free to play the game however they want. Even if it is inconsistent with the original design intention, it should not be easily denied.
Trying to teach a player to play a game?
Forget it! Any game designer who holds this idea will be scolded by players.
For example, the League of Legends designer! Whether the hero is a scumbag or a good person, these are the choices made by the players. As a game developer, Chen Ba will not comment.
He only cares about the game itself.
This time, "Divine Grace Continent" did not use the Dream Building 5 engine for production, and it was not needed mainly because it was not needed.
Many players who have played "Star Emperor" expressed disappointment about this news. They thought that Tianba Studio would develop a new game with exquisite graphics and gorgeous special effects.
Who would have thought that the new game’s main feature was not the graphics…
"What are you thinking?"
Facing a group of disappointed Star Emperor players, Chen Ba was speechless and said, "The graphics of Star Emperor will not be outdated for at least five years, so why release a sequel?"
The update and iteration of digital hardware is quite fast, but no matter how fast it is, it can't compare to Huang's knife skills and toothpaste squeezing.
If nothing unexpected happens.
The game "Star Emperor" will not be able to remove the risk warning of "becoming immortal" for at least the next three years. The hardware of most players is still difficult to support high-intensity and extreme sublimation.
In this case, there is no need for Tianba Studio to develop a second-generation sequel or a game with more refined graphics and more gorgeous special effects.
After all, at this time, most players are still using graphics cards like 1060.
The first Star Emperor was enough to overwhelm everyone. If there was another Star Emperor ProPlus version, how many players would meet the recommended configuration? This is also the reason why Chen Ba resolutely developed a 2D turn-based game like Shen'en Continent without considering the game graphics after the release of Star Emperor.
He wants sales!
Without solid game sales to back it up, a team like Tianba Studio might face a funding break at any time and suddenly announce its disbandment.
This is the frustration of a small team.
Why do everyone want to work in big companies?
In addition to high salaries and good benefits, the most important thing about a large company is its strong ability to resist risks and stable jobs. As long as you don't make any big mistakes, you won't suddenly lose your job.
There are quite a few people in Tianba Studio, including the customer service and packaging and shipping specialists of "Xianyu Digital" next door, a total of sixteen people.
The monthly salary and bonus alone is 200,000 or 300,000, not to mention the rent, utilities, office supplies, internet and other miscellaneous expenses. If all is taken into account, at least 400,000 is enough.
With this money, he could buy a three-bedroom, one-living-room house in Chen Ba's hometown, a small county town.
“Spend money like water!”
After sighing, Chen Ba suddenly remembered the decoration DLC of "Living with Others Simulator" that was released before, so he asked, "How many copies of the DLC were sold?"
“Nearly 100,000 copies!”
Yang Dong, who was studying the game's numbers in front of his computer, looked up and said, "It's selling well. On average, one in seven players has bought the DLC. This ratio is pretty good."
Really good!
Upon hearing this, Chen Ba couldn't help but nodded.
The 7:1 DLC sales data is not low in the entire gaming industry. You know, many games sell tens of millions of copies, but the DLC only sells a few hundred thousand copies.
Of course, it’s not the best.
The best DLC sales data is said to be very close to 1:1, which means that the vast majority of players who buy the game itself also buy a copy of the DLC.
This is outrageous! Not to mention 1:1, even if it is 2:1 or 3:1, it is amazing. If the main game can sell 1 million copies, and there are a few more DLCs, the money earned will be no less than the main game.
I heard that someone said...
For games like Euro Truck Simulator, the cumulative sales of DLC can even be several times more than the main game. After all, it is not very fun to just play the main game without buying DLC.
The sales volume of the decoration DLC is close to 100,000 copies, with a sales ratio of 7:1, which makes Chen Ba somewhat tempted.
Old games are not considered for the time being.
As a new game from Tianba Studio, can "Shennong Land" have a "companion DLC" and release it together with the official version? "Sure!"
Yang Dong agreed: "Many games will launch one or two companion DLCs when they are released. We can also make one."
"But what should the companion DLC contain?"
The companion DLC shouldn't be surprising.
There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!
After the release of a popular game, there are basically one or two companion DLCs. For example, when the famous "Forza Horizon 5" was released, there was a companion DLC containing special vehicles.
It is a normal idea for Brother Ba to make a companion DLC for "Divine Grace Land".
But what the content of this companion DLC should be stumped the two.
After all, it is a companion DLC, so the content must have some characteristics and appeal. It cannot be like ordinary DLC, where you just add a few skins to make do.
"Why not just make a new batch of NPCs!"
Chen Ba thought about it and decided that elves, dwarves and orcs alone might not be able to satisfy the appetite of the brave, so he simply put a few special NPCs like dragons, slimes, undead and goblins in the companion DLC.
This will enrich the hero's harem and also have a certain appeal, enticing players to purchase the DLC.
"Are you sure?"
Yang Dong's mouth twitched as he said, "Forget about the dragons, but the undead, slimes, and goblins look so weird, who would buy them as wives?"
"You're right. There are indeed few players with this special fetish. Most players probably prefer human characters."
Chen Ba did not deny this, but he added: "But there is a saying that goes, as long as you are strong enough, you can be my wife no matter how ugly she is."
What about the undead and slimes? They are a bit ugly, but they have a kind of "numerical beauty"!
What's more, there are more players who like novelty than Yang Dong thought.
Who can resist a skeleton wife? Who can resist a slime and a goblin as pets?
OK, OK! Even if you are not interested in these, what about dragons? No one should object to raising a handsome and powerful dragon, right?
"That's fine..."
Since Brother Ba said so, Yang Dong had no reason to object.
And when he thought about it carefully, he found that what Chen Ba said made sense. There were still many players interested in special NPCs like this.
It's mainly a curiosity! Most of the NPCs in the game are humans, even special races like orcs, elves and dwarves look similar to humans.
I'm tired of normal humans, so raising a few weird NPCs is pretty good to be honest...
The strength value is secondary.
The main purpose is to give her a sense of freshness. If you can't keep her as a wife, then keep her as a pet! (End of this chapter)