Chapter 292 Mini Program
The event of completely entrusting "Marble Storm" to the players caused a sensation in the entire gaming circle.
Then came everyone's curious gazes. Everyone was looking forward to what would happen to "Don't Leave After School: Marble Storm" after the game was completely taken over by players. Is this a good thing or a bad thing? As a popular game with an average daily active player volume of over one million, if the daily active players suddenly plummeted after the Game Committee took over, and the game was on the verge of being shut down, does it prove that professional matters should be left to professionals? "Think about it from another angle."
“If the daily active users of Pinball continue to rise after the Player Committee takes over, and the game becomes more popular day by day, it will prove that we are doing the right thing.”
Chen Ba explained: "You have to trust the players, especially the players of Pinball who are good at political intrigue and palace fighting."
If other games implement similar measures, they will most likely end up in a mess.
The reason is simple. Players are always players. They may be good at playing games, but if you ask them to make games or operate a mature game, they may not know where to start.
And in this regard, "Marble Storm" is a little different.
First of all, the players of Pinball Storm are mostly office workers, and mainly from the IT and Internet industries. They are not completely ignorant in this area, and there are also many technical experts among the players.
Secondly, the players of Pinball Storm have been tested for a long time and have seen all kinds of situations.
The era of local tyrants has passed, and now there is a "Play Committee" as a means of checks and balances, so the possibility of causing major chaos is very low.
"That's true..."
Yang Dong, who had just returned to the company after getting married and was too lazy to even go on a honeymoon, nodded immediately after hearing this: "The existence of the Play Committee can indeed make us feel more at ease."
Without a gaming committee, the balance of power would be unbalanced.
The result of the imbalance of power is naturally that the local tyrants in each district will make a comeback and return to the time when the game was first launched.
But with the establishment of the Game Committee, local tyrants will never be resurrected again, and the current game environment does not give these local tyrants room to perform.
Come to think of it.
It’s OK that there was no such awareness before, but after the establishment of the Player Committee, players generally awakened to the sense of “ownership”. Who wants to have an extra father above their head when playing a game? “The authority marbles are now more of a symbolic prop.”
Yang Dong said with emotion: "Looking back to the past, whoever got this marble could command the entire region and server. We can never go back to that time again."
Permission marbles are the core props that create the current gaming environment of "Don't Leave After School: Marble Storm".
At that time, whoever gets this marble will be able to establish a huge dynasty in this area, which will be even more powerful than the leader of the martial arts world!
But now it’s not possible…
The existence of the Play Committee greatly checks and balances the use of permission marbles. Only with the approval of the Play Committee can you use the permissions of the permission marbles, and the permission marbles can play their due role.
But if you fail to get the approval of the game committee, then even if you get the authority marbles, it will be useless in the end.
Why do you say that?
Because the Player Committee represents the common will of all players in this area. If you cannot get the approval of the Player Committee, it is equivalent to standing on the "opposite side" of everyone in this area.
If it were in ancient times, it would be like an emperor ascending the throne, but the ministers in the court did not recognize him, the common people did not agree with him, and even the eunuchs and palace maids in the harem did not recognize him as the emperor...
So here comes the question!
If you stand in opposition to the people of the world, even if you hold the imperial seal, you are not the Son of Heaven and cannot be a real emperor.
After all, it is necessary to inherit the throne only if someone supports you. If no one supports you, or even if everyone opposes you, then even if you sit on the throne, you are just a clown playing house!
“It has indeed become a symbol.”
Chen Ba nodded and said, "Now each district has detailed the election and nomination rules for the Pearl Holders. Only the Pearl Holders elected through elections have the authority to lead the entire district."
No one would think that the "bead holders" in these regions and servers rely solely on the authority marbles in their hands to reach this position, right?
First comes the chicken, then comes the egg! First become the marble holder, then receive the authority marbles to become the de facto decision maker in this area. Instead of getting the authority marbles first, then becoming the decision maker in this area.
If we clarify this causal logic, we can understand why Yang Dong said that the current authority marbles have lost their original meaning and have become a spiritual symbol.
