Chapter 205: FPS games that eliminate cheats

Live streaming and selling goods are new things, and are also one of the main channels for Internet celebrities to realize traffic.

Don't underestimate these two channels.

I won’t talk about the food-selling orders. Generally, they just put some advertisements and personal goods in the video, and then put the product links in the comment area. We often see it.

The price of business orders varies! Some companies pay quickly, some use QQ and Soso, some pay based on the number of fans, and some pay based on the number of video clicks and conversions.

Live streaming with goods is an advanced way of playing, and it is also the most important channel for internet celebrities to monetize traffic, without a doubt!

"Those big internet celebrities, especially those with explosive popularity, are just robbing money by selling goods through live streaming. They can easily make hundreds of dollars in one live streaming."

Yang Dong explained: “It’s hard to say how much you can earn, because the sales data and slot fees of each internet celebrity are very hidden and generally not made public for fans to know…”

What is made public is either fake or half-true and half-false to fool fans.

nonsense!

How can this be made public?

If fans knew that the "poor boy" and "noble lady from a poor family" that they have been following for so long were all disguised, and that they drive Mercedes-Benz and live in big villas in private, wouldn't their personalities collapse?

"Huang Qing doesn't know either?"

Chen Ba was very curious. If Yang Dong was an outsider and couldn't find out the profit and money-making data of those internet celebrities, then Huang Qing could definitely do it, right?

Before joining Tianba Studio, Brother Qing was the general manager of an MCN company. In the entire studio, no one knew these inside stories better than him.

"He knew, but he signed a confidentiality agreement. These contract details generally cannot be disclosed to the public, otherwise he will be held accountable."

"Bullshit secrecy..."

Chen Ba curled his lips and said, "In my opinion, the reason why he dared not say it is probably because it involves some kind of tax evasion. If he dares to say it, he will be chased and killed."

Internet celebrities don’t evade taxes? What a joke! Chen Ba is skeptical about how many Internet celebrities actually pay taxes. He thinks it would be good if there are two or three honest people among a hundred Internet celebrities.

"Forget it, if you don't know, then you don't know."

Yang Dong sighed and said, "It doesn't really matter. Anyway, 'I'm a Big Internet Celebrity' is a virtual online game. It doesn't matter how much you earn in the game."

"You can't say that..."

"We are simulating an internet celebrity. If we have to rely on guesswork and inference to even the income of an internet celebrity, the effect of the simulation will definitely be greatly reduced."

Chen Ba firmly opposed the proposal to fill in the income randomly. Since we want to simulate it, we might as well do it for real.

Internet celebrities and MCNs are very stubborn and you can’t get any useful details from them. So why not change your mindset and directly ask those companies that have participated in live streaming sales? “Hey! It’s true!”

Yang Dong suddenly realized, "Why didn't I think of that? These companies have worked with influencers before, so they must know some details about the contract fees and commissions."

Just make the game according to this.

What it’s like to make a living by selling goods in real life is exactly the same as in the game, and the main focus is on true restoration without any fabricated content.

"Oh, right, tax evasion..."

At this point, Chen Ba seemed to have made some kind of decision. He gritted his teeth and said, "Add it in too, and let the players choose for themselves."

To be honest, if the game doesn't have this content, it will lose half of its authenticity, and the simulated internet celebrities will also look fake. After all, you have paid your taxes honestly, so how dare you talk about authenticity?

"Isn't this...not good?"

Hearing this, Yang Dong frowned and said, "If it is open to players to choose, then 99% of the players will choose this path. Wouldn't there be very few honest players?"

No need to think about it.

Given the nature of the players, if there is an option to evade taxes in the game, almost everyone will select it, and they will completely ignore the reminder to abide by the law.

This is what Yang Dong is worried about...

If this kind of content exists in the game, will it be judged as "bad inducement" or even "harmful to social harmony"?

"Don't be so nervous, this shouldn't count! If this counts, then every Paradox player will be caught in the law..."

Chen Ba said nonchalantly.

Although this kind of content in the game sounds sensitive, when you compare it with other games, you will find that it is nothing.

