Chapter 152 Mr. Ke, Are You Sweating Profusely?

The method used by SE is no longer unusual for all kinds of modern cheating games.

But at that time, the entire game industry was aiming to ‘make more fun games’ and ‘sell more handheld consoles’.

However, SE took the lead to jump out of the circle and started a big harvest in the form of selling "dlc".

Of course, this DLC is not that DLC.

The handheld machine has an additional interface that can plug in another small cassette.

When the cassette and the "Electronic Pet" main body cassette are inserted into the handheld device.

It will add more interactive methods to "Electronic Pets".

but.

This cassette is not sold directly.

Players need to go to the offline pachinko store to play marbles.

You need to collect a certain number of small steel balls to exchange for a ‘DLC’ cartridge.

According to later statistics, the average cost of obtaining an extra cartridge of "Electronic Pets" is about 100,000 yen.

If this amount of money was converted into China in the 1980s, it would be about 1,000 yuan.

What is this concept?

At that time, the price of a kilogram of pork was probably more than one piece.

1,000 yuan can buy almost two or three pigs!

Of course, 100,000 yen certainly does not have such high purchasing power in Neon’s hometown, but it is definitely not a small sum.

At that time, the price of the first-generation handheld console usually fluctuated in the range of 5K~1.5W yen.

In other words, the average player needs to pay for additional cartridges to buy a dozen handheld consoles.

If you put this price right out of the gate and sell it to the players, the players will definitely yell at you.

But what is pachinko?

To put it bluntly, they are all kinds of flashy slot machines.

This thing has a very low probability, and a small gain can make a big difference.

Therefore, there are players who are wasting even 200,000 yen.

But there are also players who are obsessed with it.

"I successfully redeemed the "Electronic Pets" DLC yesterday by calling pachinko once."

It’s something that attracts more attention than “I spent tens of thousands of yen and got nothing.”

Everyone wants to be a European emperor rather than a bad guy.

Therefore, people tend to ignore the unreasonable asking price behind it, and focus on the small number of European emperors in the survivor bias.

What if I get out?

What if I also enter the soul at once?

And when the cassette was given this gambling nature.

Groups of electronic gambling dogs also began to emerge.

What's more, as cassette toys are entities, they are replaceable commodities, so there is a trading market.

I just pulled out a fresh cassette, so don’t bet on it. You might not be able to get out even one hundred thousand yuan. Wouldn’t it be nice to just sell it for thirty to fifty thousand yuan?

At this point, a complete chain of interests has been constructed.

More and more players are joining.

SE has also completed a gorgeous transformation.

At a price that is "almost impossible to be accepted by players if sold directly", it achieved overtaking in a corner, and the company's revenue began to grow explosively!

A fatal blow to game manufacturers of the same period.

More and more manufacturers are taking a look.

Oh well, I don’t seem to have to work hard to make a good game, and I don’t have to make the handheld performance as good as possible.

I just need to add a gambling element and co-brand with Pachinko to make money?

Okay, okay, let’s play like this!

Then I'll play too!

The wheel of fate also began to turn.

Later, the game industry was slowly transformed from handheld consoles to the development of various more advanced devices such as consoles and PCs, which was not the conscience of the manufacturers.

But they realized that if they co-branded with Pachinko, they would have to pay Pachinko.

How can it be repaired?

Wouldn't it be better if I kept it all to myself?

Then, the nature of scratch-off games, the nature of point cards, and then the era of online payment after the popularization of the Internet.

The profits that can be monopolized are getting bigger and bigger, and the path of game manufacturers is getting more and more crooked.

If all the big manufacturers do this, it will affect one small factory after another.

If manufacturers do this, it will affect the definition of the game itself by generations of players.

Some of these players have become game practitioners when they grow up.

It was as if a mental stamp had been stamped on my mind, and there was no need to do anything.

Because it has always been like this. I have been playing krypton gold games since I was a child.

Now you ask me not to make krypton gold games, but to make fun games.

Then I will only ask you, ‘Isn’t drawing cards fun? ’

"How can they be so similar?" After learning about the family history of this generation, Ke Jin couldn't help but sigh.

This company's reputation in its previous life was not very good, although it has also produced popular IP series such as "Final Fantasy".

But the krypton gold system in the field of mobile games was also pioneered by this company in its previous life.

As the world's first krypton gold game - "Diffusive Millions of King Arthur" was launched.

Its explosive flow shocked almost every game manufacturer on the planet.

After all, it will gradually bring bad luck to many game manufacturers on the planet.

