The Rebirth of the Male God Starts From Playing Games

  Chapter 176 174. A generation of heroes has fallen

  2002 can be said to be a year of blowout of large-scale online games in China.

  Alian Games started operating "Red Moon" developed by Bangzi in China

  NetEase also launched the first large-scale MMO developed by itself, called "Journey to the West"

  Xishanju's "Jian Xia Qing Yuan Online Edition" is online

  Shanghai Tower Network Technology Co., Ltd. acts as an agent for the operation of "Miracle MU" of sticks

  Yiwantong acts as an agent to operate "Magic Baby" developed by the island country ENIX company

  ……

  As the game market continues to expand, competition has also become fierce.

  The Red Moon game, like the legend, is a process of PK. The challenges and losses between players are more serious. Correspondingly, diehard fans are also very persistent.

  It is different from other games because of its unique world view setting and rich game career setting, which perfectly fits their own world view and gives players a different sense of substitution.

  This game is based on the actionSF comic "Red Moon" by Korean cartoonist Huang Mina. The story takes place in a fictional world called Sigonis.

  The world view is a science fiction story with a certain magical color on the background of high technology.

  Players can choose from 9 characters in the game, and each character has its own specialties.

  In general, Red Moon has its own innovations, and the story background is not the same as that of the games on the market, so after entering the domestic market, it quickly gained a foothold and gained a group of fans.

  Miracle MU, like Red Moon, takes the science fiction route, but the audience is relatively wider. The most important thing is the cool big wings introduced in the game, which has attracted countless players.

  In 2002, people’s aesthetics were rather peculiar.

  The painting style of the Three Kingdoms online does not meet everyone's needs, and this is how games like Miracle MU can emerge from the shadow of the Three Kingdoms online.

  This game gives you the feeling that all kinds of lights have been exploded, but players like it very much. The more exploded the light, the better, and the more exaggerated the wings, the better.

  Everyone is like a humanoid mech, with a [gorgeous] outfit, plus the shining big wings behind him, it is simply the player’s favorite.

  For this reason, Liu Guangran also consulted Boss Cao and said, “Boss, look at the archangel wings next door. Don’t be too cool. When can we come?”

  Cao Yang gave him a fierce look.

  Liu Guangran quickly touched his brain and took a step back.

  I don’t know why, Boss Cao is obviously only 22 years old. He feels still a hairy boy, but he has a natural and terrifying temperament.

   Liu Guangran thought to himself, this is probably the gap between the boss and us.

  Cao Yang can be questioned about everything, but the art major can’t stand being questioned.

  You must know that Boss Cao had served as an industry leader in many major factories in his previous life.

  Although he rarely draws now, but this does not affect his professionalism and level.

  Cao Yang also considered the issue of wings, but in the end he still felt that it was not suitable for the game of Three Kingdoms online. You would rather make the equipment cooler. After adding wings, it will destroy the sense of substitution of the three kingdoms.

Three Kingdoms online mainly focuses on national warfare, and what you want is the feeling of that era. You add a pair of big wings, let alone performance issues, even if it can really hold it, when fighting a national war, it’s all a bunch. With big shiny wings, who knew that Nima was a game of Three Kingdoms?

  Maybe others thought you were a Western fantasy theme.

  If a game is made to deviate from the original design intention, and finally becomes nondescript, then it is not far from death.

  Furthermore, Three Kingdoms online is now a point-to-charge game. We don’t sell in-game props. There is no need to increase the gap between krypton players and ordinary players, so in Cao Yang’s view, it’s not so necessary to increase wings.

At that time, the early games in China liked to increase their wings, which was learned from Miracle MU. After a setting is widely circulated and accepted, it is equivalent to planting a virus among the players. If you don’t have a corresponding setting If they do, they will be ruthlessly cast aside by the player.

But later, with the development of the times, people discovered that besides making big wings, there are many different ways to enhance the player’s sense of ostentation, such as advanced skins, or special effects, pets, and even the directness of peace elites. Sending sports cars is much richer than big wings.

