Sea Lion Group Building.
Although it is already after get off work hours, the "Endless Epic" project department is still crowded. No employee leaves his or her work station, and no one dares to relax at all.
Today is the day that "Endless Epic" is launched.
Almost the entire gaming circle’s attention is focused on their games.
Huang Chao stood up from his desk with sweat in his palms and paced back and forth in the office.
At this moment, there was a knock on the door outside the office. He immediately stepped forward and opened the door. Looking at his partner who appeared at the door, he immediately asked.
"How's it going?"
Zhao Qiguang said with a confident smile on his face.
"It couldn't be better! A large number of players are pouring into our servers. The twenty servers that have been online so far are all full! If this trend continues, I'm afraid we will have to open another twenty servers to satisfy the players' needs. need!"
After hearing these words, Huang Chao's anxious heart finally relaxed, a pleasant smile appeared on his face, and he said in a joking tone.
"Really? Then I'll be relieved."
Zhao Qiguang said with a smile.
"Relax, it's not us that should be worried now, but Yunmeng Games. They spent more than a month marketing World of Warcraft, and now all the players have been intercepted by us. I'm afraid they would never have dreamed that our They moved so quickly that they didn't even have a chance to react."
In order to launch World of Warcraft before the public beta, almost everyone, whether it is the overseas development team or the employees of Qiguang Studio, is working overtime and working overtime.
Fortunately, they finally succeeded.
World of Warcraft's alpha round has not yet ended, and they have already produced a game that is not only highly similar in gameplay and content to World of Warcraft, but is even slightly better in quality.
In addition, when they promoted it, they cleverly made a sidestep and labeled "Endless Epic" as Warcraft. All the publicity that Yunmeng Games did in the early stage has now become their wedding dress.
"There is no rush to add servers for the time being... We can add them in several batches. There is no need to satisfy the appetite of all players at once."
Always keep players hungry.
This is what Huang Chao learned from World of Warcraft.
Why can an activation code for a deleted internal test be sold at such a high price
Just because the game is fun
If you really think so, you are totally wrong!
He knows the psychology of these players very well. The more you stop them from playing, the more they want to play. Compared to the activation code that costs more than 50,000 yuan, it is very conscientious to just queue up and enter the game!
At least in Huang Chao's opinion.
"But... won't this degrade the player's gaming experience?" Zhao Qiguang looked hesitant on his face and looked at him puzzledly. "As far as I know, the longest queue time has even been extended to one hour. .The average queue time for players is basically more than half an hour.”
"Don't worry, it's okay. The large number of people queuing up just shows that our game is popular. Would you rather play a ghost server where no one is there after entering, or play a masterpiece like this where the server is full 24 hours a day?"
Looking at the stunned Zhao Qiguang, Huang Chao smiled lightly and continued.
"Besides, if you don't want to queue, there is nothing you can do. Remember to open a member recharge entrance in the queue interface when waiting for the next update. As long as you recharge to become a member, not only can you sign in every day to receive gift packs, but you can also jump in line to enter the game. This way, players can wait in line. The problem is solved and we can still make money, isn’t it the best of both worlds?”
Hearing these words, Zhao Qiguang's eyes suddenly lit up.
Awesome!
This is a great move!
Not only can it accurately take care of the game experience of RMB players, but it can also reduce the time occupied by free users of server resources. It is simply killing two birds with one stone!
However, there is still a problem that needs to be solved.
"But... what if there are so many people jumping in line during peak hours that even members can't squeeze into the server?"
Upon hearing his partner's question, Huang Chao had a bright smile on his face.
"It's easy to say, we will launch another VVIP when the time comes. Recharging to become a VVIP member will not only skip the queue, but also enter the exclusive VVIP privileged server and enjoy 1.2 times the experience and gold coin bonus!"
"Niubi!"
Zhao Qiguang couldn't help but give a thumbs up.
This idea is so shameless!
…
The shamelessness here is of course not a derogatory sense, but a compliment.
As a qualified game designer and a good employee of Sea Lion Group, what is the use of integrity
Can it be eaten as a meal
At least it doesn't count as KPI assessment indicators, and we can't give him a year-end bonus.
Seriously study the art of cutting leeks and accurately harvest players' wallets is the way to go!
On the other side, while all the employees of the "Endless Epic" project team were working overtime, Say, who had received special care, had entered the game through the anchor channel.
After all, lining up in front of millions of spectators, does the Sea Lion Group still want the face
Entering the game, Sayye quickly entered the character creation interface.
Indeed, as officially advertised, the character modeling is quite beautiful, like a model in a clothing store window. But because he was a pragmatist, and there were millions of viewers watching, he didn't waste too much time pinching his face, and just fine-tuned a few parameters before entering the game.
His race is still human, and he was born in a towering fortress city. Sayye subconsciously compared it with Stormwind City in World of Warcraft, but after thinking about it for a long time, he only found one advantage.
“The graphics of this game are pretty good.”
From the majestic buildings to the textures on NPC clothing, the performance of "Endless Epic" is indeed slightly better than that of "World of Warcraft". The strength of the Sea Lion Group's art team is not just a boast.
However, I don't know why, standing on this bustling street, Say Ye couldn't feel the atmosphere that an MMORPG game should have.
how to say
Not that it’s not lively enough.
In fact, the performance of this game on the first day it was launched was quite popular. Many players who had not played World of Warcraft were fooled into coming here by the previous promotional PV, so that more than 20 servers were crowded, and even You still have to queue for half an hour to enter the game—
However, even though the street was crowded with new players, he always felt that something was missing.
It wasn't until he saw the blacksmith standing on the street and the cold and monotonous dialogue embedded in the floating window that he finally understood where this inexplicable sense of dissonance came from.
And it wasn't just him who felt it.
The same goes for the viewers in the live broadcast room.
Before he could give an evaluation, the barrage had already begun.
[This fan game is quite restored.]
[Yeah, it's just a pity that I learned the superficial knowledge but didn't learn the core.]
[I miss the blacksmith of Stormwind City. When did Night God start broadcasting Warcraft? You still owe the old blacksmith a dozen ribs.]
[I don’t know if the anchor can complete this task chain before the alpha closed test ends. I just want to see what the holy sword looks like and what attributes it has.]
Looking at the barrage in the live broadcast room, Sayye smiled bitterly and wanted to say something but couldn't say it.
After all, the partner's people are also in the live broadcast room. He can't say don't worry. If everyone gets through these four hours, you can see the content you like to see, right
Perhaps noticing the rhythm in the live broadcast room, the public relations team of Sea Lion Group began to work hard, and some strange things began to mix on the screen.
For example, "This game is really good," and "Everyone, come and play." These appear to be barrage messages sent by robots.
Say Ye closed the pop-up window with a headache and sighed, trying not to care about the things in the live broadcast room and focusing on the game.
At this moment, he felt that he needed someone to comfort him more than the water friends in the live broadcast room.
When he thought that it would be broadcast for another week, his heart was filled with despair...