And SE in this life is even more outrageous.

Why has it been a monster since the 1980s, which directly biased Blue Star's 30 years of game development.

Although there are many other big-name manufacturers who have made "indelible" contributions in this process.

But The Root of All Evil depends on SE.

After closing the SE FA family history webpage, Ke Jin suddenly felt worried about the new mobile game "Cute" launched by Yinhui.

If the largest shareholder behind Yinhui is SE...

Ke Jin already had an idea of ​​what kind of urine this "Exciting Cuteness" would be.

After searching, I found out.

"Exciting Cuteness" is currently at the end of its second beta test and will be officially released for public beta one month later.

However, unlike Ready Player One, which has always been tested by internal employees, the second test of "Cute" is completed by players.

There are quite a few videos on Perak Station.

The game type is a combination of two-dimensional beautiful girls and chess.

On a 20*20 chessboard grid, four players are located in the four corners of the southeast, northwest and northwest, each holding a 10*10 grid territory.

The chess pieces that the player lands on the chessboard are these Q-version big-headed beautiful girls transformed into chess pieces.

Players will start with a total of three chess pieces... no, it's three beautiful girls.

They are deployed in their respective corners in an ‘L’ shape.

Each beautiful girl has a maximum blood volume of 10 points.

And there are three most basic ways of action.

One is attack, one is defense, and the last one is action.

Action command, if you are on your own territory, you can move two squares in any direction of 'front, back, left, right'.

These two are not just straight forward moves, they can even move in zigzag lines such as 'upper left' and 'upper right'.

Once you enter enemy territory, you can only move one square.

If two beautiful girls from different player camps stick together, they will attack or defend according to the player's instructions.

But it is worth noting that once one's own chess piece is surrounded by three opposite chess pieces.

You have to withstand the attacks of three opponents at a time, and you can only choose one of them to attack.

The way to win the game is also very simple. If you kill all the beautiful girls in a certain camp, or if any of your chess pieces rushes to the corner of the opponent's camp (refer to the positions of the four rooks in chess).

The victory of the player can be declared, and at the same time, the loser's territory will be eroded. Within the active territory from 10*10 to 10*20, anyone can move two spaces in one action.

The above is the general gameplay.

To be honest, just looking at the gameplay, Ke Jin feels that although it is not particularly interesting, it is still okay as a mobile game to kill time.

There are also cases of player gaming.

For example, when one of the players is about to die suddenly, as a player whose territory is adjacent to that player, he has to consider the situation of death.

Therefore, it is possible to support neighbors.

Or, if your offensive thoughts are too strong and your home is empty, it may be stolen by other players.

It's even possible that when you're attacking a player, the other two players want to steal your home, and start a fight on your home territory, and eventually you come back to reap the benefits.

There are many variables.

And you know, this is just the basic gameplay of this game.

As long as the basic framework is stable enough, it can be modified if the gameplay is interesting.

For example, each character adds different offensive or defensive skills.

When the skill is activated, the attack range is increased by three spaces.

Or the defending side can withstand the two upcoming injuries.

Or there may be a character who has the fortification skill, which can prevent his or her corner from being invaded for the next three rounds.

And so on.

As long as you plan a meeting and discuss it, I believe you can come up with countless wonderful ideas.

In the end just make sure the game is balanced.

The skill special effects are made a little cooler.

For example, when the beautiful girl uses her skills, the exquisite skill illustrations unfold in two dimensions.

The special effects of special skins on the chessboard are more significant.

Then buy some special voices and MVP settlement screen, or the decoration of the chessboard itself.

This will be a casual game that is still popular among young people.

As a result, after having an in-depth understanding of the payment mechanism of the game.

The people of Jin were stunned.

All we can say is that it is worthy of being a company with SE as its major shareholder.

All behaviors are moving closer to heavy krypton.

First of all, the chess piece can be sold for money just by modeling its appearance.

A character has five different appearances from 1 to 5 stars.

And these 1~5 stars are not the strength of the character, but purely the appearance and special effects.

But the appearance of your special effects is just the appearance of the special effects.

Why are you carrying private goods?

If a character is upgraded to a 5-star appearance, a bunch of bells and whistles will be added around her.

For example, a girl in a swimsuit, except that the character herself wears water.

There will be a little yellow duck swimming ring next to her feet, and then there will be a sun umbrella lounger on the right.

On the left is a sand sculptured castle.

There are also some random decorations such as small starfish and small shells.

It looks like these embellishments are just there to add a beachy element, making it look rich and detailed.

