Chapter 59 One good news, one bad news [Please subscribe]
At noon the next day!
Gu Sheng was in the office, flipping through information on somatosensory cabin shooting games that have been popular in recent years.
As I was watching, I heard a knock on the office door.
ˆTuk tuk tuk—
“Please come in.”
Gu Sheng put down the information and looked up.
As the door opened, Lu Bian and Da Jiang appeared at the door, their expressions were mysterious.
"what?"
Gu Sheng frowned in confusion.
You know, these two guys never knock on the door when they come to him.
What's going on today? The sun is rising in the west?
Just then Lu Bian walked into the office and gave Gu Sheng a professional smile, like a waiter:
“Good morning Dear Director Gu, I have good news and bad news. Which one do you want to hear first?”
“…I want to hear what your attending doctor has to say first.” Gu Sheng said speechlessly.
“Tsk, Lao Gu, why are you so boring?” Lu Bian complained.
"Ah, okay, okay," Gu Sheng raised his hands in surrender and played tricks with the two brothers: "Then I'll hear the bad news first. After all the hard work, the joy comes."
Lu Bian immediately returned to his professional status and nodded:
"OK."
As he spoke, he handed over a document:
“The bad news is that our first-day sales results are out, 2,085 copies, which does not break the first-day sales record for a game of the same size.”
“Well, it’s okay, as expected.”
At this point, Gu Sheng was not too surprised or annoyed.
After all, this is where the game type lies, and it is the least popular among the unpopular.
Even though many anchors personally experienced it yesterday, players’ stereotypes about horror games cannot be reversed in a day or two.
Even if the score on the first day exceeded 2,000, Gu Sheng was quite satisfied.
After all, this result is only compared to their previous results, which may be slightly mediocre, but for the entire market, it is already considered to be in the middle and upper reaches.
For ghost phobia to explode, it still needs time to ferment.
"The bad news is not too bad," Gu Sheng closed the sales report and continued to ask, "What about the good news?"
“Good news, hehehe, the good news is so **** good—”
He saw Lu Bian take out his mobile phone from behind and handed it to Gu Sheng:
“Our single-week sales may explode!!”
ha? !
Seeing Lu Bian's excited expression, Gu Sheng didn't know why.
Taking the phone and looking at it carefully, I couldn’t help but take a breath—
"Black Box Review: "Phobia" A ghost card that redefines horror games (9.8/10
“This is...a media review?!”
Gu Sheng looked at the content on his phone and was quite surprised.
Media evaluation is a form of media communication in which professional evaluation teams on mainstream game websites or forums systematically analyze and score the most popular masterpieces.
ˆ To some extent, media evaluation is also an important way for game promotion.
Even, its role is more prominent than ordinary game news.
Because players have always been more convinced by this kind of professional evaluation, especially several mainstream domestic evaluation media, which can almost be said to be the vane of the game.
but!
According to He Sheng’s understanding, in this world, media evaluation and scoring of somatosensory cabin games are generally only conducted for those high-cost works.
Mainstream professional evaluation teams such as black box games rarely pay attention to low-cost and small-volume games.
“We are so lucky…”
Gu Sheng muttered, obviously a little surprised by this big pie falling from the sky:
“Is this a chance to review a game in vain?”
However!
Regarding Gu Sheng’s statement of being ‘lucky’, Lu Bian shook his head:
“Lao Gu, if I only picked up this review, I wouldn’t be so happy.”
Speaking!
I saw Lu Bian wave his hand!
Behind him, Dajiang stepped forward and placed the prepared information in front of Gu Sheng!
“Brother Sheng, we really exploded this time,”
“Eighty percent of domestic mainstream game evaluation groups have reviewed and scored our games, and they are all 9.5 or above,”
“Even the self-review media with over one million fans on various platforms are full of praise for our game!”
watts? !
Hearing this, Gu Sheng was shocked.
Opening the information, you can see that it is densely packed with evaluation scores from no less than 20 game media!
SNG review, 9.7 points: A creepy new form of horror masterpiece, Phobia used its ingenious psychological fear therapy to cure my boredom with horror games for so many years!
Gamer’s Bonfire, 9.6 points: The era of jumpscare is over! The ‘psychological fear flow’ created by Haunted Mania is epoch-making! Of course, it would be nice if their cost investment was higher...
Tiantian Youbao, 9.8 points: Fear of the soul! If you ask me what the creative limit of Golden Wind is, then I will tell you that it is like the fear in ghost syndrome. It only exists in your thinking. Only you can't think of it. Without them, it can't be done. arrive.
Sentiment World, 9.7 points: Terror is coming! Dimensionality reduction blow from supernova! A little blue movie that really cures the horror game goat's impotence! Before going out, make sure you have no history of heart disease!
China Game Forum, 9.7 points!
Lao Sang talks about games, 9.5 points!