I am a doctor, I can become a doctor because I can cure diseases! You don't think that if you take my white coat and stethoscope and put them on, you can cure diseases and save lives, and you can replace me as the new doctor? Don't be kidding! Everyone wants authority marbles, but the difference is that before, you had to grab them by yourself, but now you can't, you can only rely on working hard and winning the recognition of players in this area step by step.
"Under this model or system, the people who eventually hold the beads won't be too stupid, or at least they won't suddenly get sick and cause the game to become unpopular."
"It's like this..."
“So I am looking forward to the day when all these marble players unite and work together to develop “Marble Storm” into the world’s number one online game!”
Chen Ba said with great anticipation: "It doesn't need to be too much. 5 million daily active users should be enough."
"Five million?"
Yang Dong smiled and said, "You don't need that much. 3 million is enough! In the current online game market, 3 million daily active users is already the ceiling level."
League of Legends is the most popular online game right now, and it has remained the same for so many years! But even League of Legends has been on a downward spiral for so many years, with the number of daily active users falling again and again, and it has long lost its former glory.
In the past, the Chinese server alone had several million daily active users, and including overseas, the global daily active users were tens of millions! But after so many years, the global daily active players of League of Legends can only be maintained at a few million, and the Chinese server is even more rubbish. Apart from old players, few people are willing to go online.
Therefore, if "Marble Storm" can achieve more than 3 million daily active users, it can really say with confidence that it is "the world's number one online game."
“That’s not right!”
As if he had thought of something, Chen Ba asked curiously, "Why is the ceiling so low? I remember that last year, didn't the League of Legends MMO game still have 4 to 5 million daily active users?"
“You said that was last year…”
"Can last year be the same as this year? Besides, it's not the first time I've heard that the daily active users ceiling of PC games has been declining year by year."
Yang Dong said helplessly: "Our "Cultivation Fantasy" and "Star Emperor 2" are considered to be relatively good online games, right?"
"But even so, the daily active users of these two games have slowly declined after their peak period."
"Star Emperor 2" is okay. After all, it is a new game and the number of online users can still remain stable and will not drop too drastically.
"Cultivation Fantasy" is in a terrible state.
We had previously strived to reach a million daily active users, but now, let alone a million, being able to retain a basic base of 500,000 is already a great contribution by the "meritorious monks."
I really have to thank the meritorious monks.
If it weren’t for their support, checking in on time every day to do good deeds, and being determined to be the first to “become a saint through merit,” the game’s daily activity would have collapsed long ago.
"What about "Mountain Village Past"?"
Chen Ba is very curious, as "Mountain Village Past", which was released at about the same time as "Cultivation Fantasy", has it been affected?
"The past of the mountain village..."
Yang Dong pondered, "How should I put it? In terms of daily activity, this game is not particularly high. After all, the total player base is not that large."
"But, this game has one statistic that is definitely among the best, and that is the average number of launches per day..."
Too perverted!
There aren't really that many players of "Mountain Village Past". After all, it's a single-player story-based game, and we can't expect high daily activity.
Only those who are superstitious about the "divination" system will log in on time every day to check in. Most players rarely open this game after they have completed the plot or are tired of playing it.
There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!
But! Here comes the point! It is this group of players who believe in the "divination" system that has created the highest average daily launch times in the industry for "Mountain Village Past".
The first thing I do when I wake up in the morning is to tell my fortune to see how my luck is going to be today.
After washing up, eating breakfast and getting ready to go out, I told myself what to do today.
Go home and play games, and then do some divination. I have already used 40 rounds of characters in this UP pool. Let's see if I can get 10 rounds in the next UP pool...
Before going to bed at night, I still tell fortunes, not for any other reason, but just to make myself feel at ease. If the fortune shows a bad sign, I am afraid I will not be able to sleep well.
This is the daily life of many "Mountain Village Past" players.
The divination system has been completely integrated into their lives, just like changing shoes when going out and taking off shoes when entering the house, it has become a habit.