There are many simulation strategy games like "Frostpunk" and "Civilization" series, which contain codes and even regulations that are even more heavyweight.

In comparison, the mechanism added by "I Am a Big Internet Celebrity" is really insignificant.

"That makes sense. I was overthinking it."

Yang Dong rubbed his brows, then said with a slightly distressed look: "By the way, Brother Ba, there is one more thing I would like your help with."

"What's up?"

"Why don't you go get the copyright for the music library? Our game can't be without all kinds of funky BGMs!"

Chen Ba: “…”

Hello, hello? Is this human language? Buying the license of an entire music copyright library just to make a game? How much did Yang Dong drink to dare to put forward such an outrageous condition?

"No, you... do you know how much the entire music library, the kind that's sold in a package, costs?"

Chen Ba was speechless and said, "Let me put it this way. Even if we sell our Tianba Studio, we probably won't be able to get the full music library license."

"You are so brave to make such a request. This request will not work for anyone. It is really beyond our ability to do..."

"Let's do this first. Make it compatible with some popular music file formats, and then let players upload and share them while playing."

Although Chen Ba could not meet Dong Ge's requirements, he also thought of a solution for him.

The solution is to pass the buck.

Throw the responsibility onto the players, and when asked, say I don’t know, these are all content uploaded and shared by the players themselves, and have nothing to do with Tianba Studio.

In fact, most of the current mainstream social short video platforms adopt this model.

Ahem…most of them!

The reason why it is the majority is mainly because there are also a few "rich and powerful" platforms that have reached cooperation with digital music copyright holders, such as Penguin Music X Douyin and Kuaishou.

This model is definitely impossible to learn, so we can only rely on players and let them figure it out on their own.

…

The end of January, the beginning of the first lunar month.

The annual TGA awards ceremony, known as the "Oscars" of the gaming industry, is held grandly in Los Angeles, USA.

This is the Huashan Sword Contest in the gaming industry. All game developers who have been invited and are interested in competing for the final prize have registered for this awards ceremony without exception.

The same goes for Chen Ba.

This is not the first time he has been invited. He was actually invited two years ago. However, Tianba Studio lacked competitiveness in the core awards in the past two years, so he was too lazy to go even if he was invited.

This year is very special. The special thing is that Tianba Studio, which has always been a runner-up in previous years, has been nominated for multiple awards including Game of the Year, Best Performance, Best Community Support, Best RPG Game, and Best Multiplayer Game for its game "Global Evolution".

Wuhu, take off! Chen Ba had never received such a courtesy before. When he thought about the scene of receiving so many awards, he came to the scene in a hurry.

Unfortunately, there are some things that only he could know when he was present at the event, that is, although "Global Evolution" was nominated for many awards, it had to be a runner-up for most of them.

It’s already very good to win one or two awards.

As for the Game of the Year? Sorry! Although the organizing committee claims that all awards are kept confidential, no one knows the winner's name until the winner is announced at the end.

OK! OK!

Chen Ba was tired of hearing the talk of fairness and justice. No matter how well the organizing committee disguised themselves, everyone would know who the winner was when they arrived at the scene.

Ordinary people, of course, don’t know this and think the award ceremony process is very exciting.

But it is too difficult to hide it from the boss of a studio like Chen Ba, or the CEO of a studio like Huang Qing.

After all, there are only a few nominees, and we all know each other every day. It's no secret who has how capable they are, whose games have the most fans, and who has contributed the most to winning the award.

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

"pity……"

Yang Dong, who was sitting far away in Jiangning, learned that Global Evolution had missed out on the Game of the Year award. He said with a mixture of regret and relief, "I can accept that! After all, if we were to receive this award, it would probably be a huge shock to the netizens."

The company that won the TGA Game of the Year this year is Valve. Their new game has become popular all over the world and has a far greater influence in the Western world than "Global Evolution".

Perhaps this is also the reason why Global Evolution was not selected in the end. It is well-known but not very well-known, and its influence abroad is really limited...

Chen Ba was happy that the Game of the Year was really awarded to "Global Evolution", but many Valve fans and even foreign players would be unhappy, questioning whether there was a shady deal in this TGA and that the award was given to a game that no one had ever heard of.

certainly!