Suck-and-slip game, 9.6 points…
From game media to game forums, to video websites and online self-media.
Without exception, everyone gave this game very high praise!
It seems that the only negative point for this game is that the investment is slightly lower, resulting in the performance level of the game hardware not being perfect.
Looking at it, Gu Sheng couldn't help but open his mouth.
“Isn’t this...something wrong?!”
Logically speaking, a somatosensory cabin game of their size is not worthy of evaluation and scoring by mainstream media.
Even if we take a step back, some media have seen the quality of their game and believe that the psychological horror gameplay is indeed groundbreaking.
That should also be the result of a period of fermentation after it was evaluated by a mainstream media and aroused widespread response in the market.
Then, other media started to comment one after another.
Rather than like now, a huge number of media swarmed in, as if it had been agreed upon, and launched an overwhelming review and announcement of this game at the same time!
“Someone is doing propaganda for us?!”
Gu Sheng immediately realized that this was definitely not an ordinary piece of luck.
Many game media are in the same way. Someone must have pushed the way behind and helped them!
“That’s right!”
Lu Bian snapped his fingers, then raised his eyebrows and asked:
“Then do you know who operated this?”
Gu Sheng’s first reaction was of course Xiao Nezha.
After all, their company is so big.
If he, the game director, hadn't done any publicity, it would have been Xiao Nezha, the president.
But after a second thought, he shook his head again.
It shouldn’t be.
Little Nezha has always given him numerous warnings, resolutely not to engage in publicity, and told him to invest all his efforts in game development, with the attitude of an iron-headed boy who is not afraid of deep alleys.
What's more, with Xiao Nezha's understanding of the game industry, she couldn't think of a form of publicity such as evaluation.
Who could it be?
For a moment, Gu Sheng felt a little confused and shook his head: "It can't be Xiao Nezha, right?"
Hearing this, Lu Bian pulled up his trousers and sat on the sofa, pretending to be mysterious:
“Yes and no,”
“No, also,”
“I can only say that the water in this matter is very deep, and little Nezha is not as stupid and clear as we thought,”
“How to put it, everyone who understands it understands it, I can only say so much.”
Gu Sheng:…
“If you continue to be the Riddler, get out of Binjiang City.”
“No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, you’re joking,”
Seeing that Gu Sheng was about to stand up and enforce justice for him, Lu Bian quickly smiled and waved his hand:
“Sit, sit, why don’t I say it nicely...”
Speaking!
Listen to Lu Bian’s story!
Gu Sheng crossed his shoulders and frowned in thought:
“…In other words, the extra 80,000 login fee given by Xiao Nezha is actually a hint that Yiyou has given us the green light and provided policy support for in-depth cooperation?”
“I also listened to the analysis by Chu Da Mi,”
Lu Bian shrugged and said:
"Don't tell us about this. Little Nezha didn't even tell Secretary Chu. At that time, she was very distressed, thinking that Xiao Nezha was deliberately wasting money because he had too much money." "Hmm -"
Hearing this, Gu Sheng nodded.
Awesome.
Little Nezha is able to come up with this set of business operations, and his mind is flexible enough.
Not only did they avoid the embarrassment of not having a professional publicity team, but they also made full use of the favor and goodwill of Yiyou for them.
Leverage strengths and avoid weaknesses, leverage strengths, and understand the unspoken rules of business.
As expected, the tiger father has no dog daughter.
Gu Sheng sighed in his heart.
After all, Xiao Nezha is also a top student at a key university. He comes from a merchant family. He may not understand games, but he certainly does not understand business.
“Apart from this? Are there any other promotional activities for the art tour?”
Gu Sheng asked.
“Of course,”
Lu Bian nodded:
“In order to cooperate with the sales of our game, Yiyou announced this morning that it will launch a ghost-phobia somatosensory cabin theme, and all players who purchase the game will receive it,”
“In addition, they also held a game-sharing lottery on Weibo,”
“As long as players participate in Weibo, use the topic #鬼故事#, and share game clips, screenshots, jokes, etc.,”
“You will have a chance to draw a brand new game x1.”
Good guy.
Hearing this, Gu Sheng was secretly surprised.
Yan Sheng's ability to do this can basically be said to be a crazy test on the edge of the bottom line.
After all, theoretically speaking, Golden Wind has not yet reached the standard for in-depth cooperation with art games.
Even if Yan Sheng gives them the green light, it is impossible to implement the announcement in accordance with the standards of in-depth cooperation.
He helps find reviews, launches themes, and holds draws to build momentum for them.
Art tours are already very interesting.
In fact, the total publicity costs have already exceeded 80,000 yuan.
“Yan Sheng is a good comrade.” Gu Sheng nodded.
“Indeed,” Lu Bian also said sincerely: “This is because Yiyu has a high reputation and high status. If we were to go out to the media for evaluation, let alone there are so many, it would be difficult to buy one for 80,000 yuan.”
