Millions of views.
If no one was behind it, Hao Yun would not believe anything he said.
Originally planning to go to bed, Hao Yun got up from bed again after being angered by this video.
He originally wanted to call Xu Qianshi to ask what was going on, but Hao Yun thought about it. Even if he made this call, he would not admit it even if he knew 80% of the information, even if he didn't tell the other party whether he knew or not.
Thinking of this, Hao Yun gave up the idea of calling Xu Qianshi to question him. Instead, he got up and went to the study room, turned on his computer and logged into the Dianqu platform.
To be fair, although there are differences of opinion within DaMi Entertainment about this work created in cooperation with Yunmeng Games, there are still a lot of promotional resources given to this game.
In the recommended banner position on the store's homepage, Hao Yun easily found the promotion link for "Operation Counter-Terrorism: Siege".
Judging from the data on the download page, it has been 48 hours since the game was released, with sales of 670,000 copies. According to the price of 133 yuan, this game brought more than 80 million yuan in revenue to Da Mi Entertainment in just three days.
For a shooting game, this first-day sales figure is still good. However, in sharp contrast, the game's praise rate is only a pitiful 62%.
This data is equivalent to just passing the passing line.
Hao Yun glanced at the game's review page and found that many of the players there were fans who had purchased "Operation Counter-Terrorism". However, judging from the comments of these fans, they did not buy into this revamped game.
[This is the worst shooting game I have played this year.]
[If the problem of mold wearing bug is not solved, the negative reviews will never be changed.]
[From entering the game to starting the game, all UI designs give people a strong sense of familiarity with cheap web games. It would be fine if it was just a lack of budget for the UI design, but the most intolerable thing is the shoddy gun model. I can feel that the production team has put a lot of effort into creativity, but other than that, I don’t see any sincerity at all!]
[To be honest, the innovative siege gameplay is indeed very attractive, but after downloading the game and entering the game, you will find that the game you play is completely different from what the developer promotes!]
[A five-year veteran player expressed disappointment.]
[Junk game, refunded, dogs won’t even play it!]
"Damn it, we are really under siege."
Seeing the overwhelming negative comments, Hao Yun clicked his tongue in surprise.
It's a good thing that this game was not made by ourselves, otherwise we would have to lose our lives? Despite the ridiculously high sales volume on the first day and the poor reputation, in the end there will always be players who don’t have enough time to request a refund for 2 hours.
According to the laws of Xia State, electronic games are sold through online channels, and any one of the payment time within 72 hours and the game time within 2 hours can be refunded without reason.
According to the 62% praise rate, half of the 670,000 copies sold will be left in the end, which is supported by the feelings of veteran players.
"What on earth did this happen to cause it to be sprayed like this?"
Out of curiosity, Hao Yun clicked purchase on the spot and waited for the download to complete before entering the game.
According to the management of the Xia Kingdom gaming industry, the game you just downloaded will have a CG animation at the beginning. This animation can be original or taken from promotional CG, but basically it will be included in slightly larger productions.
This has almost become a standard for judging whether the investment amount for a game is more than 10 million or less than 10 million.
However, this "Operation Counter-Terrorism: Siege" is different.
The opening of the game was directly touched by a CG, but when the game menu page was entered, this CG shamelessly became the background of the menu interface.
Even Hao Yun was dumbfounded.
"This... is too economical."
It's not scientific.
Logically speaking, it is impossible for Da Mi Entertainment to be short of money.
What's more, Xu Qianshi and the pie he drew at that time planned to make this game a benchmark for domestic shooting games. The budget started at 10 million, with no upper limit.
However, the game he saw now had a development budget of 10 million, let alone 5 million. There was a question mark as to whether it had 5 million.
Ignoring this simple UI design, Hao Yun roughly experienced the content of the game and found that the problem was far more serious than he imagined.
First of all, the development elements that he and Zhang Ding discussed at the time were directly cut off.
According to his original idea, players can select agents to participate in the game on the preparation page, and upgrade the agents outside of the game, unlocking more weapons, equipment and exclusive skills through experience and in-game currency.
These exclusive skills include, but are not limited to, skills such as "increasing movement speed", "battlefield first aid", "using door breaker", and technology such as "releasing drones", "invading cameras", etc.
However, now, these elements have been integrated into the game store and turned into special props that need to be equipped during the preparation stage, rather than exclusive weapons for the characters.
On the surface, there seems to be no difference, and the gameplay is still the same. However, the development elements have become pure krypton gold props, which not only directly reduces the playability of the entire game by half, but also completely destroys the competitiveness and camp balance.
Originally, level 30 agents were matched with full-level robbers, and the exclusive skills and special tools used by both parties were basically unlocked at level 30. However, now they can be used by purchasing them in the mall, making it very possible for even new players to use them. In the game, he was defeated by an attack drone that was originally set to be unlocked only at level 30.
Let’s not talk about the shoddy models and various model-wearing bugs. This alone is enough to ruin Mr. Xu’s e-sports dream in this game.
After all, the competitive atmosphere of a game cannot be cultivated by throwing money at two games.
"It shouldn't be. I wrote the plan so clearly, how could it be like this?"
Hao Yun thought for a long time, and finally took out his cell phone and dialed Zhang Ding's number.
After receiving the call, Zhang Ding was sitting in the bar drinking away his sorrows. When he saw the name of the caller, he sobered up a little, got up to pay and went outside the bar, and then pressed the connect button.
"Hello? Mr. Hao, what's the matter? Please call me so late."
“I just downloaded Counter-Terrorism: Siege.”
As if he had guessed what Hao Yun would say, Zhang Ding sighed and said.
"Hey, don't mention it... It's weird to make it so cool! I told the people in the ALX production team at that time, but no one from the person in charge to the grassroots artists listened to me. I went to the product department Wang Fa, the person in charge of the company, but he didn’t even bother to see me. The same goes for the budget. The initial development budget allocated was 50 million, but later I heard that half of it was moved to another area being developed by DaMi Entertainment. A game went up.”
"Another game?" Hao Yunchi asked.
Zhang Ding said.
"Well, there is another game, the name seems to be Chenghai Alliance... I only heard about it recently."
Chenghai Alliance
Hearing this name, Hao Yun almost choked on his own spit.
"This Chenghai... Am I understanding it correctly? Is it the World of Warcraft map on the creative workshop's popularity list?"
Zhang Ding was stunned for a moment and shook his head.
"I don't know the specifics. I only heard that it seems to be a three-corridor gameplay controlled by multiple heroes."
Good guy.
This borderline shot is a bit coquettish.
Warcraft definitely cannot be surpassed, so we should find another way to start with things that Warcraft players are interested in. It's just that this has neither been authorized by Yunmeng Group nor the map maker "hao12345". Aren't you worried about legal disputes when developing this thing
Hao Yun couldn't understand what Da Mi Entertainment was planning. And whether Xu Qianshi came up with this bad idea or the people below him came up with it themselves.
"You haven't contacted Mr. Xu?"
"I can't even see the manager of the product department, so I can't see Mr. Xu," Zhang Ding said with a wry smile, "Now ALX is planning to pass the blame to me, and the operations department of DaMi Entertainment is also hinting that I should let myself Of course I didn’t agree, they didn’t give me a good look in the past two days... Mr. Hao, now the game is on the shelves, can I come back?”
Hao Yun sighed.
"I understand... pack your things tomorrow and withdraw from DaMi Entertainment."