OK, that's no problem.

But what the hell.

Can you not include these in your attack range?

Kejin saw a review video and personally tested the attack range of this swimsuit girl.

Because the chess piece has too many skin elements and occupies a large area.

Therefore, as long as the chessboard is placed, the calculation starts directly based on the distance of 2 squares in the radius.

To put it ten thousand steps back, your two squares of floor space would be fine.

So when someone hits you, you should be able to attack two blocks away, right?

Hey, this is different again.

When someone hits a girl in a swimsuit, the range of damage she takes must be within one square of her body.

It means that she is always one block ahead of others in terms of attack range.

What a famous double standard.

Kejin didn't believe that this was even a bug, and Yinhui couldn't detect it during internal testing.

It's obviously intentional.

On the surface, it is under the banner of "skin is just appearance", but in fact there are various powerful performance private activities.

If you don't spend money to buy skins, they will have a swimsuit girl, and you can just click on it at the beginning.

But if you want to earn money, you need to start drawing from 1 star. Once you have one star, you can draw two stars.

The first 1 to 4 stars after the completion are purely cosmetic, without any bonus.

UP in the video probably made a calculation.

If you want to get five stars, the average price is about 20,000 yuan.

That’s all, it’s just the ‘hidden attributes’ brought about by the appearance of the skin.

The real character skill attributes were even more dazzling for Ke Jin.

Among them is a chess piece named "Knight Fuya".

The skill that 0krypton players acquire is range slashing.

Inflicts basic attack damage to all enemies within one square, and cools down once every three rounds.

After spending money to upgrade this skill, it becomes "Blade Flame"

It's still a range slash, but the effect becomes additional fire attribute damage to all enemies within a square, -2 blood each round, lasting 5 rounds.

Good guy, if you put a fire buff on someone, the other person will just wait for death, right?

And one more level.

The skills have changed again.

It became "Fiery Slash"

The attack range is doubled to two squares, but the fire blast can extend further three squares.

What the hell is this concept?

All enemy chess pieces within a direct 5*5 range will be affected.

And if you spend money to upgrade your skills to level 4, you won’t even be able to perform them anymore.

Just a "Prairie Fire"

Inflicts a burning effect of -2 HP on all enemies on the screen for 5 rounds.

And restore 2 blood to all party members every round for 5 rounds.

What surprised Ke Jin even more.

At this point, the road to becoming stronger is not over yet.

Because there is a final form in other games called Soul·Skill.

Once unlocked, this skill comes with an ultimate passive.

The effect is.

Each subsequent move of the chess piece will trigger a skill for the entire screen.

The skill is all superimposed effects of the first 4 levels*2.

Then, what made Ke Jin feel most outrageous was.

After reading the review, he found that this character seemed to be just a blue-quality hero.

There are also a bunch of purple and gold quality hero reviews...

But Ke Jin no longer dared to look at it.

All I can say is that my thinking is still too conservative.

Ke Jin knows that the mobile gaming industry is a big money burner.

But I didn't expect it to be so hot.

A game of this level was played in the previous life.

The first impression that came to Kejin's mind was the Wanning series, such as Wanning Go, Wanning chess, billiards and the like.

But that thing is just for fun at best, and not many players really know how to make money in it.

But in this life, let's take "Exciting Cuteness" as an example.

The PV has been viewed up to 20 million times.

There are as many as 3 million reservations.

Although there is some moisture in it.

But it still shows that players accept it well.

I even think that there is nothing wrong with the krypton gold system.

Even if there are some complaints in the announcement PV, compare it with the high-quality and affordable games launched by Ready Player One in the past two years.

They will also be immediately attacked by some die-hard Yinhui players.

"How can a game company make money without keeping a kryptonian? Are you really pointing out that the game company uses love to generate electricity?"

"Yinhui doesn't even make much money. In fact, look at that 5-star appearance, although it costs 20,000, but it doesn't cost money to promote it? Does its employees don't need money? Performance bonuses, rent, water and electricity, all calculated, 20,000 The turnover of RMB is only one or two thousand in the hands of a game company. Is it really expensive?"

"Please, don't use the example of Top Player. Top Player is nothing but a rotten fish. Who still plays PC games these days? Mobile is the future king of the market!"

"Are these stinky dogs that are polluting the environment all trolls hired by Ready Player One? How come they haven't even finished the game yet, and they got into trouble first?"

"The little brat is like this. They only know the number one player."

