144. You can’t double standards when playing games

"Nani?!Too much?!" (Why?!)

After hearing that Bomi wanted to get King of Glory 1 to start, Nao Mushroom expressed instinctive resistance on the phone.

Even on the phone I forgot to say honorifics.

The language used by the island people in the workplace is very particular. If you forget even the honorific words, you can imagine how much impact Nao Mushroom will be?

In Nao Mushroom’s instinctive cognition, for players, being able to play the latest generation of game products is the best and most valuable.

Including the Tomb Raider and Resident Evil series released worldwide, if it were not introduced from the first generation, it would only start with the latest generation.

Many times, a year later, the graphics and gameplay are equivalent to crossing an era.

Two years ago, the best graphics card was the Voodoo series, and the best processor was the Pentium 2. Now it has developed to Pentium 3. The graphics card king has also become Nvidia. The game technology produced for the hardware at that time two years ago is definitely not suitable for today, and the picture level will be a little worse.

So in general, if there is not a very special reason, the latest version should be released first.

What's more, all the advertisements on Xingyue have been released.

Now you can see the advertisements of Honor of Kings 2 in any software store in Akihabara.

At this time, if you want to get out of your ticket, you think it’s too much money?

The translator listened to the voice of Nao Mushroom on the phone, sat next to Ai Xiaomi and spoke quietly and conscientiously.

This is not good for cross-border cooperation, and it is rather useless for translation.

Especially when the person in charge of both sides has a conflict, it is a special test for the translator's grasp of emotions.

"It's not a delay," Ai Xiaomi explained patiently, "We just want to issue Honor of Kings 1 first, and then issue Honor of Kings 2 in half a month."

Ai Xiaomi herself felt very tired. If it weren't for the boss of Kings Studio, she really didn't want to worry about these things.

But since you take over, you must do it well. This is Ai Xiaomi’s principle of being a human being.

After about half an hour of explanation, Nao Mushroom finally understood.

It turned out that they were worried about whether players from the island country could agree with the fact that the two protagonists shared a heroic spirit, and at the same time, they were afraid that the relationship between the heroic spirit and the male protagonist would make players from the island country unable to accept it.

For example, A Ke was originally the wife of Wei Feng, the male protagonist of Honor of Kings 1, and then she became Xia Ze's maid in Honor of Kings 2.

However, if the island country first sells Honor of Kings 2, emotionally, players will think that A Ke should have been Xia Ze's maid, but then becomes Wei Feng's wife.

This is a typical tauren plot.

Although some players are good at this, most people's XP is still normal.

Galgame itself is more niche. If you distinguish the Tauren type in galgame, you will be even more niche among the niches.

Not only does it affect sales, the key is that word of mouth and future development will be greatly affected.

According to Cao Yang, you will definitely be condemned by players at that time. When you take on the role with preconceptions, how can you tolerate your beloved woman becoming someone else's wife and having sex with other men?

This doesn't make sense in terms of emotional logic.

After some explanation, Nao Mushroom immediately realized.

He agreed with Ai Xiaomi's statement and apologized on the phone, "Sorry, we didn't think it well. We just thought the plot of Honor of Kings 2 was quite exciting, so we were too optimistic. We did not consider the connection between the Honor of Kings series. Aisan, your opinion is correct, and we will immediately start to change it."

"Okay, thank you for your hard work." Ai Xiaomi finally breathed a sigh of relief.

"We didn't expect that Bomi, a company with such a craftsman spirit, can make players feel so profound. We didn't do enough. Our understanding of the game is too one-sided and superficial. We will definitely study like Bomi in the future."

Mushroom apologized very sincerely there, and they said their true words.

Ai Xiaomi sounds quite useful.

It was at this moment that she suddenly felt the happiness of her boss.

It turns out that when I praised my boss before, the boss felt this way in his heart!

The whole person was so proud that he was a little floating, as if he was drinking.

Ai Xiaomi covered her red cheeks and fell into deep happiness.

Only the translator next to him looked at her with a strange look.

"But there is one thing I don't agree with," Nao Mushroom watched the email sent by Ai Xiaomi carefully and continued, "Why does Bomi require the Japanese version of the 18th version to be consistent in content?

I mean-

Obviously, the standards of our two countries are different.

If there were no such unclothed plot, the charm of such a version of the Eighteenth Edition would be greatly reduced.”

