Tokyo Video Game Tycoon: Chapter 1169 Saving reputation
Chapter 1169: Saving Reputation
In one of the ending stories of Final Fantasy 13versus, by completing many prerequisite tasks in the early stage, a new branch plot will appear in the main story.
Later on, the branch plot will become a new ending, and this new ending is an officially announced happy ending.
The prince and princess lived happily together, and then jointly governed the re-established new country.
Murakami Kazuo was somewhat surprised when he reached this ending.
Because in the past, the Final Fantasy series has never had an official happy ending.
It is extremely difficult to give Youxing Electronic Entertainment a happy ending.
This time, Yuxing Electronic Entertainment has made a sudden change, allowing Final Fantasy to finally have a perfect ending.
Murakami Kazuo was even a little moved, and soon published the strategy for this perfect ending on his own review website.
After the announcement, many players who had already completed the game found out that there was a new ending story, and it was a perfect ending. They couldn't sit still, and started opening Final Fantasy 13 Versus again to at least complete it this time. Will not give up until the end.
Obviously many players in this world would still like a perfect ending.
They will feel that the story of this game at least has a beginning and an end, rather than a tragic open ending that leaves people scratching their heads.
Other people think it’s because real life is already difficult enough, and they would rather not experience some terrible plots in the game.
So when Final Fantasy 13versus was released, these players didn't even think about it. They thought that Final Fantasy would end in tragedy, and it would be really annoying to play.
Then it’s better to wait, don’t rush to play this game now, wait until there is a sale, and then play this game when you are in a better mood.
But now that the perfect happy ending of this game has begun to circulate on the Internet, these players are a little restless and are ready to spend money to play.
The officially certified perfect ending is quite rare in Final Fantasy. It would be a bit of a loss if you don’t play it.
Then, the popularity of Final Fantasy 13 Versus was maintained for almost a month, which made other game companies very frustrated.
You say your game is fun, just let it be fun, and let players play it enthusiastically for a week or two.
But Yuxing Electronic Entertainment was obviously not satisfied. It always came up with new tricks to keep the popularity of the game. In the end, the sales volume of Final Fantasy 13 Versus soared to more than 10 million and has not stopped yet. Other game companies watched it. Disgusting.
How can you play like this? How can we get along with you if you play like this?
Fortunately, the popularity of a game will eventually fade away. Yuxing Electronic Entertainment is not a god, and it will eventually end. Other game companies will not really be unable to survive.
After one and a half months of popularity, the sales volume of Final Fantasy 13 Versus has been fixed at 17 million, and will continue to flow steadily for a long time to come.
If there is another wave of big discounts in two years, sales will continue to increase, and there will be no problem in making a lot of money. The only thing left is to continue to expand influence.
Final Fantasy has just ended, and Zhu Yuxing has been following and supervising the development of Grand Theft Auto 5 non-stop.
This is a game developed at almost the same time as Final Fantasy 13 Versus, but it is obviously more difficult to develop this game. It is an open world game, and some sandbox construction functions were added in the later stage to further expand the scale of this game before it is released. It is estimated that the date will have to wait until the following year.
But that’s okay, there are many other games on hand now, and the rhythm of game releases will not stop. Each game is a stream of cash flow, which can make your mouth water.
While Zhu Youxing was supervising Rogue 5, the Infinite World development team that he had previously recruited suddenly brought him a piece of news.
Their Infinite World has been able to release a new major update. This update can increase the gameplay richness of the game itself to a certain extent, making this game at least worth the price of admission.
Zhu Youxing was somewhat surprised by this news. He thought it would take at least a year or two for these people to make up for the previous shortcomings.
But now it seems that some regrets have been made up for in advance.
"Boss, this is the Infinite World version 1.1 update that we have just completed. This time we have added richer construction functions to the game, as well as online functions. I think these two functions should at least be able to solve the initial problem of the game. The problem with too little content.”
"Let me take a look." Zhu Youxing talked to the person in charge of the team through a video call. At this time, the new test version had been sent to Zhu Youxing. Zhu Youxing opened the game interface, and then the game screen flashed. In a flash, the character appears directly outside a wilderness with unlimited materials, where you can use your imagination to create a city.
Developing a sandbox construction model for the infinite world is a stroke of genius.
In the previous version of No Man's Sky, the overall playability of the game was greatly increased by initially modifying the core gameplay and adding sandbox construction.
From the very beginning, Zhu Youxing suggested to the team that they should prioritize the development of online mode and construction mode, and take their time with the rest. Don’t be in a hurry. After all, you can’t make a fat man in one go. Anyway, the reputation of the game is already bad, so it’s a waste of time. Go ahead and try your best to make this game a good one. It can't be worse than before, right?
Perhaps also because of this more desperate attitude, the vitality of this development team is stronger than before.
The development team members brought over by this producer are all very motivated, and combined with Yuxing Electronic Entertainment’s internal Unreal Engine, this game has become a completely new form.
“Very good.” Zhu Youxing nodded.
This is the highest level of evaluation he can give.
There are very few games that he can call very good.
There is no need to talk about the games he made himself. There are indeed not many games in this world that he can call very good.
This definition is very good. It is probably the top works such as the God of War series and the Dark Souls series in the previous life.
The gameplay that this team has worked so hard to create is already quite sophisticated.
“Did you also ask for help from others?” Zhu Youxing asked.