  So Cao Yang doesn’t worry about this problem at all. We fit the background of the Three Kingdoms. We can send horses or pets that pull the wind. There is no need to use big wings to destroy the overall atmosphere of the game.

  However, Cao Yang did not explain so much to Liu Guangran. The program only needs one sentence: “Don’t forget, we are a national war game. As long as you can guarantee the performance of the client, I will add it.”

The big wings are outstanding in effect, and the problem is obvious, that is, the performance consumption will become very high, especially when multiple particle effects are superimposed, and there are multiple big wings on the same screen, the entire game will also be It becomes abnormally stuck.

  So the problem with Miracle MU is also very obvious:

  One word: card.

  Two words: real card.

  Three words: real chicken

"Ah..." Liu Guangran thought for half a second before making a wise decision: "Forget it, President Cao, I think our game is quite good. With the addition of big wings, this game is not like Three Kingdoms anymore. ."

  Cao Yang just smiled contemptuously, and did not speak.

  ……

  The magic baby developed by the island country has its own big IP. The game of the magic baby is more homogenous with the Stone Age. Everyone fights through pets, but the style and background story are different.

  So when the magic baby was launched, it soon snatched a group of players from the Stone Age.

  Later, in Internet cafes, it often appeared that players from the Stone Age and players from the Magic Baby were sitting together and could not understand each other. Both factions were also full of various offensives on the Internet and language.

  Stone Age players say that you are plagiarizing our Stone Age.

The player of   Magic Baby said, do you understand it? Our game is much better than yours. Players have many professions and a variety of pets.

  ……

And also similar to "Stone Age" is the "Westward Journey" produced by NetEase. At this time, Ding Sanshi is already at the end of the road. Netease has really been in trouble all the way. At the beginning, it was in Nasda The bubble burst when the company went public, and NetEase's stock price once fell below $1.

  Last year, BBK’s boss, Duan Yongping, bought NetEase’s stock, and abruptly pulled it back from the death line.

  But just after it was pulled back, it was traced because of the company’s financial problems. The U.S. had to suspend trading on NetEase’s financial fraud. After several months of tossing, it was able to relist.

   is still hovering on the death line.

In order to bring NetEase back to life, Ding Sanshi made a desperate bet and put Baoquan on the online game.

  Suppressing online games is actually a well-thought-out process.

  The stand-alone game market was squeezed last year, and several domestic online games became popular, especially the Three Kingdoms online and the explosion of the Stone Age, which made Ding Sanshi see hope.

  That’s why the NetEase Online Game Division was established. At the beginning of its establishment, several big players in the Game Division had heated discussions about what games they should do.

  The final tendency is to choose between copying "Stone Age" or copying "Three Kingdoms Online".

  However, considering that the company has just entered this field and lacks R&D strength and experience, I finally chose to learn from "Stone Age" and then combine China's unique cultural background to make a game with a different world view.

  And in the year 2000, the movie "Dahua West Journey" suddenly exploded, so NetEase game developers finally chose to use [Dahua West Journey] as the background story for development.

Speaking of Journey to the West, this movie can be said to be the legacy of Master Xing's career. In 1997, Master Xing invested a huge amount of money to produce "A Journey to the West·Moonlight Treasure Box" and "A Journey to the West·Moonlight Treasure Box". "Cinderella", but these two movies encountered Waterloo as soon as they went online.

  In the Xiangjiang area, people have commented that although the movie has followed the usual nonsensical style of Xingye, it is too neurotic and completely messy, and they don’t understand what it is talking about.

  Moreover, the movie’s brains are so big that it is tens of thousands of miles away from the audience’s understanding and recognition of Journey to the West, and it has deviated from the audience’s expectations. As a result, the film’s reputation and box office results are in a mess.

  Until 3 years later, with the rise of the Internet industry, and some film school teachers used it as a film structure to explain, it actually led to a wave of Westward Journey.