“So…”
Finally, Gu Sheng concluded:
“Little Nezha, don’t look at him for being so heartless.”
“At the critical moment, he is really a **** talent!!”
…
As expected, ghost phobia has become popular.
Just like a person's success requires strength and luck.
The success of a game also requires two elements—quality and publicity.
There is no doubt that the quality of Haunted Nightmare can outshine other horror games in this world.
Coupled with the strong support of my good comrade Yan Sheng, the propaganda was as hard as a dog licking.
Homaphobia has become a hotly discussed game among players in just half a day!
When the hands of the clock point to eight o'clock in the evening again!
Along with the night, there is also the terrifying baptism of ghost phobia, as well as the tragic screams of countless anchors!
“…WDNMD Winter Melon Strong, this is the picture you picked?!”
At midnight in the early morning, in the dark wind, four people stood in front of an ancient house, looking at the paper figures and horses lined up on both sides in front of the scarlet door.
As the wind sounded like a woman sobbing, the two rows of wreaths next to the wall rustled, and the large Chinese character "Dian" fluttered in the wind.
Liu Peiqie, Dong Gua, Liu Di, and Teacher Ma stood in front of the gloomy old courtyard, unable to take a single step forward.
Originally, Liu Peiqiao just saw that this game had high reviews and was very popular, so he wanted to give it a try and want to experience it.
But who would have expected that after seeing the barrage saying that their FPS anchors were timid and lustful, Dong Gua became hyperthyroid on the spot.
You must choose a map with expert level difficulty, saying that you want to make a name for yourself.
So.
They came here.
Old house.
An additional map added by Gu Sheng that is full of Chinese horror elements.
Liu Peiqie regretted it as soon as he came in. He really shouldn't have listened to Donggua and blindly checked eight pictures.
The game itself is hellish enough.
He was so scared when he watched Lao Lao's live video just now.
As a result, Donggua, this guy, also chose a Chinese-style horror map.
Don’t say anything else.
Just the pair of paper figures and horses poking at the door were enough to scare him!
I don’t know if it was because of the night or because he was nervous.
He always felt that the two paper figures of a boy and a girl were staring at him.
Feared, Liu Peiqiao was furious:
“The picture you chose! Winter melon! Don’t be afraid of pinching the horse in a while!”
“I...cough!”
Winter Melon was quite crazy at first, and thought that horror games were just like that, and the worst they could do was to be frightened.
But as soon as he came in, he saw that he had no weapon in his hand and saw the eerie door of the mansion, and he panicked instantly.
But the so-called road you chose had to be walked on your knees, so he cleared his throat and pretended to be calm:
"That's it! What are you afraid of! They say that all of us are timid and lustful! Can you bear this? Brother Qie, are you afraid? Can you be afraid?"
Once he heard this, Liu Peiqia naturally couldn’t admit defeat:
"I'm afraid of this? Could I be afraid? I'm kidding! Are you afraid, Mr. Di?!"
“Ouch! I’m afraid? I haven’t seen anything!”
Liu Di didn’t lose face either:
“I’m really not afraid at all! Are you afraid, old horse?”
Lao Ma is actually a little scared.
But seeing everyone saying this, he could only grin: "If I say I'm not afraid, it seems like a lot of money, then... I'm not afraid either."
The words have not yet finished!
I saw the three anchors in the FPS area stepping back together!
“Teacher Ma said he is not afraid!”
“woc is awesome, Teacher Ma!”
“It has to be an old horse, so you go first, old horse!”
“Teacher Ma, let’s go first, we’ll cut you off…”
The outrageous scene made the barrage unstoppable—
‘What kind of trick is this? ! ’
‘I put my brother in my pocket, but he kicked me into the ditch? ’
‘Pass it on, the big FPS anchors are collectively suppressing the gold medal lecturers in the alliance area’
‘You three are so mean! ’
‘Is this something people do? ’
‘Lao Ma: I need a word that is more offensive than the first time’
‘Hahahahahahahaha that’s too rude…’
The water friends laughed, and the old horse was also confused!
“Yo, I’m doing the trick, right? The little boss is really stupid...”
However, although he was surprised by the shamelessness of Liu Peijia and the others, Teacher Ma, who had always been generous, took the lead in taking the lead.
The group of people crowded together, slowly moved up the bluestone steps, and bravely pushed open the red lacquer door of the ancient house.
This is a house with three entrances.
As soon as they crossed the threshold, the four people could not help but feel horrified by the scene in front of them!
However, I saw that on the hanging flower door that first entered the small courtyard, there were two red lanterns shining with a deep halo.
On the lantern, the character "囍" is vaguely visible.
“Holy shit—”
When Liu Peiqia saw this scene, he felt bad:
“This is... a ghost marriage?!”
(End of this chapter)