Facts have proved that Mr. Xu’s intuition is indeed accurate.
Although he couldn't tell what attracted him to this game, his biggest feeling after playing it for half an hour was that he couldn't stop playing.
He wasn't the only one who had similar feelings.
At four o'clock on Tuesday afternoon, 24 hours have passed since the game was launched on the Dianqu platform. So far, the number of people who have downloaded it has exceeded 100,000. However, the peak number of people online that day was close to half of this number.
For a mobile game, especially a strategy tower defense mobile game, this data can be said to be quite terrifying. This means that most people are reluctant to quit the game even when they are waiting for the construction to be completed. They will open the game after a while to take a look, or even just leave the game open and hang there.
Such a situation will arise. On the one hand, it is the setting in the game. The holy water and gold coins collected by the production unit need to be manually collected by clicking on the building to the treasury and holy water tank, and the resources stored in the collection unit can be plundered up to 50%. Once Being plundered will not only result in the loss of a large amount of resources, but also damage to the production buildings, which can only be repaired after going online.
Of course, for the vast majority of players who have just downloaded the game, it is still too early for them to fight. The shield in the early stages of the game gives novice players a certain degree of protection.
However, even so, most people are still reluctant to go offline.
The protection time of the novice shield is only three days. It is foreseeable that once the three days are up, there will be a "bloody storm" in the entire server.
In contrast, the construction period in the early stage of the game is very short, and the reserves of collectors are also very low. It is necessary to continuously actively collect resources and set construction instructions to ensure the development of the base.
When it takes a month to upgrade to a new version in the later stages of the game, there won’t be so many frequent operations. But for new players, it’s still too early.
Taking into account the balance in the early stage of the game, and in order to prevent the player level gap in the game from being too large, resulting in players who enter the mid-to-late stage early and having no gaming experience, Magic Box Culture did not immediately make a decision after consulting the designer Hao Yun. Recharge channels and mall buttons are open in the game.
This move was purely based on long-term interests, but in the eyes of countless players, it was as incredible as discovering a new continent.
An official game group of "Silk Road Overlord".
Originally, due to the operational failure of Silk Road Overlord, this group had become extinct along with the game. Except for a few fixed people who regularly filled the group every day, the content of the chat was not nutritious at all.
However, this situation has completely changed with the launch of Clash of Clans.
As die-hard fans of "Mo Fei Qingyu", the predecessor of Magic Box Culture, many people here entered the game as soon as Clash of Clans was launched.
Among them are some soft currency warriors and big money spenders, and they were the first to discover that there was no recharge button.
When a guy discovered this "bug", he immediately liked the administrator in the group.
[Is there something wrong with my eyes, or is there something wrong with the game itself? Why the hell can’t I find the mall button? ? ?]
The administrator didn't wait for a reply, but many submarines were blown up.
[what's going on? No recharge button?]
[Impossible, I bet you must have seen it wrong! It’s not like you don’t know what this Silk Road Overlord is, and the recharge button wants to be thrown in your face.]
[that is! Not to mention that now Mo Fei Qingyu has been acquired by that old thief from Yunmeng Group. I don’t believe you if you say he doesn’t know how to collect money and beat him to death!]
[Could this guy be a game troll?]
The eldest brother didn't waste any time and directly replied in the group, "What are you betting on?", and then posted a screenshot of the game without waiting for the response from those who said he was a shill.
After seeing a few screenshots of the game, the players in the group who were still watching were immediately shocked.
Damn it
Is there really no recharge button? !
A large part of the reason why Silk Road Overlord was so popular before was because the operations team squeezed players too hard in order to complete KPI assessments and keep year-end bonuses.
There is a recharge event every three days, tricking light krypton players into recharging money. The treasure chest secretly changed the explosion rate and the god-level character cards were issued non-stop. The god-level character cards that were drawn were expired before they could be warmed up. A series of cool operations cut off a wave of wealthy players.
Originally, Silk Road Overlord was a strategy game, and PVP was the core selling point of the entire game. Whether it was robbing troops or farming, it was all about dominating the server in the end.
However, after such a set of operations, farming players are almost dead. Players who could barely accept the operation strategy of the operation team also lost their enthusiasm for the game during the internal roll, and finally chose to quit the game.
The final result is that the game ecology is completely destroyed, and there are only two or three players left in the entire server who are overpaid with money and krypton. They are reluctant to quit the game and go online regularly to take a look.
Now that Mo Fei Qingyu has been acquired by Yunmeng Group, instead of being influenced by the corporate culture of Yunmeng Group, he has gone further and further on the road of making money. On the contrary, he has completely changed his temper and has not even built the most critical mall. Just put the game on the shelves.
Almost all players couldn't believe their eyes.
There must be a bug in the game!
Even if Magic Box Culture doesn’t want to make money, there’s no reason why Mr. Hao doesn’t want to make money!
Someone soon sent the screenshot to the scarf, and then sent a message to Mr. Hao of Yunmeng Group. Seeing that Hao Yun did not reply, another player went directly to the comment area below his latest scarf to leave a message.
"Mr. Hao! Your game doesn't have a recharge button. Go fix the bug!"
"Mr. Hao: Let me see which employee is deserting."
"Hahahahaha! Mr. Hao fainted in the toilet because he couldn't make money on new games. This wave of losses has been heavy!"
Soon, more and more players gathered in the comment area.
Among them were Clash of Clans players, as well as old fans of Hao Yun because of 2048 and Magic Tower, and the two groups quickly started to quarrel.
"Are the people upstairs blind? Didn't you see the advertisement for this game? It was written directly in the promotional video that this game was designed by Mr. Hao himself!"
"Mr. Hao designed it himself??? Damn it?!"
"Old players are talking about it. In fact, to be honest, Yunmeng Games is quite conscientious. The earliest Temple Escape did not have a recharge button when it was first made. Everyone ranked on the rankings based on their technical scores. Later it was said that Yunmeng Investment Lin Jun took over the operation of Temple Escape and launched a series of skins and props that affect the balance of the game."
"Hey, I miss you! When Temple Escape first came out, let alone skins, you didn't even have resurrection coins! Now you're flying in a helicopter and using the Pharaoh's donkey, and you're still escaping!"
"That guy is simply a bastard in the gaming industry!"
"That's right! I suggest Mr. Hao to fire Jun Lin, so that the gaming world can be restored to a bright future!"
"Mr. Hao: If I drive him, what will I eat? Who will refuel my Ferrari? (Funny)"
The one who was most unjustly accused was Mr. Lin.
Inexplicably, he was kept silent and was labeled as a troublemaker.
In fact, speaking from conscience, although he built the Temple Escape mall and designed several skins, he was later assigned to raise pigs in the suburbs, so Temple Escape actually has nothing to do with him.
At most, the agency operation team on the Dianqu platform has gone further and further along the path of letting themselves go in the direction he guided. Later, Yunmeng Games recruited a group of employees and formed its own operations team. The situation has actually become much better.
But having said that, Lin Jun, who is not an "insider" himself, may not care about these so-called reputations...