The filming budget of the film is tentatively set at 200 million yuan, and the production cycle is approximately one to six months.
The previous version of Ready Player One spent a lot of time and money to resolve copyright issues. However, there is no such problem in this parallel world. Those Easter eggs and jokes that "pay homage to the classics" can be regarded as the "one piece" of the film. to use, and the focus of the film shooting will be more focused on the several dungeons experienced by the protagonist group, as well as the "Oasis" system itself.
In addition, Guo Qifei also has many thoughts of his own about this film.
According to director Guo's description, he plans to shoot the two story lines of virtual and reality at the same time. In other words, while filming the real scene, a professional CG team is hired to produce that part of the plot in the virtual world.
In this way, not only can it save a lot of time, but it can also make the shots look more coherent. If there is a strong sense of inconsistency, adjustments can be made in time.
When it came to professional shooting issues, Hao Yun didn't know that much, so he didn't put forward any more opinions and left the decision to him with full trust.
Although he wished he could spend the money and shoot the movie the next day, unfortunately this was impossible.
At least in this world, the process of making a movie is much more troublesome than making a game.
However, Director Guo lived up to Hao Yun's expectations. The day after signing the contract, he immediately began to organize the crew.
Although he did not have his own crew or studio, after being in the film industry for so many years, the contacts he had were able to help a lot, and he quickly assembled a crew that required everything except actors. All staffing, from lighting to scenery, are top-notch experts in the industry.
After all, what is lacking in the film and television industry is never talent, but money.
As long as the money is in place, everything will be fine.
No matter what you are playing or where you are playing.
In addition, behind him is now Yunmeng Media.
As a rising star in the current media industry, although Yunmeng Media's performance is not as dazzling as Yunmeng Games and Yunmeng Investment, its strength cannot be underestimated.
After arranging the movie, Hao Yun returned to the core business of Yunmeng Group - games.
So far, the popularity of World of Warcraft has basically stabilized at about half of what it was on the day it was launched, firmly occupying the top spot among domestic MMORPG games, and leaving the second place "Oracle" far behind.
In fact, after playing World of Warcraft, almost no one can accept the rigid traditional MMORPG gameplay of "Oracle". NPCs who only repeat one sentence, constant monster killing and leveling up. These things that were once taken for granted in the eyes of players have now become a kind of torture.
To use the words of a certain Yunmeng game’s number one fan in the game area of Bilibili, instead of going to the world of “Oracle” and facing those paralyzed faces who can only repeat a few nonsense words, it is better to find a night elf boy in Darnassus. Change the conversation.
As for "Endless Epic"
With the arrest of Huang Chao and the scandal of cyber attacks, the game has basically gone out of business.
Almost all of the more than 30 servers had green lights, so much so that the operations team even had to secretly change the popularity mechanism and forcibly label green servers as red to create the illusion that the game was still popular.
However, this method can only deceive people who don’t understand.
For real players, you can tell the difference between real and fake at a glance.
After all, no matter how well the data is decorated, everything will be revealed as soon as you enter the game.
There is not a single living person to be seen in the huge main city, there are more NPCs than players, the dungeon can't be assembled in half a day, and even the accounts used to fight monsters in the wild are robots... No matter how the operation team quibbles, it can't change the fact that this game is not available online. It’s been a month since the game started to become a ghost server.
It’s quite embarrassing to say that there were game studios who took advantage of the 377 gift pack event before, but now even the studios are unwilling to touch this garbage game.
After all, for those studios, script development also requires electricity costs. Instead of producing "virtual garbage" that no one wants, it would be better to hire two coolies to farm gold in World of Warcraft.
Although the authorities are very strict about RMB transactions, at least the huge market demand is there, so there is no need to worry about getting hit.
When "Oracle" was first launched, it was not as popular as World of Warcraft, but it remained popular for five years. With the current popularity of World of Warcraft, it will not be a problem for it to be popular for at least five years, not to mention ten or eight years.
The popularity of the domestic market has naturally attracted the attention of overseas markets.
On the comment area page of the independent official website of World of Warcraft, which was just developed by Yunmeng Games, messages from external users have appeared, asking when the overseas version will be launched.
In fact, as early as when World of Warcraft had just completed development, Hao Yun had considered the overseas version. And if nothing else goes wrong, Bulldog Company, the old partner of Yunmeng Group, should be responsible for taking over.
However, today's Bulldog Company is basically focusing on the conflict of clan business. Hao Yun was a little hesitant now whether he should find them or not.
According to the data provided by Lin Jun, the current profits contributed by Clash of Clans' overseas business have even surpassed that of the Xia Kingdom, and it is estimated that the annual revenue will reach 1.5 billion.
With such a big cash cow in hand, it’s hard to say whether Bulldog Company still has the motivation to help them continue to develop the MMORPG market.
In addition, Hao Yun was also a little hesitant about how to cooperate with agents.
Since the game mechanics of World of Warcraft are there, the existence of "Zero" is definitely essential.
However, according to laws in North America and other regions, overseas game servers must be placed locally and managed by domestic companies. This is obviously unacceptable to Yunmeng Group.
In addition, the progress of the game is also the same thing.
The progress of the Azeroth world is determined by all players. How to balance the version progress between overseas players and domestic players is also a big problem.
After thinking about this issue for a long time, Hao Yun, sitting at his desk, spoke.
"If that doesn't work, let overseas players use the accelerator to play directly on our local servers. Then we will develop a multi-language version here."
Li Zongzheng sighed and said.
"For now, that's all we can do."
We can only wait for the overseas version. At present, we can’t think of any good solution.
Looking at Li Zongzheng standing in front of his desk, Hao Yun paused for a moment and continued.
"We still need to respond to the opinions of overseas players, at least let them see that we officially attach great importance to them. After a while, you can ask the operations department to edit an announcement and post it on the official websites of Yunmeng Games and World of Warcraft. This can be regarded as answering some of the questions. Give focused answers.”
"In addition, please inform me to have all the employees of Yunmeng Games gather at Conference Hall No. 1 on time at two o'clock."
Li Zongzheng was slightly stunned.
"Is this a meeting?"
"Well," Hao Yun nodded and continued, "I have something important to announce."
Li Zongzheng said doubtfully.
"What's so mysterious?"
Hao Yun smiled mysteriously.
"Of course it's a good thing."