"Is "Dark Souls" an overseas agent?"
Listening to the news reported by Lin Rou, Chen Xu nodded to express his understanding.
What came to our door was a relatively well-known overseas distribution agency in China: Target Software.
Obviously, "Dark Soul", as a large-scale PC game, has also attracted the attention of overseas distribution companies.
After all, "Dark Soul" is quite popular in China. Although Nebula Games has not announced its sales results, some third-party data companies have compiled statistics.
There will definitely be gaps, but it can also be used as a reference.
Finally, the theme of "Dark Soul" itself is also a fantasy theme, and it will also have a large audience if it is placed in overseas markets.
As for the so-called difficulty issue, it is not that big of a deal.
Whether at home or abroad, there are gamers who like fast-paced and simple games, and there are also gamers who like hard-core difficulty.
And in terms of player base, the entire overseas market is also larger.
"Reply to the other party and make an appointment to talk about cooperation in this area." Chen Xu said to Lin Rou.
Overseas agent distribution is not that simple. The original "Magic Mirror" was only launched on the official overseas platform, but in fact it was simply coated with a layer of skin.
A game of the size of "Dark Soul" obviously cannot take this approach.
At the same time, the so-called overseas is not one country, but involves multiple countries, as well as various channels for promoting games and so on.
The corresponding review, publicity, and precautions are also handled by the issuing agency.
Moreover, some countries have policies that stipulate that overseas games must have local agency distribution companies to enter the local market.
Let Nebula Games handle this channel by itself, and it will definitely not be able to create corresponding channels in a short period of time.
In the future, we will create overseas channels for Nebula Games to operate independently, but at this stage, finding a relatively powerful distribution agency is obviously the way to maximize the benefits.
Lin Rou was asked to inform the other party that Chen Xu also met the person in charge of the other party in the office of Nebula Games the next afternoon.
At the conference table, the two discussed matters related to overseas agency issuance.
"Mr. Chen, we don't have much problem with this division, but the overseas version modification and operating rights..." said the person in charge on the opposite side.
However, Chen Xu shook his hand and interrupted: "This is the bottom line."
When he heard Chen Xu's words, he immediately held back the words that reached his throat.
In other aspects, such as overseas promotion and operation, including the game share ratio, etc., the conversation was very smooth.
Basically it follows the basic industry standards.
But there are some problems in the modification and operation rights of the overseas version.
Target Software wants to get some operational modification rights, but Chen Xu is very direct, which means that you are only responsible for normal overseas agent distribution and corresponding language translation and dubbing, and provide your company's channels for publicity to ensure that the game is online. Just wait for the money and that's it. Don't even think about the management rights of the game.
The so-called right to modify operations is simpler to say. For example, "Dark Soul" is a purely buy-out single-player game, and multiplayer is just an added bonus.
However, if the distribution agency believes that changing to a free + in-app purchase model may be more suitable for the local area and has the rights, it can make it a free game. The first charge is 6 yuan and you can get +4 Dark Sword at the beginning.
Of course, this is an exaggeration, and it is unlikely that any game company would give such a large right. Generally, it is a matter of mutual negotiation between the two parties, or some interests in profitable content.
What makes the target software a bit difficult is that Chen Xu is obviously not prepared to give any rights in this regard.
"Mr. Chen's decision is not mine." Seeing Chen Xu's determination, the person in charge could only shake his head and said.
Chen Xu smiled and nodded: "It doesn't matter, but I hope your company can reply to me as soon as possible. After all, in addition to your company, there are several agent publishers overseas who also have related intentions."
As for authenticity? Believe it or not, it's not him who is under pressure anyway.
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After sending away the person in charge of the target software, Chen Xu also logged into the official forum of Nebula Games.
Thanks to the player base brought by "Three Kingdoms" and "Fall Bean Man" before, after "Dark Soul" and its promotions were launched.
The number of active players in Nebula Games has also reached a peak.
At the same time, Chen Xu has always attached great importance to the community forum of Nebula Games and set up a department for independent operations.
After all, in the early days when the number of games on the Nebula gaming platform itself was not large, using this kind of social forum operation was one of the best ways to cultivate user stickiness.
Judging from the effects, it has initially achieved results.
In the forum section of "Dark Soul", players still discuss various strategies, playing methods, and routines more.
In addition, what makes Chen Xu happy is that in the creative workshop that was opened before, some players have already made corresponding MODs.
The most downloaded one is a text MOD that changes the word 'you are dead' after the player dies into 'you are so good'.
In addition, there are some sound effect MODs to replace the more eerie MODs in the underground prison.
Of course, these MODs that can pass the official creative workshop will not have any impact on the balance of the game.
Without going through the creative workshop, players need to back up a separate archive to play in offline mode.
Otherwise, if you enter the network, it will be detected and determined to be cheating and assigned to a dedicated server.
However, there was a MOD post that made Chen Xu a little more interested.
Because "Dark Soul" has also opened a creative workshop, many players are discussing in this post what interesting MODs may appear in "Dark Soul" in the future.
Although many of the people participating in the discussion have not even understood the content of the game itself, let alone cleared the level, they have not even entered the royal city. They are still thinking that the big tree I just finished is a quick pass. know this stage.
But it does not prevent these players from enjoying their imagination about "Dark Soul".
Among them, Chen Xu saw a more interesting proposal, that is, wouldn't it be interesting if all the bosses and mobs in "Dark Soul" could be replaced at once
For example, in the Ashes Cemetery, the player is not facing the Ashes Guda with a spiral sword, but the hero Guda in the Unowned Cemetery. Isn't that exciting
There are also changes to the BOSS's weapons. For example, the halberd in Guda's hand disappeared. Guda could only use kicks and palm strikes to lean against the iron mountain throughout the whole process. How exciting would that be
Of course, most of it is the imagination of the players. Some of them are completely impossible to realize, but it gave Chen Xu some ideas.
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