"Don't say I'm a hacker. I've actually played Ready Player One games before. I won't go into too many games. Hollow Knight's difficulty level is eight. How can it be called a game? I'm here to have fun, not here. Abused!"

"Isn't "Journey" also making money from vertical paintings? The landscape paintings that I can't even stand are not as good as the vertical paintings of beautiful girls with great silver brilliance."

"I reported the game "Assassin's Creed" two days ago. It promotes bloody violence. It is essentially a killing game with a layer of skin. Players who play "Assassin" will probably become obsessed with killing people in the future. "

"Stay away from us, Duanyou stinky dog, thank you."

After roughly scanning the comment areas of various PVs of "Exciting Cuteness", Ke Jin only felt that there was a smoky atmosphere.

He didn't have much emotional fluctuations in the comments made by these players.

On earth, the chain of contempt in the gaming community has always existed.

Console and handheld people look down on PCs and think keyboards have no soul.

PC looks down on mobile games and thinks there is no future for glass cleaners.

Mobile games in turn look down on the two, thinking that the first two are slaves locked in a fixed location by the game, and playing games is like going to jail.

It's no surprise that everyone in Jin Dynasty is used to it.

Game equipment is just a carrier, and any equipment is the same.

The more important significance lies in whether the diversified core of the game can be passed on to players.

It's just that this conflict seems to be more intense on Blue Star than he imagined.

In this wave, you would say that mobile game players spontaneously launched attacks on the number one player.

That's not very realistic.

Obviously, there is a pusher behind this to guide the players' emotions.

Someone is obviously getting nervous because Ready Player One is trying to get into the mobile pie.

But it doesn’t matter.

Genting will take action.

In the game environment where hundreds of flowers bloomed in previous generations, Genting's performance on the mobile terminal is outstanding.

What's more, mobile game players like Blue Star seem to have never seen what real entertainment is.

Only krypton gold games can buy happiness. This concept is wrong in the first place.

…

"Yes, that's right! Very right!"

"That's it! Lead them hard!"

As the overall project leader of "Exciting Cuteness".

Zhu Yue was furious when he learned that the new game "Team Tactics" developed by Number One Player wanted to enter the mobile game market.

This shit stirrer! Make the PC gaming environment a mess!

Look at how the two PC game manufacturers have been persecuted.

Before the rise of the number one player, Zhu Yue remembered that the average price of a single draw of a PC game was 50 or even 60.

Now I only dare to sell it for 30 per draw, and there is even a tendency to lower the price even further.

PC game players are increasingly calling for ‘reducing krypton fees’ and ‘enhancing gameplay’.

This has brought disaster to PC games, and now it wants to harm our mobile games?

We at Yinhui have worked hard to maintain the krypton gold habit of the domestic mobile terminal so well.

Let mobile game enthusiasts firmly believe in the concept of "recharge more money if you want to have fun".

It even conveyed the implicit concept of ‘noble mobile game players’ through multiple announcements.

How can you, a little number one player, ruin the game you worked so hard for?

But disgusting is disgusting, Zhu Yue is still somewhat rational.

He knew that to stop the top player from entering the game, it was not enough to curse behind his back.

We must take some substantive measures!

He asked his employees to pretend to be fans of Ready Player One and go to the major comment sections of "Cute" to spread the word.

It's best to feign a sense of superiority to inspire the indignation of your fans.

Finally, buy some traffic to publicize this matter.

Before the number one player can enter the game, he will be boycotted by all mobile game players.

Give him a showdown!

If he becomes honest in the future and plays the money-making game with you in a well-behaved manner, then it’s okay for you to order the cake and eat it in the corner.

If he still gets mad here, there are plenty of ways to cure him!

Secondly.

Zhu Yue is also very confident in his own game "Cute".

He has observed the market. In the past 10 years, the game market for board and card games has been very empty.

Chess and card players, playing here and there, are nothing more than the third child.

Landlord, chess, Go, etc.

But despite the small variety, the player base is quite large.

They always like to play in their spare time.

So I just did a big fusion.

The chessboard frame of "Ji Meng" is copied from the specifications of Go.

But through different skills, the chess pieces can take various fancy routes, which is equivalent to an upgrade of chess.

The game theory of the final four-person battle is equivalent to an optimization based on Landlords.

Then continue to use its own mature ACG field culture and its appeal on the mobile game side.

Created an IP like "Exciting Cuteness".

The effect is also surprisingly good.

The half-month-long second test of deleting files has already generated a turnover of nearly 300 million yuan.

