Chapter 77: Let players help us make games
Shen Miaomiao finally felt compassion.
In her eyes, Lao Gu always looked calm, like the sunshine at noon or the breeze in early spring.
Tenderness, with firm strength.
It seems that nothing can trouble him in the game development industry.
No matter what kind of weird requests and opinions he has, he can always get them at his fingertips.
Using his astonishing inspiration and ideas, he weaves wonderful game worlds and contributes them to the world.
However.
He is such a supernova who was born to belong to the gaming industry.
At this moment, because Xuanfa is not as good as others, he is secretly feeling sad here.
He seemed to be in a state of despair, saying, "Manpower can't do anything, success or failure is determined by nature."
And the ‘chief culprit’ that caused all this is Shen Miaomiao!
It’s her who has been holding back the promotion of the game!
It’s her who has always avoided publicity!
It was she who caused the once-satisfied supernova. Now she is here because she is unable to do anything, and is full of sorrow. She takes advantage of smoking to relieve her sorrow!
I’m guilty, I—!
The more Shen Miaomiao thought about it, the more she felt guilty, the more she thought about it, the more she couldn't bear it, and the more she thought about it, the more she felt that she had gone too far!
What am I doing?
I am simply killing a seedling that should have grown into a towering tree!
I deserve to die! !
Think of this!
Shen Miaomiao raised her heart, gritted her teeth and stamped her feet, leaving the system and the 100 times card behind!
Even if I don’t want the rebate and spend the billion, I won’t see you so depressed!
Say it!
Now, do we still have a chance to make up for our mistakes?
Next second!
Seeing that Gu Sheng didn't seem to have any thinking process, he flicked a cigarette ashes and said:
“Yes, I have already prepared it.”
What am I doing? ? ?
The sudden sincerity almost hit Shen Miaomiao's waist.
It’s not...ah...?
Wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute!
Why the **** do I feel like something is wrong?
Shen Miaomiao scratched her head, feeling that her brain was a little overloaded.
Looking at Gu Sheng, he saw that at this moment, the grandson's face no longer looked a little melancholy.
Something is wrong! Nine times out of ten something is wrong!
"Well…?"
Shen Miaomiao's face changed, with a little uncertainty, and she asked hesitantly:
"What do you mean...are you prepared?"
“Fearless Sniper will affect our sales,”
Gu Sheng pointed at the game screen that was still going on on the screen, shrugged and said:
"Two months ago, as soon as the China Entertainment Exhibition ended, Fearless Sniper announced that it would postpone its tickets. Isn't this obvious? It must be for our second-generation FPS setting. You wouldn't have expected it. Bar?"
Say it.
Gu Sheng patted his forehead again, with a look of understanding:
“Oh, that’s right, you shouldn’t have thought of it. After all, you were just hanging out with Secretary Chu.”
Why? What the hell...
Shen Miaomiao frowned.
Did he scold me for not doing my job properly? Is he attacking me yin and yang? Right? !
Shen Miaomiao felt that her blood pressure had risen a little.
Then!
She discovered that she was still young after all, and her blood pressure rose early.
Because next, in order to let Shen Miaomiao understand the whole story, Gu Sheng told her exactly what happened at the China Entertainment Electronics Exhibition that day -
Including the fact that as soon as she left, her friends and businessmen gathered around her... the shark anchor visited... her own MFGA slogan... the whole audience cheered and all the media rushed to interview her, etc.
“…Oh, by the way, speaking of this, I’ve always had a question I wanted to ask you,”
Gu Sheng put out the cigarette and looked at Shen Miaomiao with doubts:
“Why did you comfort me that day in the exhibition hall? Did you listen to what others said? I was too tired that day and really didn’t have the energy to ask you…”
Shen Miaomiao:…
“...Just wait for me. It’s time for me to take medicine.”
After saying that, Shen Miaomiao stood up tremblingly, held on to the wall and walked out of Gu Sheng's office.
Seeing this, Gu Sheng stood up with concern: "What's wrong with you?"
哐丁.
Shen Miaomiao staggered and almost fell to the ground.
He waved his hand back tremblingly: "...I am mentally retarded."
Get out of the office!
Looking at Shen Miaomiao again, her face turned green!
She felt her temples on both sides were pulsing, veins on her forehead popped out, and her blood pressure soared rapidly!
On the day of co-writing... Gu Sheng was not disappointed at all!
Not to mention becoming a salted fish who has lost his dream!
It was simply because he was tired that he slumped on the ground like a dead dog and refused to get up!