As the saying goes, there are gains and losses! After losing the Game of the Year competition, Global Evolution quickly won a few consolation awards.

What is the best community support, best RPG game, etc.

As the main producer of the game, Chen Ba also went on stage to give a speech. Unfortunately, everyone had a time limit, otherwise he really wanted to rap on the spot.

but……

Acceptance speeches have a time limit and are not so suitable for showcasing talent, but you can give full play to your talents during the industry exchange session after the event.

This session is private.

In other words, it was not open to the public. No reporters or media were present. It was just a celebration party for representatives from various console manufacturers and gaming companies.

Here, Chen Ba met the head of a game studio that made FPS games in Lao Mi. He seemed very interested in Chen Ba and chatted a lot with him.

Through the conversation, Chen Ba learned that this bearded game producer actually wanted to inquire about the possibility of applying Tianba engine to FPS games.

"ah?"

Chen Ba was stunned at first by this somewhat absurd question.

Tianba Engine? FPS?

These two are obviously not the same thing! When the Tianba engine was first created, it was not specially calibrated for FPS games.

So it is obvious that using Tianba engine to develop FPS games is quite risky and the risk is extremely high. If it succeeds, everyone will be happy, but if it fails, it may not even be as good as relying on a defense.

"The engine can support FPS games, but I don't recommend you to do so because Tianba Engine has no experience in developing FPS games."

At this point, Chen Ba suddenly asked curiously, "Speaking of which, there are many excellent engines to choose from for FPS games, right? Why did you choose the Tianba engine?"

He is really curious.

FPS games are one of the most popular categories in the gaming industry, and there are countless popular masterpieces. It is not a problem to list a dozen or so FPS games that are popular on the market.

In this case, if you want to develop a high-quality FPS game, why not use the engines of these games? Tianba Engine? Bullshit! In China, Tianba Engine may still be popular, but abroad, the newly born Tianba Engine is a piece of shit, and few developers are willing to try it.

"Chen, you seem to have forgotten..."

The developer named Kadiel shrugged and said, "What you said is actually not fatal to an FPS game, especially an online game."

"What's really deadly is the cheat!"

Cheats?

Hearing this word, Chen Ba nodded in surprise.

It really is...

When evaluating the quality of an FPS game, especially an online game, everyone will take into account the severity of the penalties for cheating, as well as the number of cheats.

In the minds of players, the most fun FPS games are those that maintain a better competitive gaming environment and strictly crack down on and punish cheats.

So here comes the question…

Is there any FPS game that can completely eliminate the invasion of various plug-ins and scripts and ensure a green and healthy gaming environment? The answer is no!

There is a reason why FPS cheats are rampant, and this reason is unlikely to be solved in at least 10 years at the current speed of game development.

10 years is very conservative...

Some slightly more radical players may even say that the FPS cheating problem will not be solved in 30 years.

The mainstream solution that has been verified by the market is, at most, to sweep the board like "Valorant" and monitor players at all times to see if they are cheating.

To be honest, this method is very rough.

Precisely because it is very rude and this kind of prying behavior without any privacy will cause disgust and rejection among many players.

"So...what do you want to say?"

Chen Ba was confused. He was already shocked when Kadier mentioned FPS games, and now he mentioned plug-ins. What exactly did he want to say? What does Tianba Engine have to do with FPS games? And what does it have to do with plug-ins? Could Kadier have discovered that he could use Tianba Engine to develop various FPS plug-in software? "NO!"

Kadier denied this ridiculous speculation and explained without hesitation: "Although my discovery is related to cheating, believe me, I am really a law-abiding green player."

"What I discovered is that when I tried to make a small FPS game in Tianba Engine, the game was able to resist the invasion of various FPS plug-in software."

Chen Ba: “???”

Protect against all kinds of cheating software? Isn't this what we should do?

No matter how powerful the Tianba engine is, its underlying structure is created by the Tiehanhan system. No matter how powerful these plug-in software are, they cannot bypass the system.

So why is this so surprising... Wait! He was talking about FPS games?

Chen Ba quietly widened his eyes.

(End of this chapter)