   Last year, CCTV also broadcasted "Journey to the West" several times

  Things that were not understood and accepted by people at the beginning, with the popularity of the Internet and TV, the acceptance of young people has increased, and suddenly became popular.

  The audience saw that their stomach hurts with laughter, but in the end, because Zixia left forever, she couldn't love it, and she shed regretful tears.

   Countless people laughed forward and backward, and they were heartbroken.

  So, Journey to the West became a classic for the younger generation.

  Xing Ye has since been promoted to the altar of masters of postmodernism.

NetEase directly uses this IP to make games. In fact, it is very profitable. At least it has a basic guarantee on the attractiveness. It can also get into the hot culture. Xia Fairy] Come and play this game too.

Unfortunately……

  Netease's technical level was not enough at this time, and not long after it went online, "Western Journey" was killed violently.

  There is a problem with the game engine architecture, and there are many bugs of its own, and there will be a plug-in soon after it is online.

  So I hadn’t waited for Westward Journey to make money. NetEase was forced to stop the operation of Westward Journey, and then re-architected and re-designed it to prepare to make "Westward Journey 2".

  ……

Cao Yang also frowned sympathetically when he saw the news about the tragic death of Journey to the West.

Ding Sanshi’s luck was so bad that no one was there. When he went public, he encountered the Nasdaq bubble burst. After a little improvement, he encountered 911. The stock fell again, and the price of cabbage had fallen to the price of cabbage. As a result, the first game suffered a program crisis, and now it must be rebuilt.

   is really terrible.

   But think about it carefully, the NetEase in the previous life seems to have almost the same urinary sex, and it will not be able to stand firm until the big story 2 comes out.

  The only thing that can be played here is Xishanju’s "Jian Xia Qing Yuan Online Edition", which is Jian Wang 1.

  Xishanju is worthy of being an old-brand domestic game research and development company. The underlying architecture and program code of its own are definitely not to be said. The game runs smoothly, without the feeling of lag, and the players play very smoothly.

  More importantly, Jianwang 1 still maintains the characteristics of Xishanju, taking the martial arts route. From a world perspective, it is the only domestic online game.

  The main body of "Jian Xia Qing Yuan Online" is a huge map of ancient China and a strong martial arts culture. This is in line with the taste of the Chinese people, and because of the cultural heritage here, players especially like it.

  At the same time, Jianwang 1 also launched a variety of different characteristic systems.

  For example, the five-element system:

  In the game, the five elements of gold, wood, water, fire, and earth are divided into five families, and the attributes of the five elements interact with each other. Show a splendid martial arts world through the setting of camp, sect and department.

Ten martial sects: Shaolin, Wudang, Emei, Kunlun, Beggar Gang, Tangmen, Tianwang Gang, Cuiyanmen, Tianren Sect, Wudu Sect, Ten Martial Arts Sects have been committed to maintaining the system of the arena. Devoting yourself to the martial art you yearn for is naturally your greatest wish.

  After getting started, players can get the guidance of a famous teacher, and they can learn the unique martial arts mentality of this school. If they are predestined to get the teachings of the masters of this school, they can penetrate the supreme mentality and learn peerless magic.

  It can be said that this has the feel of a development-style world sandbox game.

  It creates a real martial arts world environment. Different sects have different martial arts and training systems. In addition, the game also provides [mentoring system], players can deepen each other's bonds through the mentoring system.

  In the history of previous lives, in addition to the Jianwang series, there is also a game called "Nine Yin Zhenjing", which is an online game that is very touted and loved by domestic players.

  Because of the prevalence of martial arts novels, especially the influence of Jin Yong's martial arts novels, in fact, every Chinese has a martial arts dream.

  If the previous stand-alone games are not so realistic, then after the emergence of Jianwang 1, players will truly appreciate what is [Jianghu]——

  Where there are people, there are rivers and lakes.

  Where there are rivers and lakes, there are grievances and hatreds.

  Players have never experienced the feeling of the rivers and lakes so truly, here is full of pleasure and enmity, full of chivalrous tenderness, and the picture of the game itself is also antique, which makes the players linger.