This is still the case when the krypton gold system has not been fully implemented, and deleting files is not acceptable to some players.

But once the server is officially launched, the revenue in the first month will not be worth one billion, right?

And you must know that innovation in board and card games is the most difficult.

Different from the confrontation of fighting monsters and upgrading, the essence of chess and cards is to fight against another player.

It’s not easy to achieve balance.

And "Ji Meng" has almost sewed in all the chess and card gameplay!

No matter how awesome your top player is, how much creative space do you have left?

Are you going to compete with our Yinhui?

It's like drooling in front of the pig farm - do you deserve it?

Just when Zhu Yue was criticizing the banditry of Number One Player's attempt to get involved in the mobile game market to the point of being completely criticized in his heart.

The secretary knocked on the door and said respectfully: "Mr. Zhu, the director of the development department just said that all aspects of "Ji Meng" have been optimized and can be put on the shelves at any time. Should we put it on the shelves as planned, or a week in advance?"

"Directly..." Zhu Yue was about to say 'directly'

But after thinking about it, I changed my mind.

"When will Ready Player One's TFT be launched? When I watched it two weeks ago, they seemed to have announced the development progress on the APP."

Needless to say, the speed at which this company makes games is really fucking annoying!

The project was started three weeks ago. Within a week, the map sketches and various concept drafts were put up to give players a warm-up.

Now two weeks have passed. Will this company have finished all the games?

If it weren't for the size of our own company, the player base is huge, and the major shareholder SE behind us is very confident.

Zhu Yue is really a little afraid of the momentum of the number one player.

"It seems that their company just released the latest news on the top information yesterday, claiming that they can meet with players in 10 days at the latest, or in a week at the earliest." The secretary replied.

"Okay, then our company will choose to go online on the same day as him!" Zhu Yue said firmly: "Whenever he goes online, we will go online!"

Anyway, the date I set is a week later, a few days later and a few days earlier, so it won’t have much impact.

But if you can directly have a head-on collision with the number one player.

The contrast effect will be very obvious.

Let him feel what it means to have a terrifying dominance of over 100 million yuan on the first day!

The best thing is to scare him into leaving the mobile terminal overnight.

Of course, this is unlikely to happen.

But as a deterrent warning, it is enough.

…

Soon, time flew by and the week quickly turned over.

After Ready Player One finally issued an announcement that TFT will be released tomorrow.

Yinhui will also send out the announcement of the "Cute" game that has been prepared in advance.

The scheduled release has been moved forward one day, and it will be officially launched at 12 noon tomorrow!

Moreover, Zhu Yue also used some tricks this time.

He observed that Ready Player One is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people in PC games.

Every time a game is released, major game anchors will help him build momentum for free and get the first shot!

This means that on the day "Genting" is released, there will be many major anchors watching the lunch time, and they will choose to pilot "Genting" when the number of viewers is the largest.

This time "Genting" is synchronized on both ends again. After the audience watches it, it is very likely that the mobile phone will start downloading.

This is a force that cannot be underestimated.

"Genting" and "Ji Meng" are also chess games, although Ready Player One has never disclosed how to play.

But Zhu Yue estimated that the types must be quite different.

If once the players are implanted with preconceived concepts.

That's really a bit dangerous.

Therefore, Zhu Yue directly relies on hundreds of millions of people.

I bought the top anchors of several major platforms in one go to live broadcast for five hours tomorrow from 12 to 14 noon and 18 to 21 pm.

All are playing "Cute"!

And the anchors are required to present the fun points of the game to the audience as much as possible in the live broadcast room.

Firmly instill this wave of preconceived concepts into the players!

The development of the situation is also moving forward steadily under Zhu Yue's secret push.

The next day.

12 noon.

Almost all the decent game anchors on the entire platform simultaneously opened the live broadcast interface of "Exciting Cuteness" at this time!

PDD: "Brothers, today I will show you a huge new mobile game with snake skin!"

Xiao Tuantuan: "Brothers and sisters are here, come here, come here, the game played today is "Exciting Cuteness""

Yinzi: "Mao Ning, Mao Ning, let's sow something new for everyone. Let's watch it and eat it."

Da Sima: "Good afternoon, classmates."

Wang Laoju: "Good afternoon, everyone. Today I bring you a mobile game with interesting gameplay. It took me a few minutes to understand all the gameplay. Now I will show you."

…

Look at the live broadcast that fills the screen simultaneously!

Zhu Yue suddenly smiled happily.

Without the support of anchors.

Are you sweating profusely, Mr. Ke?

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