It is precisely because of this!
The three of them worked hard that day as if they hadn't had a full meal in eight hundred years!
It’s not about “turning grief and anger into appetite” at all!
Gu Sheng, ah Gu Sheng—!
Thinking of this, Shen Miaomiao couldn't help but sigh with sadness and anger in her heart!
You really deserve to die, you—! !
It took me ten minutes to relax in my office!
Shen Miaomiao returned to Gu Sheng's office with a cup of steaming medicinal soup.
“What is this?” Gu Sheng glanced at the medicine in Shen Miaomiao’s hand.
“Motherwort granules,” Shen Miaomiao rolled her eyes and raised her glass to Gu Sheng: “Want a sip?”
Gu Sheng waved his hands repeatedly:
“I don’t have that function.”
——
Gu Sheng's cold humor finally made Shen Miaomiao unable to hold back her laughter.
Then he blew the liquid and asked:
“So, you already knew that Fearless Sniper was going to be launched after us, and you were mentally prepared for it?!”
"Ah, yes," Gu Sheng nodded as he should, "If I don't have any predictions, I've failed too much as the director."
“Then why did you make such a melancholy expression when you were watching the live broadcast just now?”
Shen Miaomiao was shocked and even suspected that Gu Sheng was playing her.
“Oh hey, you said this, haha,”
Gu Sheng laughed:
“I just think that they copied the second-generation FPS into this, which is an insult to our game creativity, and also disrespects the industrial level of this game, it’s like-”
“The **** basin is rimmed with gold.”
Shen Miaomiao:…
Well, I am really stupid, and I actually believed in your idiot son's evil deeds.
Drink all the motherwort in your hand!
A warm current flowed from top to bottom, penetrating through the chest and abdomen, finally making Shen Miaomiao feel a little more comfortable.
Then asked: "So, what is your countermeasure?"
Seeing that Gu Sheng had returned to his usual confidence, Shen Miaomiao knew that this time the investment was probably going to be more unlucky.
However, she still wanted to find out.
Seeing Gu Sheng ponder for a moment, he then said: "Let the players help us make the game."
“Huh? Players... play games?”
"What's the meaning?"
“Literally,” Gu Sheng said: “We hire players and let them contribute to the game “Land of Survival” and enrich the content of the game.”
Shen Miaomiao seemed to understand: "It's like you hire an outsourcing team from a game factory?"
“That’s right,”
Gu Sheng nodded:
"The only difference is that we need to pay to hire an outsourced team, but to hire players..." "We don't pay."
I! Blanch!
What kind of dangerous statement is this!
Shen Miaomiao felt her scalp numb. She kicked the ground with her little feet and slid out with her chair, keeping a safe distance from Gu Sheng.
Appeared! capitalist! Holy shit!
Shen Miaomiao felt that Gu Sheng deserved to die even more.
Then, he stood up and looked out the floor-to-ceiling window.
Looking at Shen Miaomiao's appearance, Gu Sheng couldn't help but wonder: "What are you doing?"
“I’m looking for a light pole,”
Shen Miaomiao turned around, her eyes full of working class righteousness:
“You’re always cheating, right? Are you asking players to work for you for free?”
“Ah, yes,”
Unexpectedly, Gu Sheng not only did not feel ashamed at all, but also admitted that geography should:
“In fact, originally, in the game Left 4 Survival, we could have introduced some more full-sensory technologies, adding smell or improving tactile perception,”
“But, we didn’t,”
“We saved this money and joined forces with the Yiyu Technology Department to develop a separate module in the game,”
“Thanks to the support of the somatosensory cabin data encryption technology and the strong cooperation of the Yiyu Technology Department,”
“We can allow everyone to participate in the secondary creation of the game and write mods while ensuring that it is not open source,”
“Including the replacement of gun models, character models, item models, replacement of music effects, new player-made maps, and even the addition of game modes, etc.,”
“While ensuring the security of our exclusive feel adjustment data, we allow players to use their imagination as much as possible to customize everything they want in this game,”
“You can understand it as customization, but usually, we call this module-”
“【Creative Workshop】”
Ohhh—
Although Gu Sheng's description sounds very touching, his imagination and creativity make the matter of "customization" sound very cool!
Even, if it is true as he said, the creative workshop model will one day take shape.
The entire game may become more popular.
but!
In those layers of sugar-coated words, it was not difficult for Shen Miaomiao to see two words -
Whoring for free!
Let players generate electricity for love... Shen Miaomiao really has no hope.