  So as soon as Jianwang 1 was launched, it immediately attracted a large number of players.

  Since then, Xishanju forcibly tore a piece of fat from the online game market.

  ……

  The current game market can be said to be three-thirds of the world in Three Kingdoms Online, Stone Age and Jian Wang 1.

  Three Kingdoms online focuses on national warfare, a sense of substitution of historical strategy and marching wars.

  Take the Q cute pet route in the Stone Age.

  Jianwang 1 is the feeling of classical martial arts.

  These have a very large user base, so as long as they do well enough, they can gain the market by themselves.

  ……

  However, in addition to Three Kingdoms online and Jian Wang 1, other games also face a fatal problem——

  Weak attack on external links.

  In other words, lack of sufficient experience and level to crack down on plug-ins.

  Like the Stone Age, now it is inseparable from the plug-in, basically it is a symbiosis of the plug-in.

In the Internet conference held in October, when it mentioned plug-ins, other game manufacturers hated them and bit their teeth with hatred. Only the owner of the Stone Age family showed a different attitude. He believed that plug-ins were actually to some extent. It is conducive to the game and helps the game gain more lifespan.

This is also a kind of helpless inevitability, because Huayi company itself does not have the ability to research and develop, and at the same time, the attack on external links is very weak. The earliest game agent that fell is Huayi. Now the Stone Age is really unable to play without a plug-in. The game is already It is 5 turns and more than 400 levels. If the player does not use the plug-in, it is estimated that it will take more than a year to play the monsters.

  It takes only a few months to use a plug-in.

The same goes for   Red Moon, or Red Moon is even more exaggerated, because there is no way to clear the plug-in. Later, the Asian League Games directly raised the upper limit of Red Moon’s player level to 4000.

  What is the concept of Nima?

  Players will be daunted when they see this number. They will rise to level 4000, and the harder they will become as they get later, the Asian League is going to exploit us for a lifetime!

  The landlords in the old society were not so cruel.

  Although the loss of players is serious, Yalian also had to do this, because if you don’t increase the game limit, the game life will soon be consumed by the plug-in.

  ……

  So a good game environment is so important to the game.

  Three Kingdoms online also has plug-ins, but thanks to Cao Yang’s strategy of "fight one punch to avoid a hundred punches" strategy, one will hit one if it appears, and one will catch one if it hits one.

  The police cooperate with the case and arrest people, and they will go to jail as soon as they are arrested.

  Because the number of online players in the Three Kingdoms is the largest, although the profit is huge, after so many times, the plug-in must consider whether or not to risk going to jail to do this.

  In the game, as long as a cheating account is found, it will be permanently banned once it is verified.

  It can be said that the Three Kingdoms online is very strict internally and externally.

  So the more you get to the back, the fewer plug-ins of Three Kingdoms online. It can be said that this is a piece of pure land among domestic online games.

  The reason for achieving such a good result today.

  Being good enough by yourself.

  ……

  In October, due to the blowout of domestic online games, the world was divided up.

  Shanda's "Legend" is dead.

  On October 23, Qiao Tianchen announced that the official server of "Legend of Warm Blood" was closed.

  When he heard the news, Cao Yang was drinking tea in the boss's office.

  The cup in his hand almost fell to the ground. Fortunately, his eyes were quick and he grasped it firmly.

  It's just that the tea splashed out, and the heartache was hot.

  The little secretary looked at him and smiled directly, "Boss, what are you doing? Isn't it good for us to stop serving Legend? It's like we stopped serving."

   Cao Yang sighed for a while, “Hey, you don’t understand, there will be a very important competitor missing in the future.”

  This is equivalent to the rebirth of Cao Cao, killing Liu Bei when he was cooking wine and talking about heroes.

   There should have been a name called Qiao Tianchen in history.

  What a pity, a pity, since then, a generation of heroes has withdrawn from the stage of history.

  ……

  (End of this chapter)