Why is this so? On the one hand, the divination system in "Mountain Village Past" is indeed amazing. After all, it is a hexagram calculated based on big data. Whether big data understands you or not, don't you know it yourself? On the other hand, using this thing to calculate good and bad fortune in reality seems to be a "feudal superstition" practice, but in fact it is a trend among many young people.
Yes, it’s trendy! Everyone knows that the divination system can only predict good and bad luck in the game, and cannot be used in real life, but this does not affect everyone’s use of this divination system in real life.
Don't ask, the answer is that in the cyber age, everyone needs a "portable golden finger"! A small program for knocking wooden fish can get millions of downloads, and the accumulation of merits in "Xiuzhen Fantasy" can make so many players addicted to it, so why can't cyber fortune-telling be popular?
It's very abstract though.
But this thing is better than accumulating merit by beating a wooden fish or burning incense and praying to Buddha.
After all, the divination system of "Mountain Village Past", although it only calculates good and bad fortune within the game, can be used to predict reality with a "certain probability" of being correct.
“Ah, this…”
Chen Ba complained: "Isn't this just like guessing the heads or tails of a coin? I said you'll be lucky or unlucky today, this kind of ambiguous hexagram rhetoric is always right a few times."
The predictions of good and bad luck made by the divination system, even if the results are "completely random", may be correct a few times. This has nothing to do with metaphysics; it is purely a matter of probability.
So what's the point of this thing?
Since we are all seeking psychological comfort, why not flip a coin? The effect of flipping a coin to guess the heads or tails is the same as this, and it is even more convenient!
"Haha, this is the kind where I know it's fake, but I hope it's true."
Yang Dong explained with a smile: "It doesn't matter whether the divination results are accurate or not. What's important is that in the fast-paced and high-pressure life, players hope that it is accurate, just like in the game..."
It would be better to say that it is precisely because the divination system of "Mountain Village Past" appears so magical on the Internet that everyone is so obsessed with it, hoping to be able to calculate their future fortunes and misfortunes in real life.
This kind of hope is crucial! When Chen Ba used to stay in his rental house and eat instant noodles, the wallpaper he used was a picture of the "God of Wealth Arriving".
His behavior is actually similar to those superstitious fortune-telling players. They all know it is unreliable, but they hope it is reliable and really useful.
“That’s right!”
Yang Dong said casually: "WeChat has launched a small program. You can bind your Tianba game account and use your mobile phone to tell fortunes in real time..."
Is there such a thing? Chen Ba was shocked when he heard this, and then asked with a puzzled look on his face: "No, where did the divination result come from? It can't be generated randomly, right?"
"Of course not!"
Yang Dong himself was using this applet and understood the principle behind it. He explained to Chen Ba, “He binds the player’s account, starts the game divination calculation in the cloud, and then transmits the divination results to the player.”
To put it simply, this mini program is a "cloud computer".
When players are outside and it is inconvenient to use a computer or start "Mountain Village Past", they can use the mini program to log in to their account in the cloud to tell fortunes.
Chen Ba: “…”
Wow! Who developed this app? They are really good at finding business opportunities, right? It makes me want to use it.
After all, you can tell your fortune anytime and anywhere by just taking out your mobile phone, and the hexagram is consistent with the result of "Mountain Village Past". Who doesn't like this kind of mini program?
Cyber fortune telling version 2.0!
Chen Ba was really impressed by these people. After hearing that this mini program had been used by as many as one million people, he admitted that he was jealous.
However, even though he was jealous, he really didn't dare to let Tianba Studio imitate this mini program and make an "official and genuine version" to grab the market.
after all……
The game "Mountain Village Past" has been on the edge of being banned. Didn't you see that it doesn't even dare to pursue the infringement of the peripheral products of the character "Hu Xi"?
Rather than profit, he was more worried about the fact that this mini program was so popular. If someone reported it as being superstitious, wouldn’t Tianba Studio be implicated?
Don’t do that!
This is "scientific prediction" not "metaphysical divination". Did you get Brother Ba's approval to name this app "Daily Fortune Telling"? (End of this chapter)