You should know that making games is not playing games!
Code writing, model establishment, and bug modification.
Every item is boring!
How can any player work for you for free when they are full?
In this world, there has never been such a capitalist additional form of game.
So Shen Miaomiao could not imagine at all how there could be people in the world who were so free and willing to enrich resources for a game regardless of remuneration.
but!
Isn’t this good news for me?
The corners of Shen Miaomiao's mouth could not help but curl up again.
Originally, she thought that Lao Gu could come up with some shocking high-end operation to turn the tide. Without sufficient budget, she went against the odds and defeated Xuanfa's fearless sniper attack.
The result is the end!
It’s just a wishful thinking plan!
Thinking of this, Shen Miaomiao felt much more relieved.
"Um-"
Shen Miaomiao nodded and affirmed Gu Sheng's narcissistic attitude:
“From what you said, this model seems quite promising. When will it be officially launched?”
“Based on the current progress…”
Gu Sheng smacked his lips:
“Maybe tomorrow night.”
In fact, the creative workshop module of Left 4 Survival has passed the test and can theoretically be put online.
But before it goes online, as officials, Gu Sheng and the others must first stuff some mods into it as a demonstration guide.
For example, make some skins for weapons, change the explosion effect of homemade grenades, change the clothes of the four protagonists, etc.
Overall, the changes are not big, and they mainly serve as a display function.
As for what players will use this thing for...
Gu Sheng, who once modeled Miku, held a flaming unicorn, used a gilded Wakai Yaku to break through the zombies, and kill Thomas the Tank Engine:
I don’t know, it all depends on the mental state of the players.
…
Sold 40,000 copies on the first day! Fearless Sniper is worthy of being the light of China! 》
《The true king is coming! Guangyao Games leads the single-day game sales rankings! 》
Perfect shooting mode! Fearless sniper innovative gameplay redefines FPS! 》
《MFGA is coming true, but it’s not the golden wind》
"The fearless sniper is on the scene, and the road to survival is full of decline"
Shenzhou, headquarters of Guangyao Game Studio.
Ding Kai looked at the media reports and couldn't help but feel happy!
As he said before, as long as the money is in place, no one can resist Xun Teng's offensive.
It doesn’t matter whether you are a supernova or a genius designer.
In front of the real capital flow, you are just a stepping stone, a stepping stone stepped on by Guangyao Games.
Sales of 40,000 copies on the first day!
Nearly 10,000 people were crushed in their way of survival!
Such an impressive sales volume is worthy of the size and investment of a large-scale game!
Seeing his immediate superior laughing with satisfaction, Fang Hongwei was also overjoyed. He poured water for Ding Kai to make tea and said:
"Next, we will further in-depth publicity and continue to encroach on the market share of Golden Wind. At the same time, we will increase our efforts in publicity to stabilize the market dissemination of our 1+2 shooting mode, gradually replace the so-called second-generation FPS definition, and transform it into Renamed to - RFPS game (RealityFirst-personshootinggame)."
This is a classic tactic from Xunteng games.
First, borrow the core of a game, appropriate it for your own use, and localize it.
After that, through layers of publicity and infiltration, while suppressing the original work, he gradually tampered with and distorted the gameplay name of the original game, and re-created a vocabulary to name the core gameplay that he copied.
In this way, day after day, year after year.
Gradually, the original game will be completely eroded by them, and will be gradually forgotten by most players.
Then, they can justifiably put this "Xundo self-developed original game type" on the table with a new name, complete the whitewashing, and replace it.
"good,"
After listening to Fang Hongwei’s skillful arrangements, Ding Kai nodded with satisfaction:
"Just do this, and keep an eye on poaching people, so that it can be done and settled as soon as possible."
“Don’t worry,”
As Fang Hongwei spoke, he picked up a teacup and drank with Ding Kai:
“The overall situation has been decided, other things will definitely fall into place, haha...”
Yes.
Although it is only the second day after the release of Fearless Sniper, the single-week sales of the two games have not yet been released.
However, the two of them dared to open champagne at halftime.
Because it has always been!
As long as they suppress the game with this method, there will never be a time to look up again!
And this time, it is no exception!
The crushing of sales on the first day will definitely mean that the gap between the two parties will become wider and wider. The only market waiting for the golden wind is the blank market!
This is the confidence of Guangyao Studio, and even more so, the confidence of Xunteng Games as a whole!
Next…
The two of them drank the tea in the cups and raised their glasses to indicate.
Just wait and see the slow death on the road to survival...
(End of this chapter)