The game producer said with some embarrassment: "Yes, I specifically asked people from Benedi AI Lab to help us improve the mechanism of AI creation of planets and civilizations, and then also borrowed 'our' Stanford Legion to temporarily let them Helped solve a lot of technical problems, boss, our team is really great.”
Zhu Youxing automatically ignored those bragging words, and then nodded and said: "This version is really good and can be released. However, the promotional resources I will provide here will not be too many. The most is to let the Battle.net platform Help us promote it, other promotion platforms have their own tasks to do, and as for other ways to improve the reputation of your game, it can only be up to you."
Zhuyouxing has provided considerable help to this development team.
From manpower and material resources to financial support, if it is difficult for them to restore the reputation of their games even in this way, it only proves that they themselves are still not suitable for the game development industry.
Zhu Youxing wouldn't be polite and simply let them do the low-level work, leaving the professional work of game development to others.
As for publicity, they can only work **** their own, and Zhu Youxing can only help so much.
However, Zhu Youxing believes that this game should be able to restore its reputation.
Judging from the current state of this work, it is already playable and will not make players feel bored after playing it for a while.
Then players should spontaneously promote the game.
“Okay, boss, I will work hard. We won’t bother our company with publicity matters. We can handle it ourselves.”
This producer is also very sensible.
Youxing Electronic Entertainment has indeed helped them enough.
Without Youxing Electronic Entertainment, their team might have been disbanded long ago, and he might have gone to work as a programmer in an inconspicuous small company, and then retired without any trouble.
But the emergence of Youxing Electronic Entertainment gives them a chance to rise again.
If they still can’t do this well, they themselves will voluntarily withdraw from the game development circle.
At least I will no longer enter the mainstream development circle and just be a low-level transparent person.
“Do you have a plan for when this new version will go online? At that time, you will contact Belred on the Battle.net platform, and he will give you a recommended spot on the day.”
"How about...a week from now? Christmas is just around the corner, and I want to give the players and ourselves a gift."
"good."
Zhu Youxing agreed.
Yusing Electronic Entertainment itself will not launch any major games this Christmas, so there is no problem in letting the development team recommend its own games.
This team is sharpening their skills immediately, and they are already looking forward to a good fight during Christmas, a critical time for the game to be released.
However, they also knew that the reputation of their game was not good at the beginning, so it had a natural disadvantage.
So...as long as the sales volume is increased by at least three to five hundred thousand...no, the expectations are too high, it is enough to increase the sales volume by ten or two hundred thousand.
“The boss has agreed to release our 1.1 version of Infinite World just one week later on Christmas Eve!”
After hanging up the phone with Zhu Youxing, the young producer of Infinite World couldn't wait to rush out of the office and announce the good news to his people.
Everyone cheered immediately after hearing this.
They have been waiting for this news for quite some time.
Before they called Zhu Youxing, they were a little worried that their new boss would be critical.
Because they have heard that Zhu Youxing is a very strict person, and the games developed under his supervision must be of very high quality in order to pass his level, especially the games he personally supervised.
Although there is no precedent for game works like theirs who come to join them halfway, they still have a preconceived idea that Bamboo Youxing will treat them equally strictly.
Perhaps the new boss will feel that the current game content is not enough.
But now Zhu Youxing agreed happily, and they all cheered happily.
In fact, Zhu Youxing was quite surprised by the development efficiency of this group of people, and although he himself has strict control over the quality of games, it doesn't matter what kind of game it is.
If some games are born with a bad reputation, they cannot be understood using normal game development thinking.
Works whose reputation has been ruined do not need one or two large-cost and large-investment repairs, but a steady stream of work.
Large investment in patching will make the game development time longer. Players who had some expectations for the game may eventually become impatient and give up on the game.
This kind of game with a bad reputation needs to interact with the players all the time and tell them: Look, we are still working hard, we haven’t run away yet, we are still using the latest technology to improve the game, don’t run too fast, I am There are also more abundant four dishes and one soup waiting for you to try.
Then announcing the end and then serving a bowl of soup first to stabilize the morale of the army is probably like this, so Zhuyouxing will agree to update the new version of Infinite World only by adding sandbox construction and multiplayer game modes.
Zhu Youxing is also looking forward to it. He wants to see whether most players are still interested in this kind of game that has restored its reputation, or whether they will be completely heartbroken and unwilling to contact this kind of scam game again.
One week later, Christmas is coming, and most countries have entered into a festive atmosphere and state.
Especially in Western countries, most countries celebrate Christmas.
Among these people, there is a senior player who is playing the latest game at home.
He is a game fan and a well-known game critic on the Internet.
The birth of self-media has given ordinary people in this world more channels to express their opinions.
Even an ordinary person can become a member of the media and express his or her own opinions on certain things.
It is in this environment that game critics like him emerged.
They may not be as professional as Murakami Kazuo, but they are still faithfully serving players with specialized hobbies.
Provide services to these players, help them avoid pitfalls in advance, and tell them what kind of games are fun and what kind of games are garbage.
In his Battle.net platform, there are now thousands of various open world games.
Among them, Infinite World is a very inconspicuous one among these games.
At this moment, he was a little idle and bored, casually flipping through some recently updated news information on the Battle.net platform.
While he was browsing, a new recommendation message suddenly popped up on the homepage of the Battle.net platform.
“The latest version of Infinite World version 1.1 is officially launched, adding new gameplay features. Players are welcome to come and experience it”
(End of this chapter)