Yes, Cao Yang thought about it for a long time last night. Although the eighteenth version of Honor of Kings 1 sent by Xingyue is indeed erotic and exciting, it can definitely be sold at a good price.

However, once we consider the future reputation issue, Cao Yang denied this plan.

Two sets of standards cannot be formulated just because the standards of the island country are loose.

This is a typical double standard behavior.

Not to mention whether Cao Yang himself has a strong sense of morality and the patriotic enthusiasm of the Chinese, just take the market as an example-

This era is actually a very special era. Chinese people have a high tolerance for foreign products. If this game was not made by a Chinese company at the beginning, but was produced by foreigners, and there was a very large version first, and after they arrived in China, they were forced to be castrated due to environmental and superior requirements, then domestic players would not have any complaints.

Because this is what they think of.

For example, the game PUBG, which was very popular in the previous life, you can see red blood and headshot animations on steam, with flesh and blood flying everywhere. When foreigners make games, they hope it will be more realistic. The more realistic the shock you brings, the stronger it will be.

After arriving in China, it will be castrated automatically. If you want to go, you can change the blood to green, remove all the violent shots, and the girls will put their clothes on me.

Therefore, players don’t have much complaints. No matter how large the foreign game scale is, it will have to be castrated when it reaches the country. This is a common understanding.

However, if the game itself is made in China, then the situation is completely opposite.

Take mihayo as an example. In order to please foreign players, the three-bangzi they made added a group dance video of the female characters of the bunny girl. Once this incident was released, it caused an uproar in China.

Of course, mihayo's obvious behavior of pleasing foreign fathers should be scolded, but there is another layer of their double standards, which has led to extreme dissatisfaction among players.

As a game dealer in your country, how can you get more money from abroad? How can you give more benefits than your country?

This is something that will be despised by people at the root of it.

Therefore, in the world, no matter which country the game manufacturer is in the spirit of patriotism, he must first take good care of the domestic group before he can consider other things, so that he will not cause a failure.

After weighing the trade-offs, Cao Yang decided to take the domestic standards as the highest standard. If the domestic standards cannot be revealed, then the versions sold worldwide must be lower than this version.

On the one hand, the double standard is on the other hand, and more importantly, as a Chinese game businessman, Bomi cannot sit in a crooked butt.

...

Of course, Ai Xiaomi couldn't say that to Xingyue. She could only turn the blame back to Cao Yang, saying that this was something the boss had considered.

The reason is-

[I hope that the versions around the world will remain consistent in content and be fair to all players]

Although Nao Mushroom is very dissatisfied with this approach, who made Bomi the big boss of Shizuki? 70% of the shares are in Shizuki, and Shizuki doesn’t have much choice at all.

and……

Even if it is processed, it seems feasible not to release the 18th edition without clothing, but the final sales may not be as good as Nao Mushroom thinks.

"Wow, Kalimasita (I understand), let us deal with it next. Thank you. Bye."

After the communication was over, Nao Mushroom hung up the phone.

Ai Xiaomi tilted her head and lay in the chair like a wounded little animal.

"Oh my god, it's so hard for me."

Cao Yang asked Ai Xiaomi to make this call, on the one hand, to exercise her abilities, on the other hand, it was because Ai Xiaomi communicated better than him, and it was not so oppressive. More importantly, if Ai Xiaomi didn't know how to deal with it, she could blame Cao Yang, so that there would be room for ease.

I have to say that the boss is so bad.

Ai Xiaomi's eyes turned and she stood up from the chair with excitement.

"Okay, the result is good, come on!!"

She clenched her fists hard and cheered herself up.

...

A sentence above, the leg was broken below.

In order to enable the release of Honor of Kings 2 on December 23, Honor of Kings can only be released half a month in advance.

In terms of operational strategy, this can be said to be a car accident.

Not even enough time to operate.

There is no way, Shizuki can only bite the bullet and start preheating and promotion.

Fortunately, the original promotion of Honor of Kings 2 was done well, and this time it was equivalent to a binding sales:

While launching Honor of Kings 2, Xingyue will also launch Honor of Kings 1. Honor of Kings 1 is available for sale for half a month in advance. At the same time, you can exchange the CD serial number of Honor of Kings 1 for gifts from Honor of Kings 2.

Similarly, Honor of Kings 2 can be exchanged for the gift of Honor of Kings 1.

At the same time, Xingyue also launched a 1+2 gift package.
To be continued...