Chapter 59: When will Tianba Haoyuan be delivered?
The sales of "Star Emperor" were very poor.
It's not that bad it's outrageous, but it's a bit low compared to the expected goals and popularity.
From the beginning of June to the end of June, a total of 140,000 copies of the early access version of the new game were sold.
This sales result is totally unworthy of the current popularity of the game.
Chen Ba also analyzed that the reason for this is mainly due to the "black screen crash" problem caused by the optimization bug, which made some players interested but dare not play.
In order to eliminate this negative impression, Tianba Studio not only issued a statement to clarify, but also made certain adjustments and optimizations to the game environment.
First, two new characters are introduced, Emperor Zi Yang and Crazy Shark Supreme.
Then, Chen Ba, Yang Dong and others worked hard to create an arcade entertainment mode with "Extreme Sublimation Disabled".
Then, we spared no effort to invite major anchors, UP hosts and gaming media to help promote the game and clarify the false rumor that "only those with a RMB 3090 or above are allowed to play the game."
Unfortunately, the results were minimal.
It’s terrible to just follow the crowd!
Obviously, under simple picture quality, even old 10 series graphics cards can play the game normally. In the extreme sublimation mode, the most that can happen is that the game will "crash" and you will need to log in again.
But as the rumor spread, it became that if you dare to play "Star Emperor" without the starting configuration of 3080, are you not afraid of your graphics card burning?
This is a rumor!
If you don't want to fight for immortality, just lower the picture quality, it's fine, you can play the game as usual, it won't be affected at all.
By the way, Chen Ba is already considering changing the new arcade mode to "ladder ranking competition", while the original road to becoming an immortal will retain the "title acquisition" and turn it into an entertainment mode.
There is no way! The purpose of developing games is to make money. If most players are scared by this threshold and dare not buy the game, how can we make money?
The ranking system of the Immortal Road has been moved to the Arcade Mode. From now on, this mode will be treated as entertainment, and you can just get an achievement title. As a "taboo" method, the ultimate sublimation will probably not be seen in the future except for the Immortal Road.
At least not in the competition! In order to attract a group of new players to "Star Emperor" and stabilize the existing base, Chen Ba decided to hold an online competition.
Players can sign up in-game.
After the specified time, you can unlock the special competition mode, match your qualifying opponents, and decide the top 64 candidates based on the win ranking within an hour.
In the knockout stage, the opponents will be decided by drawing lots, and then Bo3 will be played to the quarterfinals. From the quarterfinals, the game becomes Bo5 mode...
Although it is an online competition, Chen Ba still takes it very seriously. For this purpose, he not only prepared a large amount of bonuses, but also a batch of Star Emperor co-branded graphics cards as rewards.
"Actually, our game is not short of new players!"
Seeing that Brother Ba was worried about the future of "Star Emperor", Xiao Lu suddenly said: "The sales growth is very stable, which means that we have new players joining us every day."
“That’s right!”
"Although most new players buy new graphics cards and specifically test the performance, using Star Emperor as 3DMark, there is one thing..."
Zhong Shengwei added: "Our players are very active. Once they enter the game "Star Emperor", they will basically continue to play it."
Such an alternative fighting game demonstrates the powerful graphics of the Dream Building 5 engine. Due to the lack of similar competitors, even if it is unpopular, it will not be left unplayed.
As long as there are people interested in the ultimate graphics quality displayed by "Star Emperor", as long as people change to new graphics cards, there will be a steady stream of new players! "One more thing..."
"Isn't Mr. Huang going to release a new generation of graphics cards? By then the performance will be improved and the problems we encounter will be solved sooner or later." Zhong Shengwei said optimistically.
At present, the problems encountered by new games are actually very simple.
As long as players can wait until the next generation of new graphics cards is released and update their computer configurations one after another, the ultimate upgrade will not be so scary.
"That's a good idea, but what about Old Huang squeezing the toothpaste?" Chen Ba rolled his eyes.
Moore's Law is approaching its physical limit. The new generations of graphics cards released by Huang are all incremental iterations, and it is hard to say that there will be significant performance improvements.
We can look forward to A cards.
Although A cards are less generally applicable than N cards, the advantage is that their theoretical performance is strong enough, and the adaptation and optimization of A cards in "Star Emperor" are not inferior to N cards, which can fully release the performance.
"Speaking of which, our chicken blood optimization plan should not only optimize "Star Emperor", right?"
Yang Dong said thoughtfully: "Su Ma seems to be very interested in our chicken blood optimization plan, and she even sent someone to learn about it."
"What does she want?"
Upon hearing this, Chen Ba frowned and said, "She doesn't think that the chicken blood optimization adopted by "Star Emperor" can make the A card more useful, right?"
This is impossible.
There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!
First of all, the chicken blood optimization is only aimed at the game "Star Emperor", and it may not have such a good effect if it is separated out.
Secondly, A cards have their own so-called chicken blood drivers. What they lack is game adaptability rather than new chicken blood optimization methods.
"So she gave up after asking once, and I made it very clear that this was an optimization plan specifically for Star Emperor."
Yang Dong smiled and said, "The DreamBuilding 5 engine officials have invited us to share our game development experience with our peers at the upcoming developer conference."
Chen Ba: “…”
What's your experience? What's your experience? Let me tell you, we made a super cool game with the Dream Building 5 engine, but due to an optimization bug, a large number of players got a black screen and the game crashed? Forget it!
Rather than sharing experience, it is more like a public execution, letting many people know about the embarrassing things that happened in "Star Emperor".
He wouldn't go. If he had that much free time, why not stay up late and work overtime to create a few new characters for "Star Emperor"?
"By the way, there are players in the community who have been asking when the official version of Star Emperor will be released? And when will Tianba Mansion be delivered?"
"The official version will depend on the situation."
Chen Ba estimated that once he changed the path to immortality into an entertainment mode and added the ladder ranking system to the arcade, it should be possible.
As for Tianba Mansion...
Wait! There are still a lot of things to deal with on Star Emperor, how can they have time to update Living With Other People Simulator?
Anyway, I have been waiting for half a year, so a few days won’t make any difference.
Of course, that's not the case.
To put it so bluntly and rudely, players who bought pre-sale properties in "Living Under Someone Else's House Simulator" must be very angry and feel that they have been cheated.
"Then put it another way..."
Chen Ba scratched his head, thought for a moment, and concluded: "In order to compensate the majority of owners, Tianba Real Estate is preparing a house handover ceremony full of surprises, so stay tuned!"
What surprise? Is the second postponement a surprise?
(End of this chapter)